![]() ![]() The groundbreaking feminist's timely collection of nonfiction writings on race, gender, and LGBTQ issues is now for the first time in Penguin Classics as part of the Penguin Vitae series, with a foreword by poet Mahogany L. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. A New York Times New & Noteworthy book A Penguin Vitae Edition In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. It's always great to have an intersectional tome on hand." -Amanda Gorman " Sister Outsider 's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone." - Essence Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. " Sister Outsider, a collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books. ![]()
0 Comments
![]()
![]() ![]() Annie, a businesswoman in her own right, the wife of a man has committed horrible secret deeds, mother of five children, one dead by suicide, two sons and two estranged daughters has to face the reasons for the estrangement. ![]() She has to dig deep to do what it takes to feed her daughters, to save them and make a life for them. ![]() With a drunk for a husband, they live in squalor and they are starving. Gertrude is a battered wife and mother of four young daughters. Three points of view skillfully depicted. Spera introduces us to three women, each an unforgettable character in their own way. This is rural South Carolina in 1924, devastated by boll weevils, hurricanes, the depressive economic time that the South experienced even before the Great Depression, but there are other struggles. I don’t use the word atmospheric very often, but it’s hard to not describe this book in that way. “It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait.” What a fantastic line and what an amazing debut novel. Once in a while the opening sentence of a story is enough for me to know that I’ll be taken with it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Haie, Felix Gilbert, Leo Strauss, and many others, including Adams himself. Accurate, highly readable, and thoroughly revised for the Second Edition, this translation renders Machiavellis 1513 political tract into clear and concise. ![]() Critical articles round out the volume with selections from J. These are clarified for the reader by excerpts from reports he wrote on diplomatic missions, by a selection from his Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, and by "The Exhortation to Penitence." Also included are two of Machiavelli s poems and excerpts from his private letters. Equally important are Machiavelli s sources and the historical and political context in which he wrote. To trace the misun-derstanding and discover the true meaning of The Prince requires an accurate rendering into English of Machiavelli s text, provided here in a new annotated translation by Robert M. ![]() ![]() But through the years, it has been misunderstood to the extent that Machiavelli s own name has become synonymous with unscrupulous political behavior. Ever wondered what Niccolo Machiavellis The Prince is really about, why it was written, and continues to be relevant today In under 20 minutes, Dr Aidan provides a detailed summary and. Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt, Cover leicht aufgebogen, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / Paper slightly browned, cover slightly bent up, otherwise perfect condition - Machiavelli s best-known work, The Prince, was written in 1513 as a tract for the rulers of his time. ![]() ![]() Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to build emotional resilience.By presenting and exploring fictional solutions, cli-fi helps readers imagine potential real-life solutions to the climate crisis.The genre as a whole shows the range of potential consequences of climate change, as each work imagines the consequences differently.Cli-fi could play an important role in helping to prepare for, cope with and devise solutions for the climate crisis.Climate change is a deep-rooted systemic problem that cannot be solved by a single protagonist in a story, so the drama must revolve around emotions.A plot that centers around the emotional arcs of the characters.A setting that undergoes dramatic transformations.Accelerated pacing that is punctuated by crisis.Some of the typical elements of cli-fi works include:. ![]() For example, Darkness by Lord Byron, written in 1816, is an example of cli-fi.
![]() ![]() ![]() Likewise, with Anyone Can Die in full effect from book one, just getting from point A to point B can be suspenseful. Though The Enemy starts off with as a simple Zombie Apocalypse tale, an ever-expanding cast and sprawling plot make the series more complex. Following it are The Dead (2010), The Fear (2011), The Sacrifice (2012), The Fallen (2013), The Hunted (2014), and the final book, The End (2015). ![]() The first book, The Enemy, was published in 2009. The books take place in London after a worldwide sickness has infected everyone over fourteen years old (sixteen in the American editions), turning them into something akin to zombies and forcing kids to fend for themselves while fighting the hordes of "sickos". The Enemy is a series of post-apocalyptic young adult horror novels written by British author Charlie Higson, also the author of the Young Bond series. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when I came across a copy of The Moonstone recently in a used bookstore, I picked it up at once - but surreptitiously. I devoured it in a day, and thought back on it with pleasure over the years. And enough twists and turns to keep a reader on tenterhooks until a highly satisfying ending is delivered. A young, beautiful, rich and courageous heroine (who in my mind looked very like me). Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. ![]() The Moonstone was all I could have hoped for. I loved the Classics Illustrated series (the graphic novels of my youth that simplified famous novels for children), presenting us with swashbuckling plotlines, and heroes and villains that were unmistakably, unashamedly, what they were supposed to be. I was about 12 when I first encountered The Moonstone - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. ![]() How?Ĭhitra Banerjee Divakaruni's latest book is Oleander Girl. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Moonstone Author Wilkie Collins ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() TO ENGAGE IN THE BUSINESS OF REAL ESTATE SALES.ġ050 Reservoir Avenue, Cranston, RI 02910Ģ9 Fayette Ave, North Belle Vernon, PA 15012ġ3326 Doubletree Cir, West Palm Beach, FL 33414 1122 Braznell Hill Rd, Grindstone, PA 15442Ĥ37 San Nicolas Way, Saint Augustine, FL 32080ġ2985 Meadowbreeze Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33414ġ3326 Doubletree Trl, Wellington, FL 33414 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You might think these denizens of the sea have nothing more in common than their respective jumping of sharks (or at least of whales) when it comes to descriptive yet ridiculous nicknames. Denied for being too frivolous, apparently. The crowd favorite? The rather juvenile, if expressive, Boaty McBoatface. ![]() Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, the winner of another internet poll (this time for an intrepid polar research ship) was roundly rejected in favor of the more respectable RRS Sir David Attenborough. Despite some grumbling from various quarters that the name wasn’t beautiful or serious enough, the popularity of the nickname was undeniable, and it stuck. (And incidentally became a cautionary tale for those who unwittingly unleash the creative juices of the internet). Surely you remember that infamous gentleman whale Mister Splashy Pants?Ĭhampioned by Greenpeace as a symbol of the whale resistance against hunting, he was cunningly named by popular vote in an internet poll. ![]() ![]() ![]() In direct and eloquent prose, Nava deftly handies the political, legal and cultural strands of his plot while leading Rios through demanding personal terrain in which he must confront issues from his past as well as those of his future. ![]() While tracing the movements of both the victim and his uncooperative client before the crime, Rios tries to accept the increasing distance that has developed between him and his lover, Josh, whose life has come to center around his diagnosis. After Pefia is shot by an unidentified Latino youth, Ruiz is arrested and charged with murder. The little death a Henry Rios mystery 4th ed. Teenager Michael Ruiz and state senator Gus Pefia were heard arguing violently while both were clients at the rehab center. The little death by Michael Nava, 2003, Alyson Books edition, in English - 4th ed. Meanwhile he is defending a youth accused of murdering a popular politician just returned to public life after a stint in a drug- and alcohol-rehab center. At age 40, Rios faces a breakup with his lover of five years, who has been diagnosed as HIV-positive. Spanning 15 years and seven books, Navas brilliant storytelling has earned him comparisons to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, four Lambda Literary. ![]() ![]() Nava's (How Toum) extremely appealing hero Henry Rios is a gay Chicano criminal lawyer in Los Angeles. ![]() |