And even if I somehow survived the mini-Hoover, I was supposed to suffer serious brain damage during the procedure and live the rest of my life as a vegetable. I was only six months old and I was supposed to croak during the surgery. Maybe the whole thing is weird and funny.īut, jeez, did my mother and father and big sister and grandma and cousins and aunts and uncles think it was funny when the doctors cut open my little skull and sucked out all that extra water with some tiny vacuum? Okay, so maybe that's not a very serious way to say it, either. My thinking and breathing and living engine slowed down and flooded.īut that makes the whole thing sound weirdo and funny, like my brain was a giant French fry, so it seems more serious and poetic and accurate to say, "I was born with water on the brain." But weirdo me, I was born with too much grease inside my skull, and it got all thick and muddy and disgusting, and it only mucked up the works. And brain grease works inside the lobes like car grease works inside an engine. But cerebral spinal fluid is just the doctors' fancy way of saying brain grease. I was actually born with too much cerebral spinal fluid inside my skull. Read more about this selection and other winners. The following is an excerpt from the winner of the 2007 National Book Award for young people's literature.
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Johns was an executive producer on the 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and co-wrote the 2017 hit film Justice League as well as the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984 film starring Gal Gadot. Johns has written for various other media, including episodes of Smallville, Arrow, and Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, for which he was nominated along with his co-writers for an Emmy. He and his mentor Donner later co-wrote Superman: Last Son, featuring the return of General Zod. After moving to Los Angeles, he became an assistant to Richard Donner, director of Superman: The Movie. Johns was born in Detroit and studied media arts, screenwriting, and film at Michigan State University. He is also known for transforming Green Lantern into one of the most critically and commercially successful franchises in comics. Johns is the author of the New York Times bestselling graphic novels Aquaman: The Trench, Blackest Night, Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, Justice League: Origin, Superman: Brainiac, and Batman: Earth One, which hit #1 on the bestseller list. Geoff Johns is an award-winning writer and one of the most popular contemporary comic book writers today. Congressman John Lewis was one of those who, inspired by Jim Lawson and Dr. I would consider it one of the five greatest miracles of my lifetime, except that it was no miracle: it was the direct result of hundreds of thousands of individuals lifelong struggles for basic human decency in the form of equality in the face of extreme retributory violence. There Lewis and Aydin have found the perfect structure: the inauguration of Americas first black President whose election, I might add, my friends and I all thought improbable up to almost the last minute given the strength of persisting prejudices. Instead, it is a highly personal, colourful and conversational first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis education about and then involvement in the emphatically non-violent protest movement as told, initially, to a mother and two young sons visiting his office before the inauguration of President Barrack Obama in January 2009, and it goes all the way back to his rural childhood on a farm in Alabama, preaching to his chickens. Thoroughly inspiring and beautifully drawn with enormous humanity, this is a far cry from any dry or dictatorial polemic you might understandably be expecting on a subject as serious as Americas Civil Rights movement. Will she allow them to guide her future, or will Aria blaze her own path and choose her own future?īut no one forgets the misbehaved woman with murderous intent, honed claws, and sharp teeth. They created Aria to rule the Nine Realms, but now they fear she’s too dangerous and ruthlessly savage to live. When everyone is pushing her to become the villain they claim her to be, will she be able to become the monster the realms need? Those she thought she could trust have deceived her.Įverything that can be taken from her has been wrenched from her grasp. The land has chosen its hero, but war demands a heavy price-one Aria may not be prepared to pay. War lingers on the horizon, as armies gather deeply within the shadows. Within the Nine Realms, deception runs deep. From USA Today best-selling author Amelia Hutchins comes a tale of love, war, and betrayal.Ī king who craves to possess her mind, body, and soul.Ī council who has deemed her too dangerous to live.Īnd a fate she never asked for, but can’t escape from. In urban, urbane Atlanta and rural Louisiana, two very different families try to deal with the fall-out of Roy’s imprisonment, and we read letters between the married couple but also between Roy and Celestial’s father and family lawyer. Then, one awful night, Roy is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit: perhaps indeed the crime of being black in the wrong place at the wrong time. As for the book itself – I became engrossed in it, too! Tayari Jones – “An American Marriage”Ĭelestial and Roy have been married for just over a year and are still adjusting to life as a married couple, whcih is not easy and leaves the marriage somewhat fragile. I don’t seem to read many BookCrossing books these days and certainly don’t wild release them in the numbers I used to, so it was nice to be able to do this. As she’s a BookCrosser and had registered the book, I took it on a little journey so I could read it and then release it elsewhere. I was sent this book by my friend Zoe (thank you!) after she’d posted a photo mentioning she was engrossed in it. This created massive anxiety about the family's financial state and consequently made him even more determined to make Netflix happen. But this also happened to be when he purchased a hillside house for a million dollars. Randolph rented and furnished a small office on a tight budget.Hastings would own 70% and Randolph 30% of the company. Hastings invested $1.9 million while Randolph committed his time to build the company. Randolph and Hastings agreed on the idea of DVD rentals by mail.But they were all shot down by Reed Hastings as infeasible. These ideas ranged from personalized surfboards to custom-made baseball bats. When Marc Randolph realized the company he worked for was going to be acquired, he began to toy with ideas for a new e-commerce startup. Read this summary of That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea for first-hand insights on their entrepreneurial journey. Get the insider's take on how Netflix went from just one in a million ideas to one that revolutionized the entertainment industry.įor the first time, Co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph shares the company's behind-the-scenes, beyond the popular story that Reed Hastings founded the company after a $40 late fee at Blockbuster. Antigravity cars are used for planet side travel. The population relies on Sensic augumentations to enhance their physical senses. One thing I really liked about this book was the low-key introduction of high technology and the way its given credibility and used throughout. Alien creatures play a part that adds spice. The story travels from planet to planet and even involves a space station and spaceships. Limiting Ian even further, the Runcible AI's that help their security forces need Ian to go offline their implant provided information services and trust other humans. Ian must find out who built and detonated a bomb on the planet of Samarkand, killing the local population, but first he must survive a terrorist psychopath named Arian Pelter who wants revenge for the death of his sister. Set up as a mystery that character Ian Cormac investigates, the reader continually wonders what will happen next because in many ways the story line is an extended chase. Gridlinked by Neal Asher is a wild and fun ride, fast paced, and full of action. Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned animated shorts and theatrical musical productions, and his illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation. The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's." In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91. #1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale. Maurice SendakEdward was so devoted to spreading his truth about religion, that he created 60 different versions of “The Peaceable Kingdom” Maurice Sendak was a children’s book author and illustrator His illustration, “Where the Wild Things Are” was first published in 1963. Who drew the pictures in Where the Wild Things Are?
“Kant’s moral theory is the foundation that informs his political theory,” she says. Where some scholars perceive tension between Kant’s moral and political writings, Holtman instead sees a close connection. “I’m not a historian,” she remarks, “but rather a moral and political philosopher, approaching Kant’s writings from that angle.” Kant’s Moral Foundation Rather than treating Kant as just another specimen in the museum of ideas, Holtman argues that Kant’s political philosophy provides a general framework for tackling contemporary ethical and social challenges. Is Immanuel Kant’s political thought merely a product of its time, an artifact of the eighteenth century with little relevance today? Not according to Sarah Holtman, a professor of philosophy who seeks to reconstruct and apply what she takes to be Kant’s theory of justice. |