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Men Explain Things to Me is a 2014 essay collection by the American writer Rebecca Solnit, published by Haymarket Books.The book originally contained seven essays, the main essay of which was cited in The New Republic as the piece that "launched the term mansplaining". [1]
In a 2008 online poll of "Top 100 Picture Books" by School Library Journal, the book ranked 35th; in a similar 2012 poll, the book ranked 89th. [7] [8] According to the publisher, over one million copies of the book had been sold by 2013. [9] The 2009 audio book version of the story received a Parents' Choice Foundation rating of "Approved". [10]
The thieves mean to leave them on the river bank to make their escape, but Joe manages to tear off his gag and yells for help. This brings the police, and the Hardys are freed, and the men captured. When they investigate the house again the Hardy boys are taken hostage by a crazy old man named Amos and another man who looks almost exactly like ...
Miracle’s Boys is a young adult novel by Jacqueline Woodson featuring three young brothers of African-American and Puerto Rican descent growing up without parents in Harlem. It won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001.
The boys (Frank, Joe, and Chet) go see a movie called "A Figure in Hiding" at the local Rialto Theater. After the film is over, the Rialto is robbed, with the thief getting away with $900. Then the boys go to the Bayport Hotel and meet up with their father, Fenton Hardy.
— Chapter 10 The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov, a nihilist who rejects the old order. Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist ...
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In Croatia and Serbia, the book is part of book report curriculum, and is very popular among elementary school pupils (a 2016 scholarly poll of 6th and 7th graders in Split found it to be comparable to Harry Potter and Diary of a Wimpy Kid), [10] and there have been multiple translations, the differences between which have attracted some ...