![]() ![]() Kenneth, the Earl of Haverford, and his three friends, Rex, Viscount Rawley ( Indiscreet), Nathaniel Gascoigne, and Eden, Lord Pelham, have all sold out of the army and returned home to England where, in the way of young gentlemen, they are living the high life, celebrating the fact that they’ve survived the Napoleonic Wars intact by living lives of cheerful debauchery. Thus, his return to his Cornwall estate following his years of army service is an extremely unwelcome shock. Indeed, for most of the book, Moira professes to hate Kenneth Woodfall, believing him to have been responsible, albeit indirectly, for the death of her brother some years earlier. In Unforgiven (originally published in 1998), the second book in her Horseman trilogy, Mary Balogh shows herself to be one such author, as she introduces us to Miss Moira Hayes, a young woman who is so intractable and determined to protect herself and her emotions that she almost loses her chance at happiness with the man she (won’t admit she) loves. ![]() It’s a brave author who decides to write a novel in which one of the central characters is infuriatingly stubborn, who frequently, as the saying goes, cuts off her nose to spite her face, and who, because of those things is often downright unlikeable. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Stephen's father dies, Stephen is truly alone with her confusion, becoming involved in a love affair that will make her mother aware of what she is, causing an irreparable rift in their relationship. Stephen's father understands, but is unable to find a way to explain what he knows to Stephen or her mother. Stephen grows up unaware that there is a name for the oddities in her behaviors and emotions. The novel is about Stephen Gordon, a young Englishwoman who is a lesbian, in a time when acceptance of this lifestyle was non-existent. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall is a controversial novel that was banned at the time of its publication in 1928. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Slavery was also abolished 165 years ago in France 160 years ago in Argentina 150 years ago in the Dutch colonies and 125 years ago in Brazil.Ģ013 is also the 150 th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, which declared that, on 1 January 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. 2013 is particularly important with many key anniversaries, including 220 years since France’s General Emancipation decree liberated all slaves in present-day Haiti 180 years since the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 ended slavery in Canada, the British West Indies and the Cape of Good Hope and 170 years since the Indian Slavery Act of 1843 was signed. This year tribute will be paid to the emancipation of slaves in nations around the world. The sixth annual commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade will be observed at United Nations Headquarters under the theme "Forever Free - Celebrating Emancipation", from Monday, 18 March to Monday, 25 March. To Be Highlighted in Series of Activities at Headquarters ![]() The Transatlantic Slave Trade: ‘Forever Free – Celebrating Emancipation’ ![]() ![]() ![]() Blume’s titles are constants on the American Library Association’s list of frequently banned books for children and young adults. A report from PEN America found that in the 2021-2022 school year, over 2,500 individual books were stripped from school library shelves. This recognition of Blume’s legacy and work comes as book bans in schools have increased over the past year. They grapple with puberty, masturbation and sex on top of the emotional journey, subjects glossed over or ignored in many sex ed classes in schools. And on April 28, the first-ever film adaptation of Blume’s 1970 classic “ Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” was released in theaters, bringing “We must! We must! We must increase our bust!” to a whole new generation.īlume’s work is beloved by children and teens - and the adults they one day become - for its frank depictions of the day-to-day realities of growing up. The new documentary “ Judy Blume Forever” debuted on Amazon Prime on Friday, April 21, after premiering to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in January. ![]() ![]() A staple of backpacks of elementary, middle grade and young adult readers since the 1970s, Blume, 85, is about to see her stories on the big screen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Subscribe Latest Arrivalsġ993 Toy Biz The Uncanny X-Men Evil Mutants Tusk Action Figure - Looseġ994 Toy Biz Marvel Rhino w Head Ramming Action Figure - Looseġ998 Toy Biz Marvel X-Men The New Mutants Wolfsbane Action Figure - Looseġ995 Toy Biz Spider-Man Animated Series The Prowler Action Figure - Looseġ998 Toy Biz Spider-Man Sneak Attack Flip 'n Trap Red Skull w/ Skull Catcher - Looseġ996 ToyBiz Marvel Hall of Fame She-Force Black Queen Action FigureĢ012 Marvel Legends Dark Avengers Iron Patriot Action Figure - LooseĢ020 Hasbro Snake Eyes: G.I. ![]() ![]() You can always opt-out if you don't like it. Okay, there are no prizes, but sign up anyway. ![]() Stay up to date on the latest products, sales, information, and your chance to win prizes. ![]() ![]() ![]() But in his letters to Slauerhoff he was quite mild about the latter’s ‘casual’ poetry. He did not appreciate these qualities in Slauerhoff’s poetry as well. The original coplas had no strict formal characteristics, something that was considered ‘too playful’ by De Vries and not in accordance with his own wish to point out an ‘essence’ in poetry. In his translation of the coplas De Vries allowed himself to do anything he wanted with the original text – he was not reluctant to alter even the meaning and form of the poems. ![]() De Vries wrote poetry full of dreams and unattainable desires, with little sense of reality, but with a measured form and end rhyme. It was customary that poets thus reviewed each other’s work, before it was handed in for publication. Slauerhoff sent manuscript drafts of his poems to De Vries as well, which were criticized punctually in the letters that his friend sent back to him. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I was still in college I had started working for an Austin-based company called The Reference Press, a publisher of consumer-friendly, somewhat cheeky profiles of companies. What were you doing for a living when that happened, and how did you transition to writing for children full time? You’ve said that you tried your hand at children’s books because one of your sons repeatedly asked you to tell him a story. ![]() I guess I’ve taken that sense of fulfilment to the extreme by marrying another author, Jennifer Ziegler, who writes novels for teens and tweens. And with writing, going all the way back to elementary school and all the way up to the present day, I’ve long found that there can be a great sense of community with other writers and readers, and I find that hugely fulfilling. CHRIS BARTON: I’m getting better at writing, and I’m always learning a lot from it - I think we all enjoy doing things where we can sense our own improvement, and we all enjoy the feeling of getting smarter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ralph Bakshi tried to establish an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions in the 1970s. Jordan Belson, Robert Breer and Stan Vanderbeek made experimental animation during this time. In 1959, the first independent animated film to win an Oscar with John Hubley's Moonbird which was also produced by wife and collaborator Faith Hubley using limited animation to tell their own personal stories. In America, working independent animators included Mary Ellen Bute, John Whitney, Harry Everett Smith and Oskar Fischinger alongside earlier efforts of what would later become UPA. However, following the implosion of the entertainment industry and mass layoffs of animators, "indie" now almost exclusively refers to industry veterans with connections producing content on their own time. ![]() "Independent" initially implied amateurs and unknowns. The significance of independent animation is as important as studio fare. ![]() The term independent animation refers to animated shorts and feature films produced outside a major national animation industry.Ī good portion of the work is viewed in animation festivals and private screen rooms along with schools that produce animation through instruction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Franny's beloved older sister is keeping secrets and regularly disappearing, her mother's ordered household is upended by the increasingly erratic behavior of Uncle Otts (a WWI veteran), and Franny's relationship with her best friend Margie is on the brink as both vie for the same boy's attention. Wiles palpably recreates the fear kids felt when air-raid sirens and duck-and-cover drills were routine, and when watching President Kennedy's televised speech announcing the presence of missiles in Cuba was an extra-credit assignment. ![]() ![]() Eleven-year-old Franny, a middle child, is in the thick of it-her father (like Wiles's was) is a pilot stationed at Andrews Air Force Base. Wiles heads north from her familiar Mississippi terrain (Each Little Bird That Sings) for this "documentary novel" set in Maryland during the Cuban Missile Crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she presents the enthralling science underlying these and many other fascinating body-mind effects, and teaches us how to use simple techniques to liberate ourselves from fear in high-pressure moments, perform at our best, and connect with and empower others to do the same.īrilliantly researched, impassioned, and accessible, Presence is filled with stories of individuals who learned how to flourish during the stressful moments that once terrified them. Instead, we need to nudge ourselves, moment by moment, by tweaking our body language, behavior, and mind-set in our day-to-day lives.Īmy Cuddy has galvanized tens of millions of viewers around the world with her TED talk about "power poses". As Harvard professor Amy Cuddy's revolutionary book reveals, we don't need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret.īy accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence", the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves. ![]() ![]() Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. ![]() |