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April Henry
April Henry (born April 14, 1959) is an American The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' bestselling author of Mystery fiction, mysteries, Thriller (genre), thrillers, and Young adult fiction, young adult novels. Early life Born in Portland, Oregon, April 14, 1959, Henry grew up in the small southern Oregon city of Medford, Oregon, Medford where her father, Hank Henry, was a KTVL television newscaster, and her mother, Nora Henry, was a florist. Career Author Roald Dahl helped April Henry take her first step as a writer. When Henry was twelve, she sent Dahl a short story about a frog who loved peanut butter. Dahl had lunch with the editor of an international children's magazine and read her the story. The editor contacted her and asked to publish her story. In 1999, Henry's first book, ''Circles of Confusion'', was published by HarperCollins. It was short-listed for the Agatha Award and the Anthony Awards, Anthony Award. It was also chosen for the Book Sense, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medford, Oregon
Medford is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oregon, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census on April 1, 2020, the city had a total population of 85,824, making it the List of cities in Oregon, eighth-most populous city in Oregon, and a metropolitan area population of 223,259, making the Medford MSA the fourth largest metro area in Oregon. The city was named in 1883 by David Loring, civil engineer and right-of-way agent for the Oregon and California Railroad, after Medford, Massachusetts, which was near Loring's hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. Medford is near the middle fork of Bear Creek (Rogue River tributary), Bear Creek. History In 1883, a group of railroad surveyors headed by S.L. Dolson and David Loring arrived in Rock Point, near present-day Gold Hill, Oregon, Gold Hill. They were charged with finding the best route through the Rogue Valley for the Oregon and California Railroad. Citizens of neighboring Jacksonville, Oregon, Jacksonvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booklist
''Booklist'' is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. ''Booklist''s primary audience consists of libraries, educators, and booksellers. The magazine is available to subscribers in print and online. It is published 22 times per year, and reviews over 7,500 titles annually. The ''Booklist'' brand also offers a blog, various newsletters, and monthly webinars. The ''Booklist'' offices are located in the American Library Association headquarters in Chicago’s Gold Coast, Chicago, Gold Coast neighborhood. History ''Booklist'', as an introduction from the American Library Association (ALA) publishing board notes, began publication in January 1905 to "meet an evident need by issuing a current buying list of recent books with brief notes designed to assist librarians in selection." With an annual subscription fee of 50 cents, ''Booklist'' was initially subsidized by a $100,000 grant from the Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night She Disappeared
''The Night She Disappeared'' is a young-adult crime / mystery novel by American author April Henry, released on March 13, 2012 through Henry Holt and Company. In June 2012, Henry announced that the film company Tempest had optioned the rights to the novel. Plot Drew works at Pete's Pizza with Kayla Cutler and receives a phone call from a customer named John Robertson. Before ordering he asks if Drew's colleague Gabie Klug, a part-time delivery girl is working. Drew doesn't answer his question. He sends Kayla out with the order; she does not return. The police are called to investigate. Gabie is blamed for her disappearance as she switched nights with Kayla so that she worked Wednesday. Witnesses say that it was a boy named Cody because he painted his white truck brown. Gabie finds out that John Robertson didn't want Kayla; he wanted Gabie. Reception The novel received positive reviews. Wendy Schmalz, for ''Publishers Weekly'', was particularly effusive, stating "it's a rivetin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torched (novel)
Torched may refer to: * ''Torched'' (album), a Michael Hedges album * ''Torched'' (film), a 2004 horror film *Torched, an item that is burnt as the result of arson Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property. Although the act of arson typically involves buildings, the term can also refer to the intentional burning of other things, such as motor vehicles, watercr ... See also * Arson (other) * Torch (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shock Point
Shock may refer to: Common uses Healthcare * Acute stress reaction, also known as psychological or mental shock ** Shell shock, soldiers' reaction to battle trauma * Circulatory shock, a medical emergency ** Cardiogenic shock, resulting from dysfunction of the heart ** Distributive shock, resulting from an abnormal distribution of blood flow *** Septic shock, a result of severe infection **** Toxic shock syndrome, a specific type of severe infection *** Anaphylactic shock, a result of severe allergic reaction *** Neurogenic shock, due to a high spinal cord injury disrupting the sympathetic nervous system ** Hypovolemic shock, resulting from an insufficient blood volume *** Hemorrhagic shock, from a large volume lost to bleeding **Obstructive shock, resulting from mechanical obstruction of blood flow * Cold shock response of organisms to sudden cold, especially cold water * Electric shock ** Defibrillation, electric shock to restore heart rhythm ** Electroconvulsive therapy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Learning To Fly (novel)
Learning to fly or learn to fly may refer to: * Fledging, a bird, bat or other flighted creature learning how to fly * Flight training, in which a person takes lessons to fly an aircraft such as a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft Music * " Learn to Fly", a 1999 song by Foo Fighters * "Learn to Fly" (Surfaces and Elton John song), 2020 * "Learn to Fly" (A1 song), 2002 * "Learn to Fly", a 2009 song by Greek stoner rock band Nightstalker off the album ''Superfreak'' * "Learning to Fly" (Pink Floyd song), a 1987 song by Pink Floyd * "Learning to Fly", a 1986 song by Emerson, Lake & Powell from the album ''Emerson, Lake & Powell'' * "Learning to Fly" (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song), a 1991 song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers * Learning to Fly (Christina Aguilera song), 2023 Other * ''Learning to Fly'', the 2001 autobiography of singer Victoria Beckham Victoria Caroline, Lady Beckham (; born 17 April 1974) is an English fashion designer, singer, and television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl, Stolen
''Girl Stolen'' is a young adult crime novel by the American author April Henry, published in 2010 by Henry Holt and Company. It follows Cheyenne, a 16-year-old girl who is blind, has pneumonia, and is accidentally kidnapped when a stranger steals her mother's car while Cheyenne is resting in the backseat. Plot ''Girl, Stolen'' is about Cheyenne Wilder, a 16-year-old girl who is blind and has pneumonia. Cheyenne is waiting in her stepmother's car while she's in a pharmacy when a teenage boy, Griffin, steals her stepmother's vehicle, unaware that Cheyenne is curled up in the backseat. Griffin contemplates setting Cheyenne free but decides against it and drives her home to a rundown trailer. There, his father, who is a carjacker, learns about the mishap, as well as Cheyenne's father's wealth, and decides turn this error into a ransom opportunity. However, once he realizes that Cheyenne may be able to identify him and his cronies, he contemplates killing her after he receives the ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
