![]() ![]() In “Fault Lines,” featuring three women whose lives intertwine, class tensions trump all: Mira, who is brown with White-presenting children, grapples with being otherized as she’s assumed to be the nanny by a White woman, a fellow parent at their children’s suburban school Mira’s nanny, Gabriella, wants to go back to school but is held back by her social circumstances, while Mira compounds Gabriella’s situation with her passive-aggressive demands and Iris, another domestic worker who is friends with Gabby, fights for sick days to attend her own children. “Retaining Walls” is about a contractor who transforms the homes of people with money while navigating a too-familiar intimacy from his clients and his conditioned emotional distance from his own family. With a cast of richly diverse characters, from immigrants to housewives and domestic workers, Freeman reveals the interpersonal dance of those who orbit around, or are beholden to, the middle class. This short story collection methodically strips away the intricate layers of privilege, revealing the sometimes-sinister truth that no one is ever truly safe, regardless of societal status. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Weltschmerz strikes crime fans, certain reading difficulties may arise. ![]() Tearing your hair out over Brexit? Anxious about the US election results? Worried about the bees and climate change? If so, you may be suffering from a German malady called Weltschmerz - a sense of frustration, pain and despair at the state of the world (Welt = world Schmerz = pain, ache, sorrow). 3 global ratings | 1 global review There was a problem filtering reviews right now. How are ratings calculated? See All Buying Options. Reykjavíkurnætur (Icelandic Edition) by Arnaldur Indriðason. While working traffic detail, Erlendur becomes obsessed with the drowning of a homeless alcoholic called Hannibal.
![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to the redesigning of business processes, it also involves the redesigning of associated systems and organizational structures. “Business Reengineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed” – Michael Hammer and James Champyīusiness process reengineering is an approach used to improve organizational performance by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of processes that exist across the organization. We have also provided business process templates that you can use right away to kickstart your own BPR project. In this guide, we aim to simplify the concept of business process reengineering by explaining what it is and the process steps. It allows organizations to view their business processes from a fresh perspective in order to understand how to redesign them to improve the way they work. Business process reengineering is a crucial element in the agenda of many large as well as small companies in many industries, with manufacturing and banking/ finance being the leading sectors. ![]() ![]() It is everything I could possibly want out of historical fiction, and the dual love stories are phenomenal beyond imagination. Messages are positive about what's worth fighting for and how precious and short life is. Strong language is very rare but includes some racial slurs like "coon" and "negras," and there's one "s-t" and one "bastard." All four main characters are great role models for doing their part, even when it's hard, and they show compassion, empathy, and integrity. ![]() Soldiers in trenches talk about how to exhale tobacco smoke without giving away their numbers or position. Lots of accurate historical information and extensive notes at the end add more detail and explain which people and events are real. Wartime violence, including some atrocities, are described mentioning blood, injuries, and pain but without being gory. Sexual content focuses on romantic feelings and a few brief kisses, but a Greek myth about an adulterous affair provides the framework. Parents need to know that Julie Berry's Lovely War is a romance about two young couples during World War I. ![]() Soldiers in trenches smoke and teach fresh troops how to exhale the smoke without giving away their numbers or position to the enemy.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() A memory of the sweet smell of pipe tobacco. A mention of drinking "resin liquid" from a flask. ![]() ![]() ![]() The presence of war invades and not everyone has a happy ending.īecause the garden hasn’t been abandoned we don’t quite get to see it coming to life in the same way as the original but Holly has done a fantastic job of making connections to the original alongside creating her own story. The echoes from the first book don’t stop there, there’s a robin, a grumpy gardener and strange crying noises in the night.Īs Holly said, the main character she used was the house and its gardens but we do also get to meet the original characters but not perhaps in the way we’d expect. ![]() She is forced to abandon a stray cat called Lucy, but as an orphan, everyone else she knows comes with her.Įmmie finds a set of diaries in the room she is staying in and through them finds a connection to Mary and sets about following in her footsteps and finding the Secret Garden. Emmie is our protagonist whisked away from London to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorskshire before the bombs start dropping. Holly’s sequel Return to the Secret Garden is set in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War. ![]() In preparation I re-read my Classic Adventures version of The Secret Garden and really enjoyed rediscovering the garden along with Mary Lennox, Dickon and Colin. Now, I’ve had the opportunity to read Return to the Secret Garden thanks to Faye Rogers PR and Scholastic. A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to host a guest post by Holly Webb on how she approached working with someone else’s characters. ![]() |