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A reference to murder : the book barn mystery series
Charli Rae Warren is back home in Hazel Rock, Texas, spending her time reading, collecting, and selling books-at least, the ones that don't get eaten first by her father's pet armadillo. Running the family bookstore is a demanding job, but solving murders on the side can be flat out dangerous...
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Magical Mentorship
The next day, my grandmother drove me back to the bookstore for the second book in the series, and so began my lifelong love of fantasy literature. Imagine my joy at getting to mentor emerging leaders-as well as my trepidation that, despite my decades of professional development experience, I still wouldn't have anything to teach these already amazing young leaders. Who am I-though I have the power to do it-to punish and reward, playing with men's destinies? (Le Guin, The Farthest Shore, 67-68) We found, together, that we were less \"powerless middle managers\" and more \"powerful managers of the middle\"-we were tasked with balancing: balancing district initiatives and teacher autonomy; balancing individual voices and collective good; balancing student empowerment and standardized metrics; balancing budgets, and booklists, and board meetings.
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Satire vs Sentiment: Mark Twain, Bella Z. Spencer, and the Subscription Book Market
This essay argues that Mark Twain has been overrepresented in scholarship on subscription bookselling, resulting in a corresponding failure to account for fiction's relationship to this popular nineteenth-century practice. Though Twain's The Gilded Age (1873) is often described as the first novel sold by subscription, I recover an earlier example: Tried and True (1866), a Civil War romance by Bella Zilfa Spencer. Reading the novel's mode of distribution as integral to its treatment of gender, race, and geography, I demonstrate the potential for literary study which gets lost somewhere between subscription bookselling's bad reputation and Mark Twain's good one.
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Belle's discovery
\"Young Belle has trouble fitting in at school until she discovers a neglected bookstore in the village and shows her classmates how wonderful books and stories can be\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhancing domain-aware multi-truth data fusion using copy-based source authority and value similarity
Data fusion, within the data integration pipeline, addresses the problem of discovering the true values of a data item when multiple sources provide different values for it. An important contribution to the solution of the problem can be given by assessing the quality of the involved sources and relying more on the values coming from trusted sources. State-of-the-art data fusion systems define source trustworthiness on the basis of the accuracy of the provided values and on the dependence on other sources, and recently it has been also recognized that the trustworthiness of the same source may vary with the domain of interest. In this paper we propose STORM, a novel domain-aware algorithm for data fusion designed for the multi-truth case, that is, when a data item can also have multiple true values. Like many other data-fusion techniques, STORM relies on Bayesian inference. However, differently from the other Bayesian approaches to the problem, it determines the trustworthiness of sources by taking into account their authority: Here, we define authoritative sources as those that have been copied by many other ones, assuming that, when source administrators decide to copy data from other sources, they choose the ones they perceive as the most reliable. To group together the values that have been recognized as variants representing the same real-world entity, STORM provides also a value-reconciliation step, thus reducing the possibility of making mistakes in the remaining part of the algorithm. The experimental results on multi-truth synthetic and real-world datasets show that STORM represents a solid step forward in data-fusion research.
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Lethal literature
Running an independent bookstore in small-town Hazel Rock, Texas, doesn't sound like a high-risk pursuit. But when a fundraiser reveals a story with a truly killer ending, Charli Rae Warren will need to scramble to sort out the deadly plot ... Sponsoring the literacy drive to benefit the foster care system should be a feel-good endeavor, but one of Charli's helpers is definitely on another page. Charli's dad is distracted and keeping something secret, which Charli suspects is a harmless flirtation with an attractive county clerk who offered to lend them a hand. It's nothing to worry about--until the same clerk winds up dead ... When nosy locals begin pointing fingers, Charli finds herself entangled in a race to uncover the killer's identity--and to get to the bottom of a shattering family secret that could rewrite her history in alarming ways. Suddenly Charli is facing her worst fears and her childhood nemesis in order to unmask a murderer--before he silences her for good ...
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Florida Roundup
Held at the Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Pete's, which also houses the office of Girls Rock and decided to offer its own course of African American Studies when that field was kicked out of the public schools in 2023, this three-day event attended by over 50 women and also live-streamed offered African Diaspora drumming and dance, singing in sacred circle, and workshops on many topics such as comedy improv, embracing the age of Aquarius in poetry and spoken word, guiding your future with palmistry by yours truly, and women's power and pride in Guatemala. Another event I attended this year was Readout, also live and streamed, also annual, hosted by OUT Arts and Culture which used to be the LGBTQ Resource Center in nearby Gulfport, a mecca for midwesterners fleeing the cold, but also for the lesbian and gay communities. While the book is being contested and reviewed by a committee, which usually stonewalls by postponing meetings, the book is simply off shelf. 90% of books removed have been the suggestion of a single individual.
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