![]() She watches them as mothers: grey cat must be forced to lie with her kittens, would much rather desert them to flirt with guests black cat is proudest when surrounded by a litter, most entertaining when initiating them into the use of the cat box. With an infallibly precise eye and a direct honesty that keeps her from sentimentalizing, she finds the key to their contrasting characters in the contrasting way they live their lives. Particularly, she explores the relationship between the two cats who live with her - a spoiled, exquisite, domineering grey, and a sturdy, modest, uncomplaining black. This writer, famous for her incomparably perceptive analysis of herself, of society of people, now looks at cats: the cats she knew in childhood - sunning themselves in the hot African sun, running wild in answer to mating calls from the bush - and later, cats on English rooftops, cats on cold London pavements, cats on doorsteps looking for a house to settle in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing D o r i s L e s s i n gįrom the book jacket: An extraordinary book from Doris Lessing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sexual orientation, DNA or formal paperwork no longer defines what it is to be a family. We see now that families are made up of many constellations. It is no longer confined to the dated perspective of a mother, father and biological children. Today, the word “family” has many definitions. show This Is Us, she is able to tell this story from a realistic and respectful adoption platform. ![]() Benway spent a year doing her research on adoption and in my opinion, similar to the popular and well-done T.V. What makes author Robin Benway even more interesting is that she does not have a personal connection to adoption. ![]() There are very few well-written Young Adult books that understand the world of adoption as well as Far from the Tree does. All three are linked together by secrets, shame, and a desire to know more about their identity. Far From the Tree is told from multiple perspectives, and each child has a unique story to tell. Grace, Joaquin and Maya, the three main characters in Far from the Tree are biological half siblings.Īlthough they share the same birth mother, each child has followed a different path and they only reconnect as older teens. Far From the Tree by Robin Benway is the winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lovers couple and uncouple families and friends share rituals and laughter most of Berlin’s citizens go about their day with little sense of the larger looming threat to their existence. Lutes especially focuses on the Brauns-a working class family torn apart by a political system that doesn’t care about them. The idle rich, the naive bourgeoisie, and the struggling lower classes: all seek meaning in the warring political factions dividing their nation. Lutes steps back from the larger political upheaval, using the intertwining lives of a small group of German citizens to zero in on the rise of fascism and how swiftly it can replace democracy. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament, the citizenry becomes even more divided. The third and final act of Jason Lutes’ historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. ![]() THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO A MASTERFUL GRAPHIC NOVEL TRILOGY THAT FOLLOWS BERLIN CITIZENS AS NAZISM RISES. ![]() ![]() ![]() Expect seductive gadgetry and dapper scoundrels and mythic love that doesn’t run like clockwork… Tickle-tock and bring your wits! ![]() Spring Eternal: A big ole zipper ripper is headed your way! I’m hammering out sexy steampunkery set in a mechanized Manhattan complete with homoerotic heroics and a dastardly abduction to the underbelly of a truly Gilded Age. What’s coming next? 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He has pretty much lived everywhere and tried every profession, but couldn’t be happier writing stories. Our Authors After Dark Spotlights continue with Damon Suede. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() THE ESTATE OF EDGAR BEARD, ET ALĪLLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES V. TOMAS ARAGON, ET ALĭAVID CASSIRER, ET AL V. ![]() TRENDILY FURNITURE, LLC, ET ALĬENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, ET AL V. CITY OF FOUNTAIN VALLEY, ET ALĮSTATE OF GABRIEL STRICKLAND, ET AL V. CATRICIA HOWARD, ET ALĮNIGMA SOFTWARE GROUP USA, LLC V. RHAPSODY INTERNATIONAL, INC.ĭORIS RODRIGUEZ-ZUNIGA, ET AL V. Click here to register as a non-party user.ĭAVID LOWERY, ET AL V. PACER account holders may register as non-party users of the court's Appellate ECF system to obtain immediate email notification of the filing of opinions and dispositions in specific cases. Click here to open a PACER account and find out more about fees. 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The court is utilizing an automated process for posting opinions and memorandum dispositions to the website, which uploads them immediately as they are filed in each case rather than manually all at once at a designated time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, A Thousand Ships gives voices to the women, girls and goddesses who, for so long, have been silent. These are the stories of the women embroiled in that legendary war and its terrible aftermath, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all. This fast-paced military thriller details the horrifying aftermath of a. The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across oceans and sky in between. Ma2034 A Novel of the Next World War By Elliot Ackerman and Adm. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. She is also an accomplished comedian, broadcaster, and journalist. ![]() ![]() In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Natalie Haynes is a fiction, classics, and suspense author. This was never the story of one woman, or two. ![]() In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker. A Thousand Ships: A Novel Show full title By Natalie Haynes 4 / 5 ( 226 ratings ) Unavailable in your country About this ebook NATIONAL BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year Gorgeous. ![]() ![]() As he searches out these blood enemies, he must watch everyone he touches slip away. It is a family whose path first crossed his in Ireland and whose persistence puts at risk all his hopes for fulfilling his destiny. Through it all, Cormac must fight, generation after generation, a force of evil that returns relentlessly in the scions of a single family. In return for aiding an African shaman who was brought to America in chains, Cormac is given an otherworldly gift: he will live forever - as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan.Ī writer, a painter, and a man of sensual appetites, Cormac takes part in the dramas of his times through fat years and lean. His quest brings him to the settlement of New York, seething with tensions between English and Irish, whites and blacks, British and Americans, where he is swept up in a tide of conspiracy and violence. From the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honour the code of his ancestors. ![]() ![]() ![]() An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. ![]() Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. ![]() He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative.ĭr. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. ![]() ![]() ![]() From there, this article proposes several research-based approaches to foster resilient, robust communities that address the root causes of crime and inequality. ![]() This article serves as a guide for transformation and starts with a review of recent crime trends in Atlanta, providing essential context for understanding violence in a localized context. This is where “Uniting Communities: A Path Towards Reducing Crime and Inequality” comes into play. Instead, it necessitates a comprehensive approach that involves the entire community. Nevertheless, the solution to reducing crime rates and promoting equity is not as simple as increasing law enforcement presence. The “growth-inequality-poverty triangle” has been identified as a primary catalyst for crime rates in numerous communities. Atlanta, GA, is a city teeming with life and diversity, but as with many urban areas, it faces inequality and criminal activity difficulties. ![]() ![]() Capping off nearly three decades of collection the oral history of the Soviet peoples from WWII, the late 20th century Soviet-Afghan War, and the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster, Alexievich captures the social and psychological landscape of the former Eastern Bloc from the 1990's forward as "Soviet Man" ("Homo Sovieticus" per Soviet writer and sociologist Aleksandr Zinovyev) labors to discover what fits (and what doesn't) in the 21st century. In Secondhand Time, 2015 Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Read and reviewing Belarussian journalist and winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature Svetlana Alexievich's 2016 'Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets'. The book contains few comments from the author herself. ![]() ![]() An oral history of the Soviet Union and its end, it shares the feelings and views of its people as the country transitioned to capitalism. Special Ukraine Episode of LouisvilleReads. Alexievich s distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets is a 2013 book by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. ![]() |