The deep by river solomon5/13/2023 What do we do with the trauma that we’ve inherited?⠀ So it is no surprise to us when, during an annual ceremony where the wajinru gather in order to receive the memories of their past for a brief time, time enough to satisfy a deep thirst for their own history, that Yetu, free from remembering, runs away. Yetu however, has a fragile constitution, and so this task, this weight she carries that has stripped her of any individual identity, is killing her.⠀ To be a Historian means experiencing every single memory as if it was your own. A responsibility that falls on Yetu, our delicate and long-suffering main character.⠀ In order to thrive despite the suffering, it was decided long ago that one of their people - a Historian - should carry the burden of their history and collected memory. For good reason - they are a people descended from the pregnant African women who were thrown overboard during the slave trade, their unborn babies granted new aquatic life by the ocean. On its surface, though, it is about the wajinru, a mermaid-like people who have great power over the ocean but little memory. Which is the sort of fascinating thing you learn when you read the acknowledgements. Their song was itself based on the afrofuturist mythology that Drexciya, an electronic duo from Detroit, created for their compilations.⠀ The Deep is a novella written by Rivers Solomon that is based on the Hugo-nominated song of the same name by the experimental hip hop group clipping.
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These is my words by nancy e turner5/13/2023 Drawing from her own experiences at residential school, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave, yet heartbreaking heroine in Violet, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too important chapter in our nation’s history.ĭownload Sarah s Quilt Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle And maybe, just maybe there will be hope at the end of the tunnel. Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language the names of those she knew before and her traditional customs. She misses her Grandma she has run-ins with Cree girls at her “white” school, everyone just stares and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name-she is now just a number. Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential school. Download Dear Canada These Are My Words Book in PDF, Epub and KindleĪcclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl’s experience at a residential school in 1966. Midlife madness5/13/2023 You will receive a signed copy of Magical Midlife Madness Collector's Edition hardcover. Includes:ġ x Collector's Edition Hardcover with dust jacket and foil printĬarefully curated series swag pack with all your favorites The entire collection is shipped in a signature Leveling Up box. Breene notepad, a digital copy of an as-yet unpublished Leveling Up Series novella, and a collection of carefully curated Leveling Up Series swag, including the notorious Clam Dip Recipe. This tier includes a Leveling Up Series pen, a K.F. The interior is decorated with artist renderings, and is finished with a ribbon bookmark. The book is faux-leather bound with gold and silver foil details, and covered in a special-edition dust jacket. Winter by Marissa Meyer5/13/2023 Her characters have depth and feel like my own friends. I think her skill at writing fairy tale retellings is magnificent. So I’m going to start with a disclaimer: I love Marissa Meyer. The reader who seemed to have missed the memo that this was an amazing, flawless, work of utter perfection. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.Ĭan Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend-the handsome palace guard, Jacin. Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Published by Feiwel and Friends on November 10th 2015 Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4) by Marissa Meyer Blood and thunder kit carson5/13/2023 As Narbona gazed down on the battlements and cannons of a mighty fort the invaders had built, he realized his foes had been vanquished-but what did the arrival of these “New Men” portend for the Navajo? He had come to see if the rumors were true-if an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his ancestral enemies. In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won - a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory Echopraxia books5/12/2023 Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself. Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. But what they find there is far stranger and more nefarious than they ever could have expected… When a violent encounter causes Magnus’s magic to grow increasingly unstable, Alec and Magnus rally their friends to strike at the heart of the demon’s power. Their goal is to open a Portal from the demon realms to Earth, flooding the city of Shanghai with dangerous demons. Ragnor and Shinyun are working at the behest of a Greater Demon. With the help of Clary Fairchild, Jace Herondale, Isabelle Lightwood, and Simon Lovelace (who is fresh from the Shadowhunter Academy), they track the warlocks to Shanghai.īut nothing is as it seems. Realizing that Ragnor and Shinyun are being controlled by a more sinister force, Magnus and Alec set out to stop them and recover the book before they can cause any more harm. Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood are settling into domestic life with their son Max when the warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung break into their loft and steal a powerful spell book. On the eve of the digital release – and if you’re waiting for a printed copy, it’ll be out on May 2 – we spoke to Mr. Miller, a comics superstar whose Batgirl was a fan favorite for many… but for Smallville fans, they might know him best for writing nine episodes of the show, including “Committed,” “Hex,” “Warrior,” and “Luthor.” Joining Miller on pencils is his Batgirl collaborator Pere Pérez, and some really nice covers are coming from Cat Staggs with folks like Gary Frank contributing to the printed covers. The story of Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Chloe Sullivan, Oliver Queen, Lex Luthor and others will be continuing with Smallville Season 11 – a comic book series that begins digitally from DC Comics on Friday, April 13 (find details on how you can purchase it here). Eleven months to the day after most people thought Smallville was over, the franchise lives. Questioning the Veil by Marnia Lazreg5/12/2023 While many, perhaps most, Muslims accept that some form of veiling was ordained by God, Lazreg presumes that veiling is not compulsory in Islam. Her discussion relies on the assumption that what the Koran says about veiling is at best ambiguous. It is a series of five "letters", each of which takes issue with a common justification for the contemporary reveiling trend. The book is addressed, Lazreg says, to Muslim women in the first instance. Not only has she become frustrated with the reveiling trend across the Muslim world, but also with the apologetic ways in which some academics have treated the issue. Yet, like many of her colleagues, she seems to have reached a point where she could no longer keep quiet. As a professor of sociology of Algerian origin working in the US, she is an expert on the issue. Marnia Lazreg's discussion of the infamous piece of cloth, however, is different from most other treatises on the issue. Is this a trend? Friends have repeatedly asked why we ("Westerners") are so obsessed with their ("Middle Eastern") women, including the way they dress. Here we go again: another book on the veil, the third one I have reviewed within seven months. The damage done by warren fellows5/12/2023 The reader is left feeling emotional and shocked after the atrocities committed. No human should have to suffer what Warren did. Rather than enjoying a fine ebook similar to a cup of coffee in the afternoon, otherwise they juggled considering some harmful virus inside their computer. He sees many of his friends murdered by the guards, his father and his brother both die in Australia, to which he cannot even attend their funeral. Prison Warren Fellows, but end occurring in harmful downloads. The reader becomes completely enveloped in fellows portrayal.Īs time progresses we learn of the heartaches that Warren suffers. Fellows detail is extraordinary, taking the reader into the prison and living his life. It depicts the horrific events he had to withstand, the unfair treatment he received. Bang Kwang is a place where cockroaches and sewer rats are the only nutritious food and prisoners are beaten daily, often to death. The Damage Done narrates Fellows life imprisonment in a Bangkok Prison. Its prisoners are treated as mere animals, simply as entities to be bound and treated as slaves. Shackled in leg irons for 11 years, Warren tells of his life of torture in a living hell in Bang Kwang prison, known as the Bangkok Hilton.Ī truly engrossing read one cannot but feel empathy for a life lost behind bars. Warren’s Crime was smuggling heroin from Bangkok to Australia. A harrowing tale, the Damage done is the story of Warren Fellows who was sentenced to life imprisonment in a Bangkok prison. |