![]() ![]() Although secondary characters can feel a bit one-dimensional, the story is robust enough to balance it out, making this a solid debut in which the horrors are both historical and spectral. Through Daniel’s close-knit family-his single mother and superstitious grandmother, both coping with his father’s death-the novel also explores the multifaceted nature of grief alongside close childhood friendships and the historical significance of racism. Iris struggles with erasure at school and getting less attention than her sibling at home, ideas that intertwine as Avery’s ghost emerges and seeks recognition. After repeatedly finding her bedroom window open, Iris sees “the shimmering, gray shadow of a girl emerging from her window.” When Iris and Daniel decide to conduct their social studies project on abandoned graves, they find that Avery’s is part of an entire segregated black cemetery that has faded from history. ![]() Her debut novel, The Forgotten Girl, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Youth/Teens.It’s both a spooky original ghost story and a timely and important storyline about reclaiming an abandoned segregated cemetery. ![]() In North Carolina, Iris and her best friend Daniel, both African-American, sneak out one night to play in just-fallen snow, only to stumble upon the abandoned grave of Avery Moore, who died in 1956 at their current age: 11. On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend, Daniel, sneak into a clearing in the woods to play in the freshly fallen snow. India Hill Brown is an author with a passion for writing, reading, and all things literary. ![]() Both historically and culturally relevant, Brown’s thoughtful ghost story explores the legacy of racism through segregation. ![]()
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![]() Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women, the church, have been her home. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. They take over the care of a halfway house, where they live alongside their charges, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. They land in Woonsocket, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life.īut when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. Their world is contained within the little house they share. “An enchanting, sparkling book about the many meanings of sisterhood.” -Kristin Iversen, Refinery29Ĭlaire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don’t), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest selfĪgatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. ![]() A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree ![]() ![]() Along the way, Stiles describes Vanderbilt's personal adventures in the Nicaraguan jungle, his epic campaigns on Wall Street, and the intrigue that divided his family. Rockefeller (with whom Vanderbilt made deals), The First Tycoon recounts Vanderbilt's rise from sailboat ferryman to steamboat entrepreneur, from master of transoceanic steamship lines to builder of a railroad empire. Ranging from his humble birth on Staten Island during the presidency of George Washington through the days of John D. The First Tycoon weaves some six years of intensive research (in previously untapped archives) into a fast-paced story of a man and the nation rising together. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie, the Commodore has never received a full and authoritative biography. Of all the key industrialists and financial figures of American history, Vanderbilt may well be the most important. This biography offers a sweeping new account of the business career and personal life of the Commodore-as Vanderbilt was known-the first great corporate tycoon in American history and the founder of the Vanderbilt dynasty. ![]() ![]() Knopf, Inc., published The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. A Brief Description of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt ![]() ![]() ![]() Bakhtin evokes carnival as a special, creative life form, with its own space and time. For both, carnival, with its emphasis on the earthly and the grotesque, signified the symbolic destruction of authority and official culture and the assertion of popular renewal. The work of both Rabelais and Bakhtin springs from an age of revolution, and each reflects a particularly open sense of the literary text. ![]() In Bakhtin's view, the spirit of laughter and irreverence prevailing at carnival time is the dominant quality of Rabelais's art. This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, especially the world of carnival, as depicted in the novels of François Rabelais. ![]() ![]() Take advantage of this terrific $1.95 daily deal and stop or in most peoples situation slow up the over booked calendar or overwhelmed life. ![]() In just minutes a day you can cast off the weight, and glide through life more lightly and gracefully. With this book, Francine Jay makes minimalism more doable and delightful than ever. When you're tempted by an impulse purchase, trying to resist a chocolate donut, or struggling to say no to another obligation, all you have to remember is one word - "lightly" - to boost your resolve and make beautiful choices. What's more, Lightly is a complete philosophy of life. Whether you want to clear out a closet, free up some time, or get rid of a nagging guilt, you can listen to the relevant section for the help you need. ![]() Lightly is like a recipe book for minimalism, designed so you can dip into it anytime for advice and inspiration. Your spirit: clear emotional baggage from your mind and heart.Your stress: be less busy and breeze through your days.Your step: consume less and live in harmony with the Earth.Your stuff: create a serene space with your favorite things. ![]() It goes beyond decluttering - far beyond - to uplift your thoughts, your actions, every moment and aspect of your life. There's no shortage of decluttering books on the market, but Lightly is different. Do you ever feel like life is weighing you down? Like the stuff in your home, the to-dos in your schedule, the worries in your heart are too much? Make "lightly" your mantra, one lovely little word to live by, and transform your life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Golden writes poetry in his prose, painting pictures that are so vivid to read that weeks later one can still bring them to mind. Memoires of a Geisha gives a clear picture about the life of a Geisha, although I felt that there were some subtleties that were left out, including some of the seduction trades that make Geisha so fascinating.Īlthough this book is written by a man (and sometimes that shows through in the way our main character's thoughts are explained to us, too directly, as if some femenine grace is somehow still lacking) the world of Geisha, a world ruled by women, is perfectly laid out for us. ![]() ![]() Since I was a teenager I have come across a lot vague references having to do with Geishas, but none have given a clear picture about what these entertainment women are all about. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gaeta doesn't think they can find President Roslin or Apollo easily due to Cloud 9's use as a transport hub. He thanks them for their loyalty in the continuing crisis in the fleet, and goes on to search for the 'fugitives'. The force is ambushed by Centurions and Starbuck is shot in the retreat.Ĭommander Adama makes his first visit to CIC since being shot, and is greeted with hand-clapping. Starbuck quickly draws up the mission plans while talking, intending the force to wipe out the three Centurion guards in an explosion which, given the resilience of Cylon design, the Heavy Raider will survive. Starbuck cannot commit to staying, and plans instead to return to Galactica and send help, also insisting he move his camp up higher into the mountains so the radiation affecting Caprica will take longer to affect them.Ī resistance force drives out into the forest to a known Heavy Raider refuelling station, which will be an easy target for hijacking to complete Starbuck's task. He tries to persuade her to stay on Caprica the resistance is taking significant losses to the Cylons due to lack of tactical training. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon enough, Shadow finds himself unwillingly embroiled in a war between old and new gods, with far more at stake than just his sanity in a crazy crazy world. At his lowest point, he meets Mr Wednesday and takes on the role of bodyguard, without any awareness of exactly what he is being a bodyguard for. Quick overview: Shadow Moon has just been released from jail, but not to the happy homecoming he expected. ![]() Image courtesy of Dark Horse / Photo Taken by EG Mum But before you get all excited about the TV series coming to the Starz network later this year, Dark Horse is giving us the goods in a graphic novel. American Gods is considered to be one of his top works. I’m not exactly breaking news when I say there are quite a few GeekMom writers (and GeekDad) who are fans of Neil Gaiman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Classic Revolutionary War Books 1776 by David McCullough ![]() Whatever you’re looking for-from Framers to farmers, from Thomas Jefferson to Toussaint Louveture, from pirates to poets, from turncoats to time travelers-this list will get you started. I’ve included some classic American Revolution nonfiction books books that focus on people usually left out of traditional books about the American Revolution Revolutionary War books written during the period books related to Hamilton: An American Musical (how could I not?) and its main characters books about the global Age of Revolution and romance, fantasy, and sci-fi books about the American Revolution. To help you navigate the tons and tons of Revolutionary War books out there, and to make sure you’re getting a more textured and accurate picture of the Revolutionary Era, I’ve gathered together some of the best in a wide range of categories. The part they played in the American Revolution is interesting, sure, but they aren’t even close to the entire story. But often, the books that get the most coverage tend to focus on the same elite white men over and over again. The American Revolution is among the most-written-about, most-studied eras of U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carr isn’t a luddite and he acknowledges that through all intellectual technologies such as books, maps and the compass we have gained some things while at the same time lost others. ![]() I think he’s certainly on to something – otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered reading his book. And in order to memorize facts or a concept we need to focus and engage our mind with it for some amount of time, otherwise it will not make the jump from short to long-term memory. He goes further and argues that these habits have a lasting impact on our brain whose circuits are rewired to get better at superficial and shallow reading and thinking while at the same time lessens our ability to follow and make complicated and extended arguments. We loose our ability to read deep and focus on the subject matter, think about it clearly and instead get always distracted – or what others call multitasking. We only read headlines and a few sentences on websites to then head off to click on a link or check our mail, newsfeed reader, etc. He claims that using the internet improves our ability to sift through large chunks of data quickly while at the same time we cannot concentrate at one thing at a time anymore. I have just finished Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows in which he makes the argument that while the internet has its benefits, it basically makes us stupid. Is the Internet making us stupid? – Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows ![]() |