His parents were both Jewish immigrants who arrived in New York in 1900, having fled antisemitism in their native Lithuania. Jerry Siegel was born on October 17, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio, to a Jewish family. Siegel also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter and Jerry S. Siegel created ten of the earliest members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, one of DC's most popular team books, which is set in the 30th Century. With Bernard Baily, Siegel also co-created the long-running DC character The Spectre. Siegel and Shuster were inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993. They also created Doctor Occult, who was later featured in The Books of Magic. He is the co-creator of Superman, in collaboration with his friend Joe Shuster, published by DC Comics. Jerome Siegel ( / ˈ s iː ɡ əl/ SEE-gəl Octo– January 28, 1996) was an American comic book writer.
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By mid-century, it was estimated that the blight killed between 3-4 billion trees! That's enough trees to fill nine million acres. The fungus could kill a mature tree in just 2-3 years. The blight (a type of fungus) gained entry to this country on an imported chestnut tree from Asia, which Americans began bringing into the US in the late 19th century. The group will explore this lost North American tree and the Chestnut blight that killed millions of trees in the first decade of the 20th century. I am looking forward to the group's discussion of this book, led by Professor Ben Goluboff of Lake Forest College. Tonight our RYERSON READS book group will discuss Susan Freinkel's American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree. A post by Sophie Twichell, FRW's executive director: In his encyclopedic The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (five volumes between 19), Gay explored in wonderfully readable prose a wide range of aspects of the European – especially the British, French and German – and the North American middle classes in their heyday. The first volume, subtitled The Rise of Modern Pagansim, of Peter Gay’s massive study, was widely acclaimed far beyond the academic world One of his accomplishments in to quell an Indian uprising and in this he is aided by Muhtab, a Muslim, and Hareem, a Hindi – and nowhere is their quisling role questioned. Kim takes to the streets on a quest for enlightenment with a Buddhist Lama, but is able to serve His Majesty in various other ways as well, including acquiring precious papers implicating an Indian prince’s conspiracy with Russians to the north. A certain Commander recognises his potential as an ‘agent’ because he is familiar with Indian street life and its languages. One day he is captured by the British, who find his ID papers in a scapula around his neck – and they send him off to school. He is orphaned by a sick mother and a feckless Irish father in service in India, and he lives in the streets. Kim is a boy enlisted by chance to work for the British Secret Service in India. It’s one of those classic books I always meant to read, one that’s part of my British heritage which is known around the world because of Kipling’s influence on the scouting movement. Kim by Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1907 1st November, 2003 To see my progress with completing the Read the Nobels Challenge, see here. An occasional series, cross-posting my reviews from Read the Nobels. And that someone will pay with their life. As the victim toll mounts, it becomes clear that someone must stop Beau Devereaux. Everything he wants but cannot have, she will be his ultimate prize. Senior year, Beau sets his sights on his girlfriend's headstrong twin sister, Leslie, who hates him. In the shadows of the haunted abbey, he commits unspeakable acts on his victims and ensures their silence with threats and intimidation. A dirty family secret buried for years, Beau's evil grows unchecked. The only child of a powerful family, Beau can do no wrong. The rest of the week belongs to school and family-but weekends belong to the river. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Along the banks of the Bogue Falaya River, sits the abandoned St. "Alexandrea Weis is one of the most talented authors around, and in a short time her novels are destined to stand along with authors such as Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jeffery Deaver." ~The Strand Magazine "A psychological portrait akin to Lord of the Flies." ~Midwest Book Review SOME TRUTHS ARE BETTER KEPT SECRET. Was he supposed to be seeing practice, having a holiday, working or What? But it soon became clear that he was a factotum. At first I wondered where Tristan fitted into the set up. This literature-related article is a stub. It was a New York publisher who changed the childish-looking cover art and combined the works under the title “All Creatures Great and Small,” a phrase borrowed from the 19th century English hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful. Alf Wight’s first two books of stories sold a few thousand copies each in the UK. All Creatures Great and Small is a series of books, movies, and TV series based on books written by James Alfred Wight under the pen name James Herriot based on his experiences as a veterinary surgeon in the Yorkshire Dales, in the fictional town of Darrowby, based on a combination of Thirsk, Richmond, Leyburn and Middleham. He is working to repair it using the parts from the toyshop animals, hoping that it will write a note to “save his life.” This automaton, the only inheritance from Hugo’s watchmaker father, is Hugo’s great secret: a writing robot. The young thief is caught and forced to show an old toymaker his precious notebook, drawings for repairing his mechanical man. He is himself a mouse, a secret creature in inhabited spaces, and also mechanical – part of the mechanism of the station – a boy with a function but no life. At the start of the book, he sneaks out to steal a mechanical mouse from a toy store. The orphan boy Hugo endures a lonely and secret life, sleeping in a hidden room in the Paris train station, continuing his departed uncle’s work of tending the station’s 27 clocks from small dark tunnels in the walls. Originally published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 19(2/3): 1. Review of The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick (New York: Scholastic Press, 2007). Cleary's imagination is almost as lively as Ramona's. NEW YORK Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children’s author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died. The riot that ensues is probably the most hilarious episode in this extremely funny book, which proves that Mrs. Starting with a fairly mild encounter with the librarian, which is harder on Beezus than anyone else, Ramona goes from strength to strength, winding up by inviting her entire kindergarten class to a part at her home without mentioning it to her mother. In this book Ramona and her imagination really come into their own. as aspiring paperboy Henry Huggins, his best friend Beezus Quimby. She simply has more imagination than is healthy for any one person. Henry and Ramona is a slice of life collage of community, childhood, and friendship. It is not that Ramona deliberately sets out to make trouble for other people. Readers of the earlier books will remember that Ramona has always been a menace to Beezus, her older sister, to Henry, and to his dog Ribsy. She is also far and away the most deadly. Cleary's wonderful Henry Huggins stories. Ramona Quimby is the youngest of all the famous characters in Mrs. Quinn, a family friend to the officer, is a witness to the incident. Rashad is a 16-year-old who is assaulted by a white police officer in a convenience store when he is misinterpreted as a thief. The novel switches between the perspective of a black boy, Rashad, written by Jason Reynolds, and a white boy, Quinn, written by Brendan Kiely. The book follows two characters, Rashad Butler and Quinn, as they navigate racism. The book was published in 2015 by Simon & Schuster. After Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson on August 9, 2014, Reynolds and Kiely began writing All American Boys as a way to address police brutality and racial profiling. Reynolds and Kiely began to share their feelings and frustrations, developing a friendship. While sharing a room on the book tour, they heard the news that George Zimmerman had been acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin. Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely met on a Simon & Schuster book tour in 2013. Reynolds (left) and Kiely discuss All American Boys in 2016 Fabulous!" -Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice Innovative and genre-bending, Tade Thompson's ambitious Afrofuturist series is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. The fugitive known as Bicycle Girl, Kaaro, and his former handler Femi may be humanity's last line of defense. Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere, and international borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and criminals to prevent the extra-terrestrial advance. And the city's alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends… Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting. The Rosewater Redemption is the powerful conclusion to the award-winning Wormdwood trilogy, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices. |