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![]() She discovers some of the students who relentlessly pick on her have dark secrets of their own. ![]() She also learns that her classmates lives aren’t what they seem. It sounds simple and obvious, but as I read it I thought, you know, I wish someone had broken this down for me as a seventh grader. She breaks down the process of making a friend into simple steps and commits to following those steps. When even her best friend takes a jab at Wendy, she decides it’s time to make some changes. I loved the little notes she receives and how those affected her. Wendy struggles to find value in herself while her classmates often undermine that journey. This story delves into the anxiety and excitement of middle school, brought to life by a charming narrator. She tries changing who she is, hoping it will be enough put the taunting behind her. ![]() Who could the notes be from? A cute boy perhaps? When the nasty comments continue to wear her down, Wendy is forced to take drastic measures. ![]() ![]() What can she expect when even her own father barely takes an interest in her life? Mysterious notes from “AFREND” help Wendy see there’s still hope. Published SeptemAmazon | Barnes & Noble | GoodreadsĪ cruel comment from a classmate sends thirteen year-old Wendy into a spiral of self-doubt. ![]() ![]() In the message boards and livestreams of this brave new world, Bobby became Logic, transforming a childhood of violence, anger, and trauma into music that spread a resilient message of peace, love, and positivity. After enduring seventeen years of abuse and neglect, Bobby ran away from home and-with nothing more than a discarded laptop and a ninth-grade education-he found his voice in the world of hip-hop and a new home in a place he never expected: the untamed and uncharted wilderness of the social media age. ![]() ![]() This Bright Future is a raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Bobby Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist of our tumultuous age.Ī self-described orphan with parents, Bobby Hall began life as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, the only child of an alcoholic, mentally ill mother on welfare and an absent, crack-addicted father. An explosive memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known as Logic and the #1 bestselling author of Supermarket. ![]() ![]() ![]() Veteran aviators purchased these surplus planes and became the first barnstormers, itinerant pilots who provided many rural Americans with their first experience of flight. Anyone who wanted to fly an airplane could do so. When the war ended in 1918, surplus planes, mostly Curtiss JN-4D biplanes, also known as Jennys, were both available and affordable.ĭuring the postwar years, the civil aviation industry was in its infancy, and a pilot’s license was little more than an honorary certificate. ![]() World War I created the first demand for planes and pilots, and although more than nine thousand men trained to fly, fewer than eight hundred of them actually saw combat. In the early part of the twentieth century, most people had only heard of airplanes. towns putting on air shows and selling plane rides. ![]() Originally a theater term, “barnstorming” refers to pilots and aerial performers who traveled between small, rural U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know that’s contentious (the number of people I know personally who say they love and highly rate the film I can count on one hand and have fingers left to spare), but I hold that it is true and, on the whole, both critics and ‘Top Ten’ type lists tend to agree (give or take a superlative or two). That said, the Stanley Kubrick movie of 2001 was, without a shadow of doubt, one of the greatest movies of any genre. Compared with Asimov (and Clarke so often was) and Anne McCaffrey, I really didn’t find Clarke so interesting. ![]() ![]() Even in my youth, when I devoured classic sci-fi while other kids my age were discovering their dad’s not-so-secret stash of porn magazines, I was reading things like ‘Rendezvous with Rama’, ‘Imperial Earth’ and ‘Childhood’s End’ and really not so impressed, to be honest. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past". "Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done". Tropic of Capricorn paints a dazzling picture of the life of the writer and of New York City between the wars: the skyscrapers and the sewers, the lust and the dejection, the smells and the sounds of a city that is perpetually in motion, threatening to swallow everyone and everything. Miller who works for the Cosmodemonic telegraph company in New York in the 1920s and tries to write the most important work of literature that was ever published. ![]() A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the story of Henry V. A story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939. A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel, Tropic of Cancer. ![]() ![]() ![]() First, she left her husband, Ale, to be a caregiver in Hong Kong. Like many Overseas Filipino Workers, Mary Grace Concepcion has lived a life of sacrifices. ![]() ![]() PS8615.E Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website) Awards and HonoursĢ017 City of Toronto Book Award (Finalist)Ģ018 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction (Finalist)Ģ018 Trillium Book Award–English Language (Finalist) Scarborough the novel employs a multitude of voices to tell the story of a tight-knit neighbourhood under fire: among them, Victor, a black artist harassed by the police Winsum, a West Indian restaurant owner struggling to keep it together and Hina, a Muslim school worker who witnesses first-hand the impact of poverty on education.Īnd then there are the three kids who work to rise above a system that consistently fails them: Bing, a gay Filipino boy who lives under the shadow of his father’s mental illness Sylvie, Bing’s best friend, a Native girl whose family struggles to find a permanent home to live in and Laura, whose history of neglect by her mother is destined to repeat itself with her father. Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Also available as an e-book (access restricted to members of the university community) Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website) ![]() ![]() ![]() The story follows Koli as he attempts to survive in his village of Mythen Rood. The Book of Koli is the first instalment in an all new post-apocalyptic series by M. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and Annihilation. The first in a gripping new trilogy, The Book of Koli charts the journey of one unforgettable young boy struggling to find his place in a chilling post-apocalyptic world. ![]() What he doesn’t know is – what happens when you aren’t given a choice? He knows the first rule of survival is that you don’t venture beyond the walls. Koli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. And if they don’t get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will. A world where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly vines and seeds that will kill you where you stand. Source: The publisher kindly sent me a copy of this book through Compulsive Readersīeyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable world. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? … So that each thing that obeys law may have the glory and isolation of the anarchist." "I see everything," Gabriel Syme shouts in the book's last chapter. This is the dark, impenetrable paradox of will and consciousness. Somehow our choices are not totally determined, yet somehow they also are not random, as if decisions were made by shaking tiny dice inside our skull. We have a knowledge of good and evil and a freedom to choose, within limits, of course, between the two. If our behavior were entirely determined by how our brain is wired by heredity and environment, then we would be mere automatons with no more genuine free will or self-awareness-two names for the same thing-than a vacuum cleaner. Man's freedom to do wicked things, as Augustine and so many other theologians of all faiths have said, is the price we pay for freedom. ![]() In Chesterton's comic fantasy, which he calls on the title page "A Nightmare," free will is symbolized by anarchism. Chesterton, revolves around two of the deepest of all theological mysteries: the freedom of the will and the existence of massive, irrational evil. T he Man Who Was Thursday, a masterpiece by G. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even after it was put down, the insurgency rumbled throughout the British Empire at a time when slavery seemed the dependable bedrock of its dominion. It was also part of a more extended borderless conflict that spread from Africa to the Americas and across the island. Their uprising-which became known as Tacky's Revolt-featured a style of fighting increasingly familiar today: scattered militias opposing great powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from noncombatants. ![]() In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica (then called Coromantees) organized to throw off that yoke by violence. In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. ![]() |