![]() ![]() Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course. ![]() Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Or, as we discuss in the episode, “Everybody’s family is different and everybody’s family has something, even if they don’t admit it.” Related Episodes:Įpisode 22: A Murder Mystery with the Literary DetectiveĮpisode 78: A Grandmother’s Gift with Gonzalo Luengo Links: It’s the embarrassing and shameful actions of our ancestors – and what to do about it – that drive this conversation. She and Maureen dive into what it means to have a skeleton in the closet, or an ancestor who didn’t live up to the same standards we do. This week Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by author Maud Newton – who recently published Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and Reconciliation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Recent and forthcoming publications include Winter Lullaby, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki (Candlewick Press), Look and Listen: Who’s in the Garden, Meadow, Brook? illustrated by Amy Schimler-Safford, and Dark on Light, illustrated by Felicita Sala (Beach Lane/S&S, December 6, 2022). Find her at Īmy Trueblood grew up in Southern California only ten minutes from Disneyland which sparked an early interest in storytelling. Her debut novel, Nothing But Sky was a Spring 2018 Junior Library Guild selection. This free event will be moderated by PAL coordinator Dianne White and Amy Trueblood.ĭianne White is the author of numerous picture books, including the award-winning, Blue on Blue, illustrated by Caldecott medalist Beth Krommes, and Green on Green, illustrated by Felicita Sala (Beach Lane/S&S). ![]() This event will spotlight authors and illustrators, who will introduce themselves and their books, and provide attendees the opportunity to get answers to their general publishing questions. ![]() ![]() Join us in celebrating recent PAL book releases and hearing from the creators in our next SCBWI-AZ Author/Illustrator Showcase and Q&A on Saturday, December 3, 2022, from 1:00 pm-2:15 pm (Phoenix, AZ Time) on Zoom. ![]() ![]() ![]() His stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Harvard Review, Washington Square, and other journals and anthologies. ![]() ![]() ( From the publisher.)Ĭhip Cheek is an American author whose debut novel, Cape May, was published in 2019. The empty beach town becomes their playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with irrevocable consequences.Įrotic and moving, this is a novel about marriage, love and sexuality, and the lifelong repercussions that meeting a group of debauched cosmopolitans has on a new marriage. Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara’s lover and Alma, Max’s aloof and mysterious half-sister, to whom Henry is irresistibly drawn. Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short.īut before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted. A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites. ![]() ![]() (It is absolutely fine to buy HC books, the union has just asked for a hold on reviews and promo, btw. (I think I caught all the imprints but if I’ve messed up let me know in the comments.) HarperCollins: start negotiating and pay your staff properly because this sucks for staff and authors alike. This is because, with deep regret, I am excluding all HarperCollins books (which includes Mills & Boon and Avon) since the union, currently on strike with incredibly reasonable demands that the company is ignoring, have asked that people don’t review/promo HarperCollins titles for the duration of the strike. Goodreads tells me I’ve read 248 books, although that omits the rereads: the Agatha Christies and Georgette Heyers that were all I could manage during the worst weeks of Covid, the Murderbot and Kate Griffin reread in Covid recovery, and the huge Terry Pratchett glom after reading the bio. ![]() Inexplicably, we’re once again trundling towards the end of the year so it’s time for my annual books post. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is an alternatively zany and heartfelt film, which doesn't really make the leap from the fine to outstanding -but still has many narrative and visual pleasures to behold. Animal characters with no individual names ('The Fox, The Rabbit, A Duck) are meant to fulfill their alloted roles, but (surprise, surprise) they fail. Without the edgy outlook of Ernest and Celestine, but still within the 'role doesn't make the man' motto, Renner and his co-writer Benjamin Regnaud sign a script that puts firmly the film in the animation for children territory - with a wacky character touch. In the manner of theatrical framing that Michel Ocelot introduced in Princes and Princesses (but totally unrelated in style and subject-matter), The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales is a 3-episode of roles and stereotypes, cleverly subverted, easy to laugh at, and a visual pleasure all the same. ![]() A Folivari / Panique! co-production, the film finds Renner co-directing with Patrick Imbert (who was animation director in Ernest and Celestine). Based on the eponymous graphic novel by Benjamin Renner, The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales (Le grand méchant renard et autres contes, 2017) is the next feature film from the Oscar-nominated, Ernest and Celestine director. ![]() ![]() She is matter of-fact about the coming destruction we face-of our environment, of our resources, of our governments. “It was a revelation to discover adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy. ![]() ![]() Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color Brown not only inspires me to resist, but to do in the most beautiful, joyful, creative, sustainable, collective and effective ways.” ![]() “Emergent Strategy is an examination of where our movements have been and an offering of a framework for resistance that is rooted in the miracles of nature, decentralized, collective leadership, and personal, relational, organizational, and movement-wide transformation. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. The world is in a continual state of flux. Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. ![]() A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! Self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Mallipeddi shows, sentimentalism allowed metropolitan authors to fashion themselves as melancholy witnesses to racial slavery by counterposing the singular body to the abstract commodity and by taking affective property in slaves against the legal proprietorship of slaveholders. The book’s first chapters consider how slave distress emerged as a topic of emotional concern and political intervention in the writings of Aphra Behn, Richard Steele, and Laurence Sterne. ![]() Mallipeddi approaches the problem of slavery as a problem of embodiment in this nuanced account of how melancholy sentiment mediated colonial relations between English citizens and Caribbean slaves. Spectacular Suffering focuses on commodification and discipline, two key dimensions of Atlantic slavery through which black bodies were turned into things in the marketplace and persons into property on plantations. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the emergence of life at deep-sea vents to solar-powered starships sailing through the galaxy, from the Big Bang to the intricacies of intelligence in many life forms, acclaimed author Ann Druyan documents where humanity has been and where it is going, using her unique gift of bringing complex scientific concepts to life. ![]() This sequel to Carl Sagan’s blockbuster continues the electrifying journey through space and time, connecting with worlds billions of miles away and envisioning a future of science tempered with wisdom.īased on National Geographic’s internationally-renowned television series, this groundbreaking and visually stunning book explores how science and civilization grew up together. Publisher: National Geographic Illustrated Edition (February 25, 2020). ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing is so intricate yet it is read with an ease that one can truly appreciate. “ Halo was absolutely brilliant! I am in complete love with Halo! The characters are so complex and the plot is a rollercoaster you will not want to get off of. Doubtless it will be another winner.” - New York Journal of Books The next installment is Hades, due in the Fall of 2011. there never seem to be enough lengthy tomes to satisfy the legions of paranormal-romance fans, and this first title of a planned trilogy fits the bill.” - Booklist “The 17-year-old author's angel mythology is solid. Xavier is gorgeous, honorable and so protective of Bethany that you'll be crushing on him after the first chapter.” - Justine magazine “These angels are the optimistic, hope-filled cousins of the tormented fallen angels in other paranormal romances. boom never would have happened and publishing would be much gloomier.” - New York Times Book Review If it were not for young adult readers like her, the Y.A. “ dialogue feels fresh and real, pulled from the mouths of her peers without any cultural markers necessary to prove relevance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, Salt Slow considers characters in motion - turning away, turning back or simply turning into something new entirely. The mundane worlds of schools and sleepy sea-side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to its inhabitants. Teenagers develop ungodly appetites, a city becomes insomniac overnight, and bodies are diligently picked apart to make up better ones. ![]() ![]() In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores the body, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge. 'Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself' - M John Harrison, Guardian ![]() |