![]() ![]() Thompson's mother was a teacher who couldn't teach because she was Black. And thawing his historically glacial stare, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a DC drug kingpin in his players' orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes on the Nike board today. ![]() How did he inspire the phrase "Hoya Paranoia"? You'll see. We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach, and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (and what stats! three Final Fours, four times national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson's book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. ![]() After three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship is ready to make the private public. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University's legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America's unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But serious illness opens her to new people and a new perspective. We can't help but wish Suzanne success in "getting a life." But can such a search possibly yield the meaning she craves? When her extremely annoying mother arrives on the scene, it appears that her plan has been hijacked. ![]() ![]() Light in its tone but incisive in its social satire, Suzanne Davis Gets a Life balances its wit with true concern for its protagonist. All are keenly observed by Suzanne, whose witty self-deprecation endears her to us even as it makes us want to shake some sense into her. Her quest plunges us into the world of her Upper West Side apartment building, a world of overly invested mothers, fanatical dog-owners, curmudgeonly longtime residents, and young (and not so young) professionals. Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life. ![]() As her 35th birthday looms, Suzanne embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, quest-to find Mr. Suzanne Davis lounges around her tiny New York City apartment in her pajamas, writing press releases for the International Association of Air-Conditioning Engineers, listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her. "Incredibly charming…Suzanne Davis Gets a Life has an emotional honesty and moments of real wisdom."-Philadelphia Inquirer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The world is changing at lightning speed, but that doesn’t mean he has to like it. In Happy-Go-Lucky, Sedaris touches on everything from the whimsical - the transformative effect of dental surgery, the old-lady names of hurricanes, the nature of horoscopes - to the serious, including racial politics, his lifelong battle against his ultraconservative father, and his late sister, Tiffany, who died by suicide (but not before she could accuse their father of sexual assault). But that’s what so endears him to his legions of fans. As he reflects on life and death in 18 short essays, many based on recent events but others set in the past, the best-selling humorist is, at turns, bitter, self-deprecating, petty, and wistful. So, it’s understandable that his new collection of essays, Happy-Go-Lucky, has a darker edge that’s the polar opposite of its title. Before his last living parent, his father, died, leaving him grappling with the ruins of their dysfunctional relationship. Before we entered a lockdown and he was forced to stop touring and reading to live audiences, one of his favorite things in the world. David Sedaris’ previous book, Calypso, came out in 2018 - before the world turned upside down. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘And, Queenie, something for you.’ Sister Catherine crossed the room, holding out an envelope. The loud woman called Finty opened a letter informing her that if she scratched off the foil window, she would discover that she’d won an exciting prize. The blind lady, Barbara, received a note from her neighbour - Sister Catherine read it out - spring is coming, it said. I don’t know her name.) There is a big man they call the Pearly King, and he had another parcel though I have been here a week and I haven’t yet seen him open one. There was a card for the new young woman. ![]() Sister Catherine passed several brown envelopes, forwarded, to a Scotsman known as Mr Henderson. Sister Catherine strode in with the morning delivery. I can imagine all sorts of things, Harold, if I put my mind to it. I hear the patients cough, and it is only the wind in my garden by the sea. But I close my eyes and I pretend that the heat of the radiator is the sun on my hands and the smell of lunch is salt in the air. The colours, the smells, the way a day passes. By the time she’d got sorted, pens and a glass of water and so on, he was dozing again. One lone seagull balanced in the sky.Ī patient nodded, and Sister Lucy fetched paper. Outside, the winter evergreens flapped and shivered. Sister Lucy, who is the youngest nun volunteering in the hospice, asked if anyone would like to help with her new jigsaw. We were in the dayroom for morning activities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emily Watson as Grace McKee, Marilyn's foster mother, later called "aunt".Susan Sarandon as Gladys Pearl Baker, Marilyn's mother. ![]() It was nominated for three Creative Arts Emmy Awards Plot Ī chronicle of Marilyn Monroe's family life, her relationship with her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world. The (two-hour forty-seven minute) miniseries is based on The New York Times bestseller of the same name by J. It stars Kelli Garner, Susan Sarandon, Emily Watson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Eva Amurri Martino and was first aired on Lifetime on May 30 and 31, 2015. The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe is a 2015 American drama miniseries on Marilyn Monroe. The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe book by J. American TV series or program The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe ![]() ![]() ![]() Its cabinets of papyrus scrolls reputedly contained every book ever written, some half a million separate texts. After writing hugely popular books on the Irish, the Greeks, the Jews and the early Christians, the writer Thomas Cahill has now turned his attention to the Middle Ages, arguing with characteristic passion, as his subtitle proclaims, that there we can find “the rise of feminism, science and art from the cults of Catholic Europe.” He begins his tale, however, with ancient Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great, guarded by the Pharos lighthouse (one of the Seven Wonders of the World) and, most important, home of the most famous library in the ancient world. ![]() ![]() This obviously upsets her parents, who now think that they should loosen the ties on their daughters, just a little. The youngest daughter, Cecilia, attempts suicide by slitting her wrists but is found in time and saved. ![]() The Lisbons live in the suburbs of Michigan and are a rather reclusive, Catholic family. ![]() ![]() The story centers around the Lisbon family, specifically the five sisters who range in age from 13 to 17. What I will delve into is the feminist components of the plot and how they are non conventional, yet still powerful. Luckily, The Virgin Suicides received positive reviews and has been discussed and theorized for its different themes. Her highly anticipated film, The Beguiled, comes out in June and includes a cast of Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning.īefore she was well regarded, Coppola was a first time director who adapted a screenplay from a well known book, which must have been terrifying. It was provocative, depressing and strange just a few of my favorite things! The director, Sofia Coppola, is often regarded as a female hero, due to the fact that she is one of the only female directors to work consistently and has strong female casts. The Virgin Suicides was a film that I happened to watch on a loop when I was fourteen years old. Predominately because I wanted to see the “odd” movies that my friends had no interest in. ![]() Going to the movies with friends was usually rare for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a Christian author, who firmly believes in God and incorporates her faith into some of her work.more Her goal for her books is to inspire and give hope. Rae-Beth is a mother to an angel in Heaven.Miss Dakota, whom she honored in Saying Goodbye Without Saying Hello. After many months of deliberation, Rae-Beth decided to trust her sister's word and expand her short story into what we all know and love as The Silenced Series. She’s been writing in some form her entire life, but loving young sister, Audra McGee noticed her talent and gave her the reassurance she needed to start her writing career. Rae-Beth McGee-Buda resides in the rolling hills of Fairview, West Virginia with her husband, daughter, and son. She is a Christian author, who firmly believes in God and incorporates her faith into some of her work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We see another few Seldon Crises and how the Foundation and its leader navigate them according to Seldon Providence. In this book–again, following historical precedence–we see what happens after the Foundation becomes the de facto Empire, having conquered those competing interests in volume 1 to find themselves now looking very much like Empire they hated. The first book saw the Foundation come out victorious over several enemies due to the careful planning of the mathematician-prophet Hari Seldon, who anticipated a series of what became known as “Seldon Crises” based on the natural profession of nations. In this book, we continue the history of the Foundation–the eponymous organization created in the first book as a haven for human knowledge in anticipation of the Galactic Empire’s imminent collapse. ![]() So rather than feeling like a short story collection, it feels more like a proper novel. ![]() It doesn’t cover as much time, it’s not as many small stories, but a few larger chunks of narrative. I appreciate how Asimov, in this book breaks the formula of his previous book a bit. I think this is a “better” novel than the first, though it is not as “interesting” or impactful as the original Foundation novel, hence the lower rating. ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:864833518 Scandate 20100609201019 Scanner . Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett: 9780399251610 : Books This Gingerbread Baby is looking for friends and finds an adventure hell never forget.The Gingerbread Baby is lonely and decides to do something about. Urn:lcp:gingerbreadbabybret00bret:epub:f5f94609-4a2e-46c5-a1b8-b621181b5be5 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier gingerbreadbabybret00bret Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7np2rr1q Isbn 0439146976ĩ780439146975 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:37:41 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA119406 Boxid_2 CH118401 Camera Canon 5D City DonorĪlibris Edition 1st Scholastic ed. ![]() |