5/21/2023 0 Comments James horn jamestown![]() ![]() Join other innovative leaders to help ensure that Jamestown is preserved and protected for future generations.Ī Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America, by James Horn Learn more about making a lasting impact by including the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation in your estate plans. Help support archaeology, scholarly research, and the preservation of James Fort structures. ![]() Making a gift directly supports the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation’s ongoing efforts to research, preserve, and educate about the significance of the original site of America’s birthplace. The award-winning Archaearium museum houses over 2000 artifacts that bring James Fort’s story to life.Įxplore selected artifacts from Jamestown Rediscovery's collection.įollow the growth of England’s first permanent colony in North America and learn about life in James Fort.įind your connection to the Jamestown story.īring Jamestown to the classroom through our lesson plans and virtual school programs.ĭownload kid-friendly activities and learn more about family fun on the island.Įxplore online resources to learn more about the archaeology and history of Jamestown. ![]() Archives cover years of archaeology at James Fort.Ĭlick each James Fort feature to learn more about what archaeologists have learned in 20 years of work. ![]() Explore Jamestown Rediscovery’s exciting finds in monthly archaeological updates. ![]()
0 Comments
5/21/2023 0 Comments Rise of the jumbies![]() ![]() ![]() With grace and a little help, Corinne manages to handle it pretty well, which is good because she’s going to need all the help she can get!īaptiste continues to have good characterization, and a plot that is twisty but still logical. This does pick up pretty soon after the previous book, so her father, and their home island, are still reeling from everything that’s happened. Rise of the Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste.Įven though she fought against her aunt’s wicked plan in the last book, as soon as something goes wrong people instantly assume it’s Corinne’s fault. If she wants to save the families of her island from a jumbie fate under the sea, she’ll have to work with powerful jumbies to restore the balance. NOTE: This will contain spoilers for the first book in the series.Ĭorinne LaMer might have defeated Severine, but things aren’t quite back to normal. Rise of the Jumbies (Jumbies #2) by Tracey Baptiste.Īlgonquin Young Readers, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, she is the author of a young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017), a National Book Award Finalist, and the poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf, 2017), a finalist of the Pen America. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.īut it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. ![]() Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.īut Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Characters Julia Reyes Julia Reyes Julia Reyes is the fiery, ravenous, ambitious, contrarian narrator and protagonist of the novel. ![]() Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lesbians who held the essentialist view that they had been born homosexual and used the descriptor lesbian to define sexual attraction often considered the separatist opinions of lesbian-feminists to be detrimental to the cause of gay rights. Lesbian feminists eschewed gender role play that had been pervasive in bars as well as the perceived chauvinism of gay men many lesbian feminists refused to work with gay men or take up their causes. As equality was a priority for lesbian feminists, disparity of roles between men and women or butch and femme were viewed as patriarchal. A dispute as to whether the primary focus of their political aims should be feminism or gay rights led to the dissolution of some lesbian organizations, including Daughters of Bilitis, which was founded by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, but disbanded in 1970 following disputes over which goal should take precedence. Īs lesbians forged more public identities, the phrase gay and lesbian became more common. The first widely used term, homosexual, now a term used primarily in scientific contexts, has at times carried negative connotations in the United States. LGBT publications, pride parades, and related events, such as this stage at Bologna Pride 2008 in Italy, increasingly drop the LGBT initialism instead of regularly adding new letters, and dealing with issues of placement of those letters within the new title. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Knit two by kate jacobs![]() Following the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club is this charming story of sisterhood.Īt the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club-including Georgia’s college-age daughter, Dakota-rely on each other for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce for Darwin, the hope for a family for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother and for seventy-something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children.Īs the club’s projects-an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat-are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend. ![]() ![]() Ian is worried that this man may have killed the original owner of the heart, and Isabel decides that they have a moral duty to try to find out more. When visiting Cat's delicatessen one lunchtime, Isabel meets Ian, who has recently had a heart transplant, and seems to have gained the memories of the heart's former owner, particularly the memory of a sinister-looking man with hooded eyes and a scar on his forehead. Her closest friends are her niece Cat, a young woman who runs a delicatessen her housekeeper Grace, who is outspoken and interested in spiritualism Cat's ex-boyfriend Jamie, a bassoonist to whom Isabel has been secretly attracted ever since they met and Brother Fox, an urban fox who lives in Isabel's garden. ![]() Due to an inheritance from her late mother, she can work for a nominal fee as the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. Isabel Dalhousie is in her early forties and lives alone in Edinburgh. It was first published in 2005, and is the sequel to The Sunday Philosophy Club. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate is the second of the Sunday Philosophy Club series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featuring the protagonist Isabel Dalhousie. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments From lukov with love![]() After practice one afternoon, she receives a coveted offer: Ivan Lukov, a renowned skater who has won several awards, needs a partner. The world seems to be screaming at her to hang up her skates, but Jasmine is determined to be able to compete and finally win a gold medal. Jasmine has spent 17 years of her life as a competitive pairs figure skater, but when her previous skating partner and ex sets out to ruin her, she struggles to get back on her feet. The story itself is a journey of self-discovery and coming to terms with several hard realities. It highlights a professional athlete’s struggle to continue loving the sport, as well as committing to a lifestyle that is often without glory or recognition. This book is definitely one for athletes who have spent years of dedication on their craft, as they will easily be able to relate to Santos’ experience. ![]() From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata is a contemporary romance that follows elite figure skater Jasmine Santos’ career. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Notes on nationalism george orwell![]() ![]() The Dark Side of Democracy tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious democracy and send shockwaves through the region and beyond. The collection ends with an account of the of the August 2008 uprising of the people of Kashmir against India's military occupation and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai. ![]() She describes the systematic marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities - Muslim, Christian, Adivasi and Dalit, the rise of terrorism and the massive scale of displacement and dispossession of the poor by predatory corporations. Beginning with the state-backed pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, Arundhati Roy writes about how the combination of Hindu Nationalism and India's Neo-liberal economic reforms which began their journey together in the early 1990s are now turning India into a police state. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy. A political piece by Orwell, written with a personal perspective, bridging the cusp of being formal and informal attempting to define the complex concept of nationalism and contrast the concept against patriotism. ![]() This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Ma larson books![]() ![]() Buy a discounted Paperback of Pennyroyal Academy online from Australias leading. Larson’s Pennyroyal Academy masterfully combines adventure, humor, and magical mischief. Booktopia has Pennyroyal Academy, Pennyroyal Academy by M. And with the witch forces moving nearer, she discovers that the war between princesses and witches is much more personal than she could ever have imagined. As Evie learns what it truly means to be a princess, she realizes surprising things about herself and her family, about human compassion and inhuman cruelty. Since 1889, Saint Anselm College has provided a transformative education shaped by Catholic and Benedictine values and a liberal arts foundation. There, given the name “Evie,” she must endure a harsh training regimen under the steel glare of her Fairy Drillsergeant, while also navigating an entirely new world of friends and enemies. She enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons. Pennyroyal Academy: Seeking bold, courageous youths to become tomorrow's princesses and knights….Come one, come all!Ī girl from the forest arrives in a bustling kingdom with no name and no idea why she is there, only to find herself at the center of a world at war. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Sarah dessen rest of the story![]() When I was in high school there was so much potential in summer time. “I’ve always been fascinated with summer. A character so ever present in Dessen’s novels, that back in 2017, I asked her about it. The novels tend to incorporate some element of an emotional hurdle, one that, if not completely surmounted, is at least addressed and challenged in some way by the characters through their interactions with faces both old and new. But The Truth About Forever is the one that I can recall in detail. The first was The Truth About Forever.ĭetails of novels blend, but categorize themselves by title when I pick up a copy and read over the character’s names, the details of the town. I read them all in one summer and then joined the annual (sometimes biannual) wait for new releases. By this point, Dessen had several books out - This Lullaby, That Summer, Keeping the Moon, Dreamland. The first book I picked up was Someone Like You. ![]() Harry Potter was a once-per-year event and so I worked my way through the shelves supplementing the weeks with names like Bloom, Spinnelli, Jacques, and more. Lucky for me, Beverly Cleary had an entire anthology of Ramona Quimby adventures for me to peruse and Sharon Creech had several tales under her belt. ![]() Typically, I would pick an author and read through their entire collection before moving on. ![]() Why do I keep coming back to Sarah Dessen? Summers were typically spent with one weekly trip to the library. ![]() |