Then they must wait, every day, for the next knock at the door, the one that could destroy everything.Ī powerful novel from a New York Times Bestselling author, based on the remarkable true story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews in her attic during World War Two. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jews. Based on the true stories of Han Van Meegeren, a master art forger who sold fakes to Hermann Goering, and Johann van Hulst, credited with saving 600 Jewish children from death in Amsterdam, bestselling author Sharon Cameron weaves a gorgeously evocative thriller, simmering with twists, that looks for the forgotten color of beauty, even in an. Max Diamant has jumped from the train headed to a death camp. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for her six-year-old sister. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio - an engagement they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish.īut everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl. It is 1943, and sixteen-year-old Stefania Podgórska has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland, for four years. One knock at the door could be the death of them all. A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews in her attic during WW2.ĭEATH PENALTY FOR ALL WHO GIVE AID TO A JEW.ĭEATH TO ALL WHO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO A JEW.
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“Because I was so interested in participating in the stories…I would make up scenes in stories and dream about them to the point that sometimes I would talk to somebody and have a totally different version of a book that we’re both reading.”įurther, La Sala said, “I’ve always been compulsively interested in affecting the world around me and sort of bringing fantasy to life.” “I was interested in reading stories and fairy tales, but I would always get to a point in the story where I put the book down and had to act it out myself-I had to participate in it myself,” La Sala said. Because reading wasn’t his strong suit, he delighted in acting out the stories and fantasies thriving in his head-actively participating in the stories he was absorbing. Picture this: A young Ryan La Sala, already invested in stories and fantasies but not yet realizing that writing is the path he wished to embark upon. Unlike in most industries, where union members make up a minority of the workers, in screenwriting, the work force is the union. (I am a WGA member, but we journalists are not technically on strike.) If studios want people to write their movies and shows, those people will be members of the union. With few exceptions, if you are a working screenwriter, you are in the Writers Guild. What makes this strike notable is that the WGA is one of a relatively small number of unions in America that actually has power at an industrial scale. How far apart are they? The WGA’s total asks would come to $429m a year the studios’ current offer stands at $86m a year.Lol. After weeks of intense negotiation, the two sides aren’t close. Not until a fair contract with the AMPTP, a coalition of major studios, is reached. So the new TV shows and movies ain’t gonna get made. The people who write all the TV shows and movies ain’t writing. That’s because, on Tuesday, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike. You may have noticed, if you turned on your TV last night, that the late night shows have suddenly stopped. Welcome to the Great Writers Strike of 2023. The plain old workers standing up against enormous companies to stop the process that is turning their careers into execrable “gigs”. That would be something for everyone to cheer for. What would be remarkable is if – when you realized that your once-good job was being made worse in order to satisfy the profit hunger of some faraway investment banker – you were able to actually do something about it.
In this week’s episode, Danelo unpacks his latest book, The Field Researcher’s Handbook: A Guide to the Art and Science of Professional Fieldwork, explaining how the true art of data collection, he believes, “is just knowing yourself well enough to understand what your skill sets are and how they relate in the field.”ĭavid J. The key, Danelo claims, is that you aren’t “going to change who you are, but you can use who you are to your maximum advantage in collecting data.” Danelo, Director of Field Research for the Foreign Policy Research Institute, believes self-awareness is crucial, as a researcher can naturally elicit trust or build rapport with particular groups of people based on their life experience. Not being aware of biases and how they could impact perspective is a major liability for a researcher. The Field Researcher’s Handbook: A Guide to the Art and Science of Professional Fieldwork (2017)Īs a former Marine Corps infantry officer, David Danelo knows that a researcher’s unique background and life experiences shape their perspective and can bias them even before they get out in the field. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone. And finally there was the fire-it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006-2007. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. My house is a big, century old farmhouse. The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm. I look out my window to see rolling, green, thickly forested hills, wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue, blue skies. The nearest “big” cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away, in different directions, and not really all that big by most standards, though they both seem humongous to me. All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State Cortland County. I live in the teeny, tiny town of Taylor, NY, (Alliteration Alert!) though my mailing address is Cincinnatus, my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler. “That will certainly be proof of your suspicions, daddy,” countered Stephanie, “but it doesn’t show why you suspected her in the first place.” “When Forensics gets here, I’m sure they’ll discover the lady’s prints on the knife, and that the drops of blood you can just see on her fingers didn’t come from her but from her victim as she thrust the knife into his unsuspecting breast.” “But how do you know she killed the gentleman in the next room, sir?” asked Sergeant Watkins. The room was as luxuriously set out as the adjoining bedroom, with the plushest of carpets, a decadently-expensive chandelier, and amazingly crafted items of furniture such as an ornate wardrobe in the far corner. Scotland Yard’s three greatest living detectives, and PC Blunt, stood in a semi-circle around the sitting-room sofa on which was splayed out the naked body of a young woman.Ī wicked-looking, jagged gash still emitting rivulets of blood was the clearest of proofs, even to PC Blunt, that her throat had been cut. Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / African American & Black.Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational.Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers It is a wonderful window and mirror that lends itself well to lessons on self-concept, bedtime routines, and learning about differences.” - Booklist “Ideal for readers searching for stories about natural hair. This brightly hued picture book with loads of charm will entertain and empower readers." -Kirkus Reviews "A celebration of black hair, family, and culture. "Redd’s family represents a range of varying hair textures and care routines, while Myers’s vibrant illustrations bring the close-knit crew and their daily rituals to affectionate life." -Publishers Weekly “Bedtime Bonnet allows Black children to see their reality reflected in their entertainment.” - Essence A Black Caucus of the American Library Association Top 5 Best of the Best Book of 2020. Today we’re diving into Bedtime Bonnet, a unique story that centers on the day-to-day Black experience. All Our Yesterdays is a wrenching, brilliantly plotted story of fierce love, unthinkable sacrifice, and the infinite implications of our every choice. Em and Marina are in a race against time that only one of them can win. Even if it means opening her eyes to a truth so terrible that she may not survive it.at least, not as the girl she once was. Marina will protect James, no matter what. But on one disastrous night, James's life crumbles, and with it, Marina's hopes for their future. A gorgeous, introverted science prodigy from one of America's most famous families, James finally seems to be seeing Marina in a new way, too. Marina has loved her best friend, James, since they were children. Each failed attempt in the past had led her to the same terrible present-imprisoned and tortured by a sadistic man called the doctor while war rages outside. She holds the proof: a list she has never seen before, written in her own hand. She's tried everything to prevent the creation of at time machine that will tear the world apart. Only Em can complete the final instruction. Summary What would you change? Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain. The second best argument might be John Berger.īerger’s book Ways of Seeinghas been altering its readers’ perceptions of media since its 1972 release-as both a television series and a book. The most convincing argument that this is possible might be the way that William Shakespeare’s work helped change the boundaries of both psychology and the English language to a previously unimaginable extent. But can a book rewire the brain itself, literally changing the way one particular mind perceives and interprets the world around it?. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.Ĭan a book change the way we think? I don’t mean that in the sense of a reader’s opinion or ideology shifting-of course the right literary work can do that. |