![]() ![]() Previously, she served as the Coordinator for Organizational Learning and Manager for Kent Branch Library. Currently, Erin is the Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. ![]() HRC supports residents working to overcome prejudice and build mutual respect through its free mediation program and the work of its four committees focusing on community and neighborhoods, social justice, stop the violence and youth empowerment and engagement. Erin Baker serves as Chair of the City of Toledo Human Relations Commission (HRC) which endeavors to support a safe, energetic and livable city. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We witness the ways that a community comes together after tragedy, refusing again and again to simply be victims, even as violence tears through their streets. Salons where Black women are cared for in more ways than just hair. ![]() We have shared food and street barbecues. Memphis the city is at the heart of this novel, so clearly named, but more specifically, the Black neighbourhoods and streets of the city. Something powerful and something uniquely their’s. Here, Joan and her family attempt to overcome the dark memories they each have behind them and start something new. Memphis is the city where Miriam fell into a whirlwind romance and marriage with her husband, Jaxon, and the city she left behind when she followed him in his military career. This is the city where he was soon after lynched and murdered himself. This is where Miriam’s father became the first Black homicide detective in the city. ![]() This is where Miriam and August’s mother grew up, where she fell in love with and married her husband. Here they work to rebuild their life, living in the Black neighbourhood of Douglass. They move back into the house that Miriam’s father built, the house she grew up, and where Joan’s aunt August still lives. In 1995, Joan, her mother Miriam, and her younger sister Mya flee her father’s violent temper and return to their family home in Memphis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I still remember the day I saw Lara-Jean on the cover of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han, and Esme on the cover of The Bride Test by Helen Hoang. It wasn’t until after I finished grad school that my love for reading romance reignited.Īnd the best part? There were now characters who looked like me on covers in brick and mortar book stores. Then, I’d walk the vast distance from my desktop computer to my bed and read Meg Cabot into the late hours of the night.īy the time I reached university age, my creative writing and reading life flatlined as my academic responsibilities piled up. As a pre-teen, I’d sit for hours on my family desktop secretly writing angsty teen love triangle romances (which may or may not have been loosely inspired by true events). I’ve written fiction since I was old enough to write full sentences in crayon. ![]() ![]() THE GOLEM AND THE DJINNI is a much slower, gentler book than I would usually read. But a powerful threat will soon bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice. These unlikely friends’ tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures – until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. Though he is no longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free – an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. ![]() When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899.Īhmad is a djinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. ![]() Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Piper was a well-educated white woman from an upper-middle-class, liberal New England family. Piper Kerman’s memoir of her year at a federal women’s prison. ![]() The Orange Is the New Black author is Piper Kerman. Orange Is the New Black Author: Piper Kerman Read more about the Orange Is the New Black author Piper Kerman and her memoir. The Orange Is the New Black author Piper Kerman spent a year in prison after being sentenced for her drug smuggling activities that she committed five years prior. Who is the Orange Is the New Black author? Did Piper Kerman really go to prison? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries of books you should be reading. ![]() This article is an excerpt from the Shortform summary of "Orange Is The New Black" by Piper Kerman. ![]() ![]() ![]() She uses commercial laundries and ready made meal delivery services as examples, and argues that these were attempted in the 1920s but didn't pan out, because people valued their private lives at home and would rather purchase washing machines and cook their own food. I was a little puzzled by Cowan's argument that innovations which would help alleviate housework have "failed". Also, obviously, houses have gotten bigger over time, and since it was seen as 'woman's work' to clean the houses, their jobs have become harder and more time consuming. But as coal and oil replaced wood for fires, that job started to disappear for men, while women still had to tend the fires, and sometimes their jobs got worse, as coal fires were smoky and messy. For example, men used to have to spend a lot of time gathering fuel for fires, felling and chopping up trees. I completely agree with what I thought was her basic argument- generally in American history over the last couple centuries, technological achievements have tended to eliminate "men's" household work but not "woman's" work. ![]() ![]() I enjoyed reading this book, but I was constantly wavering on whether I was on board with her arguments or not. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What if love can’t conquer all? What if each of them needs more than the other can give? As Ridley’s anxiety spirals, Jubilee tries to help but finds her focus torn between her fast-approaching audition and their intensifying relationship. Then again, the feud between their families may be the least of their problems. Too bad their parents are at each other’s throats every chance they get, making a relationship between them nearly impossible. They meet one fateful night at a comic convention prom, and the two can’t help falling for each other. His parents own the biggest comic-store chain in the country, and Ridley can’t stop disappointing them–that is, when they’re even paying attention. She’s an elite cellist, and when she’s not working in her stepmom’s indie comic shop, she’s prepping for the biggest audition of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not sure what five-year-old actors are out there, but it would be a big role.Visit Rea Frey's website. ![]() I know she’s known for light, humorous roles, but I think this could be a breakout drama for her. So much more than an engrossingly suspenseful novel, it’s a thoughtful. Zoje Stage, author of Baby Teeth 'I couldn’t put Rea Frey’s NOT HER DAUGHTER down, and once finished, couldn’t let it go. While I think Sarah could be played by a variety of actors, I’d love to see Anne Hathaway or Alison Brie from Glow.Īmy has always been one actor and one actor only to me: Melissa McCarthy. Engrossing and suspenseful, Frey writes her characters with depth and compassion, challenging readers to question their own code of ethics. (And how trippy that it was optioned for film by Argent Pictures before publication!) My hubby, who happens to be a graphic designer, rigged up a casting board for me to look at while I wrote the book. When I wrote Not Her Daughter, I saw it as a film first. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. Here she dreamcasts an adaptation of Not Her Daughter, her debut novel that raises the question of what it means to be a mother-and how far someone will go to keep a child safe: Not Her Daughter: A Novel audiobook written by Rea Frey. She lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter. Rea Frey is an award-winning author of nonfiction books. ![]() ![]() ![]() His research on and writing about American popular culture is extensive, encompassing, among other areas, music, sports, and 19th- and 20th-century African American and American children’s literature.Įarly’s collections of essays include Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture (Ecco Press, 1994) The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture (Ecco Press, 1995), which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and This Is Where I Came In: Essays on Black America in the 1960s (Bison Books, 2003). Louis, where he also directs the Center for the Humanities. For more information, call 41.Įarly is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and a professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Registration is not required lunch will be provided. 22 titled “Is Black Music Criminal?” The talk will be held at Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems, School of Social Work Conference Center, 20th floor, Cathedral of Learning.Įarly’s lecture is part of the Reed Smith Spring 2013 Speaker Series. Gerald Early, a noted essayist and a leading authority on American culture, will deliver a free public lecture at noon Feb. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to get to know us, come visit us and interact as a READER. When I see the delicate human female collared and enslaved by the smuggler I’m about to swindle, I do what any male would do. You will quickly find yourself blacklisted from people's reading lists if you act like a jerk, so please be polite and follow the rules. 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