![]() Her next book draws on the far-seeing ideas of labor thinkers of the past to help us reimagine a fairer, more inclusive America.Ĭobble grew up in a blue-collar family in Atlanta in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() Her most recent book, For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality, reveals the grit, courage, and wisdom of the women who led the fight for economic justice and social democracy in the United States and abroad. A distinguished professor emerita of history and labor studies at Rutgers University, she is the author of multiple prize-winning books, including Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (1991), The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (2005), and T he Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (2007). ![]() Dorothy Sue Cobble is an American historian, and a specialist in the study of work, social movements, and social policy. ![]()
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![]() When Kafka listens to the song, he feels as if it reminds him of a forgotten time, and that it speaks directly to him. ![]() The song “Kafka on the Shore” was written by Miss Saeki in her youth as an embodiment of her young love for her boyfriend. Murakami shows that music can preserve and recreate intense emotions from the past. In this novel, Murakami shows that music has the power to do more than simply inspire emotion-it can also lead to deep self-reflection, and help characters to think about the very nature of life and death. Characters share music with each other as an act of trust, and struggle to put their intimate feelings about music into words. At various moments, Murakami depicts characters who feel profoundly touched by subtle elements of music, from unusual pairings of chords and evocative lyrics to artful handling of imperfections in performance. ![]() Music appears often in Kafka on the Shore as a powerful force for triggering introspection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() About his memories of childhood reading, Zelinsky has said: "Feelings come to me as a sort of flavor. Influential early childhood books included The Color Kittens, and The Tawny Scrawny Lion. When he was only four, he submitted work to Highlights magazine, and this is when his artwork was first showcased. With his friends, he would make up imaginary worlds, and draw them. As a child, he spent much of his time drawing. ![]() Zelinsky was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in Wilmette. "Books are considered not only for the quality of their illustrations, but for the way pictures and text work together." Biography Early life Twenty years later, they were joint runners-up for the Phoenix Picture Book Award from the Children's Literature Association, which annually recognizes the best picture book that did not win a major award 20 years earlier. ![]() Zelinsky had been runner-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1985, 1987, and 1995, the latter for Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs ( Dutton, 1994). His most popular work is Wheels On the Bus, a best-selling movable book. Zelinsky (born 1953) is an American illustrator and writer who illustrated children's picture books. JSTOR ( July 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() With the help of the new cop in town, an old friend who’s always been convinced of his innocence in Ellie’s death, the local principal, and a gruff but kindly bartender, Aaron faces the ghosts of the past convinced of his guilt in Ellie’s death and the reality of Luke’s untimely death. In the aftermath of the funeral, Luke’s mother asks Aaron to take a closer look at the deaths to see if anything will exonerate her son. He wouldn’t have, except that Luke’s father knows a secret – Luke and Aaron lied about their alibis for the night that Ellie died. ![]() Aaron returns to his hometown for the first time since then for the funerals of his best friend, Luke, and his wife and daughter in a gruesome murder-suicide. ![]() Short synopsis: Twenty years ago, Aaron Falk and his father were driven out of town after being suspected in the death of Aaron’s friend, 17-year-old Ellie. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is lonely, haunted, anxiety-ridden, defeated, jealous, envious, hateful, destructive, delusional- racist? Lovers of ‘the unreliable -almost mad- narrator’ will have a field day with this book, June Hayward is complex, messy and often anger-inducing giving us that blunt dark humour that has you reminding yourself ‘this is satirical, this is satirical, omg how do I crawl into this book and beat this white girl’s ass!’. Yellowface has an entirely different feel, written in first person present tense, it presents us with an intimate character study of our protagonist June Hayward, an unsuccessful young white writer whose frustrations in life (the relatable and the downright outrageous), are front and centre in the whole narrative. ![]() Kuang fan, anything she’s written before! Kuang has jumped from fantasy/ alternate history to a satirical suspenseful contemporary fiction, across her past works (The Poppy War trilogy and Babel) she leads us through plot-heavy books with intricate worlds woven with exciting themes, all viewed through the distanced lens of the third person perspective, allowing us readers to speculate on what really is going on in the heads of our protagonists. Yellowface is so different from any book I’ve read, and speaking as an R.F. ![]() ![]() ![]() Under the guidance of William Stipp and James Blevens-two surgeons who fall unwittingly in love with Mary's courage, will, and stubbornness in the face of suffering-and resisting her mother's pleas to return home to help with the birth of her twin sister's baby, Mary pursues her medical career in the desperately overwhelmed hospitals of the capital. ![]() to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine-and eager to run away from her recent heartbreak- Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C. In this stunning first novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. An enthralling historical novel about a young woman's struggle to become a doctor during the Civil War ![]() |