![]() ![]() ![]() As pending court battles against opioid makers, distributors, and retailers drag on, addiction rates have soared to record-breaking levels during the COVID pandemic, illustrating the critical need for leadership, urgency, and change. Meanwhile, there is scant consensus between law enforcement and medical leaders, nor an understanding of how to truly scale the programs that are out there, working at the ragged edge of capacity and actually saving lives.ĭistilling this massive, unprecedented national health crisis down to its character-driven emotional core as only she can, Beth Macy takes us into the country’s hardest hit places to witness the devastating personal costs that one-third of America's families are now being forced to shoulder. ![]() Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created. ![]() A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis, f rom the New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick (inspiration for the Peabody Award-winning Hulu limited series) and Factory Man. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Suddenly, a fun night of scavenger hunts and sweets takes a nosedive and the girls aren’t sure who to trust. Soon, fingers are pointing in all directions, and someone falls strangely ill. But her luck changes quickly when the goggles disappear, and Millie was the last to see them. She can’t believe her good luck, since they’re about to be relocated to a fancy museum in Washington, DC. Once at Amelia’s house in Atchison, Kansas, Millie stumbles upon a display of Amelia’s famous flight goggles. But Millie’s mom is a pilot like the famous Amelia, and Millie would love to have something to write to her about…if only she had her address. ![]() ![]() Eleven-year-old Amelia Ashford- Millie to her friends (if she had any, that is)-doesn’t realize just how much adventure awaits her when she’s given the opportunity of a lifetime: to spend the night in Amelia Earhart’s childhood home with five other girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nysol discovers that his attempted escape has become something of a trap for all of his new friends. Amy Carter, who is trying to help Sean soon find themselves hunted by the Kisleem alien Poit who is determined to take Nysol prisoner as his enemy. Worried about Sean’s health because of the strange memory problems, Lester and Nysol decide to get him to a doctor. ![]() Because of the new confusion, Sean doesn’t recognize Lester. On the next day, Sean’s friend Lester Jones runs into him and Nysol. Sean wakes up after a moment, but he is slightly confused now. ![]() Unfortunately, the beam also knocks Sean down. Without much thought, Nysol zaps Sean with a beam that extracts an understanding of human language from him, so now he can understand and speak English. Once he lands on there, the first person Nysol runs into is Sean, who is out camping. ![]() Nysol leads the ship guards away from where his allies are headed and strands himself on a planet(that happens to be Earth) to keep them safe. The story begins by following the sharill, Nysol as he and a group of space pirates he is with steal asteroid mining spacecraft from their enemies, the Kisleem. ![]() ![]() ![]() On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Winner of the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Awardįinalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s LiteratureĪ Coretta Scott King Award Author and Illustrator Honor BookĪ Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearĪ School Library Journal Best Book of the Year “An illuminating example of the power of a moral stance.” “A compelling and engaging account of an iconic moment.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Stand!- Raising My Fist For Justice (Norton Young Readers/W.W. MEDIA SPECIALISTS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SCHOOL BOOK FAIR CONTACT PERSON AND ASK THEM TO HAVE MY BOOKS AVAILABLE AT YOUR CHILD’S SCHOOL. A body of work that will make people feel good about themselves, that will make them think, laugh and cry. “I believe, as an artist, that your primary goal should be to build an important body of work that will be here long after you’re gone. A body of work that your family can be proud of. ![]() ![]() Naturally enough, ever since Longfellow’s first visit to Europe (1826-1829), and no doubt from an eariler date still, he had been interested in Dante’s great work, but though the period of the incubation of his translation was a long one, the actual time engaged in it, was as he himself informs us, exactly two years. The three volumes of “The Divine Comedy” were printed for private purposes, as will be described later, in 1865-18, but they were not actually given to the public until the year last named. Henry Frances Carey, M.A., in his well-known version, and also his chronological view of the age of Dante under the title of What was happening in the World while Dante Lived.Ī lady who knew Italy and the Italian people well, some thirty years ago, once remarked to the writer that Longfellow must have lived in every city in that county for almost all the educated Italians “talk as if they owned him.”Īnd they have certainly a right to a sense of possessing him, to be proud of him, and to be grateful to him, for the work which he did for the spread of the knowledge of Italian Literature in the article in the tenth volume on Dante as a Translator. It includes the arguments prefixed to the Cantos by the Rev. This is all of Longfellow’s Dante translation of Inferno minus the illustrations. WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD WHILE DANTE LIVED. ![]() ![]() ![]() The worldwide group was formed following News Corp's 1990 acquisition of William Collins & Sons. In 1987, Harper & Row, as it had then become, was acquired by News Corporation. ![]() The original Harper Brothers Company was established in New York City in 1817 and over the years published the works of Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() In the UK, the Glasgow-based William Collins & Sons was founded in 1819 and published a range of bibles, atlases and dictionaries, later including classic authors HG Wells, Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. With a heritage stretching back nearly 200 years, HarperCollins is one of the world's foremost English-language publishers, offering the best quality content right across the spectrum, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction to digital hymnbooks and pretty much everything in between. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Firewall, the first book in her Houston: FBI series, was listed by Library Journal as one of the best Christian Fiction books of 2014.ĭiAnn is a founding board member of the American Christian Fiction Writers, a member of Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, Sisters in Crime, and She combines unforgettable characters with unpredictable plots toĬreate action-packed, suspense-filled novels. Her titles have appeared on the CBA and ECPA bestseller lists won two Christy Awards and been finalists for the RITA, Daphne Du Maurier, Inspirational Readers’ Choice, and Carol award contests. Lindsay lives in North Texas with two big dogs and her romance hero, drinking gimlets and raising two STEM warrior princesses.ĭiAnn Mills will sign and discuss Burden of Proof (Tyndale $14.99).ĭiAnn Mills is a bestselling author who believes her readers should expect an adventure. She hosts a popular podcast Women with Books about genre fiction written by and for women. ![]() Lindsay Emory began her career as a lawyer but now writes romantic suspense, mysteries, and romantic comedy. ![]() Lindsay Emory will sign and discuss The Royal Runaway (Gallery $16). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() HTML at Virginia Gutenberg text HTML in Israel Verne, Jules, 1828-1905: Michel Strogoff: Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 5 Actes et 16 Tableaux (in French ca. and Around The World In Eighty Days, Jules Verne also authored a number of other popular novels. I have completely forgotten Koscina's image in Michel Strogoff but still remember her Playboy photographs shoving her naked in water. Verne, Jules, 1828-1905: Michael Strogoff: or, The Courier of the Czar, trans. Jules Vernes Michael Strogoff extraordinary voyages. I must have noticed the existence of Sylva Koscina who has been one of my boyhood idols, for the first time in Michel Strogoff. The sequence made such a strong impression on me that although I have forgotten almost all the other aspects of the film ("the events happen in Russia") I have never forgotten it. The only things I remember of the film are its sad (maybe gloomy)atmosphere and Curd Jurgens who was captured by spies of the villain and was blinded with a red-hot iron stick. I remember the run and chase plot of the book better than the film's plot. Later, I read the Turkish translation of the Jules Verne book which was published with the same title of the original book the film was based on. Its Turkish name was "Volga Mahkumlari" (The Prisoners of Volga). ![]() I saw Michel Strogoff when I was just a little boy in fifties, at cinema Elhamra in Izmir. ![]() ![]() Dragged back into the centuries long war, can they usher in a new era of life from smouldering ruin of the continent?Ī class of misfit students from the magitech city of Aleynonlia finds themselves the centre of an ominous prophecy. After being captured by slavers, he decides to fight in an underground gladiator arena in an attempt to regain the secrets to his lost past.Īdelaide Wiltkins and Lucinda Baerrinska returns to the war-torn land of Katoki in search of a neurosurgeon from the cyberpunk country of Dogon. In the frozen tundra of Devara, Nadier the dark elf travels north on a journey to find the last of his people. ![]() ![]() Consisting of 3 books set across the hard fantasy world of Tearha, The Three Fates brings the first half of the epic chronicle together. ![]() ![]() Award and was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award. Her two-volume series The Orphan's Tales won the 2008 Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, won the 2006 James Tiptree Jr. ![]() Valente's 2009 book Palimpsest won the Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction or Fantasy. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities as well as in numerous essay collections. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous "Year's Best" volumes. For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual James Tiptree, Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy awards. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. ![]() ![]() Award (2006), storySouth Million Writers Award (2007), Rhysling Award (2007), Mythopoeic Award (2008), Andre Norton Award (2009), Locus Award (2014)Ĭatherynne M. ![]() |