![]() ![]() ![]() Parents and children alike can share and enjoy one of rock’s greatest hits through the colorful pages of Good Vibrations. With lyrics by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, and illustrations by Paul Hoppe, this picture book follows a girl and her dog as they make their way down to the beach, sharing good vibrations all along the way. Often praised as one of the most important compositions in rock, the Beach Boys’ original version of this song was their third number one Billboard hit. The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations is performed by Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, John Stamos and touring band members on All Together Now Telethon. Good Vibrations is a lively picture book based on Mike Love and Brian Wilson’s number one hit about absorbing positive energy from the people around them. Authors: Author: Mike Love & Brian Wilson ![]()
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![]() The factory employed hundreds of workers, mostly young and impoverished women. Frances Perkins happened to stumble upon the horrific scene. On Mathe notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred in New York City. She visited factories, interviewed workers and took notes on their wages, hours, and working conditions and learned the cold-hard facts of industrial life. Although she majored in both chemistry and physics, Perkins was always fascinated by her economics electives and began developing the necessary tools that she later would need as Secretary of Labor. Lyon’s empowering adage to the young ladies at Mount Holyoke was: “Go Forward, attempt great things, accomplish great things” (Downey 11). Foundations in Economics and Laborīorn in Boston to well-educated parents on April 10, 1880, Frances Perkins attended the women’s college Mount Holyoke, founded by Mary Lyon, a pioneer in women’s education. Roosevelt Presidential Library honors Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To commemorate Women’s History Month, the Franklin D. Honoring the Achievements of FDR’s Secretary of Laborīy Jessica Breitman, SUNY New Paltz, FDR Library Intern ![]() ![]() ![]() These works span Austen’s creative years, from the 1790s when she was still a teenager, to a few months before she died at 41, so they cast a unique light on her creative processes from the beginning to the end of her writing career. Most interesting of these manuscripts are three novels (one complete fair copy and two unfinished drafts): ‘Lady Susan’, ‘The Watsons’ and ‘Sanditon’. in April 1809 about Susan, an early version of Northanger Abbey which Crosby had accepted in 1803 but had not published, she offered to supply another copy of. In contrast, Jane Austen and her family were tenacious in preserving those works which existed in manuscript but which were never published: among them, her Juvenilia, neatly copied into three notebooks, the ‘Plan of a Novel’ and a large number of miscellaneous poems. So we can assume that she kept copies and that these were jettisoned once the novels appeared in print. in April 1809 about ‘Susan’, an early version of Northanger Abbey which Crosby had accepted in 1803 but had not published, she offered to supply another copy of the manuscript. Yet she seems to have kept copies of the versions she sent to publishers: when she wrote to Crosby and Co. ![]() With the exception of the cancelled chapters of Persuasion, nothing remains of the manuscripts of Austen’s published novels. ![]() ![]() The gray warrior is shocked, but manages to meow that they're losing the fight and need Bluestar's help. Graystripe pokes his head into the den, and Fireheart quickly recounts what had just happened. The ThunderClan leader slowly moves over to the pair, pinning her treacherous deputy by his hindquarters. He then fastens his teeth in Tigerclaw's throat, calling for Bluestar to help hold the traitor down. ![]() ![]() Fireheart sees the deputy slip on a splash of blood, and seizes the opportunity to slice the dark tabby's belly open. They tussle together in the den, and Tigerclaw taunts that he's a kittypet, and aims a blow at the ginger warrior. Fireheart feels oddly free in spite of this, and summons every scrap of skill he possesses because now every secret was in the open - which only left the clean danger of battle. Tigerclaw releases his grip on Bluestar and growls that he's going to flay the ginger warrior. ![]() Fireheart yowls at the dark tabby that he's a traitor, and flings himself at the deputy. He sees that Tigerclaw has the ThunderClan leader pinned down, and although the blue-gray she-cat fights back, she is unable to break free. Chapter description Fireheart springs forward and bursts through the lichen that shields Bluestar's den. ![]() ![]() The truth is that Tom Banner has alienated his family with his explosive, argumentative temper. The story is called Thanksgiving and details the tensions the Banner household suffers when it becomes apparent that the family dinner, planned with eight relatives in mind, falls apart as one by one, brothers, sisters and in-laws cancel the visit with feeble excuses. Bruce Banner, an 11 year old in 1950, is represented as the full grown, seven foot Hulk throughout this fantasy. II veteran, turned on his family for the final irrevocable time.Įmploying a battered and disconsolate childhood as the springboard for the modern-day Bruce Banner’s anti-social and violent attitudes, the story explores the damage caused by mismatched parenthood and effects of the Second World War on the heart and mind of the veteran Tom Banner. Thanksgiving Day 1950 was the day when his father, Tom Banner, a recent and embittered W.W. In a mannered fantasy – Twilight Zone – tradition, The Hulk, when entering an abandoned house in refuge from a pressing military attack, relives the last days in his childhood home. The Hulk relives a particularly harrowing day in his past.This is the story of Banner’s working-class, middle American childhood. Plot centers around Bruce Banner’s childhood. ![]() : īarry Winsdsor-Smith discussed his July 1984 pitch for a Hulk one-shot story with Comic Book Artist. ![]() Now, the question becomes, of course, whose idea was it to do that story? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the simple energies that made these words flow through my pen-that made the phrases felicitous and the ideas sing-have gone. Reading these stories over, I feel a little of both. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present. We are all our own graveyards I believe we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. I look at these pieces and I don't think the man who wrote them is alive in me anymore. Reflecting back after 14 years, Barker writes: For those who already know these tales, the poignant introduction is a window on the creator's mind. "Everybody is a book of blood wherever we're opened, we're red." For those who only know Clive Barker through his long multigenre novels, this complete edition of the Books of Blood is a welcome chance to acquire all six volumes and 30 remarkable horror short stories written by the British author Clive Barker. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also ensured that the books were shelved near those of Brian Jacques, an author that the writers, collectively known as "the Erins", liked. Victoria Holmes chose the name Erin because she liked the name, and Hunter because it matched the theme of feral cats. The pseudonym is used so that the individual novels in the series would not be shelved in different places in libraries. ![]() The series was written by Erin Hunter, a pseudonym used by authors Cherith Baldry, Kate Cary, Tui Sutherland, and series editor Victoria Holmes. ![]() Though the novels have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and have been nominated for several awards, none of the novels in Warriors: The New Prophecy has won a significant literary award. The arc's major themes deal with forbidden love, the concept of nature versus nurture, and characters being a mix of good and bad. The New Prophecy details the Clans' journey to a new home when humans (called Twolegs by the Clans) destroy their original territories. The novels are published by HarperCollins under the pseudonym Erin Hunter, which refers to authors Kate Cary and Cherith Baldry and plot developer/editor Victoria Holmes. The arc comprises six novels which were published from 2005 to 2006: Midnight, Moonrise, Dawn, Starlight, Twilight, and Sunset. Warriors: The New Prophecy is the second arc in the Warriors juvenile fantasy novel series about cats, who live in four established clans and follow a code to keep the peace between them from breaking apart completely. ![]() ![]() ![]() What she doesn’t foresee is that her ex, Joe has returned to the village from America after nine years away. Although Lottie is aware her cooking and entertainment skills will never match her beloved grandmother’s she gives it her best shot. Most of them aren’t that keen but she’s determined they will hold their festivities at the place where they’ve always celebrated them before the manor is lost to them forever. Lottie is devastated to lose the one person she can rely upon to be there for her and when she discovers that her Nana’s home, Henbourne Manor is up for sale, she invites her family to join her for one last family Christmas. Lottie’s Nana Rose dies a couple of weeks before Christmas leaving each member of her family with a Christmas card and a note from her giving some of her sage advice. The tagline on the cover for One Family Christmas asks ‘What’s Christmas without a little chaos?’ and in this hilarious, heartfelt novel, Bella Osborne depicts a Christmas that readers will thoroughly enjoy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To Jenkins' Spoiler-Laden Guide to Isaac Asimovģ The Stars, Like Dust- (Tyrann) Doubleday 1951ĥ David Starr, Space Ranger Doubleday 1952Ħ Foundation and Empire Gnome Press 1952Ĩ Biochemistry and Human Metabolism Williams & Wilkins 1952ġ2 Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus Doubleday 1954 Notes are delimited by numbers in brackets, and follow at theĮnd. Of a title, which is why there is not a strict progression in the year of Note that there was often a delay between the completion and the publication After that the titles appear in roughly the order they were written, although this is an educated guess. The numbering was provided by Asimov (except for a few marked with an asterisk). Here's my list of Isaac Asimov's book titles. ![]() ![]() Many Christian readers will recoil in horror at Mr. Because that is what Pullman’s Jesus undoubtedly is.” -Rowan Williams, The Guardian (UK) introducing something quite different, a voice of genuine spiritual authority. ![]() A very bold and deliberately outrageous fable. ![]() “ Pullman at his very best, limpid and economical. “Turns a gaze on the Jewish prophet from Nazareth that is both satirical and serious, blending canonical gospel, ancient Apocrypha, modern critical commentary, and the wit and subtle invention of a great storyteller.” -Diarmaid MacCulloch, Literary Review (UK) there are moments of heart-rending personal drama.” -Nicholas Tucker, Independent on Sunday “Pullman has an extraordinary imagination. “Beautifully written, human, memorable, and resonant.” -Philip Hensher, The Australian “The erudite fantasy author Philip Pullman makes explicit his complaint against Christian dogma with challenging deconstruction of the Gospels.” -Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly ![]() |