I, Lorelai is Yeardley Smith’s first book. But you wouldn’t be able to tell that from just reading it. (In addition to being an excellent writer, she’s also the voice of Lisa on The Simpsons.)
Lorelai is a eleven-year-old who begins writing a diary to her recently deceased cat, Mud, and also to her would-be biographers. ..
GRACE’S GRANDMOTHER HAS died, and she and her mother must travel back to the Cambodian community to give her a proper Cambodian funeral. But Grace wants to use the trip to solve a few mysteries, like who her father was, why her mother and grandmother moved from St. Petersburg to Pennsylvania, where they’re the only Cambodians Grace has ever seen, and what Cambodian culture is really about.
When Hillary Rodham Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969, she was the first student in the school’s long and illustrious history to give the commencement address. It proved to be one of many groundbreaking firsts for the young woman now considered the most famous woman in the world. In part of her speech, she defined what she saw as her generation’s greatest challenge. She said, “The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible,possible.” For the remainder of her life she herself would strive to do exactly that....
Film: A Critical Introduction, 2nd edition, provides a comprehensive framework for studying films, with an emphasis on writing as a means of exploring film’s aesthetic and cultural significance.
Refresh: Contemporary Vegan Recipes From the Award Winning Fresh Restaurants
reFresh is a new edition of Ruth Tal’s first book, Juice for Life (Wiley 2000, 978-0-7715-7690-4). Completely revised and updated, reFresh offers the reader a sumptuous selection of the best recipes found on the restaurant’s menu today, all in a gorgeous full colour package that reflects the award-winning style and design of the restaurants themselves.
