Part of its maintenance crew, at the bottom rung of the status ladder, Angela doesn't see much excitement forthcoming.īut that was before encountering the fearsome Taijiku or meeting her crew mate Stella, leaving Angela with a completely different problem and unable to say which is the greater challenge: giant sea monsters or falling in love. Godzilla fans should check this one out!”- Heroes and HeartbreakersĪngela's past is more than a little rocky, and that rocky path has led her to finish up her juvenile detention sentence on the Yemaya, an alien underwater ship devoted to observation and research. “Cute short story about a juvenile delinquent's adventures in life and love aboard an advanced submarine on a near future Earth. “Intriguing and adventurous.”-Ameliah Faith BLURB: Angela’s past is more than a little rocky, and that rocky path has led her to finish up her juvenile detention sentence on the Yemaya, an alien underwater ship devoted to observation and research. It's tightly packed with action, romance, setting and tension.”- Clare O’Beara Genre: Gay,Books,Fiction & Literature,Young Adult,Fiction,.
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Rather, he is engaged in an act of self-expiation, a public reckoning. At the same time, that makes it difficult to assess “My Struggle,” since Knausgaard isn’t really writing for us. The wonder of the observation is not in what he says but in his willingness to put it on the page. … I tried to make it mine, this was my struggle, because of course I wanted it, but I failed, the longing for something else undermined all my efforts.”Īs it happens, I’ve had this feeling also, not unlike (I suspect) most people who have lived with young kids. This had nothing to do with a lack of desire to wash floors or change diapers but rather with something more fundamental: the life around me was not meaningful. “Everyday life,” he writes, “with its duties and routines, was something I endured, not a thing I enjoyed, nor something that was meaningful or that made me happy. Self-absorbed, expansive, constantly doubling back on itself, “My Struggle” is an attempt to make an epic of the banal facts of the author’s existence, from the distant reaches of childhood to his more recent experience as the father of three (now four) small children, for whom he bears an intense, if ambivalent, love. It won the 2004 Corretta Scott King Award for its striking collage illustrations, and it has been reprinted countless times in many languages-a staple in every classroom and children’s library. ‘This little light of mine…’ Everyone’s up and singing.”Īshley has made it part of his life’s work to educate the American public as to the origins of these “traditional American songs”-“a gift from the African slaves whose only outlet for freedom was through their song.”īeautiful Blackbird is perhaps Ashley’s most famous book, and deservedly so. “But when I start singing, ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands…’ they sing me down. When I ask, ‘Who knows a song of the Black African slaves who came to America?” Nobody raises a hand. “Whenever I present to any audience anywhere in the world,” Ashley says, “these songs are known.” But here, in America, when I ask, ‘Who knows a Negro spiritual?’ Nobody responds. The book also includes musical notation and full piano and guitar accompaniment to some of the most well known and loved African and African-American Spirituals. The original 1991 publication of this title won a 1992 Coretta Scott King Honor for its full-spread, colorful, tempera painted Illustrations that resemble Ashley’s jewel-like stained-glass panels. All Night, All Day, A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals (2004) PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. She struggles to unite her people, avenge her family, and discover the truth about her destiny.īut perhaps the one thing that can change Destiny itself is found at the edge of a blade. She wields a sword meant for the one true king, battling paladins and the armies of a corrupt king. Nimue teams up with a charming mercenary named Arthur and refugee Fey Folk from across England. The Lady of the Lake finds her voice in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by. Her mission leaves little room for revenge, but the growing power within her can think of little else. Buy Cursed by Tom Wheeler for 24.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people’s only hope. That is, until her entire village is slaughtered by Red Paladins, and Nimue’s fate is forever altered. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave… Whosoever wields the Sword of Power shall be the one true King.īut what if the Sword has chosen a queen? The Lady of the Lake is the true hero in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Thomas Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director Frank Miller ( 300, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City ).įeaturing eight full-color and 30 black-and-white pieces of original artwork by Frank Miller. Now an original series starring Katherine Langford on Netflix! John Conyers while living in a home on Columbus Street near Northwestern High School. For more than 20 years, she worked as a secretary for Rep. Lots of pizza and sports! Also, lots of land speculation and taxpayer expenses!īut among one of the more feel-good stories to pop up about Ilitch is how he paid the rent for Rosa Parks – the original embodiment of “she was warned, she was given an explanation, nevertheless, she persisted” – when she moved into the Riverfront Towers in the mid-1990s.ĭid the pizza magnate help with the living expenses for the civil rights icon? Yes. For how long? Well, not as long as some news outlets are claiming – and, for that matter, not as much as a contribution as implied.įirst, a back story: Years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Parks and her family moved to Detroit in the 1960s. You know this, because we’ve been publicly mourning the man for what, a week now? Granted, Ilitch did a lot for Detroit, and yes, maybe we were just a little too quick in lionizing his accomplishments without acknowledging that he leaves behind a complex legacy. What if I froze, and couldn't come up with a single pun? There had been too many to actually study, but enough to make my mouth go dry with fear. Talk about a bad draw.Īfter reviewing the rules, the judge asked McClughan to reach into a galvanized bucket and pull out a slip of paper, which featured one of the hundred or so topics on a list that my thirty-one fellow competitors and I had been given just minutes earlier. I was already outmatched my adversary was a bespectacled, forty-something man named George McClughan who, as the judge pointed out, just happened to be a former champion. Henry Museum, looking out over a crowd I estimated at five hundred people and trying to calm myself as the emcee - a tall Texan in a straw hat - introduced me and my opponent. I stood on a stage in an Austin park outside the O. In this excerpt, Pollack describes the first round of the competition. Henry Pun-Off World Championships, in Austin, Texas. Pollack, a former presidential speechwriter, was also the winner of the 1995 O. John Pollack makes a case for the cultural significance of the lowly pun in his new book, The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics. According to legend, he then had her body exhumed for a posthumous coronation. Pedro I claimed that after his wife Constanza had died he secretly married Inês and therefore she was rightfully Queen of Portugal. Inês’ assassins were found, tortured and executed in particularly gory fashion by having their hearts ripped from their chests. Once he ascended the throne in 1357, King Pedro I sought vengeance. As a result, Inês was banished from court and assassinated on orders of Pedro’s father King Afonso IV. The love story of Portuguese King Pedro I (1320-1367) and Inês de Castro (c1320-1355) continues to find a place in recent productions and projects in North America.Ĭrown Prince Pedro, who was married to Castilian noblewoman Constanza Manuel de Villena (c1316-1345), maintained a long loving relationship with his wife’s Lady-in-Waiting, Inês de Castro. Soon their secret partnership leads to growing respect, searing kisses, and then something far more perilous. Is it his obviously educated manners? His arrogant, non-servant-like presence? It’s certainly not his towering, powerful form, or slumberous, inviting green eyes!Īfter confronting the imposter and learning the truth, Alisa agrees to help Nik-for she, too, understands difficult relatives and would do anything for family. Something about the new groom catches her eyes, and makes her think he’s not who he pretends to be-and even more shockingly, stirs her senses. Pragmatic and clever, Alisa MacKenzie has been left in charge of the family estate and her unruly grandmother in her father’s absence. But his plans go awry when he falls under the cool gray gaze of the laird’s daughter. Wanting to avoid an international incident, Nik plans to quietly slip into enemy territory disguised as a groom at Castle Cromartie. Nikolai Romanovin, a royal prince of Oxenburg, has travelled to the deepest wilds of Scotland to rescue his grandmother the Grand Duchess, who was abducted while visiting an old friend in the Highlands. The last member of his family still alive, Dinesh does not expect to survive long himself. Young Dinesh is part of the Tamil population being harried to the sea by the army as the desperate rebels of the Tamil insurgency try to co-opt every last civilian in the battle. The character Dinesh, whose thoughts these are, is a young man, as is the author, 28, but there’s nothing very youthful or contemporary about either the language or the thought. “Didn’t dying in the end mean being separated from other humans, after all, from the sea of human gaits, gestures, noises and gazes in which for so many years one had floated, didn’t it mean abandoning the possibility of connecting with another human that being among others always afforded?” The voice speaking is alien, not one of the “us” we are accustomed to hear in English language novels, including those coming from Asia. It’s written in English, a lyrical, plain, slightly odd English that immediately drew me in. Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage (2016) is a first novel by a young Sri Lankan about the final months of his country’s long civil war that ended in 2009. The impact of the collision leaves the girl badly injured and to Zoichi she looks dead but she begins to heal right before his eyes. Unfortunately, he literally runs into her at high speeds with his motorcycle. The zombies, or Drones, are everywhere and as Zoichi kills his way along the stretch of road in the city, he runs into the very person he was sent to find. His mission is to locate a girl that his employers at Toa Heavy Industries call Eon Green as well as the help purge the city of the zombie horde that is infected by a virus known as the N5S virus. The city itself is industrial-like and uninviting but the young man clad in black named Zoichi Kanoe is determined to get inside. Six months later, a lone figure on a sleek futuristic motorcycle is heading towards the gates of a massive city on lockdown. In 3005 A.D., a space mission to Mars has astronauts exploring the remains of an abandoned station when the astronauts make a most startling discovery. Volume 1 of Biomega might have its flaws but it is still a zombie series with some, well, bite. So, you see, Biomega is the type of manga I would rush out to buy and seeing as the talented Tsutomu Nihei is involved it peaked my interest even more. I am indeed a sucker for a good zombie apocalypse story and I’ve seen my share of them and loved just a handful of them that struck me as brilliantly original. Zombie apocalypse and talking grizzly bears … yep, it’s the end of the world as we know it. |