![]() ![]() First book, A Different Pond received multiple awards, including the Caldecott Award, Charlotte Zolotow Award, the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature for best picture book, the Minnesota Book Award for picture books. He has written three children’s books published by Capstone Press. Bao Phi's collection of poems, Sông I Sing, was published in 2011 and, Thousand Star Hotel, was published in 2017 by Coffee House Press. ![]() Bao Phi is a Vietnamese-American spoken word artist, writer and community activist living in Minnesota. ![]() Bao Phi's collection of poems, Sông I Sing, was published in 2011 and, Thousand Star Hotel, was published in 2017 by Coffee House Press. Phi's vivid writing (a cardinal 'could fly away into the giant pane of sky') and charming illustrations by Polish-Vietnamese illustrator Basia Tran, make this a book that children will want to reread.- 'Star Tribune' Minnesota author Bao Phi tells the tale of Thuy, who suffers schoolyard taunts about her Vietnamese heritage - and her two mothers. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() Freeway,' ' She Ain't Going Nowhere,' and ' Texas 1947,' Clark's poetic mastery has given voice to a vision of life, love, and trouble that has resonated not only with fans of Americana music, but also with the prominent artistsincluding Johnny Cash, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Jeff Walker, and otherswho have recorded and performed Clark's music. In songs like ' Desperados Waiting for a Train,' L.A. He has served as model, mentor, supporter, and friend to at least two generations of the world's most talented and influential singer-songwriters. His lyrics and melodies paint indelible portraits of the people, places, and experiences that shaped him. ![]() Winner, 2016 the Belmont Book Award, Sponsored by the International Country Music Conference For more than forty years, Guy Clark wrote and recorded unforgettable songs. ![]() ![]() Kids love Ping - perhaps there's a little rebellious "Ping" in every child. He returns home the next day, a wiser duck. His misadventures include being captured and almost ending his days as someone's dinner. He soon discovers it's not a good idea to get oneself lost and all alone in the middle of the night on a big river. But one day, he's a little late getting home and decides to stay out for the night - to avoid getting punished, since the last duck to get in, gets a spanking from the boat master. Then, at sunset, he returns to his boat home, together with the other ducks. ![]() ![]() Ping spends his days on the Yangtze River, looking for pleasant things to eat. This story about Ping, a little yellow duck who lives on a boat on the Yangtze River in China, has remained one of the most popular children's books ever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The deep dive into character is abandoned for a more impressionistic styleīut while the breadth of French Braid is to be commended, the depth of experience doesn't quite match. This scope offers much for the reader, not least varying perspectives within one family on seminal moments (a summer holiday the last child leaving for college a surprise 50th-anniversary party) and on the smaller, seemingly insignificant things that can, as another great chronicler of American lives, Mary Gaitskill, has written, "sit oddly close to a person's heart, and sometimes press against it painfully". The Garretts are classic Tyler: a functioning-not-functioning clan, whose lives are deftly rendered on a broad canvas that gives the outline of multiple generations. As with these titles, French Braid charts the experiences of one family over decades, in this case from the 1950s to the present troubled times of the pandemic. ![]() ![]() At first glance, Anne Tyler’s new novel is a return to the formula that won her critical and commercial acclaim for novels such as Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Amateur Marriage and the Booker-shortlisted A Spool of Blue Thread. ![]() ![]() ![]() Para obtener más información sobre cómo y para qué fines Amazon utiliza la información personal (como el historial de pedidos de Amazon Store), visita nuestro Aviso de privacidad. Para ello, visita Preferencias de cookies, tal y como se describe en el Aviso de cookies. ![]() Puedes cambiar de opinión en cualquier momento. Haz clic en “Personalizar cookies” para rechazar estas cookies, tomar decisiones más detalladas u obtener más información. 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Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. ![]() ![]() ![]() He pioneered a painterly approach to color photography in the 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. ![]() ![]() It is edited by Margit Erb and Michael Parillo of the Saul Leiter Foundation, and is embellished with texts that describe how Leiter assembled his slide archive and how it is being catalogued and restored.Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. His studio in the East Village, where he lived from 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation, which has commenced a full-scale survey of his more than 80, 000 works.This volume contains works discovered through this project-specifically, color photography from slides never before published or seen by the public. ![]() Choosing to shoot in color when black and white was the norm, Leiter portrayed midcentury New York's street life with a gorgeous painterliness that evoked the sensuality of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries Rothko and Newman. A thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneering painterly visionNow firmly established as one of the world's greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of Saul Leiter: Early Color, when he was already in his eighties. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unsure what else to do about it, I’ve written this book. 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From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society.īlythe Roberson’s sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, we’ll gain fresh, funny, inspiring wisdom on the toughest issues we face every day. We will be perfect, and all our friends will be jealous. ![]() By the time the book is done, we’ll know exactly how to act in every conceivable situation, so as to produce a verifiably maximal amount of moral good. Such as: Can I still enjoy great art if it was created by terrible people? How much money should I give to charity? Why bother being good at all when there are no consequences for being bad? And much more. Schur starts off with easy ethical questions like “Should I punch my friend in the face for no reason?” (No.) and works his way up to the most complex moral issues we all face. With bright wit and deep insight, How to Be Perfect explains concepts like deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism, ubuntu, and more so we can sound cool at parties and become better people. ![]() Fortunately, many smart philosophers have been pondering this conundrum for millennia and they have guidance for us. Most people think of themselves as “good,” but it’s not always easy to determine what’s “good” or “bad”-especially in a world filled with complicated choices and pitfalls and booby traps and bad advice. From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,400 years of deep thinking from around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Constitution and the founders' intent behind each clause Where the founding fathers discovered the principles of self-governance.Whether you use these materials on an individual basis or in a group setting, they will enable you to gain an in-depth understanding of. This guide contains 31 outlines that you can use either as a personal study syllabus or as a guide to enjoyable monthly discussions with family members, friends, and neighbors. The combined knowledge of these two books form a deeper and more complete understanding of what individuals, communities and nations must do to be free. ![]() The Making of America, unfolds the surprising background and the original meaning of the federal Constitution and shows how the founders used these concepts to produce the strongest, most prosperous nation on earth. The 5000 Year Leap, discusses the political, economic, and social principles that every civilization must follow in order to be free. This discussion guide facilitates the joint study of The 5000 Year Leap & The Making of America. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is not only trying to solve a murder case. However the main reason to read this book is the strong lead of Chief Inspector Armond Gamache. The story of the Dionne quintuplets and how the Canadian government took them over is intriguing in itself. The murder mystery is a mash up on probably the most famous true story to come out of this area of Canada, the Dionne quintuplets. As it turns out, ‘How the Light Gets In’ is an excellent book of fiction regardless of category.įirst, this novel has several eccentric colorful characters and an exotic location in the small (fictional?) town of Three Pines in French-speaking Quebec. When I saw that the mystery ‘How the Light Gets In’ was appearing on many of the lists for Best Fiction of 2013, I decided this was a novel I would read. ![]() I don’t read a lot of mysteries, but I keep my eyes and ears open for superior books of any genre. “There’s a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in” – ‘Anthem’ by Leonard Cohen ![]() ‘How the Light Gets In’ by Louise Penny (2013) – 404 pages ![]() |