Disabled children inspire fiction and non fiction for young readers
Denise Marcke Wilms notes 1980 as the International Year of Disabled Persons spurred authors to publish fiction and non fiction for youth. Ber neice Rabe’s The Balancing Girl features a paraplegic girl who balances dominoes to gain independence and respect. Mary Riskind’s Apple Is My Sign centers on a deaf boy in a past era, drawing on the author’s deaf household experience. Jeanette Eyerly’s The Seeing Summer follows two neighbors one blind, one sighted, forging a warm friendship and illustrating capable blind classmates.
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United Nations
Berniece Rabe
Dutton
Margaret
Tommy
Mary Riskind
Houghton
Riskind
Harry
School For the
Jeanette Eyerly
Lippincott
Carey
Jenny Anne Lee
Jenny
Private eye novelist Max Collins plans 30s noir comeback
Muscatine writer and Dick Tracy contributor Max Collins aims to redefine the private eye genre with a 600 to 800 page Chicago in the 1930s novel. He criticizes tired clichés, contrasts his Quarry and Nolan series with deeper, more brutal urban violence and moral questions. Next week Ed Gorman continues the interview.
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Max Collins
Collins
Private Eye
Chicago
Quarry
Nolan
Berkley
Graham Greene
Raven
Howard Hawks
Pinnacle
Jon
Iowa
Illinois
Hammett
Chandler
Ed Gorman
Smithsonian exhibit opens at Cornell College Commons
Mount Vernon Cornell College Commons gallery hosts the Smithsonian traveling exhibit Know What You See: the Examination and Treatment of Paintings from Monday through February 26. Hours are 8 am to 11 pm Monday through Saturday and noon to 10 pm Sunday. The show uses photo optical methods like X ray infrared and ultraviolet light and microscopic examination to illustrate preservation and restoration. Organized by conservator Louis Pomerantz for the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Pomerantz warns first viewers may never see paintings the same way and may seek the truth with scientific aid. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College Commons
Smithsonian
Louis Pomerantz
Pomerantz
Cold War intrigue in Buckley novel Marco Polo If You Can
Buckley's Blackford Oakes faces a death sentence in a Soviet courtroom after a U 2 crash lands in Russia. The late 1950s setting explores Cold War tensions as American and Soviet spies hunt a mole while Buckley unfolds the mystery and fate of Oakes.
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Blackford Oakes
Oakes
William F. Buckley, Jr
Russia
Oates
Buckley
Marco Polo
CIA
FBI
Deliver Us From Evil The Yorkshire Ripper book review
David A Yallop outlines the Yorkshire Ripper case and police handling with a sharp narrative focusing on victims survivors and social impact. The book argues evil motive and notes Sutcliffe’s 1981 capture while criticizing postscript conclusions and editorial balance.
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David A. Yallop
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Yorkshire Police
Peter Sutcliffe
Yallop
Olive Smelt
Olive
Harry Smelt
Yorkshire
Sutcliffe
Virginia Woolf Rise From Novel to Masterwork
The article traces Woolf from early fame with To the Lighthouse to a period of personal upheaval and creative breakthroughs. Cambridge invited lectures as her reputation grew, while romances and mental health struggles influenced her work. The Waves (1931) is highlighted as a visionary attempt to capture life’s entire arc.
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Orlando
Cambridge University
Ethel Smyth
Woolf
Woolf Christopher Isherwood
Stephen Spender
W.H. Auden
Paperback Best-sellers and literary notes excerpt
A catalog lists best selling paperbacks with prices and brief summaries for titles by Nourse Jennings Caldwell Cook Gordon Straub Ross and Jones. The text also includes critical commentary on Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury, and related biographies, noting reception, feminist critique, and forthcoming volumes from HBJ and Hogarth Press.
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North England
Ripper
Stephen
Linda
England
Virginia Woolf
James G. Nourse
Bantam
Gary Jennings
Avon
Mexico
Taylor Caldwell
Fawcett
Robin Cook
Nal-Signet
Mary Gordon
Ballantine
Peter Straub
Pocket
Nevada
Dana Fuller Ross
Virginia City
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John G. Jones
Warner
Lutz
Long Island
New York Times .Service
Proust
Joyce
Roger Fry
River Ouse
Sussex
Leonard
Bloomsburiania
Quentin Bell
John Ferrone
HBJ
University of Northern Iowa
Daniel Cahill
Hogarth Press
Woolfs
Bloomsbury
Michael Borich
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