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In a speech marking the 40th anniversary of her accession to the throne, Queen Elizabeth II infamously described 1992, a year which had seen two royal divorces, the publication of Diana, Princess of Wales’, tell-all memoir, Diana: Her True Story, and a devastating fire at Windsor Castle, as an “ annus horribilis”.įive years later, on 31 August 1997, Diana was killed in a car crash. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One sentence in the book leaped out and grabbed my psyche and has stayed with me since. I felt as if someone finally understood me, or maybe I finally understood myself. That day, I found a copy in the library, checked it out, and read the book in a couple of sittings. When I read the words The Courage to Create, the title jumped out at me. Hawkins was interested in how the creative and imaginative processes work in order to support the choreographic process she had developed. You may wonder: Why would there be a reading list for a dance class? Dr. ![]() Alma Hawkins at Santa Monica Community College, The Courage to Create by Rollo May was on the reading list for the class. In the early 1980s when I studied choreography with Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, and the unintended consequences. He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born Augin Waukegan, Illinois. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is filled with humour even though the themes are dark and it rattles along, urging you to keep turning the pages even though you know you should have been asleep an hour ago. "Lonely Werewolf Girl" is a big book with a large character list and rich back-story. ![]() It's the writer's equivalent of shooting a movie with a hand-held camera, the result is less smooth than using a dolly but it gains a kind of credibility, a sense of really being there, that the fixed camera can't match. ![]() Millar's writing style is hard to tag and initially I found it distracting but as I let myself listen to the rhythm, I realised that the occasional jerkiness of the text was deliberate.It gives this book a sort of Punk energy that kept me slightly off-centre but always engaged. This is a fun book that stays with you long after it's finished.įor the first few chapters I wondered what exactly I'd bought. ![]() ![]() He unlocks the door, comes into the kitchen, and thankfully lets his burden down, feeling the soreness of his palms. Even as he crosses the stage to the doorway of the house, his exhaustion is apparent. He is past sixty years of age, dressed quietly. ![]() From the right, WILLY LOMAN, the Salesman, enters, carrying two large sample cases. But in the scenes of the past these boundaries are broken, and characters enter or leave a room by stepping " through " a wall onto the forestage. Whenever the action is in the present the actors observe the imaginary wall-lines, entering the house only through its door at the left. This forward area serves as the back yard as well as the locale of all WILLY's imaginings and of his city scenes. Before the house lies an apron, curving beyond the forestage into the orchestra. ![]() The roof-line of the house is one-dimensional under and over it we see the apartment buildings. The entire setting is wholly or, in some places, partially transparent. (This bedroom is above the unseen living-room.) At the left a stairway curves up to it from the kitchen. Two beds are dimly seen, and at the back of the room a dormer window. ![]() Behind the kitchen, on a level raised six and a half feet, is the boys' bedroom, at present barely visible. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though he was a Sufi mystic, a poet and a scholar, he was not an adequate war-time leader. The book centers on the last Mughal Emperor, Zafar. With an unsurpassed understanding of British and Indian history, Dalrymple crafts a provocative, revelatory account of one the bloodiest upheavals in history. William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal is an incredibly detailed picture of the Indian sepoy rebellion against the British East India Trading Company in Delhi in 1857. Four months later, the British took Delhi, the capital, with catastrophic results. When, in May 1857, Zafar was declared the leader of an uprising against the British, he was powerless to resist though he strongly suspected that the action was doomed. All the while, the British were progressively taking over the Emperor's power. ![]() Nonetheless, Zafar-a mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great accomplishment-created a court of unparalleled brilliance, and gave rise to perhaps the greatest literary renaissance in modern Indian history. ![]() The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of people who help runaway slaves, and discovers that freedom isĮxperience history first-hand with My Story in this all-new My Story: A Picture of Freedom is a tale based on the Then she finds out about the Underground Railroad, a network 'Freedom' is just another word she's learned to write. ![]() Illegal for slaves to read and write, but Clotee is teaching herself It's 1859 and Clotee is a slave in a Virginia plantation. Real-life memoirs of Clotee Henley, a young slave who helped overġ50 slaves escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad. ![]() ![]() As Callie explores the natural world around her, she develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger. Callie's struggles to find a place in the world where she'll be encouraged in the gawky joys of intellectual curiosity are fresh, funny, and poignant today." - The New Yorker Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. "The most delightful historical novel for tweens in many, many years. ![]() In this witty historical fiction middle grade novel set at the turn of the century, an 11-year-old girl explores the natural world, learns about science and animals, and grows up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her panic draws figures from all over the graveyard. A startling flickering ghost of the baby’s dead mother appears pleading with them to keep her child safe. When someone rattles the gate they think someone has come for the child. They wonder what to do with a live child in their dead world. The toddler tumbles from his crib and toddles out the open door and up the hill, escaping Jack.Īt the top of the hill, in the graveyard, Mr. In the dark and scary beginning the man Jack kills a family with a sharp, long knife. These chapter summaries do not replace reading the book they will help students prepare for tests and reports.Ĭhapter 1 – How Nobody Came to the Graveyard The dead and undead teach Bod the lessons of the living while he grows up. Nobody (Bod) Owens is an orphan adopted by ghosts and raised in the graveyard. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is a clever young adult novel that tells the story of Bod. ![]() |
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