6/12/2023 0 Comments The infinite noise lauren shippen“I mean, I feel like I’ve gotten used to their feelings, you know? So, like, I’m able to balance them a bit. “How was it being with your family the past few weeks?” she asks. “It might be an easy way to push away the other feelings,” she tells me, “but it won’t help you process them.” We sit in silence again but this time Dr. “It’s just easier, you know?” “What’s easier?” “Feeling annoyed or mad at stuff,” I say. And we don’t want a repeat of what happened with Tyler.” “Yeah, I know,” I sigh. When you’re overwhelmed or refusing the input from your ability, you respond with anger. “I don’t remember putting it quite that way,” she smirks, “but yes. “Caleb”-there’s that stare again and the soothing hardens- “what have we talked about?” “Don’t deflect emotion with being an asshole,” I recite, and there’s a small, quick glow within the perfectly even Therapist Mode that Dr. I sense it more in her emotions than her voice, and it grates. “You’ve made some good strides since November, Caleb,” she soothes. “Because being in high school when you can feel everyone’s feelings is a complete nightmare?” I answer dryly. “Why not?” she asks, like the answer isn’t obvious. “I don’t wanna go back,” I mumble, face heating. Bright pins me with a stare and I eventually give in, every time. I just wish I was better at winning them. Bright asks after a few moments of silence.
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Signorie di Romagna by John LarnerIf your institution is not listed or you cannot sign in to your institution’s website, please contact your librarian or administrator.Įnter your library card number to sign in.
6/12/2023 0 Comments Before we were free bookI tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.Īfter seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t see you again until a month ago. Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s struggle to be free while living in the Dominican Republic under the rule of a dictator. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. I learned more about myself that year than any other. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the “Diamond” pairing that could launch GeneticAlly’s valuation sky-high, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist-and the science behind a soulmate-than she thought. Jess-who is barely making ends meet-is in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we’ll pay you. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers : This Jess understands.Īt least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. Jess holds her loved ones close but working constantly to stay afloat is hard.and lonely.īut then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. After all, her father was never around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before her daughter was even born. Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. 6/12/2023 0 Comments The iron queen bookThe next part of the series is the novella "Winter's Passage", which follows Ash and Meghan as he takes her to the winter court per their agreement, but along the way they are attacked by a creature sent by Oberon to "rescue" Meghan. Along the way, she meets Ash, the son of the Winter queen, whom she agrees to accompany in exchange for his help dealing with the iron court. She ventures to faery lands to rescue her brother, but finds herself caught up in the politics of the world, and is forced to fight against the iron court, a brand new court formed as human dreams begin to shift toward technology. She also finds out that her best friend, Robbie Goodfell, is actually Robin Goodfellow, better known as Puck. Meghan finds out that her father was not the insurance salesman she thought he was, but was instead Oberon, king of the Summer Court of the Fey. The Iron King (not to be confused with the tokusatsu show) is where our story starts. The Iron Fey is a series of Young Adult novels by Julie Kagawa, dealing with the misadventures of young Meghan Chase in Faeryland. 6/11/2023 0 Comments They called usGeorge’s parents know that the framing of the questions is unethical and hypocritical their consciences require them to answer “no” to each question. Two of the questions-numbers 27 and 28-ask if they will serve in the US military for combat duty, and if they will forsake any allegiance to the Japanese emperor. In June 1943 camp prisoners are forced to answer a so-called Loyalty Questionnaire. His parents do a good job of protecting him and his siblings-Henry and Nancy-from many of the realities of their incarceration. George’s memories of the camp are not entirely unpleasant. George’s father works to form a community among the internees, serving as the Block Manager. George’s mother does what she can to create a new home in the small barracks cabin. Much of the story focuses on how George’s mother and father deal with their new situations, with each throwing themselves into their work. The galvanizing event that turns America against the Japanese is the attack on Pearl Harbor. George is a child when his family relocates to Camp Rohwer, a detention facility in Arkansas. 6/11/2023 0 Comments The jigsaw man nadineTaut, vivid and addictively sinister, The Jigsaw Man will leave you breathless until the very last page. Can she apprehend the copycat killer before Olivier finds a way to get to him first? Or will she herself become the next victim?ĭrawing on her experience as a criminal attorney, debut novelist Nadine Matheson delivers the page-turning crime novel of the year. When he learns that someone is co-opting his grisly signature-the arrangement of victims’ limbs in puzzle-piece shapes-he decides to take matters into his own hands.Īs the body count rises, DI Anjelica Henley is faced with an unspeakable new threat. The modus operandi bears a striking resemblance to Peter Olivier, the notorious Jigsaw Killer, who has spent the past two years behind bars. Dismembered body parts from two victims have been found by the river. On the day she returns to active duty with the Serial Crimes Unit, Detective Inspector Anjelica Henley is called to a crime scene. Can DI Anjelica Henley stop them before it’s too late? *A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2021*Ī serial killer and his copycat are locked in a violent game of cat and mouse. *Shortlisted for the 2022 Diverse Book Award* "A heart-pounding roller coaster ride."- Tami Hoag, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boy 6/11/2023 0 Comments Tea rex by molly idleThe cuddly yet giddily preposterous pencil art has the still-life absurdity of Chris Van Allsburg, with characters always frozen in the throes of some larger-than-life struggle against their well-meaning but deadpan dinosaur friend. After greeting a guest at the door, “Lead him through to the parlor.” (Illustration: siblings straining to pull a giant green dinosaur through a human-sized door.) Next: “Offer him a comfortable chair.” (Illustration: a dainty pink chair nearly crushed beneath a behemoth rear end.) And on it goes with the dino wreaking havoc upon each highly civilized instance of small talk or cake serving. Some kids like tea parties, others like dinosaurs, and never the twain shall meet-until now? Idle cleverly constructs her picture book as a Miss Manners–style primer on how to throw a delightfully proper tea party, and the prose’s stiff upper lip never falters no matter the monster-sized faux pas occurring within the illustrations. While there is extensive work on both the relationship between sport and empire, as well as the use of sport within the Indian Boarding School system of the 1870s to the 1910s, there is a dearth of historiographical work that puts the two into conversation with each other. Like Pratt’s students, those who fell within the American imperial network were exposed to sports as a mechanism of control. As many scholars have noted, the United States was becoming an imperial force. At the same time that Carlisle was collecting children from across the continent, the United States was expanding territorially: Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, Hawai’i. In doing so, the school implemented a series of forceful measures including language training, Western-style dress, hair cutting, and, perhaps uniquely, sports. When Richard Henry Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian Boarding School in 1879, his goal was to civilize Indigenous bodies. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Beautiful country qianShe indeed taught herself, availing herself of picture books that enabled her to associate words with objects. Qian went to school, but lacking English, was put into a class for “special needs” children, and left to learn English on her own. Qian’s mother found work in various sweatshops that literally paid pennies Qian’s “Ba Ba,” who had English skills, was able, after an initial stint in a Chinese laundry, to find a job as a clerk for an immigration lawyer. In New York, however, without papers, her parents had to take any menial jobs they could find. Fear was a constant part of their lives.īack in China, her parents had been professionals – her father taught English literature and her mother taught math. Almost every day, they were called “chinks” by passersby in the street. Qian’s father continuously warned her not to talk to any strangers in New York, but she and her family were perceived as “other” nevertheless. Thus, we can fully appreciate her confusion, fear, and the enormous challenges – including the language barrier – as she tries to make her way in her new country. She manages to recreate her past without any adult hindsight coloring her impressions. The author writes about her childhood as an illegal immigrant who came with her family from China to America (“Mei Guo” or “Beautiful Country”) in 1994 at age 7. |