![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() East Coast tribes physically resembled European or Middle Eastern populations more than Far Eastern ones, while the reverse was usually true on the West Coast. It seemed obvious to most early European explorers that Americans varied widely in physical appearance, language, and life-style, and represented various amalgamations of people. Rephrased in today’s terms, the question meant: had Americans migrated here primarily from Europe, Africa, or Asia? ![]() But the question of American origins remained vivid for churchmen and scholars. Julius left open another issue: from which son of Noah-Shem, Ham, or Japheth-had Americans descended? This question hardly bothered merchants, soldiers, soldiers of fortune, colonists, and slaves arriving in this hemisphere, eventually by the millions. When Columbus refound America for Europe in 1492, he believed that the Bahamas, Haiti, and Cuba were parts of the East Indies in eastern Asia so naturally he named the people whom he encountered on that initial voyage “Indians.” His and subsequent Spanish trips caused the church this curious problem: were native Americans humans or not? In 1512 at the Fifth Lateran Council, Pope Julius II declared that Americans had descended from Adam and Eve, and thus are humans-as well as candidates for conversion to the Christian faith. Norman Totten was chairman of the History Department at Bentley College when this was published. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Whether reading for pleasure or to learn about the craft, Reporting Always is a joy for readers of all ages. “Millennials would do well to study Ross and to study her closely,” says Lena Dunham. ![]() ![]() “This glorious collection by a master of the form” (Susan Orlean) brings the reader into the hotel rooms of Ernest Hemingway, John Huston, and Charlie Chaplin Robin Williams’s living room and movie set Harry Winston’s office the tennis court with John McEnroe Ellen Barkin’s New York City home, the crosstown bus with upper east side school children and into the lives of other famous, and not so famous, individuals. R eporting Always is a collection of Ross’s iconic New Yorker profiles and “Talk of the Town” pieces that spans forty years. She “made journalistic history by pioneering the kind of novelistic nonfiction that inspired later work” ( The New York Times). From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross-“a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces” ( Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).Ī staff writer for The New Yorker since 1945, Lillian Ross is one of the few journalists who worked for both the magazine’s founding editor, Harold Ross, and its current editor, David Remnick. ![]() ![]() ![]() This miscellany highlights for the reader the diversity of Indigenous groups in Australia, something that is still sometimes overlooked. There are people from all walks of life, from the country and the city and from older people to the young. ![]() Importantly, as is stated in the introduction ‘each account reveals, to some degree, the impacts of invasion and colonisation on language, on country, on ways of life, on how people are treated daily in the community, the education system, the workplace and in friendship groups’.Īlthough the names of many of the contributors may be unfamiliar others are well-known and their stories are all compelling. Heiss comments that she had many more contributions than she could include in the book. In this work, she has brought together 52 Indigenous people from all round the country to write about their experience of growing up in Australia as an Aboriginal. Wiradjuri woman Anita Heiss, is a poet, editor, author and social commentator who champions Indigenous writing and literacy. ![]() ![]() |y . McKissack, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King award-winning author, storyteller, and writer of Color Me Dark, a title from Scholastic's. |a African Americans |v Juvenile fiction. |a Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind. ![]() |a Color me dark : |b the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North / |c by Patricia C. ![]() ![]() Primrose did and when David found her lying in leaves in an Easter egg hunt, you wouldn't think they would become friends. At the age of thirteen, you wouldn't think a teenager had to deal with all of these things. David unwillingly hunted for eggs and than as a curious child, he found Primrose. At the time, David was living with his grandmother because his mother died and his father was to busy to take care of him. David, as an uncaring child doesn't want to hunt Easter eggs, but his grandmother forces him to. ![]() The story starts out in a scene of an Easter egg hunt, where nine year old David is forced to hunt Easter eggs, and hopefully make friends. The way Jerry Spinelli developed the friendship of David and Primrose in the novel Eggs was comforting and exciting because you would never know if they were friends or not. ![]() ![]() The Noise is simply full of action, and more than once it crossed my mind what an excellent movie it would make because of this. The village is decimated, but not before the girls’ quick-thinking father shoves them into an underground storm shelter in a last-ditch effort to save them.Ī team of experts is quickly brought in to investigate what could have happened up there on the mountain- and it’s here that it gets difficult to reveal much more without getting into spoilers. They’re out catching rabbits when an unbearably painful sound reverberates around the hills and valleys. The Noise opens with two young girls living in a mountainside community that’s isolated from the outside world by choice. James Patterson’s previous collaboration with JD Barker - The Coast to Coast Murders - was more of a crime thriller, but the pair’s most recent release The Noise sees them wander much more into horror and even sci-fi territory - and I’m definitely here for it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The title page of Patterson’s August 2021 release The Noise ![]() ![]() They pack up the car (“not so new as to be luxurious or so old as to be bohemian”) and head out of town.Īlam’s two previous novels, “Rich and Pretty” and “That Kind of Mother,” have proved he’s gifted with an acidic wit, one he uses to break down contemporary life at the cellular level. “The Ultimate Escape,” the listing proclaimed before launching into “chummy advertising-speak” to describe the place. There’s an Airbnb, far off the GPS-beaten path, “extraordinary and only $340 a day,” made all the more alluring by its lack of cellphone access. Rumaan Alam inhabits the head space of Amanda and Clay, denizens of New York City, parents of a teenage son and adolescent daughter, who slouch toward Long Island for summer vacation - only to discover that life as they know it is over. The literary suspense of “Leave the World Behind” hinges on that familiar guilt-tinged longing for a vacation that never ends. ![]() ![]() After showing her a vision of the circumstances of her birth and the death of her mother, Prometheus gives her several clues. Whoever has them can harness this power, making it dangerous. Prometheus reveals that nine things were stolen from Olympus and must be returned because these "pieces" are the power of the gods. But when she questions him about what was stolen from Olympus and where Apollo can find it, he refuses unless Apollo leaves. At the top, Daphne finds Prometheus chained between two stone columns. ![]() While Lykon stays with the horses, Daphne and Apollo climb the rocky, treeless mountain. They arrive at the foothills of Mount Kazbek after seven days. To prevent his interference, Apollo turns Lykon into a wolf but allows him to accompany them. Soon Apollo discovers Daphne's friend, Lykon has been following them. Apollo is accompanying her in an attempt earn his father's favour and forgiveness. Her promised escort turns out to be Artemis's twin, Apollo who tells her they are travelling to Mount Kazbek where "an old friend.has the answers.". ![]() ![]() Daphne sets out on her journey, asking Ligeia, her handmaid, to make an explanation for her sudden disappearance. As winner of the agon, Daphne receives the dory from Queen Helen who along with King Menelaus return to the palace while the Carneia continues. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jules is an ordinary nineteen-year-old omega from a perfectly respectable family. ![]() ![]() Sometimes kissing the Beast doesn’t turn it into Prince Charming-instead, he’s a charming prince you want to punch…… He isn’t supposed to crave his husband-their marriage is just a political arrangement, nothing more.īut when disaster strikes and loyalties are tested, which bond will be the strongest: their marriage, or their allegiances? Everyone knows a marriage between two alphas is a recipe for disaster. He isn’t supposed to bare his throat to an enemy alpha-and it isn’t supposed to feel so good. Prince Haydn has always tried to be the perfect alpha his father wants him to be. Royce likes omegas he isn’t into alphas, no matter how pretty their eyes are. More than anything, Royce hates what Haydn makes him become: a primitive alpha cliché who’ll do anything to mark his territory, even if that territory is his alpha husband. Peace isn’t popular, but the planet can’t survive without it.įorced to marry an enemy prince for the sake of peace, Senator Royce Cleghorn doesn’t like his husband, his alpha scent, or his damned pretty blue eyes. The Kingdom of Pelugia and the Republic of Kadar have been at war for decades. Attraction that defies all reason and logic… Or does it? ![]() Two alphas forced into a political marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Petra and Calder, two inquisitive, imaginative sixth-graders, join forces to track down the thief who has stolen a valuable Vermeer painting no small task, especially when mysterious letters appear in mailboxes up and down the street of their neighborhood, the neighbors are acting cagey, and their beloved teacher, Ms. everything is quite formulaic these days." Balliett has created an intriguing fictional world where patterns and coincidences deserve a second look, and happenstance can hold great meaning. In Chasing Vermeer-a multilayered story about art and learning, coincidence and mystery-protagonists Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay serve as "a vote of confidence for kids' brain power, at a time when not much credence is given to kids' thinking and imagination. ![]() "I learned so much by being able to watch so many different kinds of brains every year," she says. Just ask author Blue Balliett, who says children of that age "have tremendous brain power and are not bound by convention." In fact, Balliett says she couldn't have written her new novel, Chasing Vermeer, without having taught for a decade at the University of Chicago's Laboratory School. Eight-year-olds should not be underestimated. ![]() |