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'Original, tender, thoughtful and true. Can't wait for people to
read!' Reese Witherspoon 'Part tender coming of age story, part
electrifying tale of political awakening, part heartfelt love
letter to Deaf culture, True Biz is a wholly a wonder' Celeste Ng A
transporting novel that follows a year of seismic romantic,
political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a
boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at
War. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - Oprah Daily, The
Millions, Lit Hub, BookPage True biz (adj./exclamation; American
Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk True biz?
The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to
hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors,
and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies.
This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a
residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a
rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person
before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when
his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress,
who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact,
but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both
personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie,
Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another
- and changed forever. This is a story of sign language and
lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice,
first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and
joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an
unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal
celebration of human connection.
'Original, tender, thoughtful and true' Reese Witherspoon 'Part
tender coming of age story, part electrifying tale of political
awakening, part heartfelt love letter to Deaf culture, True Biz is
a wholly a wonder' Celeste Ng NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S
BOOK CLUB PICK - A 'tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged' (The
New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic
romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her
students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed
author of Girl at War. True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign
Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk True biz? The
students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook
up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and
their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This
revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential
school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious
transfer student who's never met another deaf person before;
Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his
baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is
fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might
not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and
political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and
February find their lives inextricable from one another - and
changed forever. This is a story of sign language and lip-reading,
disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love
and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy.
Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an
unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal
celebration of human connection.
Solved and Unsolved Problems of Structural Chemistry introduces new
methods and approaches for solving problems related to molecular
structure. It includes numerous subjects such as aromaticity-one of
the central themes of chemistry-and topics from bioinformatics such
as graphical and numerical characterization of DNA, proteins, and
proteomes. It also outlines the construction of novel tools using
techniques from discrete mathematics, particularly graph theory,
which allowed problems to be solved that many had considered
unsolvable. The book discusses a number of important problems in
chemistry that have not been fully understood or fully appreciated,
such as the notion of aromaticity and conjugated circuits, the
generalized Huckel 4n + 2 Rule, and the nature of quantitative
structure-property-activity relationships (QSARs), which have
resulted in only partially solved problems and approximated
solutions that are inadequate. It also describes advantages of
mathematical descriptors in QSAR, including their use in screening
combinatorial libraries to search for structures with high
similarity to the target compounds. Selected problems that this
book addresses include: Multiple regression analysis (MRA)
Insufficient use of partial ordering in chemistry The role of
Kekule valence structures The problem of protein and DNA alignment
Solved and Unsolved Problems of Structural Chemistry collects
results that were once scattered in scientific literature into a
thoughtful and compact volume. It sheds light on numerous problems
in chemistry, including ones that appeared to have been solved but
were actually only partially solved. Most importantly, it shows
more complete solutions as well as methods and approaches that can
lead to actualization of further solutions to problems in
chemistry.
Solved and Unsolved Problems of Structural Chemistry introduces new
methods and approaches for solving problems related to molecular
structure. It includes numerous subjects such as aromaticity-one of
the central themes of chemistry-and topics from bioinformatics such
as graphical and numerical characterization of DNA, proteins, and
proteomes. It also outlines the construction of novel tools using
techniques from discrete mathematics, particularly graph theory,
which allowed problems to be solved that many had considered
unsolvable. The book discusses a number of important problems in
chemistry that have not been fully understood or fully appreciated,
such as the notion of aromaticity and conjugated circuits, the
generalized Huckel 4n + 2 Rule, and the nature of quantitative
structure-property-activity relationships (QSARs), which have
resulted in only partially solved problems and approximated
solutions that are inadequate. It also describes advantages of
mathematical descriptors in QSAR, including their use in screening
combinatorial libraries to search for structures with high
similarity to the target compounds. Selected problems that this
book addresses include: Multiple regression analysis (MRA)
Insufficient use of partial ordering in chemistry The role of
Kekule valence structures The problem of protein and DNA alignment
Solved and Unsolved Problems of Structural Chemistry collects
results that were once scattered in scientific literature into a
thoughtful and compact volume. It sheds light on numerous problems
in chemistry, including ones that appeared to have been solved but
were actually only partially solved. Most importantly, it shows
more complete solutions as well as methods and approaches that can
lead to actualization of further solutions to problems in
chemistry.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Growing
up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a
carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best friend, Luka,
helps take care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her
father. But when civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, football
games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid
drills. The brutal ethnic cleansing of Croats and Bosnians
tragically changes Ana's life, and she is lost to a world of
genocide and child soldiers; a daring escape plan to America
becomes her only chance for survival. Ten years later she returns
to Croatia, a young woman struggling to belong to either country,
forced to confront the trauma of her past and rediscover the place
that was once her home.
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