![]() ![]() ![]() Come dark, the Park was filled with cops who swung first and asked questions later. ![]() No good, Riff decided, to each of these possibilities. They could even break up and walk through the Park singly with an exaggerated movement of hips, until one of them picked up some lousy fag to bust around before taking his wallet and watch. Or they could prowl the bushes until they found some jerk making it with his date and see if they could get into the act. ![]() They could move over to Central Park and look for a drunk they could roll because there were a couple of men in the Jets who needed watches. There were a couple of things they could do. It was all right for juniors like Baby-John to hang around and wait for orders, but nightly he had to show the Jets that he could keep them as busy and as important as Tony had when that missing person was planning their scene. But all day he had been feeling restless, itching and aching to get started, to get the Jets off their ass and into action. Once daylight-saving time was in effect, the action had to start later, after it was really dark. Riff Lorton looked at the wristwatch he had rolled off a drunk the week before, saw it was about nine o’clock, and groaned because most of the night was still ahead. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. ![]() Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. Print Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Impressively layered, lived-in, and real.” -Buzzfeed “A complex love story that will bring all the feels.” - Seventeen Magazine “A heart-rending, stylish love story.” - The Wall Street Journal ![]() “At the heart-a big one-of All the Bright Places lies a charming love story about this unlikely and endearing pair of broken teenagers.” -The New York Times Book Review “A do-not-miss for fans of Eleanor & Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe.” -Justine Magazine But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. Soon it’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school-six stories above the ground- it’s unclear who saves whom. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. ![]() Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for-and manages to find- something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. And d on’t miss Take Me with You When You Go, Jennifer Niven’s highly anticipated new book with bestselling author David Levithan! The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge. NOW A NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ELLE FANNING AND JUSTICE SMITH! ![]() ![]() ![]() I highly recommend Rachel Cusk’s writing, no matter your relationship status - I certainly fell in love with her voice, which is astute while seeming effortless. In a great show of self-respect and personal dignity, she elected to end it rather than tolerate being less than fully embraced.”įind The Wisdom of a Broken Heart at Amazon for $14.83, Barnes & Noble for $15.27, Indiebound, or your local library. ![]() Relatable Quote: “When the one you love does not choose you on the deepest level, although he may actually love you in his own (bizarre) way, the pain of not being chosen is too much to bear. It was comforting to be spoken to directly by someone wise yet vulnerable - a mentor-aunt-counselor type who professes no magic cure. I downloaded it to my Kindle the day of my breakup and had a nice commiserating cry through the first few chapters. It is both deeply philosophical and practical and ends with a seven-day self-imposed retreat of sorts to help you process everything. This Buddhist approach to broken-heartedness by meditation teacher Susan Piver is all about learning to sit with the pain of a broken heart. ![]() I used to think self-help books screamed “scam,” but this book changed that, because it claims to fix nothing. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has presented several seasons of the TV series Route Awake ning ( National Geographic), an investigation of Chinese culture and history. His book Anime: A History (British Film Institute) received a 2014 CHOICE recommendation as one of the year’s outstanding academic titles, and was nominated for the Society of Animation Studies’ McLaren-Lambart Award for best scholarly book. He was a Visiting Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China from 2013-19. He is the co-author of The Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Television Drama Since 1953 and The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation (both for Stone Bridge Press). His books are available in over a dozen languages, including Chinese editions of his biographies of the First Emperor and Empress Wu. ![]() Dr Jonathan Clements is the author of many books on East Asian history, including biographies of Marco Polo, Admiral Togo, Khubilai Khan and A Brief History of the Samurai. ![]() ![]() Thankfully, the loving support of family, comrades and fellow employees kept her above water during these locked in episodes until diagnosis was finally made and a successful course of treatment undertaken. But that was only the first of several traumatic transitions that Carolyn would have to make, including abandoning her dream of becoming an FBI agent. ![]() Having your commander meet you at the gate and relieve you of your weapon is one of the most hurtful things that can happen to any soldier. They baffled both Carolyn and medical professionals. Her locked in episodes would last anywhere from a week to four months. Locked In A Soldier and Civilians Struggle with Invisible Wounds documents the affliction that would lead to her early retirement from the Army and migration in and out of mental health wards during her search for answers. These locked in episodes would last anywhere from a few days to four months. But for some reason, something was causing a confident and respected leader to suddenly retreat into her own mind. She was no stranger to stressful situations. ![]() It was the beginning of a decade long struggle against an invisible enemy.Ĭarolyn competed at the collegiate level in swimming, graduated airborne school with honors and was one of the first West Point cadets to attend Naval Diving and Salvage training. ![]() The first time Carolyn Furdek “locked in” was during a convoy mission no different than hundreds of others she had conducted before. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She received a cochlear implant when she was very young but it’s never really worked properly. I thought Charlie had the strongest character arc as she goes from feeling quite isolated both among the hearing and the Deaf to becoming much more comfortable with who she is and learning to stand up for what she believes in. This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. ![]() We mainly follow three characters: February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of Deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another Deaf person before and Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing. The story takes place at the River Valley School for the Deaf-a boarding school located in Ohio. This story was equal parts coming-of-age but also provided plenty of education too. From the debate between the use of American Sign Language (ASL) and cochlear implants, the history behind Black American Sign Language (BASL) as well as the discrimination Black Deaf students have faced and much more. When I read that Reese selected a story focused on Deaf students, I was definitely curious to check it out. ![]() I know for a fact I have not read or watched a film focused on Deaf culture (I haven’t seen the Oscar winner CODA yet). ![]() ![]() It does edge a bit into spooky territory (there’s a trigger (although not too stuffy) and the sort of Gothic atmosphere, you’llĮnjoy this. I think if you like some of the style of regency stories Type of writing, which I definitely enjoy on occasion, but just wasn’t in the Meets a bit of a regency feeling (then again, I can’t really tell theĭifference between styles in much of historical England). It was almost a little like Caraval (although slightly less flowery) It was very rich and the Gothic influences popped out. What I did read was lovely, if not a little slow. I think in the right mood, I’d devour this story. I’ve never written a DNF review (haven’t really DNF’d an ARC up till now), but going forward, I’m trying to be more selective with my time and energy. Iĭefinitely think other people will love it and should give it a shot,īut for right now, I both wasn’t entirely in the mood and without enough focus It’s got such a cool concept, but it didn’t hook me,Īnd I think this is one that was better for me personally to pass on. ![]() Reading something I didn’t want to read & wasn’t super invested in, and It took me a while toĭecide this, but ultimately I chose a DNF + no rating would be better than It means House of Salt and Sorrows is a DNF. How I have to be ruthless with what I read before I leave for college, ![]() ![]() I’m hoping to pick it up at a later date, but given I was definitely wowed by the pretty cover, and am honestly super sad I decided to DNF (Did Not Finish) this. ![]() ![]() As the deal starts to crumble, Grey must decide is he can trust him with the truth…and if she can risk becoming her own person. But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. When her father sends Frey in Rafi’s place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor–as poised and charming as her sister. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must. So while Rafi was raise to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. ![]() ![]() Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world had grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. ![]() But Frey’s very existence is a secret.įrey is Rafi’s twin sister–and her body double. Frey and Rafi are inseparable…two edges of the same knife. ![]() ![]() The authors perceive a common element in these phenomena, the tendency toward self-destruction of the guiding criteria inherent in enlightenment thought from the beginning. The various analyses concern such phenomena as the detachment of science from practical life, formalized morality, the manipulative nature of entertainment culture, and a paranoid behavioral structure, expressed in aggressive anti-Semitism, that marks the limits of enlightenment. The book consists in five chapters, at first glance unconnected, together with a number of shorter notes. Historically remote developments, indeed, the birth of Western history and of subjectivity itself out of the struggle against natural forces, as represented in myths, are connected in a wide arch to the most threatening experiences of the present. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism." Yet the work goes far beyond a mere critique of contemporary events. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. ![]() ![]() By Horkheimer, Max Adorno, Theodor Noeri, Gunzelin (2002) Abstract Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. ![]() |