![]() ![]() She deftly reflects and refracts social imagery in American and African-American culture and history. Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright who challenges notions of the historical construction and context of the African-American experience. It then went on to earn Suzan-Lori Parks the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – the first ever awarded to an African-American woman. Topdog/Underdog premiered starring Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle, then moved to Broadway starring Wright and Mos Def – both casts directed by the legendary George C. Hence, Topdog/Underdog reveals a topsy-turvy world in which Lincoln and Booth live, a chaotic world that is as dangerous as it is illusory. At any given moment, one may wield power over the other, only to relinquish it in the next. Throughout the play, the brothers compete against each other, vying for control. Booth, on the other hand, earns his living as a petty thief, one who wishes to emulate his older brother’s success by learning how to “throw the cards.” ![]() Lincoln, a master of the con game three-card monte, has abandoned a life of crime for a more respectable job impersonating Abraham Lincoln at an arcade. Now in their 30s, the brothers struggle to make a new life, one that will lead them out of poverty. Topdog/Underdog tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, who, abandoned by their parents, have had to depend upon each other for survival since they were teenagers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It's written in a way that the reader absorbs it without really noticing how much is being absorbed. It's like weather, and the world that is built around the tech waves and magic waves is original, fun and established without pages and pages of info dumping. I've never seen magic treated quite this way before. She rescues and she gets rescued, and it makes sense with the kind of life she lives. Kate can handle herself in a fight, but she isn't invincible or infallible, and she realizes that. After reading 3 books in the series, I rank her right up there with Mercy Thompson and Harry Dresden. She may share many of the same qualities with a myriad of urban fantasy heroes/heroines, but she's not stereotypical. ![]() She's funny, brave, willing to admit her mistakes (without too much wallowing-just a little wallowing here and there) and change her mind when she needs to, and as much as she tries to be a loner, she can't quite make that happen. It took about half a book (the first one) for her to grow on me, but now I'm 100% on board. So, what do I like about it? I figure if I give something 5 stars, I'd better back that up with a few words. Result? That man knows my tastes pretty well. ![]() This is another one, like Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series (totally different genre-no one have a cow-I'm getting to the connection), that my husband got to first and has been trying for years to get me to read. Ha! I'm so glad I was right about how much I would love this series. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t read synopses) because I hate spoilers, I don’t like being misled either. Secondly, where did the ending go to? Quite literally, I thought my copy was missing pages. I’d say a more appropriate title would’ve been this: Finally Friends with a Girl. The boy who was a friend wasn’t the focus either. Firstly, the title is infinitely deceiving. Friends with Boys Was Nice, but…įor the most part, I enjoyed Friends with Boys but… there are two buts. Maybe it even means making a new friend―one who isn't one of her brothers.įunny, surprising, and tender, Friends with Boys is a pitch perfect YA graphic novel full of spooky supernatural fun. And it also means solving the mystery of the melancholy ghost who has silently followed Maggie throughout her entire life. After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and rough-housing with her older brothers, it's time for Maggie to face the outside world, all on her own. Maggie McKay hardly knows what to do with herself. ![]() published Februby First Second, Roaring Book Press Ī coming-of-age tale with a spooky twist!. ![]() ![]() After her husband’s death, Curie raised their two daughters alone. She combined her scientific career with a fulfilling and devoted marriage to Pierre Curie, her scientific collaborator. ![]() She overcame significant prejudices against professional women. There is also the opinion that achieving professional success in science is so demanding that women who wish to pursue a scientific career must forgo family life.Ĭurie’s life and accomplishments directly contradict these ideas. Perceptions that women are less competent than men in math and science persist, although there is no evidence to support the idea. Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie Curie, a biography by Barbara Goldsmith, appears at a time when women are still underrepresented in most fields of science. In 1995 her (still-radioactive!) ashes were interred in the Pantheon in Paris, making her the first and only woman to receive such an honor. She was awarded Nobel prizes in physics (1903) and in chemistry (1911). Curie carried out groundbreaking research, providing the first detailed description of radioactivity and using its detection to discover two new elements: polonium and radium. In the early part of the twentieth century, when professional opportunities for women were rare, she was the first woman to obtain a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne. Most scientists, especially women, are fascinated by Marie Curie. ![]() Obsessive genius: The inner world of Marie Curie. ![]() ![]() ![]() or does he? The more she sees behind Alex’s bad-boy façade, the more Sutton craves the man she uncovers.Īll books in the Cold Fury series can be read as standalones. But Sutton isn’t one to cross professional boundaries-and besides, Alex doesn’t do relationships. What she doesn’t expect is the arrogant smirk from his perfect lips to stir her most heated fantasies. not even by a tempting redhead with killer curves.Īs a social worker, Sutton Price is accustomed to difficult people-like Alex, who’s been assigned to help her create a drug-abuse awareness program for at-risk youth as part of the team’s effort to clean up his image. But Alex refuses to be molded into the Carolina Cold Fury poster boy. ![]() Now Alex has a choice: fix his public image through community service or ride the bench. New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett scores big-time with the first novel in a sexy new series hot enough to melt the ice. Pushed into the sport by an alcoholic father, Alex isn’t afraid to give fans the proverbial middle finger, relishing his role as the MVP they love to hate. Hockey star Alexander Crossman has a reputation as a cold-hearted player on and off the rink. USA Today bestselling author Sawyer Bennett scores big-time with the first novel in a sexy new series hot enough to melt the ice. ![]() |