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![]() ![]() BooklistĬontributor Bio(s): Beatty, Patricia: - Patricia Beatty was born in Portland, Oregon, and was a longtime resident of southern California. There are few authors who can consistently manage both to entertain and inform. A fast-moving novel based upon an actual historical incident with a spunky heroine and fine historical detail.- School Library Journal. ![]() Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 7.0ĭuring the closing days of the Civil War, plucky 12-year-old Hannalee Reed, sent north to work in a Yankee mill, struggles to return to the family she left behind in war-torn Georgia. Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 7.4" (0.30 lbs) 208 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Price on Product, Table of Contents Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) ![]() Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Runaways ![]() Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Military & Wars WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: During the final days of the Civil War, 12-year-old Hannalee is among 2,000 Georgia textile workers shipped north by the Union Army to work in Yankee mills. Contributor(s): Beatty, Patricia (Author), Various (Illustrator) ![]() ![]() I LOVE this book and am very, very sorry to see it killed by that narrator. How could the performance have been better? ![]() All of the Company War books are exciting, intelligent and most satisfying to read. Just listen to how he butchers Mallory and Graff ! Mallory and Graff, two of the toughest characters in the series with whiny, high-pitched voices ? Hello ? All I can say is that this narrator does not deserve even 1 star and that I will avoid him like poison from now on.Ĭ.J.Cherryh's Union/Alliance universe is one of the most interesting, most probable and believable universes in SF. The various voices he attempts are so wide off the mark that he makes those characters ridiculous. He is totally unable to convey the thrill of a situation, manages to make any description sound tedious. But what a disappointment ! This narrator manages to turn a great book into a dull, boring monologue that drags along. ![]() Didn't even bother to listen to the sample - just clicked and downloaded it. Cherryh's Union/Alliance books (except maybe Cyteen) and was totally thrilled to finally see Downbelow Station as audiobook available here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither is the country or city he lives in nor his wife or son, who are all referred to in generic terms – his lover is always “the pretty girl” no matter how old she grows. Written as a self-help book, he addresses his protagonist as ‘you’. Like Hamid’s previous novels, this too is narratively unconventional. If the story is slightly overfamiliar, the way it is told is most certainly not. To this end, she could be Daisy to his Jay Gatsby: the yearning for wealth and position is caught up in a yearning for her. Embedded within this tale of smooth self-invention is a not-so-smooth love story: a pretty girl and sometime lover is just out of his reach and the desire to win her over is partly what motivates his upward climb. Mohsin Hamid’s third novel is a classic rags-to-riches story told in experimental form.Īn Asian boy hailing from the harsh terrain of village life pulls himself up by his bootstraps to become a hotshot water industrialist in the city. ![]() ![]() Using their analysis of Barack Obama as a point of departure, Alim and Smitherman reveal how major debates about language, race, and educational inequality erupt into moments of racial crisis in America. ![]() Throughout, they analyze several racially loaded, cultural-linguistic controversies involving the President-from his use of Black Language and his "articulateness" to his "Race Speech," the so-called "fist-bump," and his relationship to Hip Hop Culture. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman provide new insights about President Obama and the relationship between language and race in contemporary society. In this eloquently written and powerfully argued book, H. ![]() through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use-and America's response to it. In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. restaurant with the phrase, "Nah, we straight.” Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking-as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. ![]() ![]() verse which represents good intentions is worthless-on that plane, indeed, a betrayal. ![]() Do we know why? Eliot himself of course admired Herbert and praised him for honesty:Īll poetry is difficult, almost impossible to write: and one of the great permanent causes of error in writing poetry is the difficulty of distinguishing between what one really feels and what one would like to feel. Eliot's poetry (and his followers') during the first part of the twentieth century, it seems clear that he has yielded his place to Herbert as a model for contemporary poetry written in Britain and the United States. If Donne was the key figure for the modernism embodied in T.S. The number of his admirers began to grow about one hundred years ago, and it's accurate to say that Herbert is more valued at present than at any time before. ![]() Herbert's few early readers included Crashaw, Vaughan, and Traherne, poets who acknowledged him by the sincere compliment of imitation. This was Nicholas Ferrar, the leader of the Anglican religious community at Little Gidding, (commemorated in the last and most ecstatic of Eliot's The Four Quartets). ![]() During his lifetime he never published a book, and it is only because Herbert placed the manuscript of The Temple in the hands of a friend that we know of his poems at all. Isaak Walton's The Life of Mr George Herbert opens by telling us, "George Herbert was born the third day of April, in the year of our redemption 1593." But the priest-poet had few readers until three centuries after that date. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What was the overlap like between writing these projects? The Rumpus: This is your debut collection of poems, following last year’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girls’ Confabulous Memoir. Thom, writer-cum-performance artist-cum-therapist talked with The Rumpus about her debut poetry collection, and being born hungry. It’s a fitting thematic follow-up to her chapbook Giving Birth to Yourself: Poems for Combat, while being defiantly distinct from her 2016 novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girls’ Confabulous Memoir. Unlearning silence can become its own birth, as it seems in Kai Cheng Thom’s debut poetry collection a place called No Homeland, opening with, “diaspora babies, we are born of pregnant pauses.” Pausing for readers to meet her at this natal location of identity and origin, Thom finds traces of her voice scattered across a map of a place she’s constantly retracing. Silence, instead, is a learned phenomena. Rarely is birth silent for anyone involved. ![]() ![]() Every sod seemed to exude a yearning for beauty soon muted by languor.Īristocracy still enjoys luxury but the process of decline has already set in and it is irrevocable. At the end a statue of Flora speckled with yellow-black lichen exhibited her centuries-old charms with an air of resignation on each side were benches holding quilted cushions, also of gray marble and in a corner the gold of an acacia tree introduced a sudden note of gaiety. Plants were growing in thick disorder on the reddish clay flowers sprouted in all directions, and the myrtle hedges seemed put there to prevent movement rather than guide it. The Leopard is a novel about the first becoming last and the last first… ![]() “So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.” Matthew 20:16 ![]() ![]() So I read this book because I still needed to read a book my mom loves for this challenge. It may get long and it will probably get emotional and it will get personal, and if any of those things bother you, then, well, stop reading here. ![]() ![]() Since this is a book review, I'm going to do my best to make it a book review, but since this is also MY review space with which I can do and say what I want, it is also going to be the place where I tell you all whats been going on with me this year. Due to things that have changed in my life over the past month, I kind of want to read it again with fresh eyes, but not sure how it would change the story for me. It was weirdly reminiscent of my life at the time, and now that things have changed in my life, this story kind of haunts me. I read this book over the summer and it stuck with me even though its not usually the type of book I read. ![]() I know I've written personal reviews on here before and its been therapeutic in getting out the things that I'm not really able to say out loud. I have a lot on my heart and my mind that I'd like to share with you all, but I've been struggling with the platform with which to share it. This is going to be a strange non-review. ![]() |