![]() ![]() In the book How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the location of Whoville is never mentioned geographic references include the mentioning of a several thousand-foot tall "Mount Crumpit", and an overlook just north of the city where the titular Grinch resides. Its denizens go by the collective name Whos, as in a plural form of the pronoun who.Īccording to the book Horton Hears a Who!, the city of Whoville is located within a floating speck of dust which is then placed onto a clover flower by Horton the Elephant. Whoville appeared in the 1954 book Horton Hears a Who! and the 1957 book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! with significant differences between the two renditions. ![]() Whoville, sometimes written as Who-ville, is a fictional town created by author Theodor Seuss Geisel, under the name Dr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() During those years we took many cruises, as well as golfing and fishing trips. In 1988 he retired, and we spent 21 years in Sonoma until he died in 2009. “We later moved to Foster City and Pat opened his architectural office in San Mateo. Another roommate, Rosemary Williamson Colgate, and her husband, Stirling ’48, PhD ’52, lived in Livermore, also close. “My Alpha Phi roommate, June Johnson Reynolds, and her husband, Hugh, lived in Sunnyvale, not too far away. We then returned to the West Coast and lived for 18 years in Sacramento, where our daughter Gail and son Tom were born. “After being married, we spent a year in Seattle and returned to Ithaca, as Pat needed one more term to get his degree. We received a wonderful letter from Joan Dall Patton, who fondly reflected on her life with husband Ed “Pat” Patton, BArch ’49. ![]() ![]() But the idea of Italian modern music – hardly resonates. Whether it is the flash of a sleek Ferrari sports car, the gaunt humanoid spindles of sculptor Giacometti, Ferragamo’s foot-fetishizing chic, those vivid fantasies Fellini splashed across the silver screen, or even the brutal geometry of Mussolini’s 45 arches penetrating the Palazzo della Civitá Italiana’s blank facade, the idea of Italian modernism conjures up potent images for most people. Stravinsky/Dushkin) Festa by the Seaįranz Liszt – Les jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este (1877) Igor Stravinsky – Suite Italienne (1933, arr. Luigi Dallapiccolla - Tartiniana Seconda (1955-56)įerruccio Busoni – All’italia! (In Modo Napolitano) (1908)īerio – Chamber Music (text by James Joyce) (1953)īerio – Wasserklavier (1965) Erdenklavier (1969) Luftklavier (1985) Feuerklavier (1989) ![]() ![]() He explains his process of research on his personal website, writing: “When I’m researching a book, I immerse myself in the lives of my subjects. Preston undertook extensive investigation and research in order to expand his original article into a full-length book. ![]() Finally, in “Kitum Cave,” Preston describes his visit to a cave in Africa that is suspected of containing the natural host of the Marburg virus. In “The Monkey House” and “Smashdown,” Preston details the discovery of the Reston virus in Virginia and the subsequent actions by the Centers for Disease Control and the United States Army. Preston divides The Hot Zone into four parts, beginning with “The Shadow of Mount Elgon,” which describes the history of filoviruses, including the first recorded cases of outbreaks of both the Ebola virus and the Marburg virus. ![]() A SWAT team of scientists and soldiers from Fort Detrick’s Army research facility were tasked with a secret operation to contain the potentially lethal virus before it could spread to the human population. Titled “Crisis in the Hot Zone,” the article chronicled an outbreak of a mutated strain of the Ebola virus that appeared in Reston, Virginia in the winter of 1989. ![]() The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story is based on a non-fiction article by Richard Preston that was published in The New Yorker on October 26, 1992. ![]() ![]() The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the “rez” - and his former life - to attend the funeral of his stepfather. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. “You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine” is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by poet Joshua Whitehead. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeĪ tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve. Winner, Lambda Literary Award Georges Bugnet Award for Fictionįinalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Amazon Canada First Novel Award Indigenous Voices Award Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award Firecracker Award for Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() The Midnight Watch is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction. ![]() When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed. The next morning, the Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the Titanic fired. As the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is also the creator of The Creech, a Sci-Fi/Horror comic published by Image Comics. Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics’ X-Force and Quasar (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). Prior to that, he was best known for his 80 issue run on Image Comics' Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane. ![]() Greg Capullo is a self-taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed Batman series for DC Comics. He teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence University and lives in New York with his wife, Jeanie, and his son, Jack Presley. He has also been published in Zoetrope, Tin House, One Story, Epoch, Small Spiral Notebook, and other journals, and has a short story collection, Voodoo Heart, which was published by Dial Press. His works include Batman, All-Star Batman, Batman: Eternal, Superman Unchained, American Vampire, and Swamp Thing. Scott Snyder is a #1 New York Times best-selling writer and one of the most critically acclaimed scribes in all of comics. ![]() ![]() Wangari Muta Maathai has changed Kenya tree by tree-and with each page turned, children will realize their own ability to positively impact the future. Today more than 30 million trees have been planted throughout Mama Miti’s native Kenya, and in 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. ![]() Through artful prose and beautiful illustrations, Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson tell the true story of Wangari Muta Maathai, known as “Mama Miti,” who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization that has empowered many people to mobilize and combat deforestation, soil erosion, and environmental degradation. ![]() “A beautiful introduction for children just learning about the Greenbelt Movement.” - School Library JournalĬBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade BookĬCBC Choices (Cooperative Children’s Book Council) ![]() “Nelson’s ( We Are the Ship) breathtaking portraits of Maathai often have a beatific quality bright African textiles represent fields, mountains, and Maathai’s beloved trees…Napoli ( The Earth Shook) creates a vivid portrait of the community from which Maathai’s tree-planting mission grows.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Nelson’s pictures, a jaw-dropping union of African textiles collaged with oil paintings, brilliantly capture the villagers’ clothing and the greening landscape… This is, in a word, stunning.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is also the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning American Gods, Neverwhere, Stardust (winner of the ALA’s Alex Award as one of 2000’s top ten adult novels for young adults), and the short fiction collection Smoke and Mirrors. Neil Gaiman is the author of the New York Times best-selling children’s book Coraline and of the picture books The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish and The Wolves in the Walls. ![]() It is an experience that will forever change her. Soon, Coraline is caught in a life or death challenge - to save herself, her family, and three lost children. At first it looks familiar, even intriguing, but Coraline quickly learns that evil lurks there. She’s on her own, and when she goes exploring in her new apartment she unlocks a door that leads to a different world. Coraline’s parents are too busy to play with her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of its recent titles include the New York Times bestseller Everless, by Sara Holland the critically acclaimed Bonfire, authored by the actress Krysten Ritter and The Hunger by Alma Katsu, which received multiple starred reviews and was praised by Stephen King as “disturbing, hard to put down” and “not recommended…after dark.” Since 2010, the company has developed and sold more than fifty-five novels for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers. Oliver co-founded Glasstown Entertainment with poet and author Lexa Hillyer. ![]() Chester. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and The Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year. Before I Fall was adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by Awesomeness Films. ![]() She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. ![]() Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the President of Production. ![]() |
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