![]() ![]() In 1932 she published Little House in the Big Woods, which was set in Wisconsin. Her stories centred on the male unrest and female patience of pioneers in the mid-1800s and celebrated their peculiarly American spirit and independence. ![]() Prompted by her daughter, Wilder began writing down her childhood experiences. Louis Star, and for 12 years was home editor of the Missouri Ruralist. She contributed to McCall’s Magazine and Country Gentleman, served as poultry editor for the St. Some years later she began writing for various periodicals. Wilder, with whom she lived from 1894 on a farm near Mansfield, Missouri. At age 15 she began teaching in rural schools. Her father took the family by covered wagon to Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, and Dakota Territory. ![]() Laura Ingalls grew up in a family that moved frequently from one part of the American frontier to another. Laura Ingalls Wilder, née Laura Ingalls, (born February 7, 1867, Lake Pepin, Wisconsin, U.S.-died February 10, 1957, Mansfield, Missouri), American author of children’s fiction based on her own youth in the American Midwest. ![]()
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Now in seventh grade, series heroes Petra, Tommy and Calder first see Calder's mobiles at an exhibit at a Chicago museum. Blue Balliett, a former teacher and author of the wildly successful children’s mystery, Chasing Vermeer,points out what we all know: During the week, if you’re a good teacher, there’s not much left over after the school day to put into writing. Like its predecessors, it asks readers to consider big ideas, this time using the mobiles of Alexander Calder as a springboard. ![]() ) outdoes herself with this ambitious novel. Acclaimed for her sophisticated juggling of art concepts, mystery, philosophy and storytelling, Balliett ( Chasing Vermeer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Should she follow her dreams of fame and fortune, or should she allow herself to love again? What should she do with her second chance?īefore becoming members of Jems and Jamz, Spike Bianchi and Jemma Rodriguez were just two lost individuals, trying to find their way in life. Though the two don’t always see eye to eye, they find common ground in their music, and just as their relationship begins to grow, Olive is offered another chance to live a life of fame and luxury. Upon taking a job at a cafe and forfeiting her fame, she meets River, the owner of Riverside Cafe and a local musician. Buck does her best to get along with the other woman, but when the Ziggy threatens her spot on vocals, tempers flare.Īfter Olive’s fallout with Jems and Jamz, she relocates to a small town and begins a new life. Ziggy is charming and challenges Buck with her overall talent, creating tension between the two. Just when everything seems like it is too much to handle, her band manager hires a new woman, Ziggy Johnson, to take Olive’s place. When Buck Miller, the lead singer of Jems and Jamz loses her girlfriend, Olive and lead guitarist to a rival band, her life takes a drastic turn. ![]() Find out how Jems and Jamz came to be through the love, the laughter, and even the heartbreak that made the band what it is today. ![]() ![]() ![]() The question that always came up, from non-Christian students and speakers, was the question of suffering. I previously served at an organisation that hosted university events with academics talking about questions of faith. So the book is addressed to non-Christians, but my hope is that it will get into their hands via their Christian friends, and that reading the book themselves will equip believers to speak compellingly when they are asked hard questions. But I believe that if you look more closely at each of these reasons, they stop being roadblocks to Christ and become signposts. Many of them are fiercely intelligent and deeply compassionate, and they have very good moral and intellectual reasons for dismissing Christianity. This book is a love-song to my non-believing friends. Who is the book aimed at – believer or non-believer? I wrote Confronting Christianity to help close that gap and turn roadblocks into signposts. In the course of this, I discovered a massive information gap: I knew Christians who were world-leaders in every academic field that has supposedly discredited Christianity, and how their faith motivated their work, but most people had no access to this knowledge. I had the privilege of spending 9 years working with some of the world’s top Christian intellectuals, helping them speak about their faith in relation to their work. ![]() John Watkins talks to Rebecca McLaughlin about her new book. 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A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. ![]() ![]() ![]() His villainy may lack subtlety, but character development isn’t really the point here the cast is made up of familiar archetypes, reconfigured in a way that makes them all complicit with evil, underscoring the point that best intentions are more often than not fueled by selfish desires. ![]() Brockenbrough draws on the very darkest elements of fairy tales to offer up a truly irredeemable villain in Albrecht, who, in the book’s gruesome nod to Cinderella and The Dancing Princesses, gleefully peels back the skin of his fiancé’s feet-a bloody act that is only one of many. ![]() The multiple threads come together when Albrecht, the prince turned king, leads his men to attack and burn down his sister Ursula’s land, forcing her and her people into the mysterious woods. It begins with two sisters, one who spins gold and one who betrays her then there is a girl, raised in the woods and protected by her mother’s lies then an orphaned werewolf and his human sister, desperate enough to enter the nearby town and risk revealing his true nature and finally, there is a dying king who splits his kingdom in two, bestowing half to each of his two children, which enrages his already sadistic son to horrific violence. ![]() ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. If we don’t, what will we ultimately end up making of our lives? I also want them to take away from it that all stories have victorious parts that are not so victorious and parts that are sad, tragic or traumatic, but we need to face these things head-on. That we all have before and afters, and those before and afters shape the people that we ultimately end up becoming. What do you want people to take away from the title? But you’re able to channel that into your characters, their actions, the motivations of your characters, and what drives them. I had a good time in terms of looking at the culture and the music, but it was very hard in terms of what was going on at that time, and a lot of it just made me very angry. I didn’t have a choice but to explore that particular time, but it was a privilege and an honor to do so. I painted myself into a corner or wrote myself into a corner. ![]() I didn’t have a choice because if I’d just been like “Instead of Memphis, I’m going to do Chicago in the 1980s,” people would asked me what happened because it wouldn’t sense. I had to have it between 19, when she was in this particular city. ![]() What happened was, when I wrote Saving Ruby King, there were just a couple of throwaway lines near the end about this anomalous time when Sara was in Memphis,, but Saving Ruby King is very regimented in terms of the timeframe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tierney actually published an autobiography in 1978 titled Self-Portrait, which is now out of print, and author Michelle Vogel published a biography from McFarland & Company in 2009. Schiebel: A star biography aims to tell the star’s life story, chronicling the who, what, when, and where. ![]() Tierney’s performance earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and here was where I saw what an extraordinary talent she was.īellwoar: How would you explain what the difference is between a star study and a biography? That film led me to the Technicolor noir Leave Her to Heaven (1945), which I saw on what was then the American Movie Classics channel. Even in this inauspicious exhibition environment, I was hooked by the low-key, black-and-white cinematography, the mystery, and the dreamy style of it all. I checked out an old VHS copy of Laura and watched it on my thirteen-inch television set. ![]() This was also around the time I was first getting into film-and film history and criticism-and I was trying to track down some of the major examples of film noir, a term I had just learned. I grew up in Peoria, Illinois, and was working at the public library one summer when I was in high school. Will Schiebel: Yes, the film was Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944), and I vividly remember watching it for the first time. ![]() |