But, weaving through her work is a common thread, that of the improbable heroine. Kathleen Cheney is nothing if not versatile in her story telling. “The Life Expectancy of Cockroaches” by Michelle Muenzler “Ghosts To My Fingertips” by Rachelle Harp “Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince” by Jake Kerr Featuring eighteen stunning stories of science fiction and fantasy, including works by Nebula winner William Ledbetter ("The Long Fall Up"), and Nebula nominees Jake Kerr (“Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince”) and Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam ("The Orangery”), A LONE STAR IN THE SKY covers the gamut of speculative fiction and proves once again that everything is bigger in Texas. All these stories and more can be found in A LONE STAR IN THE SKY, the second anthology from the Future Classics speculative fiction writers' group of North Dallas. A synthetic human fighting for survival in a world that sees her as disposable. A deep space pilot who runs headlong into Einstein’s theory of relativity. A man sent to stop the world’s first zero-G birth.
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Everyone was so happy and thankful, and the mill engine changed completely the life of the farmers and their families.īut this happiness and joy didn’t continue long. For the first time, we had electric lights. I remember I was five years old when my father, who was among the few educated people in our small city, brought electricity and a mill engine to the city. Sabet: I would like to say that I am a cry of genocide from the hearth of history. Sarvestany: Could you please introduce yourself and share something of your personal experience as a girl from a religious minority growing up in Iran before the Islamic revolution? 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Kathleen Karr's delightful, well-crafted adventure is witty, suspenseful, and deliciously Dickensian most of all, it has a great deal of heart. And can the doctor really mean that he wants Voltaire's skull from Paris? Things heat up even more when they discover they have a mysterious enemy with a brow "broad and low," clearly the skull of a criminal. In time, however, his apprenticeship intensifies when he learns he must help his master rob graves for real specimens. Matthew is eager to please this eccentric man, if only for a warm bed and all the oatmeal he can eat. "Give me a skull, and I can conjure up the very soul of a man!" he cries passionately. Cornwall, a kindly-if-obsessed phrenologist who hopes to someday perfect mankind through his study of the contours of human skulls, particularly those of flawed characters. As it turns out, he is the plump, puffy, rumpled Asa B. Alone on the streets of 1840s New York, Matthew leaps at the opportunity to help this Dr. He is interested in medicine-he wants to find a cure for the cholera that wiped out his whole family and left him orphaned. Twelve-year-old Matthew Morrissey can't believe his luck when he spots this ad in the paper. “When we were filming, they were so honest that, you know, you can’t mess up or else they’ll call you out. “They’re just so pure, and they keep you honest,” he said. Minari star and executive producer Steven Yeun also appeared on late night last night and commended the film’s child actors. And no, he would not tell Kimmel the password). In the interview, Kim also talked about the money he gets from the tooth fairy (payments range from from $2 to $20) and where he puts that money (a toy chest that he got from a Minari producer. When Kimmel asked about his martial-arts side hustle, Kim said he used to be a blue belt, but he “took a test last Wednesday and upgraded.” Guess he needed those skills before the Globes? Kim said he “guessed” he could beat Kimmel in a battle, which proved correct right at the end of the segment - Kim punched Jimmy in the stomach, but immediately asked, “Did that hurt?” Get him, Alan! Gracing Jimmy Kimmel Live last night with his adorable cheeks, Kim talked about Minari’s Golden Globes win and came out sporting his purple Tae Kwon Do belt. In spite of everything wrong with this awards season, there is one shining light, and it is the beautiful cherub that is 8-year-old Minari star Alan Kim. In the next section we review assessments of Lovelace's mathematical ability, and their reception in technical and popular writing. In her lifetime she was famous as the daughter of the poet Lord Byron, brought up by her mother following her parents’ acrimonious separation shortly after her birth: subsequently her life, as much as her scientific work, has inspired numerous biographies and creative endeavours. In the two hundred years since her birth, opinions of Lovelace's ability have ranged from ‘genius’ to ‘charlatan’. (De Morgan Citation1882, 89) In 1840–41 Ada, by now the Countess of Lovelace, Footnote 2 studied calculus and higher mathematics with Sophia's husband, Augustus De Morgan, and in 1843 published the paper for which she is now famous: her translation, with extensive appendices, of Luigi Menabrea's Notions sur la Machine Analytique de M. Miss Byron, young as she was, understood its working, and saw the great beauty of the invention. Next month we'll be reading Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood. It's a lonely life, but he does have a few loyal friends, including a highly opinionated dog, an aging elephant and, eventually, a baby elephant who sets Ivan's life on an entirely new course. Ivan is always on display, but it's not a one-way street Ivan watches all the people watching him, and his observations about humans are among the greatest delights in the book. It's not as easy as it looks." It's not easy because Ivan lives far from the wild at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. The book begins with a simple introduction: "Hello. That penetrating gaze, that intelligence it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. "I think, though, it's the eyes that get me. "Their manual dexterity, it's so human," she says. Applegate joined NPR's Michele Norris at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., to talk about Ivan, and what she finds so captivating about primates. The real-life Ivan finally made his way to the Atlanta Zoo. It tells the story of a gorilla who spent 27 years in a shopping mall in Tacoma, Wash. Our June pick is The One and Only Ivan, a Newbery Medal-winning book by Katherine Applegate. The school year is drawing to a close, but NPR's Backseat Book Club has plenty of reading lined up for the summer. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The One and Only Ivan Author Katherine Applegate "And of course that means that the value of the dollar starts to slide. "Nobody wants to give you money if you're not going to pay it back," she says, so the government has had to print more money to cover its obligations. It's a dystopia with a side of economic theory.Īuthor Lionel Shriver tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer that in the world of 2029, the U.S. They plummet from the relative luxuries of the upper middle class to a small Brooklyn townhouse where four generations of the family must crouch together, enduring a life of hardship, drudgery, and eventually, violence. The Mandible family loses their fortune after the 2029 crash. and Mexico is meant to keep impoverished Americans north of the border. economy has tanked, the dollar is worthless, inflation is rampant - and the wall between the U.S. Lionel Shriver's new novel, The Mandibles, chronicles the pressure on a once well-to-do family as they try to survive in the uncertain future. How?įor the last couple of months, we've brought you our series, Hanging On, about the increasing pressure on the middle class in 2016. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Mandibles Subtitle A Family, 2029-2047 Author Lionel Shriver Glenn Barnes, pastor of Pine Hill Missionary Baptist Church. Paul Missionary Baptist Church and Thursday, the Rev. on these dates with the following speakers: Wednesday - the Rev. New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, 1317 Texas St., will hold its spring revival at 7 p.m. Articles should be submitted by email to Sandra Hope at or Details: (870) 534-3400, ext. Column writers should have connections to Southeast Arkansas. Pastors, ministers or others interested in writing for the Devotional Page may also submit columns for consideration. The deadline to submit church announcements is noon Wednesday. Pine Bluff Commercial sets church news deadlineĬhurch news is printed in The Commercial on Friday. The community is invited to see the work conducted by UAPB art and design students, according to a news release. The Pine Bluff Urban Renewal Agency and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Art and Design Department will unveil a mural at 300 S. (We only publish names and city of residence.) Please email letters to May 3 Please include your name, address and phone number. Note from the editor: Letters to the editor regarding the extension of the Go Forward Pine Bluff sales tax or the Go Forward-sponsored sales tax increase for public safety will be accepted through noon May 5. Organizers or appropriate officials are encouraged to contact Sandra Hope at or use our newsroom email to make additions or changes. Editor's Note: At press time, the following events and meetings were known to be still scheduled. The great thing about this particular mystery novel was that there was more than one villain (villain, not suspect), which made it all the more satisfying to read. The Pale Horse is a truly well developed mystery written in third person point of view, mostly following Mark Easterbrook and occasionally following Detective-Inspector Lejeune's side of the story. That was, however, before her life was at stake. Easterbrook uncover a whole load of truth behind the "The Pale Horse" and is very keen on getting the truth out to the police and restoring justice. Ginger, the brains of the plan, helps Mr. In the process, he finds out things he is quite skeptical about at first, but later takes part in a risky plan to put his mind at ease about the truthfulness behind "The Pale Horse". The main character, Mark Easterbrook, senses something slightly fishy about the coincidental mentions of "The Pale Horse" and decides to investigate the topic. The Pale Horse, written by Agatha Christie, author of 82 novels, is a dark mystery story that deals with a great deal of death through the means of something quite different than Agatha Christie's usual way of going about murders. Just as Ruth is about to uncover a burning secret her family desperately wants to keep hidden, a traumatic incident strains the town’s already searing racial tensions, sending Ruth and Midnight on a collision course that could upend both their lives. As she begins digging into the past, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. She had promised her family she’d never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to-and was forced to leave behind-when she was a teenager. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. |