![]() A thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face - and eventually conquer - fear. Raina has tummy trouble, and it seems to coincide with her worries about food, school, family, and changing friendships. ![]() ![]() When they learn there are ghosts there, Maya wants to meet one, and Cat must put aside her fears for Maya's sake - and her own. can they figure out how to get along?Ĭatrina and her family move to a new town because her sister, Maya, is sick. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years. Amara is cute, but she's also cranky and mostly prefers to play by herself. The true story of how Raina severely injured her two front teeth when she was in the sixth grade, and the dental drama that followed!Ĭallie is the set designer for her middle school's spring musical, and is determined to create a set worthy of Broadway. ![]() A box set of Raina Telgemeier's bestselling, award-winning graphic novels about family, friendship, and the highs and lows of growing up! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Many have tried and failed to get past the barrier he’s carefully constructed, but it’s the shy, studious boy he once coaxed out of his shell who still haunts him.Maybe it was a mistake. ![]() To the world, he’s brash and confident, an in-demand artist who spends his days designing one-of-a-kind pieces and his nights as king of the downtown scene. Lucas Sullivan is South Haven’s ultimate playboy, a reputation he’s honed since the only boy he ever loved left without a trace. With growing pressure from his father to settle down and take over the family business, Jackson knows he’s on borrowed time, and sets out to find the free-spirited daredevil he once knew.But Lucas isn’t the same man he was eight years ago. When a work trip takes Jackson back to his old stomping grounds, memories of the year he shared with Lucas come crashing to the surface. One he’s been hiding since he graduated from South Haven all-boys academy-and that secret’s name is Lucas. What if you had everything in the world you wanted…except the man you’d left behind?Jackson Davenport, the charismatic, strait-laced heir to the Davenport fortune, has a secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() In front of them, human waves, dense and insatiable, crashed against the edge of the stage before rising up and shouting in unison. Their clothes were ripped and their fists raised, rage made the veins in their necks stand out. That evening, a concert in a small venue was being shown on Les Enfants du Rock. Because Leïli and Mina were asleep, I’d turned the sound off, so it wasn’t the music that struck me-but rather, the dangerous energy emanating from four young guys dressed in black, barely older than my sisters, strutting across the stage like they owned the world. The revelation came to me a bit later, through the TV (an old, poorly-functioning set left by previous renters and installed in our room by my sister Leïli), which I watched until late at night. ![]() ![]() ![]() How else can you describe a sport where the very best hitters fail seven out of every ten times they enter the batter’s box? Or where the very best teams leave the park losers at least sixty times during the season?Īs great as baseball is, it is a sport surrounded, cloaked and otherwise ensconced in failure.įailure does bring one thing that success rarely does - a chance for introspection. ![]() With that sublime inspiration, there also comes a callous reality to the game. ![]() From World Wars to Pleasantville and back to war again, there was baseball.įrom radios to broadband, streetcars to subways, and megaphones to smartphones, there was baseball. It also doesn’t hurt that certain men named Cobb, Ruth, Mays, Gehrig, Mantle, Musial and DiMaggio, along with so many others, brought a heroic presence to the lives of millions, through both the best and worst times of our nation’s history.įrom roaring economic excess to crashing stock markets, there was baseball. The creation of the sport is itself a tale of American folklore, and Americans are wary to trudge on the sagas of their history. The baseball season itself begins in the spring, coinciding in time with nature’s yearly rejuvenation, and continues through summer when the weather is dry and the days are long enough to play two. The methodical pace of play between pitcher and catcher, as well as batter and fielder, allow for easy conversation among friends. ![]() The game’s greatness shines for several reasons. Baseball became America’s pastime almost immediately from the sport’s inception. ![]() ![]() While each account may not be as humorous as the last, León is able to respectfully address the seriousness of the circumstances some of these figures were presented with.Īnother defining feature of León’s novel is her ability to make the information accessible and relatable to the modern audience, especially one who is not so well versed in history. León’s accounts are more than just summaries of historical women the author infuses her own wit and humor into the portrayals she writes. In her book, León truly celebrates all kinds of women from different walks of life as she discusses famous figures such as Elizabeth I from England to Beruria of Tiberias. León cleverly uses that implication and turns it upside down by emphasizing the “4,000” years of said uppity women into a powerful and meaningful title full of rich history, celebrating the “impertinence” of strong women. León first begins her trek in bringing powerful women back to life by the title itself Uppity Women pokes fun at the world’s patriarchal-centric societies and people that see women as “impertinent” or “uppity” for speaking their minds. ![]() ![]() The subtitle of Vicki León’s 4,000 Years of Uppity Women reads, “Rebellious belles, daring dames, and headstrong heroines through the ages,” a perfect description befitting for Vicki León’s witty recap of strong women over the centuries. ![]() |