This compelling picture book alternates the story of two sisters' momentous day with the lyrical reflections of the young narrator. A mild threat of violence occurs when a boy yells that he is going to "tear that tablecloth" off Asiya's head. Bright and vibrant illustrations show a diverse suburban town. Faizah draws on her faith as well as the empowering words of their mother as she watches Asiya navigate her would-be tormentors. Fiercely loyal Faizah narrates her sister Asiya's first day of hijab and their first day of school, including the questions, ridicule, and threats of peers that come when they see Asiya in her headscarf. It's about the strength and pride needed to overcome the hurtful deeds of others. Parents need to know that The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family is by Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad and award-winning author S.K. A classmate threatens to pull Asiyah's hijab off and refers to it as a "tablecloth."ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Bullying behavior including laughing, pointing, and teasing.
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Sullivan and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built. Brock, Kathryn Sullivan will explore the lessons that her experiences with the Hubble Space Telescope taught her about the importance of maintenance, invention, and leadership. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky transformed our knowledge of black holes found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars, and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. In her new book, Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention, the first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope. flies us 200 miles above the sky, using her head, heart, and hands to solve problem after problem- and help us take in views that are out of this world….What an adventure-no wonder she loves it. OL16630963W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.79 Pages 282 Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0545283744 Video Book Trailer for The Vampire Stalker Grade 7-12 Genre Horror Realistic Fiction Science Fiction / Fantasy Year Published 2011. To help you find what youre looking for, see similar items below. Fictional character eighteen-year-old Alexander Banks stalks vampires until incredulously he leaps through a portal into real life where he finds love and friends who want to help, if they can. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 01:27:22 Boxid IA1150412 City London DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed. and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. Koom Valley, the ancient battle where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls, was a long time ago.īut if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. You couldn't say 'we re the good guys' and do bad-guy things.' And if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. Seventh book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch There, in the garage, they find evidence of a struggle: blood, splintered wood, and cut rope. Her husband, state’s attorney for Easterly County Connecticut and gubernatorial candidate Griffin Chase, is concerned by this uncharacteristic faux pas and leaves the reception early to check for her at their posh, private Catamount Bluff home he is assisted in this endeavor by Detective Conor Reid (who also appeared in Last Day). On the evening of an exhibit featuring her nature-themed shadow boxes, artist Claire Beaudry Chase fails to appear among the assemblage of family, friends, and fans. Last year, she ventured into crime fiction with the Amazon Charts bestselling Last Day Rice continues that ambitious trajectory with February’s domestic suspense title, The Shadow Box. While best known for her contemporary/women’s fiction, she has not allowed herself to be confined to any one creative landscape. She has written 35 novels that have been translated into 24 languages and adapted for television by CBS, Hallmark, Lifetime, and TNT. New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice is a tried-and-true fan favorite. The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice is a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth―and the lengths someone will go to stop her. Parker wins our sympathies right away, not because she’s a victim, but because she’s sharp and funny. Parker portrays a character we know only as Li’l Bit, who as a middle-aged adult is narrating her complicated childhood relationship with her Uncle Peck, stepping in to scenes with him at various ages from 11 to 17, told out of chronological order. Friedman Theatre through May 29, Morse and Parker are reuniting twenty-five years after they originated their roles Off-Broadway. In this first Broadway production of “How I Learned to Drive,” running at MTC’s Samuel J. Strip away the humor, the artful metaphors, the theatrical craftsmanship and the empathy, and “How I Learned to Drive” is the story of a pedophile, alcoholic and would-be pornographer named Peck (portrayed by David Morse), who starts grooming his niece (Mary-Louise Parker) for sex from the age of 11.īut what’s remarkable about Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning play is precisely that the craftsmanship and especially the empathy draw us in, creating a theatrical filter that allows us to take in this disturbing story, and encourages us to try to understand it. She developed the Geodesic Learning™ theory (how we think and process information) that has been conservatively shown to increase thinking, behavioral and academic performance by 35-75%. She has presented her unique Switch On Your Brain with the 5-Step Learning Process® and the Metacognitive-Map™ learning tool to thousands of students worldwide. Her scientific Science of Thought techniques have transformed the lives of patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), learning disabilities, emotional traumas and released the potential of thousands of young students and adults. During her years in clinical practice as a Communication Pathologist she developed tools and processes that help people develop and change their thinking and subsequent behavior. Since the early 1980‘s she has studied and researched the Mind-Brain connection. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD in Communication Pathology specializing in Neuropsychology. In a desperate fight for her career–and her life–Lindsay must connect the dots of a deadly conspiracy before a fiendish enemy puts her on trial-and walks free with blood on his hands.įilled with the trademark suspense and emotion that have made James Patterson the world’s #1 bestselling writer, 16th Seduction is the Women’s Murder Club’s toughest case yet–and an exhilarating thrill ride from start to finish. As Lindsay’s investigation is scrutinized and undermined by a criminal as brilliant as any high-powered defense lawyer, and her motives are called into question by everyone she thought had her back, not even the truth may be enough to save her. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. But what at first seems like an open-and-shut case quickly turns into anything but, when the suspect threatens everything that Lindsay has worked a lifetime to build. 16th Seduction audiobook written by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. When the danger hits even closer to home, Lindsay and Joe find a common cause and spring into action, with quick results. But before she can welcome Joe back with open arms, their beloved hometown of San Francisco faces a threat unlike any the city–or the country–has ever seen. After the picture-perfect world she shared with her husband, Joe, and their beautiful young daughter shattered under the weight of Joe’s double life, Lindsay is determined to put the pieces back together. The Instant #1 New York Times and USA Today Bestsellerĭetective Lindsay Boxer investigates the most explosive case of her career. “I was writing about these issues of power - power coming from different kinds of privilege race and class,” Ng said.įor the author, the limited series is able to put those topics front and center in a way different than she had been able to articulate on the page. Still, she knew she always wanted to look at the nature of privilege. The original novel doesn’t cite Mia’s race specifically and, as Ng will tell you, she wrote Mia as a working-class white woman. The series utilizes this principle with its story of the wealthy journalist and housewife Elena Richardson (Witherspoon) and the nomadic artist Mia (Washington). When you’re dealing with a story that packs in candid discussions about race, gender, class, and society, balance becomes essential, and it can be difficult to touch on all those elements without overloading two powerhouse actresses like Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Emmy Predictions 2020: Best Limited Series Tensions run high in the explosive 8th book of 39 Clues, the 1 New York Times bestselling series. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. OL20109076W Page_number_confidence 95.77 Pages 262 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210128192104 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 599 Scandate 20210126194651 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781443100137 Tts_version 4. The Juvie Three Gordon Korman Literature & Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers. 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