![]() ![]() Growing up in the city of Los Angeles helped her here, as she took in much from her surrounding environment, always putting it back into her work.Īttending the prestigious Yale University, she graduated with a first class education, which was instrumental in her writing career that was to follow later on. ![]() Focusing on fantasy, she always retained a keen eye for what made people tick and how they functioned, something which would serve her writing career well. Not only does she have an audience among younger readers, but she also has a receptive group of adults who are avid followers of hers as well.īorn in Jerusalem Leigh Bardugo then went onto to spend her upbringing in America where she gained a passion for writing and the written word from an early age. Turning the heads of those in Hollywood, she is heading up as her career grows stronger and stronger with each subsequent release. ![]() The American Young Adult fiction author Leigh Bardugo has been making huge waves within the industry for some time now, all due to the initial impact she made with her strong and powerful titles. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. This bright, chunky board book is the ultimate love song from parent to child. King, "Alligator Stroll" starring Josh Turner, and "Tyrannosaurus Funk" (animation) sung by Samuel L. Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning "One Shoe Blues" starring B.B. ![]() Three of her albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold), and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has gone Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children's music. More than 70 million of her books have been sold, "mostly to friends and family," she says. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over sixty children's books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. It is bright, chunky, a pleasure to hold, and has a die-cut cover that reveals a glimpse of the joy inside before its even opened. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children's author, songwriter, producer, and director. A great big hug in book form, Snuggle Puppy is a year-round valentine from parent to child. ![]() ![]() ![]() TRANSLATORĪ Portuguese Museum (museum exhibition catalog), Fundacao de Serralves (Oporto, Portugal), 1992. The Search for Sana, Constable (London, England), 2005. Guardian of the Dawn, Delta Trade Paperbacks (New York, NY), 2005. ![]() Hunting Midnight, Delacorte Press (New York, NY), 2003. The Angelic Darkness, Norton ( New York, NY), 1999. (And translator of Portuguese edition) The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Quetzal Editores (Lisbon, Portugal), 1996, Overlook Press ( New York, NY), 1998. Unholy Ghosts, GMP Publishers (London, England), 1996. College of Journalism and University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, journalism instructor, 1990–ĪWARDS, HONORS: Fellow in fiction, National Endowment for the Arts, 1994 first prize, Panurge Short Fiction Contest, 1994 The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon was named one of thirty "literary events," LER magazine, 1997 Herodotus Award, International Mystery Society, 1998, for The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon was also named book of the year by the London Daily Telegraph, Gay Times, and Spectator, all 1998. E-mail- .ĬAREER: Worked as a journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1982–90. Hobbies and other interests: Gardening.ĪDDRESSES: Agent-c/o Author Mail, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 3 The Lanchesters, 162 Fulham Palace Rd., London W6 9ER England. Ethnicity: "Many." Education: Duke University, B.A., 1977 Stanford University, M.A., 1982. ![]() PERSONAL: Born January 1, 1956, in Roslyn Heights, NY son of Robert and Ruth (Goodkind) Zimler. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tehernomordik (1932)Ħ) The A to Z of the Soviet Union (Publisher: Russia Today Society 1945)ħ) Important Landmarks in the History of Bolshevism (Publisher: People’s Publishing House, Ltd. Voznesensky (1949)Ĥ) Founding of the First International (Publisher: Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, Moscow 1935)ĥ) Bolsheviks under Illegality – S. Lenin (undated)ģ) Soviet Economy during the Second World War – N. on 20th CPSU Congress (1961)Īccess to following rare books is available at nominal price.ġ) The Teachings of Lenin and Stalin – A. GREAT STALIN – A Reply to Anti-Communist Campaign (2014)Īn Open Letter to Khrushchev et al. Sibhdas Ghosh Collections for the StSP Library: March 2-13, 1938 – “Bukharin-Rykov Trial”ġ938_Report of Court Proceedings_Anti-Soviet Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites January 23-30, 1937 – “Pyatakov-Radek Trial”ġ937_Report of the Court Proceedings Anti-Soviet Trotskyite Centre He analyses the first two months of the Eastern Front. Soviet Local Government – Don Brown (1945)Īugust 19-24, 1936 – “Zinoviev-Kamenev Trial”ġ936_Report of Court Proceedings_Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre Pat Sloan, author of Soviet Democracy and Russia Without Illusions, writes about the invasion of the USSR by Nazi Germany about two months after it occurred. Stalin’s Role in the Communist Victory in China (1954)Īnother View of Stalin – Ludo Martens (1994)īlackshirts and Reds – Michael Parenti (1997) The Marxist-Leninist Internet Archives, hosted by StSP Library, contains important works, by and on Joseph Stalin and/or related to his era, collected from different sources for our readers and researchers: ![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien once said the One Ring symbolized the futility of trying to improve the world through force. While many would say the primary message of the story is love-the friendship and loyalty between Sam and Frodo is one of the most enduring relationships in literature-Tolkien’s philosophy on the danger and corrupting influence of power is what underpins the story. One of the reasons I reread Tolkien’s saga is the books speak to me today in a way they didn’t when I was 11, when my favorite scenes involved Legolas and Gimli smiting orcs at the Battle of Helm's Deep (and keeping score). I’ll crack open his books every five or ten years and slip back into Middle Earth like a warm, familiar bath. ![]() My enjoyment of Tolkien never faded over the years, however. That was followed by a thirst for the great authors: Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Nabokov, and so on. Then came a historical fiction phase-James Clavell’s masterpieces ( Shogun, Tai Pan, and Noble House), Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth, Colleen McCullough's The Masters of Rome series, and even some Gary Jennings. I began devouring books, starting with more Tolkien, and then moving to other fantasies written by Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, and Frank Herbert. Tolkien’s book The Fellowship of the Ring, and the book awakened my mind and imagination in ways I didn’t fully understand at the time. For many years as a child I didn’t like to read much, but that changed when I was about 11. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once confided, he could not have written this book earlier in life he History goes against the grain of most modern scholarship. In our reckoning of what is possible and desirable in humanĬrediting individuals with the power to shape or even change We need to include leaders in our understanding of the world and Great men, their will and their imagination, but it is partly their Samuels counters by saying that "history is not only a tale of ![]() Individuals, even leaders, are often deridedīy historians as little more than "colorful nodes and points on theĬurve of social evolution to which no tangents could be drawn" (to Institutions for explanations, and liberal internationalists, who seeĪnswers in economic forces. Science is today dominated by realists, for whom the forces defining theīalance of power determine outcomes, and structuralists, who look to Unexceptional claim? Some would call it blindingly obvious, probablyīecause that simple notion is very much out of fashion. Why bother? Why devote 450-plus pages to what is, apparently, an That is the message of Richard Samuels'sĮxhaustive and evocative study of the modern history of Japan and Italy. Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in ItalyĪnd Japan. APA style: Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan.Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan." Retrieved from ![]() MLA style: "Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() While graphically describing what he witnessed as a gang member-senseless killings, inter-ethnic hatreds and sexual abuse of gang-affiliated women-Sanchez also pursues harder truths, arguing that it is a minority of promiscuous drug-users accompanied by community-wide silence that keeps the gangs in business. Soon, he joined the fearsome Latin Kings, and his given street name "Lil Loco" attested to his youth and ferocity. ![]() ![]() When his family returned to Puerto Rico, he stayed behind. Sanchez recounts his family's arrival in Chicago's Northwest Side in the late 1970s, when he was a small boy he describes the beatings his grifter stepfather regularly doled out and he portrays the allure of the mysterious and ritual-bound lives of tough, teenaged gangsters. But he offers a forceful and unusual perspective on Chicago-in Sanchez's telling, it's a place of territorial graffiti and racist cops, in which a slow-motion riot of drugs, sex and gunplay constantly unfolds. ![]() Now repentant, Sanchez (a pseudonym) writes in a voluble voice, replete with operatic asides declaiming the immorality of his actions. Chicago in the 1980s provides the setting for this extremely disturbing and raw account of a Puerto Rican teenager who lost himself to violent gang activity. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has been appointed as national and regional coverage counsel for clients in connection with such events, including COVID-19. Weinstein has vast experience with regard to claims and lawsuits resulting from the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Superstorm Sandy, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Marie, blackouts and California wildfires. These claims/cases often involve catastrophic losses and claims arising from natural and man made disasters, building fires, explosions, building collapse, equipment and machinery malfunction, utility damage, construction accidents, construction defects, adjoining property damage, hail, water damage, freeze-ups, ice dams, floods, hurricanes, water main breaks, mold, theft of property, business interruption and income loss, delay claims, employee dishonesty, and property contamination. ![]() Weinstein’s practice is principally concentrated in the areas of insurance coverage and property damage litigation. Seth Weinstein is Partner in the New York office of Lewis Brisbois and Vice-Chair of the First Party Property Practice. Directors & Officers and Securities Litigation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The one thing about Munsch books that I’ve always loved is that no matter how old you get, most of them have some pretty valuable life lessons that will stick with you. It makes me want to ball just thinking about it. Eventually the kid moves out and the mother is left all alone, and the kid comes to visit one day and rocks his mom like she always rocked him and sings the song. It’s about a mother who brings her kid home from the hospital and sings to her child a lullaby that goes something like:Īnd as the kid grows up into a toddler, a child, and a teenager the mother would sneak in and sing the kid that song. ![]() I would say that maybe it’s not a story that gets read to kids as often as his other ones because I think you need to be a little older to get the full impact of the story (and when I say full impact I mean ball your eyes out like a little baby). The Paperbag Princess holds a special place in my heart, especially when I heard that he originally wanted to Princess to punch the Prince out at the end of the story, but I think it’s another one. So after my last blog post I got to thinking, if I had to choose a favorite picture book now it would probably be a Robert Munsch picture book. ![]() ![]() The contributors to TV Tropes have also noticed the moving house trope has become super popular in the last 10 years. Much of what I’ve read this year has already faded into a fuzzy haze in my brain. A good book, a really good book, transcends its format. ![]() Simple, right? They blend together after a while, but it’s not the fault of the format. Kid triumphs by being true to his or her own self. Kid is awkward in the lunchroom (seriously – if I never read another lunch room scene again it’ll be too soon). ![]() In book after book authors have hit the same notes. It’s not a new idea for a book ( Joseph Campbell would probably tell you that it’s just a variation on the old “A Stranger Comes to Town” storytelling motif) but this year it’s gotten extreme. I’ll give you an example of a particular pattern: The new kid in school. If you read too many middle grade novels in a given year, you begin to sense patterns that no one else can see. Since then, despite every children’s author knowing full well that the child moves house trope - or motif - or whatever you’d like to call it had been done thousands of times before, we get to 2017 and Betsy Bird (librarian and reviewer for School Libarary Journal) has this to say about the state of middle grade literature: Maria Nikolajeva published that paragraph in 2002 and goes easy on the child moves house trope. ![]() Our Story Props from Child's painting | DIY Play Ideas | Little Ladoo #shorts ![]() |