6/25/2023 0 Comments Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey![]() ![]() Kwei Quartey's sparkling debut novel introduces readers to a rich cast of characters, including the Trokosi-young women called Wives of the Gods-who, in order to bring good fortune to their families, are sent to live with fetish priests. It soon becomes clear that in addition to solving a recent murder, he is about to unravel the shocking truth about his mother's disappearance. While battling his own anger issues and concerns for his ailing son, Darko explores the motivations and secrets of the residents of Ketanu. ![]() Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, a good family man and a remarkably intuitive sleuth, is sent to the village of Ketanu-the site of his mother's disappearance many years ago-to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Included also is the Appendix that Faulkner wrote for The Portable Faulkner in 1946, which he called the “key to the whole book. ![]() Featuring a new Foreword by Marilynne Robinson, this edition follows the text corrected in 1984 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk and corresponds as closely as possible to the author’s original intentions. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner’s mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and Jason. The principal narrative, set in 19th-century Mississippi, involves Thomas Sutpen, a poor white man from the mountains of West Virginia who rebels against his family and his alcoholic father, suffers a life-changing insult by a black servant. It was immediately praised for its innovative narrative technique, and comparisons were made with Joyce and Dostoyevsky, but it did not receive popular acclaim until the late forties, shortly before Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Absalom, Absalom, novel by American writer William Faulkner, published in 1936. The Sound and the Fury, first published in 1929, is perhaps William Faulkner’s greatest book. ![]() Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeįrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner-also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories Readers of Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom have often remarked the relentless torrent of loss that comprises the novel’s plot, the epistemological losses that inhere in its narrative structure, as well as the fundamental incomprehensibility of the narrated world both to the characters who participate in it and the narrators who describe it. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Mayflower a story of courage![]() ![]() Literature thanks to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Crucible by Arthur Miller. It is a love that stretches all the way back to 10th grade U.S. ![]() Yet, here we are, caught ‘tween decks with 102 Mayflower passengers, sailing for months across 3,000 miles of the ocean toward a land unknown to most Europeans of the time. Mann, which presents evidence that the Indigenous peoples of the Americas were more numerous and more culturally and technologically sophisticated than is taught in school. Or better yet, I should have started with 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. ![]() In hindsight, I probably should have chosen a book about Jamestown, but I forgot that was the first English colony until several pages into Mayflower. It’s a nonfiction novel that explores the national myth of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving, the relationship between Native Americans and English colonists that degraded over time, and inevitably the deadly wars such as the Pequot War and King Philip’s War. So, I started my journey with Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick. History and read nonfiction books from an array of perspectives. Then I was struck with the desire to take a somewhat-chronological deep dive into U.S. Like many folks, or at least like the folks in my liberal echo chamber of the internet, I spent a fair amount of 2020 in lockdown unlearning everything I was taught in U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But who should stay at the tree and who should go? The final double-page spread depicts a line of three walking elephants (baby elephant in the middle), with Giraffe sitting on the back of the lead elephant and Bird perched in his small nest on top of Giraffe's head. Next morning, there's no sign of the lion, and they know that it's time to leave. Giraffe scoops him up just as a young lion seems ready to pounce, jumping so high that he lands in the tree, the safety of which Bird and Giraffe don't mind sharing this night. If Giraffe wants Bird to give him a scratch, he has to be “polite.” Bird wants to be alone in his tree, but Giraffe was there first: “sharing is hard” and “ tough.” The standoff reaches a kind of solution when Bird falls into the tall grass. Giraffe is “ fascinated” by Bird's growth. ![]() Giraffe is “ surprised,” and Bird is “ amazed.” Each double-page spread of Bender's story focuses on a small development in the duo's relationship, using crunchy vocabulary in large, emphatic type to explain it. The unlikeliest of friendships grows, baby step by baby step.Īs Bird emerges from his shell, Giraffe's head looms nearby. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Good omens discworld![]() Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon-both of whom have lived amongst Earth’s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle-are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.Īnd someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s brilliantly dark, screamingly funny take on the last judgment of humankind…Īdapted into a TV show by Amazon Prime, Good Omens is a collaboration from popular authors Neil Gaiman (known for the blockbuster Sandman comic book series as well as novels like American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book) and Terry Pratchett (best remembered for his 41-novel Discworld series).Īccording to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world’s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Trusting skylar![]() ![]() Even so, once Bull reveals what he really does for a living, she's not sure she can handle it. ![]() ![]() Skylar's innocent, and he wants to keep her that way.Ĭautious by nature, Skylar never expected to fall in love with her tow truck driver. The problem is Bull's career has jaded him. When kindergarten teacher Skylar Reid calls for help while stranded on the side of the interstate, the attraction is instant. Since then he's opened Silverstone Towing-which is a front for his other job: hired killer. From bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a sizzling new series about four former military operatives who rid the world of the worst of humanity while fighting to protect the best part of their lives: the women they love.įormer military operative Carson "Bull" Rhodes hasn't dated seriously since he and his teammates left the army. ![]() ![]() ![]() We tend to focus on what we already know and frequently overlook what we don’t know. ![]() Why do we wait until black swans appear before acknowledging their existence? According to Taleb, part of the answer is that humans are built to learn specifics when they should be learning generalities. Black swans, according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, underpin essentially everything in our world, from the formation of religions to personal occurrences. Google’s phenomenal success, like 9/11, was a black swan event. A black swan is an exceedingly unlikely occurrence with three main characteristics: It is unpredictable it has a significant impact and, after the event, we construct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable than it actually was. Download The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb pdf book free online. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Squad by maggie tokuda hall![]() ![]() But at a party under a full moon, Becca learns that they also have a big secret.īecca’s new friends are werewolves. At first glance, Marley, Arianna, and Mandy are perfect. To her surprise, she’s immediately adopted by the most popular girls in school. When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she’s worried she’s not going to fit in. When the new girl is invited to join her high school’s most popular clique, she can’t believe her luck–and she can’t believe their secret, either. ![]() Pretty Little Liars meets Teen Wolf in this sharply funny, and patriarchy-smashing graphic novel from author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and artist Lisa Sterle. Squad is a story fitted with the sharpest teeth that chomps down on the patriarchy, and I adored it with my entire vicious heart.–Chloe Gong, author of New York Times-bestselling These Violent Delights –Laura Ruby, author of National Book Award Finalist Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All Squad is a fast-paced and feminist horror story for every girl who’s ever felt like prey, and asks how far a girl should go to hunt the hunters. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments You Don't Know Me by David Klass![]() ![]() Don’t rat on me or you’ll regret it.” Nice guy.īut I am telling you now. Not just because he is not my father but because he hits me when you’re not around, and he says if I tell you about it he’ll really take care of me. Let’s be real, the man who is not my father isn’t a very nice man. That’s right, I’m watching you right now sitting on the couch next to the man who is not my father, pretending to read a book that is not a book, waiting for him to pet you like a dog or stroke you like a cat. It’s like a kaleidoscope, isn’t it? One minute I’m short, the next minute tall, one minute I’m geeky, one minute studly, my shape constantly changes, and the only thing that stays constant is my brown eyes. What do you think I look like? Skinny? Freckles? Wirerimmed glasses over brown eyes? No, I don’t think so. You don’t know where I’m writing this from. Garlic Breath, except for the times when I call her Mrs. Moonface, assigned it and she’s going to check it, so it’s her homework. And it’s really not my homework, because my math teacher, Mrs. It’s your room because it’s in your house. And even if I were up in my room I wouldn’t be doing my homework, so you’d still be wrong. ![]() ![]() Just for example, you think I’m upstairs in my room doing my homework. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a story of a world transformed-and reclaimed-one square acre at a time.Īnd yet, after surviving punishing storms and the devastating loss of fifth-generation Diffley family land to suburban development, the Diffleys faced the ultimate challenge: the threat of eminent domain for a crude oil pipeline proposed by one of the largest privately owned companies in the world, notorious polluters Koch Industries. ![]() One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys’ Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America’s farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing number of local food co-ops. In telling her story of working the land, coaxing good food from the fertile soil, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships-with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities.Ī memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the "ground level" of organic farming. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. ![]() It’s "as big as a B-size potato." As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds the eleven-inch rainfall ("that broccoli turned out gorgeous") the hail disaster of 1977. When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. ![]() |