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	<description>A blog about immigration, loss and legacy by author Fern Schumer Chapman</description>
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		<title>&#8216;Get Low&#8217; on storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I were teaching a writing class right now, I would require  all my students to go see the new movie, Get Low with Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray and Lucas Black. Sure that&#8217;s an all-star cast, but that&#8217;s not the reason for my insistence.
For those  who study narrative drive, this movie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=4019</link>
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		<title>VOYA: &#8217;superb addition to Holocaust or American History collection&#8217;</title>
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Here is the review of Is it Night or Day? by the Voices of Youth Advocates (VOYA), the library magazine servicing those who serve young adults:

In 1938 Edith Westerfeld is twelve years old when her family puts her on a ship in Bremen,Germany that carries her to the Deutchland, an oceanliner that transports her to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=4007</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Veridical &#8211; it&#8217;s rooted in truth</title>
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 Word of the Day 
August 28




To my delight, today&#8217;s  word-of-the-day from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is &#8220;veridical.&#8221;
veridical\vuh-RID-ih-kul\








adjective




1 :



truthful, veracious





2 :



not illusory : genuine





What pleased me most is the sentence the dictionary used to showcase the word:
&#8220;All psychotherapies are based on the fact that memory is not veridical, that unconscious desires and fantasies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=3981</link>
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		<title>www.theauthorsshow.com features FSC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To listen to the interview, go to http://www.theauthorsshow.com/
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=3978</link>
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		<title>&#8216;I suffered with you&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother&#8217;s cousin, Elisa Levi, recently sent this email after reading, Is It Night or Day?. When Elisa was a child, she and her family fled Crumstadt, Germany for Uruguay. My mother and Elisa have corresponded and visited each other since 1938, the year my mother left Germany.
Dear Edith:

I finished reading Fern&#8217;s book. It made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=3972</link>
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		<title>New web site for school presentations</title>
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My new web site showcasing my school presentations has gone live at AIVS (Authors and Illustrators who Visit Schools). Please visit: http://www.authorsillustrators.com/schumer_chapman/schumer_chapman.htm
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=3964</link>
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		<title>Literary Footsteps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a dream last night, I stumbled upon an interesting image of my work. Each book I write is a footstep, marking where  I am at that moment in my life.
As American lawyer, orator, and memoirist Rufus Choate once said, &#8220;A book is the only immortality.&#8221; Books are my way of announcing, &#8220;I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=3937</link>
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		<title>&#8216;The Kids&#8217; Books Are All Right&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Sunday  New York Times Book Review reports that, according to surveys by the Codex Group, a consultant to the publishing industry, 47 percent of 18- to 24- year-old w0men and 24 percent of  same-aged men say most of the books they buy are classified as young adult. The percentage of female [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=3931</link>
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		<title>&#8216;These black hours will stain our history forever&#8230;&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen years ago, in July, 1995, French President Jacques Chirac gave a speech finally acknowledging the French role in the July 16, 1942 &#8220;Velodrome d&#8217;Hiver roundup.&#8221; Here are his words:
&#8220;These black hours will stain our history forever and are an injury to our past and our traditions. Yes, the criminal madness of the occupant was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=3919</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Make It Better&#8217; celebrates local authors</title>
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Profile of FSC (second from left) from Make It Better/North Shore Magazine

It’s impossible for us to know who we truly are without knowing something of our mothers.
That’s why Fern Schumer Chapman, a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Forbes, has spent years unraveling the enigma that is her mother, who was orphaned by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/?p=3914</link>
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