![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both women, though, were talented writers who had carved out successful careers in the hypercompetitive, male-dominated world of big-city newspapers. Genteel and elegant, Elizabeth Bisland had been born into an aristocratic Southern family, preferred novels and poetry to newspapers, and was widely referred to as the most beautiful woman in metropolitan journalism. ![]() Nellie Bly was a scrappy, hard-driving, ambitious reporter from Pennsylvania coal country who sought out the most sensational news stories, often going undercover to expose social injustice. The dramatic race that ensued would span twenty-eight thousand miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors' lives forever. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days. Also departing from New York that dayand heading in the opposite direction by train - was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Their shared beliefs and the excitement of working with fine writers and artists brought to Harper generations of extraordinary authors and illustrators and gave Harper Children's Books their fresh, innovative quality. She started as a secretary, but moved into an editorial career, working with Ursula Nordstrom. She attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and shortly afterward returned to New York, where in 1938 she began working at HarperCollins, then Harper & Brothers. ![]() ![]() They were certain that children were capable of understanding the best work gifted artists and writers could give them.Ĭharlotte Zolotow was born in 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia, but grew up in several cities, including Detroit, New York, and Boston. The two shared a passionate belief: that children's books should be honest and faithful to the sometimes difficult but always intensely felt experiences of childhood. Her editorial career began under the brilliant Ursula Nordstrom, publisher of Harper Children's Books. In addition, she has been a distinguished editor and publisher (she is now a HarperCollins Publisher Emerita), and by extension, an innovative educator. Rabbit and the Lovely Present,illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and the groundbreaking William's Doll, illustrated by William Péne du Bois. She is a prolific, much-honored author with over seventy titles published, including the classic Mr. Charlotte Zolotow is a revered name in children's literature. ![]() ![]() Since then, he led the Umbrella Movement, founded a political party, and rallied the international community around the Hong Kong protests, which saw 2 million people take to the streets. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged the first ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education - and won. It chronicles Joshua's path to activism, collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner, and closes with a powerful and urgent manifesto for us to defend our democracies at time of global flux and change. Unfree Speech is Joshua's urgent call for us to defend our democratic values, whoever we are. INTRODUCTION BY AI WEIWEI, FOREWORD BY CHRIS PATTEN Imprisoned on 2 December 2020 for the third time, read Joshua Wong's urgent and powerful story - the Hong Konger fighting for democracy. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Joshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader.' - GRETA THUNBERG ![]() The urgent, first book from global phenomenon Joshua Wong - leader of the Hong Kong protests, Nobel prize nominee and TIME, Forbes and Fortune world leader - who will tell us how he took on the biggest country in the world, and why we all have a stake in the global fight for democracy. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's not going to move any further for me. Thankfully I think the first book can stand alone. Contrary to the first book, this book clearly sets you up for the third in the trilogy. I was feeling so desperate over the situation that I did something I have never done before - I skipped to the end to read the last three pages!!! I just wanted to know that there was a happy ending. I made it to Chapter 40 (the chapters are short) and I cannot turn another page. There are few books that I have ever given up on - and this is one of them. It leaves you feeling irritated for the wasted time. Scarlett on the heals of Gone With the Wind. I thought it was creative, imaginative and great! However, Inkspell is like. I have had this book sitting on my bookshelf for an eternity, waiting to read it. ![]() ![]() Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge (74). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() *A lot of people think this is a Mumford and Sons reference, but they’re actually referencing Macbeth: “Stars, hide your fires/let not light see my black and deep desires. He quickly learns that Jem looks sickly because he is sickly. Will is being his usual antisocial, angsty self: I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he’s doddering off to the grave. Check out the chapter titles under the cut. One of the first scenes in this book is Charlotte introducing 12-year-old Jem to 12-year-old Will. Cassandra Clare has shared the chapter titles of Clockwork Princess. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. Clockwork Princess is just 10 days away and the fun-here meaning heartbreak, sadness and pain-is just beginning as the final countdown to the conclusion of the international best-selling The Infernal Devices inches closer. Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. ![]() ![]() ![]() is very much the 21st-century daughter of that other great Igbo novelist, Chinua Achebe." - The Washington Post Book World "One of the best novels to come out of Africa in years."- The Baltimore Sun ![]() When a widowed aunt takes an interest in Kambili, her family begins to unravel and re-form itself in unpredictable ways. No one in Papa's ancestral village, where he is titled "Omelora" (One Who Does For the Community), knows why Kambili¹s brother cannot move one of his fingers, nor why her mother keeps losing her pregnancies. Fifteen-year-old Kambili is the dutiful and self-effacing daughter of a rich man, a religious fanatic and domestic tyrant whose public image is of a politically courageous newspaper publisher and philanthropist. But within a few pages, these details, however vividly rendered, melt into the background of a larger, more compelling story of a joyless family. ![]() Purple Hibiscus, Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut, begins like many novels set in regions considered exotic by the western reader: the politics, climate, social customs, and, above all, food of Nigeria (balls of fufu rolled between the fingers, okpa bought from roadside vendors) unfold like the purple hibiscus of the title, rare and fascinating. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is therefore part romance, part mystery and part ghost tale. So he decides to turn on the charm offensive on Melanie, only to discover that he’s actually the one who’s smitten. There’s a man that she met briefly who suddenly died, and he left his historic home behind, and it came with a ghostly family all too eager to reveal their secrets.Ī gorgeous writer called Jack Trenholm has an obsession for unsolved mysteries, and he has reasons to believe that diamonds that were stolen from the confederate treasury are hidden. Even though she hates to admit it, Melanie Middleton can actually see ghosts. ![]() The first book in the series is called The House on Tradd Street, and it is a brilliant yet chilling debut that features a Charleston realtor who loves learning about the histories that can be found inside ancient manors. Tradd Street is a series that tells us the story of Melanie Middleton, who inherits an historic home with ghosts, in Charleston, South Carolina. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also explores links between time and space and emotion: how fear, or hearing someone sobbing, makes time slow and questions whether both depression and ADHD are time-perception disorders. ![]() She looks at the skydiver Chuck Berry, whose parachute failed, and the BBC journalist Alan Johnston's experience of being taken hostage, to show the expansion of time in a near-death situation notes the experiences of the French speleologist Michel Siffre, who spent two months in an underground cave to find out how much our sense of time is thrown without external clues and adds in a few pleasingly eccentric stories, such as the man who takes a photo every 20 seconds so that his life can be recalled – in its entirety. In Time Warped, Claudia Hammond, a British radio journalist and psychology lecturer, delves into scores of experiments on how we track the seconds, hours, months and decades. Using research from the fields of neuroscience, biology and psychology, Claudia Hammond investigates the many reasons why, on one day, time appears to pass rapidly, while on another, it seems to grind to a halt. ![]() Some of Time Warped is on tried-and-tested ground: no one questions that time travels differently if you are scared rather than relaxed that an hour in amusing company speeds by faster than half the time with someone who is dull, but Hammond's examples of time-warping add insight to these observations. Time Warped (2012) is about that enduring mystery: our perception of time. In Time Warped, Claudia Hammond offers insight into how to manage our time more efficiently, how to speed time up and slow it down at will, how to plan for the future with more accuracy, and she teaches how to use the warping of time to our own benefit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A page-turner with an intrepid protagonist." - Kirkus Reviews "Valor is both true to her name and resourceful. Palace intrigue and diplomatic double-crosses play their part in the thematic arc, which sets up nicely for a sequel." - Booklist "Anyone who likes adventure, survival stories, folktales, or novels with strong female protagonists will not be able to put this down." - starred review, School Library Journal This exciting middle-grade debut effortlessly melds an unforgettable protagonist, a breathless plot, and stunning world-building-and is impossible to put down. And if the plan fails, she and Sasha could end up with fates worse than prison. If Valor's plan is to succeed, she'll need to make some unlikely allies. ![]() But she didn't count on having to outsmart both the guards and her fellow prisoners. ![]() Valor has a master plan and resources most people could only dream about. Never mind that no one has escaped the prison in centuries. Valor's twin sister, Sasha, is serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape. Demidova's prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. When thirteen-year-old Valor is sent to jail, she couldn't be happier. ![]() ![]() ![]() But things are a tad lonely in the sex department, so she decides to embark on a no-strings-affair with one of her hot co-workers. She has a great home, a job as a security specialist which she loves, and Jake for a best friend. Four years after escaping her abusive ex-husband, Kim finally believes she's in control of her life and her emotions and she's determined to never risk either again with a man. ![]() And who better to help her remember how to lure a man than her best friend?. ![]() ![]() |