![]() ![]() ![]() The opening and closing poems refer to the most familiar Biblical stories. Many of the poems focus on history, whether spiritual or political. Smith says that being Poet Laureate is “a kind of service ( Off the Shelf, July 31, 2018).” Poetry allows us to bridge our differences, to remind ourselves “that we do have things to say to each other, that we are interested in each other’s lives and vulnerabilities.” In this new collection, Smith explores, mourns and even celebrates those vulnerabilities, both national and individual. In a recent podcast of her conversation with Curtis Fox of the Poetry Foundation, Tracy K. Wade in the Water is, wonderfully, a Poet Laureate’s book-a book that speaks for the poet herself and for us all, at a perilous moment in our history. ![]()
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![]() It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering. ![]() It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly 'anti-revolutionary' elements. It includes accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. ![]() ![]() It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. ![]() ![]() ![]() David Pareus in which the orthodoxall tenets are briefly and solidly confirmed, and the contrary errours of the Papists, Ubiquitaries, Antitrinitaries, Eutychians, Socinians, and Arminians fully refuted and now translated into English out of the originall Latine copie by A.R. David Pareus, sometimes Professour of Divinity in Heidelberge whereunto is added a large and full alphabeticall table of such matters as are therein contained together with all the Scriptures that are occasionally handled, by way either of controversie, exposition, or reconciliation, neither of which was done before, but now is performed for the readers delight and benefit to this work of Ursinus are now at last annexed the Theologicall miscellanies of D. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry Parry, and now again conferred with the best and last Latine edition of D. The summe of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism, and then afterwards more enlarged by a sound and judicious exposition, and application of the same : wherein also are debated and resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment have been, or are controversed in divinitie / first Englished by D. ![]() ![]() ![]() Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and almost every other character from DC Comics must choose sides in what could be the final battle of them all. Writer Mark Waid, coming from his popular work on Flash and Impulse, and artist Alex Ross, who broke new ground with the beautifully painted Marvels, join together for this explosive book that takes place in a dark alternate future of the DC Superhero Universe. KINGDOM COME is a riveting story pitting the old guard-Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and their peers-against a new uncompromising generation and ultimately in the final war against each other to determine nothing less than the future of the planet. The unforgettable, best-selling miniseries by acclaimed writer Mark Waid and superstar painter Alex Ross returns, with a sketchbook section, annotations on the series, rare art and more! Set just after the dawn of the 21st Century in a world spinning inexorably out of control comes this grim tale of youth versus experience, tradition versus change and what defines a hero. ![]() ![]() I admit that I wanted to like this more than I did simply because I am a big fan of Kindred. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington state. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public and awards judges. She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author that she was able to pursue writing full-time. She attended community college during the Black Power movement, and while participating in a local writer's workshop was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science fiction. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. ![]() Extremely shy as a child, Octavia found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. ![]() In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.Īfter her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. ![]() ![]() ![]() The romance here was just perfect for me. Like I said, I so wish this book existed when I was in high school. And sometimes characters identify as neither girl nor boy and that's cool, too. Girls like boys like boys like girls like girls. It's not always easy to come out and, of course, some people are jerks but it's so. But, on top of all that, Albertalli just does a great job of normalizing queer relationships. This book has everything you need from the perfect high school senior rom-com: a tight group of hilarious and charming friends, prom and all that goes with it, a will they/won't they of course they will, silly!, and that perfect but somewhat melancholy high that comes with endings and new beginnings. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, with better dialogue, characters and relationships than The Upside of Unrequited, and it didn't hurt that I just related to Leah so much more. If you've had enough of the depressing gloomy world we live in and want to read something uplifting, unapologetically nerdy, with just the right amount of romance and Harry Potter references, then I highly recommend Leah on the Offbeat. Oh, how I wish I could go back in time and give my awkward, chubby teen self this book. She's hilarious and badass and sarcastic and moody and totally potty-mouthed. ![]() I don't actually see how it's possible not to. Is it that hard to believe I might actually like my body? ![]() I swear, people can’t wrap their minds around the concept of a fat girl who doesn’t diet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Starting from the outside in, Savvy tackles her crumbling kitchen, her relationship with her body, her work–life balance (or lack thereof) and, last but not least, her love life. But when Savvy’s world starts to crash down around her, she knows it’s time for some renovations. Savvy Sheldon spends a lot of time tiptoeing around the cracks in her life: her high-stress and low-thanks job, her clueless boyfriend and the falling-apart kitchen she inherited from her beloved grandma-who taught her how to cook and how to love people by feeding them. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo,, Better World BooksĪ delicious debut rom-com about a plus-size sweetheart who gets a full-life makeover after a brutal breakup. Genres: Chick Lit, contemporary romance, relationship fiction Source: supplied by publisher via NetGalleyįormats available: paperback, large print, ebook, audiobook Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell by Taj McCoy ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created an inescapable, but hard to detect, economic trap for black communities and their banks. ![]() Studying these institutions over time, Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the myth that black communities could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. It explains so much about the moment… Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”-Ta-Nehisi Coates ![]() On PBS’s Amanpour & Co., watch Mehrsa Baradaran explain how Black communities have been systemically shut out of the American banking system: ![]() ![]() ![]() In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective. ![]() So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife. 'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford A lively, entertaining and informative portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive, personal story.Ī bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. Definitive proof that Africa is *not* a country. ![]() ![]() There are girls who are abused trafficked for sex harassed because of race, gender, sexual orientation or a combination of all three and/or otherwise violated. Morris looks at the lives of black girls who are faced with school-related arrest to discover the deeper stories beneath the surface. ![]() Morris in the introduction to her recently published book, “a growing number of cases involving Black girls have surfaced to reveal what many of us have known for centuries: Black girls are also directly impacted by criminalizing policies and practices that render them vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, dehumanization, and, under the worst circumstances, death.” “Though media and advocacy efforts have largely focused on the extreme and intolerable abuse cases involving Black boys,” begins Monique W. ![]() |
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