![]() In response, she wrote her first book, Henry Huggins, which was published in 1950. Her first job was as a librarian in Yakima, Washington, where she met many children who were searching for the same books that she had always hoped to find as a child herself. She moved to California to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and after graduation with a B.A in English in 1938, studied at the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she earned a degree in librarianship in 1939. Thereafter, she was a frequent visitor to the library, though she rarely found the books she most wanted to read - those about children like herself. It wasn't until she was in third grade that she found enjoyment from books, when she started reading The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins. She was slow in learning to read, due partly to her dissatisfaction with the books she was required to read and partly to an unpleasant first grade teacher. ![]() When she was 6, her family moved to Portland, Oregon, where she went to grammar and high school. Mouse.īeverly Cleary was born Beverly Atlee Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon. ![]() Some of her best known and loved characters are Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice ("Beezus"), Henry Huggins, and Ralph S. ![]() ![]() Her characters are normal children facing challenges that many of us face growing up, and her stories are liberally laced with humour. Beverly Cleary (ApMarch 25, 2021) was the author of over 30 books for young adults and children. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hoppe concludes that democracy is the primary cause of a wave of decivilization sweeping the world since World War I, and that democracy must be delegitimized. Potential solutions he discusses include secession, "shifting of control over the nationalised wealth from a larger, central government to a smaller, regional one" and "complete freedom of contract, occupation, trade and migration introduced". He attributes democracy's failures to pressure groups seeking increased government expenditures, regulations and taxation and a lack of counter-measures to them. The book "examines modern democracies in the light of various evident failures" which, in Hoppe's view, include rising unemployment rates, expanding public debt, and insolvent social security systems. ![]() ![]() Democracy: The God That Failed is a 2001 book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, containing a series of thirteen essays on the subject of democracy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. These snippets feel prescriptive, but the rest moves swiftly as Rafe tries to cover his feelings and fit in with his new friends.Īn eye-opening story of wish fulfillment. Rafe’s exploration happens in reverse of the traditional coming-out story, and his motives, observations and feelings are captured in mini-essays he pens for his creative-writing professor, who then provides him with life-coach–like feedback on both his decisions and his writing skills. ![]() Konigsberg’s latest ( Out Of the Pocket, 2008) might sound like fluff, but it actually works as a complicated, poignant story of a teenage boy trying on a new skin. ![]() He hangs out with the jocks, playing soccer and football, and gets exactly what he wants-until he starts to fall for one of his new best straight friends. ![]() There for his junior year, Rafe cloaks his gayness in order to be just like one of the other guys. On the outside, Rafe seems fine, but on the inside, he’s looking for change, which comes with the opportunity to reinvent himself at the prestigious Natick Academy in Massachusetts. His parents and community are totally supportive, and his mom is president of his Boulder-area chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. Going back into the closet isn’t as easy as it seems.Ĭoloradan Rafe Goldberg has always been the token gay kid. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Īnother wonderful collection, this one from 1992 focuses more on the wintry exploits of Calvin and his beloved Hobbes. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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In Black Feminist Thought, I analyzed how African-American women resisted the dehumanization of chattel slavery by producing a self-defined oppositional knowledge. My intellectual journey to intersectionality informs this current book. But what role does knowledge play in such resistance? Throughout my intellectual work, I return to this core question by examining how individuals and groups who are oppressed within systems of power create and pass on knowledge that fosters their survival, resilience, and resistance. ![]() Whether visible or not, resistance to unjust power relations of race, class, and gender always exists, whether through faint memory or televised social protest. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (Duke University Press, 2019, henceforth IACST) investigates how knowledge has been essential for resisting political domination. ![]() ![]() In her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional freedom and returns to a much-changed New York City. Over a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend, she struggles to reconcile with the son she left behind, to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity, and to avoid any minor parole infraction that might get her consigned back to lockup. But not long after her conviction, she took the name Carlotta and began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards, and often placed in solitary. ![]() When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she’d grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn-before it gentrified. ![]() In this “dangerously hilarious” novel ( Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend-from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods.Ĭarlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her fortune, her future, and her very life are at stake. It would be best for everyone if he could send this misfit heiress on her way as soon as possible.ĭrawn into a whirlwind of intrigue, shifting alliances, and ambitions, Lady Blythe must be careful whom she trusts. He has his own problems–a volatile brother with dangerous political leanings, an estate to manage, and a very young brother in need of comfort and direction in the wake of losing his father. No sooner has Everard Hume lost his father, Lord Wedderburn, than Lady Hedley arrives with the clothes on her back and her mistress in tow. But in a house with seven sons and numerous servants, her presence soon becomes known. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Lady Blythe awaits who will ultimately be crowned king. In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley’s father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. ![]() Where You Can Buy It: Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Christian Book, Lifeway, and everywhere else books are sold! ![]() ![]() ![]() between employee misconduct committed during Section 7 activity and misconduct during ordinary work.” Lion Elastomers, the Board said, “ensures that adequate weight is given to the rights guaranteed to employees by Section 7 of the act, by ensuring that those rights can be exercised by employees robustly without fear of punishment for the heated or exuberant expression and advocacy that often accompanies labor disputes.” The Board majority explained that “there is a fundamental difference. 127 (2020), and reinstated the setting-specific standards for assessing employer responses to “abusive conduct” by employees during their Section 7 activities. The decision overruled General Motors LLC, 369 NLRB No. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) issued its decision in Lion Elastomers, 372 NLRB No. ![]() The National Labor Relations Board’s recent decision in Lion Elastomers reinstated setting-specific standards to assess how employers respond to employee misconduct, including potentially profane, discriminatory, and harassing statements, thereby reopening competing statutory demands for employers between the National Labor Relations Act and equal opportunity employment requirements. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the end of 1977, their single-issue campaign against ERA ratification had morphed into a multifaceted “Pro-Family Movement” against “ungodly” feminism supported by the federal government, and intent on “taking back their country” via the Republican Party. After mobilizing to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), they remained active in politics, demonstrating the power of antifeminism to politicize and unite religious conservatives. As I argue in my book Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values that Polarized American Politics, in the 1970s, white conservative women played a major role in moving the GOP to the right. ![]() These women have been important in Republican politics, and not just as voters. But as Republicans hasten to point out, white married women have tended to vote for them instead. Yes, the “woman’s vote” tends to go to the Democrats. This shouldn’t really have been shocking. ![]() And among white women, Trump beat Clinton 53 to 43 percent. Many experts had therefore predicted women would rally around Clinton in a display of gender solidarity, yet in 2016 she got only 54 percent of women’s vote. Mothers Of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy By Elizabeth Gillespie McRae Īfter the 2016 election, many Americans expressed shock that large numbers of women voted for Donald Trump, a man known for vulgar sexism, anti-feminist positions, and admitted groping. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a nice little story if you have Audible. I was a little disappointed as reading the first few lines of the blurb for The House of Wolves gave away the ending to this story, but it was still a good ride. As far as I can tell this does exactly what it's supposed to do, set up the novel. In this case, I'm glad I read it, there is no major spoiler unless the bad guys are revealed near the middle or end of the novel. ![]() Most of them I don't discover until after I read the novel and after reading I'm glad I skipped as the preview gave major spoilers for the novel, like A Witness to a Trial and The Whistler. My thoughts: I have read a few of these, find-out-what-happens-next prequel-novellas. ![]() Save up to 80 versus print by going digital. Genre: Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Audiobook, Sports > Sportsįeaturing: San Francisco, California Multi-billion Empire, Extortion Football Team, Audible Originals The House of Wolves: Bolder Than Yellowstone or Succession, Patterson and Lupica's Power-Family Thriller Is Not To Be Missed is written by James Patterson Mike Lupica and published by Little, Brown and Company. Fear the Wolf by James Patterson and Mike Lupica ![]() |