![]() ![]() "It was black and white, but something about it just told me that this woman was as brown as I was," she says. "So my first response was, why are you so angry? You hadn't heard about her until fairly recently."Īnand herself knew nothing about Sophia until she saw an interesting face in an old magazine photo. "Suddenly there was this sort of tidal wave of outrage from people who were saying, why wasn't she in the movie?" says Anand. But she didn't make an appearance in the movie. In fact, one of the most important women in the suffragette movement was an Indian princess, Sophia Duleep Singh. When the movie Suffragette came out in October, critics noticed something off: The film's struggling women were all white. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sophia Subtitle Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary Author Anita Anand ![]()
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![]() ![]() The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. ![]() After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death - and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain. ![]() Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl" - both with the team and with Addy herself. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls - until the young new coach arrives.Ĭool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. From the award-winning author of The Turnout and Give Me Your Hand: The searing novel of friendship and betrayal that inspired the USA Network series, praised by Gillian Flynn as " Lord of the Flies set in a high-school cheerleading squad.Tense, dark, and beautifully written".Īddy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While there, he made more earnings for himself by providing drama groups with short plays. He attended East High School in Denver and later on proceeded to Northwestern University. As the Depression hit America while Sheldon was growing up, he found himself a number of jobs to generate income. Writing was so natural to him that at the age of ten he was able to write a poem which sold for $5. Life and times of Sidney Sheldonīorn as Sidney Schechtel on the 11th of February 1917 in Chicago, Illinois USA, Sheldon lived to be eighty nine and passed on while in California in January 2007. He is considered the seventh best fiction writer of all time. Such talent and creativity earned him a number of awards cutting across the literature and filming worlds. His works consist of novels written by himself and some extrapolated by other authors as well as television and film adaptations of his novels. That which is of great quality speaks for itself and this is the level in which Sheldon’s stories can be categorized. He continues to be accorded literary honor even posthumously. His works are prized for their excellence and uniqueness. Sidney Sheldon is a household name among avid readers of thrillers and crime fiction. The Tides of Memory (With: Tilly Bagshawe) After the Darkness (With: Tilly Bagshawe) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How do we know? The night the program aired, the C.E. "Far fewer people heard the broadcast - and fewer still panicked - than most people believe today. some percentage of that 1 million people ran out of their homes." Just this past weekend, our colleagues at Radiolab devoted their very first live hour to a "deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history: Orson Welles' 1938 radio play about Martians invading New Jersey."Īccording to Radiolab, about 12 million people were listening when Welles' broadcast came on the air and "about 1 in every 12. Morning Edition, for instance, reported in 2005 that "listeners panicked, thinking the story was real." Many supposedly jumped in their cars to flee the area of the "invasion." OK, as far as we know that hasn't happened.īut we wanted to issue that faux alert because 75 years ago tonight, as our friend Korva Coleman pointed out on the NPR Newscast, Orson Welles and his troupe of radio actors interrupted the Columbia Broadcasting System's programming to "report" that our planet had been invaded.Įver since then, it's been accepted as fact that the broadcast scared the dickens out of many Americans. ![]() ![]() ![]() I came across it when it was reviewed on the 'Stuck in a Book' blog. Naturally, things become complicated when Sally's ex lover turns up in the village. Neither of them really want him, they just want security, the novel has a lot to say about womens position in society. The two women agree that they will both fight fair but 'to the death'. ![]() He shows He is a man of three p's - principals, prejudices and platitudes. Sally soon realises "He plays at being the perfect gentleman all the time, and merely suceeds in being the imperfect lady.". Miss Maggie isn't looking out for Sally's interests (as Sally believes), she is looking forward to the drama.īingly is hardly a catch, although he certainly believes he is. As it happens, there is a young widow who is also trying to land him as a husband. She writes to Sally to suggest she comes back to Little Crampton because the bank manager there is "rolling in it", and unmarried. Her bones seemed to clank as she walked.". "Acidity had left the speaker a revolting skeleton. Miss Hopkins has a talent for finding out things about people they would rather keep hidden, so if she decides you're out, then you're out. Little Crampton is a small village, ruled by Miss Maggie Hopkins. It was much funnier than I expected, with some quite serious messages woven into the plot. ![]() Sally is a fantastic character, and I just loved the way the story panned out. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich’s unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and their ilk into the administration’s chief enablers, and the swamp’s lesser lights into frantic chasers of the grift. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. In the early months of Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party’s most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united-and loud-in their scorn and contempt. “The new must read summer book.” –Stephanie Ruhleįrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub-and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. “Really fascinating.There are so many revelations.” –Anderson Cooper “His writing is so damn good.” –John Berman “This is a really funny book.” –Kara Swisher ![]() “He’s one of the best chroniclers of politics today.” –Jake Tapper ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unknown states that Phoebe’s inactivity means she forfeits her turn but that a secret will be revealed about her anyways. Knox is working at Until Proven, the law firm that assisted students in One of Us Is Lying, when he also receives a message from Unknown. With the memory of Simon still fresh, Phoebe ignores the message. Phoebe Lawton is the first to receive a text from Unknown, notifying her that she’s been selected to play Truth or Dare. ![]() The first part of the novel is introduced as users Bayview2020 and Darkestmind agree on the subforum that no one should be able to ruin someone’s life and get away with it. The local news station opens the novel, reporting that another death has occurred at Bayview High, coupled with the re-emergence of the Vengeance Is Mine Reddit subforum, frequented by Simon Kelleher. The novel is divided into two main parts, each part beginning with a news report from Liz Rosen and a conversation between usernames Bayview2020 and Darkestmind on a Reddit subforum entitled Vengeance Is Mine. ![]() This literary tool aids the reader in understanding the numerous perspectives involved and allows for a well-rounded apprehension of the story. Each chapter begins with date stamps, grounding the story in real time. Maeve Rojas, Phoebe Lawton, and Knox Myers are the protagonists of One of Us Is Next, and their viewpoints alternate to tell the next Bayview story. ![]() ![]() First I will set a purpose for reading the story: to analyze the character of Vicente and to discover the author’s message. It is just chock full of good messages and I use it as a jumping off point to writing about literature. The story is about a wonderful old guy named Vicente, who discovers that true contentment is not found in your pocket book, but in doing what brings you joy. ![]() The first one is one of my all time favourites: The Singing Silence by Eva-Lis Wuorio (I’d provide a link, if I could, but I can’t find an e-copy). My students will be shifting gears from non-fiction to fiction, and I will begin with a little bit of gradual release as we study three short stories. Oh joy, oh bliss! Here’s hoping that all the work we did over the last few weeks paid off and I can fly through them with ease □ My first big pile of essays get delivered to my desk tomorrow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Miriam learns her missing parents are suspected of betraying the Société to the Nazis, she embarks on a quest to clear their names, a quest involving dangerous diabolic practices that will demand more of her than she can imagine. There, best friends Jane Blackwood and Miriam Cantor, tutored by the Société’s Librarian-and Jane’s mother-Nancy, prepare to undergo the Test that will determine their future as diabolists. A secluded castle somewhere in the south of Germany serves as a laboratory for experiments conducted upon human prisoners, experiments as vile as they are deadly.Īcross the English Channel, tucked into the sleepy Cumbrian countryside, lies the Library, the repository of occult knowledge for the Société des Éclairées, an international organization of diabolists. In the waning days of World War II, with Allied victory all but certain, desperate Nazi diabolists search for a demonic superweapon to turn the tide. Two young witches, once inseparable, are set at odds by secrets and wildly dangerous magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() We essentially digitally re-master the book. ![]() Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. 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