![]() ![]() The public's been conditioned to think of the deaths of African-Americans - particularly young black men - purely in terms of statistics. Ward, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for her novel Salvage The Bones, chronicles an existence filled with social strife, economic struggle and, all too often, death. Jesmyn Ward's superb memoir Men We Reaped finds powerful new meaning in Tubman's words, which serve as a still-relevant metaphor for the Southern black American experience. "We heard the thunder and that was the big guns and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped." Escaped slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman bore elegiac eyewitness to the terrible day: "We saw the lightning and that was the guns," she said later. ![]() In the end, they were unsuccessful and lost almost half of their forces. ![]() On July 18, 1863, the Union Army's famed 54 th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry - a black military unit - made a desperate assault on Confederate forces at Fort Wagner near Charleston, S.C. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Men We Reaped Subtitle A Memoir Author Jesmyn Ward ![]()
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![]() The bad guy, Ellis Billington, is trying to raise a sunken wreck from an ancient civilization that might predate-or at least disturbs-the BLUE HADES Old Ones we don’t want to talk about. However, it’s self-aware, somewhat parodic spoof. But maybe James Bond?Īlthough The Atrocity Archive did not hide its allusions to Bond and sundry, The Jennifer Morgue is where Charles Stross truly engages in spoof. ![]() I need slightly more self-deprecating and vulnerable protagonists.Įnter Bob Howard. While the idea of a suave kickass superspy is as appealing to me as it is to the next person, the whole Bond scenario just doesn’t do much for me. I certainly haven’t read any of the books. In fact, aside from seeing Skyfall in theatres with friends and (maybe) Casino Royale, I don’t know if I’ve actually watched a Bond film in its entirety from start to finish. ![]() I didn’t-so keep that in mind when I say things like, “All I wanted to do with my life was read this book.” ![]() Did you finish The Atrocity Archives and think, “Gee, I liked this magical computational spoof on James Bond quite a lot, but I wish it had been Bondier and spoofier?” Well, if you did, then The Jennifer Morgue is the Laundry Files novel for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() The digital age allows individuals to have a new sort of anonymity on the internet. The main characters that use altered names are using it in a sense to reinvent themselves. where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman’s body, Heaven.”- The Butterfly Memoir e. This has some connotations with the argument of the Convent about Islam: “In the West,” she observed, “anything that must be hidden is suspect availability and honesty are interlinked. How the characters are attributed with personal reasons on having more than 1 name. In the East names are meanings, but in the West they don’t carry the same weight of meaning. ![]() There is this East vs West cultural issue about names. I believe it evident throughout the book that there is a sense of secrecy attributed to the true/original names of characters in the book. The question of names in Alif the Unseen: (Lecture) What is the purpose of Willow Wilson referring to the characters by their online handles? a. ![]() ![]() ![]() If they fail to stave off the invaders, the few villagers left will either be killed or enslaved. Instead he teaches them the basics of defense and combat with the meager weapons they have available. Rolf Bloodhands, sole survivor of a traitorous attack on his king’s fleet, assures her that his kinsmen will not spare the easy conquest of their waning village for the life of one man. Perhaps they can use this captive to bargain for the safety of their village. Mine is The Valiant Viking.īLURB: Can a foundering seaside village survive the onslaught of marauding Vikings bearing down on them?ĭesperate to save her village from a band of Norsemen sweeping down the coastline, Kaylla catches her first ray of hope when she discovers one of the pillaging heathens washed ashore. We’re kicking off by sharing the first excerpt from our own featured #MedievalRomance. You know, that one character you love to hate. Our theme this time around is the bad guy. Here you may discover new authors writing about love in our favorite time period. Huzzah, Medieval Romance Lovers! Welcome back to another round of Medieval Monday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Charles I or Charlemagne united most of Western Europe during the. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Read The Life of Charlemagne (Illustrated) by Einhard available from Rakuten Kobo. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization.Ĭopublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, author and spiritual teacher Michael A. You’ll discover what you can do to put an end to the habitual thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. ![]() What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profound answers to these questions. ![]() ![]() First Edition, First State, of the author's fourth (and perhaps most loved) book and one of Modern Library's 100 Best Novels. ![]() The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellow s oeuvre both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." Henderson the Rain King was named one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century by Modern Library. Sammler s Planet, in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. ![]() Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Hitchens signature on the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Christopher Hitchens, "For Christopher with good wishes Saul Bellow." Hitchens wrote, "When I think of Bellow, I think not just of a man whose genius for the vernacular could seem to restate Athenian philosophy as if run through a Damon Runyon synthesizer, but of the author who came up with such graphic expressions for vulgarity and thuggery and stupidityâ "the debased currency of those too brutalized to have retained the capacity for wonder" (Christopher Hitchens). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It won many recognitions including Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. Aadujeevitham is a 2008 Malayalam novel about an abused migrant worker in Saudi Arabia written by Bahrain-based Indian author Benyamin (born Benny Daniel). Its unbelievable freshness and straight style of narration attract more and more readers to this novel. With almost nil marketing efforts, Aadujeevitham caught the attention of so many Malayali readers across the globe. In the end, the lonely young man contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison. The story about a man who goes to the gulf and dreams off getting a good job but his job chanched and a caterpillar gives to a work in his goat house and. Memories of the lush, verdant landscape of his village and of his loving family haunt Najeeb whose only solace is the companionship of goats. ![]() He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. Najeeb’s dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. One of the brilliant new talents of Malayalam literature, Benyamin’s wry and tender telling transforms this strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb’s life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation. Thus, Benyamin's novel Goat Days can be viewed as an example of Indian diasporic literature, which focuses on the. ![]() ![]() The opportunity is too good to be true as well as the timing. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven’t had her body, I know that I have her mind. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. My brother’s girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. He’s bad, and the dirt I’ve seen isn’t content to stay in my head anymore. ![]() Now, I’ve graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven’t stopped watching Michael. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid…For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. The star of his college’s basketball team and now gone pro, he’s more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. He is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. My boyfriend’s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. I was told that dreams were our heart’s desires. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform on November 17th 2015 ![]() ![]() Also by this author: Falling Away, Aflame, Misconduct, Next To Never (Fall Away #4.5) ![]() ![]() ![]() The Revolutionary War history of her town inspired Pataki to write her first book The Traitor's Wife based on the life of Benedict Arnold. In 2015, Pataki co-founded reConnect Hungary, an educational and social immersion program for young adults of Hungarian heritage, who are born in the United States or Canada, to gain a better understanding of their Hungarian heritage. She met her husband, David Levy, during her sophomore year at Yale, and they married in June 2012. Allison attended Yale University, where she majored in English. Pataki was born in New York, and is the daughter of former New York State Governor and 2016 presidential candidate, George Pataki and his wife Libby (née Rowland). Beauty in the Broken Places is her first memoir. Her six historical novels are The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America, The Accidental Empress, Sisi, Empress on Her Own, Where the Light Falls, and The Queen's Fortune. ![]() ![]() Allison Pataki (born November 25, 1984) is an American author and journalist. ![]() |