He was 10 years her senior and a passionate civil rights activist. Parks performed janitorial work in exchange for tuition.Īt 19, she met and married barber Raymond Parks. She was educated at home by her mother, a school teacher, until the age of 11, when her family moved back to Montgomery and Parks enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, an all-black private school. "There's no law that says people have to suffer." "My mother taught me self-respect," Parks later recalled. Parks' father, James, headed North and was rarely heard from. At the age of 2, she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Ala., with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Ala., to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher, on Feb.
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Provides supplemental resources, including video interviews with leading contemporary designers and artists explaining how they use color in their professional practices.Features over two hours of video commentary, including archival video of Albers and interviews with experts explaining key principles. Allows students to create, save, and export their own version of interactive plates in.Presents 60 interactive plates that reproduce the experience of working with paper, a captivating feature inspired by Albers’s teaching methodologies.Includes 122 original color studies, many allowing users to move pieces to see the effects of the colors against different backgrounds.The site features full text and plate commentary, describing Albers’s renowned principles on how to see and understand color. The website incorporates interactive features that help students understand the book’s fundamental concepts, study the plates, and experiment with their own designs. The Interaction of Color: Complete Digital Edition website offers an entirely new way for users to experience Josef Albers’s original masterwork. Interaction of Color: Complete Digital Edition The premise follows our main character, Dr. It’s an adult science-fiction trilogy and though I don’t read much sci-fi, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one! The books are: Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods and Only Human. I read the Themis Files series by Sylvain Neuvel over the past three months, one book each month. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction? What’s clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history’s most perplexing discovery-and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand’s code. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved – the object’s origins, architects, and purpose unknown.īut some can never stop searching for answers. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. Title: Themis Files (Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods, Only Humans)Ī girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. The former managing director of McKinsey penned his memoir 'Mind Without Fear' that released Monday and tells of his dramatic rise to the top of the corporate and financial world in America and then his fall after being charged in one of the largest insider trading cases in the US. Gupta served 19 months in prison and was released in 2016. They were incarcerated in the federal prison in Ayer, Massachusetts. He was sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty in 2012 of passing confidential boardroom information about Goldman Sachs to then hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, who is currently serving 11 years in jail for insider trading. Gupta, 70, also revealed that he was kept in solitary confinement for weeks in an American federal prison which, he termed, was "brutal". India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, who served 19 months in US jail for insider trading, has blamed the prosecution led by Indian-American former New York Attorney Preet Bharara for conducting the case in an "disingenuous and untruthful" manner, saying he felt like a "political prisoner". Is Worth doing it just to annoy her or does he perhaps know more of the world? Worth is also opinionated on Peregrine Tavener's love life. But to be told by a man she hates that she is forbidden to accept any suitor's 's frustrating. Not that Judith wants to rush into marriage with anyone. She could easily name half a dozen men she'd rather spend time with. Readers aren't exactly clear at times HOW he feels about her, but readers never question Judith's feelings regarding him. Judith Tavener's first impression of Worth is something. But in the meanwhile they find themselves under the protection of a surprisingly young man, Earl Worth. They are rich-or soon will be rich once they are of an age to inherit their father's money. It is the story of a brother and sister newly arrived in London. Regency Buck was one of the first Georgette Heyer novels I read. He is a treasured resource to Tabini and has become close to Tabini's young son and heir, Cajieri, the first atevi child ever to grow up in the presence of a human. Bren is now an atevi lord, with his own estate on the mainland, his own household, and his own Assassin's Guild bodyguards. In the decades Bren has served Tabini, he has become enmeshed in the atevi world in a way no human ever has before. For the Alpha Station refugees represent a political faction that the people of Mospheira broke from two centuries ago, and these Mospheirans are not enthusiastic about welcoming these immigrants from space. Tabini-aiji, the powerful political head of the atevi, tasks his brilliant human diplomat, Bren Cameron, to negotiate with the Mospheiran government. But not to the atevi mainland: rather to the territory reserved for human, the island of Mospheira. With supplies and housing stretched to the breaking point, it is clear that the refugees must be relocated down to the planet, and soon. The eighteenth novel in Cherryh's Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard five thousand human refugees from a destroyed station in a distant sector of space. Oh, and a nerve-wracking tryout for Team USA also approaches. Her longtime boyfriend has just bailed on her, and med school applications loom large. Too bad this graduating senior isn’t so confident about her life off the court. He strives to do the right thing-study diligently, take care of his siblings, represent the family well-so why does he feel so unfulfilled?Įnter Lucia’s friend and teammate Maddie Brooks, who shines at blocking the ball and acing the serve. Medical student Alejandro’s hot Latin looks get him plenty of attention, but his deep faith and admiration for his father keep him on a righteous path, with no time for something as frivolous as love. In Aced, the second book in Jennifer Lane’s Blocked series, it could be her brother Alejandro’s turn to get lucky in love. Volleyball wonder Lucia Ramirez found her love match in Blocked despite the glaring political spotlight aimed on her family. I drifted away from series tie-ins as I got older, but Ann’s name has come back on my radar again of late, due to the fact that she signed on with small press Ridan Publishing last winter to create ebook versions of her original-world StarBridge series. I later read Ann’s Star Wars novels too (more geek cred for the jar). Crispin’s Time For Yesterday and Yesterday’s Son. Spock was my favorite character, so it shouldn’t be surprising that a couple of Trek books that I re-read several times were A.C. I’d even read some of those upstart Next Generation books that was starting to proliferate on the SF shelves (I was well into adulthood before I developed an appreciation for Captain Picard). At one point, it was a source of pride that I’d read every single Trek book out there, even the hard-to-find short story collections from the 70s. When I was in sixth or seventh grade, before I found my way into fantasy, I picked up my first major geek cred by reading Star Trek books. The Wicked King (Folk of the Air #2) by Holly Black King of Scars (Nikolai Duology #1) by Leigh Bardugo The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQusiton You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah JohnsonĪurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman Need help remembering the events in a book? The folks at Recaptains and Book Series Recaps can help!Īny post with a spoiler in the title will be removed.Īny comment with a spoiler that doesn't use the spoiler code will be removed.Īny user with an extensive history of spoiling books will be banned. Book suggestions, discussions, and questions are definitely encouraged! January Book Club Discussion: A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4) by Sabaa Tahir Young Adult literature isn't exclusive to only young adults, so here's a place for both the young and the young at heart to discuss books, news, movies based on books, and everything else related to YA. But as Maleficent's agents follow her every move, Aurora struggles to discover who her true allies are and, moreover, who she truly is. Aurora isn't alone-a charming prince is eager to join her quest, and old friends offer their help. With a desperate fairy's last curse controlling her mind, Princess Aurora must escape from a different castle of thorns and navigate a dangerously magical landscape-created from her very own dreams. ONCE UPON A DREAM was a very unique retelling of another beloved story, SLEEPING BEAUTY. But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden's, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over. It should be simple-a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. : Once Upon a Dream: A Twisted Tale (Twisted Tales series, Book 2) (Twisted Tale Series, 2) (9781504751346) by Liz Braswell and a great. The 2nd installment in the New York Times best-selling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if the sleeping beauty never woke up? |