![]() However, he felt alienated there and struggled with the institution’s rigid pedagogical style. Einstein had one sister, Maja, born two years after him.Įinstein attended elementary school at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. Einstein’s mother, the former Pauline Koch, ran the family household. Einstein & Cie, a Munich-based company that mass-produced electrical equipment. ![]() His father, Hermann Einstein, was a salesman and engineer who, with his brother, founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. SPOUSES: Mileva Maric (1903-1919) and Elsa Löwenthal (1919-1936)ĪSTROLOGICAL SIGN: Pisces Early Life, Family, and EducationĪlbert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. With his passion for inquiry, Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. In his later years, Einstein focused on unified field theory. His work also had a major impact on the development of atomic energy. In the following decade, he immigrated to the United States after being targeted by the German Nazi Party. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Albert Einstein was a German mathematician and physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. ![]()
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![]() Now his dad is re-establishing his career, and the paparazzi are following Luc everywhere. He never met his father, but Luc is aware that he spent his time in and out of rehab. Twenty years ago, his Rockstar parents split, so Luc enjoyed a pretty normal childhood. He currently lives alone in Southeast England, and he doesn’t see himself getting children or pets anytime in the future.īoyfriend Material tells the story of Luc O’Donnell, a young man who is reluctantly famous. Hall also knows that he cannot sing or cook, but he can hotwire a car. The funny thing is that he was fired from most of these positions. ![]() Hall has held different jobs in the past, including fortune-telling, cream making, and maintaining a lab technician position. ![]() However, he enjoyed his Oxbridge experience even though he did not learn a thing from it. While he was born in the 1980s, Halls feels cheated because he never drank absinthe, stayed in a garret, or danced with a courtesan even though he survived a fin de siècle. Alexis Hall is a fantasy and romance writer who still views the 21st century as the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() On one level Julia's struggle is one any middle schooler can relate too. Julia is so tangled up about how she feels about herself and her identity. ![]() Why should she be friends with these girls just because they were born in the same place? And why should she be interested in Chinese things simply because that's where she was born? Can't she be Irish and Italian too like her adopted parents? Avery and Becca are athletic and competitive. Avery and Becca eat Cheetos with chopsticks. Julia is not interested in her Chinese heritage. She's looking forward even less to journaling about the experience for the woman who organized all three of their adoptions can write about them. Julia is spending a week at camp with her "Chinese sisters" Avery and Becca, the two girls who were adopted from the same orphanage as Julia at the same time. Just Like Me is a wonderful story about friendship, cultural identity, adoption, and camp. ![]() This being the case I was excited to see that there was a new book coming from Cavanaugh this year. I can not tell you how many times she has read Always Abigail. Books by Nancy Cavanaugh are a hot commodity in the Painter house. ![]() ![]() ![]() |a United States |x History |y 1961-1969 |v Juvenile fiction. |a San Francisco (Calif.) |x History |y 20th century |v Juvenile fiction. |a Automobile travel |v Juvenile fiction. |a Molly and her cousin drive cross-country in an old bus, navigating protests, parades, and concerts to notify her conscientious objector brother that he has been drafted into the Vietnam War. |a 412 pages : |b illustrations |c 22 cm. |a New York, NY : |b Scholastic Press, |c 2019. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the story about a nun and a man who was a Jew, Esther first experiences the fig tree (55) “The particular fig tree grew amid a Jewish person’s house and a monastery on a verdant lawn…” “I could see my life thriving out before me, such as the green fig tree in the story,” she says later, as she mulls over her career opportunities and becomes concerned about her future (77). The fig tree is the most iconic symbolic image that torments the protagonist Esther. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is full of fascinating imagery and metaphors. After realizing the world’s limitations and happiness, Esther secludes herself from the world to a place where death is tormenting. Thus, the dreams, goals, and ambition got rotten and dropped to her fit. ![]() Sylvia Plath makes the readers visualize a young woman under a fig tree full of figs and shows how she hesitates to pick the figs. She avoids choosing either for fear of losing the rest of the twigs. ![]() She hesitates only to follow one dream and compares her life to a fig tree which symbolizes ambition, dreams, and goals. ![]() ![]() ![]() You have to read Ashes first because Shadows continues right where Ashes left off. My normal commute to work is two hours and the entire time I listened to Shadows but it wasn’t enough, so for a week I had lunch in my car listening to and saying ok just five more minutes! In a world of HD, CGI, and 60 inch televisions we have come to depend on visual for entertainment, but after listening to Shadows the light bulb clicked and I could see how years ago people would sit around the radio mesmerized by just the audio. As far as narrators go Katherine has to be one of my top five favorites. Katherine does the voices of the kids and her voice really fits every emotion and tense moment in the story. With that said PICK UP Ashes and Shadows right now.įor audio book fans this is one you must get! Katherine Kellgren won the Audie award for Female Solo Narration. So for me to not only pick a dystopia, but to read a series is pretty unheard of. ![]() ![]() Do you ever read a book and then think “Wow, why is the world not going crazy over this series?” Well that’s what Ilsa’s novels are like! I’m not a big dystopia fan, because let’s face it reading about the end of the world as we know it is really sad and sometimes depressing. I really do think Ilsa’s novels are so under everyone’s radar. ![]() ![]() Soran Keize, last of the Imperial aces, has stepped into the power vacuum at the head of Shadow Wing, reinvigorating the faltering unit in their hour of need. Determined to finish the fight once and for all, Quell works with New Republic Intelligence's contentious Caern Adan and the legendary General Hera Syndulla to prepare the riskiest gambit of her starfighting career-a trap for Shadow Wing that could finish the chase once and for all.īut in the darkness, their enemy has evolved. Yrica Quell's ragtag Alphabet Squadron still leads the search for Shadow Wing, but they're no closer to their goal-and the pressure to find their quarry before it's too late has begun to shake them apart. And none are more dangerous than Shadow Wing. But some old ghosts are harder to banish than others. In its wake, the capital ships of the newly legitimized galactic government journey to the farthest stars, seeking out and crushing the remnants of imperial tyranny. News of the New Republic's victory still reverberates through the galaxy. Prison Life: Help for Inmates and FamiliesĪlphabet Squadron's hunt for the deadliest TIE fighters in the galaxy continues in this Star Wars adventure! Used : Fiction, Romance and Urban Fiction Used: Science Fiction & Fantasy and Horror Novels Used: Western and Historical Novels & Historical Romance ![]() Used: Mysteries, Thrillers, Suspense and Action Novels Science Fiction & Fantasy and Horror Novels Mysteries, Thrillers, Suspense and Action Novels ![]() ![]() If you can understand the appeal of those blankets-and of their promise of a life spent in glorious inactivity-you can begin to grasp what makes this novel so fascinating, despite its daunting appearance. ![]() Whether it was the texture of the cushions, the perfect slant of the back support, the proper height and width of the armrests, or simply the practical consistency of the neck roll-whatever it was, nothing could possibly have offered more humane benefits for a body at rest than this splendid lounge chair. They’re a pair of lovely camel-hair blankets, “extra long and wide, in a natural beige fabric that was delightfully soft to the touch,” and they’re used by the residents of a sanitarium in the Alps while lounging on their balconies for their daily rest cure, which can last for hours. Whenever I think of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, I always begin with the blankets. For earlier entries in the series, please see here.) ![]() ![]() ![]() (Note: For the rest of the month, I’m counting down the ten works of fiction that have had the greatest influence on my life as an author and reader, in order of their first publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some are married, some were formerly married, some are parents, some are their children, some are their employees, and some were students of a woman one who was a teacher, an unfaithful wife, and a gullible victim. For the most part the characters are neither memorable nor interesting, their motivations for their actions are not especially believable, and the complex relations among them are confusing. The story involves a long series of brief conversations with an ever-expanding cast of characters. He quickly locates the boy but is knocked unconscious, and when he awakes the boy is gone. ![]() Later that day Archer finds the father murdered. ![]() ![]() Shortly after the boy and his father leave the mother comes to Archer’s apartment and hires him to find and return the boy. Before long the boy’s father comes to take him on an outing, over the objection of his mother. Lew Archer steps out of his apartment one morning to toss peanuts to some scrub jays and a young boy of 5 or 6 soon comes out of a nearby apartment. The 16th novel in Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer series, The Underground Man is a slow moving, hard to follow PI noir from the early 1970s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Douglas County Commissioner Mary Ann Borgeson introduced Weiss.ĭuring the event, the Omaha Public Library Foundation also presented Freddie Gray with its 2020 Barbara Bock-Mavis Leadership Award. Jo Giles, Omaha Public Library Foundation board president, served as emcee. Weiss credited public libraries for much of her multi-year research when writing the book. Weiss’s presentation included Nebraska’s history during this pivotal time in American history. This year’s author was Elaine Weiss, whose 2018 book, “ The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote,” offers an engaging and historic narrative of the days leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment. Between the Lines with Elaine Weiss, the Omaha Public Library Foundation’s annual fundraiser on October 6, 2020, transitioned to a free, online event earlier this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() |