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WHAT REALLY HAPPENS IN SCHOOL A Guide to Your Child's Emotional, Social, and Intellectual Development, Grades K-5 (Hyperion) "You can't just take it for granted that your child will have the same kind of learning experiences at school that you did," writes parenting expert Ann LaForge. Her book is a commonsense road map to modern elementary schools for parents. LaForge interviewed teachers, principals, school psychologists and other experts to develop her profiles of classrooms in each grade. She urges every parent to make a commitment to stay involved in his or her child's education, whether...
...Hungry Ocean (Hyperion; 261 pages; $22.95) is a much quieter ride. It is written by Linda Greenlaw, a commercial fisherman who is as accomplished at her form of seamanship as the sailors of the Vendee Globe are at theirs. In The Perfect Storm--an account of the savage Halloween gale of 1991 in the Atlantic off Massachusetts--author Sebastian Junger described Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." The Hungry Ocean is Greenlaw's account of a 30-day trip aboard the 100-ft. sword boat Hannah Boden as it steams out with...
...founding member of the Hyperion Shakespeare Company, Speedie has produced "Much Ado About Nothing," "Measure for Measure," "Macbeth," "The Tempest," "Hamlet" and he is currently directing the film "Twelve Nights...
CAMERON WEST, who claims to have 24 personalities, is vague on many details of his life, but he knows exactly how much he has been paid for his story. West, 43, received a $110,000 advance from Hyperion for his new book, First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple, and screen rights have been sold for $1.15 million. West says his numerous personalities, whom he refers to as "my guys," are the result of severe sexual abuse as a child; they include a six-year-old named MOZART, four-year-old twin girls named Anna and Trudi...
...Einstein, Edward Hightower was well-cast as the slightly naive, thoughtful Einstein. As the more flamboyant Picasso, Shawn Elinoff, 1996 Artist-in-Residence for the Hyperion Shakespeare Company, shone: the Picasso he embodied was complex, filled with bitterness, insecurity and lust but most of all, a passion for his artistic vision...