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3 days ago · Horn Book, May 15, 2024 May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Here are six works of fiction for intermediate and middle-school readers — novels, graphic novels, a short story collection — set in North America and starring characters of Asian heritage.
3 days ago · Hope is activism. It is a steadfast belief in direct contrast to one’s current existence. Throughout history the lives of Black people have embraced hope as a means of survival. When denied freedom, access, quality education, land, civil rights, and safety, they continued to embrace hope by fighting every day, never giving up, never giving in.
2 days ago · The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three installments. Originally planned as a six-book series with the publication of The Eye of the World in 1990, The Wheel of Time came to span 14 volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and three companion ...
- United States
- January 15, 1990 – January 8, 2013
- Fantasy
2 days ago · The instrumental arrangements on tracks such as "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" and "Licking Stick-Licking Stick", both recorded in 1968, and "Funky Drummer", recorded in 1969, featured a more developed version of Brown's mid-1960s style, with the horn section, guitars, bass and drums meshed together in intricate rhythmic patterns based on ...
2 days ago · Pynchon has published a number of articles and reviews in the mainstream American media, including words of support for Salman Rushdie and his then-wife, Marianne Wiggins, after the fatwa was pronounced against Rushdie by the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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- Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr., May 8, 1937 (age 86), Glen Cove, New York, U.S.
- c. 1959–present
5 days ago · A big topic every horn player needs to consider. This is a huge topic and one every horn player could do well to consider or reconsider. Myself, I’m approaching fundamentals differently in my current practice and I’m considering presenting the topic of fundamentals differently to my students next year.
3 days ago · The first film in the actor-director's planned four-part passion project is baffling – like a three-hour pilot episode for a TV show, with half-formed characters and no structure.
