The senior finished fifth, running a 50.86 to finish just out of contention for a state bid. I’ll start with Dube, who ran his final 400 at the regional meet at Lawrence Central. Which brings me to Perry Meridian’s Richard Dube and North Central’s Lee Martin, a couple of basketball players turned track athletes.Ģ023 IHSAA boys state track meet: 23 athletes and storylines to watchīlistering times and state records: Vote for top track regional performers The fun thing about track and field is there is always something to write about. While I’ll never fill the big shoes of colleague David Woods on the track beat (Woodsy feeds me information like Magic fed Kareem, though I’m probably bricking the sky hooks) and won’t pretend to, this has been an enjoyable change of pace.įrom Martinsville’s Martin Barco upsetting Carmel national champion Kole Mathison in mid-April at the Flashes Distance Showcase to Warren Central junior Laila Smith returning from injury to shine to Plainfield’s Bode Gilkerson breaking a 45-year-old high jump record to Park Tudor senior Jasiah Rogers audibly wowing the crowd with a 10.30-second 100-meter time in the regional, there have been plenty of awesome performances to cover. It has probably been almost 20 years since I covered as much track and field as I have this spring. View Gallery: Photos: Track and Field Hoosier Crossroads Conference meet
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Only the most popular audiobooks are available in this format, but that’s okay with me. Both cars have AUX input so I’m golden with Playaway – and if I go to the park for a walk I just unhook it from the car, plug in some headphones and I’m exercising and listening. My old car doesn’t have Bluetooth or a USB connection so I can’t use eAudiobooks and my new car has those but no CD player. I went walking with it and then went into my older car with it and then my new car and it was perfect for all three environments and never lost my place in the story. You can listen to it with your own headphones or you can hook it into your car with an AUX cable. If you aren’t familiar with them a Playaway is an audiobook in its own little case which is about 2” x 3.5” and runs off one AAA battery. I’ll admit when we began to actively collect these again late last year I knew some people really liked them but personally I didn’t quite see the point. At the same time, his family values remained important and he followed his father’s guidance by treating everyone with respect, dignity and equality giving back to the community by supporting services and programs ensuring employees know that their contribution to the company’s success are appreciated and by always providing superior customer service. Armour successfully led his company forward by being flexible and continuously adapting practices to meet the new realities of doing business. For the last 15 years, Armour Transportation Systems has been recognized as a Platinum member by Canada’s Best Managed Companies, and for the last decade they have been on the list of the top 100 companies in Canada. Armour has received many awards for excellence in business and as an employer. Two years after graduating from NBCC’s business administration program he assumed ownership of the company, which went on to become one of the 10 largest transport and warehousing enterprises in Canada. During his high school and college years, Wesley Armour helped his father with the family farm and trucking company, Armour Transportation Systems, in Taylor Village. It won the 2020 International Literature Award of the Haus der Kulturen in Germany, and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Hurricane Season -a novel based on the murder of a witch in a small town in Melchor's home state, Veracruz-was featured as one of the best novels in Mexico in 2017 The book has been translated into German by Angelica Ammar and into English by Sophie Hughes. She began her writing career in 2013 with the publication of Aquí no es Miami (2013), a collection of literary journalism, and Falsa Liebre (2013), her first novel. Melchor has published fiction and nonfiction in The Paris Review, La Palabra y el Hombre, Letras Libres, Excélsior, Replicante, Milenio semanal, Le Monde diplomatique, Vice Latinoamérica, GQ Latinoamérica and Vanity Fair Latinoamerica. Melchor graduated with a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Veracruzana where she was Coordinator of Communication of the Veracruz-Del Río campus. Fernanda Melchor (born 1982, Veracruz, Mexico) is a Mexican writer best known for her novel Hurricane Season for which she won the 2019 Anna Seghers Prize and a place on the shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize. But it deftly captures a 10-year-old's perspective on issues that many young people deal with in their lives. The book's subject matter may be upsetting to some readers. In the hopes of providing his family with a new home, he undertakes various entrepreneurial projects, such as selling contraband candy and renditions of his poems. Isaiah tries to hide the fact that he's unhoused from his friends and teachers. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero is a moving, realistic portrayal of the poverty and housing insecurity that can impact a family after parental death. Overwhelmed by grief, Isaiah's mother loses her job and develops an alcohol dependency, and the family is evicted from their apartment. In his father's stories, Isaiah is cast as a hero. His dad was a writer who left behind a notebook that Isaiah reads for comfort. Baptist is about 10-year-old Isaiah, whose family struggles to regroup after the father dies suddenly. Parents need to know that Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero by Kelly J. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. He saw his Jack Albany stories turned into the 1968 Walt Disney film Never a Dull Moment, starring Dick Van Dyke. He then began using the pen name John Godey-borrowed from the name of a 19th-century women's magazine-to differentiate his crime novels from his more serious writing.Īs Godey, he achieved commercial success with the books A Thrill a Minute With Jack Albany, Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Today and The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome. His novel The Wall-to-Wall Trap was published under his own name in 1957. Freedgood also served as an infantryman in the U.S. He held public relations and publicity posts for United Artists, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and other companies for several years before focusing on his writing. In the 1940s, he had several articles and short stories published in Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Esquire and other magazines while working full-time in the motion picture industry in New York City. Biography įreedgood was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1913 and began writing at a young age. Morton Freedgood (1913 – April 16, 2006) was an American author who wrote The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and many other detective and mystery novels under the pen name John Godey. 'Energetic, steamy, bubbly, and so, so fun. 'Full of wit, charm and Big Firefighter Energy' Are they strong enough to get through it? Bonding over family, fitness and cheesy pick-up lines, she just might have found her person.īut when a photo of them goes viral, savage internet trolls put their relationship to the test. When a sexy stranger keeps interrupting her workouts, body-positive Instagrammer Crystal sees red. Unabridged 2022 This debut rom-com, narrated by Carolyn Kang, features a curvy fitness influencer named Crystal and a hard-bodied firefighter named Scott. And, in the lead-up to the wedding, Crystal discovers there's a soft heart under Scott's muscled exterior. SET ON YOU by Amy Lea Read by Carolyn Kang Romantic Fiction 9.75 hrs. 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Like much of Forster’s work, it straddles the realist and modernist eras stylistically, it resembles the literature of the 19th century, but its themesin particular, its depiction of unconscious experienceanticipate the work of writers like Virginia. And I really hated Maurice as a character. Maurice (1971) is a coming-of-age novel and love story by English author E. The author wrote it before WWI, revised it again a few decades later, but never published it until after he died in the 1970s. It's one of the first LGBT novels ever published to have a happy/hopeful ending. While I'm pretty sure that we as a society are collectively moving past the idea that the book is always better than the movie, I have to stress that the 1987 movie really is a whole lot better than the book in this case. Maurice Hall Maurice Hall, a healthy and handsome, though indifferent, student (at Sunnington and later at Cambridge) who becomes a successful London stockbroker. A fast-paced middle school story, excellent artwork, and a multicultural cast of characters will make this a popular choice for sure. Pros: Another fun graphic novel from Graphix, this one written by Coretta Scott King honoree Varian Johnson. The tension finally leads to a heart-to-heart conversation where each girl is able to share her own insecurities and see what her sister is going through. Although their parents try to keep things civil, emotions run high as each twin assembles a campaign staff and decides on a platform. Everything changes, though when the twins decide to run against each other for class president. Although Maureen excels in her classes, she struggles to connect with other kids and ends up eating lunch in the library. Francine, now calling herself Fran, seems to be reinventing herself with tons of friends and not much time for Maureen. Maureen, who’s the narrator, is known as the thinking twin, while Francine’s reputation is as the talking twin. Summary: Twins Mauren and Francine are starting middle school. Published by Graphix (Released October 6) The production will be done by global independent studio WIIP and India's Roy Kapur Films. With a career spanning over two decades, Brock is a member of both the American and British Academies. Brock is a BAFTA winning writer, director and producer, best known for his work in 'Her Majesty Mrs Brown', 'The Last King of Scotland', 'Driving Lessons', and 'How I Live Now'. The book won accolades as President Barack Obama's top 10 recommended books and was also the recipient of the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize.Īcclaimed screenwriter Jeremy Brock has been entrusted with the task of adapting the book for the screen. The book, which tells the story of how one of the world's most biggest empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company, will be turned into a series. 'The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company', a book written by historian William Dalrymple, is set to be adapted for the screen. |