I recall, as a fairly sheltered college student, traveling to New York City for the wedding of a distant relative. It hadn’t occurred to me that there could be neighborhoods in this crowded place of constant motion. When I supposed that it must get lonely living where you would never serendipitously bump into someone you knew, a cousin tried to set me straight by explaining that people frequent the same places and thus you would often encounter the same people.
In Unwind by Neal Shusterman the Pro Life/Pro Choice debate caused a global war resulting in a compromise called the Unwind Accord. Technology had been developed which would allow every part of a human to be used in a transplant.
I read It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini years ago but the story has always stuck with me, I think it was something I could really relate to. It's about a guy who is at the top of his class at his public school. He is a pretty competitive person (at least academically) and he desperately wants to get into this very elite prep school, probably more for the challenge of getting accepted than actually going.
Evelyn Bucknow is at the center of everything. From her vantage point, the ten year old narrator of local author Laura Moriatry’s richly nuanced novel sees all sides.
A life worth telling is a story worth reading. Richard Rosenberger reveals the life of an only child born of a highborn German immigrant father and a lovely American woman. Living in a working class Kansas City neighborhood during the notorious Pendergast era, a mischievious child, he served as an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church. Rosenberger continued his service at the Church while growing into a delinquent, nearly criminal youth. Struggling to find his way, he chose the priesthood and did what it took to achieve his goal.
This movie takes a contemporary look at the true story of Alice Paul who was instrumental in the creation and passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. These suffragettes were wrongfully imprisoned, force fed, and brutalized in their ultimately successful efforts.
This is Jane Yolen's first graphic novel about Aliera Carstairs, a young girl who doesn't fit in at school. But everyday after school she goes to practice fencing, which she happens to be very good at. Her sword is from a second hand store, where her mom likes to find bargains. She becomes lab partners with a cute boy who likes to cut up dead things. That is the beginning of the story but there is much more. Aliera is a very complex character who needs to discover what her strengths are used for. I hope that there are many more stories about Aliera Carstirs.
This a fun, fast, chic-lit read. It is the a book about Joile Goodman who has quit her job as a real estate agent because her boss was being unethical. She now works at Neimen Marcus selling shoes to make ends meet. It is also a start of a new friendship with Carlotta, the party crashing queen. Jolie's boyfriend goes missing and she meets the man of her dreams.
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin and the Race of a Lifetime is a behind-the-scenes account of the presidential primaries leading up to the 2008 election of Barack Obama. It was written by two nationally known, and seemingly well-respected, journalists.
The narrative follows the lives of fourteen British children of various economic backgrounds from the 1960s to the present, posing the question of whether socioeconomic background predetermines our future. The children are questioned on their present beliefs, past accomplishments and future plans, with each child revisited every seven years.
