![]() ![]() The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. ![]() In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.Īs Bell Hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER LOVE SONG TO THE NATIONThe word love is most often defined as a noun, yet. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. ![]() "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet. THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" ![]()
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Not to mention a fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders.Ī brash bounty hunter and an energetic elementary schoolteacher: the murder-solving team no one asked for, but thanks to these pesky attempts on my life, we’re stuck together, come hell or high tide. ![]() Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe I can be helpful, despite countless hours of true crime podcast listening. It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod - just me and my beloved brother - but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. An all-new, spicy murder mystery from Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer … ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, as with Pilate, these women don’t seem to relate directly to their biblical namesakes - i.e., Hagar doesn’t seem to act like the one in the book of Genesis. With her lives her daughter Reba and Reba’s daughter Hagar. She lives a life on her own, travelling around the country for decades, before ending up in the northern Michigan city along a Great Lake, probably Detroit, where her brother, the second Macon Dead, lives. ![]() Pilate Dead, who does not have a bellybutton, keeps her hair cut very short, wears men’s boots and has a ring in her ear that holds a small box containing the piece of the page of the Bible on which her father pointed to her name. Indeed, she could be seen as the antithesis of that bureaucratic power-wielder. She is nothing like the Pontius Pilate of the Bible (at least, I don’t think so), the Roman Governor of Judea who, at the behest of a screaming crowd, sentenced Jesus to crucifixion. Her name, the reader learns early in the novel, was chosen by her illiterate father by putting his finger down at random on a page of the Bible. ![]() Morrison is using the Bible for her own purposes.Ĭonsider one of her key characters, Pilate Dead, the aunt of the central figure Macon Dead III, known as Milkman. A major thread in Song of Solomon is the Bible, but not the Bible of institutional belief systems. ![]() ![]() “Brandon Sanderson’s reputation is finally as big as his novels.” - The New York Times on Words of Radiance “Epic in every sense.” - The Guardian on The Way of Kings “Engrossing worldbuilding, appealing characters, and a sense of humor make this a winning entry in the Sanderson canon.” - Kirkus, starred review The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (forthcoming) ![]() the Evil Librarians (co-authored with Janci Patterson) Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (forthcoming) Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. #1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us deeper into the Cosmere universe with a rollicking, riveting tale that will appeal to fans of The Princess Bride. ![]() ![]() Like the bestubbled dude you have seen whooping it up at WWE matches and sermonizing in luxury car commercials, McConaughey is alternately uninhibited and self-serious. “If it’s a straight memoir” - he stressed the second syllable with an unexpected French flair - “as a publisher you could sell some books.” What he hoped to produce, he said, was one where “the words on the page are still worthy to share if they were signed by anonymous, but at the same time be a book that only McConaughey could’ve wrote.” ![]() The book offers a shotgun seat to all the l-i-v-i-n that McConaughey has accumulated, from his upbringing in a tumultuous Texas family to his ascent as the ruggedly serene star of “Magic Mike,” “True Detective” and “Dallas Buyers Club.” Now that poem, rendered in its creator’s arcane handwriting, appears at the start of his autobiography, “Greenlights,” which Crown will publish on Tuesday. But he was certain he would live a life worth chronicling. This was in 1989, when he didn’t know all the twists and turns that awaited him - the acting awards he’d win, the wife and children he’d have, the bracing dramas and banal rom-coms he’d make. ![]() ![]() I wonder who would give a damn About the pleasures and the strife? Would it surprise you to learn that more than 30 years ago, before he’d even sauntered across the screen in “Dazed and Confused,” Matthew McConaughey wrote a poem in which he vowed he’d someday become an author? ![]() ![]() He is determined to travel to the land of the long-time enemy, the Chin and attack them there. But the task Genghis has set himself and them is formidable. Now he can begin to meld all the previously warring people into one army, one nation. The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming but finally, triumphantly, Temujin of the Wolves, Genghis Khan, is given the full accolade of the overall leader and their oaths. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, bringing to the epic story of Genghis Khan brilliantly to life. The action-packed second novel in the No. He will become the khan of the sea of grass, Genghis. It was during some of his worst times that the image of uniting the warring tribes and bringing the silver people together came to him. ![]() ![]() ![]() A man, a small family, without a tribe was always at risk but he gathered other outsiders to him, creating a new tribal identity. It was a rough introduction to his life, to a sudden adult world, but Temujin survived, learning to combat natural and human threats. Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an ambush.His family were thrown out of the tribe and left alone, without food or shelter, to starve to death on the harsh Mongolian plains. ![]() ![]() ![]() Diversity of life increased steadily over time. The man who discovered the Burgess Shale in 1909, Charles Doolittle Walcott, understood evolution as a gradual, steady progression from primitive, precursor forms of life to more advanced forms of life. He believes that the story of how scientists came to classify the animals of the Burgess Shale can shed light on the nature of history. ![]() However, he has a further purpose as well. Stephen Jay Gould, the famous paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science journalist uses the Burgess Shale as a method of teaching the reader about the animals found therein and the evolution of our understanding of these animals' relationships to the organisms of today. The Burgess Shale formed 530 million years ago and contains fossils of creatures from an incredibly ancient sea, where a plethora of frighteningly alien creatures lived and died. ![]() Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History focuses on a limestone quarry high in the Canadian Rockies known as the Burgess Shale. ![]() ![]() ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. ![]() ![]() In his introduction Barry Windeatt considers Julian's astonishingly positive vision of humanity and its potential for spiritual transformation. ![]() It includes both the short and long texts, written twenty years apart, through which Julian developed her ideas. She wrote of God as our mother, and embraced strikingly independent theological opinions.This new translation conveys the poise and serenity of Julian's prose style to the modern reader. She conceived of a loving and compassionate God, merciful and forgiving, and believed in our ability toreach self-knowledge through sin. Julian lived as an anchoress in Norwich, and after recovering from a serious illness she described the visions that had come to her during her suffering. She is esteemed as one of the subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the period for her account of the revelations that she experienced in 1373. 'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Ejii learns of Jaa’s belief that she is to become Niger’s next warrior queen, she decides to follow Jaa into another world, embarking on a perilous walkabout in the traditional quest of shadow speakers. When she was 9, Ejii witnessed her father’s beheading by the warrior queen Sarauniya Jaa but far from being traumatized, she was overjoyed her father had become a tyrant, and she was relieved he was gone. ![]() The two are strong enough to save the world, or destroy it. Ejii can speak to shadows, while Dikéogu, the boy who will become her truest friend and companion, can pull rain and lightning from the sky. Some children are now born “metahuman,” with special gifts. The book’s 14-year-old heroine, Ejii Ugabe, lives in a dystopian Niger, changed not only by nuclear war but by “Peace Bombs” weapons developed by a militant environmentalist group to “create where the nuclear bombs destroyed.” These sent a “vast green-tinted wave” across all seven continents, ushering the world into the Great Change a time when magic was unleashed all over the planet, and earthquakes and their aftershocks tore holes in the atmosphere between worlds. It’s easy to name a dozen fantasy novels set in England but, save for Nancy Farmer’s futuristic book “The Ear, the Eye and the Arm,” difficult to think of one set anywhere in Africa just one of many unexpected pleasures in Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu’s novel “The Shadow Speaker.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Bruckner previously served as the showrunner and writer for True Blood. Lock Every Door has been optioned as a co-production by Paramount and Anonymous Content to be adapted into a television series.īrian Buckner is adapting the book to script form and will executive produce as well. ![]() ![]() What format will it be? Will the Lock Every Door adaptation be a Movie or a Series? So this is also a thing that's happening. Lock Every Door as released on July 2, 2019, but Paramount had already began developing it as a TV series in advance of the book’s release. See the full summary and review of Lock Every Door at the Bibliofile. And there are those around her that would prefer those secrets stay buried. However, as she begins to look into the many stories that surround the Bartholomew, she starts to uncover secrets of its dark and haunted past. She jumps at the chance, despite knowing that it all seems a little too good to be true. Lock Every Door is a mystery-thriller about a woman who is offered a job “apartment sitting” at a beautiful, upscale building called The Bartholomew. Here’s what we know: What’s it about? What’s the plot? Lock Every Door by Riley Sagar is a bestselling thriller that’s being adapted into a TV series. By Jennifer Marie Lin on Aug 27th, 2019 (Last Updated Aug 27th, 2019) ![]() |