In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of January 6th and January 13th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your...
Anyway, this was a book I picked because of the blurb – the protagonist is a woman who’s got herself stuck in a minimum wage job selling doughnuts. Her best friend has been missing in Syria for a year, her brother is a violent bully, but also the apple of her mother’s eye, and...
I ran my fingers over the old spines of the remaining books, feeling a sense of loss. But then, something amazing happened. A group of local historians and book lovers gottogether and formed a committee. They fought hard to preserve the old library. They raised funds, organized petitions, ...
Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy and other church denominations. I’ve also been study cultural backgrounds of ancient Judaism, the intertestamental period and Hellenistic Jews of the first century. It’s a lot to unpack. I know. I do happen to have a method and organization of my study...
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Thegroupwerewillingtogowithmyidea,thoughtheyhadquestions.Wouldwecollectmoneyatthepoetrystand?No.Whatiftherewerenocustomers?Itspartoftherisk.Whatifwehadnothingtosayonthetopictheygaveus?Youwill,andIlltrainyou. Afewtimesaday,wheneverwehadalittleextratimeinthewritingstudio,Iaskedmystudentstoturntoacleansheetof...
21.Wherewillyougoifyouarefondofadventure? A.Beijing,China. B.MexicoCity,Mexico. C.Innsbruck,Austria. D.Melbourne,Australia. 22.WhatcanvisitorsdoinMexicoCity? A.Enjoywonderfulculinaryclasses. B.Buybeautifulclothesandshoes. C.Admirebeautifulmountainousviews. D.VisitspecialstadiumsfortheOlympics. 23.Whatca...
M:Yes.That’swhatI’dlikeyoutoreadafterclassandthenwriteasummary.Anyquestions? W:Yes.Mr.Stone,howmanywords? M:Oh,keepitshort,150wordsorso. W:OK,Iunderstand.Iwilltrytousewhatwe’velearnedtodayinthesummary.Isthatall? M:Readthetextandmakesurethatyouunderstandthemeaningofthetext.Isuggestyoucopythe ...
The most important of these publications, Staat & slavernij: Het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen (Amsterdam: Polak & Van Gennep, 2023, paper € 32.50), is edited by Rose Mary Allen, Esther Captain, Matthias van Rossum & Urwin Vyent. The volume commissioned ...
On his death in 1968, Brod bequeathed the papers to his secretary Esther Hoffe, with instructions to give them to the “Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the municipal library in Tel Aviv or another organization in Israel or abroad”. But Hoffe, who died in 2007, instead kept them and shared...