The Renaissance-era Florentine patriarch Cosimo de Medici captured the power of fashion and dress codes when he remarked, “One can make a gentleman from two yards of red cloth.” Dress codes evolved along with the social and political ideals of the day, but they always reflected struggles for power and status. In Tudor England, silk, velvet, and fur were reserved for the nobility, and ballooning pants called “trunk hose” could be considered a menace to good order. Merchants dressing like princes and butchers’ wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social hierarchy and defined by spectacle. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. A “sharp and entertaining” ( The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.ĭress codes are as old as clothing itself.
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6/29/2023 0 Comments On the fence by kasie westOn the Fence is a sweet and satisfying listen about finding yourself and finding love where you least expect it. She knows what it means to go for the win, but if spilling her secret means losing him for good, the stakes just got too high. But there's a secret Charlie's keeping that even he hasn't figured out - she's fallen for him. If you’re having problems signing in with your password or think you’ve forgotten it, reset your password. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesnt know the first thing about anything. She can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knowsincluding her longtime neighbor and honorary fourth brother, Braden. So when her police officer dad demands she get a summer job to pay for the latest in a long line of speeding tickets, she's more than a little surprised to find herself working at a chichi boutique and going out with a boy who has never seen her tear it up in a pickup game.Ĭharlie seeks late-night refuge in her backyard, talking out her problems with her neighbor and honorary fourth brother, Braden, sitting back to back against the fence that separates them. Get help remembering your password and user ID. For sixteen-year-old Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, being raised by a single dad and three older brothers has its perks. With three older brothers, Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, has always been more comfortable calling the shots on a basketball court than flirting with the opposite sex. 6/29/2023 0 Comments The painted drumThe story of the “Little Girl” drum (with no spoilers here) takes the reader from Faye’s life and love story in New Hampshire to an Ojibwe reservation in Minnesota. Suddenly, the drum “speaks” to Faye, resonating with a single, deep note which only she hears. Neither Faye nor Sarah Tatro notices the drum, at first-three feet in diameter, hollowed out from a single piece of cedar wood and covered by a moose hide. Sarah Tatro, the niece, is not much interested in “old beadwork and stuff,” and she has almost forgotten the old storage room in the attic, but when she opens it, Faye finds a room packed with suitcases containing beadwork, baskets, moccasins and other handwork, a cradleboard, and a beaded footstool-a collection of enormous value. Faye, of Indian heritage herself, is hoping to find some Indian artifacts that can be sold or donated to a museum on behalf of the estate. When Faye T ravers, an estate agent in New Hampshire, inventories the home of John Jewett Tatro at the behest of his niece and heirs, she is aware that Tatro’s grandfather was once an Indian agent on an Ojibwe reservation and that his grandmother was Indian. I hear it, I know I hear it, and yet Sarah Tatro does not.” And yet, when I step near the drum, I swear it sounds. “Some people believe objects absorb something of their owner’s essence. Here in her own words, Priscilla Presley tells the story of their love, revealing the details of their first meeting, their marriage, their affairs, their divorce, and the unbreakable bond that has remained long after his tragic death.Ī tribute to both the man and the legend, Elvis and Me gives Elvis fans the world over an unprecedented look at the true life of the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll and the woman who loved him. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Sofia Coppola The New York. The New York Times bestseller that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived itĭecades after his death, millions of fans continue to worship Elvis the legend. Read Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley available from Rakuten Kobo. One night we visited Barbra Streisand backstage at the. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Sofia Coppola In her book Elvis and Me, Priscilla Presley discussed the time her husband spoke to Streisand after one of her performances. Finalist for the 2022 Voice Arts Award for Narration by the Author An Associated Press Pick of the Top 10 Audiobooks of the Year A New York Times bestseller An bestseller A Barnes & Noble bestseller A Pick of 7 Best Audiobooks of the Month A Barnes & Noble Pick of Top Indie Favorites See All + 6/29/2023 0 Comments Eragon the inheritance cycleTime will tell whether an Eragon 2 or a remake of the whole series will appear in the future.Īs far as the books are concerned, the Eragon reading order is pretty simple, so let’s get on with a list of all of the Eragon books in order. That is, until August 2021 when Christopher Paolini announced that Disney was no longer looking to reboot it…at least for now. So bad that members of my Facebook group, YA Fantasy Addicts, voted it the worst book to movie adaptation of all time.Īfter Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, rumors grew that Disney was considering a reboot of the series. In 2006, 20th Century Fox produced a movie adaptation of Eragon that received horrible reviews. Knopf picked it up and republished it in 2003, then subsequently published the rest of the Inheritance Cycle. Whether you read Eragon as a child and are looking to reread the series, or are brand new to the Inheritance Cycle, we’re here to help with a list of the Eragon books in order.Ĭhristopher Paolini wrote Eragon at the age of 15 and went on to become the youngest best-selling author according to the Guinness Books of World Records.Įragon was initially self-published in 2002 before the Alfred A. The Millennium Trilogy TOGETHER with an Afterword.The Millennium Trilogy A Dragon Tattoo Story Collection 3 Books (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played With Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest).Millennium series 3 Books Collection Box Set by Stieg Larsson (Books 1 - 3) (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire & The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest).Millenium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / The Girl Who Played with Fire / The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.
Please stop by or call the Information Desk at 50 to register for the pressed flower workshop. A fee of $10 will be charged to cover materials used to create each participant's individual design. The workshop will be held in the library's program room at 6:30 p.m. On March 13th, Elaine will be running a pressed flower workshop sponsored by the Friends of the Milford Town Library. Elaine has been creating pressed flower designs for 30 years, growing all her own flowers and pressing them in old telephone books.Īmong the lovely items on display are pressed-flower book marks, wedding invitations, candles, photo albums, gift boxes, framed pictures, business cards and other treasures. On display for the month of February is a collection of pressed flower creations by Milford resident Elaine McNanna. This copy COMPLETE with the rare 'unclipped' dust jacket, with some wear and spots on the backside. The selling price at the time was 42 shillings. ¶ Hardcover 'First UK Edition' that appeared simultaneously with or soon after the US first edition. McLuhan introduced the term "global village" and the phrase "the medium is the message" here and predicted the World Wide Web 30 years BEFORE the Internet became a reality (!). The author states, among other things, that the media are an extension of the human senses and influence both the individual and society in a determining way. Revolutionary book by Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) that is considered "the most important book ever written on communication". The Extensions of Man - London - Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd - 1964 - 1st edition - viii, pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 15 x 22,5 cm.Ĭondition: Good - Ex-bibliotheca Simon Vinkenoog. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Grisha book 2Warning: This review contains unavoidable spoilers for Shadow and Bone. Stand alone or series: Book 2 in the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and part of the overall Grishaverse Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her-or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. But she can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long. Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Call Me Russell by Russell PetersPeters, who is of Indian background, said that as an adult he understands the racism of the term. I thought a Paki was some kind of ghost or boogey man," Peters told Jian Ghomeshi, host of CBC's Q cultural affairs show, in an interview aired Monday. "As a kid I would hear the word and a) I didn't know they were talking about me and b) I didn't know what the word was. Peters is known for busting Indian stereotypes in his comedy, which has taken him from a modest middle-class life in Woodbridge, Ont., to a place in the top 10 of a Forbes best-paid comedians list last year.Ĭall Me Russell devotes an entire chapter to the taunt of "Paki" that Peters says he heard throughout his childhood. In his memoir, Call Me Russell, Canadian comedian Russell Peters writes about growing up in suburbia as a scrawny, brown, bullied kid with ADHD. |