![]() ![]() * “Twelve-year-old Minni and her older brother Sanjay might live in a poor neighborhood in India, but they have big dreams: to finish school, get good jobs, and maybe live in one of the tall buildings where water runs from the taps. The story is filled with hope and faith as Minni learns the importance of education, family, friendship, opportunities, and taking a stand for her community.”- School Library Connection, starred review ![]() This title gives readers a powerful look at the importance of free water and how the inequalities surrounding its distribution impacts communities in India. It just pours freely out of the faucets in the bathrooms and the kitchen-something she has never witnessed before. While working, Minni is confronted by the abundance of water everywhere. One night while out riding with her brother, Minni witnesses thieves stealing water. It’s both time-consuming and inequitable. ![]() Their only access to clean water occurs during a set time of day when the spout is turned on and members of the community wait in line for their turn to fill their containers. * “Minni lives with her family in Mumbai, India in an incredibly poor neighborhood. ![]()
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![]() The main character is Chuck “Da Man” Bell, the father of twin basketball enthusiasts Josh and Jordan Bell. Like The Crossover, the story is written in free verse with a kind of hip-hop rhythm. These kinds of sentiments are evident in his 2014 novel The Crossover, which won Alexander the prestigious Newbery - it’s awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children - as well as in his new Rebound, the novel being published Monday. “Not being afraid of the ‘no’ … letting the challenges come, and building your stamina and your persistence.” ![]() “Whether it be on a quiz, a test, whether it be getting cut from the team, whether it be just something in your life that changed.” Raised in Brooklyn, New York, and Chesapeake, Virginia, Alexander says his goal when writing his books is helping kids embrace the “yes” in life. ![]() “It’s … that fear of failure,” he said from London, a stop on his world tour. It’s a metaphor he uses when he speaks to children, encouraging them to overcome their fears. “Dribble, fake, shoot, miss, dribble, fake, shoot, miss, dribble, fake, shoot, miss, dribble, fake, shoot, swish,” said Newbery Medal-winning author, speaker and educator Kwame Alexander. ![]() ![]() ![]() She not only started studying at the usual early age, but she was thrust into tremendous responsibility, as the leading dancer of the young Sadler’s Wells Ballet, when still in her mid-teens. The life of Fonteyn, the most celebrated ballerina of the twentieth century after Pavlova, fits all these circumstances almost to the point of exaggeration. And they share a quality that, late in life, Margot Fonteyn identified as the one that “has helped me most”: tenacity. They start preparing professionally as children their lives are ruthlessly and narrowly concentrated on their work they have a mother to nurture them, fight for them they inspire a powerful creative personality, who then shapes them (Pavlova had Petipa Karsavina had Fokine a dozen or more, from Danilova and Toumanova to Farrell and McBride, had Balanchine) and they find themselves in their forties either finished or hanging on precariously-ballerinas don’t age gracefully into character roles and grandmother roles, the way talented actresses can. ![]() The stories of most great ballerinas, however different their temperaments, are basically the same. ![]() ![]() ![]() NW: For Night Worms, George Romero left an unfinished novel about Zombies and you were chosen by his estate to finish it, yes? I've never had more fun writing a book before, but I'm glad it's done. Are you also still working on the George Romero novel?ĭK : It's finished, aside from copyediting. NW : So the details of the full trilogy will be announced in October? Is it a YA offering?ĭK : It is not YA. NW: That's awesome! I did peek around online and you're SO busy! What did you write on this morning?ĭK: I'm working on Book 2 of a trilogy that hasn't been announced yet. NW: And is there another job-like obligation that you need to go to each day besides your employment at this writing factory? Or is this your full-time gig I basically run a one-person writing factory. Get up as early as possible, start writing, and go until I run out of gas. ![]() NW: Just out of curiosity, what do your Mondays generally consist of?ĭK: All my days are the same. NW: Hey there! Thanks so much for joining me today Night Worms: Hi Daniel, I'm here in Google Hangouts whenever you're ready Early September, Sadie Hartmann sat down with Daniel Kraus and they had the following conversation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kaala and her young packmates begin hunting and playing with humans-risking expulsion from their pack and banishment from their home in the Wide Valley. But her world is turned upside down when she rescues a human girl from drowning. An outcast after her mother is exiled, Kaala struggles to earn her place in her pack. The first in The Wolf Chronicles trilogy, brilliantly weaving together original research, lovable characters and a dynamic, thoroughly engaging plot, Promise of the Wolves is a historical adventure story in the tradition of Clan of the Cave Bear and Watership Down.Set 14,000 years ago in what is now Southern Europe, Promise of the Wolves is told from the point of view of Kaala, a young wolf born of a forbidden, mixed-blood litter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Blanc presides over La Mere Blanc, a three-star (Michelin) restaurant in Burgundy Baker photographed Martha Stewart's Weddings. Fresh fruits are presented in such recipes as pear charlotte with fresh figs and pineapple fritters with macerated kiwi. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 1.75. Fresh spinach with skillet-roasted salmon, squash blossom beignets with fried parsley, and wild mushroom ravioli with herb sauce number among the vegetable and seafood dishes. Buy The Natural Cuisine of Georges Blanc: Georges Blanc by Georges Blanc, Christopher P Baker (Illustrator), Christopher Baker (Photographer) online at Alibris. Focusing on fresh produce and seafood, the recipes are lucidly written and within the abilities of serious home cooks. Every dish, even an item as simple as little stuffed cabbages or red radish soup with tapioca, is marked by highly stylized presentation. Illustrations ranging from prepared dishes to wildflowers and landscapes complement a collection of recipes in which sheer artistry predominates. 150), this lavish, oversize volume may be more at home on the coffee table than the kitchen counter. With more than twice as many color photographs as recipes (350 vs. ![]() ![]() ![]() The South Asian community, in fact, amassed large amounts of wealth and gainfully employed the locals in their homes and businesses. Pran runs a marginally successful business - as did many Indians at the time in Uganda’s capital city Kampala. The characters are fictional, but the incidents narrated are based on actual events. The four main protagonists, whose perspectives propel the story forward, are a family of Indian Gujarati origins: Jaya, her sons Vijay and Pran, and Pran’s new bride Asha. Shah’s well-researched debut novel Kololo Hill explores the life and times of those South Asians who called Uganda home. Her family left the Subcontinent in the 1940s and settled in East Africa, from where they moved again to the United Kingdom, where Shah was born. A few thousand of these workers chose to stay back in Uganda and thus created a small community of South Asians, which grew to almost a hundred thousand by the mid-20th century.Īuthor Neema Shah’s background is similar. However, a more obscure chapter in the gambit of post-colonial horrors is the story of a group of unsuspecting Indians, who were shipped by the British to Uganda in the late 1800s, to work as indentured labourers on the Kenyan-Ugandan Railway. ![]() ![]() The horrifying accounts of Partition and slavery are indelibly etched in our collective consciousness. ![]() The reverberations of British colonialism and imperialism are profound enough to be lapping at our cultural ideology and intellectual identity to this very day. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reader's imagination is capable enough of filling in the blanks.īen calls upon Hannah, the estranged sister who fled the family home the moment she graduated high school and never looked back. We don't need to see the immediate fallout of Ben De Backer's coming out as nonbinary - witnessing the aftermath of being kicked out of the house at Christmas is difficult enough. The beginning of I Wish You All the Best is nightmarish, without being overtly so. ![]() I'm pleased to say that they accomplished that goal with flying colors, and the literary world is a better place for it. But the book Deaver needed to read was a particularly important one, one that explored nonbinary gender issues and queer life in a way that was gentle, yet real. Authors typically say this sort of thing when we write the books of our heart. There is a "Dear Reader" in the front of my advance copy of I Wish You All the Best, in which Mason Deaver explains that they are telling the story they needed to read when they were 15 (Deaver uses they/them pronouns). Your purchase helps support NPR programming. 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This book covers the early career of the Beatles and runs from 1958-1962 – the level of detail and the quality of his research is forensic. In 2013, Mark published volume one of his trilogy The Beatles – All These Years: Tune In. ![]() ![]() He had said several things that intrigued us about how he did his research and there were a few hints that Mark might have some interesting things to say about copyright and the Beatles. After hearing Mark talk in February at the Faversham Literacy Festival, we dropped Mark a line to see if he might be willing to talk to record a podcast with us. Some of you may know that in addition to being mad about copyright, Chris is a huge Beatles nerd. The latest episode of our podcast Copyright Waffle is with none other than the highly acclaimed Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. Jane and Chris with Mark Lewisohn (design by Chris Jones) ![]() |