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JANE AUSTEN LADY

6/29/2023

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She also has the same shy personality but is slightly older and more sensible
and she would never run away. Frederica is much like Fanny Price, the heroine of
Mansfield Park, who loves Edmund but is not aware of her love for him and only
loves him as a brother although he is her cousin. Reginald is also similar in a
way to Edmund Bertram, who is not as naïve as Reginald but still loves a totally
suitable woman. I like this novel because it has elements of later novels – Lady
Susan is very like the witty coquettish Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park. It is
hinted at the end that Reginald will marry Frederica and that she lives with her
uncle and his family, therefore escaping her mother’s control. However after
some explanation as to what Lady Susan is really like he begins to fall out of
love with her and (spoiler alert!) Lady Susan ironically marries Sir James.
Frederica soon falls for Reginald, who does not return her feelings as he is so
besotted with Lady Susan. They are much kinder to her than Lady Susan but Lady
Susan still tries to make her marry Sir James. She is caught and goes to stay
with Lady Susan’s brother, whose family adore her.












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THE TEST BY STACIE JOHNSON

6/29/2023

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It’s a familiar tool in handling holiday weekends, though it has been criticized
for hurting police morale. He’s beefing up police presence across the city by
requiring officers to give up a day off this weekend. Like the mayors before
him, Johnson has pulled together a plan he hopes will work to stop violence
before it starts. “It’s going to take all of us, not just the police, not just
city government, to ensure that our communities can live and thrive in peace and
safety,” Johnson said Thursday at a press conference in the summer sunshine at
63rd Street Beach. The most pressing tradition: Handling the violence that’s
expected to erupt with the first summer holiday weekend of the year.

It’s Memorial Day weekend, and Mayor Brandon Johnson would like to call
attention to all the traditions that come with that, from reopening beaches
along Lake Michigan to the fireworks at Navy Pier or a downtown parade. | Screen
shot from Mayor's Office social media Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson lays out his
safety plan for the Memorial Day holiday during a press conference at 63rd
Street Beach on Thursday, May 25, 2023.
























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TIME WINDOWS BY KATHRYN REISS

6/29/2023

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LeGuin's adult novel The Lathe of Heaven (Bentley, 1982) all create more complex
characters while facing the philosophical implications of changing the past. Pam
Conrad's Stonewords (HarperCollins, 1990), Eleanor Cameron's The Court of the
Stone Children (Dutton, 1973), Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock
(Greenwillow, 1984), and Ursula K. Is she caricature or character? How and why
does she influence the other characters? Also, a love interest between Miranda
and the boy across the street occurs with implausible ease. Readers are never
sure whether she is an archetypal figure of pure evil or a strong-willed woman
declaring her independence from a narrow, repressive husband. Although the book
raises profound philosophic questions and deals with strong passions, its style,
characterization, and emotional trajectory do not match its potential.

In a page-turning climax, Miranda realizes that only she can save her mother
from madness by rescuing Dorothy and changing the past.

Her malignant influence soon begins to work on Miranda's mother. In 1904,
Lucinda locked her young daughter, Dorothy, in the attic and left her stuffy
husband to run away with a lover, and then was killed in a train wreck. She
discovers that her new home is haunted by beautiful, angry, abusive Lucinda.
Grade 5-9- Moving from New York City to an old house near Boston, Miranda, 14,
becomes obsessed with what she sees through the windows of a dollhouse she finds
in the attic.


















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GEORGE TAKEI GRAPHIC NOVEL

6/29/2023

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In a stunning graphic memoir, actor/author/activist George Takei revisits his
haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese
Americans imprisoned by the U.S. Selected by many community reading programs,
including the LA Times Book Club - check out their discussion guide!ĭownload the
official Teacher's Guide developed by the Japanese American National Museum!
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Amazon, NPR, New York Public Library,
School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, IGN, and Forbes!
Nominated for Arkansas' Teen Book Award, Illinois' Abraham Lincoln Award,
Indiana's Eliot Rosewater Award, Maine's North Star Award, and Rhode Island's
Teen Book Award!

One of YALSA's Top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens!įeatured in the Texas
Library Association's Maverick, Topaz, and Tayshas Reading Lists! Winner of the
BookPal "Outstanding Work of Literature" Award for Biography & Memoir! Winner of
the Mike Wieringo Award for Best Non-Fiction Comic Work! Winner of the Dwayne
McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics! Winner of the National Cartoonists
Society Award for Excellence in Graphic Novels!

Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature! Winner of
the Will Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work! An ALA Notable Children's
Book for Older Readers!






















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BUTTER BY ERIN JADE LANGE

6/29/2023

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Agent: Jennifer Laughran, Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Layered supporting
characters (readers will empathize with Anna, who suffers her own humiliation as
a result of Butter's dishonesty) provide the novel the depth that the timely
subject matter deserves. Even at the height of Butter's mistreatment, his
despair doesn't overshadow his awareness of the world's beauty. Butter by Erin
Jade Lange was a spectacular book in its own way, The entire book kept me
extremely interested by the main character’s attitude towards life and his daily
struggle of being obese. Lange's emotionally expansive first novel is dark,
funny, painful, and powerful. As the days count down, Butter has to choose
between social and actual suicide.

However, Butter's Web site, where students suggest foods to add to his last
meal, brings him instant popularity and reasons to live. It's the same night
that he's agreed to reveal himself to Anna, his chat-room crush although they
know each other from school, he has lied to her about his identity.

Bullying incidents and being voted "most likely to have a heart attack" spark
Butter's plan to commit suicide live online on New Year's Eve. Despite his sense
of humor and musical talent, his classmates and parents can't see beyond his
weight, and he's feeling the same way. At 423 pounds, 16-year-old "Butter" is
sinking, both mentally and physically.


















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BENJAMIN KEREI BOOK 3

6/29/2023

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There is just one small problem: farmers don't gain experience from killing
monsters. Now stuck on a new earth, in a new universe, with no way home, Arnold
must use his gaming skills to figure out how to level his farmer class to 100
and gain a second class which doesn't make him want to beat his head against the
wall. That standard procedure doesn't apply to Arnold. It could be a bad joke,
but apparently, it happens so often that they have a standard procedure for
returning you. He’s certainly not the chosen one who is there to save the world.

What do you have when you blend a pinch of litrpg, a touch of farming simulator,
a sprinkle of epic fantasy, a whole cup of Isekai, and a dash of Home
Alone?Īccidentally murdered by a cleric in another universe during a botched
resurrection, Arnold, a semi-pro gamer, wakes upon an altar to find himself
incarnated into the overweight body of a farmer who could have been his fatter
twin.
















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ELIZABETH STROUT LUCY BARTON BOOKS

6/29/2023

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As William drives her off to Maine, we are immediately returned to the drama of
those early dark unvaccinated days when frightened people, happily or not, were
confined at close quarters for an unknown quantity of time. Of course, a large
part of the fascination lies in the fact that this isn’t just Lucy’s recent past
but our own too. Indeed it’s a truly monumental piece of work – one that you
can’t help feeling deserves a less mischievously banal title (can you imagine a
male writer calling a book Lucy By the Sea?). Strout isn’t the first writer to
go there, but she certainly makes magnificent and thrilling use of it in this,
her most nuanced – and intensely moving – Lucy Barton novel yet.

The disarming situation described at the opening of Elizabeth Strout’s new novel
might seem fantastical, the stuff of a million post-apocalyptic movies, were it
not for the fact that every single one of us has recently lived through it.


























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HAIR LOVE BY MATTHEW A CHERRY

6/29/2023

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The animators have used both color and movement to the benefit of the story and
thus, a coloring book like palette comes alive on the screen seamlessly.
Hilarity ensues as Zuri’s hair and Zuri’s father engage in a battle of wits and
perseverance to see who comes out on top.Ī particular aspect that we loved about
Hair Love is that its animation has a very hand-drawn feel to it and thus, the
whole story feels very lively and vibrant. The father, who hasn’t done such a
thing before, is obviously hesitant but puts his apprehensions aside to please
his daughter and do the best he can. Little Zuri has an Afro that is truly
unruly and Zuri wants her father to tend to her hair, just like her mom used to.
The film won the Oscar for the Best Animated Short at the 2020 Academy Awards.

Smith Hair Love is a 2019 animated short that follows the difficulties a young
man encounters in doing his daughter’s hair for the first time. Cherry, Everett
Downing Jr., and Bruce W.














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FAULKNER AUGUST

6/29/2023

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which centers around Lena Grove, a pregnant woman who is travelling from town to
town in search of the father of her illegitimate unborn child, and Joe
Christmas, a troubled, violent man whose mixed-race heritage has seen him
ostracised from every community he has ever encountered. With Percy Grimm,
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DRY BY AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS

6/28/2023

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She would ultimately discover that her parents, herself, and her four sisters
and one brother, renamed the Finches, were actually a major focus of the book.
It was then that she got her first inkling that it contained enormous amounts of
information about her family. Her curiosity piqued, she went in search of the
book on the Internet. Carolyn See, writing in The Washington Post, suggested
that his book might well be the best modern memoir ever, and it hit the New York
Times best-seller list shortly after it was published. Critics all over the
country were hailing Burroughs as a genius. She also says she knew of
Burroughs's obsession with fame back in those days, so she assumed that the
success of the book, a memoir called Running with Scissors, must have made him
especially pleased. It was no secret, to either Theresa or her family, that
parts of his childhood had been wrenchingly difficult, that he had been caught
in the middle of his parents' volatile marriage and subsequent divorce. They had
grown up together as teenagers in western Massachusetts, in the 1970s and 80s,
and Burroughs had spent a great deal of time at her family's house. In the
summer of 2002, when Theresa Turcotte found out that Augusten Burroughs had
written a book that was already a best-seller, she was happy for him.






















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