5/30/2023 0 Comments Ian falconer![]() I miss him so much.“ – JEFFREY WHITTY, NYC Ian Falconer: Painter, Designer, Illustrator and Author I can’t imagine why anyone would want to do THAT.’ Ian grumbled, gesturing toward the grim hospital room, making the nurse and his cousin laugh really hard. The windows are sealed to keep people from jumping.’ ![]() Ian asked the nurse if he could open a window to smoke. In his last hours before slipping into unconsciousness, his visiting cousin brought Ian some cannabis for his pain. I always thought we’d grow up to be fussy old queens together. We became dear friends in the coming years. I first met Ian 30 years ago when I was a waiter at Joe Allen. ![]() I flew to Connecticut on Saturday night to keep vigil with his incredible family.įor those who don’t know Ian, you may recognize his remarkable body of work. Ian Falconer died at midnight of natural causes at age 63. Avenue Q playwright, Jeffrey Whitty wrote this obit for his dear friend, beloved Olivia book illustrator, Ian Falconer. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian![]() ![]() But when his parents discover his involvement in the country’s burgeoning revolution, they send him to safety in America, a country Saeed despises. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself.ġ978. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and Darius the Great Is Not Okay.Ģ019. Perfect f From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. Enter to win a copy!įrom the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. A sweeping story of boys in the same Iranian family, examining the intersection of American, Iranian, and queer identity. ![]() ![]() Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. ![]() In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. It's the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."ĭemon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. ![]() ![]() Like Wild Trek, My Side of the Mountain is about someone living off the land, all alone – a topic that has always fascinated me, and continues to do so. Another beloved classic from that stack was the first book in this series, My Side of the Mountain. Some of them, like Jim Kjelgaard’s Wild Trek, went on to become lifelong favorites. When I was a kid, I found some of my dad’s childhood books stuck in a closet in his old bedroom at my grandparents’ house. Frightful’s Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel (2007) (picture book). ![]() Frightful’s Daughter (2002) (picture book).The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews// Pargeter, Edith (also writing as Ellis Peters).Mertz, Barbara (also writing as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels).Christie, Agatha (also writing as Mary Westmacott). ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The third hotel laura van den berg![]() ![]() She imagined bumping into someone she had known in upstate New York, in her former life. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way.Ī simple question and yet she could not find a simple answer. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. ![]() Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death―and the truth about their marriage. The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel and a surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments A woman is no man author![]() ![]() Iran successfully tests home- made rocket with thermobaric warheadĪs voices continue to emerge within the tradition of Anglo-Arab fictions, one constant within these narratives is the conversation surrounding the negotiation of identities between one's traditional culture vis-à-vis a Western one. Hamas condemns holding biblical lessons at Al Aqsa Mosque Legal expert suggests three charges against Jordan lawmaker held in gun-running case ![]() Tunisia security forces continue detention of Ennahda's Sahbi Atigue, after banning him from travel Saudi Arabia pledges $100 million in aid to Sudan PA escalates its campaign against Palestinian resistance in West Bank Israeli settlers set up new illegal outpost northeast of Jerusalem Israeli Jewish settlers attack Palestinian farmers in West Bank villagesĪlgeria: We hope to achieve progress in the memory file with France 'without concessions'ĮU rejects Ben-Gvir's participation in Europe Day ceremony ![]() ![]() Israel government facilitates settler killing of Palestinians in Israel Palestinians rebuild school after it was demolished by Israel Turkish FM attacks The Economist for editorial criticising Erdogan Egyptian parliamentarian praises Assad regime's return to Arab League ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Economic Thought by Heinz D. Kurz![]() Early economic thought was “fairly unsystematic … and oriented towards prescription” (p 5) hence their focus on topics such as “just price” and “just taxation” (p 10). The ancient clay tablets, as Kurz notes, “are perhaps the first national income account in human history” (p 6). ![]() Heinz D Kurz’s Economic Thought: A Brief History is a welcome addition to this list.Ĭhapter 1 covers early economic thought in brief-economic observations by the ancients, scholastics, and mercantilists. ![]() Over the last two decades, several good books have been written on the history of economic thought such as Vaggi and Groenewegen’s A Concise History of Economic Thought (2003), Roncaglia’s The Wealth of Ideas (2005), Ernesto and Zamagni’s An Outline of the History of Economic Thought (2005), and Sandelin, Trautwein, and Wundrak’s third edition of A Short History of Economic Thought (2015). ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Richard morgan the steel remains![]() ![]() Called upon by an Empire that owes them everything and gave them nothing. ![]() ![]() Anti-social, anti-heroic, and decidedly irritated, all three of them are about to be sent unwillingly forth into a vicious, vigorous and thoroughly unsuspecting fantasy world. Morgan 16,215 ratings, 3.74 average rating, 1,375 reviews Open Preview The Steel Remains Quotes Showing 1-30 of 46 When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. But out in the wider world there is something on the move far more alien than any of his tribe’s petty gods. ![]() Egar Dragonbane, steppe-nomad, one-time fighter for the Empire finds himself entangled in a small-town battle between common sense and religious fervour. Archeth — pragmatist, cynic and engineer, the last of her race — is called from her work at the whim of the most powerful man in the Empire and sent to its farthest reaches to investigate a demonic incursion against the Empire’s borders. Morgan 3.7 (55) Paperback 17.00 Paperback 17.00 eBook 12.99 Audiobook 0. Where he will discover a secret infinitely more frightening than the trade in livesВ .В .В . 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5/29/2023 0 Comments Corruption by John O'Riley![]() Strategies which are undertaken in order to counter corruption are often summarized under the umbrella term anti-corruption. ![]() Each individual nation allocates domestic resources for the control and regulation of corruption and the deterrence of crime. Recent data suggests corruption is on the rise. Ĭorruption and crime are endemic sociological occurrences which appear with regular frequency in virtually all countries on a global scale in varying degrees and proportions. Corruption is most common in kleptocracies, oligarchies, narco-states, and mafia states. Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts with an official capacity for personal gain. ![]() Corruption may involve many activities which include bribery, influence peddling and the embezzlement and it may also involve practices which are legal in many countries. Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. ![]() |