Rachel Friedman and Eight Not-Perfect Nights of Hanukkah

Rachel Friedman and Eight Not-Perfect Nights of Hanukkah
Author: Sarah Kapit
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250881080

Join our hilarious Jewish heroine as she embarks on a quest to reignite her family's Hanukkah spirit in the second book of this chapter book series. Rachel is determined to make this the happiest Hanukkah ever. She's carefully planned eight awesome activities for eight perfect nights. But her brother Aaron insists on being a Hanukkah humbug, and his attitude threatens to ruin the holiday. When Aaron’s grumpiness leads to a big accident, Rachel has to figure out how to save her family’s Hanukkah from disaster. Rachel has plenty of determination, creativity, and holiday spirit—will it be enough to restore the joy of Hanukkah?

Rachel Friedman Is Not the Queen

Rachel Friedman Is Not the Queen
Author: Sarah Kapit
Publisher: Henry Holt
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-02-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250881129

In this heartwarming chapter book, Rachel celebrates Purim—and learns the joy of sharing the stage. Rachel is so excited about Purim, and she's especially excited to star in her Hebrew school's Purim spiel! She'll get to dress up like a queen and put on a play in front of everyone. But when her teacher announces the cast, Rachel doesn't get the leading role of Queen Esther—her best friend Maya does! Rachel has to learn how to step aside and let someone else be the star of the show in this laugh-out-loud story about friendship.

Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!

Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Author: Sarah Kapit
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 052555419X

In this perfectly pitched novel-in-letters, autistic eleven-year-old Vivy Cohen won't let anything stop her from playing baseball--not when she has a major-league star as her pen pal. Vivy Cohen is determined. She's had enough of playing catch in the park. She's ready to pitch for a real baseball team. But Vivy's mom is worried about Vivy being the only girl on the team, and the only autistic kid. She wants Vivy to forget about pitching, but Vivy won't give up. When her social skills teacher makes her write a letter to someone, Vivy knows exactly who to choose: her hero, Major League pitcher VJ Capello. Then two amazing things happen: A coach sees Vivy's amazing knuckleball and invites her to join his team. And VJ starts writing back! Now Vivy is a full-fledged pitcher, with a catcher as a new best friend and a steady stream of advice from VJ. But when a big accident puts her back on the bench, Vivy has to fight to stay on the team.

Beyond Binaries

Beyond Binaries
Author: John C. Lamothe
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498593666

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This books examines representations and experiences of trans and nonbinary identities in a variety of contemporary cultural contexts including media, religion, sports, race, film, performance, and literature. Mixing auto-ethnographies and supportive scholarship, the contributors to this volume deliver a global perspective on the accomplishment that have been made alongside the challenges that members of the LGTBQIA+ community continue to face.

The Style and Rhetoric of Elizabeth Dole

The Style and Rhetoric of Elizabeth Dole
Author: Rachel B. Friedman
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2013-12-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0739182382

This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure navigated the double binds that confront women who obtain and exercise political power. The text argues that Dole crafted a conservative, feminine persona in which she depicted herself as a selfless public servant. This sense of servant was defined through Dole’s appeal to the transcendent moral purposes of Christianity. She used this image to great effect in her most noteworthy public addresses, especially her 1996 Republican National Convention speech in support of her husband’s presidential campaign. In her 2008 unsuccessful North Carolina U.S. Senate reelection campaign Elizabeth Dole’s political style unraveled in the face of a series of effective attacks by her opponent, Kay Hagan, and her own desperate rhetorical appeals to stave off defeat.

Heterotopic World Fiction

Heterotopic World Fiction
Author: Lesley Higgins
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1644699974

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.

Happily Ever After Rescue Team: Agents of H.E.A.R.T.

Happily Ever After Rescue Team: Agents of H.E.A.R.T.
Author: Sam Hay
Publisher: Agents of H.E.A.R.T.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250798302

A young girl’s wish to help out in her family’s seaside café gets out of hand when she accidentally summons a rescue squad of fairytale princesses in this first book of a fun new illustrated chapter book series, Happily Ever After Rescue Team: Agents of H.E.A.R.T.! After her parents move the family to a new town, all Evie wants is to help out in their new café. But nobody wants a kid—no matter how wonderful of a waitress they are—underfoot. And she does have an unfortunate habit of dropping, and spilling, and crashing! But, she also has a knack for super-fantastic dessert ideas that could win the best café contest—if only her dad and stepmom would listen! When her frustrated wish to help accidentally summons a group of fairytale princesses right out of a storybook, Evie finds herself busy fending off their well-meaning attempts to “rescue” her. Agents of HEART? More like agents of chaos! ...she’s keeping the puppy though. In the first book of a new series by Spy Penguins author, Sam Hay, Evie learns that new friends, a good book, and a lot of heart are all the ingredients she needs for her own happily ever after.

The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family

The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family
Author: Sarah Kapit
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 059311230X

Fans of the Penderwicks and the Vanderbeekers, meet the Finkel family in this middle grade novel about two autistic sisters, their detective agency, and life's most consequential mysteries. When twelve-year-old Lara Finkel starts her very own detective agency, FIASCCO (Finkel Investigation Agency Solving Consequential Crimes Only), she does not want her sister, Caroline, involved. She and Caroline don't have to do everything together. But Caroline won't give up, and when she brings Lara the firm's first mystery, Lara relents, and the questions start piling up. But Lara and Caroline’s truce doesn’t last for long. Caroline normally uses her tablet to talk, but now she's busily texting a new friend. Lara can't figure out what the two of them are up to, but it can't be good. And Caroline doesn't like Lara's snooping—she's supposed to be solving other people's crimes, not spying on Caroline! As FIASCCO and the Finkel family mysteries spin out of control, can Caroline and Lara find a way to be friends again?

Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution

Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution
Author: Rachel Moran
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 039335198X

An astonishingly brave memoir of prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman’s psyche and life. “The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s lived poignancy with the philosopher’s conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone needs to know about the reality of prostitution in moving, insightful prose that engages and disposes of every argument ever raised in its favor.” —Catharine A. MacKinnon, law professor, University of Michigan and Harvard University Born into a troubled family, Rachel Moran left home at the age of fourteen. Being homeless, she was driven into prostitution to survive. With intelligence and empathy, she describes the exploitation she and others endured on the streets and in the brothels. Moran also speaks to the psychological damage inherent to prostitution and the inevitable estrangement from one’s body. At twenty-two, Moran escaped the sex trade. She has since become a writer and an abolitionist activist.