![]() Cobain was contradictory: a sweet, popular teen athlete and sinister berserker, a kid who rescued injured pigeons and laughingly killed a cat, a talented yet astoundingly morbid visual artist. As a teen, Cobain said he had "suicide genes," and his clan was peculiarly defiant: one of his suicidal relatives stabbed his own belly in front of his family, then ripped apart the wound in the hospital. Cobain's stomach-churning passion for Vail erupted in six or so hit tunes like "Aneurysm" and "Drain You.")Ĭross uncovers plenty of news, mostly grim and gripping. (It was graffiti by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna after a double date with Dave Grohl, Cobain, and the "over-bored and self-assured" Tobi Vail, who wore Teen Spirit perfume Hanna wrote it to taunt the emotionally clingy Cobain for wearing Vail's scent after sex-a violation of the no-strings-attached dating ethos of the Olympia, Washington, "outcast teen" underground. ![]() At last we know how he created, how lies helped him die, how his family and love life entwined his art-plus, what the heck "Smells Like Teen Spirit" really means. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain's diaries and suicide notes and reveals an unreleased Nirvana masterpiece. ![]() Now Charles Cross has cracked the code in the definitive biography Heavier Than Heaven, an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind. ![]() The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as T.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She knew how kids felt, what made them laugh, what they wore, collected, read, and played with. Known as a flamboyantly funny and deeply honest writer and speaker, Paula Danziger knew how to relate to young readers at their level. Among her titles are: the enormously popular Amber Brown books as well as Remember Me To Harold Square, The Divorce Express, and Can You Sue Your Parents For Malpractice?ĭanziger received numerous honors, including: Parent's Choice Awards, International Reading Association - Children's Book Council Awards, a IRA-CBC Children's Choice Award and many nominations for state reading and library association awards. ![]() She returned to teaching, but the success of her book encouraged her to become a full-time writer. She received her Masters Degree in reading and during that time she wrote her first bestselling novel, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit. Beginning her career as a teacher, Danziger taught at the junior high, high school, college levels. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in New York, Paula Danziger knew since second grade that she wanted to be a writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During the course of her examination, a certain outlier identifies her as being at risk for the development of glaucoma. If a diagnosis of glaucoma is not confirmed with baseline testing, periodic follow-up is needed to monitor for conversion.Ī 64-year-old woman comes into the office because she broke her glasses.Appropriate baseline testing for a glaucoma suspect includes IOP, optic nerve exam, OCT, visual fields, and angle assessment.A diagnosis of open-angle glaucoma suspect is established by the presence of a consistently elevated IOP, a suspicious-appearing optic nerve, or an abnormal visual field. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet by Ann Whitford Paul, with illustrations by Jeanette Winter (extremely helpful to students for making designs).The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy, with pictures by Jerry Pinkney. ![]() Some good storybooks that contain quilts include these: Make a chart comparison for the books, listing the main characters, the setting, the uses for the quilt, and so on. Companion Books on Quilts There are many books about quilts, and this would be a good time to select some to read to students. ![]() The quilt can be sewn together with a colorful border, just as in the book. Students can make self-portraits and print their names at the bottom. You can use white material squares and fabric crayons. This calls for quilt making, so have students design a classroom quilt. ![]() Throughout the book the quilt is in color, whereas the rest of the book is in black and white. This quilt is used for a variety of things: as a tablecloth, as a wedding huppa, as a wrap for new babies born into the family. It is made from the clothing of family members who came to this country as immigrants. In this story, the Keeping Quilt is passed along from generation to generation. Of 2 The Keeping Quiltby Patricia Polacco ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Data can’t provide what poor people need, which is more resources. For the poor, she argues, government data and its abuses have imposed a new regime of surveillance, profiling, punishment, containment and exclusion, which she evocatively calls the “digital poorhouse.” While technology is often touted by researchers and policymakers as a way to deliver services to the poor more efficiently, Eubanks shows that more often, it worsens inequality. Virginia Eubanks begs to differ, with the authority to do so. We assume technology and the information it yields is making everyone’s life easier, freer and more comfortable. We’re seduced by similar smug, smart, supposed innovators hawking data’s potential to revolutionize health care and education. We tend to think that the smug, smart people who run companies like Google and Uber have some secret knowledge we even give them our personal information, uneasily, but ultimately with a bit of a shrug. Upper-middle-class professionals love data. AUTOMATING INEQUALITY How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor By Virginia Eubanks 260 pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple-and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another? But in this rural area-with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service-it's hard to know what to believe. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. ![]() are an older black couple-it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.Īmanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, this could have been why Harry Potter's Potions Master kept it in his classroom storage cabinet for all those years. Like Professor Slughorn had noticed, Lily's creative abilities were immortalized in Snape's book. Harry had secretly hoped in Half-Blood Prince that his textbook was a connection to his father, and while this wasn't the case, it was a connection to his mother. RELATED: Why James Potter's Sacrifice Didn't Save Lily & Harry (But Hers Did) The notes in the Half-Blood Prince's book grew progressively darker as Harry read, all the way to the famous "Sectumsempra." ![]() Unfortunately, Snape chose the former, and the Prince's book made it clear that the following year saw Snape go into a steady decline. The two had gotten into a fight about Snape's affinity for the Dark Arts and curses, and Lily demanded that he choose between their friendship and his Dark ambitions. Of course, Snape would have taken N.E.W.T level Potions in his sixth year, just like Harry, so he would have started scribbling in his textbook just after he and Lily stopped being friends. ![]() ![]() Fewer than half of Bulkeley’s group survived their nearly 3,000-mile journey through the Strait of Magellan and up the coast of Argentina, but he was treated as a hero, until Cheap miraculously appeared back in England and accused him of mutiny. Five months after they’d been marooned, Bulkeley and 80 other crew members commandeered the Wager’s longboat and two other small vessels and set sail for Brazil, abandoning Cheap and his few remaining loyalists to their fate. The starving crew soon disintegrated into rival factions, including one led by gunner John Bulkeley, who became increasingly critical of Capt. Part of a squadron sent to capture a treasure-laden Spanish galleon during the War of Jenkins’ Ear, the Wager became separated from the other ships while rounding Cape Horn and wrecked several weeks later. Bestseller Grann ( Killers of the Flower Moon) delivers a concise and riveting account of the HMS Wager, a British man-of-war that ran aground on a barren island off the Chilean coast of Patagonia in 1741. ![]() ![]() Maybe they can't be the good guys unless their are those bad guys. I mean, as they said, without the city you can't see the greatness of the country. Maybe it's that Sandy, Mousey, Bentley, and the rest of the "good" gang rely on having something to darken their days. I think that if we do end up hurting people by stereotyping them, there better be a good reason. I don't think it's as simple as, "Well, those are just names." I mean, I don't think that it's entirely our society's fault, or something. But, why? Why do we need to label someone good, bad, evil, sweet, beautiful, or anything else? But, still they label people good and bad, stereotype them. What I mean is, everyone "knows," or at least says that they know, that no one's perfect, no one's all good. I feel like though everyone knows nothing's perfect they still search for those perfect things. ![]() ![]() The characters have to go deeper they just being perfect and nice or horrible and mean, there's got to be something underneath that act. But, I feel like there's got to be something underneath all that. And, Mousey and the rest of their family and friends at Walnut Manor and Eclipse are the typical good guys. ![]() Evil? Gosh, where do we start? Bart and Bernie are your typical, typecast evil villains. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anthology of Sci-Fi V19, the Pulp Writers (2013)Īdventure in SpaceIn 1955, Norton introduced Dane Thorson, an apprentice cargo master who signed on with the independent cargo ship Solar Queen looking for a career in off world trade.Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 the Pulp Writers (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi V15, the Pulp Writers (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi V22, the Pulp Writers – Capt S.Anthology of Sci-Fi V20, the Pulp Writers (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi V24, the Pulp Writers – Evelyn E.Anthology of Sci-Fi V18, the Pulp Writers (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi V10, the Pulp Writers – Harl Vincent (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi V8, Pulp Writers (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi V12, the Pulp Writers – Mack Renolds (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi V11, the Pulp Writers (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi V7, the Pulp Writers – Horace Brown Fyfe (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi V4, the Pulp Writers – Raymond Z.Anthology of Sci-Fi V5, the Pulp Writers – Alan E. ![]() Anthology of Sci-Fi V3, the Pulp Writers – Poul Anderson (2013).Anthology of Sci-Fi, the Pulp Writers V1 (2013). ![]() |