Winners never quit by mia hamm7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The text perfectly reflects a competitive child's rage when things don't go as desired ("Mia didn't want better luck next time. The world's top goal scorer and three-time Olympian offers a soccer tale, putatively autobiographical, about a little girl whose tendency to stomp off the field when frustrated prompts her teammates to teach her a lesson. This text refers to the Hardcover edition. –Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VAĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Parents or coaches wanting a story about the joy of playing soccer without emphasizing winning or losing will find an appropriate read-aloud here. The text represents the mixed feelings of all athletes learning the game. ![]() Attractive endpapers contain colorful sketches of the girl progressing from birth (showing a soccer ball given as a baby gift) through stretching activities, trials of not scoring, and the final celebration of the sport. Bright, energetic cartoons depict the child's ups and downs. more » she will not, but playing the game is the most fun of all. Mia learns quickly that there will be times when she will score a goal and those when. Upset about her attitude, her siblings do not let her participate the next day. In fact, she dislikes it so much that she quits in the middle of a game. ![]() From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 2–Mia's favorite sport is soccer but she hates losing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers. Download India After Gandhi (ramachandra Guha).pdf Type: PDF Date: November 2019 Size: 2. This tenth anniversary edition, revised and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections, the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi, a major anti-corruption movement, more violence against women, Dalits and religious minorities, a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others, comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. Book of the Year - The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out and Outlook Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. ![]() ![]() Kendi defines racist ideas expansively: any idea that there is something inherently better or worse about any racial group. Part memoir, part social analysis, part polemic, it’s a book that, like its predecessor, seems to be arriving at exactly the right moment, as President Trump’s verbal attacks on lawmakers of color and on the city of Baltimore have spurred both intense outrage and debate on how to respond.īut it’s also a book that directs some of its most unstinting criticism at the author himself, and what he sees as his own racist ideas.ĭr. ![]() Another is “How to Be an Antiracist,” published by One World, an imprint of Random House. ![]() The writing desk by rachel hauck7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() “Rachel Hauck enchants us again! Tenley and Birdie are bound together by the understanding that creativity is a guiding force and that their stories must be told. Tenley and Birdie are from two very different worlds, but fate has bound them together in a way time cannot erase. When she discovers her mother has taken extreme measures to manipulate her future, she must choose between submission and security or forging a brand new way all on her own. She wants to tell stories, write novels, make an impact on the world. ![]() But Birdie has dreams she doesn’t know how to realize. Under the strict control of her mother, her every move is decided ahead of time, even whom she’ll marry. Born during the Gilded Age, Birdie Shehorn is the daughter of the old money Knickerbockers. ![]() But when her estranged mother calls asking Tenley to help her through chemotherapy, she packs up for Florida where she meets handsome furniture designer Jonas Sullivan and discovers the story her heart’s been missing.Ī century earlier, another woman wrote at the same desk with hopes and fears of her own. With pressure mounting from her publisher, Tenley is weighted with writer’s block. ![]() Can she repeat her earlier success or is she a fraud who has run out of inspiration? Now that her second book is due, she’s locked in fear. Tenley Roth’s first book was a runaway bestseller. This happily ever after romance tells the captivating story of two women bound together across time by a shared dream and a mysterious writing desk. ![]() Degradation by stylo fantome7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() REPARATION: When Tatum O’Shea decides it’s time for some payback, no one is safe from her new game – not even the devil himself. A series of games start, each one more devious than the last. It all sounds like fun to a woman like Tate, and she is ready to play, determined to prove that she isn’t the same girl he conquered once before. Jameson has evolved, as well – sharp words, sharper wit, and a tongue that can cut her in half. ![]() She doesn’t have a naive bone left in her body, and she can’t even remember what shy feels like. This time, she thinks she’s ready for him. Seven years later, life is going pretty good for Tate, when she runs into Jameson again. They come together for one night, one explosion, one mistake, and Tate is hurled into space – no family, no money, and no Jameson. Twenty-three year old Jameson Kane is smart, seductive, and richer. ![]() DEGRADATION: Eighteen year old Tatum O’Shea is a naive, shy, little rich girl. ![]() Free the Darkness by Kel Kade7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Everything is perfectly timed and perfectly played, and if it weren’t the most satisfying thing I’ve listened too in a long time, then the whole book would have been just ten shades of ‘meh’. He isn’t a good guy, and he doesn’t spare a second thought for going all Liam Neeson with his particular set of skills to methodically and logically slice up anyone that stands in his path. Again, this would usually put me off the character, but Rez doesn’t hold back… like, at all. The main character, Rezkin, is OP as all hell, brilliant at just about everything he turns his hands to. For starters, the characters seemed hollow or so clichéd that I quickly began losing faith. There was something about this book that I didn’t want to like, and for the life of me I can’t put my finger on it. ![]() Still, I carried on with Free the Darkness, and oooo boy, was that the right choice. I want surprise from the books I listen to, but after a couple hundred fantasy novels, you think you’ve seen it all. ![]() A few premises were laid out and thing proceeded just as I expected. Initially the story seemed very predictable. Free the Darkness was another book I had no idea about save for the sky-high Audible rating, and 30 minutes in I thought I’d picked a dud. ![]() Memphis rent party by robert gordon7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() A passionate listener, he hears modern times deep in the grooves of old records by Lead Belly and Robert Johnson. A Memphis native, he whiles away time in a crumbling duplex with blues legend Furry Lewis, stays up late with barrelhouse piano player Mose Vinson, and sips homemade whiskey at Junior Kimbrough's churning house parties. We know the greatest hits, but celebrated author Robert Gordon takes us to the people and places history has yet to record. The fabled city of Memphis has been essential to American music-home of the blues, the birthplace of rock and roll, a soul music capital. If you don't know these characters, let Robert Gordon introduce you." -Elvis Costello "Robert Gordon's book is proof that Southern heritage is American heritage, and all sorts of people-black and white, familiar and strange, dead and alive-are what it is." -Greil Marcus Profiles and stories of Southern music from the acclaimed author of Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion. Robert does it right." -Keith Richards "An emotional map of musical Memphis. "Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Living with a Disability or Chronic Condition.Your Library Staff Offer Their Favorites-AUDIOBOOKS. ![]() Audie Awards Winners & Finalists: 2004-2021. ![]() Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde7/7/2023 ![]() If you don’t have time to read the whole collection, focus on three of the well-known essays: “Poetry is Not a Luxury” – “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” – and “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism.” She was a recipient of many distinguished honors and awards, including honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin, and Haverford Colleges, and was named New York State Poet (1991-1993). ” ABOUT THE AUTHORĪudre Lorde (1934-1992) published nine volumes of poetry and five works of prose. ![]() This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde’s philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.These landmark writings are, in Lorde’s own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. ![]() In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. ![]() Sojourn by R.A. Salvatore7/7/2023 ![]() Why?įOR ICE is legendary, it is where Salvatore first introduced us to these incredible characters, its his earliest writing (and he has evolved over the years), it will help you fall in love with this world. Many fans also like to read in release order which essentially switches THE ICEWIND DALE TRILOGY (ICE) with THE DARK ELF TRILOGY (DARK). > Please feel free to suggest edits as this list evolves. ![]() See bottom of post for alternate reading order. This is Bobs suggested READING ORDER for his Forgotten Realms books, which all tie together. I will make note of any edits from Bobs original list in the appendix ![]() ![]() The following list is an evolution of RA Salvatores (Bob) suggested reading order. ![]() To say nothing of the dog7/6/2023 ![]() Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), a humorous account of the author’s two-week holiday on the river Thames. The plot revolves around Ned’s efforts to rectify a disruption in the time continuum that occurred when a fellow historian rescued a drowning cat in the Victorian Era and brought her back to the twenty-first century. ![]() To Say Nothing of the Dog tells the story of Ned Henry, a historian from Oxford University in the year 2057 who is part of a team attempting to reconstruct to the last detail the Coventry Cathedral as it was before its destruction during the WWII Nazi Blitz. These narratives detail the adventures of historians who take advantage of the development of time travel for research purposes. Willis has written two other novels- Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear-and a short story, “Fire Watch” that take place in the To Say Nothing of the Dog universe. ![]() It also received a nomination for the Nebula Award in 1998. Published in 1997, To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last is a comedic science fiction novel by American novelist Connie Willis. ![]() |