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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 is a 2021 oral history written by former ACT UP activist Sarah Schulman. [1] Using 188 interviews conducted as part of the ACT UP Oral History Project, [2] Schulman shows how the activist group was successful, due to its decentralized, dramatic actions, and emphasizes the contributions of people of color and women to the ...
Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library! (2009) is a picture book written for younger children, a variation of the book written for adult audiences. Published by R.R. Bowker, it has watercolor illustrations. [7] The School Library Journal (SLJ) said, [7] This heartwarming picture book is based on the authors' adult title, Dewey (Grand Central, 2008 ...
The Book That Wouldn't Burn is a 2023 high fantasy novel by American-British author Mark Lawrence. It is the first book in The Library Trilogy, with a second book, The Book That Broke the World, was released in April 2024. Lawrence is also the author of the Broken Empire trilogy.
For each work, Google Books automatically generates an overview page. This page displays information extracted from the book—its publishing details, a high frequency word map, the table of contents—as well as secondary material, such as summaries, reader reviews (not readable in the mobile version of the website), and links to other relevant texts.
Orlean in 2018. The Library Book received strongly favorable reviews and was selected as a "PW Pick" by Publishers Weekly. [4] Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Michael Lewis wrote, "Susan Orlean has once again found rich material where no one else has bothered to look for it…Once again, she's demonstrated that the feelings of a writer, if that writer is sufficiently talented and ...
This can mean a person who reads for pleasure, as opposed to a critic or scholar. It can also mean a set text, a book that everyone in a group (for example, all students entering a university) are expected to read, so that they can have something in common. The Common Reader is used by Virginia Woolf as the title work of her 1925 essay collection.
The engagement with these topics contributes to the book being appreciated by readers. At the same time, this open handling of sensitive content has repeatedly led to objections and censorship since its publication, such as removal from school libraries and curricula. [7] As a result the book got banned repeatedly since 2009. [8]
This chapter focuses on the perspective of different cultures & religions, and their views on being queer. It provides a list of countries that have laws against same-sex sex between two men or two women, as well as countries that have similar or ambiguous laws. The list was up to date as of 2015.