![]() Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She has published six books, among them The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008), which won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in history, the George Washington Prize, and the National Book Award for nonfiction. Gilder Lehrman Trustee Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Highlighted in this weekly news post are programs, resources, and other matter related to Black Lives in Founding Era. ![]() ![]() The Gilder Lehrman Institute initiative “ Black Lives in the Founding Era” restores to view the lives and works of a wide array of African Americans in the period 1760 to 1800, drawing on our archive of historical documents and our network of scholars and master teachers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Kinnear plays Todd Burpo as a man of God who's also a concerned citizen and even an occasional doubting Thomas. Young kids may not understand some of the movie's mature issues, and some families may feel more comfortable with the religious subject matter than others.īased on Todd Burpo's 2010 memoir of the same name, Heaven Is for Real is an expressly Christian film made with established actors, and the performances are notably thoughtful. There's also a fair bit of kissing and marital affection (though certainly nothing that could be considered graphic), as well as one suggestive (but unheard) comment. While there's not much questionable content in the movie overall, a few scenes show characters in pain or injured, and there's one scene in which the Burpos' school-aged daughter punches two boys making fun of her brother. The movie, like the book, proposes that, during surgery, young Colton (who never died on the operating table) somehow visited heaven, proving that the afterlife exists. Parents need to know that Heaven Is for Real is a faith-based family drama inspired by Nebraska pastor Todd Burpo's best-selling memoir about his son Colton's alleged experiences in heaven when he was 4 years old. Products and brands visible or featured include Adidas, Ford, Spider-Man, Peg Perego, Coca-Cola, Palmolive, Florida's Natural orange juice, Google, and Sony Vaio laptop. ![]() ![]() ![]() For 2022, the firms involved in the mining and manufacturing for those accounted for 27% of Tesla’s total emissions, reports Quartz.But the supply side isn’t the only thing to consider as we think about EVs and making the future work. And such “Scope 3” emissions – including those of suppliers – represented the deepest part of the product line’s carbon footprint.Batteries are a big factor. ![]() But this time, in Tesla’s report, it was part of the tally. What should we make of a recent report from carmaker Tesla reminding us that, even though its cars have no tailpipes, there are significant carbon emissions associated with getting them built and on the road?It’s worth thinking about, though there’s a lot more at play when it comes to electric vehicles and CO2 emissions.The vast network needed to supply raw materials and component parts for EVs makes for difficult accounting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s the woman who always gets left when her boyfriend goes to a small town and meets the girl who changes him forever. Nora is adamant in the opening of Book Lovers that she isn’t the romance heroine who gets the guy. AND LOW AND BEHOLD WHO SHOULD ALSO BE THERE? You guessed it. The fact that it’s also the setting for her client’s lastest bestseller just makes it weird. Libby is the most important person in Nora’s life after the death of their mother and she will do just about anything she asks, even leave her beloved New York City and head to the middle of nowhere small-town America. ![]() If they are able to reconnect, even better. Libby is pregnant with baby number three and Nora can sense that she desperately needs this time together to relax and recharge. Now it’s several years later and Nora has agreed (under duress) to accompany her baby sister on a month-long vacation for just the two of them. He disparages the small-town setting and she takes umbrage and it only goes downhill from there. They first cross paths at a coffee meeting to discuss her biggest client’s new manuscript. Literary agent extraordinaire Nora Stephens and her editor nemesis Charlie Lastra. I’ve become an Emily Henry fangirl over the last couple of years, so when this book hit my Kindle I set aside everything to read.īook Lovers centers around two main characters deeply involved in the publishing world. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it felt longer, and I thought: ‘How do they know we live in Batavia?’ That’s what I thought the ‘Go home’ meant. It was scary, traffic moves and they pull ahead - it all probably happened in a second. First of all my parents never used that language so I didn’t know it. They pointed right at me, this little girl, and one had a genuine snarl and he screamed, ‘Go home, you (expletive) (expletive) Iranian!’ I was gobsmacked. They seemed old to me but they were probably in their 20s. ![]() We were in the family car, windows rolled down, on Michigan Avenue, right in front of the Fine Arts theater. “I mean, I can tell you the exact spot on the street where it happened. “I was a kid during the Iranian hostage crisis when I had my first experience with racism,” she said. ![]() All that she had at first was a nugget of an idea, inspired by an incident in Chicago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Benny taught Lucas everything about football. The only thing Lucas loves more than football is his Uncle Benny, his dad's best friend at the firehouse where they both work. ![]() Includes a nonfiction section at the back with facts and photos about the real-life event.Ī gripping graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Perfect for readers who prefer the graphic novel format, or for existing fans of the I Survived chapter book series, these graphic novels combine historical facts with high-action storytelling that's sure to keep any reader turning the pages. Lauren Tarshis's New York Times bestselling I Survived series comes to vivid life in bold graphic novels. But just as Lucas arrives at his uncle's firehouse, everything changes - and nothing will ever be the same again. It's a bright, beautiful day in New York. The next morning, Lucas takes the train to the city instead of the bus to school. So when Lucas's parents decide the sport is too dangerous and he needs to quit, Lucas has to talk to his biggest fan. The only thing Lucas loves more than football is his Uncle Benny, his dad's best friend at the fire department where they both work. A gripping graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The meaning of your life is to let go of the darkness, the disturbances, and the blockages that you’ve stored inside,” Singer tells Oprah. Why are you doing it, then? Why are you doing it?” Let go of the darkness to find the light. If you’re complaining about something, Singer says to ask yourself, What good did any one of those complaints do? “The answer is ‘nothing.’ It didn’t change anything. Oprah calls it surrendering-and says that anxiety and stress are often results of people not being able to accept the present moment. ![]() Period.” Accepting this is the first step to being more present. In Living Untethered, Singer writes, “No one has ever been able to make something not happen that already happened. $16 at Amazon Stop resisting the present moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sphinx is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for the first time. ![]() A beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, "I," and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, Sphinx is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never been accomplished before or since in the strictly-gendered French language. Nominated for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize One of Flavorwire's Top 50 Independent Books of 2015 One of Entropy Magazine's Best Fiction Books of 2015 One of Bookriot's 100 Must-Read Books Translated From French Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garreta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others. ![]() ![]() The rebellious girl refuses to sing until she realises she can use her voice as a means of escape. Her vocal talent is as valued as the dowry she brings: the convent of Santa Caterina, a closed order of Benedictines, is famed for its choir of nuns. Serafina is dragged to the convent after falling in love with her music tutor and refusing to marry the man her rich Milanese family had lined up. She centres on the relationship between 16-year-old Serafina, an unwilling novice, and Suora |Zuana, the scholarly nun who runs the dispensary. 1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find. Sarah Dunant has set the final novel of her Renaissance trilogy in a Ferrara convent in 1570, when the Counter-Reformation was embarking on repressive measures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Around half of all noble women in the city states of Italy became nuns, as the dowry for |a bride of Christ was much lower than those demanded by eligible males. Convents were the Italian equivalent of oubliettes for women of the upper classes during the Renaissance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder (2009). ![]() Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra (2008).Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want (2007).Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret (2006).Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (2005).Thus Leven and Clover set out to find Geth so that they can enter Foo and destroy the only way out. A Lithen named Geth who knows where the gateway is had been captured and transformed into a seed by Sabine, but Clover knows that his burn got the seed and planted in in reality. Although Clover's former "burn" (or master) knew all about the gateway and took him through it about fourteen years ago, Clover never got to see it and doesn't know where it is. If they find the gateway, they'll lead everyone into reality, Foo will empty out and the lack of dreams will destroy humanity. Humans who get trapped in Foo are called Nits, and one Nit named Sabine has taken over, leading his armies in search of the gateway. Foo is Clover's world, the place that makes dreams possible. He and Leven have got to find the gateway into the world called Foo and then destroy that gateway. Clover tells Leven that he's been watching over him all his life, usually invisible. One day, Clover, a Sycophant, reveals himself. It begins with fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps living an awful life with his step aunt Addy and her husband Terry Graph in a trailer home at Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma - a town named after the supernatural fire that blazed there a little over a decade ago. ![]() |