![]() ![]() One friend said of him: "His sense of humor was a little different from everybody else's." He was also artistically inclined, "drawing with a happy vengeance", according to a biographer. ![]() College Hall, the oldest building on the current campus of the University of Pennsylvania, where Addams studied, was also an inspiration for the mansion. In the cartoons, his ghoulish creations lived on Cemetery Ridge with a dreadful view.Ī house on Elm Street and another on Dudley Avenue – into which police once caught him breaking and entering – are said to be the inspiration for the Addams Family mansion in his cartoons. Īddams would enjoy the Presbyterian Cemetery on Mountain Avenue in Westfield as a child, where – according to author and Addams expert Ron MacCloskey – he would wonder what it was like to be dead. ![]() presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, despite the different spellings of their last names, and was a first cousin twice removed to noted social reformer Jane Addams. (née Spear 1879–1943) and Charles Huey Addams (1873–1932), a piano company executive who had studied to be an architect, he was known as "something of a rascal around the neighborhood" as childhood friends recalled. ![]() Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were subsequently popularized through various adaptations.Īddams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. Charles Samuel Addams (Janu– September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters, signing the cartoons as Chas Addams. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A charming cast of secondary characters includes Neil's cousins, Simon and Maud, two abandoned, nine-year-old twins who, in a surprising turn of events, come to live with Cathy's parents. Tom has a live-in girlfriend whom he would love to marry, but Marcella, a manicurist in a classy store, yearns to succeed as a model before making any commitments. Neil, a lawyer who champions worthy causes, is unconcerned about the tension between his wife and his snooty mother, and Cathy and Neil find themselves leading busy, separate lives. Cathy, whose out-of-work father plays the races while her mother toils as a housemaid, faces the consequences of having married Neil Mitchell, prized son of an upper-class family who employed Cathy's mother for years. Professionally, they're off to a good start personally, their lives are falling apart. Set in contemporary Ireland over a period of one year, the smartly paced tale focuses on Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, cooking school chums who achieve their dream of opening a posh catering business, Scarlet Feather, in Dublin. Bestselling author Binchy (Tara Road, etc.) again explores the depths of family relationships in an 11th warm, involving drama. ![]() ![]() ![]() When new secrets are uncovered, it's up to Tilly to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago. Tilly's new ability leads her to fun and exciting adventures, but danger may be lurking on the very next page. Not only can she follow Anne and Alice into their books, she discovers she can bookwander into any story she chooses. But when her favorite characters, Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Wonderland, start showing up at the shop,Tilly's adventures become very real. Since her mother's disappearance, eleven-year-old Tilly Pages has found comfort in the stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents' bookshop. Perfect for fans of Inkheart, The Land of Stories, and Story Thieves. Lemoncello series.Īn enchanting story about the magic of books and the power of imagination from debut author Anna James. ![]() ![]() If you love books, you're going to LOVE this book!"- Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Mr. Lemoncello would love to go bookwandering at Pages and Co. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are numerous study sources interwoven into the book so that you can do your own further research in the areas that interest you.Īll the ADHD tools and strategies have been tried and tested in my own life and in the lives of my clients. Where possible I have quoted the fact sources. I bring you the latest up to date ADHD knowledge and solutions. The organisation challenges are all still present, but I have learned to overcome them. Where there was once darkness, frustration, and despair, now there is light, acceptance and hope. I have created myself anew in the process. ![]() Searching for the right answers has been one of my most difficult life challenges. I have searched long and hard for the answers. I have lived with the challenges of ADHD overwhelm in in various forms for most of my life. ![]() It is well known that the world’s best ADHD coaches are those who have been in the ADHD trenches themselves. In this book, Faigy Liebermann, ADHD success coach and author draws on her training, and her many years of work with her clients, and herself, to bring you up-to-date knowledge about ADHD. Have you been struggling with your ADHD your entire life?Īre you fed up with living with your ADHD?Īre you hiding your ADHD from your family, your employer, and yourself?Īre you fed up with your overwhelm and self-made crises? Are you ready to learn how to think with focus and strategically plan your life so that you can finally feel satisfied and accomplished? ![]() ![]() The triangle’s central point is Ava, who has moved to Hong Kong from Ireland to teach English. The key story arc is a love triangle (although something about that description doesn’t feel quite right – it’s too simple to capture the nuance with which the dynamic is drawn out). For the past couple of days, I’ve clung to this book like a security blanket. It transported me away from my own modest routine into the glitzy newness of arriving in Hong Kong as a young expat (a term Dolan doesn’t like, because it just means ‘you’re white, of course – and more welcome as a result’ this perceptiveness to her surroundings and cultural context pervades the book, and is one of the best things about it). ![]() My immersion in it from page one calmed my frayed nerves and was a balm for my tattered attention span. I think the blend of circumstances making up life at this particular moment led me to love Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan’s debut novel, even more than I would have if I’d picked it up in more normal times. To step away from our own bodies and out of our own heads for a little while. ![]() In times like these, the best thing books can offer is escapism – the opportunity to inhabit a different place and a different life. We’re limited in what we can do, who we can see and where we can go. ![]() ![]() Our current reality – quite apart from being dystopian and scary – isn’t exactly fertile ground for variety and excitement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Habib demonstrates an awareness of this, sharing that “some of Muslim activist friends also expressed concerns about writing a memoir. I sometimes feel ambivalent about the expectations placed on memoirs with a focus on a minority identity, because the writer is expected to represent their community while also narrating their own story truthfully. ![]() We Have Always Been Here is photographer, writer and activist Samra Habib’s memoir recounting her family’s immigration from their native Pakistan to Canada as refugees fleeing religious persecution for being Ahmaddiya Muslims, and her own journey entering and leaving an arranged marriage at age 18 to her male cousin, and coming into her queer identity. Not everyone is equipped for activism in the traditional sense-marching, writing letters to officials-but dedicating your life to understanding yourself can be its own form of protest, especially when the world tells you that you don’t exist. It’s who you are, whether that means rejecting traditional gender roles or embracing non-normative identities and politics. Being queer, I learned, is so much more than who you sleep with. ![]() ![]() Plus, the book provides an index of the nearly 1,000 surviving covered bridges in North America. McKee, a leading authority on covered bridges, the book features a full color photography of each bridge, detailed truss diagrams, basic construction details, and information about the locale, including where to find the bridge. ![]() Now, Historic American Covered Bridges presents a superb photographic record of 138 historic covered bridges found in the United States and Canada. Yet these bridges over the years have been treasured for their rustic charm, romantic atmosphere (they are nicknamed "kissing bridges"), curious engineering, and historical value. Originally designed with roof-like covers to protect the wooden support beams from the elements, the covered bridge dominated bridge design for fifty years, until the Bessemer process introduced the cheap steel which then became the material of preference. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They must be prepared because their goal is Master Tezuka.” He continued, “I was in anguish when I was working on ‘Pluto,’ so I want the production crew to go through the same thing when they work on the anime. “I even feel like I have been trying to understand the inexplicable bittersweet sensation that I felt at the time.” “‘The Greatest Robot on Earth’ has always had a special place in my heart, sitting at the center of all manga works ever since I read it when I was 5,” Urasawa said during an event held in Tokyo on March 25. The story opens as the world’s great robots are destroyed one after another, and Atom, one of the targets, pursues the case with robot detective Gesicht. ![]() In 2005, the title won the top Manga Grand Prix award at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, founded in honor of the creator known as “the god of manga.” Produced by Takashi Nagasaki and supervised by Tezuka’s son Makoto, the original “Pluto” manga series ran between 20 with the assistance of Tezuka Productions Co. The manga is based on “The Greatest Robot on Earth,” a popular arc from Osamu Tezuka’s "Astro Boy” manga series. Netflix will stream an animated adaptation of the “Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka” manga series this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() The leap to writing seemed like a natural progression for Orange. "And I wasn't a reader, so fiction was a super novel thing for me, and the novel itself was. "I was in my 20s and also searching for meaning," he says. But after graduating from college with a degree in sound engineering, he couldn't find work, so he got a job at bookstore where he developed a passion for reading. ![]() As a kid, Orange wasn't much of a reader. Orange's mother is white, and his father is Cheyenne. ![]() Set in Oakland, Calif., it explores the lives of Native Americans who live in cities, not reservations - lives like that of its author, who himself grew up in Oakland. This year, There There by Tommy Orange is one of those books. He says, "I wanted to represent a range of human experience as a way to humanize Native people."Įvery year at BookExpo, the publishing industry's annual conference, a few books emerge as front-runners in the competition for readers. Tommy Orange's debut novel features a wide cast of characters who are all Native American, with varying degrees of connection to the culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wants to make sure choosing God is the right path, and to do that, she propositions Sean to show her every carnal temptation she's leaving behind. Zenny, though, isn't looking to play it safe during her final month of freedom. Worse than that…she's also about to become a nun. ![]() When he meets a gorgeous college girl at a fundraiser, he has no problem telling her exactly what filthy things he wants to do to her-until he realizes she's his best friend's little sister, Zenobia "Zenny" Iverson, all grown up. There are words for men like him: playboy. He doesn't believe in goodness, God, or any happy ending that isn't paid for in advance. Sean Bell is not a good man, and he's never pretended to be. He leads a life of sin, and she's committed to a life of virtue. From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sierra Simone comes her steamy, TikTok-famous Priest series, in which sinners and saints alike test the bonds of religion, love, and lust. ![]() |