![]() In a 2007 profile written by former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Time named Gates one of the year's most influential people. He was confirmed with bipartisan support. Bush as secretary of defense in 2006, replacing Donald Rumsfeld. Gates was nominated by Republican president George W. Hamilton that studied the lessons of the Iraq War. Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University and was a member of several corporate boards. Gates served for twenty-six years in the CIA and at the National Security Council, and was director of central intelligence under President George H. W. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). ![]() Bush and was retained by President Barack Obama. ![]() He was originally appointed by President George W. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American intelligence analyst and university president who served as the twenty-second United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011. 17th United States Deputy National Security Advisorġ6th Deputy Director of Central Intelligenceģ6th National President of the Boy Scouts of America ![]()
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![]() Announcing the Children's and Young Adult Jhalak Prize Shortlist.Empathy Day steps up a gear as it returns for its seventh year – at a time of great need.20+ Brilliant Books Featuring Unforgettable Deaf or Hard of Hearing Characters for Deaf Awareness Week.Celebrate King Charles III and his Coronation with these Majestic Children's Books.New imprint, Pineapple Lane, launches with seven Ukrainian picture books.Sally Anne Garland and The Art of the Every Day.Fit for a King and May Day Madness! Topical themes to inspire aspiring young writers.The year’s outstanding debut authors for children: shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award announced.Jacqueline Wilson - our Guest Editor of the Month. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You get a cohesive story about simple life on the prairie (or farm, or house in the big woods) that will captivate your child and fill you with nostalgia ). Imagine my delight when I heard they had made a series aimed at younger readers! Daniele shared about Sugar Snow in this post, and we checked it out that very week. No more waiting to share these beloved stories with S, I could introduce her to all of the characters and get her feet wet immediately! She took like wildfire to them at two years old, and we still check them out from the library frequently.īasically, simple portions have been taken from Laura's original books, and artists Renee Graef, Jody Wheeler, and Doris Ettinger (depending on which book you pick up) have drawn up gorgeous accompanying illustrations, modeled upon the original artwork by Garth Williams. They are wholesome and inspiring, certified classics. ![]() ![]() Reading about Laura's adventures growing up during the early pioneering days of our country captures the heart and imagination. I haven't met many American girls who didn't grow up loving Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books. ![]() ![]() Descriptions of family life and religion are the background that introduces us to the culture of this part of the world. She experiences and feels a sense of the ‘divine’ within her and speaks to and hears that voice as ‘herself’. This stunning novel, set in Nigeria is a coming of age book about a young girl 9 years of age initially who wants to pass exams early so that she can go on to the next stage of her education. Readers looking for inspirational books featuring women of color, or who are interested in dipping a toe in African literature, will probably find a lot to enjoy in this book. Overall, I found this an inspirational, heartfelt story about a young woman living in a culture most Americans are completely unfamiliar with, presented in a very approachable way. The descriptions of Lagos and the characters' lifestyles are also done in a way that made it easy for someone (me!) who knows almost nothing about Nigeria to follow along and enjoy reading about the culture there. The writing style is clear and simple, but with snippets of Nigerian dialect for flavor. ![]() However, she learns to listen to her inner voice and forge her own path. Adaugo is an academically gifted girl who does well in school but ends up finding herself shunted into a dead-end career after college and pressured to marry an appropriate-meaning rich and preferably light-skinned-man as soon as possible. ![]() A very sweet, uplifting story about a young Nigerian woman searching for her path in life. ![]() ![]() The plot of Rebirth contains elements from the Pilot episode of the TV show, including Jarod's pretend as a doctor with the last name Russell, however there are some distinct differences between the novel and the pilot episode, and Jarod does not go to the hospital to get retribution for a boy who has suffered at the hands of an incompetent doctor as in the Pilot, rather the goal of his pretend is to get to a patient who is warded in a very closely guarded facility annexed to the hospital. One big difference between the show and the novel is that the novel has been set in a timeline that is ten years later than the TV show and as a result, Jarod now uses a digital device as his red notebook. The major themes of the novel are related to the main character of The Pretender TV series, Jarod and his quest to find his family, as well as the backstory for other characters in the show. There are to date, no awards, or notable adaptations. It is the first of its kind to be produced by The Pretender creators, released on October 7th, 2013. ![]() Van Sickle, the first of a promised series of novels answering questions left unanswered in The Pretender TV series. ![]() The Pretender Rebirth is a TV show/drama novel (276 pages in length) by The Pretender creators Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. ![]() ![]() My opinion about Sarah’s Key is absorbing, heart-wrenching, and informational about the Holocaust. The story then forwards to the year 2002 with journalist, Julia Jarmond, a wife and mother, who is asked to write about the Vel’d’Hiv roundup and is forever changed when she finds out what happened in general and captivated by the horrible story of young Sarah Starzynski. She figured that she would be back to rescue him and locked him up in their secret cupboard, taking the key with her. The novel begins by introducing Sarah Starzynski, a ten-year-old girl who was arrested during the Vel’d’Hiv roundup, along with the rest of her family except Michel, her younger brother. The story then fast-forwards to the year 2002, explaining how a journalist called Julia Jarmond is asked to write about the Vel’d’Hiv and then discovers Sarah’s story and becomes fascinated about the black event. In between, it talks about Sarah Starzynski, who was arrested with her mother during the Vel’d’Hiv roundup, explaining all the trouble she went through. It was an operation between the Germans and the French, but the French were the one’s who planned and executed many of the Jewish people. The Vel’d’Hiv roundup was a plan to exterminate Jewish population. In Paris, July 1942, the Vel’d’Hiv’ roundup occurred. ![]() Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay combines two parallel stories, each in different dates and times. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Annabelle fails to notice her son’s increasingly odd behavior because she is struggling with worries and woes of her own. When he tries talking back, the voices do not seem to respond. The more he ignores them, the louder they become. Benny starts to hear voices, unsure whether they are coming from inside or outside his head. When Kenji, Annabelle’s husband and Benny’s father, dies in an accident, the mother and son struggle to confront their loss and sorrow. The following summary relies upon the present tense and a linear mode of explanation. ![]() The narrative also features the past and present tenses, and distorts traditional notions of novelistic form and structure. Ruth Ozeki’s novel The Book of Form and Emptiness employs the first, second, and third person points of view. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Ozeki, Ruth. ![]() ![]() Only a very small stain on verso of jacket, visible only with jacket off. Inscribed by Bissinger in black ink on title page, dated 1991 ownership inscription matching name of recipient on verso of half title. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic vignettes. In original unclipped ($19.95) black photographic dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. ![]() Original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Twenty-seven years ago, journalist Buzz Bissinger decided that he wanted to write about the big-time stakes of small-town high school football. ![]() Bissinger Here is a quick description and cover image of book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream written by H.G. ![]() Using Odessa as his case study, Bissinger soon found himself sucked into the drama, the stakes, the triumphs and the conflicts that capture a powerful subculture in the contemporary United States. Brief Summary of Book: Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. A life-long sports fan, Bissinger set out to chronicle the effect of high school sports (especially football) on small-town America. Inscribed first printing of this exploration of sports culture in American life by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and basis for the film of the same name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every attempt Balian makes to leave the city is foiled, as one supposedly well-intentioned figure after another leads him into the ever-deepening maze of the city's underworld, populated by whores, laughing dervishes, talking apes and lepers who all weave their respective spells with distinct power. ![]() ![]() A mysterious figure named the Father of the Cats claims to want to help Balian-but does he? To make matters worse, there are rumors that a vicious murderer is on the loose in Cairo. He is even more surprised when he is afflicted by the "Arabian Nightmare": he begins to have very confusing dreams and wakes up bleeding from the nose and mouth. Balian, an English spy hired by France to go on a fact-finding mission to Cairo in 1486, is surprised when one of his fellow travelers is kidnapped. Irwin's reissued 1983 classic combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether this has anything to do with my own life, I’m not sure, it seems to be more of a subconscious than conscious concern. Looking over much of my previous work as an illustrator and writer, such as The Rabbits (about colonisation), The Lost Thing (about a creature lost in a strange city) or The Red Tree (a girl wandering through shifting dreamscapes), I realise that I have a recurring interest in notions of ‘belonging’, particularly the finding or losing of it. The following is an extract from an article written in 2006 for Viewpoint Magazine, describing some of the ideas and process behind this book. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope * With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images. ![]() |