![]() ![]() She married Scott Fleming Novemand has two children, Scott and Michael, with him. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Eastern Illinois University in 1985. Biography įleming was born May 24, 1962, in Michigan City, Indiana to Charles and Carol Groth. In 2016, she was a finalist for the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, which "celebrates the importance of children's and young-adult literature and the impact it has on our children's minds." Thirty-two of her books are Junior Library Guild selections. In 2013, the Children's Book Council named Fleming a Children's Book Month Champion, and in 2014, Fleming was awarded the Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. She is the author of more than twenty books for children and young adults, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-honored The Family Romanov and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award-winning biography, The Lincolns, among others. ![]() YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction (2021)Ĭandace Groth Fleming (born May 24, 1962) is an American writer of children's books, both fiction and non-fiction.Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (2009, 2014). ![]()
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![]() I had memories of that time, of course, but I’d become an adult, and any sense of childhood normalcy had been destroyed. The problem was I didn’t remember very well what things were like before my dad got sick. He’d suffered for so long, I longed for the day when he’d be released from his pain and I’d be released from my servitude to his sickness. I’d hoped my dad’s death would bring some kind of closure, that I’d feel a sense of solace and meaning. When my dad died, though, I felt like all that work and suffering had been in vain. The process felt like fixing a falling house, furiously trying to rebuild everything brick by brick while sickness relentlessly tore it down. ![]() School, friendships, and future dreams are all overshadowed by the work of living with illness. Dealing with something like that takes work. ![]() For years I had to make some kind of meaning out of my dad’s illness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom Clancy was an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College. and it may already be too late for a novice CIA analyst to do anything about it. In the end, it will be not just the Pope's life but the stability of the Western world that is at stake. ![]() ![]() The opportunity was irresistible, and he was sure he could fit it in with the rest of his work.Īnd then Jack forgot all about the rest of his work, because one of his first assignments was to help debrief a high-level Soviet defector, and the defector told an amazing tale: Top Soviet officials, including Yuri Andropov, were planning to assassinate the Pope, John Paul II.Ĭould it be true? As the days and weeks go by, Ryan must battle, first to try to confirm the plot, and then to prevent it, but this is a brave new world, and nothing he has done up to now has prepared him for the lethal game of cat-and-mouse that is the Soviet Union versus the United States. A series of deadly encounters with an IRA splinter group had brought him to the attention of the CIA's Deputy Director, Vice Admiral James Greer -as well as his counterpart with the British SIS, Sir Basil Charleston -and when Greer asked him if he wanted to come aboard as a freelance analyst, Jack was quick to accept. Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine named Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England while researching a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It is amazing to be performing this program in April one hundred years after it was published. ![]() “What the program does is to take you on a journey that starts bleakly with the poem itself, 'April is the cruellest month'," says Hollingworth. In Cork, Bernadette Cronin takes on the role of narrator. The programme which received glowing reviews when the programme premiered in the UK last year with actor Tamsin Greig narrating, features readings of the five sections of Eliot’s epic poem and contemporary literary responses spliced with Renaissance music, choral works from Eliot's time and no less than six new works commissioned by the ensemble. The poem takes you from the grey trenches to a tropical rain forest and the music reinforces the message.” “I didn't like it to start with because I thought I had to understand everything but if you dump all that, and simply listen to it as a fascinating stream of consciousness, just let it bounce off you. All of which, Hollingworth admits might be a turn-off for audiences looking for some escapism in their cultural experience. ![]() |