![]() government, and in 1988, when President Ronald Regan signed a bill ordering reparations for each surviving internee. In the 1960s, a younger generation of Japanese-Americans began a campaign for public acknowledgement of the internment process they achieved success in 1976, when President Gerald Ford publicly apologized for internment on behalf of the U.S. Most interned families suffered serious economic and material losses as they had to sell possessions and land at a loss, and what they left behind was often stolen. Most prominent newspapers and many Caucasian trade unions who saw the Japanese as competition supported internment and stoked fears of Japanese espionage. ![]() About 120,000 Japanese-Americans were affected, most of whom were American citizens. ![]() Shortly after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed the military to “exclude” Japanese-Americans from the West Coat and confine them in government-operated concentration camps. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() With the terrifying realization that she might not be strong enough to fight her way back out again, Ruby struggles to survive her memories of the town’s dark past. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, 30-year-old Ruby Bell finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. ![]() Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the city - the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Village - all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. Young Ruby, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her - this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.Įphram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. ![]() ![]() ![]() Looks is the first book to explore how the power of beauty affects both sexes and how the rise of reality TV shows, cosmetic surgery, and celebrity culture have contributed to our culture's overall obsession with being beautiful. In Looks, he reveals not only its impact on romance, but also on family dynamics, performance in school, career, courtroom proceedings, politics and government. Patzer has devoted the last 30 years to investigating this unsettling phenomenon for both women and men, and how it touches every part of our lives. What exactly is this "physical attractiveness" phenomenon and how does it affect each and every one of us?ĭr. They are also more likely to get hired and promoted at work. Recent studies document that people blessed with good looks earn about 10% more than their average-looking colleagues. ![]() ![]() But very few of us realize just how much looks affect every aspect of our lives. Those who possess it are generally luckier in love, more likely to be popular, and more apt to get better grades in school. We all know one hard and undeniable truth: Physical beauty comes with tremendous power, and tremendous benefits. ![]() ![]() ![]() He hired on as a cabin boy and cook on a small schooner and later he signed on at Halifax as ordinary seamen on a merchant ship bound for Dublin, Ireland and eventually became an ordinary seaman on a British merchant ship bound for China. It has been reported that as a young boy, Slocum made several attempts to run away from home and finally succeeding at the age of 14. It is assumed that his early adventures on the water were accomplished on coastal schooners operating out of the small ports such as Port George and Cottage Cove near Mount Hanley along the Bay of Fundy. Joshua Slocum grew up in Mount Hanley, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. ![]() The event was almost unnoticed because the Spanish–American War, which had begun two months earlier, dominated all the headlines. After more than three years, Slocum returned in his gaff rigged sloop oyster boat named Spray having circumnavigated the world, a distance of more than 74,000 km. On June 27, 1898, the first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Brier Island, Nova Scotia. ![]() ![]() If you are interested in deepening your knowledge of the ancient roots of yoga, then the Ramayana is an absolute must read. The illustrations are so sweet! Every page is a visual masterpiece full of color, extraordinary detail and humour. Even in its greatly condensed version, the most valued characteristics of virtue, purity and loyalty are proudly displayed by the main characters Rama, Sita and Hanuman in this great Indian legend. In its entirety, the Ramayana is over 24,000 verses long, (far too long for this mama to read at bedtime) so 100 pages of witty text and cool graphics is a much better option. The Ramayana is one of two great Indian epics, the other being the Mahabarata. Patel is an animator for Pixar and his graphic novel adaption of the ancient Hindu epic is utterly captivating. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book spans from the Middle Ages to present day. “Home” is broken down into ten chapters, which each one expounding upon some aspect of the history and development of the concept of a home and its furnishings. This anecdote forms the basis of the book as Rybczynki seeks to discover what exactly is comfort? Comfort was inside the kidney, discomfort was everywhere else” (Rybczynski, vii). “The “comfort zone” which, as far as I can remember, was a kidney-shaped, crosshatched area on a graph that showed the relationship between temperature and humidity. ![]() His professor was discussing air conditioning and began to describe what mechanical engineers called the “comfort zone”. ![]() He tells a story of being in architecture school and how the topic of comfort was only mentioned one time. An architect by trade, Witold explains that he wrote the book out of ignorance, as he really did not know what comfort was. Witold Rybczynski’s “Home: A Short History of an Idea”, is essentially a long essay about the idea of comfort. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() in English and American Literature from Brandeis. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in English from Harvard, and in 1978 he was awarded his Ph.D. Michael McDowell was born Jin Enterprise, Alabama and attended public schools in southern Alabama until 1968. This first-ever reprint features deliciously creepy new cover art by Mike Mignola. Ĭold Moon Over Babylon (1980), the second novel by Michael McDowell (1950-1999), author of Blackwater and The Elementals and screenwriter of Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a chilling Southern Gothic tale of revenge from beyond the grave that ranks among his most terrifying books. And when the full moon rises over Babylon, it will seek a terrible vengeance. Night after night it will pursue the murderer. And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form. ![]() Now they are about to endure another: fourteen-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law.īut something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror. Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy southern town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() So it's refreshing that Pearson sticks to the heart of her story and leaves the rest to readers, whose imaginations will definitely still be reeling for days afterward. If the author followed today's trends, there would be hundreds more pages dedicated to Jenna's budding romance and her bickering with her mom. But within Jenna's family, the tension feels real, and her grandmother is a great mediator between the strict order her parents try to maintain and the fierce need for independence of any 17-year-old. Some of the characters in Jenna's new life seem too conveniently placed - like her friend Allys with artificial limbs who volunteers for the medical ethics board, as well as both a love interest and a neighbor who have big secrets. ![]() Because of what Jenna's father does for a living, readers will be clued into the big secret way before Jenna is, but luckily there are more revelations in store. And all of that is wrapped in a taut mystery that Jenna dramatically unravels. a bold ending whets appetites for the next installment.' - Kirkus Reviews Praise for The Adoration of Jenna Fox : 'Raises the ante in unexpected ways until the very last page. Not only about what kinds of ethical decisions humans will have to deal with in the future ( way beyond cloning), but also about what the cost is of not letting go when it's time, both in the regular "empty nest" parent sense and the grieving sense. Most intriguing are the two love interests, though, partly because of the way Pearson structures their narrating chapters.' - BCCB 'Rich and exciting. This sci-fi story definitely gets you thinking. ![]() ![]() True poetry about perceiving the world around us. Rekindles the sense of wonder we were born with. The text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee, saidĬhosen as a Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children by the American National Education Association. What's most important about many familiar things-like rain and wind, apples and daisies-is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. 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