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The Bucks fit the bill, as they rank last for the second season in a row. Zach Kram: There’s no shame in ranking at or near the bottom of this list, as long as the team in question has enough veterans to win now. ![]() We averaged the two scores together, broke ties in favor of the young core judged to possess more upside, and ordered the final list from the worst young core in the league at no. Kyle Mann, our resident young-player guru. ![]() But this time around, we’re blending two different sources to produce a composite score: a “stat ranking,” which uses FiveThirtyEight’s wins above replacement (WAR) projections over the next half decade, and an “expert ranking,” based on the subjective analysis of J. As usual, only players under the age of 25 are considered. So with the 2022-23 season tipping off next week, let’s zoom in on the cream of the NBA’s young crop, with our annual Young Core Rankings. The league’s average age, weighted by minutes played, has been tied for the lowest figure ever three seasons running. Even as a couple of outliers excel into their late 30s-looking at you, LeBron and Chris Paul-the NBA, on the whole, is as young as it’s ever been. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please see extended rules for appropriate alternative subreddits, like /r/suggestmeabook, /r/whatsthatbook, etc. ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. 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Something stupid.įinding himself stranded in a terrible alternate reality -which we immediately recognize as our 2016 -Tom is desperate to fix his mistake and go home. It's 2016, and in Tom Barren's world, technology has solved all of humanity's problems -there's no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocadoes. “Instantly engaging.A timeless, if mind-bending, story about the journeys we take, populated by friends, family, lovers, and others, that show us who we might be, could be-and maybe never should be-that eventually leads us to who we are.” - USA TodayĮlan Mastai's acclaimed debut novel is a story of friendship and family, of unexpected journeys and alternate paths, and of love in its multitude of forms. “ amazing debut novel.Dazzling and complex.Fearlessly funny storytelling.” -The Washington Post “Entertainingly mixes thrills and humor.” - Entertainment Weekly ![]() ![]() Life in Georgia When Cora’s mother, Mabel, runs away, Cora becomes a young outcast among the slaves of the Randall plantation. This novel is long researched and deeply felt by a writer whose ancestors were enslaved, shows the human race at its worst and at its best, and portrays women of true wit and grit.īook discussions will take place online! Contact the Topeka & Shawnee Public Library to join the conversation. The Underground Railroad Book Summary Book Summary The Underground Railroad covers five primary periods in the life of Cora: 1. ![]() Nevertheless, Cora possesses the intelligence and tenacity of her grandmother and mother and flees the unrelenting brutality and cruelty of the plantation to thread her way through swamp, sickness, and harrowing journey on the underground railroad in search of freedom. So I want to tread carefully in discussing The Underground Railroad, a 10-episode adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel.In its portrayal of. It's hard to imagine a more daunting struggle for life and sanity than what young Cora faces as the novel's protagonist as a third-generation slave on a Georgia plantation. ![]() Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 SW 10th Ave, Topekaįrom the TALK series, Wit and Grit: Women Characters in Contemporary Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() What can a wounded soul offer any woman? Samantha is ready to go where fate takes her, to leave behind polite society and even propriety in her desire for this handsome, honorable soldier. ![]() Being a gentleman, Ben insists that he escort her on the fateful journey.īen wants Samantha as much as she wants him, but he is cautious. ![]() After the lingering death of her husband, Samantha McKay is at the mercy of her oppressive in-laws-until she plots an escape to distant Wales to claim a house she has inherited. Never does Ben imagine that hope will come in the form of a beautiful woman who has seen her own share of suffering. In this poignant novel of longing and salvation, a hopeful widow and a resilient war hero discover the promise of love’s magic and new beginnings.Īfter surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and spirit in need of a healing touch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As long as you have these things, you'll find happiness, and you'll make people around you happy." "As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. And then despite our angst over mortality, we end up keeping cats as pets, even though we know they will die long before we do, causing the owner immense grief." It doesn't cause them the same level of anxiety that it does humans. "They say that only humans can contemplate death. When human beings invented the mobile phone, they also invented the anxiety that comes with not having one on you." In the span of two decades something we don't really need has come to dominate our lives and make us believe we can't live without it. "Mobile phones have been around for only about twenty years, but in just that short amount of time they've managed to take complete control over us. Dignity and respectability fly out the window at that point." But when death stares you in the face, you find yourself willing to accept a helping hand from anyone, even the devil, in order to stay alive. "I'd always thought that when my time came, I'd go quietly, peacefully, and with dignity-that's how I always imagined it would happen. ![]() ![]() “ catcher caught” the headline screamed in triumph. In that instant, the look in Salinger’s eyes was one of such terror that it is a wonder he survived it. He’s a public figure.”) The paper ran a photograph on the front page of a gaunt, sixty-nine-year-old man recoiling, as if anticipating catastrophe. His withdrawal became for journalists a story demanding resolution, intervention, and exposure. For whatever reasons (and one presumes they are not happy reasons), Salinger stopped publishing long ago-his last story, “Hapworth 16, 1924,” appeared in The New Yorker in 1965-and he has lived a reclusive life ever since. ![]() There is no mystery why the Post pursued its prey. If the phrase “take his picture” had any sense of violence or, at least, violation left in it at all, if it still retained the undertone of certain peoples who are convinced that a photographer threatens them with the theft of their souls, then it applied here. In the spring of 1988, the editors of the New York Post sent a pair of photographers to New Hampshire with instructions to find J. D. “Being called a ‘bad citizen’ is a compliment to a novelist,” he says. ![]() ![]() Don DeLillo, photographed by Arnold Newman. ![]() |