The story begins in 1619-a year before the Mayflower-when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. Jones on Jamestown’s first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence.”- O: The Oprah Magazine a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain’s impressive choir.”- The Washington Post “A vital addition to curriculum on race in America.magazine, BookPage, She Reads, BookRiot, Booklist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, Ms.Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present-edited by Ibram X.
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Subsequent projects have included clean water, malaria prevention, solar power and lighting for his family compound, a deep water well with a solar powered pump, a drip irrigation system, and the outfitting of the village team Wimbe United with uniforms and shoes. He then added a car battery for storage, as well as homemade light switches and circuit breakers. He was able to power four light bulbs and two radios, and charge neighbors’ mobile phones. First he built a prototype, then his initial 5-meter windmill out of a broken bicycle, tractor fan blade, old shock absorber, and blue gum trees. He decided to build a windmill to power his family’s home. Rather than accept his fate, William borrowed books from a small community lending library, including an American textbook Using Energy, which depicted a wind turbine. For five years he was unable to go to school. Due to severe famine in 2001-2002, his family lacked funds to pay $80 in school fees and William was forced to drop out in his freshman year. William was educated at Wimbe Primary School, completing 8th grade and was then accepted to secondary school. William Kamkwamba was born Augin Malawi, and grew up on his family farm in Wimbe, two and half hours northeast of Malawi’s capital city. Leaf is also the bestselling author of Switch on Your Brain, Think Learn Succeed, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, and many more. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input.ĭr. Since the early 1980s, she has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. When his wife is faced with losing her child, she does the one thing that could hurt Jase, tells his parents about Bryan. With a strained marriage, no interest in her child, his wife had pretty much left Jase to his own devices and this was the perfect opportunity to reconnect with Bryan.įor a few days they did exactly that, Bryan falling harder in love with Jase and his baby, they talked of running away and being the perfect family.Īll too soon the wedding was over and reality set in, they went back to their old lives but this time, tried to keep in touch. He needed to explain what had happened to Bryan, wanted him to understand and as his wife seemed to know they had been together, maybe now was the right time!!!! Jase didn't regret having the baby, Grayson was his whole life, it was his wife who meant nothing to him. Jase had told Bryan he was getting divorced, they had only shared a short, intense time together in the military but he still felt the connection.īumping in to each other at a friends wedding was always going to be hard but this was just too much. You smile, make small talk and die very quietly on the inside.Įspecially when they are standing there with a baby. What do you do when you come face to face with the love of your life after a year and he is standing there with his wife? BRYAN & JASE (Something about him) by A.D. But with Becca still picking up the pieces from when her world was blown apart years ago and Brett just barely holding his together now, they begin to realize they have more in common than they ever could have imagined. It’s the perfect solution: he gets people off his back for not dating and she can keep up the ruse.Īcting like the perfect couple isn’t easy though, especially when you barely know the other person. When he overhears Becca’s lie, Brett decides to step in and be her mystery guy. Excluding motor vehicles and gasoline, sales were up 0.6 after falling 0.5 in March. Motor vehicle sales also increased 0.4 following a 1.4 drop in March. Being captain of the football team and one of the most popular guys in school, he should have no problem finding someone to date, but he’s always been more focused on his future than who to bring to prom. Principal Economist Highlights Retail sales rose 0.4 in April following 0.7 declines in both February and March. But when her former best friend teases her for not having a boyfriend, Becca impulsively pretends she’s been secretly seeing someone.īrett Wells has it all. It’s been years since seventeen-year-old Becca Hart believed in true love. But with fierce predators stalking the forests, how long can these unarmed human outeasts hope to survive? And, of course, Kerrick cannot forget Vainte, his implacable Yilane enemy. After Kerrick rescues his people from the warlike Yilane, they find a safe haven on an island and there begin to rebuild their shattered lives. Now, in RETURN TO EDEN, Harrison brings the epic trilogy to a stunning conclusion. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants, the Yilane, challenged humans for mastery of the Earth, and where the human Kerrick, a young hunter of the Tanu tribe, grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy. The rousing conclusion of an epic trilogy! In WEST OF EDEN and WINTER IN EDEN, master novelist Harry Harrison broke new ground with his most ambitious project ever. Instead, the story that emerges from them forms a cryptic play on society’s expectations for happiness. Don’t be fooled by the title, though you won’t find the key to happiness in these illustrations. How to be Happy an imaginative collection of graphic literary short stories. The success of this collection suggests that short pieces are likely Davis' métier, but what's here is so accomplished that it's natural to hope for a book-length work next time out. Shortlist, Slate's 2014 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the YearĢ015 Ignatz Award Winner: Outstanding Anthology or Collection Named one of NPR's and Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014. Happy shows the full range of Davis’s graphic skills - sketchy drawing, polished pen and ink line work, and meticulously designed full color painted panels- which are always in the service of a narrative that builds to a quietly devastating climax. Davis achieves a rare, subtle poignancy in her narratives that are at once compelling and elusive, pregnant with mystery and a deeply satisfying emotional resonance. Happy represents the best stories she’s drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow, as well as her own self-publishing and web efforts. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. This is the first collection of literary short comics stories by an award-winning cartoonist.Įleanor Davis’s How to be Happy is the artist’s first collection of graphic/literary short stories. So many things are explored, celebrated or indicted with ambitious and sharp leaps of metaphors: Moral relativism, comparative theology and eternal recurrence, nothing short of the love of life, the will to life. Full of surreal visions, Zarathustra is a challenge to interpret but at the same time, lacks the semantics of conventional philosophy that makes the field inaccessible for many young students. The events in the book are more like Biblical parables than a plot unfolding, except that the lesson is not, "Thou Shalt" but "Why should I?" I wish I could read German well enough to understand the nuances of Nietzsche's original narrative. It was my first encounter with existential thought, a stinging critique of the very nature of values and belief. I was warned that Nietzsche was dangerous for young readers (like Machiavelli) because he went insane. Reading through Zarathustra as a teenager was a singularly powerful experience the work defies categorization or genre, time or place. Horror movies never frightened me in the same way certain works of literature and film did. The Roman Mysteries series is the only one to be adapted for television. After that she wrote four Roman Mystery Scrolls, four Roman Quests and then three short stories. From then she published sixteen more books in the series. In 2000, she wrote her first book, The Thieves of Ostia. This love stemmed from her studies of Classics and Archaeology, which led her towards her career.Īfter she graduated from Cambridge University, she remained in England and taught Latin, French and Art at a small London primary school. Caroline’s talk and workshops were fascinating because she combined her love for art history, travel and ancient languages. These books are about a Roman girl called Flavia and her three friends Nubia (a slave girl that Flavia freed), Jonathan (a Jewish boy) and Lupus (a beggar boy who couldn’t speak). “The Remove were treated to a special visitor this week: the English-American author Caroline Lawrence, who came to speak to us about her Roman Mysteries series. Remove student Isabella reports on the event: It’s even more alarming to hear from Nora's housekeeper that Nora had been distracted in the weeks before her accident and had fallen on the steps to the attic-the one place Jess was forbidden from playing in when she was small.Īt loose ends in Nora's house, Jess does some digging of her own. When Jess visits her in the hospital, she is alarmed to find her grandmother frail and confused. Nora has always been a vibrant and strong presence: decisive, encouraging, young despite her years. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and been raced to the hospital. Having lived and worked in London for almost twenty years, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. Sixty years later, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. |