![]() On Friday morning in Watts, the official naming ceremony and unveiling of the new Jacqueline Avant Children and Family Center was celebrated by Nicole Avant, daughter of Jacqueline and Clarence Avant, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Drew University of Medicine and Science, and the King Drew Magnet High School). ![]() (The campus is also home to the MLK Behavioral Health Center, the MLK Outpatient Center, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Located in the Watts-Willowbrook community of Los Angeles County’s Second District, the center sits on the 42-acre MLK Medical Campus, which serves the medically underserved in the greater South Los Angeles area. What was once known as The MLK Child and Family Well-Being Center has now been renamed the Jacqueline Avant Children and Family Center in honor of the philanthropist. ![]() The Best 'Bridgerton' Merch for Celebrating Queen Charlotte's Coronation ![]()
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![]() It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. ![]() ![]() The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.įrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Again, most of the themes and the plot would never fadge in an adult context, but I am impressed by how gently Shinn guides her heroine into consciousness of the world around her, it felt authentic to the age group that would normally be reading. They aren't treated badly exactly, but they are not treated well either. She is disturbed by the presence in the household, of the Alliora, enslaved by the humans, but of such entirely peaceful dispositions that they simply submit and do their best with the work given them. ![]() Coriel is a sunny friendly person and makes friends with everyone around her. marrying and being a useful pawn for political alliances. ![]() Two-thirds of the year she spends with her grandmother, a witch/herbalist (which bears no opprobrium in this world) in a small village and a third she spends with her half-sister and the lords and ladies of Auburn Castle being prepared for. Young Coriel is a by-blow but also a Hasling the traditional choice for the Royal family to wed. Never having read anything by Shinn, I was expecting something different, a fantasy more for an adult reader, but never mind, I enjoyed listening to the story and thought it well done for the (younger) YA audience and good enough to keep me interested. ![]() ![]() ![]() **Like my reviews? Then you should follow me! Because I have hundreds more just like this one. I don't know that it will be one of your family favorites but I know you'll enjoy it for sure! The story progresses with more cuteness, of course, and toy soldiers that save the day for Miss Suzy. Of course the doll house was absolutely cute too and I wished I could live in one of those as well. And then when she's chased away by mean squirrels, she runs into this home and finds a little doll house to live in. Miss Suzy is the sweetest little thing, with the most charming tree house. It was such a cherished read, for both my sister and I. Every time I see the cover of this book, my heart melts a little and I let out a happy sigh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let me be with my own personal infinity, it dies soon enough and disappears, and you will see me ascend and disperse like smoke from dulling coals. To those of us (I’m speaking to you, reader) who love and nurture our imagination above almost all else, isn’t the ultimate goal to surpass our current limits, and thus increase our imaginative grandeur, our knowledge, our ability to grasp and hold things in their purest form of thought? Isn’t this the highest form of adoration? How does one leap the bars and walls of our word-prison to properly adore the universe? What might be attained through imagination. The Wake is infinity’s singsong, if one remembers that infinity is something only imagined by human beings, so it is every little finite life’s singsong lovesong out to rich, pulsing, strangely comprehensible infinity. It is the novel that no one and everyone wrote all together, that no one and everyone might read and understand all together. It is a quivering monolith inscribed in wriggling runes. It grows while it decomposes and traverses the Spheres while it stays absolutely still. ![]() ![]() It is a life-tree and a time-stone, in an idyll beside a river. Language is what gave us time and space- without it one would only see and never know, and so never see. The Wake is above, around, inside, outside, and through the temporal and spatial essences of language. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as the coup draws nearer and the plague spreads, Ranka is forced to question everything she thought she knew about her power, her past, and who she’s meant to fight for. ![]() And it’s his sister – the wickedly smart, infuriatingly beautiful Princess Aramis – who seems to be real threat.īut when witches start turning up dead, murdered by a mysterious, magical plague, Aramis makes Ranka an offer: help her develop a cure, and in return, she’ll teach Ranka to contain her deadly magic. He doesn’t want to marry Ranka he doesn’t want to be king at all. Easy enough, for a blood-witch whose magic compels her to kill.Įxcept the prince is gentle, kind, and terrified of her. But when she is named Bloodwinn, the next treaty bride to the human kingdom of Isodal, her coven sends her south with a single directive: kill him. All she wants now is to be left alone, living out her days in Witchik’s wild north with the coven that raised her, attempting to forget the horrors of her past. Genre: Fantasy Fiction, Dark Fantasy, High Fantasy ![]() ![]() ![]() The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoffīrenna Yovanoff’s Southern gothic-tinged horror is fantastic. When Fancy discovers a mysterious door to what appears to be another world, their murder spree might just be the beginning. They’ve learned from their dad’s mistakes and take pains to avoid getting caught. When the siblings realize that their father’s predilection for violence maybe didn’t skip a generation, they might have found a satisfying way to seek revenge against those that have wronged them. Turns out being the daughters of the notorious Bonesaw Killer isn’t really conducive to being popular. ![]() That’s good for them, since they aren’t all that well liked in their town. ![]() Kit and Fancy are the kind of sisters that are also the best of friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() "That's very closely based on my own grandmother who moved in with us when she couldn't live alone anymore, and while I know it was the right thing to do, I was eight years old and she terrified me. Mary, the grandmother affected by dementia who moves in with her son's family. Hendrix says the one character who really "cut to the bone" was Mrs. Fortunately I've fictionalized everything pretty heavily so no one had too many problems." "This one's set in the neighborhood where I grew up, around the time I graduated from high school, and it's the first time I've had to run a book past my family before publication because so many of our stories wound up in it. ![]() "Getting some blood on the page is the only way I know how to write, so all my books are really personal," he tells me in an email interview. ![]() Grady Hendrix's new novel stars a group of determined women who confront a supernatural threat in their community - and while vampires aren't real (as far as we know), Hendrix says The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires has its roots in his own real life. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Author Grady Hendrix ![]() ![]() ![]() For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students. When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. ![]() Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant.Įrin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android. Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head. ![]() Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story. ![]() ![]() ![]() “You’ll read for the quality of the prose, but also the amazing depth of characterization and mystery. “A taut, disturbing, and brilliantly written psychological drama of the first order,” writes Jeff VanderMeer. In one passage they narrate in a conjoined voice: “It would have surprised neither of us to have found, slit open, that we shared organs, that one’s lungs breathed for the both, that a single heart beat a doubling, feverish pulse.” An eerie psychological drama, Sisters wrestles with the most extreme of family ties. Their bond becomes increasingly intimate and troubled. In their new environment, the siblings are even more friendless and dependent upon each other than usual. ![]() The girls, July and September, had been struggling in school July was mercilessly bullied and September was growing increasingly volatile as she fought on her sister’s behalf. In Sisters, a single mother and her two teenaged daughters upend their lives in Oxford, England, and move to an isolated home at the edge of the sea. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Daisy Johnson, whose second novel, Sisters, is out today from Riverhead Books. ![]() |