![]() ![]() She wants what's best for her children but struggles to find her place in a new landscape.Įmerging from the interwoven perspectives of these three women comes a story of love and longing, culture and compromise, home and homeland. ![]() ![]() Zainab Mansour, the matriarch of her family, never expected to live in America, but after the death of her husband she finds herself lost in a faithless country and lonely within the walls of her eldest son's home. The communication between Alison and her husband is already shaky how will they cope with the arrival of their first child? Young and ambitious Alison Mansour has a degree in Near East Studies, but her American education and Syrian background are of no use when her new marriage begins to crumble under the weight of cultural and religious differences. Īmerican-born Margaret Mansour wants nothing more than to rekindle the struggling twenty-year marriage to her Palestinian husband, Ahmed-but not if it means uprooting their home and children in America and moving halfway across the world. ![]() But despite our best efforts, sometimes love-and family-are foreign to us. To the Mansours, an Arab American family living in Seattle, love knows no borders. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Today it is still celebrated within families, with gatherings and food, but it’s also celebrated on a larger scale in many cities with parades, freedom walks, and festivals, especially since it became a federal holiday last year. ![]() In 1872, a group of Black ministers and businessmen purchased 10 acres of land, which they turned into Emancipation Park, a place to hold Juneteenth celebrations. Traditionally, the day was celebrated by praying and bringing families together. ![]() Juneteenth is also known as “Juneteenth Independence Day,” “Emancipation Day,” or “Freedom Day.” The holiday is the oldest national holiday commemorating the end of slavery. Communities nationwide are celebrating by walking 2.5 miles, in recognition of the 2.5 years it took for the news of freedom to reach all enslaved people in the United States. Opal Lee has been campaigning for decades to have Juneteenth nationally recognized, and when she was 94 years old, she saw President Biden sign the bill. On June 17th, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. June 19th is the day that federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation that all enslaved people be freed. Juneteenth, short for June nineteenth, commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() Building Structures Illustrated takes a new approach to structural design, showing how structural systems of a building-such as an integrated assembly of elements with pattern, proportions, and scale-are related to the fundamental aspects of architectural design. While structural engineers do the detailed consulting work for a project, architects should have enough knowledge of structural theory and analysis to design a building. Structures are an essential element of the building process, yet one of the most difficult concepts for architects to grasp. Ching's illustrated guide to structural design. Includes overview of the historicial development of architectural materials and structures"- "A new edition of Francis D.K. Treatment of structural design as part of the entire building design process. ![]() ![]() Illustrated throughout with Ching's trademark drawing. ![]() One-stop guide to structural design in practice, meant for every designer's desktop. "Bestselling reference by reknowned authors of architectural design. Building Structures - Structural Patterns - Horizontal Spans - Vertical Dimensions - Lateral Stability - Long-Span Structures - High-Rise Structures - Systems Integration. ![]() ![]() Minnow's sense of purposelessness, her feeling that she is somehow not as worthy as her sisters, echo the insecurities that many children experience, and those young people will find a person with whom to identify, in this little mermaid. Family dynamics, in the form of sibling rivalry, play a role, but the main thrust of the story seems to be the age-old questions of what we are doing here, and what we are meant to do with our lives. Campbell's The Mermaid and the Shoes is a beautifully-told and beautifully-illustrated story, one with plenty of enchantment, but also lots of heart. In the process she learnt, not just what the red thing was, but what she was born to do: ask questions, explore, and share what she had learned with others.Clearly inspired by such fairy-tales as The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen, K.G. Where did the bubbles go, she wondered, and why didn't crabs have fins? When the warm surface current brought Minnow an odd red object that she could not identify, she set out to the edge of the underwater kingdom to investigate. What she was, was a mermaid with lots of questions. ![]() ![]() She wasn't a talented singer like her sister Calypso, or a gifted gardener like Clio. ![]() Unlike the forty-nine other daughters of King Neptune, little Minnow had no extraordinary gifts, or special skills. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oftentimes, she gets too excited over small things and loves the idea of sleeping in and waking up to a strong cup of coffee. As an individual, she loves Swedish fish and the idea of camping outside Starbucks. She currently lives with her husband Nathan Van Dyke, a kid, and 2 dogs. She went to a small private school and finished Bachelors in Social Sciences and Masters in Business in a private college known as California Coast University. She grew in a small town in Washington State where you can commonly see cows and tractors cross the streets. As a writer, she also loved reading books by other amazing authors like Julia Quinn, Meg Cabot, CS Lewis, Stephanie Meyer, Ted Dekker and a lot more. This is through the help of her sales representative from Trident Media Group, Erica Spellman. Born on May 19, 1985, Rachel Van Dyken received numerous writing awards including #1 New York Times Bestseller, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller and USA Today Bestseller for her Regency and New Adult Romance novels. ![]() ![]() If she can keep from having bonding sex with him during that time, she can go home and get on with her life on Earth.īut Baird isn’t going to make it easy for her. She has one month on the Kindred Mothership with Baird-their claiming period. His need to possess her is a burning intensity that threatens to consume them both.Īngry at having her future and her family taken away from her, Liv vows to fight back the only way she can-by resisting. Through the torment and pain only one thing kept him sane-the thought of finding and claiming his bride-Olivia. The chances of being chosen are about the same as those of winning the lottery-guess it’s just Liv’s lucky day.īaird is a Beast Kindred who recently escaped imprisonment and torture at the hands of the malevolent Scourge. After saving Earth from the threat of invasion they demand a reward-the right to find brides among the population. The Kindred are huge alien warriors-a race of genetic traders whose population is ninety-five percent male. ![]() ![]() Problem is, she isn’t being forced into the Army, she’s been chosen as a Kindred bride. ![]() ![]() Olivia Waterhouse has just graduated from nursing school and has her whole life ahead of her-until she gets drafted. ![]() ![]() ![]() A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. ![]() He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. ![]() That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s LiteratureĪn ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds-the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. ![]() ![]() ![]() A town that would rather have been known for its Little League World Series champions ended up making history for an entirely different reason: a notorious cluster of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution. ![]() ![]() Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”-Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerThe riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable cast of characters into a sweeping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action, The Emperor of All Maladies, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.One of New Jersey’s seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. “A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. ![]() ![]() 'an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millennium's greatest minds.' - The Observer 'Isaacson doesn't claim to make any fresh discoveries, but his book is intelligently organised, simply written and beautifully illustrated.' Book of the Day, The Guardian. Isaacson is an assured guide to Leonardo's fallibility - so many projects started, so few completed - as well as his extraordinary curiosity and his even more remarkable painterly skills that were sharpened by intense observation.' Michael Prodger, Books of the Year - The Sunday Times 'Infinitely curious, easily distracted, vain and vegetarian, Leonardo is brought to vivid life in this accomplished biography.' - The SundayTimes. Leonardo was resolutely human (illegitimate, vegan, in need of patrons) rather than the near deity of legend. ![]() For all his supernatural gifts as an artist and natural scientist. ![]() ![]() The #1 New York Times Bestseller 'Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, he's simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable man' Books of the Year - The Times 'Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore. ![]() |