https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme 50 Books to read this Summer en-us 2022-05-06 04:00:05 UTC 2022-05-17 04:04:44 UTC hello@padlet.com vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172390806 "Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also their strength and their individual senses of right and wrong."--Provided by publisher.]]> 2022-05-06 04:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172390806 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172398427 Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country's major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million citizens.". ]]> 2022-05-06 04:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172398427 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172404444 Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke, is given up for dead on a desert planet and adopted by the nomadic people who live there.


]]> 2022-05-06 04:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172404444 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172408397 Few readers have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy - who is quite the most handsome and eligible bachelor in the whole of English literature - is a misjudgement only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved. Vivien Jones, in her new introduction to this Penguin Classics edition, shows how their romance is inseparable from the important social and political debates of Austen's time, and describes Pride and Prejudice as 'One of the most perfect, most pleasurable and most subtle - and therefore, perhaps, most dangerously persuasive - of romantic love stories.'.]]> 2022-05-06 04:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172408397 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172411402 Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.]]> 2022-05-06 04:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172411402 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172414785 The novel traces the life of David Copperfield from the time of his birth to his mature manhood, when he is married and familiar with the vicissitudes of life. His early years are enjoyable with his mother — who was widowed shortly before his birth — and with her servant, Peggotty.]]> 2022-05-06 04:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172414785 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172417592 A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story. Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.]]> 2022-05-06 04:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172417592 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172418453 A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted country of Kashmir, through a young boy's childhood. Seven-year-old Munnu is growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Life revolves around his family: Mama, Papa, sister Shahnaz, brothers Adil and Akhtar and, his favourite, older brother Bilal. It also revolves around Munnu's two favourite things - sugar and drawing. But Munnu's is a childhood experienced against the backdrop of conflict. Bilal's classmates are crossing over into the Pakistan-administered portion of Kashmir to be trained to resist the 'occupation'; Papa and Bilal are regularly taken by the military to identification parades where informers will point out 'terrorists'; Munnu's school is closed; close neighbours are killed and the homes of Kashmiri Hindu families lie abandoned, as once close, mixed communities have ruptured under the pressure of Kashmir's divisions. Munnu is an amazingly personal insight into everyday life in Kashmir. ]]> 2022-05-06 04:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172418453 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172419986 A dual biography of the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the friendship that they formed. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote, despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies.]]> 2022-05-06 05:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172419986 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172421298 Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these "human computers", personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world -- and whose lives show how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its proudest moments.]]> 2022-05-06 05:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172421298 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172423228 Provides an account of Charles Darwin's life and evolutionary theory, examining how his personal life affected his work and vice versa because of his wife's strong religious beliefs.]]> 2022-05-06 05:07:07 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172423228 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172426758 Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir.]]> 2022-05-06 05:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172426758 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172458555 Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage. And in a powerful, mesmerizing narrative, it pays quiet tribute to a Black woman who, though constricted by the times, still demanded to be heard.]]> 2022-05-06 06:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172458555 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172460638 Boxers: In 1898 during the Boxer Rebellion a boy named Little Bao recruits an army of Boxers to rid China of foreign missionaries and soldiers who bully and rob Chinese peasants.
Saints: China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She finally finds friendship-- and a name, Vibiana -- in the most unlikely of places: Christianity. But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is in full swing, and bands of young men roam the countryside, murdering Westerners and Chinese Christians alike. Torn between her nation and her Christian friends, Vibiana will have to decide where her true loyalties lie-- and whether she is willing to die for her faith]]> 2022-05-06 06:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172460638 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172497844  100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, 'Sapiens' challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power - and our future ]]> 2022-05-06 06:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172497844 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172499774 "What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew. For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists--primarily men--claimed to find evidence to support this. From intelligence to emotion, cognition to behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim that women are better suited to raising families or, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of research is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew. The new woman revealed by this scientific data is as strong, powerful, strategic, and smart as anyone else. In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating--and sorely necessary--new science of women. She takes readers on a journey to uncover science's failure to understand women and to show how women's bodies and minds are finally being rediscovered. Saini tells this alternate story of science with personal stories, controversial research, and an investigation into the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology.]]> 2022-05-06 06:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172499774 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172503754 The Roman poet Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, Book X, relates that Pygmalion, a sculptor, makes an ivory statue representing his ideal of womanhood and then falls in love with his own creation, which he names Galatea; the goddess Venus brings the statue to life in answer to his prayer]]> 2022-05-06 07:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172503754 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172508014 A story of deep friendship and family set in Afghanistan - It depicts the impact of the brutal regime of the Taliban on the life of the people, in particular the effect on Laila and Mariam whose friendship develops as they unite to survive in a harsh and unforgiving world.]]> 2022-05-06 07:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172508014 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172511937 1984 is the most famous and influential dystopian novel of all time. Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth in a world where Big Brother is always watching. What will happen when Winston falls in love and dares to dream about freedom? George Orwell's masterpiece is always topical and touching.]]> 2022-05-06 07:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172511937 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172518388 One of the few Westerners granted access to North Korea documents his observations of the secretive society in this graphic travelogue that depicts the cultural alienation, boredom, and desires of ordinary North Koreans.]]> 2022-05-06 07:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172518388 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172519902 On the eve of the US elections, a Syrian family leave their world behind for a chance at the American dream. As the first day of their new life dawns, they are greeted by the news of Donald Trump's victory. With no choice but to look forward, the family face the challenges of finding work, fitting in at school and a threatening phone call in the middle of the night. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip, this story follows the experiences of courageous people navigating a strange land in even stranger times.]]> 2022-05-06 07:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172519902 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172522382 On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?]]> 2022-05-06 07:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172522382 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172526182 "A Passage to India is a life-lesson best-selling title by Edward Morgan Forster about how friendship may be difficult or even impossible when there are racial tensions and prejudices in people from different cultures. It was included by Time magazine in its "All Time 100 Novels" list and thanks to this and other titles by Forster addressing class and cultural differences and conflicts, the author was nominated 16 time to the Nobel Prize" ]]> 2022-05-06 07:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172526182 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172529170 Ai Weiwei--artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist--extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of interviews, conducted over several years with the critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, he speask candidly about the myriad dimensions of his artistic life, ranging over subjects including ceramics, nature, philosophy, censorship and his childhood spent in exile. Now updated, these pieces also explore how the migrant experience, today's surveillance age, and Ai Weiwei's imprisonment by the Chinese authorities have fed into his latest work. Together, these extraordinary discussions give a unique insight into the outstanding complexity of Ai Weiwei's thought and work, and are an essential reminder of the need for personal, political and artistic freedom."]]> 2022-05-06 07:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172529170 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172548049 James Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. He draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.]]> 2022-05-06 07:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172548049 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172554387 Antigone is a tragedy written by Sophocles in the year 441 BCE and is a play about the aftermath of a civil war in which the two sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices, kill each other, where the new king and their successor, Creon, tries to punish Polyneices for his disloyalty by not burying him properly.]]> 2022-05-06 08:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172554387 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172585337  Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American lit-erature and one of the funniest'and most celebrated'novels of all time. In recent years it has been named to "best novels" lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer. Set in Italy during World War, II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy'it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he's assigned, he'll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. Since its publication in 1961, no novel has matched Catch-22's intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. ]]> 2022-05-06 08:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172585337 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172595999 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends.]]> 2022-05-06 08:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172595999 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172605040 The immortal comedy of Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and their chivalrous misadventures. Entranced by romantic tales of heroism and chivalry, Don Quixote goes on a delusional quest for fame and adventure as a self-proclaimed knight errant. Riding his nag of a horse and wearing a rusty old suit of armor, he roams the countryside with his loyal squire Sancho Panza. Together they encounter an array of unforgettable characters and undertake some of the most famously foolhardy exploits in literature. Widely considered one of the greatest works of fiction ever written, Don Quixote is also recognized as the first modern European novel and a classic example of the picaresque novel. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its iconic characters and timeless themes have inspired works of homage from generations of artists, including Pablo Picasso, Richard Strauss, and Orson Welles.]]> 2022-05-06 08:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172605040 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172615720 Les Miserables, or 'the wretched', is Victor Hugo's epic novel of redemption, sacrifice, love and suffering. It tells the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean, who has spent nineteen brutal years in chains after stealing a loaf of bread. Saved by an act of Christian charity, he is then offered a chance of happiness when he encounters the downtrodden Fantine and vows to rescue her daughter Cosette - but is constantly pursued by the implacable policeman Javert, who will not let him escape his past. An instant bestseller on publication in 1862, Les Miserables weaves together individual stories with real-life historical events to create a rich, imaginative drama of human life.]]> 2022-05-06 09:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172615720 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172630938 A coming-of-age tale of teenage rebellion, set in a winner-takes-all world of drive-ins, drag races and switchblades. It created an anti-hero from the wrong side of the class divide – all written when S. E. Hinton was just 17. ‘Stay gold Ponyboy… stay gold’.]]> 2022-05-06 09:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172630938 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172640180 "'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement. Now, this most beloved and acclaimed novel is reborn for a new age as a gorgeous graphic novel. Scout, Gem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, are all captured in vivid and moving illustrations by artist Fred Fordham. Enduring in vision, Harper Lee's timeless novel illuminates the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humour, unwavering honesty and a tender, nostalgic beauty. Lifetime admirers and new readers alike will be touched by this special visual edition."]]> 2022-05-06 09:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172640180 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172643156 Welcome to the roaring twenties, where money, debauchery, and dancing go hand-in-hand. It is the summer of 1922,and the enigmatic millionaire, Jay Gatsby, is in love. He has everything he could ever want, except the one thing that always remains out of reach-the beautiful socialite Daisy Buchanan, a former lover, now married to someone else. At his Long Island mansion, he throws lavish parties-drowning days and nights into drinks and dancing. But all the money in the world cannot fill the emptiness in his heart. Alone, untouched by the glitz and glamour of the American rich, he stews in his secret longing. But everything changes when Gatsby befriends Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin and Gatsby’s new neighbour, who reunites the two lovers. Then begins a tale of obsession, madness, and tragedy that unravels Jay Gatsby’s life forever.]]> 2022-05-06 09:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172643156 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172647589 National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.]]> 2022-05-06 09:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172647589 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172653207 The novel follows the story of Jane, a seemingly plain and simple girl as she battles through life's struggles. Jane has many obstacles in her life - her cruel and abusive Aunt Reed, the grim conditions at Lowood school, her love for Rochester and Rochester's marriage to Bertha.]]> 2022-05-06 09:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2172653207 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174923048 "The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country's very origin. The 1619 Project tells this new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country"--Provided by publisher]]> 2022-05-09 02:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174923048 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174930769 "In 1908 Mohandas Gandhi spoke to a crowd of 3,000. Together they protested against an unjust law without guns or rioting. Peacefully they made a difference. Gandhi's words and deeds influenced countless others to work toward the goals of freedom and justice through peaceful methods. Mother and son team, Anne Sibley O'Brien and Perry Edmond O'Brien, highlight some of the people and events that Gandhi's actions inspired. From Rosa Parks to the students at Tiananmen Square to Wangari Maathai, these people have made the world sit up and take notice. The provocative graphics and beautiful portraits accompanying these stories stir the emotions and inspire a sense of civic responsibility"--]]> 2022-05-09 02:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174930769 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174936480 The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.]]> 2022-05-09 02:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174936480 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174941062 Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.


]]> 2022-05-09 02:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174941062 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174946562 A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'. Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics.


]]> 2022-05-09 02:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174946562 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174951079 "Born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated in England, from 1945 Wilfred Thesiger spent five years exploring in and around the vast, waterless desert, the 'Empty Quarter' of Arabia. Travelling amongst the Bedu people, he experienced their everyday challenges of hunger and thirst, the trials of long marches beneath the relentless sun, the bitterly cold nights and the constant danger of death if it was discovered he was a Christian 'infidel'. He was the first European to visit most of the region, and just before he left the area the process that would change it forever had begun - the discovery of oil. Thesiger saw Arabian Sands as 'a memorial to a vanished past, a tribute to a once magnificent people'." "This edition includes an introduction by Rory Stewart discussing the dangers of Thesiger's travels, his unconventional personality and his insights into Bedu life."--Jacket.


]]> 2022-05-09 02:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174951079 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174957480 Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son -- and readers -- the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder.


]]> 2022-05-09 02:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174957480 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174959549 In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the world's greatest threat. When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and soon the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. In Black Flags, an unprecedented character-driven account of the rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick shows how the zeal of this one man and the strategic mistakes of Presidents Bush and Obama led to the banner of ISIS being raised over huge swaths of Syria and Iraq. Zarqawi began by directing terror attacks from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the American invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head of a vast insurgency.


]]> 2022-05-09 02:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174959549 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174964492 Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics. Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But forensic analysis has been practiced for thousands of years. Ancient Chinese detectives studied dead bodies for signs of foul play, and in Victorian England, officials used crime scene photography and criminal profiling to investigate the Jack the Ripper murders. In the intervening decades, forensic science has evolved to use the most cutting-edge, innovative techniques and technologies. In this book, acclaimed author Bridget Heos uses real-life cases to tell the history of modern forensic science, from the first test for arsenic poisoning to fingerprinting, firearm and blood spatter analysis, DNA evidence, and all the important milestones in between. By turns captivating and shocking, Blood, Bullets, and Bones demonstrates the essential role forensic science has played in our criminal justice system.


]]> 2022-05-09 03:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174964492 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174968019 A forbidden romance. A deadly plague. Earth's fate hinges on one girl ...CINDER, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing, is also a cyborg. But when her life becomes entwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the centre of a violent struggle between the desires of an evil queen - and a dangerous temptation.


]]> 2022-05-09 03:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174968019 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174971505 Brand new edition of Miller's award-winning play that brings it alive for 16-18 students. With the clearest and most accessible design, together with supporting activities, biography and contextual information targeting exactly the right level, this edition provides comprehensive, relevant and engaging support for students.


]]> 2022-05-09 03:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174971505 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174977767 "The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time, his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. Griffith, and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg. Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernatural realm. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century. In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems, fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia, and Ms. In a Bottle. His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are here also, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives." --inside cover.


]]> 2022-05-09 03:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174977767 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174981509 "In Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying his arguments to some recent cases in the news."--Cover.


]]> 2022-05-09 03:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174981509 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174983727 "It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. . . . The [story] . . . spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo's mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel's mother, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving Tio Tive, keeper of the family's history"--


]]> 2022-05-09 03:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174983727 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174985506 The author describes what it was like to grow up revered as a deity among his people. After the invasion of Tibet by the Communist Chinese, he was forced into exile in 1959. He has since worked to relieve the plight of Tibetans and to promote world peace through an unwavering policy of non-violence.


]]> 2022-05-09 03:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174985506 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174992518 Born in Bengal, Tagore wrote in Bengali and received early recognition as a poet. His later translations brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Though best known as a poet, Tagore also wrote short-stories and it is a collection of these that make up this particular book.


]]> 2022-05-09 03:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174992518 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174995331 Gitanjali or “The Song Offerings” is a reflection of Rabindranath's consciousness, wisdom & philosophy. The original work, which was published on August 14 1910, comprised 157 songs]]> 2022-05-09 03:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2174995331 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2175004943 Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential.


]]> 2022-05-09 03:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2175004943 vanessacoutinho1 https://padlet.com/vanessacoutinho1/a3eyu362jy7qpzme/wish/2175008614 Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world's top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture"-- Rating: (not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.


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