![]() ![]() Katherine Center's Things You Save in a Fire is a heartfelt, affecting novel about life, love, and the true meaning of courage.īookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She's the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, and What You Wish For. ![]() Cassie can feel her resolve slipping.but will she jeopardize her place in a career where she's worked so hard to be taken seriously? And because of the advice her old captain gave her: don't date firefighters. Except for the handsome rookie, who doesn't seem to mind having Cassie around. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren't exactly thrilled to have a "lady" on the crew, even one as competent and smart as Cassie. ![]() ![]() The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to uproot her life and move to Boston, it's an emergency of a kind Cassie never anticipated. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's excellent at dealing with other people's tragedies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As she tries to parse what freedom actually means for a Black woman, Libertie struggles with where she might find it-for herself and for generations to come. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises a better life on the island, she accepts, only to discover that she is still subordinate to him and all men. But Libertie is hungry for something else-is there really only one way to be independent? And she is constantly reminded that, unlike her light-skinned mother, she will not be able to pass for white. “A stunning look at what freedom really means.” - The New York TimesĬoming of age in a free Black community in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie is to go to medical school and practice alongside her. ![]() A New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021 and Best Historical Fiction PickĪ Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, TIME, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor ![]() ![]() Amid the blaze of publicity that followed, he received a unique invitation: Would John like to take part in a study led by one of the world’s foremost neuroscientists, who would use an experimental new brain therapy known as TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation, in an effort to understand and then address the issues at the heart of autism? Switched On is the extraordinary story of what happened next.Having spent forty years as a social outcast, misreading others’ emotions or missing them completely, John is suddenly able to sense a powerful range of feelings in other people. ![]() But what if we’ve been wrong all this time? What if that “missing” emotional insight was there all along, locked away and inaccessible in the mind?In 2007 John Elder Robison wrote the international bestseller Look Me in the Eye, a memoir about growing up with Asperger’s syndrome. Then imagine that someone suddenly switches the lights on.It has long been assumed that people living with autism are born with the diminished ability to read the emotions of others, even as they feel emotion deeply. ![]() ![]() 393 150, rue Ste-Cath.O - local #113Īn extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the EyeNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTImagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions and social signals of other people. ![]() ![]() The book chronicles how Daughters felt called to reach out to Dana even though the two hadn’t been in personal contact in years. Daughters was inspired to begin her quest of personal letter writing after she had written many letters of support and offered continuous prayers for her friend from summer camp, Dana, and Dana’s family. The subtitle of the book, “that time i went crazy and wrote all 580 of my Facebook friends a handwritten letter,” is intriguing enough, but it doesn’t tell all of the story. ![]() The realization that she could only claim superficial knowledge of the people she called friends, launched Daughters on a journey that would have wide ramifications for her life. A tale for our lives now that started when the author realized that someone she knew as a teen, and who she was friends with on Facebook, was suffering a personal tragedy. Dear Dana by Amy Weinland Daughters is somewhat of a story within a story. ![]() ![]() ![]() This conversation - often referred to as ‘The Talk’ - has become a normal part of life in African American families when young males are told how to behave when confronted by the police and how to engage with a world that will treat them differently because of their black bodies. As a fifteen-year old black boy in America, Samori was affected by these tragic stories, and Coates found it necessary to talk to him about the dangers of living in a black body in the US. Within the space of one year, when Samori was fifteen, he saw the deaths of several African Americans at the hands of the police and the acquittal of another young African American’s killer. The book is written in the form of a letter from Coates to his adolescent son, Samori, to help him understand the complexities of growing up black in the US. This book is a critical social commentary on life in the United States that should inform every conversation concerned with mission in places that live with racial and economic oppression. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a self-proclaimed atheist who rejects the Christian God, and yet his book, Between the World and Me, is what happens when God draws the curtains to unveil the evil of racism that prevails across the world. ![]() ![]() Review of Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisis Coates, (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 2015). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL4126497W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.80 Pages 266 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0307772705 From Robert Hunt Rhodes, ed., All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and. Urn:lcp:allforunionc00rhod:lcpdf:d5e7763f-a0e6-4e7f-9816-1907dbc36073 Elisha Hunt Rhodes (18421917) was a boy when he enlisted as a private in the. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:13:06 Boxid IA151701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Orion ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “He was a brown man in America longing for a brown woman, but he did not see his story in racial terms.” Longing, too, for the son he never had, he brings into existence a make-believe one, his own Sancho. Ismail Smile, a half-cracked commercial traveller who has suffered a stroke, watches too much television, becomes besotted with the celebrity Salma R (one letter away from “Salman”) and decides – having renamed himself Quichotte – that his destiny is to meet and fall in love with her. His new novel is satire, too, like its archetype Don Quixote. “It’s more important to have satire in these times,” he said in an interview last year, about his 2017 novel, The Golden House. Overtaken by our bonkers politics, it has been made irrelevant by larger-than-life buffoons who, having arrived at the centres of power, engineer an aura of freewheeling absurdity which surpasses any attempt – in any medium – to lampoon them. It’s commonplace to say that satire is out of date. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Aroostook County is home to so many of our employees and their families,” says Jim Irving, Co-CEO of Irving Woodlands LLC and Irving Forest Products, Inc. ![]() The gift was presented recently to ACAP leaders to meet unmet needs County-wide, especially for low-income families struggling to make ends meet, especially in light of the ongoing financial challenges that have presented themselves over the two years of the ongoing pandemic. Irving, Limited has donated $25,000 to Aroostook County Action Program (ACAP) to ensure resources are available for those in most need when no other programs or supportive services are available or accessible. An innovative, community-minded, and family owned business with diverse operations on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border has once again demonstrated its commitment to the people and region it serves with a significant gift to support vulnerable families and individuals in northern Maine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the photo-realistic “object visualizers” like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker. “A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” -Steve SilbermanĪ landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkersĪ quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin- “an anthropologist on Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her-transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her grandfather’s anxious voice was the loudest of them all. But muddy water rushed against her face, filling her mouth and nose, making it impossible to breathe.Ībove the roaring water, shouts and calls trailed after her. Frantically she fought the raging current. The Neosho River wrapped its cold fingers around Linnea Newberry and pulled her down. 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