![]() In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America’s inequitable system. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made-to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft School.Įarly on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He placed it on the other side of the wooden block. I didn’t want to think about what its contents would be. “In five minutes, this will all be over, Weaver.” Cut bent to the side and collected a wicker basket. I’d seen things, understood things, and suffered things I never thought I would be able to endure. You can stop this.” My voice mimicked a beg but I’d vowed not to beg. Just a raised podium, framework cushioning a large tarnished blade, and a rope dangling to the side. ![]() ![]() Velvet and hand-stitched crewel on the walls glittered like the diamonds the Hawks smuggled-a direct contrast to the roughly sawn wood and crude craftsmanship of the guillotine dais. The ballroom splendour mocked me as I bowed unwillingly at the feet of my executioner. Cut’s voice physically hurt me as he forced me to my knees. ![]() ![]() Weaving comprehensive research and surprising insight gained from his year of learning dangerously, Vanderbilt shows how anyone can begin again-and, more important, why they should take those first awkward steps. Along the way, he interviews dozens of experts to explore the fascinating psychology and science behind the benefits of becoming an adult beginner. What he doesn't expect is finding himself having rapturous experiences singing Spice Girls songs in an amateur choir, losing games of chess to eight-year-olds, and dodging scorpions at a surf camp in Costa Rica. He tackles five main skills (and picks up a few more along the way), choosing them for their difficulty to master and their distinct lack of career marketability-chess, singing, surfing, drawing, and juggling. Inspired by his young daughter's insatiable need to know how to do almost everything, and stymied by his own rut of mid-career competence, Tom Vanderbilt begins a year of learning purely for the sake of learning. Why do so many of us stop learning new skills as adults? Are we afraid to fail? Have we forgotten the sheer pleasure of being a beginner? Or is it simply a fact that you can't teach an old dog new tricks? The best-selling author of Traffic and You May Also Like gives us an inspirational journey into the transformative joys that come with starting something new, no matter your age ![]() Pink, New York Times best-selling author of When, Drive, and To Sell is Human It's about the possibilities that reside in all of us. Beginners is ultimately about more than learning. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Lucy California Morning Whipple may be in for a surprise - because home is a lot closer than she thinks. Worst of all, there's no lending library Dag diggety So Lucy vows to be plain miserable until she can hightail it back East where she belongs. Even the gold her mama claimed was just lying around in the fields isn't panning out. ![]() For Lucy, Lucky Diggins is hardly a town at all - just a bunch of ramshackle tents and tobacco-spitting miners. And now her brother, Butte, and sisters, Prairie and Sierra, seem to be Westerners at heart, too. But moving out West to Lucky Diggins, California, was her mama's dream-come-true. I know you will understand.California doesn't suit Lucy Whipple - not the name, not the place. I cannot hate California and be California. Dear Gram and Grampop, Please do not address yours truly as California anymore, California Morning Whipple being a foolish name for a duck much less a girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And as she discovers the secret behind Mark’s decision to leave, she welcomes two visitors also seeking their own answers.īest friends Kellie Crenshaw and Katie Gilroy have returned to Cedar Cove for their ten-year high school reunion, looking to face down old hurts and find a sense of closure. Just when she is starting to open herself up again to love, she feels once more that she is losing the man she cares about. When Mark tells her that he’s moving out of town, Jo Marie is baffled. Jo Marie and Mark are good friends-and are becoming something more-yet he still won’t reveal anything about his past. ![]() Since opening the Rose Harbor Inn, Jo Marie Rose has grown close to her handyman, Mark Taylor. Set in Cedar Cove’s charming Rose Harbor Inn, Debbie Macomber’s captivating new novel follows innkeeper Jo Marie and two new guests as they seek healing and comfort, revealing that every cloud has a silver lining, even when it seems difficult to find. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Olsson expertly interweaves scenes from Marion's past with her quest to save Ika from his own tragic childhood, and renders with reflective tenderness the fragility of memory and the healing power of the heart. Perhaps she'll be able to find forgiveness for the little girl that was her. Perhaps if she can create order from the chaos, her memories will be easier to carry. Seized by a sudden urgency to make sense of her past, she examines each image one-by-one: her grandfather, her mother, her brother, her lover. But a chance meeting with a young boy, Ika, and her desire to help him force Marion to open the Pandora's box of her memory. Marion Flint, in her early fifties, has spent fifteen years living a quiet life on the rugged coast of New Zealand, a life that allows the door to her past to remain firmly shut. Here is Olsson doing what she does best: illuminating the terrain of friendship and examining the many forms that love can take. ![]() From the beloved author of Astrid & Veronika, a moving tale of friendship and redemption Fans of Astrid & Veronika and Chris Cleave's Little Bee will be thrilled to read Linda Olsson's third novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() and the kind of book you will find yourself picking up again and again.” - Kirkus Reviews online “This is the kind of book you leave sitting out for all to see. “Jammed with storytelling wisdom.” - Fast Company ’s Co.Create blog Valente, and Karen Joy Fowler, to name a few. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook includes helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names in fantasy today, such as George R. ![]() ![]() Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. ![]() ![]() He then approached BBC executives to not cancel the show, instead renewing with the sole promise that he would leave the show after it’s 27th season. With it seemingly that Doctor Who was on the verge of cancelation, John-Nathan Turner still loved the show and felt that it could survive if there was one thing to be done, that was his departure. With all of that being said, let’s dive into Sylvester McCoy’s last two seasons as the Doctor. We had originally reached Early 2015 in the franchise before we had decided to wipe the slate clean with a massive set of retcons and with the Retcons, we are up to 2008/2009 with them. Will also be first put up here from now on. But, with the posts, after all of the ones we are moving from the wiki over to here. We are still gonna be maintaining the wiki. We have decided to move this over to Blogger. But, due to a recent slate of posts and retcons getting too large. ![]() The series originally had started out on our wiki back in 2020. ![]() ![]() This will be our interpretation on what could of happened. ![]() This series is a series in vein to What if Doctor Who Wasn't Axed? (created by Benjamin Windibank) or Doctor Who: The Cancelled Years (created by Optical Spectre) where we take a look at what would have happened if the hit British science fiction show Doctor Who was not cancelled by the BBC. Hello, and to the Doctor Who: Beyond 1989 series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then one night as I was getting into bed ZAP! ZING! POW! ![]() Oh, I toyed around with a couple of things, which might eventually be whipped into shape and published. I have wanted to do this, because I think I’m pretty hilarious, and it sounded like so much fun. This delightful book from a fan- and bookseller-favorite kicks off a brand-new series sure to become a modern classic.įor several years now my dear editor, Melanie, has been asking me to write something funny for younger readers. But when King and Queen Glower are ambushed and their fate is unknown, it's up to Celie, with her secret knowledge of the castle's never-ending twists and turns, to protect their home and save their kingdom. No one ever knows what the castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that is-takes the time to map out the new additions. That's because on Tuesdays the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. ![]() Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. ![]() ![]() Poppy and Casteel must consider the impossible-travel to the Lands of the Gods and wake the King himself. And they will stop at nothing to ensure that the crown never sits upon Poppy’s head.īut the greatest threat to them and to Atlantia is what awaits in the far west, where the Queen of Blood and Ash has her own plans, ones she has waited hundreds of years to carry out. But as the kingdoms’ dark sins and blood-drenched secrets finally unravel, a long-forgotten power rises to pose a genuine threat. Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. It’s a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she’s found with Prince Casteel. Armentrout comes book three in her Blood and Ash series. ![]() ![]() Bow Before Your Queen Or Bleed Before Her.įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. ![]() |