"How can I talk to Jesus?" Timothy wants an answer to this very important question. One by one, he asks everyone in his family, until he finally gets what he is looking for...at just the right time.
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Mildred Johnson is orphaned when her parents are killed in a violent protest for voting rights in the South in the 1950s. Her aunt, Rose Johnson, a passionate devotee of the blues, snatches her up and flees to Chicago to live with a relative. Years later, the two join a campaign to elect the city's first black mayor and Mildred is drawn out of her shell when she meets and falls for O'Kanta, the head of a grassroots organization involved in a voter registration drive. Against the backdrop of a heated political campaign, she is taken down a path of self-discovery as she learns the truth about her and Aunt Rose's past.
Grandpa's Coins teaches children the importance of coin collecting as it relates to history and value. Coin collecting is an educational tool used to teach children Financial Literacy.
This darkly funny novel recounts Wendy Sinclair's spin-crazy life in Las Vegas after she impulsively decides to not go home to Houston following a bizarre girls' weekend in May 2015. The confused, unhappy 45-year-old newlywed soon rents a ramshackle apartment; wallows in a blur of spas, malls and buffets, and ultimately becomes a designer of cocktail-waitress uniforms and an impersonator in a casino show. Along the way, she hangs out with a hot playboy-pilot, an over-sexed glamorista BFF, a dreamy rock-band manager, and a slew of marauding munchkin neighbors.The phone fights with Roger, Wendy's workaholic husband waiting impatiently in Houston, are louder and more raucous than a hot craps table at Caesar's Does she go back to him, or will her midlife crisis become a midlife makeover?
Placed: An Encyclopedia of Central Oregon, Vol. 1 is a composition of entries collected in 2018 - 2020 based on place and phenomena unique to our pocket of the planet, from Warm Springs to Fort Rock to Burns and everywhere in-between. It includes 37 contributors writing their unique perspective and experience of the high desert. Started before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests and demonstrations, and the social and political upheaval of 2020, and completed just prior to the presidential election, Placed is a snapshot of our before, and a series of lenses by which to view our possible future.
Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family. "Lucky Girl is at times tender, at times funny, at times uncomfortably frank. . . . A fresh look at racism, privilege, and the challenges of coming-of-age and falling in love between two cultures."--Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake Soila is a lucky girl by anyone's estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a protected life in Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken, and she chafes against her mother's strict rules. After a harrowing assault by a trusted family friend, she flees to New York for college, vowing never to return home. New York in the 1990s is not what Soila imagined it would be. Instead of finding a golden land of opportunity, Soila is shocked by the entitlement of her wealthy American classmates and the poverty she sees in the streets. She befriends a Black American girl at school and witnesses the insidious racism her friend endures, forcing Soila to begin to acknowledge the legacy of slavery and the blind spots afforded by her Kenyan upbringing. When she falls in love with a free-spirited artist, a man her mother would never approve of, she must decide whether to honor her Kenyan identity and what she owes to her family, or to follow her heart and forge a life of her own design. Lucky Girl is a fierce and tender debut about the lives and loves we choose--what it meant to be an African immigrant in America at the turn of the millennium, and how a young woman finds a place for herself in the world.
A "masterly" (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world "Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to convey both Vallejo's passionate narrative presence and her synthesising intelligence." --The Guardian Long before books were mass-produced, hand-copied scrolls made from Nile River reeds were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and pharaohs, determined to possess them, dispatched emissaries to the edges of the known world to bring them back. Exploring the deep and fascinating history of the written word, from the oral tradition to scrolls to codices, internationally bestselling author Irene Vallejo shows that books have always been a precious and precarious vehicle for civilization. Through fascinating stories from history, insightful readings of the classics, and poignant personal reflection, Vallejo traces the dramatic history of the book and the fight for its survival. At its heart a spirited love letter to language itself, Papyrus takes readers on a journey across the centuries to discover how a simple reed grown along the banks of the Nile would give birth to a rich and cherished culture.
El Infinito En Un Junco / Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Irene Vallejo
Vintage Espanol
2021
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Mejor Libro del Siglo XXI seg n los libreros de Espa a De humo, de piedra, de arcilla, de seda, de piel, de rboles, de pl stico y de luz... Un recorrido por la vida del libro y de quienes lo han salvaguardado durante casi treinta siglos. Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefacto que inventamos para que las palabras pudieran viajar en el espacio y en el tiempo. Es la historia de su fabricaci n y de todos los modelos y formatos de libros que hemos ensayado a lo largo de casi treinta siglos. Es, adem s, un libro de viajes. Una ruta con escalas en los campos de batalla de Alejandro y en la Villa de los Papiros bajo la erupci n del Vesubio, en los palacios de Cleopatra y en el escenario del crimen de Hipatia, en las primeras librer as conocidas y en los talleres de copia manuscrita, en las hogueras donde ardieron c dices prohibidos, en el gulag, en la biblioteca de Sarajevo y en el laberinto subterr neo de Oxford en el a o 2000. Un hilo que une a los cl sicos con el vertiginoso mundo contempor neo, conect ndolos con debates actuales: Arist fanes y los procesos judiciales contra humoristas, Safo y la voz literaria de las mujeres, Tito Livio y el fen meno fan, S neca y la posverdad... Pero, sobre todo, esta es una fabulosa aventura colectiva protagonizada por miles de personas que, a lo largo del tiempo, han hecho posibles y han protegido los libros: narradoras orales, escribas, iluminadores, traductores, vendedores ambulantes, maestras, sabios, esp as, rebeldes, monjas, esclavos, aventureras; Lectores en paisajes de monta a y junto al mar que ruge, en las capitales donde la energ a se concentra y en los enclaves m s apartados donde el saber se refugia en tiempos de caos. Gente com n cuyos nombres en muchos casos no registra la historia, esos salvadores de libros que son los aut nticos protagonistas de esta obra. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Best Book of the 21st Century according to Spanish booksellers Shortlisted for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.From smoke, stone, clay, silk, leather, trees, plastic, and light ... A journey through the life of books and of those who have safeguarded them for almost thirty centuries. This is a book about the history of books. A journey through the life of that fascinating object that we invented so that words could travel in space and time. It is also a travel book whose route has stopovers in the battlefields of Alexander the Great and in the Villa of the Papyri during Mount Vesuvius' eruption, in Cleopatra's palaces and at the scene of Hypatia's murder, in the first-ever known bookstores and in the workshops where manuscripts were copied, at the bonfires where forbidden texts were burned, in the gulag, in the Sarajevo library, and in the Oxford underground labyrinth in 2000. It is a thread that unites classics with the dizzying contemporary world, connecting them with current debates: Aristophanes and the judicial processes against comedy-writers, Sapphoand the literary voice of women, Tito Livio and the fan phenomenon, Seneca and post-truth. But above all, this is a fabulous collective adventure starring thousands of people who, over time, have made books possible and have protected them.
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Irene Vallejo
Knopf Publishing Group
2022
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A "masterly" (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world "Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to convey both Vallejo's passionate narrative presence and her synthesising intelligence." --The Guardian Long before books were mass-produced, hand-copied scrolls made from Nile River reeds were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and pharaohs, determined to possess them, dispatched emissaries to the edges of the known world to bring them back. Exploring the deep and fascinating history of the written word, from the oral tradition to scrolls to codices, internationally bestselling author Irene Vallejo shows that books have always been a precious and precarious vehicle for civilization. Through fascinating stories from history, insightful readings of the classics, and poignant personal reflection, Vallejo traces the dramatic history of the book and the fight for its survival. At its heart a spirited love letter to language itself, Papyrus takes readers on a journey across the centuries to discover how a simple reed grown along the banks of the Nile would give birth to a rich and cherished culture.
An original and unique process for designing and constructing improvisational quilts developed by Irene Roderick. This book appeals to beginning and advanced quilters who are looking for a new creative and artistic method of quilt design and construction. A handbook for quilters who want to expand their skills and make unique, personal expressions instead of following traditional quilt methods. The author's approach is fluid and intuitive, inviting you to tap into your imagination and ingenuity in order to create one-of-a-kind quilts in your own creative voice. The book provides instructions for design and construction accompanied by tips and tools to enable you to work freely without preconceived ideas of where the process leads. She will ask you to learn to trust your personal experiences and instincts so that you can develop your own personal style.
Drinking is an essential part of Korean culture, one that's guided by a complex web of unspoken rules, deep tradition, and lots and lots of food. With Soju Party, food writer, chef, and co-owner of Brooklyn's Orion Bar Irene Yoo has written the book on drinking like a Korean. She introduces the classic Korean alcohols and how Koreans typically like to drink them, including the viral Milkis Shot and a heart-stopping Seoul Train, and serves up unique cocktail recipes featuring Korean-inspired riffs and nostalgic twists, like a Jujube Ginseng Negroni and a Banana Milk makgeolli. Of course, you can't drink without eating, and there are plenty of recipes for tasty anju (drinking foods), from simple snacks like the salty and sweet Honey-Butter Bar Nuts to essential comfort food like the savory White Ddukbokki and the super slurpable Kimchi Carbonara, with a dedicated party section featuring a large-format Watermelon Soju Hwachae and sweet-and-spicy Chimaek Chicken. In addition to recipes, Yoo explores the history of Korean drinking, with illustrations explaining proper serving and drinking etiquette, drinking games, food pairings, and more. A book that promises late nights (don't worry, there's a section on hangovers ), this is a party on the page. Geonbae
