Marya Alexandrovna Zaturenska, noted American poet, was born in Kiev, Russia on 12 September 1902. Her family migrated to New York City when she was very young. Though she dropped out of the New York public school system at age fourteen, Marya continued to write poetry while working during the day at bookshops, as a newspaper feature-writer, and as a seamstress. As some of her…
Read moreCharlotte Ebener, North Division High School yearbook photo, 1936 Charlotte Ebener was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 29 September 1918. She graduated from North Division High School in 1936 and the University of Wisconsin in 1942. She began her career of Foreign Service with the American Red Cross during World War II. Ms. Ebener then worked for International News Service (INS) as an overseas correspondent.…
Read morePhotograph of MATC building by Royalbroil. Ruth K. (Dunham) Cortell was a social studies and history teacher for Milwaukee School of Vocational and Adult Education, also known as Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools (MVAS), and today known as Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). Mrs. Cortell was born 31 January 1902. She graduated from University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1933. She taught at MVAS/MATC from 1933…
Read moreRed Rising by Pierce Brown follows Darrow and his fellow Reds as they toil in the brutal mines of Mars, enslaved by the cruel Golds who promise their labor will someday make the surface habitable. Hope for a better future keeps the Reds working, but an incredible tragedy reveals Darrow's entire world is a lie. To expose the Golds' treachery, Darrow is thrust into an…
Read moreThe Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand explores how the death of friends can affect people differently. This beach read does a good job of examining love and death from a variety of angles, allowing readers to become fully invested in the story. When Greg and Tess MacAvoy, a young couple with children dies unexpectedly, the lives of their friends (three other married couples) are changed in…
Read moreI Am Pusheen the Cat by Claire Belton The everyday life of Pusheen the Cat is chronicled in a series of ridiculously adorable comic drawings. Pusheen is cute, chubby, extremely lazy, and has toes that look like beans. She enjoys lying completely still, exercising her imagination, and modeling the latest human mustache fashions. This is her first journey from the animated webcomic to the printed page. Margaret…
Read moreThe Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg Two soul mates discover they cannot come within two feet of one another. Determined to find a cure for their fate, they marry anyway. But, how do you pass the years with a mate you cannot touch? With stories and legends of course! Discover a world of irreverent mythology, all lushly illustrated with Nordic inspired art. Beth @ East
Read moreA Highly Unlikely Scenario or, a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World by Rachel Cantor In a future ruled by feuding fast food corporations, where philosophies are expressed through pizza formations and Heraclitan Burger Grills are under attack from neo-Maoist revolutionaries, one Neetsa Pizza employee has been compelled by mysterious forces to abandon his post handling customer complaints and go forth to save the…
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