![]() Lauren Markham applies the eye of an artist to the dogged reporting of an investigative journalist. ![]() The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Beautifully written, The Far Away Brothers examines the claustrophobic space between grinding poverty and brutal gang violence that drives so many children from El Salvador to make the dangerous journey North. With intimate access and breathtaking range, Markham offers an unforgettable testament to the migrant experience. Soon these unaccompanied minors are navigating school in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debt, and facing their day in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of teenage life with only each other for support. In this urgent chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist Lauren Markham follows the Flores twins as they make their way across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of immigration authorities, and from there to their estranged older brother in Oakland, CA. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores - until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the region's brutal gangs forces them to flee the only home they've ever known. ![]() Summary The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The Old Neighborhood by Ray Suarez![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to his PBS duties, Suarez hosts the monthly foreign affairs radio program “America Abroad” for Public Radio International and the weekly politics program “Destination Casa Blanca” for the Hispanic Information Telecommunications Network, HITN TV. Since 1999, Suarez has served as a senior correspondent for PBS’ “The NewsHour.” He previously spent seven years as host of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” program. Both events, part of Lawrence’s 2010-11 convocation series, are free and open to the public.ĭemographers estimate that by 2042, the United States will be a country with a “minority majority.” Suarez will examine the continuously widening definition of who is a “real American” and the impact of the country’s evolving ethnic make-up on schools, commerce, politics and the workforce. ![]() Suarez also will conduct a question-and-answer session at 2 p.m. Suarez, a senior correspondent for PBS’ “The NewsHour,” presents “The Browning of America,” Tuesday, Oct. ![]() Award-winning journalist Ray Suarez discusses the cultural shift that is changing the face of the United States and why that change reflects a positive continuation of a robust immigrant tradition in an address at Lawrence University. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Take a hint dani brown![]() ![]() Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse?ĭani's plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. ![]() Turns out his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Suddenly, half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae-and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. But before she can explain that fact to him, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. When big, brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it's an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and former rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. ![]() So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits-someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him "rescuing" her from their office building goes viral.ĭanika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. One of Oprah Magazine's 21 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020 ![]() ![]() At two, two and a half, I remember him holding my hand and showing me the ropes and how to swing on them, how to get along in life. He never regarded me as the little sister he had to drag along. “Tom was my best friend from the first moment I can remember. It was a nightmare that was real, and I was never going to wake up from it. I thought we were like twins, even though he was two years older. We were so close, how could I not have shared his pain? I couldn’t bear it. “If something had made him so unhappy that he no longer wanted to live, why hadn’t he shared his trouble with me? I could have helped him. And then, suddenly, he wasn’t there for me. I felt it so deeply that he would be there for me, that I could always count on him. “I had a wonderfully warm feeling in my soul. I believed it because I couldn’t bear to believe otherwise. “I was almost fourteen when Tom, my absolute hero-whom I loved and worshipped-had, what I call in my head, his ‘accident.’ I was the only one who believed it was an accident. “What I meant by it was that I wanted to be independent, to separate myself from all the others and never again to care so much about another person, so I would never feel the pain I felt when Tom left me. ![]() “It’s a word I made up for myself when my teenage brother hanged himself. “‘Onliness’ is my word for what I call my philosophy of life,” Katharine Hepburn told me. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Widow's Walk by Kenneth Weene![]() It is where she meets Professor Arnie Berger.Īrnie is not without his own emotional suitcases. ![]() Never having given intellectual pursuits much thought, a serendipitous trip to Northeastern University changes that. After the loss of her husband, her daughter (Kathleen) moving and her son (Sean) being relocated to a center for independent living, she is unsure of what to do with what’s left of her life. Ken Weene’s story Widow’s Walk is a slowly unfolding trek that gives us a look at an Irish matriarch named Mary Flanagan, whose belief in God remains steadfast even after she loses her husband, is emotionally separated from her enigmatic daughter, and then loses her quadriplegic son to a cross-country move, before she becomes enamored with a man whose idea of a Godhead is pessimistic at best.īut I’m getting ahead of myself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Saks and Snyder do not claim to speak for all people who receive a diagnosis of schizophrenia and it would be a mistake to read their texts in this way even if they did. As well as providing a prognosis and a plan for treatment, the psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia, for both these writers, gives shape and meaning to the illness experience and ultimately becomes the pivot or platform from which identity and memoir unfold. This short paper looks at the representation of psychiatric diagnosis in two much-lauded autobiographies: Kurt Snyder’s Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person’s Experience with Schizophrenia ( 2007) and Elyn Saks’ The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness ( 2007). ![]() ![]() How can the published first-person accounts of experts by experience contribute to this debate? However, a growing number of researchers, clinicians, and mental health service users argue contest the claim that there are fundamental differences between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and call for a symptom-led approach which prioritises subjective experience over diagnostic category. Kraepelin’s twin pillars have governed psychiatric thinking, practice and research for over a century. In 1896 Emil Kraepelin revolutionised the classification of psychosis by identifying what he argued were two natural disease entities: manic-depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder) and dementia praecox (schizophrenia). ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The mitten board book![]() Remind the students that all of the animals wanted to live in the mitten, but it was made to fit a small boy’s hand it was not large enough for eight animals to live in. Explain that when there isn’t enough of what is wanted, that is called scarcity. Next ask what happens when several people want to live in a place where there isn’t enough space for all of them. ![]() Then ask why we like to have a nice warm place to live, too. Individuals then can check their lists against the class list.)īegin a discussion by asking the students why the animals all wanted to get into the mitten. ![]() (A possible option for older students: have them write their lists secretly then post all their listed items on the board. Have them list the animals they name on the board or on a large sheet of paper-perhaps a sheet cut in the shape of a mitten. Encourage them to try to name the animals in order. ![]() Ask the students to try to remember all of the animals that moved into the mitten. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first installment of the Maddox Brothers books, readers can experience the rush of reading Beautiful Disaster for the first time, all over again. ![]() But when a Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever-even if she is the only reason their already broken family could fall apart. Just when he thinks his life is returning to normal, he notices Cami sitting alone at a table at The Red.Īs the baby sister of four rowdy brothers, Cami believes she’ll have no problem keeping her new friendship with Trenton Maddox strictly platonic. His friends wanted to be him, and women wanted to tame him, but after a tragic accident turned his world upside down, Trenton leaves campus to come to grips with the crushing guilt.Įighteen months later, Trenton is living at home with his widower father, and works full-time at a local tattoo parlor to help with the bills. Trenton Maddox was the king of Eastern State University, dating co-eds before he even graduated high school. Now tending bar at The Red Door, Cami doesn’t have time for much else besides work and classes, until a trip to see her boyfriend is cancelled, leaving her with a first weekend off in almost a year. She has held down a job since before she could drive, and moved into her own apartment after her freshman year of college. ![]() Published by: Atria Books on July 1, 2014įiercely independent Camille "Cami" Camlin gladly moved on from her childhood before it was over. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Island beneath the sea review![]() ![]() The regular print copy was physically larger with its industrial binding and all, than the large print copy. Great! I could travel with that copy instead.Īctually, not so great. I looked it up and found that my local library had a regular print copy on the shelf. This time I wanted to take the book with me. ![]() So, I left it home.Īnd I found that after I returned home, despite waiting for me, this book didn't entice me back onto the treadmill.Ī short couple of weeks went by with little, if any, reading getting done and then it was time to travel yet again. And I do not like to travel with large print books. More than once.īut then I had travel again. I thought this book could be that, but there was only one way to find out. If I stumble upon the right book, I will want to get on the treadmill more and more often and for longer and longer. I'm not a happy camper when the hotel doesn't have a treadmill, let alone any exercise room at all. I've been staying at a hotel that doesn't have an exercise room. ![]() I'd been away far too long, due to traveling so much. I needed something to get me back on the treadmill. I like large print for reading on the treadmill. This is usually a good sign.Īnd large print is good. It is by the same author that wrote Inés of My Soul and I enjoyed that. This is something I kept seeing again and again and again at the library. Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Far from the tree solomon![]() ![]() Author Solomon will be on hand for talkbacks following two of the screenings: at 8 p.m. ![]() Now there’s a documentary film based on the book, directed by Rachel Dretzin, opening this Friday for a weeklong run at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck. Andrew Solomon’s award-winning 2012 nonfiction best-seller, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity is about what it means to be family, and above all, about love, no matter what. ![]() |