![]() It evokes Yōko Ogawa’s Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales or Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men, occupying a space between dystopia and horror. They is spare, troubling, eerily familiar. ![]() ‘You’ve forgotten this,’ he had said as he hurled his recently finished fugue into the fire.”) They hold the right arm of Jane, a poet, over flames for eight minutes, for the crime of moving towards her burning work. Should they choose to continue their practice, “they amputate your hands and cut out your tongue”, one of them tells the narrator. A children’s author walks shell-shocked, daily, into a pond, seemingly to extinguish the memory of being set on fire. A sculptor has the broken glass from his sculpture pressed into his eyes. ![]() Unrepentant visual artists are blinded, shameless musicians made deaf. They loathe art, people who live alone, excessive displays of emotion they pilfer novels and paintings, they burn music scores and poetry. Calculating in their cruelty and methods in one moment and shockingly reckless and barbaric the next, they move on trawlers in the waterways and erect eerie towers on the coast where the defiant are sent to have their memories purged. ![]() They have no government, no creed, no mercy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pre-Civil War RoleĬharles Rainsford Jennison was born in Antwerp, Jefferson County in northwestern New York. Jennison's jayhawking would eventually cause him to be court-martialed and dishonorably discharged from the US Army in 1865. After Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Jennison would raise the 15th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. ![]() The Seventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment would become infamous and would be known as "Jennison's Jayhawkers". Twice Jennison was asked by the Governor of Kansas to raise a cavalry regiment to defend Kansas against Southern invasion during the American Civil War. Both prior to and during the war, Jennison frequently led his men across the border into Missouri to rob, steal, plunder, and burn whatever they could lay their hands upon. “Doc” Jennison's name would become synonymous with “Jayhawking”. After emigrating to Kansas in the late 1850s, Charles R. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() While recuperating from this illness, McCullers began to read voraciously and to consider writing as a vocation.Ĭourtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division She was forced to give up her dream of a career as a concert pianist after rheumatic fever left her without the stamina for the rigors of practice or a concert career. Encouraged by her mother, who was convinced that her daughter was destined for greatness, McCullers began formal piano study at age ten. ![]() An unremarkable student, she preferred the more solitary study of the piano. Lula Carson, as she was called until age fourteen, attended public schools and graduated from Columbus High School at sixteen. Early Life and Educationīorn Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, McCullers was the daughter of Lamar Smith, a jewelry store owner, and Vera Marguerite Waters. ![]() At least four of her works have been made into films. She is best known for her novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding, all published between 19. With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, more than two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children’s verse, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, Carson McCullers is considered to be among the most significant American writers of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() “For who love suspense, drama, and mystery. “For who love suspense, drama, and mystery.” - TIME for Kids and entertaining.” - School Library Journal, Starred ![]() ![]() “Hopkinson illuminates a pivotal chapter in the history of public health. ![]() Snow’s theory-before the entire neighborhood is wiped out. As the epidemic surges, it’s up to Eel and his best friend, Florrie, to gather evidence to prove Dr. But even for Eel, things aren’t so bad until that fateful August day in 1854-the day the deadly cholera epidemic (“blue death”) comes to Broad Street.Įveryone believes that cholera is spread through poisonous air. And he’s got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a week to keep safe. He’s being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. “A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.” - Publishers Weekly, StarredĮel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel is a 2013 YA novel by American author Deborah Hopkinson. The suspenseful tale of two courageous kids and one inquisitive scientist who teamed up to stop an epidemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It will make you forever question your own ideas about what is normal. Her struggle to save herself is at the core of this penetrating and poignant novel that probes our perceptions of ability and disability. His maniacal drive to find answers soon renders Mary a “live specimen” in a cruel experiment. And a cunning young scientist has arrived, hoping to discover the origin of the island’s prevalent deafness. Tensions over land disputes are mounting between English settlers and the Wampanoag people. Mary’s brother died, leaving her family shattered. She is proud of her lineage.īut recent events have delivered winds of change. ![]() Now, over a hundred years later, many people there - including Mary - are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha’s Vineyard. Today we’re pleased to welcome Ann Clare LeZotte to the WNDB blog to discuss her middle-grade novel SHOW ME A SIGN, out now! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also served on Wendell Willkie’s staff when Willkie was running for president.Īt the time his first book, Papa Married a Mormon (1955), was published, he was living in Los Angeles and working as a steel buyer. He worked in a variety of occupations during his life, including newspaper reporter for the World-Tribune in New York City, foreign correspondent for United Press, advertising and purchasing agent, and bank auditor. ![]() John graduated from Carbon High School at the age of eighteen and left Utah to pursue a career as a jazz drummer. His father had a pharmacy degree but engaged in a number of business ventures and served on the Price Town Council for four years. John Dennis Fitzgerald was born in Price, Utah, on February 3, 1906, to Thomas and Minnie Melsen Fitzgerald. This noted author of young adult books created the Great Brain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the townspeople have brown skin, as do two students in Peter’s class the other characters, including Peter, Ted, and Mr. ![]() Bold watercolor-and-pencil illustrations give all the characters distinct personalities and plant funny details to spot in the busy double-page spreads. ![]() Donaldson’s pitch-perfect text effectively uses humorous twists and rich vocabulary as well as a fine sense of melodramatic pacing. Then ever resourceful Nell leads the group to the library, where Ted gets his own library card so he can read books as much as he likes. Jones, on a search to find the books, which have been stolen by a (nonscary) giant named Ted. Nell leads the class of children and their teacher, Mr. ![]() One Monday, the books are all missing from the shelves, and the students and teacher are despondent. Detective Dog Nell accompanies Peter to school each Monday, where she listens to children read stories from their well-stocked library shelves. Rollicking, rhyming text describes Nell’s successes at solving little puzzles and finding missing items for her owner, a 6-year-old boy named Peter. A talented dog named Nell uses her acute sense of smell to solve mysteries in her neighborhood, including the complete disappearance of a classroom library. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The play explores the nature of theatre, anti-Semitism, censorship, politics, homophobia and true love. Combining music, song, dance and comedy, Indecent takes us behind-the-scenes to tell the true story of this forgotten controversy. Premiering at Yale Repertory Theatre, she calls her play Indecent. In 2015, inspired by the controversy of God of Vengeance on Broadway, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel debuts a play about this explosive moment in theatre history. Suddenly this evocative work of Jewish culture that explores religious hypocrisy among other social issues, is a cause célèbre. The entire cast is arrested and charged with obscenity. What European audiences had found brilliant, dazzling and moving, Broadway audiences respond with shock and disgust. In 1923, after highly celebrated and groundbreaking productions in Europe, Sholem Asch’s drama God of Vengeance finally opens on Broadway. BUY TICKETS The Tony Award-Winning Play Generously supported in the memory of Willmott Bruce Hunter ![]() ![]() ![]() When his father is not waking him up at all hours of the night or disappearing for days at a time, Robbie spends his time preparing meals, doing laundry and going to school, not to mention his part-time job. ![]() With a mentally ill father at home, Robbie knows how to take care of himself. Robbie, 13, is the King of Jam Sandwiches. It makes complete sense,” she said, nodding. And if I do that every day, day after day after day, eventually I might, well, become somebody.” There. I get up thinking that I need to work harder and longer than everybody in the entire world, and if I do that, I can gain just a little. “I get up every morning knowing that I have to work hard.” “Okay, like I said, this is going to sound strange.” I took a deep breath. “If I tell you, you can’t tell anybody,” I finally said. She had blurted out about me and my mother to Mrs. I had to decide exactly what I was going to tell her or if I should tell her anything. ![]() I took a seat on the steps of a walk leading up to a house. ![]() |