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Love Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

Description Now I'm obsessing. And guilty. She has this uncanny gift for delivering guilt tied up in a bow, and without fail, I accept it. p85 I drive through town and the houses that sprouted up overnight where once there were only cornfields. p185 LOL "You know, we're always hearing stories of our girls who live far from their parents and go with thse boys and ... get... into... trouble. Some of them even eat pork." p129 Parents and Kids and Expectations p130 Beautiful "Because it's important. Because a marriage certificate doesn't bestow maturity. And even you have to admit that Maya is much savvier than you were at her age. Let her find her new world, too, as you did all those years ago." p131 mother-daughter relationship p244 (Not including text since it's potentially a spoiler.) That you are here-- that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse . Walt Whitman, Leaves of Gr...

What Were the Twin Towers by Jim O'Connor

It is good that this books makes sure, a few times, to mention that people got sick from the aftermath and trying to help. p4 and later (I guess I didn't mark the other places.) Whoa! The final plan for each tower called for twenty-three express elevators, seventy-two locals, and nine freight elevators. p32 One of the judges [for the memorial design competition] was a famous architect named Maya Lin. She said Arad "made something positive out of the void." p93