7/7/2023 0 Comments The penderwicks![]() Take our free Penderwicks Checklist to your local library! About the Author Now that sounds like an ideal place to spend the summer-or a few hours of delightful reading. It was all a cottage is supposed to be, small and snug, with a front porch, pink climbing roses, and lots of trees for shade.” As Birdsall writes: “Arundel Cottage was not only yellow, it was the creamiest, butteriest yellow the Penderwicks had ever seen. You have to love a book that takes place in a perfect storybook setting. All together, the series has sold over one million copies. Success came quickly with the first volume published in 2005, which won the National Book Award and is a New York Times bestseller. And it’s probably precisely because this type of book is so unusual in today’s publishing world that the Penderwicks have enjoyed such widespread popularity. Penderwick is absorbed in his own Latin-speaking world of botanicals, which generally leaves his daughters to their own interests, adventures, and activities.Īlthough set in the 21st century, the series has a timeless, classic feel that has proven appealing to readers. ![]() ![]() The Penderwicks series centers around four sisters (Rosalind, Skye, Jane, and Batty), their devoted dog (the lovable Hound), and their widowed father. ![]() Author Jeanne Birdsall once said that her ideal book would include “loving families and siblings that got along.” This sentiment essentially summarizes Birdsall’s delightful quartet of volumes that make up the bestselling Penderwicks series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Pithy and outside the box, it connects the dots for thinkers and seekers alike. Oneless Oneness is at once philosophical manifesto and guide. ![]() In an aphoristic style, he explains how they can help us deal with all-too-human issues: from guilt, regrets, and compulsion, to forgiveness, mindful enjoyment, and matters of the heart.ĭiscover how Tao’s culture-transcending truth reconciles Eastern spirituality with Western rational philosophy. Inspired by Zen teachers and based on his own experience, the author uses his problem-solving engineer attitude for a thought-provoking take on satori and finding Tao-the key steps to enlightenment. ![]() Did you know that you don’t have to meditate to awaken to Tao? You only need an open mind-and a book like this.Would you like to enjoy the benefits of enlightenment too?.Do you wonder what the Zen masters mean by enlightenment?.Oneless Oneness is a fresh look at ancient Zen philosophy -not for the dogmatic, ideological, or faint-hearted, but for rational minds open to plainspoken arguments challenging widespread beliefs. What looks absurd and disturbing at first can grow into inspirational insight. Enlightenment is the ultimate self-help because it helps you realize that the self does not exist. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Old Cravings by Joy Jarrett![]() Joy: I wanted to write a book that made all of my chosen elements-horror, romance, and animals as key figures-integral to the plot. RMFW: How did you go about weaving in the romance? Would be, trapped there by bad weather, in such a remote location. That story, and theĬreepy sound of elks bugling all night, got me thinking about how terrifying it ![]() Shouldn’t be alarmed, the teacher was not unfriendly. The kind of person I’d expect to joke about such things, told us it was hauntedīy a teacher who might appear in the rocking chair during our stay. Stayed in a cabin that had once been a schoolhouse. Joy: My family and I went on vacation to an elk ranch and RMFW: What inspired you to write a horror romance hybrid It is the perfect congenial setting for a discussion about her upcoming romance novel, Old Cravings, except it happens to also be a horror story. I’ve snagged a little table near the grass outside Panera’s-the same location author Joy Jarrett and I used to meet in-person with our RMFW critique group, a lifetime ago. The sun is shining in that undeniably Colorado way, making it hard to imagine clouds exist. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a great book to add to a read-aloud on color and would translate well to a felt board. There is a board book version available that is perfect for the tiniest hands. The rhythm of the book is comfortably repetitive, so children know what to expect on each spread. The font is a simple, black font the question appears on the left hand page of each spread, and the response on the right. The endpapers lead readers into this study in color, with the colors named in the book appearing, striped, across them.īill Martin’s repetitive question-and-answer rhyme format, coupled with Eric Carle’s signature hand-painted and layered collage technique, appeals to toddlers and preschoolers alike, giving the animals a textured appearance that makes them stand out on the white background of the page. The animals are described in terms of color: a brown bear, a red bird, a yellow duck, a blue horse. ![]() An unseen narrator asks different animals what they see the animals respond that another animal is looking at them, repeating the process throughout the book. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a children’s literature classic. ![]() ![]() These bitter roots are hardly obscure in 2020, but CoQ came out two years before the Rodney King riots. He documents the historical bond between the LAPD, real estate moguls, and the Chandler family, which owned the Los Angeles Times their collective vision of LA was a blend of mythmaking and militarization. Davis also turns his attention to the history of lives lived in Los Angeles. In the beginning of CoQ, Davis described the focus of that book as “the history of culture produced about Los Angeles.” And that is true for roughly two hundred pages of CoQ, as Davis reviews the work of California historians like Carey McWilliams (he approves) and “the European reconceptualization of the United States” carried out by Los Angeles transplants like Theodor Adorno (he’s torn). SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE, written by Mike Davis in collaboration with historian Jon Wiener, is a kind of sequel to City of Quartz, the cultural analysis of Los Angeles Davis published in 1990. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Feedback mira grant![]() ![]() NIGMS Workforce Team for questions about the recruitment process. Contacts for Additional InformationĪndrea Keane-Myers for questions about these positions. ![]() ![]() Tip sheet on applications for global recruitments may be helpful. It reveals for the first time what happened from the perspective of reporters covering the Democrats' campaign. NIH’s Global Recruitment for Health Scientists Administrators (HSA) process. 'A whip-smart thriller overflowing with sharp ideas and social commentary' - Kirkus Feedback is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of the New York Times bestselling novel Feed. These positions will be advertised through the Outstanding written and oral communication skills are essential, and familiarity with NIH extramural funding as an applicant, awardee, reviewer, or NIH scientific administrator is a plus. Position and Organizational InformationĬandidates should have a bachelor’s or graduate/advanced degree in a medical, health sciences, or allied sciences field. They will stimulate, plan, advise, direct, and evaluate program activities related to their field of expertise. One will serve in the Developmental and Cellular Processes Branch, and the other will serve in the Cell Biology Branch.įeedback Loop Blog. ![]() The program directors will be responsible for scientific and administrative management of a portfolio of research grants and their portfolio may also include research training grants and career development awards. Division of Genetics and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (GMCDB) is recruiting for two program director positions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their ideas are straightforward and easy to comprehend, yet what they showed about our biased thinking is profound and has widespread implications. Tversky and Kahneman are without doubt two of my favorite scientists, all categories. ![]() ![]() In the process they may well have changed for good mankind's view of its own mind. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield - both had important careers in the Israeli military - and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis' own work possible. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred systematically when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Best-selling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.įorty years ago Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan![]() ![]() ![]() "Captures the reader with true magic. " Breathtaking-a compulsive, rocketing read."-Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author "Readers will laugh, shiver, and maybe even swoon over this modern Gothic novel." -Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author ![]() "A darkly funny, deliciously thrilling Gothic." -Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author "A sparkling fantasy that will make you laugh and break your heart." -Cassandra Clare, New York Times bestselling author The boy she thought was imaginary is real, and definitely and deliciously dangerous. The key to it all just might be the boy in her head. ![]() Now Kami can see that the town she has known and loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets-and a murderer. The Lynburn family, who ruled the town a generation ago and who all left without warning, have returned. Kami Glass, intrepid journalist in the making, has always been used to being an outsider. There has been screaming in the woods and the manor overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years. Her life seems to be in order, until disturbing events begin to occur. This has made her an outsider in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, but she has learned ways to turn that to her advantage. Kami Glass is in love with someone she's never met-a boy she's talked to in her head since she was born. Reviewers have praised the take-charge heroine and the spellbinding romance. Synopsis: A modern, magical twist on the Gothic Romance and Girl Detective genres, this book will appeal to fans of both Beautiful Creatures and the Mortal Instruments series. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy![]() ![]() Known already in the 1850’s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century, became a place where scholars, activists, and medical professionals could explore and begin to educate both themselves and Europe about new and emerging sexual identities. by the historian and author Robert Beachy, from his book Gay Berlin: Birthplace of Modern Identity, accompanied by songs of the Weimar era, performed by the international cabaret entertainer Daniel Isengart, and conversation with the editor and translator Carol Brown Janeway about how our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity was born in pre-Weimar Berlin. ![]() ![]() Deutsches Haus at NYU will present a reading on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The 13 clocks by james thurber![]() ![]() Readers young and old will take pleasure in this tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled, admiring its upstanding hero ( He yearned to find in a far land the princess of his dreams, singing as he went, and possibly slaying a dragon here and there ) and unapologetic villain ( We all have flaws, the Duke said. ![]() So begins James Thurber s sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks, in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke s beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales. His hands were as cold as his smile, and almost as cold as his heart. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. ![]() Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. ![]() |