Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. Tiger Daughter is a coming-of-age novel that will grab hold of you and not let go. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter is an award-winning novel about finding your voice amidst the pressures of growing up in an immigrant home told from the perspective of a remarkable young Chinese girl. Both of them dream of escaping and together they come up with a plan to take an entrance exam for a selective school far from home.īut when tragedy strikes, it will take all of Wen’s resilience and tiger strength to get herself and Henry through the storm that follows. He is the smartest boy at school despite struggling with his English and understands her in a way nobody has lately. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter is an award-winning novel about finding your voice amidst the pressures of growing up in an immigrant home told from the perspective of a remarkable young Chinese girl.
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Glennon now offers a new way of journaling, one that reveals how we can stop striving to meet others’ expectations-because when we finally learn that satisfying the world is impossible, we quit pleasing and start living. Untamed has been described as “a wake-up call” (Tracee Ellis Ross), “an anthem for women today” (Kristen Bell), and a book that “will shake your brain and make your soul scream” (Adele). With Untamed, Glennon Doyle -writer, activist, and “patron saint of female empowerment” ( People) – ignited a movement. I created Get Untamed: The Journal as an interactive experience in charting our own way – so we can let burn that which is not true and beautiful enough and get started building what is.” – Glennon Doyle Every life is an unprecedented experiment. “We must stop asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. Their brains require a wide range of inputs from their environments in order to configure themselves for those environments. Here’s an excerpt from the first chapter:Ĭhildren, like many other complex adaptive systems, are antifragile. The authors assert that this societal trend is the consequence of three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker always trust your feelings, and life is a battle between good people and bad people. It’s a fascinating and disturbing exposé of the predominant culture on many college and university campuses where political correctness, trigger warnings, and the cancel culture have taken root and are stifling free speech and civil discourse, as well as contributing to the fragility of its students. The sub-title of the book is How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure. I am currently reading a book entitled, The Coddling of the American Mind, written by First Amendment expert, Greg Lukianoff, and Social Psychologist, Jonathan Haidt. The Demolition Man is John Spartan, a cop from 1996 Los Angeles who doesn’t play by the rules but still gets results. But Reich, a man of singular genius and willpower, finds a way around their powers. No one has successfully committed a murder for over seventy years. The only catch: the Espers Guild, a professional association of telepaths that occupy all levels of industrial society. Already plagued by insanity, in the form of waking nightmares where a Man With No Face tries to murder him, Reich hatches a plot to murder Craye D’Courtney. Monarch has steadily lost business for the last decade to Reich’s rival, the D’Courtney Cartel. The Demolished Man – or rather, the protagonist of Alfred Bester’s 1951 novel of that name – is Ben Reich, owner of interplanetary conglomerate Monarch Enterprises. I come out of cryo-prison and I’m Betsy-fucking-Ross. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you’ve got left are the sheep. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. If a man’s got talent and guts to buck society, he’s obviously above average. **“Coretta Scott King Award–winning Cooper has created a gentle, comforting story that will reassure children that those who love us are always with us.” In Max and the Tag-Along Moon, his lush paintings perfectly capture the wonder of the moon, the love between grandfather and grandson, and that feeling of magic every child experiences when the moon follows him home. Where did the moon go-and what about Grandpa’s promise?įloyd Cooper received the Coretta Scott King Award for The Blacker the Berry, three Coretta Scott King Honors for Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, Meet Danitra Brown, and I Have Heard of a Land, and an NAACP image award. But when the sky darkens and the moon disappears behind clouds, he worries that it didn’t follow him home after all. On that swervy-curvy car ride back to his house, Max watches as the moon tags along. When they must say good-bye after a visit, Grandpa promises Max that the moon at Grandpa’s house is the same moon that will follow him all the way home. Experience the wonder of the moon following you home with a Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator! Great for Father’s Day and Grandparent’s Day! It’s difficult to figure out why you bought certain things. Your personal style, the way you speak, the look and feel of your home - all have models. Models - not our “objective” analysis or central nervous system - shape our desires. Models are people or things that show us what is worth wanting. Our profound openness to other people’s interior lives lets us imitate desire.Īfter a person has fulfilled their basic needs, they enter a universe of desires that does not have a stable hierarchy.Ībraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is too neat. We desire many things not through biological drives or pure reason, but through imitation. Not spontaneously, not out of an inner chamber of authentic desire, not randomly. We want things through the imitation of someone else: a secret model. Many relatable examples, though not a clear takeaway. We all imitate, but are rarely aware of it. Pop explanation of René Girard’s anthropology of mimetic theory. Go to the Amazon page for details and reviews. Wanting - by Luke Burgis | Derek Sivers Derek Sivers Wanting - by Luke Burgis There continues to be a great deal of interest in Thoreau these days, and this immersion into his vast diary provides a contemporary poet's insight into the original work. Some of the pieces are based on his experiences, but re-shaped, expanded and altered some are wholly imaginary responses to reading the entries in the Journal. The book is in the form of a dialogue between Thoreau and Pacey each poem begins with an epigraph in the form of a quotation from Thoreau's Journal – the particular passage (or sometimes passages) which inspired Pacey to write the poem that follows. As she deals with her grief, her younger sisters' needs, the relationship with her boyfriend, and her Dawdi and Mammi's strict rules, Ivy finds solace in both an upcoming trip to Germany for an international Mennonite youth gathering and in her great-great-aunt's story about Clare Simons, another young woman who visited Germany in the late 1930s. But when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, Ivy's way of life is upended. "Incredibly well-researched, thoroughly enjoyable, and singularly original."-SHELLEY SHEPARD GRAY, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author "A beautiful story of love, loss, and the bonds that connect a family to its faith."-SUZANNE WOODS FISHER, bestselling author of A Season on the Wind Ivy Zimmerman is successfully navigating her life as a young Mennonite woman, one generation removed from her parents' Old Order Amish upbringing. (I'll definitely be discussing it shortly in the Forgotten Vintage Children's Lit We Want Republished! group, which I heartily invite you to join!. It's awesome - it's right up there with A Visit to Folly Castle and The Oak King and the Ash Queen for out-of-print and sadly not yet digitized retro reads that I wholeheartedly encourage you to track down and purchase secondhand. Thankfully, there's so much richness and depth and effort put into this story, that my prejudices would have been unfounded. What interesting story could possibly be borne of one of my least favourite nursery rhymes? If I had read ahead of time that this out-of-print 70s children's fantasy was based upon that nursery rhyme, I'd have given it a miss. Hey Diddle-diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon the little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon. Her work at the Reef Centre provides all the passion she needs and Zoe finds a friend in Bridget, the centre's director. And also by its people – its farmers and fishermen, unhurried and down to earth, proud of their traditions. Zoe is immediately charmed by the region's beauty – by its rivers and rainforests, and by its vast cane fields, sweeping from the foothills down to the rocky coral coast. Moving from Sydney to take up an exciting new role in marine science in the small sugar town of Kiawa is a welcome fresh start. Unlucky-in-love zoologist Zoe King has given up on men. From the bestselling author of Billabong Bend, Brumby's Run and Currawong Creek comes a wonderful new novel set against the spectacular beauty of the far north coast.įrom the bestselling author of Billabong Bend, Brumby's Run and Currawong Creek comes a wonderful new novel set against the spectacular beauty of Queensland's rocky coral coast. |