![]() ![]() For a country boy, Boston was a completely new world, and the NBA a league of legends: Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Kevin Garnett, James Harden, Shaquille O’Neal, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Kevin Durant, and more. He left their home at age eighteen, drafted out of high school by the legendary Celtics. Now, In The Education of Kendrick Perkins, he opens a different side of himself: a powerful and intimate memoir that goes beyond basketball to discuss the reality of being Black in America.Ībandoned by his father, then orphaned after the murder of his mother, Perk was raised by his grandparents in a small Texas town. As a fourteen year NBA player and starting center for the 2008 NBA champion Boston Celtics, Perk earned a reputation as an enforcer, a fierce defender, and a great teammate. Kendrick “Perk” Perkins is known for his blunt, opinionated, “carry the hell on” commentary on ESPN’s most popular shows. ![]() ![]() Perkins' riveting stories about the NBA, his upbringing and social justice will make this book impossible to put down." - Emmanuel Acho, New York Times bestselling author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Every single word he speaks will challenge, enlighten and encourage you to become a better version of yourself and see a better version of the world. "Kendrick Perkins is the bold and educational voice we need today. ![]()
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Protector Roriethiel of the Fae wakes up in an unfamiliar desert, uncertain how he arrived. Happy couples surround Renny, and he wants nothing more than to experience that joy for himself. ![]() Renny, along with the rest of the D’Vaires, believes that his other half will be a dragon shifter, thanks to his magical beast form. ![]() Grand Warlock Familiar Renny D’Vaire has a life he adores and is hoping for a mate who will not bring strife into his world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We learn that Marianne has rescued them both: Martin from a home where he was sent to be re-educated after his father, Connie, was killed by the Nazis, and Benita from virtual sex-slavery in Russian-occupied Berlin. Seven years later, Marianne returns to Burg Lingenfels with Benita and Benita’s son, Martin. ![]() They agree that it is their duty to resist Hitler. Later in the evening, she finds Connie, her husband, Albrecht, and several other men discussing the events of Kristallnacht. She welcomes her close friend Connie Fledermann and is introduced to his beautiful new wife, Benita. At her husband’s ancestral castle of Burg Lingenfels, Marianne von Lingenfels is throwing a party. The novel opens with a prologue set in 1938. A New York Times bestseller, critics hailed The Women in the Castle as a novel that “makes sincere, evocative use of family history to explore complicity and the long arc of individual responses to a mass crime” ( Kirkus Reviews). Set during the Second World War, American author Jessica Shattuck’s historical novel The Women in the Castle (2017) follows three women-the widows of men killed in a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler-as they cope with the devastation of their country and the collective guilt of the German people. ![]() ![]() The second, a growth of character from what once was merely a human literature machine, into a person with a new compassion for others. The decrescendo of Vivian, the main character’s, life can be viewed in two separate ways: the first being a tragic death the loss of a dedicated professor and scholar. The combination of Donne’s poems, placed purposely throughout the play, with the story of an ex-college professor who only knows her own identity through her teaching, creates a dynamic between what can be known of self, and what is left to the universe to decide. Vivian Bearing, told are the struggles of battling with death not caused by a disease, but through the treatment of that disease. ![]() Wit A play written by Margaret Edson for none other than personal reasons, is a beautiful fusion of humor with knowledge of 17th-century literature, specifically the work of a well known poet, John Donne. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maali Almeida is a photographer, gay, a gambler, who likes a drink or two but his Nikon has a cracked lens and is filled with mud because his body was thrown into a lake after he’d been murdered. 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Two great books in one great collection From 1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery and award-winning journalist Meredith May, two stories of. ![]() Overdrive:f07cd09a-7318-4fb3-90ca-e0e44fb6b165ģ18 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait, photographs 22 cmġ online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 31 min.)) : digital.ģ18 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits 21 cmĨ audio discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital 4 3/4 in. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, how microbial communities may shape or be shaped by insect interactions with plants and neighboring species remains underexplored. ![]() ![]() Microbial symbionts can influence a myriad of insect behavioral and physiological traits. 4Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.2School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.1CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, China.Yiyi Dong 1,2, Zheng-Ren Zhang 1,3, Sandhya Mishra 1, Adam Chun-Nin Wong 4, Jian-Feng Huang 1, Bo Wang 1, Yan-Qiong Peng 1 * and Jie Gao 1 * ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamilah is a Lebanese Muslim, though for the past three years of her life she has hidden her true identity from her peers at school. ![]() The protagonist of the story is 16-year-old Jamilah Towfeek, who lives in Sydney's Western Suburbs. The book, like many of Abdel-Fattah's novels, covers topics pertaining to discrimination and racism towards Muslims and people of diverse ethnic backgrounds as well as various teenage topics. ![]() Ten Things I Hate About Me was awarded the 2008 Kathleen Mitchell Award for Excellence in Young Adult Writing and was shortlisted for the 2008 Redbridge Book Award. The book was first released in Australia on October 1, 2006, through Pan MacMillan Australia. Ten Things I Hate About Me is a 2006 award-winning young adult novel by Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah and her second work. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the Angelina books were originally about a girl, but then Craig drew a mouse, and Holabird loved it. Holabird wrote the first draft of Angelina Ballerina at the kitchen table with her daughters dancing around her. Holabird’s son, Adam, was her inspiration for the character Henry, and Angelina’s character was inspired by her daughters’ love for dressing up and dancing. In 1983, her first children’s book, Angelina Ballerina, was published. ![]() The two married in 1974 and moved to London where she continued to write and worked at a nursery school. Holabird then found herself in Italy as a freelance journalist where she met her husband, Michael Haggiag. ![]() in literature from Bennington College in Vermont and then worked at Bennington College as a literary editor for a year after her graduation. The young, imaginative Holabird loved animals, playing in her tree house, and dancing with her sisters. ![]() Katharine Holabird is an American writer, best known as the author of the Angelina Ballerina series.Īs a child, Holabird was an avid reader who loved fairy tales and stories about heroic animals, and she frequently saw ballets like Cinderella and Swan Lake with her grandmother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and I found myself wanting to become whatever I’d last read.Įventually I grew up and became a newspaper reporter. Then I read a book about a surgeon, and one about a veterinarian, and another about a great tennis player. It was a lot easier than becoming a pianist. I weighed only 40 pounds and could leap and pirouette all day without stopping. Then I came across a book on Maria Tallchief, and became a ballerina, just like that. My parents had bought an old piano and signed me up for lessons and, thus, I began dreaming of becoming a world-famous concert pianist. As for fame and fortune, I took care of that, too–I taught my brothers and the neighborhood kids how to wait in line for autographed copies, and I charged them 25 cents a book (an enviable paperback royalty today!), but also accepted candy.īy third grade, I had abandoned the literary scene. By first-grade, I was my own publisher, making multiple copies of my books by hand. Publishing was no problem in those days, not like it is now. ![]() But a life of crime requires practice and patience, neither of which I had, so I settled into industry, making what I coveted but what my parents could not afford to buy: beautiful books like the ones my teacher read to us in school. I first began making picture books in kindergarten because my other career option at the time was stealing. ![]() |