She also teaches writing workshops at her home in Montana, where she lives with her husband and their children. She has won numerous awards and is a highly requested speaker. Tracie Peterson and her best books are very much loved within the Christian community. She is now able to reach millions of people worldwide with her books that are based in faith. For Peterson, she always felt this calling to be part of some form of ministry, and she decided that writing will fulfill that mission. It’s always interesting to find out how different authors got into writing. She mainly writes historical fiction novels, with some romance threads. Having given her life to God at the age of six, Tracie Peterson is now a best-selling author of over a whopping 110 books. Tracie Peterson is a name that is well-known in the Christian book community.
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Picture dictionaries that can be reproduced for use with students.Guides to common words and phrases in the student's native language.Information about the traditions, religions, and celebrations of the family's country of origin.With a chapter dedicated to each language, this book provides a wealth of resources to help you make meaningful connections with ELL students, including: This handy reference guide to the ten most common languages of students who do not speak English-Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Tagalog, Haitian Creole, Navajo, Hmong, Cantonese, and Korean-offers practical guidance for communicating with ELL students and their families. Break through language barriers and put ELL students at ease in your classroom! More than ever before, K–12 educators in today's classrooms teach students from diverse language backgrounds. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we're offered. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. Google knows what you're thinking because it saves your private searches. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your our cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. African ‘corruption’ the clash between colonialism and African independence the transition between traditional African customs and English colonial protocols. Colonialism in its death throes and European attitudes towards Africans. There are several strands to Achebe’s novel which continues the story of the Okonkwo family introduced in the classic Things Fall Apart. The debilitating minutiae of colonialist society combined with the influence of traditional culture causes one ambitious man to question his culture and adopt the ways of the colonialists - and still end up defeated. These are the questions posed by Chinua Achebe in his second 1960 published novel, which dramatises Obi’s downfall and his emotional dilemmas over his people, their culture and traditions. But - in a period of transition from colonialism to independence - why has he ended up in court? Does he deserve the racist judgment and negative attitudes of the colonial overlords? He is feted by his people, his new employers consider him a ‘responsible’ young African. Recently returned from successful study in England. Not because it had such an edgy undertone of anger and bitterness, which it does, and with good reason, but because of his writing style. Read moreĪt first I found Joe Queenan's memoir, CLOSING TIME, just a bit off-putting. Queenan's unforgettable account of the damage done to children by parents without futures and of the grace children find to move beyond these experiences will appeal to fans of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr, and will take its place as an autobiography in the classic American tradition. With the help of a series of mentors and surrogate fathers, and armed with his own furious love of books and music, Joe begins the long flight away from the dismal confines of his neighborhood-with a brief misbegotten stop at a seminary-and into the wider world. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Closing Time recounts Queenan's Irish Catholic upbringing in a family dominated by his erratic father, a violent yet oddly charming emotional terrorist whose alcoholism fuels a limitless torrent of self-pity, railing, destruction, and late-night chats with the Lord Himself. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s. Joe Queenan's acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop culture have made him one of the most popular humorists and commentators of our time. He met Marilyn in 1957 when he was a doctoral candidate at Harvard teaching a class on American culture in which she was a student. James, the academically gifted child of Chinese immigrants, spent his life yearning to belong. The death of Lydia leads James and Marilyn to reflect on their lives. As the police investigate, her parents discover that, contrary to their belief that Lydia was popular and doing well in school, she was actually very lonely with almost no friends and that her grades had severely slipped. Lydia's parents, James and Marilyn, are horrified by their daughter's death. After several days, her body is dredged out of the town lake. On May 3, 1977, Lydia Lee, the middle child of the Lee family, is missing. Ng spent six years writing the novel, going through four different full drafts. The novel is about a mixed-race Chinese-American family whose middle daughter Lydia is found drowned in a nearby lake. The novel topped Amazon's Best Books of the Year list for 2014. Book by Celeste Ng Everything I Never Told YouĮverything I Never Told You is the 2014 debut novel by Celeste Ng. 'The pyramids, obviously, the Nile, and Ethiopia, which many people say is the birthplace of mankind, so that should be amazing. 'There's a huge amount we're really looking forward to," says Charley. And they are hoping to catch many unforgettable sights as they travel through what's arguably the world's most fascinating continent. But Ewan and Charley are expecting it to be every bit as tough.ĭuring those 15,000 miles and three months, the daring duo will travel through as many as 20 countries: Scotland, England, France, Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. This trip's a mere 15,000 miles instead of the 20,000 covered from London to New York. It's north to south instead of west to east, and shorter than the Long Way Round. Long Way Down starts in Ewan's homeland, kicking off from the UK's most northerly point at John o'Groats and ending pretty much at Africa's most southerly point: Cape Town. Ewan and Charley had plenty of fun planning Long Way Down - the route's going to show them sights they'll never forget. Snyder III, Luke McDonnell, Geof Isherwood and Grant Miehm, SUICIDE SQUAD VOL. And by the time it’s all over, the Suicide Squad will live up to its name…Ĭollecting the classic storyline by writers John Ostrander and Kim Yale and a squad of talented artists including John K. The full fury of his most merciless minions will be unleashed against Waller and her team-including Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Poison Ivy and more. Now the home of Darkseid, the embodiment of all evil, will be the scene of the greatest fight the Squad has ever faced. It’s happening someplace even deadlier, even darker. And the battle won’t take place in the war-torn Middle East, the shadowy streets of Gotham City or anywhere else on Earth. A traitor in the ranks is scheming to use the Squad as cannon fodder in a bloody power struggle. While she lays plans to take back Task Force X, a supernatural secret society is quietly moving in for the kill.īut an even more powerful enemy awaits-and it’s an enemy within. Amanda Waller has lost her iron grip on the Suicide Squad, pushed aside in favor of a new commander. We first begin with the Dark Vader stories in the canon timeline. For an expanded experience, check out our Star Wars Canon Comics Reading order or our Star Wars Legends Comics Reading Order. It’s no surprise that several stories have been featuring him in the Star Wars Universe, Legends or Canon timeline.įor this reason, Darth Vader deserves, without a doubt, his own comic reading order (with a few books). This is the story of a tragic hero who turned villain and became one of the most famous fictional characters ever. When Skywalker chose to turn to the dark side of the Force, and pledged his allegiance to the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, his alter ego, Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith, was created. He was one of the main protagonists of the prequel trilogy. He was destined to bring balance to the Force and was trained by Obi-Wan Kenobi to become a Jedi. Before, he was Anakin Skywalker, The Chosen One. Created by George Lucas, he is the central antagonist of the original Star Wars trilogy.īut Darth Vader was not always Darth Vader. Does Darth Vader really need an introduction? Darth Vader is one of the most iconic villains of all time. From the very first character I wanted more than the lifespan that was given. Each time period and the person it represented left me wanting more. In fact, I often thought as I read it that I would love to see it fattened and become a television series or at least a book series. I think you have to allow yourself the time to sink into this one, and when you do, you'll be glad you did.Īlice Hoffman is amazing! This book felt like a series. It's not a genre novel, but more literary. It wouldn't let me go! This isn't for someone wanting major action or romance. I listened to this book twice through, then listened to my favorite chapters a third time. Alice Hoffman has such a terrific insight into human nature, and in this book she examines all kinds of people, allowing the reader to understand each of them, in their weakness, in their nobility, in their humanity. The characters are so rich, and the town itself develops a personality and becomes a character we root for. But once I understood the structure and got about three chapters in, it completely hooked me. At first I had a hard time getting into the book. Knowing that, you let go of your expectations for a "regular" novel and just go with the flow. You have to go in to this book knowing it's episodic - it covers about 250 years in the life of the town, and each chapter skips ahead to another generation. |