6/10/2023 0 Comments Where the sidewalk ends pages![]() ![]() "Invitation" welcomes the reader into a space fit for dreamers, wishers, hope-ers, and pretenders, among other unconventional identities. This is exemplified with the book's first poem. Silverstein gives the reader permission to go beyond the sidewalk and explore unknown, somewhat taboo territories. Therefore, the sidewalk must end, at least in the reader's mind. Furthermore, it serves as an obstacle to the colorful, creative spirit of children, unable to bend to their inquisitive whims. ![]() The sidewalk represents the mundane, rigid, and concrete nature of the real world. ![]() The title symbolizes the end of the real world as the reader knows it and the beginning of a journey through other spaces and times that oppose what's normal. Despite this, adults can still find themselves engrossed in the pages of poetry since this book also appeals to their inner child. On the surface, this book appeals to children's youthful, curious, and adventurous character. The poems are accompanied by illustrations that capture the often silly, peculiar nature of Silverstein's witty words. ![]() Where the Sidewalk Ends is a collection of quirky and imaginative poems by Shel Silverstein. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments The Alliance by Reid Hoffman![]() ![]() And when I first heard about the premise of the book-from an employer who understood it to mean that companies would no longer have to offer permanent jobs in the future-I was very curious. Hoffman is right that corporate employers and employees are both forced to live a lie in our current employment system. Once the tour of duty is coming to a close, the employee promises the employer the right of "first conversation," meaning he or she will discuss future career plans with the employer before talking with others. Most top executives should be offered this arrangement, he argues. * The foundational tour of duty, which is more like a long-term marriage between mission-critical employees and the company. * The transformational tour of duty, where an employee is hired for a specific mission, with a duration that typically lasts two to five years but is negotiated by the employee. The idea is to create an opportunity for both the employee and employer to assess the new hire's "future fit" at the company. ![]() This is similar to the analyst program at investment banks. ![]() * The rotational tour of duty, typically aimed at entry-level employees, in which they work for the company for one to three years. It is built around the "tour of duty." Under this approach, used at LinkedIn, employers are up-front about the fact that they are hiring employees for one of three types of jobs, each with its own expiration date: His answer is the alliance-a new relationship between employers and employees based on the value they bring to each other. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Eliot bede![]() ![]() The Beast of Cretacea is a retelling of Moby Dick by Herman Melville. But this one is very unique both in what it is a retelling of and the methods used. This is a retelling, as so many books seem to be these days. Picked up the book without so much as a glance at the synopsis on the inside flap and never looked back. ![]() And then I saw this one, the spine a mix of color with a title that made the story sound ripe with adventure. I found this one at the library, tucked into the regular circulation stacks when I was busy wondering when exactly the first book in The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater was going to be returned so I could finally begin that series. And that's exactly how I discovered The Beast of Cretacea by Todd Strasser. Sometimes you just have to stumble upon them. ![]() Not from the thousand and one subscriptions that hit your inbox daily. Sometimes you don't ever hear about the best books. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The saturdays enright![]() ![]() Translated into many languages throughout the world, Elizabeth Enright's stories are for both the young and the young at heart. She taught creative writing at Barnard College. ![]() Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published in The New Yorker, The Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Yale Review, Harper's, and The Saturday Evening Post. Among her other beloved children's titles are her books about the Melendy family, including The Saturdays, published in 1941. Throughout her life, she won many awards, including the 1939 John Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake. After creating her first book in 1935, she developed a taste, and quickly demonstrated a talent, for writing. ![]() Illustration was Enright's original career choice and she studied art in Greenwich, Connecticut Paris, France and New York City. Her mother was a magazine illustrator, while her father was a political cartoonist. Elizabeth Enright (1907-1968) was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent most of her life in or near New York City. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments American rose by karen abbott![]() ![]() Weaving in the compelling saga of the Minskys-four scrappy brothers from New York City who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee's brand of burlesque and transform the entertainment landscape-Karen Abbott creates a rich account of a legend whose sensational tale of tragedy and triumph embodies the American Dream. About the Author Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and American Rose. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, she vividly delves into Gypsy's world, including her intense triangle relationship with her sister, actress June Havoc, and their formidable mother, Rose, a petite but ferocious woman who literally killed to get her daughters on the stage. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. Arrives by Sat, Mar 25 Buy American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee (Pre-Owned Paperback 9780812978513) by Karen Abbott at. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. ![]() ![]() Except Martin just might be something closer to an actual secret agent than paper-pusher Arthur is, and it might be more than hearts at risk when something more than friendship begins to develop. Starting with a short, surprisingly interesting conversation on sociology books, Arthur slowly begins to chip away at The Alien’s walls using home-cooked meals to lure the secretive agent out of his abrasive shell. His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto Free eBooks Download Description: Arthur Drams works for a secret government security agency, but all he really does is. In a last-ditch attempt to be seen as friendly and outgoing, he decides to make friends with The Alien, aka Agent Martin Grove, known for the fact that no one has spoken to him in three years. ![]() After getting another “lateral promotion” by a supervisor who barely remembers his name, it’s suggested that Arthur try to ‘make friends’ and ‘get noticed’ in order to move up the ladder. shaking his cougar boys young der lesbians sex maria27s twinks. ![]() Arthur Drams works for a secret government security agency, but all he really does is spend his days in a cubicle writing reports no one reads. sexy ass marek a con renee agent with personal mouth deepthroat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Killing The Killers narrates America's intense global war against extremists who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of others in America and around the world, and who eventually destroyed entire nations in their relentless quest for power. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take listeners deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001.Īs the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. ![]() In the eleventh audiobook in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The changeling victor![]() ![]() Her family runs a plum orchard in the area they're one of more than two dozen Black families who moved there to homestead. ![]() But there's more to this book than just that - it's an excellent novel that blurs genres and looks at early-20th-century America from a perspective that's been ignored for far too long.Īdelaide is 31 years old when the novel begins, living in California's Lucerne Valley in 1915. It's hard to imagine a darker start to a novel, and Lone Women is indeed infused with creeping dread and chilling horror. She strikes a match, tosses it on the bed, and leaves her old life behind forever. They're both dead, their corpses lying in their bed in the house that Adelaide has just finished dousing with gasoline. ![]() "You kept too many secrets," Adelaide Henry says to her parents, early in Victor LaValle's new novel Lone Women. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Every day de david levithan![]() Then, one day, a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person. Confused, depressed, and desperate for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Justin seems to see her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day-a perfect day Justin doesn't remember the next morning. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don't be too needy. ![]() ![]() ![]() David Levithan (co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green) turns his New York Times bestseller Every Day on its head by flipping perspectives in this exploration of love and how it can change you. A New York Times Bestseller A girl falls in love with someone who wakes up in a different body each morning in this enthralling and poignant follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Every Day. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Juniper by Monica Furlong![]() ![]() ![]() “Wise Child” may not yet deserve her name except in jest, but Juniper is certainly a wise woman–full of healing skill and knowledge, yet humble and with a sense of humor. Wise Child will need all the strength she has found through her schooling to bring herself and her teacher to a place of safety. But those fears still live in others, particularly in the malice of the local priest. Initially full of fears and suspicion bred by village gossip, the child grows to love her enigmatic but kind teacher. ![]() ![]() Wise Child (a teasing nickname for a small girl who uses big words) has become the ward and pupil of the village healer, Juniper. Ignorant outsiders may call her “witch,” though, for they fear her power without understanding it–and this is one of the dangers that threatens in the first novel. The word, from the Gaelic “dorus,” an entrance or way in (not unlike the English word with the same meaning) signifies “someone who has found a way in to seeing or perceiving.” Learning to perceive the pattern at the heart of being, and to love and protect it, is the way of a doran. In a stark, elemental setting based on medieval Britain, dramatic battles between good and evil drive the plot–but the narrative really turns on the quiet struggles within the souls of the three protagonists, each a young person with the potential to become a “doran.” Fairy tales and real life intertwine to create a most unusual education in Monica Furlong’s Wise Child and its two sequels. ![]() |