Her signals of distress (“there is no room for me in my house”) are ignored, and the details of the incest are suppressed by her family and by the community at large. The tragic focus of the novel, in which the protagonist witnesses her best friend being raped by her older brother, is the nine-year-old victim, Devory, who ultimately commits suicide. There is also no question that the book is an exposé-a candid and detailed description of the life of a certain sector of the ultra-Orthodox world as experienced by a young female member of that world. A common reaction, by admirers and detractors alike, is that it is hard to put down. There is no question that the book is well written and designed to hold the reader’s attention. (Brown originally wrote the book anonymously but revealed her identity after the murder of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky.) Eishes Chayil is a pseudonym for Judy Brown, the author of Hush, a book that has been described by some as a sensationalist exposé, and commended by others for its masterful suspenseful style.
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But one thing of which they will be certain: Anne Boleyn was “a remarkable woman,” deeply flawed and deeply wronged (by husband and history both) who did indeed “set whole country in a roar.” As a result, this biography–while fascinating, enlightening, and very often moving–differs from those of more modern historical figures in that readers won’t come away feeling as though they know Anne very well. He argues that Anne is “the most influential and important queen consort has ever had” and makes a compelling case, though even his dedicated scholarship has difficulty resurrecting Anne’s personality. Ives’ book is the most extensive biographical work dealing with the second wife of King Henry VIII to date. Length: 458 pages (includes image plates, notes, bibliography, and index)įrequently referred to as the “Anne Boleyn bible,” Dr. Born in the US to Nigerian immigrant parents, Okorafor is known for weaving African cultures into creative settings and memorable characters. Publication: New York: Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, 2007. Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism. Not in my entire writing career." This is perhaps because of a spinal chord injury that limits her mobility. As she wrote on Twitter in 2018, "I’ve never done a book tour anywhere, heh. This copy is inscribed by the author, "To Tony and Maria, I hope this novel takes you to new and wonderful places! Nnedi Okorafor." Books signed by Okorafor are notably uncommon. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Okorafor has won many prizes for her writing, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award.Įdition + Condition: First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). It was a Booksense Pick for Winter 2007/2008, a Tiptree Honor Book, a finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award, the Andre Norton Award and the Golden Duck Award and an NAACP Image Award nominee. This novel is set in Nigeria in 2070 in a post-nuclear war world and features a fourteen-year-old Muslim girl as the narrator. The Shadow Speaker is a young adult, first-person novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, which takes place in the year 2070. Notes: The second book from this noted science fiction / fantasy writer who incorporates her Nigerian heritage into her work, a trend that is reinvigorating and internationalizing the genre. In the lobby, Dave Kravette had just ridden down from the Cantor Fitzgerald office to meet his guests, after ending the conversation with his wife about the newspaper delivery. Nothing else could rock the place with such power. Mike McQuaid, the electrician installing fire alarms, was sure he knew what he was feeling: an exploding transformer, from a machine room somewhere below the 91st floor. Something had happened in the other building, Sibarium thought. After the initial slam, Rob Sibarium could feel every one of those square feet tilting as the tower bent south, so far that it seemed as if it would never recoil. On the southwest end of the 89th floor, the insurance company MetLife had 10,000 square feet of space. A bomb, they decided, several breaths later. Before Pilipiak could get the words "Good morning" out of his mouth, he felt something smack the back of his head, and he was hurled into a wall. Akane Ito heard him coming and looked up from her desk to greet him. In another part of the floor, Walter Pilipiak had just pushed open the door to the offices of Cosmos International, an insurance brokerage where he was president. The door swung free, even though she had bolted it shut. At 8:46:30, an impact had knocked her off a chair in the law office on the 89th floor of the north tower, 1 World Trade Center. A bomb, Dianne DeFontes thought, when thinking became possible again. Szymborska's style is succinct and marked by introspection and wit. Szymborska's compact poems often conjure large existential puzzles, touching on issues of ethical import, and reflecting on the condition of people both as individuals and as members of human society. Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony, paradox, contradiction, and understatement, to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions. In Poland, her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors-although she once remarked in a poem entitled "Some like poetry" that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Szymborska's compact poems often conjure large existential puzzles, touching on issues of ethical import, and reflecting on the condition of people both as individuals and as Wisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation:, born Jin Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. Wisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation:, born Jin Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. HE was significantly more reported by surgeons than controls (p < 0.004 V = 0.288). Results: The estimated prevalence of HE (self-reported) was 43.9% (physicians 44.6% dentists 43.2%). Patch tests were performed using commercial contact allergens. Index (OHSI), and participants answered the Nordic Occupational Skin Questionnaire (NOSQ) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). Hand lesions were examined using the Osnabrueck Hand Eczema Severity. Methods: This cross-sectional field study involved 185 participants: physicians (surgeons, non-surgeons), dentists (surgeons, non-surgeons) and controls. Background: This research looks at the connection between psychological stress and the prevalence of hand eczema (HE) among physicians and dentists (surgeons, non-surgeons). a saxophone playing and a poignant voice making sense."-Carolyn Forch "This is poetry as white phosphorus, written with merciless love and depthless anger.how can we react to a poetry this alive with invention and purpose but with joy?"-Judges' Citation, Griffin Poetry Prize (2009) "Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets."-Publishers Weekly "No single description adequately captures Wright's work she is an experimental writer, a Southern writer and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvents herself with each new volume."-MacArthur Foundation (2004), "C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold."-Michael Ondaatje "CD Wright's is a poetry of Southern mountain vision brought to the streets in a language of brilliant synaesthesia, colloquial warmth and laconic wit. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature."-Dave Eggers "For me C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."-Joel Brouwer, The New York Times "Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."-The New Yorker "C.D. But I was totally intimidated by the idea of writing that much on one project. During that mentorship, I realized I wanted Root Magic to be a novel. I was accepted into Writing in the Margins, which paired experienced writers with new writers to mentor them for a summer. Then I realized I had more to say about these characters and the world, and I wanted to bring readers into the place where I grew up because I didn’t see many books set on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina. So Root Magic itself started out as a short story. Before it, I was firmly a short story writer. Root Magic is the first book I’ve ever written. What was the inspiration behind Root Magic? Today we’re honored to welcome Eden Royce to the WNDB blog to discuss Root Magic, for which she is a 2022 Walter Honoree in the Younger Readers category. The 2022 Walter Awards & Symposium will be held on Thursday, June 23 at 10:30 AM, both in-person and via livestream. He knows only too well that with each passing hour time is running out. Desperate, Cork begins tracking the killers but his own skills as a hunter are severely tested by nightfall and a late season snowstorm. Meanwhile, in Aurora, Cork works feverishly to identify the hunters and the reason for their relentless pursuit, but he has little to go on. On the last journey he may ever take into this beloved land, Meloux must do his best to outwit the deadly mercenaries who follow. Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O'Connor's wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. Book Synopsis The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series from the "master storyteller" (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author) follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. Throughout this compassionate and methodical study, he encourages readers to open themselves to all forms of love-the key to understanding that brings us closer to God. Lewis exposes the pitfalls in our loves, leading us to the agape love that God has for humankind and the type of love we must develop to nurture our relationships. He explores the possibilities and problems of the love between parents and children the love of men for other men and women for women the love of men and women for. Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love - affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. With penetrating logic and charming wit, Lewis explores the four aspects of love: affection, the most basic form friendship, the rarest and perhaps most insightful Eros, passionate love and charity, the greatest and least selfish. In this candid, wise and warmly personal book, C.S. Lewis-the great British writer, scholar, theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics-explores the essence of love and how it works in our daily lives in one of his most famous works of nonfiction based on his series of radio talks from 1958. Lewis' beloved classic-the only existing recording of Lewis reading his own work.Ĭ.S. |