![]() ![]() With piercing insight and profound empathy, acclaimed author Daniel Black illuminates to the lived experiences of Black fathers and queer sons, offering an authentic and ultimately hopeful portrait of reckoning and reconciliation. And he must create a space for the two to find peace. He must give voice to the trauma that Isaac has inherited. But most of all, Jacob must share with Isaac the unspoken truths that reside in his heart. ![]() Tragedies that informed Jacob's role as a father and his reaction to Isaac being gay. Secrets from Jacob's tumultuous relationship with Isaac's mother and the shame he carries from the dissolution of their family. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extends back to slavery. ![]() They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. "Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."-Jesmyn WardĪ black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr., and Alice WalkerĪs Jacob lays dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son Isaac. ![]()
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![]() Lisa and I have cheered each other on throughout the last year, and I think of her as my "debut sister." We've both been startled and fascinated by how similar our stories are, in spite of how different our childhoods were. Lisa and I both worked with the same publicist, who thought we'd be good friends and introduced us. ![]() ![]() If you have struggled with self-destructive behavior in an effort to mitigate emotional pain, this book is for you. If you have ever felt as if you have to twist and turn to get your parents’ attention, this book is for you. If you have ever felt as if you don’t belong, this book is for you. Happy Release Day to one of my favorite memoirs of the year, To The Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence by Lisa Kohn! ![]() TBR Tuesday Review: To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence by Lisa Kohn ![]() ![]() It's up to them to save their best friends forever after from a curse that threatens to give their school-and their lives-a very unhappy ending"- Member ofĪssigning source Provided by publisher 10351706 Cataloging source DLC Hale, Shannon Dewey number Index no index present Interest level MG LC call number PZ7. ![]() ![]() Lizzie Hearts, Wonderland's future queen Cedar Wood, daughter of Pinocchio and Madeline Hatter, heir to the Mad Hatter's Haberdashery & Tea Shoppe, seem to be the only ones who haven't completely lost their heads. Language eng Summary "When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes topsy-turvy. The exciting paperback edition of Shannon Hale's classic Ever After High story, A Wonderlandiful World, is available for the first time in paperback Class is back in session at Ever After High Bump destinies with your favorite fairytale friends and embark on a new spellbinding adventure. Characters and characteristics in literature - Juvenile fiction.true Characters and characteristics in fairy tales.Label A wonderlandiful world Title A wonderlandiful world Statement of responsibility by Shannon Hale Creator ![]() ![]() ![]() After graduating from the Chesterfield County Mathematics and Science High School at Clover Hill in Midlothian, Virginia, he graduated from Christopher Newport University in 2006 with a degree in physics. He was a fan of comic strips in newspapers from an early age, starting off with Calvin and Hobbes. He has two younger siblings, including a brother named Doug, and was raised as a Quaker. Munroe was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and his father has worked as an engineer and marketer. ![]() In addition to publishing a book of the webcomic's strips, he has written four books: What If?, Thing Explainer, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, and What If? 2. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006. Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nabokov wrote Lolita partly to demonstrate the effects of enchanting and persuasive rhetorical skills on not just the characters in the book but the reader as well. He also benefited from the knowledge of the American landscape afforded him by his pursuit of butterflies through fifty-fix states in the United States. He took bus rides with school children to help him understand how they talked, followed news stories involving pedophilia, and read case studies on the subject. However, since he was setting the book in a land he emigrated to and was not very familiar with, he started with some research. Nabokov built on themes he abandoned in an earlier novella, The Enchanter, to form Lolita. ![]() Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov’s most popular and successful work.
![]() Tracking the mind's fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the first evolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish, he explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous molluscs who would later abandon their shells to rise above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so – a journey completely independent from the route that mammals and birds would later take. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. ![]() ![]() BBC R4 Book of the Week 'Brilliant' Guardian 'Fascinating and often delightful' The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? 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For general discussions about books please visit /r/books or /r/literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through a series of flashbacks, vignettes, and letters to Justyce-the protagonist of Dear Martin-Quan's story takes form. and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center. Years later, though, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University. Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller, Nic Stone delivers an unflinching look into the flawed practices and silenced voices in the American juvenile justice system. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Angie Thomas. ![]() ![]() Incarcerated teen Quan writes letters to Justyce about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system. The stunning sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin. DEAR JUSTYCE Nic Stone Young Adult, Crown, 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() The proliferation of the typewriter around the turn of the century was a cultural game-changer, as it meant more and more women were able to enter the workplace. While you mightn’t think it, the typewriter is quite a compelling character in and of itself. ![]() ![]() While I usually go on about my unreliable narrator, Rose, I sometimes forget to elaborate on how studying the history of the typewriter more generally also helped to inspire me. The wheels in my brain got to turning and my imagination ran away with me. ![]() I was fascinated with the sorts of things she might’ve seen at the precinct, and the sorts of reports she might’ve typed up. The story goes: In the course of my academic research I came upon an obituary of a woman who had worked as a typist in a police precinct during America’s Prohibition era. To mark the release of The Other Typist paperback edition, debut author, Suzanne Rindell has stopped by to tell us what her inspiration for writing was and how she took on the task of researching her chosen subject, including the history of the typewriter…Ī question often put to authors is “What inspired you to write this novel?” I’ve answered this question on many occasions, and I customarily tell the story of how I was meant to be working on an academic dissertation on 1920’s literature but wound up writing a fictional tale set in the 1920’s instead. ![]() ![]() ![]() At another match in Hungary, fans turned their backs as the Russians were introduced, and drowned out their national anthem. Russia won and after the match the two sides suffered a dressing-room punch-up. Months before the Games, the teams met again in a practice tournament in Moscow. The Melbourne crowds could not see what was happening under water And so, as they worked on improving their chances for 1956, the Soviets learned from Hungary’s uniquely successful training regime. Remember that at the 1952 Games, Hungary had already defeated Russia. ![]() ![]() Probably more in water polo than any other sport since Hungary was waterpolo’s super power. Seven years after Hungary was formally under Soviet control, any meeting between representatives of the two nations would naturally be political. Although I was fully aware of the 1936 Games in Berlin, rarely had a sporting event been so loaded with subtext as this 1956 waterpolo was. So people wanted to know which countries had the best athletes. According to the newspapers, it was one of the most highly charged battles in Olympic history.Ī sporting event used to allow sports people to prove their skills above others. In Dec 1956 Hungary & Soviet Union opposed each other in a water polo semi-final that has earned a place in infamy it was an occasion that seethed with violence from the start and ended in chaos after polo players was dragged out of the pool, bleeding. ![]() |