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Leonard nimoy i am spock7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The character has had a significant cultural impact and garnered Nimoy three Emmy Award nominations TV Guide named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters. In December 1964, he made his first appearance in the rejected Star Trek pilot “The Cage”, and went on to play the character of Spock until the end of the production run in early 1969, followed by eight feature films and guest slots in the various spin-off series. Foreshadowing his fame as a semi-alien, he played Narab, one of three Martian invaders, in the 1952 movie serial Zombies of the Stratosphere. ![]() Nimoy began his career in his early twenties, teaching acting classes in Hollywood and making minor film and television appearances through the 1950s, as well as playing the title role in Kid Monk Baroni. He was known for his role as Spock of the Star Trek franchise, a character he portrayed in television and film from a pilot episode shot in late 1964 to his final film performance released in 2013. Leonard Simon Nimoy (/ˈniːmɔɪ/ March 26, 1931– February 27, 2015) was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter. ![]()
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Maureen johnson the hand on the wall7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She had only a little time to do what she had come to do. ![]() Fifteen minutes and several hundred dollars later, she walked out the door with an oversize bag that banged against her knees as she walked. She grabbed some fuzzy-lined ones that sort of looked like shoes and took the whole pile to the register, where a friendly clerk tried to talk to her about skiing and the weather, and Stevie stared blankly until the transaction was over. Once skin touched tile and part of her soul died, she knew what slippers were for. Slippers always seemed like kind of a nonsense item, until she came to Ellingham and felt the bathroom floor on the first proper day of wintry weather. The Hand on the Wall: 3 Hardcover 20 January 2020 by Maureen Johnson (Author) 2,448 ratings Book 3 of 4: Truly Devious See all formats and editions Kindle 9. After a confused moment of going from rack to rack, looking at the prices and fills and temperature ratings, she grabbed the first one on the end. CW: death, murder, kidnapping, grief, anxiety, bad parenting, panic attacks, bullying, etc. There was no shortage of black coats, all of them costing way more than Stevie had ever spent on anything. New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson delivers the witty and pulse-pounding conclusion to the Truly Devious series as Stevie Bell solves the mystery that has haunted Ellingham Academy for over 75 years. Charles had given her a short list with sizes, leading with a coat. Anyway, now Stevie had to quickly buy a guy she barely knew some stuff. ![]()
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An unkindness of ghosts review7/6/2023 ![]() Low deckers are subject to work shifts in the fields nourished by Matilda's internal sun Baby. ![]() This novel is about a renegade scientist, Aster, living on the bottom of a generation ship's a social hierarchy due to her skin color and the deck she was born on. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it. ![]() When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. On its way the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, whom they consider to be less than human. For generations the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire.Īster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. She's used to the names she only wishes there was more truth to them. Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. ![]()
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Juliet by Anna Kirwan7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, adaptations of Shakespeare's text are necessarily involved in queering the queer(ed): a pomosexual process that ultimately leads to the breakdown of the normative signification system." 'Romeo and Juliet' is a historical text that has been adapted, and thus queered, numerous times Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is itself an adaptation and therefore is always already a queer text. Adaptation, as a process of re-writing/disrupting a normative, 'originary,' historically situated text, is by definition a queer process. I argue that queering involves the non-normative and disruptive process(es) of reading texts. By engaging in new queer or pomosexual readings of Shakespeare's text, in relation to various adaptations, including 'Shakespeare in Love, Tromeo and Juliet ', and 'Get Real', this thesis challenges the traditional heteronormative reading of the play and argues that the play itself is queer. "This work investigates Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', one of the exemplary heteronormative love stories in Western culture. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() All your questions about white noise, back-sleeping, babywearing, co-sleeping, naps, night waking, strong-willed babies, SIDS, working with caregivers, troubleshooting sleep issues, and more are answered clearly, succinctly and with understanding and compassion. This fully updated and expanded second edition provides important new guidelines when it comes to bed-sharing, swaddling, pacifiers, swings and other safety issues-and it includes an expanded chapter specifically about newborns. Help your baby to fall asleep peacefully-and stay asleep.Have a happier baby who takes adequate daily naps.Create a customized plan for helping your child sleep through the night.Figure out why your baby isn’t sleeping well.This parenting classic delivers clear, step-by-step methods for improving your child’s sleep-without any crying. If you don’t want to tough it out from dusk until dawn, but there’s no way you would ever let your baby “cry it out” The No-Cry Sleep Solution provides a third option for you: a proven method for pinpointing the root of sleep problems and solving them in ways that are gentle to babies, effective for parents, and foster peace in the home. ![]() This popular sleep book has been fully updated and expanded! The classic guide to solving baby sleep issues without any tears is now easier to use, delivers more solutions, and provides critical new safety information. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He may never have known his father, the great Josef Matt who died on an expedition to summit the Citadel (aka the Matterhorn), the last great unconquered peak in Switzerland, but he inherited his spirit. They want him far away from the dangerous mountains that have taken too many men from their town, his own father included.īut Rudi is a mountaineer in his heart, and escapes the kitchen to climb whenever he can. He is, his mother and uncle have decided, to be a hotelier and to train in Zurich after getting experience at home. Slight and cherubic, Rudi is nothing like the bulk of the town’s hearty men, who make their livings as guides for mountain-climbing tourists. Set in 1865 in the fictional town of Kurtal (aka Zermatt), we meet our hero, sixteen-year-old Rudi Matt, as a disgruntled dishwasher at the town’s best hotel. ![]() The 1954 club has arrived! It was a year full of fantastic children’s historical novels – The Eagle of the Ninth! Knight Crusader! – but I’m kicking the week off with a slightly more obscure choice: Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman, an adventure tale inspired by the first ascent of the Matterhorn. ![]()
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Saga compendium 17/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() All of it vividly brought to life by the skillful hands of Fiona Staples and writing of Brian K. More importantly, you’ll find some brilliant commentary on life, politics, and ideology woven in between the space high jinks and crushing moments. But if you can handle Game of Thrones and similar shows you will be rewarded with some gripping entertainment. That’s what all great science fiction and fantasy does Saga does it better than others.įair warning, it is a lot to take in and some of the material is definitely rated R. The pages of Saga use fantasy and space adventure as a backdrop to some of the heaviest subjects. From transgender experiences, species/race mixing, false wars, and income inequality, and hate crimes. 4,989 ratings746 reviews THE ULTIMATE BINGE-READ Collecting the first nine volumes of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series into one massive paperback, this compendium tells the entire story (so far) of a girl named Hazel and her star-crossed parents. The sprawling list of characters, species, storylines, and adventures are a simulacrum for ideas and themes in the real world. ![]() I didn’t expect something so adult in nature but that same edginess allows for the creators to explore subjects Star Wars would never go near. Every chapter packs a punch and pulls you further in. Years went by before I finally picked up the compendium. It has no extra art pages, or interviews, or panel layouts, or scripts. The first time I saw a cover for one of the Saga comics I thought there would be an epic story played out on those pages. Vaughan and Fiona Staples contains issues 1-54. ![]()
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Howl 19567/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Morgan’s bibliography, however, sets the date of publication as Nov. In addition, both Gary Snyder and Louis Ginsberg report receiving copies they had ordered at the start of that month, likely from the earliest copies received at City Lights. Again, according to Publisher's Weekly, “he first edition passed through U.S. 1st), Howl seems to have only really begun to be distributed in October. 17th issue of Publisher's Weekly lists the official publication date as Sept. While Ferlinghetti sent Ginsberg “a few advance copies” in August of that year (Morgan, I Greet You, 5), and a small number of copies inscribed in September are known (the Sept. First, the book was published late in the year. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” The most likely opportunities for Ginsberg to sign copies of Howl in 1956 were few and far between. Presented in a custom, full black goatskin, clamshell box.Original stiff black stapled wrappers with pasted white printed wraparound label, as issued.Signed and dated by Ginsberg on the title page: “Allen Ginsberg / Oct 1956.”.San Francisco: The City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956.Rare signed first edition of Howl, inscribed in the year of publication, likely at one of Ginsberg’s most infamous readings. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even a slight fall can result in multiple fractures that may require a half body cast. ![]() Patients have to take extreme precaution in their everyday lives to avoid fractures. For those of you who are not familiar with this term, it refers to a disease that results in excessively fragile bones making a patient vulnerable to fractures from even the slightest amount of trauma. The main prohhutagonist of the novel is 30 years old Charlotte O’ Keefe who is mother to a six years old girl, Willow diagnosed with a life long condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (brittle bone disease). Similar to her previous work ‘Handle with Care’ focuses on an ethical medical dilemma. ‘Handle with Care’ is a contemporary novel written by Jodi Picoult of ‘ My Sister’s Keeper’ fame which has now been adapted as an award winning motion picture starring Cameron Diaz. ![]() I thought only a very unique story would warrant should such a conflicting statement and that was enough to make me buy this novel. What made me reach for this novel was the subtitle “To save your daughter you must tell the world you wish she’d never been born”. While browsing through the ‘fiction’ section of a local bookstore I came across Jodi Picoult’s ‘Handle with Care’. ![]()
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Only mostly devastated a novel7/5/2023 ![]() This Will is a class clown, closeted-and, to be honest, a bit of a jerk. Which he minds a little less when he realizes it’s the same school Will goes to…except Ollie finds that the sweet, comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn’t the same one attending Collinswood High. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairytale ending, and to complicate the fairytale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country. Will Tavares is the dream summer fling-he’s fun, affectionate, kind-but just when Ollie thinks he’s found his Happily Ever After, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. ![]() I couldn't put it down.” - New York Times–bestselling author Sandhya Menon “A delightful, heartwarming, heartrending story about family, love, friendship, and living your most authentic life. ![]() ![]() “ Only Mostly Devastated is the kind of book I wish existed when my kids were younger-a charming, funny, laugh-out-loud teen romance that reminds all readers love comes in a multitude of flavors, and they are ALL sweet.” -Jodi Picoult, New York Times–bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets Clueless in this boy-meets-boy spin on Grease, from NATIONALLY and INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING author Sophie GonzalesĪ Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection ![]() |