![]() In the biggest bout of the night, Cody Rhodes will collide with Brock Lesnar for the first time ever one-on-one. Although the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship will not be defended, the rest of the card has an incredible amount of promise, especially with the event emanating from the electric San Juan, Puerto Rico. ![]() WWE Backlash 2023 will mark the end of an era and the beginning of a new one following an eventful WWE draft that saw the landscape of both Raw and SmackDown shift significantly.Įveryone on the card will be looking to make a major impact heading into their new home on either Monday or Friday nights. ![]() Bad Bunny and Damian Priest is bound to be a barn burner at Backlash. ![]()
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![]() Among her many honors are the Pen Center West Award in Children's Literature, the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and illustrators. Peg Kehret's books for young people have earned a wide readership and critical acclaim. Some of Kehret's most famous works include Stolen Children, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, and Runaway Twin. She has published forty-six works for middle school students, including four children's drama books. Career īefore Kehret began writing children's books, she wrote plays, radio commercials and magazine stories. She has a great-grandson, Seth, who also lives in Washington. Kehret has four grandchildren: Brett, Chelsea, Eric, and Mark. In 1970, the Kehrets moved to Washington. In 1955, she married Carl Kehret they moved to California and adopted two children, Bob and Anne. Kehret made a complete recovery, later graduating from Austin High School and then attending the University of Minnesota for one year. ![]() The experience changed Kehret's life, as she describes in her 1996 memoir Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio. ![]() She was paralyzed from the neck down and had a nine-month hospital stay. She had each of the three types of polio: spinal, respiratory, and the least common kind, bulbar. Margaret Ann Schulze was born on November 11, 1936, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. ![]() Peg Kehret (born Margaret Ann Schulze on November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 10 and 15. ![]() ![]() ![]() Morrell and his wife took it upon themselves to care for Young’s home, not to mention his son. Their lives became intimately intertwined when Young’s wife died. The author studied under Young for a time before becoming his graduate assistant. Morrell’s wife was gracious enough to abandon her teaching position to follow her husband to a new country. ![]() When he learned that Young was teaching at Penn State, the author packed everything he owned and drove to the United States with his wife and child. The author was in awe of Young’s engaging style. The pair met through ‘Ernest Hemingway,’ Young’s book, which Morrell discovered and loved because of his passion for all things Hemingway. Philip Young was equally influential to the author. The two became good friends later, with Stirling executive producing an adaptation of Morrell’s novel. ![]() Stirling replied with a long letter encouraging the young man to pursue his dreams. Morrell wanted to follow in Stirling Silliphant’s footsteps and said as much. He wrote a letter to the show’s head writer. The author couldn’t get enough of the two heroes at the heart of the series as they traversed the United States. ![]() But then he watched ‘Route 66’ on TV, and the show changed everything. Morrell, who almost dropped out of high school, was inclined to believe him. His high school principal told him he would never amount to anything. The author was born in 1943 in Kitchener, Ontario, to a Royal Navy flier (George Morrell) and an upholsterer (Beatrice Morrell). ![]() ![]() ![]() An extraordinary, propulsive novel, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century's darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. ![]() ![]() As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. "Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely." - Glamour It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive-and to reunite- We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then news reaches Hernando that Fatima has been murdered. But his stepfather accuses Hernando of Christian sympathies and condemns him to slavery. ![]() When Hernando meets Fatima, a beautiful girl with black eyes, she becomes the love of his life. Despised by the townsfolk and by his own stepfather for his 'tainted' heritage, he is banished to live in the stables and becomes an expert muleteer. Caught in the conflict is young Hernando, the son of an Arab woman who was raped by a Christian priest. After years of Christian oppression, the Moors take arms against their masters and daub the white houses of Sierra Nevada with the blood of their victims. Snared between two cultures and two loves, one man is forced to choose.1564, the Kingdom of Granada. ![]() |