![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:473949722 Republisher_date 20170113174752 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1700 Scandate 20170111121836 Scanner . Buck wrote multiple books and short stories throughout her lifetime, many of which focused on her experiences in China. OL1140297W Page_number_confidence 97.15 Pages 388 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0671782703 Publication date 1916 Topics North Collection digitallibraryindia JaiGyan Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:55:23.424012 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1147716 City Kingston, Rhode Island DonorĪllen_county Edition 8th print. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Robbins's smart and zingy narrative guides us through the ups and downs of girl-centered comics from fashion model and paper doll comics to "true romance" tales.It's fascinating stuff, and if you're not already a comic-book hound, you may be tempted to become one.Before comix got all high falutin' and renamed themselves "graphic novels," there was a posse of to-be-reckoned-with women rattling around the scene, giving the Marvel superheroes a run for their money. Using examples from '40s to the present day, Robbins applauds little-girl heroines, such as Little Lulu, and smirks at strange role models like Tessi the Typist. Even if that doesn't surprise you, you may not know that at comics' mid-century heyday, girls bought most of them, or that more comics about you girls were produced than about superheroes or monsters.FromGirls to Grrrlz: A History of Female Comics from Teens to Zines,Trina Robbins' meticulously researched history of comic books written for girls and women, is filled with such lore not just about who was buying comics but also about who was starring in them.What's delightful about Robbins' opinioned history aside from the gorgeous design and tasty art is that it begins in 1941 with Archie, the now 58-year old teenager. Tarin Towers Once upon a time, every third periodical bought in this country was a comic book. ![]() ![]() Reviews from: ELLE SF BAY GUARDIAN LOS ANGELES TIMESby J. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her trademark black humour, Maddow takes us through the purposeful detonation of a 50-kiloton nuclear bomb underground near Colorado, man-made earthquakes, murdered cows and the international financial crisis, to the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas and a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 US election. Award-winning American news presenter Rachel Maddow investigates remarkable stories from around the globe, all leading back to the same crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry.įrom Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington to Kyiv, Siberia, and Moscow to Equatorial Guinea and Alaska, from a mansion in Malibu with the world’s largest collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia to luxury hotels in central London, from deep within the earth’s crust to the icy surface of the Arctic seas, Blowout uncovers a web of international corruption. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Volponi’s latest book is called Game Seven, and it’s about a 16-year-old Cuban kid whose father fled the country to play pitcher for the Miami Marlins, leaving him and his sister and mom behind. Volponi pulls no punches in his fiction, and in Hurricane Song he squarely tackles issues of race and how institutionalized racism exacerbates the results of natural catastrophes, causing additional and unnecessary human suffering. I came to read his work when researching YA about Hurricane Katrina and found Hurricane Song, one of the best books for kids about the storm and subsequent flooding. In his books, with titles like Rikers High, Black and White, and Rooftop, he talks to and about kids on the edge of survival - economically and emotionally. This installment features Paul Volponi, who grew up near Rikers Island in New York and has worked with incarcerated youth. Previous contributors have created their own special “top ten” lists around a theme, such as Sarah Skilton’s on “noir ” or David Levithan’s on “idiosyncrasy.” In this series, called YA Hit List, we invite authors of young adult and children’s literature to tell us about some of their own favorite books, the ones that helped shape them and the ones that they would recommend to young readers, whether or not the books were written specifically for that audience. ![]() ![]() It received Oscar nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Original Score. In 1984, John Huston directed a film adaptation of Under the Volcano. TIME included the book in its list of 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. The Modern Library ranked Under the Volcano eleventh on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was out of print by the time Lowry died of alcoholism in 1957 yet is critically acclaimed today. In fact, the complexity of Under the Volcano has been compared with James Joyce’s stylistic masterpiece, Ulysses. Drawing heavily upon autobiographical material, the author amplifies the complexity of the story with unexpected narrative shifts and allusive layers of symbolism. Under the Volcano thoroughly demonstrates Lowry’s highly stylistic writing choices. ![]() ![]() Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead in 1938. ![]() publisher’s wrappers, handwritten title on spine.Īdvance reading copy of the first edition. “ A Faustian masterpiece” (Anthony Burgess).Īn attractive advance reading copy of one of the masterpieces ![]() Malcolm Lowry’s Under the volcano, “ One of the twentieth century’s great undisputed masterpieces. ![]() ![]() Perhaps because so few people nowadays are fluent in Ancient Greek, it’s been a hundred years since Julian’s last airing. In modern New Orleans, Grace Alexander’s best friend Selena buys Julian’s book and brings it home to Grace. In between times, he’s deprived of all sensory input except hearing, which keeps him somewhat abreast of shifts in language and technology. At the end of the month he returns to his book to await his next summoning. Cursed for hubris by the Greek god Priapus, he is imprisoned on the page except when someone summons him to be her love slave for a month. ![]() The premise is a knockout: for 2000 years, Julian of Macedon has been imprisoned in a scroll, later bound into a book. This thoroughly entertaining book is one of those teeth-gnashers in which the good book before you makes you long for the great book it could have been. If the devil is in the details, then Fantasy Lover is going straight to hell, or rather Hades. ![]() ![]() ![]() She becomes obsessive over only eating ‘healthy’ foods. Sarah begins to think that she’s getting slower because she eats too much, so she makes her meals even smaller than before. That is, when there are meals at all (sometimes Sarah’s mom forgets to make dinner). Meals are small and, while filled with vegetables, don’t consist of much to make them tasty. Her mom is weird about food and doesn’t keep much of anything to eat in the house. She also notices that lately she’s been feeling HUNGRY. ![]() But as she gets older, Sarah starts moving slower and just doesn’t feel like her body is hers. The protagonist is a star on the basketball court. She also begins to embrace her body’s changes and to have tough conversations about food with those closest to her. ![]() Throughout her journey, Sarah learns the difference between health and dieting, and what listening to your body really means. Sarah loves basketball, mystery novels, spending time with her friends, and Spicy Nacho Doritos… except when she starts slowing down and missing shots in basketball. Taking Up Space is a new book by Alyson Gerber that centers around twelve year old Sarah. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, I’m a quick study and got all the credits I needed to start my young adulthood by the spring semester. Being an emotionally late bloomer and goody-two-shoes, I chose to defer my adolescence until my freshman year of college. Granted, a young one, but an adult nonetheless.” If you ask me, a 36-year-old full adult, what ages I would consider a “young adult,” I would maybe say junior in high school until they have their first very serious, not hypothetical conversation about health insurance. Have you ever looked at a 14-year-old, let alone a 12-year-old, and thought, “There is an adult. By Lisa Gullickson - Did you know that the literary designation of “Young Adult Fiction,” more commonly known as “YA Fiction,” refers to readers ages 12 to 18? That is totally ridiculous. ![]() ![]() Patter out – in this context it means to speak quickly īugles – a horn instrument sounded at at military funerals Passing-bells – when a church would announce someone’s death by ringing their bells Furthermore, on the home front there are no ceremonies, candles nor acts of commemoration to bid them goodbye but solemn faces of boys and girls and those who silently think of them with ‘patient minds’ as they grieve these lives lost too soon. ![]() As these soldiers die all that surrounds them are the sounds of warfare, far from any semblance of an orderly funeral service with prayers, choirs and bugles announcing their deaths. He bemoans that the soldiers who die or are dying are senselessly slaughtered like ‘cattle’ and that, in the heat of battle, they are not given the kind of funeral and send off that they deserve. The poem has a very telling title, which reflects the speaker’s anger and mourning for the deaths of young soldiers sent to battle during the First World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Farah, winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and often rumored to be on the short list for the Nobel, is the author of two trilogies that explore the fractured Somali identity. He has a kidnapped girl to rescue, a deceased mother's spirit to soothe and a violent score to settle with a tormentor who once had him imprisoned.īut for Nuruddin Farah, himself an exile from Somalia since the mid-1970s, narrative drive and plot twists are secondary to explorations of personal identity, character and the complex ways these are shaped by international events. In Links, the latest novel by one of Africa's most revered writers, a Somali exile named Jeebleh returns to his woeful nation for the first time in more than two decades. ![]() |