And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. "Do you cherish your humble and silky life?" She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be "an invitation/to happiness, /and that happiness, /when it's done right, /is a kind of holiness, /palpable and redemptive." She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world "as if for the second time/the way it really is." Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.Ī private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One.
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The scientific establishment throughout Europe - from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answer. Countless quacks weighed in with preposterous suggestions. The quest for a solution had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries when, in 1714, Parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (GBP20,000) to anyone whose method or device proved successful. Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. 'Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy - no mean feat' New ScientistĪnyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuries. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong. The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. Beers are offered to adults and a baby is drugged to keep her quiet on a dangerous night. There are mentions of deaths and disappearances, too, including the death of the main character's sister, who was hit by a car before the story begins. Expect some tense moments between kids and Nazi soldiers, once on the street, other times in their homes, and another time a girl is alone in the country with soldiers who have two large dogs. Parents need to know that Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry ( The Giver), is a poignant read about the Nazi occupation of Denmark that won the Newbery Medal, the highest honor in children's literature, in 1990. A baby drugged to keep her quiet on a dangerous night.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Mention that Papa misses his cigarettes and that the men in his office will smoke anything - weeds, paper - because they can no longer get the real thing in wartime. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America's earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians' ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. But over the last two centuries, America's cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. He is the author of the 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, which has won widespread acclaim, including from the Economist, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly, and was named one of the best investigative journalism books of the year by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. This is a story of survival, rebellion, and redemption that recreates the time, place and horrors. But she moves through all the storylines at an equal, often leisurely pace that sometimes robs the peaks of emotional punch. Kristin Hannah creates a clear and precise picture of the occupations of Carriveau and Paris, including a somber image of the French trying to hold onto their way of life. The Nightingale is a saga that also presents many other characters, including a sympathetic German soldier. The reader doesn’t find out which sister has survived until the very last page. The novel is bracketed by the narrative of one of the two sisters 50 years after the war. The novel also concentrates on their father, Julien, a broken man who has turned to drink to drown his own horrors of war and the loss of his wife. Ultimately, she begins to protect other Jewish children, too. Viann, however, is forced out of the shadows and must fight in her own way, when she is called on to protect the son of a Jewish friend. In contrast to Isabelle is meek older sister Viann, who just wants to survive the German occupation of her village and her own home and protect her daughter. Isabelle is the rebellious, anger-filled younger sister, who creates an escape route from France, for rescued downed airmen, as her way of fighting the enemy, but also of getting back at the family she believes rejected her. It focuses mainly on the two Rossignol sisters. This is the story of the Rossignol family during WWII in Nazi-occupied France. Not finding the safe haven she expects, Olivia is caught off guard by her feelings for Ridley Adam Cooper, a Southern man who seems anything but a Southern gentleman.īranded a traitor by some, Ridley Cooper, a Southern son who chose to fight for the Union, is a man desperate to end the war still raging inside him. Expecting to be the Harding’s head housekeeper, Olivia is disillusioned when she learns the real reason Elizabeth’s husband, Confederate General William Giles Harding, agreed to her coming. Olivia Aberdeen, destitute widow of a man shot as a traitor to the South, is shunned by proper society and gratefully accepts an invitation from “Aunt” Elizabeth Harding, mistress of Belle Meade Plantation. Set at Nashville’s historic Belle Meade Plantation, the most influential thoroughbred stud farm in America’s history, To Whisper Her Name weaves the struggles of real people of the post-war South with the journeys of a man and a woman scarred by betrayal. Will you please stop staring at each other? Not much violence, no swearing. A lot of attraction between Olivia and Ridley … which made me kind of uncomfortable. If I were just rating the characters, writing, and the main plot, I’d give it five stars, but there were a few things that took away those two stars.Ĭontent: 2.5/5. Series: A Belle Meade Plantation Novel, #1 “He just caught me off guard is all,” she told Meemaw. That gives us reason to believe that George’s adultery may still come into play later on, even if the timing deviates from what we were told on Big Bang.Īs for what did happen during Thursday’s episode: Mandy rejected Georgie’s proposal. We recently learned that Sheldon’s trip to Germany - a trip he said on Big Bang took place when he was 15 - has been moved up to the spinoff’s Season 6 finale. But just because it happened doesn’t mean it’s a story has to tell.” It could potentially happen in Season 7, and it’s a possibility we’ve talked about a lot, so it’s on the table. “I’m not saying we are or we are not, but it’s not happening in Season 6. “Without saying it didn’t happen, we’re not obligated to tell all the stories that Sheldon told on Big Bang,” he explained. But he also didn’t rule out that it could happen some time in the future. Executive producer Steve Holland previously told TVLine that Sheldon wouldn’t walk in on George this season. The show, which is based on Han's book series of the same name, stars Lola Tung as Isabel "Belly" Conklin, and it seems like it's going to be just as charming as the book. I am so grateful to Amazon Studios for this amazing vote of confidence in our show, and cannot wait to bring our incredible team back together to tell the next chapter in our story."īased on the trailer alone, it looks like fans of Han are in for a real treat. "To receive a second season pickup ahead of the premiere of season one is beyond my wildest dreams. "When I decided to adapt summer for television, I knew we'd need more than one season to honor the story we are telling," Jenny Han said in a press release. After the latest trailer dropped on May 31, Prime Video announced its plans to continue the story on June 8. Season one of "The Summer I Turned Pretty" hasn't even premiered yet, but the show has already been renewed for a second season. In doing so, she jeopardizes both the army scholarship that will secure her future and her relationship with her military family. On September 14, 1969, Private First Class Judy Talton celebrates her nineteenth birthday by secretly joining the campus anti-Vietnam War movement. Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Heather Morris. ―Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the OceanĪn enthralling historical novel set during the peak of the Vietnam War and told through the rare perspective of a young woman, who traces her path to self-discovery and a “Coming of Conscience.” Judy is truly a quiet hero you won’t forget her.” "Rita Dragonette has written a strong-hearted and authentic novel about a naive young girl and her struggle to reconcile the dissonance between the world she sees and the world she was raised to believe in. “This saga is filled with historical detail and a huge cast of characters, fictional and real, spanning generations and centuries. as grand and engrossing as Paris itself.” -Historical Novels Review most romantic and richly detailed work of fiction yet.” -Bookreporter With Rutherfurd’s unrivaled blend of impeccable research and narrative verve, this bold novel brings the sights, scents, and tastes of the City of Light to brilliant life. As various characters come of age, seek their fortunes, and fall in and out of love, the novel follows nobles who claim descent from the hero of the celebrated poem The Song of Roland a humble family that embodies the ideals of the French Revolution a pair of brothers from the slums behind Montmartre, one of whom works on the Eiffel Tower as the other joins the underworld near the Moulin Rouge and merchants who lose everything during the reign of Louis XV, rise again in the age of Napoleon, and help establish Paris as the great center of art and culture that it is today. Moving back and forth in time, the story unfolds through intimate and thrilling tales of self-discovery, divided loyalty, and long-kept secrets. From Edward Rutherfurd, the grand master of the historical novel, comes a dazzling epic about the magnificent city of Paris. |