![]() ![]() ![]() Now, a new exhibit encompassing three galleries at Stockbridge’s Norman Rockwell Museum captures her illustrations as well as the paperwork, images and artifacts that brought the book to life. She is perhaps best known for her autobiographical 288-page innovative, scrapbook-style “Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home.” With her drawings juxtaposed with family photographs, as well as documents and wartime snapshots, the book defines Krug’s search to determine the involvement of her forebears during the Nazi regime. ![]() The German expatriate, a professor at New York’s Parsons School of Design, has written and created art for three books and provided drawings for as many more for other writers. STOCKBRIDGE - Discovering the works of illustrator and author Nora Krug is an enlightening revelation. ![]()
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![]() This book has been in print for almost 400 years! Today it is even available as an e-book. Not something we would normally offer, but on the other hand probably the rarest, most valuable title we have ever had the opportunity to offer to our clients. His poems about the Eucharist and holy baptism are not only general theological explorations of the sacraments but also the poet's expression of the struggles of his own flesh to be reconciled to God.ġst edition, Cambridge, Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel 1633 Herbert's poetry is at once personal and confessional. The themes of God and love are treated by Herbert as psychological forces as much asmetaphysical phenomena. The book went through eleven editions by 1695 and The Temple has become the best-known religious poem in the English language. The Temple, actually a sequence of poems, imitate the architectural style of churches through both the meaning of the words and their visual layout. In 1633 all of Herbert's English poems were published in The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, with a preface by Nicholas Ferrar. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, in the second part of the book, Lencioni elaborates on each dysfunction and gives actionable steps to counter them as they come up. Knowing the dysfunctions is only half the battle. You may recognize some of your own colleagues (and even yourself!) falling into these traps. ![]() What struck me most was how realistic the situations in the story played out. To illustrate these points, the first part of the book is devoted to a fictional tale involving Kathryn, a newly hired CEO of a Silicon Valley company that has major teamwork issues.Īs you read through the story, you can see how easily any one of the dysfunctions can make a real mess of things. Unfortunately, according to Lencioni, there are five things that can get in the way of this communication, which can then undermine the team: To work effectively as a team, you have to have proper communication and understanding between members in order to keep the end goal a top priority. ![]() The factors that can derail a team is the subject of Patrick Lencioni’s book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Similarly, in business, people in leadership positions need to understand the dynamics of a good team, and more importantly, what can derail good teams, and how to get them back on track. ![]() ![]() I have held them for twenty-six years with only a vague thought of having them published "some day" because of their great and intimate value to my personally. ![]() The poems were scribbled - sometimes in ink, sometimes in pencil - very carelessly on the first pieces of paper that came to hand - sugar bags, the back of bills and torn bits of white paper. I rescued them from among old school copybooks and some later notebooks. These poems were written between his sixteenth year and the time of his death at eighteen years and nearly six months. ![]() He was buried in Adath Jeshurun Cemetery, in Frankford, Philadelphia, on April 3. He was identified by a library card in his pocket. His body was found on April 1 of the same year by some workmen doing river work at the foot of Arch Street. ![]() His mysterious disappearance caused a great deal of comment in the Philadelphia papers, on one of which, The Press, he was employed as a copyholder in the proof-room at the time of his death. ![]() WALTER DECASSERES was born in Philadelphia on August 12, 1881, and threw himself into the Delaware River some time during the night of February 4, 1900. ![]() ![]() The only problem is that they might be unable to keep up the ruse for long, as soon Art falls for Gwen’s brother as she spends more time with Lady Bridget. The pair decide to pretend to be in love for their mutual protection. He digs up her diary entries on how she feels about a certain lady knight. ![]() But when Arthur returns to Camelot and Gwen catches him kissing a boy, he suspects she might be queer too. The only problem is that they hate each other. Gwen is the Princess of England, Arthur is a future lord, and they’ve been betrothed since they were young. Thanks to Nina Douglas of Nina Douglas PR and Bloomsbury for a copy of this one. So this is definitely one you need to be picking up. It’s super queer, easy to read and hilarious. So for those of you who, like me, we were wondering, this book is a historical rom-com with some references to Arthurian legend. ![]() I had such a good time with the sample and was so excited, but genre-wise? Yeah, I was unsure. When I originally picked up the sample of this book to review, I wasn’t sure what type of book it was. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ll give our opinions regarding the book, then we’ll ask YOU to join in. We’re treating this review as a straight-up, simple review with Ana’s and Thea’s takes. ![]() This month’s OSW Readalong pick is Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. In March 2013, we asked YOU for your favorite old school suggestions – and the response was so overwhelmingly awesome, we decided to compile a goodreads shelf, an ongoing database, AND a monthly readalong/book club. What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. ![]() ![]() ![]() it will light the way for a new generation of rebels and lovers." - NPR.org ![]() Will Dani cling to the privilege her parents fought to win for her, or will she give up everything she's strived for in pursuit of a free Medio-and a chance at a forbidden love? She must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society.Īnd school couldn't prepare her for the difficult choices she must make after graduation, especially when she is asked to spy for a resistance group desperately fighting to bring equality to Medio. Both paths promise a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class.ĭaniela Vargas is the school's top student, but her pedigree is a lie. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband's household or raise his children. In this daring and romantic fantasy debut perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Latinx authors Zoraida Cordova and Anna-Marie McLemore, society wife-in-training Dani has a great awakening after being recruited by rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival.Īt the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. ![]() ![]() "Mejia pens a compelling, gripping story that mirrors real world issues of immigration and equality." -Buzzfeed It will light the way for a new generation of rebels and lovers." -NPR ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ordinarily this would mean that she would go on to survive and defeat, escape from, maybe even kill Stuntman Mike. In the first half of Death Proof he uses alot of the slasher movie conventions discussed in the book, setting up Butterfly as what Clover calls “the Final Girl.” The biggest clue is that she has “the investigative gaze,” she’s the one who notices Stuntman Mike’s car and keeps eyeing him, and is scared of him. I had read it mentioned recently in the Fangoria horror magazine, when Quentin Tarantino mentioned it in an interview about Death Proof. I think it’s been an influential book, but I don’t know anybody else who’s read it, so it was a surprise to hear it on the morning news. I paraphrase it alot when defending these kinds of movies (a pretty regular past time these days). I read the book years ago and it really affected my view of slasher movies. Clover is a very academic book exploring gender issues in slasher, possession and rape-revenge films, mostly from the ’70s. Men, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Berkeley professor Carol J. ![]() What the hell? This was a weird coincidence. Monday morning I heard a phrase on the radio that surprised me: “men, women and chain saws,” said in a somewhat dismissive voice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Four books in his middle-grade Alcatraz vs. He was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight were followed by the final book in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013. Tor has published Elantris, the Mistborn trilogy and its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, the first two in the planned ten-volume series The Stormlight Archive. This changed when an eighth grade teacher gave him Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly.īrandon was working on his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. ![]() ![]() As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested to him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This collection features The Emperor’s Soul, Mistborn: Secret History, and a brand-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer.Įarlier this year he released Calamity, the finale of the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners trilogy that began with Steelheart.īrandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Brandon’s major books for the second half of 2016 are The Dark Talent, the final volume in Alcatraz Smedry’s autobiographical account of his battle against the Evil Librarians who secretly rule our world, and Arcanum Unbounded, the collection of short fiction in the Cosmere universe that includes the Mistborn series and the StormlightĪrchive, among others. ![]() ![]() ![]() "We have been acting out the classic cartoon image of a man sitting on the branch of a tree and sawing it off behind him," wrote Philip Shabecoff in his 1993 book, "A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement." Shabecoff described environmentalism as a "broad social movement" that was attempting to build a "desperately needed but difficult and obstacle-strewn road" out of humankind's increasingly polluted predicament. In the midst of the anti-Vietnam war movement, the women's movement, and more, a divided America also found room for an environmental movement. ![]() And six months before the torching of the Cuyahoga, a massive oil spill soiled the shores of Santa Barbara, California. Smog from traffic and factories had become a national concern. ![]() The mild-mannered government scientist documented how the pesticide DDT was jeopardizing countless bird species, from tiny hummingbirds to the national symbol, the bald eagle. Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring," published seven years earlier, had lit the spark. The times, they were a-changing, and a burning river confirmed what many already believed: The environment was changing, too. No matter that this was at least the tenth time the Cuyahoga had ignited. ![]() |