—Nina Stibbe, author of LOVE, NINA
—Melissa Senate, author of THE LOVE GODDESS' COOKING SCHOOL
—Geraldine Brooks, author of CALEB’S CROSSING and MARCH
April 30, 2015
Stanley Meisler on SHOCKING PARIS and the Great Russian Jewish Migration to Pre-World War II France
Stanley Meisler is an emeritus foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He is a distant relation (by marriage) of expressionist painter Chaim Soutine and has written several articles on Soutine and the School of Paris for the Smithsonian and the Los Angeles Times. In this piece, Meisler provides a bit of social and historical context for his latest book, SHOCKING PARIS: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse. He talks about the grim circumstances that led to the flight of many Jews to France in the years leading up to World War II, as well as his own personal connection to the story he’s telling --- including his brave uncle and aunt, who overcame bleak odds to achieve a degree of success in early 20th-century Paris.
Editorial Content for Lois Lane: Fallout
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Katherine Szabo
Lois Lane is your typical teenage army brat --- she's lived all over and has never stayed in one place for too long. That is, until her father is offered a new job that settles Lois permanently in Metropolis. She vows to make her stay in Metropolis different by keeping her head down, staying out of trouble (for once) and actually making some lasting friends (well, aside from her secretive, mysterious online maybe-more-than-a-friend she knows only by his screen name: SmallvilleGuy). Read More
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Lois Lane is starting a new life in Metropolis. An Army brat, Lois has lived all over --- and seen all kinds of things. But now her family is putting down roots in the big city, and Lois is determined to fit in. Stay quiet. Fly straight. As soon as she steps into her new high school, though, she can see it won't be that easy. Thank goodness for her maybe-more-than-a friend, a guy she knows only by his screenname, SmallvilleGuy...
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Lois Lane is starting a new life in Metropolis. An Army brat, Lois has lived all over --- and seen all kinds of things. But now her family is putting down roots in the big city, and Lois is determined to fit in. Stay quiet. Fly straight. As soon as she steps into her new high school, though, she can see it won't be that easy. Thank goodness for her maybe-more-than-a friend, a guy she knows only by his screenname, SmallvilleGuy...
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Lois Lane is starting a new life in Metropolis. An Army brat, Lois has lived all over --- and seen all kinds of things. (Some of them defy explanation, like the near-disaster she witnessed in Kansas in the middle of one night.) But now her family is putting down roots in the big city, and Lois is determined to fit in. Stay quiet. Fly straight. As soon as she steps into her new high school, though, she can see it won't be that easy. A group known as the Warheads is making life miserable for another girl at school. They're messing with her mind, somehow, via the high-tech immersive videogame they all play. Not cool. Armed with her wit and her new snazzy job as a reporter, Lois has her sights set on solving this mystery. But sometimes it's all a bit much. Thank goodness for her maybe-more-than-a friend, a guy she knows only by his screenname, SmallvilleGuy...
Editorial Content for Dear Hank Williams
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Aimee Rogers
DEAR HANK WILLIAMS is an epistolary novel written in a series of letters from the main character, Tate P. Ellerbee, to her pen pal Hank Williams. Tate’s new teacher, Mrs. Kipler, has assigned the entire class the task of writing to a pen pal throughout the school year. Tate selects Hank Williams, a singer whose star is beginning to rise, especially as he sings every Saturday night on the “Louisiana Hayride” radio program. Read More
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It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment --- learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt and -uncle listen to him on the radio every Saturday night, and Tate just knows that she and Hank are kindred spirits.
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It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment --- learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt and -uncle listen to him on the radio every Saturday night, and Tate just knows that she and Hank are kindred spirits.
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It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment --- learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt and -uncle listen to him on the radio every Saturday night, and Tate just knows that she and Hank are kindred spirits.
Told entirely through Tate's hopeful letters, this beautifully drawn novel from National Book Award-winning author Kimberly Willis Holt gradually unfolds a story of family love, overcoming tragedy, and an insightful girl learning to find her voice.
