The James Logan Courier

Note: Each week, The Courier will spotlight books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan High School Media Center



From Amazon.com
Twenty-one years ago, diplomat Angela Morgan witnessed the death of her husband during the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Devastated by her loss, she fled back to America, where she hid in the backwaters of the State Department and avoided the high-profile postings that would advance her career. Now, with that career about to dead-end and no true connections at home, she must take the one assignment available-at a remote British army outpost in northern Afghanistan. Unwelcome among the soldiers and unaccepted by the local government and warlords, Angela has to fight to earn the respect of her colleagues, especially the enigmatic Mark Davies, a British major who is by turns her staunchest ally and her fiercest critic. Frustrated at her inability to contribute to the nation's reconstruction, Angela slips out of camp disguised in a burka to provide aid to the refugees in the war-torn region. She becomes their farishta, or "angel," in the local Dari language-and discovers a new purpose for her life, a way to finally put her grief behind her.

MISCELLANEOUS

Attn. Students: Don’t forget, we will be having our Holiday Food Faire today at lunch in Colt Court. Clubs, classes and sports teams will be spreading holiday cheer with lots of tasty treats. Don’t miss out!

Need Driver’s Ed? Check out the Adult School! Cost is $125. The next session is December 19, 20 & 21, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for an application or further information.

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations

The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved an extension of winter break by one day, through Monday, Jan. 2. Schools, which will be closed starting next Monday (Dec. 19), will reopen Tuesday, Jan. 3.

To maintain a 175-day school year, the District’s employee groups agreed to open schools Wednesday, March 21, which previously was designated as one of the six furlough days being forced upon the District because of state budget cuts.

From wikipedia:
Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.

Éluard was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, the son of Clément Grindel and wife Jeanne Cousin. At age 16 he contracted tuberculosis and interrupted his studies. He met Gala, born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, who he married in 1917, in the Swiss sanatorium of Davos. Together they had a daughter named Cécile. Around this time Éluard wrote his first poems. He was particularly inspired by Walt Whitman. In 1918, Jean Paulhan “discovered” him and introduced him to André Breton and Louis Aragon. After having collaborated earlier with German Dadaist Max Ernst in 1921, in 1922 Ernst entered France illegally and entered into a menage a trois living arrangement with Éluard and Gala.

Read a collection of Paul Éluard's poems, in french.