![]() ![]() ![]() International Literature Festival, Houston 2017 featuring: Matilde Casazola,Diana Bellessi, Ida Vitale, Soledad Bravo, Siomara Spain, Ana Cecilia Blum, Andrea Cote, Jeannette Clariond, Veronica Aranda, Maria Cardenas and Debora Mouton. International Literature Festival, Houston 2016 featuring: Jorge Galán, JotamarioAberlaez, Luis Garcia Montero, Ron Leshem, Leopoldo Castilla, Robin Davidson, Fernando Valverde, Xavier Oquendo, Javier Bozalongo and Margarita Laso. International Film Festival, Houston 2015 featuring: Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Aldabazal, Ali Calderon, Gabriel Cisneros, Madeline Millan, Andrea Cote Botero, Efraín Kristal, among others. International Literature Festival, Houston 2014: Hugo Mujica, Federico Díaz Granados, Raúl Pérez Torres, Iván Oñate, Gisela Heffes, Eduardo Langagne, Javier Guerrero, EddaArmas, Rose Mary Salum, among others. Mario Bojorquez, Miguel Angel Zapata, Eduardo Espina, Omar Lara, Mercedes Roffe, Lucila Nogueira, Luis Carlos Musso and Arturo Gutierrez. International Literature Festival, Houston 2013 featuring: Armando Romero. How to be Successful in the Americas (cross-cultural awareness) Workshop. Exhibition of Ibero-American art by painters Seram Sousa and Rafael Urdaneta. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But pointing to the biography alongside Vuong’s stellar rise – from the first literate person in his family to a lauded, prize-winning poet – risks detracting from the book’s literary and political elements. Vuong’s intimate lyrical voice, his precise, stark imagery and engagement with gay sexuality construct a familiar story of loss, as well as the immigrant’s precarious transnational identity. Complex figures, displaced by war, haunt the book: an absent, tormented father and a beloved mother. ![]() Several poems resurrect violence from before the poet’s birth, in particular the end of the Vietnam war with the fall of Saigon in 1975. ![]() Glimpses of it appear throughout his Forward prize-nominated debut collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds: Vuong was born near Saigon in 1988 and at the age of two, after a year in a refugee camp, he emigrated to Hartford, Connecticut with six members of his family. I t is tempting to read Ocean Vuong’s poetry with his life story in mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The end result has Simon and the Bagshaws gawk hilariously upon seeing her post-puberty figure in tight clothes for the first time. ![]() Girliness Upgrade: Gets this when Gabrielle hems a disguise for her during their heist in the first book with the skirt being fixed to her own preference.In The Grift of the Magi, she nearly throws a lit candle at Lady Georgette after she's implied to have groped Hale during a blackout. Clingy Jealous Girl: She gets upset nearly every time a girl shows interest in Hale despite her claims of not being the jealous type.Classy Cat-Burglar: Kat is the embodiment of this trope, the author actually got the inspiration for the series after deciding she wanted to write a book about a girl named Kat who was a cat burglar.She can think on her feet by improvising when plans go wrong and is seen outsmarting most adults in the series on multiple occasions. Brainy Brunette: Has dark hair and is the brains behind most of the cons we see in the books.Usually, she's only referred to as Katarina by villains or side characters. Affectionate Nickname: Is called "Kat" by everyone in her family and most of the characters we're supposed to like with the exception of Uncle Eddie.She pulls off multiple heists throughout the series and is more than deserving of her status as a prodigy. The youngest member of the infamous thief family known as the Bishops and the protagonist of the story. ![]() ![]() Please post your own lists or highlights of 2014 in the comments! Other particular highlights of the year were Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie my friend Tom Montag's poetry collection In This Place Interior Circuit by Francisco Goldman and City of Palaces by Michael Nava - both books about Mexico City and the wonderful Out of Arizona by frequent Cassandra Pages commenter Roderick Robinson.įor Christmas I was completely surprised and delighted to receive a special gift from J.: a signed copy of Seamus Heaney's North. ![]() I greatly enjoyed the big new biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and subsequently re-read some of his works. The selection increases all the time, and books can be borrowed for period of 21 days and renewed after that. You do it all via your own computer, and can download books to read there or on your tablet or phone. I've been enjoying a new way of reading: borrowing e-books and audiobooks for free via OverDrive, through the Bibliotheque Nationale. I didn't read as many titles as in some years, but there are a couple of real tomes in there too. ![]() ![]() Well, we're almost at the end of 2014, so in keeping with tradition, here's my book list for this past year. ![]() ![]() ? Moving into the new, unexplored territory of the time period immediately following Revenge of the Sith. Is this what it now means to be a Jedi? Dark Times #1 is the gateway to a new era in Star Wars history, an era where the future is grim, evil is on the rise, and all paths seem to lead nowhere. But is there a plan beyond obtaining power? On New Plympto, Jedi Master Dass Jennir leads a Nosaurian army in a war they have already lost. On Coruscant, Darth Vader waits for his Master to reveal his vision for the future. Even as the worlds of the former Republic are drawn into the iron grip of Palpatine's Empire, the galaxy seems adrift in a sea of chaos, lawlessness, and despair. ![]() Before the dark times, before the Empire.' -Ben Kenobi The dark times are here. ![]() 'For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please consider this request that would preserve the legacy of this little known pioneering African American group of veterans. He was the bands director.Īlex Albright, a professor at East Carolina University, wrote a book about the band, entitled: ” The Forgotten First: B-1 and the Integration of the Modern Navy”. Attorney James Parsons was appointed the first Black federal judge in Illinois by President John Kennedy. One was A&T’s band director for over forty years. Others became social workers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, etc. After the war, the majority of the band mates became school band directors throughout N.C. Of the original members only four veterans survive today. The band was assigned to be the official military unit to accompany the Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC-CH. The rest of the band came from other Black colleges. Due to the national reputation of A&T’S band, the majority of the 44 member band was recruited from A&T. Smith University, North Carolina A&T State University, then A&T College and others) decided to do this through music. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, along with Naval authorities, college presidents(The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central, Johnson C. I am writing you in hopes that you will consider researching and writing a book for children about the first Black Navy Band that performed during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heck, there are even double page spreads dedicated to specific subjects such as Pets & Lifestock, Multi-Taskers, Ball Sports, Jigsaw Puzzles, even Finger Nail Lengths.ĭid you know, for example, that the longest fingernails belong to Minneapolis resident Diana Armstrong whose nails – last trimmed in 1997 – are over 1.3 metres long? She paints the entire length of them, too! ![]() Indeed, this year’s Guinness covers plenty of ground (and sky, and space). Gorgeously illustrated front and back, Guinness World Records 2023 is as bold a tome as any that came before it – packed with stacks of mind-boggling record-breaking anecdotes along with facts about everything from natural phenomena to human stunts, religious events to medical marvels, spiritual acts to para-sports, and earthly delights to out-of-this-world adventures (quite literally, since there are specific sections on space missions and even ‘space junk’). Many of these feats have been collated and published in the Guinness World Records 2023: a massive compendium on record-breaking that’s sure to leave readers in awe. It’s been a busy 12 months, as Covid restrictions began easing the world over, and it seems many individuals and groups have been happy to brush off the cobwebs, and get out and break some new records. ‘Guinness World Records 2023’: bigger, bolder, brighter a book than before plus WIN one of 10 copies! ![]() ![]() ![]() That day at the library, I was standing near the S shelf, and noticed a copy of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. There are often tantrums, and it can be exhausting for everyone. We’re going through a rough patch right now, filled with battles of wills. As usual, he barely heard me-he was playing with the train table and the barn set and having way too much fun and me asking him about books was a signal that we’d be going home soon. As usual, I asked him what books he’d like. I’d picked up the book for him on Take Your Child to The Library Day. ![]() Was it okay to enjoy this book about this boy doing these bad things? Could he get in trouble for liking it? I tried not to react and just kept reading. There was this boy in a wolf suit, doing a bunch of things that were clearly Bad, but-let’s be honest-those things were also pretty intriguing. The first time my three-year-old opened Where The Wild Things Are, he was hesitant. ![]() ![]() Yael's mother died in childbirth, and her father never forgave her for that death. Based on this tragic historical event, Hoffman weaves a spellbinding tale of four extraordinary, bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom comes to Masada by a different path. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. In 70 C.D., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. Now, in The Dovekeepers, Hoffman delivers her most masterful work yet-one that draws on her passion for mythology, magic, and archaeology and her inimitable understanding of women. The author of such iconic bestsellers as Illumination Night, Practical Magic, Fortune's Daughter, and Oprah's Book Club selection Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman is one of the most popular and memorable writers of her generation. Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing work ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel. ![]() ![]() *The 15-mile San Luis Central has faithfully served a rich agricultural district in the San Luis Valley for over a century, owning only three locomotives during its lifetime. ISBN-13: 978-0-91, ISBN: 0-91 "THREE COMPLETE STORIES COMPRISE THIS ANNUAL. Forrest, John Gruber, John Ryan Board Book, 220 Pages, Published 2017 by Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation, Inc. For nearly four decades, this unique little narrow gauge that traversed an eleven-mile stretch of high desert between Grand Junction, Colorado and the Book Cliff coal mines, bringing economic growth and stability to the Grand Junction area. Mcleod Hardcover, 191 Pages, Published 1984 by Pruett Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-0-87108-638-9, ISBN: 0-87108-638-7 "Few states can equal Colorado when it comes to colorful, exciting railroad history, and one of the more absorbing chapters in that story belongs to the Little Book Cliff Railway. Little Book Cliff Railway (1st Edition) The Life and Times of a Colorado Narrow Gauge by Lyndon J. ![]() ![]() Mcleod Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2007 by Sundance Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-91, ISBN: 0-91 ![]() |