![]() ![]() ![]() I was no more than 10 when I stood around the corner and watched neighborhood youths break out the windows of a home with rocks and pelt the facade with eggs.ĭad was a racist. "It is the home for 100,000 proud, irascible, tough, narrow-minded, down-to-earth, old-fashioned, hostile, flag-waving, family-oriented, ethnic Americans," Binzen wrote.įor years, local nightly news broadcasts routinely showed footage of Kensington homes being defaced, bombed or vandalized after rumors surfaced that black families planned to occupy it.Īs a child, I watched my mother and brothers join in the protests. In 1970, journalist author Peter Binzen wrote a book about it titled "Whitetown, U.S.A." The enclave's entrenched hatred of minorities - still alive in many parts today - leaves Kensington as one of the last vestiges of segregated Philadelphia. Yet the river ward earned a second reputation in the 20th century - as one of America's most racist. The factory neighborhood in 1920 stood as the most productive in the nation. I grew up in Kensington, best described as Philadelphia's Brooklyn. The brief exchange caused me to reflect on my own long and difficult racial sensitivity journey. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The first of many tales within the book ”Musicophilia” contains one of the most compelling patient cases of this condition. Rather musicophilia describes when someone’s music listening habits and reactions suddenly go into overdrive, typically following a brain injury or illness. I had a search of the internet for you (my pleasure, dear reader) and I couldn’t find any reference to the term ‘musicophilia’ being used to describe normal, everyday music listening habits, even when these habits reach extremes of time or financial consumption. ![]() ![]() But is that the same thing? Are we musicophilics? Now, many of us crave music on a daily basis – myself included. Patients who are diagnosed with ‘musicophilia’ report a sudden, abnormal craving for music and/or increased interest and responsiveness to musical sound. But many people do not realise that it is also a poorly understood neurological phenomenon. Musicophilia is an excellent title for Sack’s book given its focus on both music-related phenomena and neurological patients. I have known many students to be first inspired to studying music psychology thanks to this enjoyable book. ![]() In this book Sacks employs his familiar engaging and compassionate narrative of neurological patients to explore afflictions and treatments surrounding music. If you go to any search engine and type in ‘musicophilia’ then you will more than likely be directed to the excellent book of that title by Oliver Sacks. ![]() ![]() A secret connection that will change their lives-and history as they know it. The New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and the Peachtree Bluff series brings “her signature wit, charm, and heart” ( Woman’s World) to this sweeping new novel following four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the famous Vanderbilt family.įour women. ![]() Alternating between a romantic comedy feel in the present day with a historical fictionalized peek into an intriguing family’s North Carolina estate, THE WEDDING VEIL revolves the characters in both time frames around one shared sacred object. We follow them through the years as Cornelia’s sense of duty to maintain the home-and legacy-conflicts with her yearning to build a life outside it. In a parallel story line, in 1914, Edith Vanderbilt, following the death of her husband, is struggling to maintain the beautiful Biltmore Estate, with her daughter, Cornelia. Later, she and her grandmother, Babs, work to uncover the history of the veil. Despite the luck that the veil should bring Julia, she decides to flee to the Virgin Islands alone, for what was to have been her honeymoon. She is adorned with her great-grandmother’s wedding veil, which was bequeathed to her by a mysterious woman on a train. In present day, it’s Julia’s wedding day in North Carolina. ![]() One legendary wedding veil ties four women together across generations. ![]() ![]() But her desire for revenge may cost her country its chance at freedom and Nina the chance to heal her grieving heart. Deep undercover, Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital. Now duty demands she embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to bury another friend. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. ![]() But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king's gift for the impossible. As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm - and even the monster within - to win this fight. ![]() The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series! ![]() The wolves are circling and a young king will face his greatest challenge in the explosive finale of the instant #1 New York Times-bestselling King of Scars Duology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Secrecy, obsession and desperation dictate each character's path in this spectacular debut. Unfortunately for him, Corey saw what happened, as did other eyes in the shadows. ![]() After a shocking poolside accident, everything depends on Leo burying the truth before his family and friends arrive for the holiday weekend. Under the cover of darkness, Leo Sheffield-a billionaire CEO, patriarch and the owner of the vast lakeside manor-arrives unexpectedly with a companion. One night just before Memorial Day weekend, he breaks in to the wrong home at the wrong time: the Sheffield estate, where he and his mother, Gina, work. His last summer before college, he settles for the escapism he finds in sneaking into neighboring mansions. Corey Halpern, a local high schooler with a troubled home life, is desperate to leave the Hamptons and start anew somewhere else. A tragic accident threatens to unravel two families in this gripping novel of suspense and culture clash set in the Hamptons. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have not received your delivery following the estimated timeframe, we advise you to contact your local post office first, as the parcel may be there awaiting your collection. ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.
![]() ![]() In the process, I “fastened” for the first time on a specific characteristic of the series, and I hope you’ll find it fun to share here and now. From the onset, such a combination made Baum’s prose cross-generational in its appeal, but there’s no question he was basically writing “to please a child” (his own descriptive phrase, attendant to one of his pre-Oz efforts).Īll of this came back to me earlier this month when I was reflecting on the limitless joys of Oz characters and adventures. Frank Baum for fulfilling so many of my childhood expectations – in particular, one specific emotion he perhaps never realized his writing would achieve!īaum’s book, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, rolled off the presses exactly 120 years ago this May, and his sage storytelling and alternately quiet, uproarious, and sometimes sly humor not only permeated that adventure but all the other Oz tales that followed. This month’s blog is a long overdue gratitude to L. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here are some of the better no-cost audio resources I’ve found for Italian: Learn Italian on Spotify This is why it’s so important to include audio lessons in your Italian study routine. ![]() Listening comprehension is one of the toughest aspects of any foreign language. Learn Italian for Free with Audio Lessons Italian is one of the most popular languages among the Fluent in 3 Months Challenge participants, and if you want to learn it too, check out the free resources below. Don’t worry! I’ve scoured the web to find as many high-quality, free Italian language lessons as I could for you. ![]() You might wonder if these free resources are good quality, though. With these, you won’t have to worry about spending a single centesimo (“cent”) on your Italian lessons! ![]() ![]() ![]() Firestar takes this opportunity to make an impression on Scourge and reveal Tigerstar's murderous past. The small tom steps forward and reveals that his name is Scourge and that he leads the Clan, and that they would listen to him only. Tigerstar then orders BloodClan to attack, but they don't listen. It is then that Firestar realizes that he would not be able to reason with him now, so he calmly agrees to fight, if that is what Tigerstar wants. ![]() Tigerstar interrupts his thoughts by claiming that he changed the number of Clans in the forest, thus making him more powerful than StarClan. Firestar realizes that it's possible a group of these cats could have come to the forest to see what they had been offered. Thornclaw remembers scenting rogues the day he was made a warrior, and tells Firestar that they were probably from BloodClan. Tigerstar announces that they are BloodClan, and that they were to convince Firestar and Tallstar to join his Clan. Firestar turns to Tigerstar and asks who they are. Then he sees a small black tom, who goes to stand beside Tigerstar, and wonders who he could be, since he looks far too small to be a warrior. Firestar spots a large black-and-white tom, and assumes he is the leader. Because of this, Ashpaw, a ThunderClan apprentice, thinks they're kittypets. Chapter description Many of the newcomers are revealed to be wearing collars. ![]() |