![]() ![]() Jorge Huerta of the University of California-San Diego. The anthology also includes an introduction by noted theater critic Dr. ![]() This collection contains three of playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez’s most important and recognized plays: Zoot Suit, Bandido! and I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges. ![]() ![]() Valdez’s cadre of young urban characters struggle with the stereotypes and generalizations of America’s dominant culture, the questions of assimilation and patriotism, and a desire to rebel against the mainstream pressures that threaten to wipe them out.Įxperimenting with brash forms of narration, pop culture of the war era, and complex characterizations, this quintessential exploration of the Mexican-American experience in the United States during the 1940’s was the first, and only, Chicano play to open on Broadway. From the moment the myth-infused character El Pachuco burst onto the stage, cutting his way through the drop curtain with a switchblade, Luis Valdez spurred a revolution in Chicano theater.įocusing on the events surrounding the Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial of 1942 and the ensuing Zoot Suit Riots that turned Los Angeles into a bloody war zone, this is a gritty and vivid depiction of the horrifying violence and racism suffered by young Mexican Americans on the home front during World War II. This critically acclaimed play by Luis Valdez cracks open the depiction of Chicanos on stage, challenging viewers to revisit a troubled moment in our nation’s history. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s also musings on Shakespeare’s vocabulary, his genius for creating new words and phrases, and his overall impact on the english language. )īryson takes the collected facts about Shakespeare’s life - which is indeed, not very much - and intersperses them with historical datum of the time, what it was like to live in Elizabethan/Jacobean England, the lives of the monarchs themselves, what we think the theaters looked like, and what living in London was like at the plague-ridden turn of the 17th century. (Though we do know he existed Bill seems personally offended that anyone would suggest otherwise. Who was William Shakespeare? What did he wear? Who did he love? Was he lighthearted or gloomy? Who were his favorite writers? What was his family like? Did he have a happy childhood? Was he a good actor? Did he anticipate immortality? Did he spell his name S-H-A-K-E-S-P-E-A-R-E? Was he as stingy as the scant court records show? Why, in his will, did he bequeath his wife his second best bed? Did he even exist ?ĭespite there being millions of pages of analysis written on the man, and an unending tide of new articles every year, Bill Bryson’s point is that as far as actual facts go, we know next to nothing about the man outside of his written work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() to enter the Highbrary, a huge cave complex beginning at the Library of Congress and continuing beneath the city. After the Librarians fire missiles at Tuki Tuki, the Smedrys, led by Alcatraz, must leave at once. In the long-awaited final book in the Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series, Alcatraz is going to the center of Librarian power. The book is named after its main character, Alcatraz Smedry, and is the fifth novel in the Alcatraz series. The Dark Talent is a juvenile fiction novel by Brandon Sanderson, published in September 2016 by Tor Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. 'An absolute corker of a read - so brilliantly shrouded in mystery that it was impossible to put it down' Lisa Hall, author of Between You and MeĪ perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery Tokyo Express Seicho Matsumoto € 20.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon arrival, she meets matriarch Sandra Elincourt along with her three youngest daughters: 8-year-old Maddie, 5-year-old Ellie, and the baby, Petra. ![]() To her surprise, Rowan, who has been working at a daycare center in London, is invited for an interview. Wrexham that it starts with her application for a well-paying nanny position at Heatherbrae House in the Scottish Highlands. She then recounts how she came to be in her current circumstances, explaining to Mr. Rowan begins by maintaining her innocence in the death of one of the children in her care, insisting that she did not kill the girl. The Turn of the Key is primarily told through the voice of Rowan Caine in a letter she is writing from prison to a lawyer named Mr. Some of Ware’s books have won, or been nominated for, major book awards, and three have been optioned for the screen. Other thrillers by Ware include In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015), The Lying Game (2017), The Death of Mrs. It was a New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller, and named Thriller of the Month by Waterstones. The book joined several others penned by Ware as both a critical and commercial success. The Turn of the Key is a crime thriller published in 2019 by international best-selling author Judith Ware. ![]() ![]() His vignettes of some of the important, colorful figures who shaped national health care systems, such as Germany’s Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, also add zest.īut where Reid succeeds in the journalist’s metier - stories about personal encounters and people - he overreaches when he attempts to weave these episodes into a compelling comparison of the value for money of different health care systems. The cures he encounters range from a Tibetan-style urine tasting and Ayurvedic therapy in India, to the “wait and see” attitude of the Brits, to the surgical zeal of the US, the arch villain of the piece. His book details his international quest for relief for his stiff shoulder. It is engaging because Reid, a long-time correspondent for the Washington Post, knows how to tell a good story. ![]() ![]() Reid’s The healing of America is an engaging but thin epistle for universal health insurance coverage in the US. ![]() ![]() ![]() Glen Milborn Sherley was born on an Oklahoma farm in 1936. Sherley recorded his song in that chapel with the help of the chapel minister, Reverend Floyd Gressett who coincidently was a friend of Johnny Cash and the night before the concert at Folsom prison, the reverend gave Cash a copy of Sherley’s recording. ![]() Sherley’s song was about how the chapel at Folsom provided inmates with an escape from the harsh realties of life behind bars, calling it ‘a house of worship in a den of sin.’ Greystone Chapel was the work of Glen Sherley who was serving time in Folsom for the armed robbery of a bank. Of the fifteen tracks on the album, one was written by an inmate of the prison. The singer performed two shows in the prison that day and fifteen tracks from those two shows made it to the Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison album which went on to become a commercial success for Cash, and something which pulled his career up from a downward spiral. Cash had his addiction under control by the time he went to Folsom New Mexico in 1968 and was determined to put his career back on track. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rowing boats, steam launches, even the occasional gondola: in the Season, up to 800 vessels a day passed through Boulter's Lock near Maidenhead. This was the golden age of the Henley regatta. In late-Victorian England there was a vogue for recreational boating on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. Encouraged by his new wife, Georgina, Jerome intended his account of a boating holiday to be a popular travel guide for a booming market. He was a jobbing freelance literary journalist who had just got married and needed to provide for his wife and family. Jerome K Jerome is more or less forgotten now. Did I omit to say that it also features a dog named Montmorency? In short, like all the finest comic writing, it's about everything and nothing. You could also read it as an unconscious elegy for imperial Britain. What's it all about? Jerome K Jerome would probably say his masterpiece was "about one hundred and fifty pages", but I would argue that Three Men in a Boat is about the cameraderie of youth, the absurdity of existence, camping holidays, playing truant, comic songs, and the sweet memories of lost time. Ostensibly the tale of three city clerks on a boating trip, an account that sometimes masquerades, against its will, as a travel guide, Three Men in a Boat hovers somewhere between a shaggy-dog story and episodes of late-Victorian farce. Nevertheless, there are a few seriously funny books that remain great for all time. ![]() Humour in literature is often not taken as seriously as it deserves. ![]() ![]() ![]() They track every person you search for, every profile you viewed, every image you viewed, every letter you type, every letter you backspace, where your mouse hovers on the page, and more. ![]() One thing that stood out was just how much information the social media networks keep and share. The book covers some information about NSA mass surveilance but talks about many other stories as well. It gives you perspective when you hear the large collection of stories about how our information is being used. The book is full of real anecdotes, news stories, and leaks. The data being stored is incredibly private and personal. ![]() In many cases, the data is stored forever. He demonstrates through real stories how much data is actually being recorded and stored. The main topics of the book are data, privacy, and crime. These are my thoughts about the book and some of the interesting points that I found. If you don't know who he is already, you can read more about him on his Wikipedia entry and his personal website. I recently finished reading (well, listening) to Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter 10, “The Celebration of Spring” (p.In accepting a gift you honor the giver.Chapter 8, “The Dawn of the Message” (p.It was clear to all there gathered that power is a dreadful thing, and that knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise.Chapter 6, “Legend of Berek Halfhand” (p.Men’s dreams and stars and whispers all helpless pass. In war men pass like shadows that stain the grass,. ![]()
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