The [Un]popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() This is a novel that every teen needs." -Kacen Callender, author of Felix Ever After "Charming, stunning, and unapologetically queer. ![]() But with an investigative journalist digging into his past, a father trying to silence him, and the bully frontrunner standing in his way, Mark will have to decide which matters most: perception or truth, when both are just as dangerous. Soon Mark feels emboldened to engage with voters-and even start a new romance. Still, thanks to Scandal and The West Wing, they know where to start: from campaign stops to voter polling to a fashion makeover. He didn't grow up in this town, and his few friends are all nerds. ![]() This contemporary debut from Jasper Sanchez is about a transmasc high school senior who enters the race for student body president at the last minute to combat the bullying and homophobia at his high school, aptly named Utopia. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger. Lucky for all of us, The (Un)Popular Vote is exactly that. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez's electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student's foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. ![]()
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Book the wolves of willoughby chase5/27/2023 ![]() How will they ever escape from her clutches? It would be hard in any circumstances but it is especially hard since the snow lies thick on the ground around Willoughby Chase and the wolves are snapping closer and closer. Miss Slighcarp is as chilling as her words sound and she is now in charge of Bonnie and Sylvia. ![]() 20+ Brilliant Books Featuring Unforgettable Deaf or Hard of Hearing Characters for Deaf Awareness WeekĪ wonderful adventure as two children flee from the yranny of their wicked guardian and bravely set out on the road to London.Celebrate King Charles III and his Coronation with these Majestic Children's Books.New imprint, Pineapple Lane, launches with seven Ukrainian picture books. ![]()
Lincoln rivals5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() He isn't even slightly reluctant to employ the low-handed tactics of his chief negotiators (Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, John Hawkes). He offers jobs, promotions, titles and pork barrel spending. Lincoln is not above political vote buying. This is a film not about an icon of history, but about a president who was scorned by some of his political opponents as just a hayseed from the backwoods. This ambience reflects the descriptions in Gore Vidal's historical novel "Lincoln," although the political and personal details in Tony Kushner's concise, revealing dialogue is based on "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The White House is less a temple of state than a gathering place for wheelers and dealers. The images by Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's frequent cinematographer, use earth tones and muted indoor lighting. The capital city of Washington is portrayed here as roughshod gathering of politicians on the make. Neither these nor any other performances in the film depend on self-conscious histrionics Jones in particular portrays a crafty codger with some secret hiding places in his heart. Thaddeus Stevens ( Tommy Lee Jones), the most powerful abolitionist in the House. In the film, the passage of the amendment is guided by William Seward ( David Strathairn), his secretary of state, and by Rep. Lincoln believed slavery was immoral, but he also considered the 13th Amendment a masterstroke in cutting away the financial foundations of the Confederacy. ![]() Elantris series5/26/2023 ![]() Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god.īut neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping - based on their correspondence - to also find love. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling.Īrelon’s new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. ![]() ![]() Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. ![]() Memory Hunter by Frank Morin5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Together, our results demonstrate that TMR effects evolve over several weeks post-cueing, as well as emphasising the importance of stage 2, spindles and the SO-spindle coupling in procedural memory consolidation. We also found a significant increase in spindle density and SO-spindle coupling during the cue period, when compared to the no-cue period. Time spent in stage 2, but not stage 3, of NREM sleep predicted cueing benefit. Closer examination revealed a significant benefit of TMR at 10 days post-encoding, but not 24 h or 6 weeks post-encoding. Don, Lisa, Peyton, & William Morin, George & Marthe Odell, Larry & Kitty Pettit. Importantly, there was a strong effect of TMR, with improved performance on the cued sequence after sleep. Karen & Kenny Beasley, Roy Clements, Jr., Susan & Frank Friedman. Our behavioural analysis shows better performance for the dominant hand. We further explore the relationship between the TMR benefit and sleep spindles, as well as their coupling with slow oscillations. of forty-two early settlers, ancestors of Mr. Here, we use a bimanual serial reaction time task (SRTT) to investigate whether the difference between the cued and un-cued sequence of button presses persists long-term. The erection, in 1872, of the monument to the memory of Miles. Although the technique is developing rapidly, only a few studies have examined how the effects of TMR develop over time. ![]() ![]() Targeted memory reactivation (TMR) has recently emerged as a promising tool to manipulate and study the sleeping brain. ![]() A court of wings and ruin first book5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() These contrast with the original covers, which depict the protagonist Feyre in elegant, body-hugging gowns, the images cut off at the nose. If you’ve seen any of the ACOTAR books on #booktok, you likely saw the new covers: understated, with bright yellow text in an updated font over an ominous silhouette and monotone backdrop. ![]() The ACOTAR series is big on #booktok to this day, but it hit a real peak in the summer of 2021, shortly after the release of the fifth and final book in the series. Since the series’ new covers debuted in 2020, editions with the older covers have been harder to come by, and those who own them have noticed. While Maas’ ACOTAR series has always been popular, it wasn’t always the collector’s item that it is now. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses series, and specifically, first editions copies. That series, of course, is author Sarah J. ![]() If you’ve perused Pango lately, or #booktwt or #booktok for that matter, you’ve probably noticed a certain 2015 fantasy bestselling series is currently in high demand. ![]() The pathfinder orson scott card5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As he journeys to the capital, Rigg and his companions start to realise that the world they thought they knew is not what it seems as they starts to uncover secrets about both Rigg's life and the history of the world. After falling victim to a fatal accident, Rigg's father tells Rigg that he must seek out his mother and sister who are in fact both alive and living the capital. Growing up in the wilderness with only his father, Rigg shows he is also a gifted scholar and with the help of his father he is able to learn about science of the world and gain control of his ability. The story centers around a young boy named Rigg who has the ability to see the paths left behind by every living creature, an ability that essentially allows him to see into the past. With Pathfinder, Card has taken a number of the more complex sci-fi elements and used them to create a quality YA fantasy story that is original, easy to understand, and fun to read. Well known in the Sci-fi world for the Ender Saga (notably Ender's Game), and the Homecoming Saga, Card seems to be branching more and more into the fantasy genre with better results each time. 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A visiting professor at several universities, including the University of California, Columbia, and the University of Chicago, and university professor on the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research, in 1959 she became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton. Arendt held numerous positions in her new country-research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations, chief editor of Schocken Books, and executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York City. ![]() Ten years later she became an American citizen. In 1941, she emigrated to the United States. A victim of naziism, she fled Germany in 1933 for France, where she helped with the resettlement of Jewish children in Palestine. Born in Hanover, Germany, Hannah Arendt received her doctorate from Heidelberg University in 1928. ![]() ![]() They explore the ways in which women of all ages and stations during the late middle ages (c.1300-c.1500) could legally shift for themselves, and how and where they did so. The legal position of the late medieval woman has been much neglected, and it is this gap which the essays collected here seek to fill. What is really new here is the ways in which the authors approach the history of the law: they use some decidedly non-legal texts to examine legal history they bring together historical and literary sources and they debunk the view that medieval laws had little to say about women or that medieval women had little legal agency. It adds usefully to the wider debate on women's role in medieval society. ![]() Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc.ĭetermined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside legal discourses to discover women's voices and women's feelings. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |