![]() ![]() The book is a remarkable journey.” -Essenceįrom an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age-a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like What We Lose. Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, What We Lose reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home.” - Buzzfeed “Raw and ravishing, this novel pulses with vulnerability and shimmering anger.” -Nicole Dennis-Benn, O, the Oprah Magazine ![]() “Like so many stories of the black diaspora, What We Lose is an examination of haunting.” -Doreen St. Club, The Root, Harper’s Bazaar, Paste, Bustle, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, LitHub, New York Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Bust Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The A.V. NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. ![]() ![]() For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. Fikry two friends-often in love, but never lovers-come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Do not engage in hate speech, harassment, arguing in bad faith, sealioning, or general pot stirring. Rules Be KindĮvery interaction on the subreddit must be kind, respectful, and welcoming. This also applies to you posting on behalf of your friend/family member/neighbor. 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As we recover the truth about prehistory, and discover the real meaning of ancient myths and monuments, it becomes apparent that a warning has been handed down to us, a warning of terrible cataclysm that afflicts the Earth in great cycles at irregular intervals of time- a cataclysm that may be about to recur. In ancient monuments as far apart as Egypt's Great Sphinx, the strange Andean ruins of Tiahuanaco, and Mexico's awe-inspiring Temples of the Sun and Moon, he reveals not only the clear fingerprints of an as-yet-unidentified civilization of remote antiquity, but also startling evidence of its vast sophistication, technological advancement, and evolved scientific knowledge.Ī record-breaking number one best-seller in Britain, Fingerprints of the Gods Contains the makings of an intellectual revolution, a dramatic and irreversible change in the way that we understand out past-and so our future.Īnd Fingerprints of the Gods tells us something more. In Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock embarks on a worldwide quest to put together all the pieces of the vast and fascinating jigsaw of mankind's hidden past. Graham Hancock presents a compelling case to suggest that it is. ![]() Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths. ![]() ![]() ![]() The SECURE Act is intended to make it easier for a broad range of individuals to save for retirement and includes several taxpayer friendly provisions. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the “SECURE Act”) was enacted on December 20, 2019, as part of a major appropriations bill. 2)Ĭlients should review their estate planning strategy and contact their Blank Rome attorney as soon as possible to determine if any revisions are necessary or advisable to account for the recently enacted SECURE Act, particularly if any beneficiary (primary or contingent) of their qualified retirement accounts is a trust. ![]() Tax, Benefits, and Private Client January 2020 (No. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Colonel Oleg Gordievsky was at the height of his career he had risen through the soviet ranks and was still tipped to take up higher positions. He had been summoned back to be officialy appointed as the London rezident-the head of KGB intelligence station in London, overseeing every illegal soviet operation in the UK. A few hours later a senior russian intelligence officer landed at Moscow airport from London. ![]() Thus, the KGB would be able to follow the wearer’s movements. By the time the two KGB men had wired up the whole flat, it remained only one thing to do: sprinkle radioactive dust on the clothes in the closet. On the 8th floor of 220 Leninsky Prospekt, the KGB set about bugging a flat. 2 min read Gordievsky - The Spy and the Traitor - S1ĭISCLAIMER: REAL STORY - THERE ARE NO PERSONAL OPINIONS OF MINE - BOOK “THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR”. ![]() ![]() Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks 7,461 ratings. A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, Feminist Theory argues that contemporary feminists must acknowledge the full complexity and diversity of women's experience to create a mass movement to end women's oppression. bell hooks ‘To be oppressed means to be deprived of your ability to choose.’. ![]() ![]() In order for a group to exist, it must have members. Hooks argues that feminism's goal of seeking credibility and acceptance on already existing ground - rather than demanding the lasting and more fundamental transformation of society - has short-changed the movement. Theory: People on the margin can only move so close to the center. ![]() In this beautifully written and carefully argued work, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the involvement, leadership, and centrality of women of colour and poor women in the movement for women's liberation. This edition includes a preface by the author, reflecting on the book's impact and the development of her ideas since it was first published. Feminist Theory established bell hooks as one of international feminism's most challenging and influential voices. ![]() ![]() ![]() We are not historically a highly documented society even birth certificates are a relatively recent phenomenon. This is not an achievement to be proud of, whatever the transient political benefits might be.īut what if they are indeed illegal? The charge of illegal foreigners cannot be reliably validated because it is so heavily dependent upon documentation. The sudden chorus of demand, by BJP leaders in Delhi, Mumbai and elsewhere, for an Assam-like National Register of Citizens illustrates perfectly the purpose of, and the problem with, the NRC: it fuels xenophobia and could potentially contribute 4.5 million people to the world’s population of 10 million stateless persons. They are being deprived of citizenship altogether. Who belongs in India, and who does India belong to? Political theorist Niraja Gopal Jayal, author of ‘Citizenship and its Discontents: An Indian History’, speaks to Amulya Gopalakrishnan about how our foundational principles of citizenship are being undermined What do you think of the discourse around Assam’s NRC, and what it means for the concept of Indian citizenship? It seems to me that we are moving towards a situation in which those who are second-class citizens today - whether by virtue of their religion, their language or just poverty - are robbed of the dubious dignity of even being second-class. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zerelda soon catches everyone's eye for all the wrong reasons! Meanwhile, Bill is causing a stir with her horse-mad ways - and there's a big shock in store for Darrell. And why on earth has timid Mary-Lou ventured out during a terrible storm? Third Year This term, the girls get a surprise when Darrell Rivers returns to Malory Towers with a glamorous new girl in tow. ![]() ![]() Will Darrell be able to keep her fiery temper under control? Second Form Darrell Rivers is excited to be going into her second year at Malory Towers - but is she ready for the drama it will bring? Jealousy flares when a new head of the form is chosen, and the girls become suspicious when their belongings go missing. She soon makes friends - and mischief! Another new girl, Gwendoline is beginning to get on everyone's nerves. First Term Darrell Rivers is thrilled to start her first term at boarding school. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled Child Whispers. This fantastic bumper collection contains Malory Towers books 1-3, with a brand-new cover illustrated by Pippa Curnick. There's more to life than lessons at Malory Towers, Enid Blyton's best-loved boarding school series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither parent, if truth be told, is the least bit prepossessing or more than a cutout. ![]() Calming himself by doing roots, cubes, prime numbers, and math problems in his head, Christopher runs away, braves a train-ride to London, and finds-his mother. In time, detective-Christopher finds it, along with certain other clues that reveal a very great deal indeed about his mother’s “death,” his father’s own part in it-and the murder of the dog. ![]() When Christopher disobeys (and writes about it in his book), a fight ensues and his father confiscates the book. Christopher’s father bails him out but forbids his doing any more “detecting” about the dog-murder. First off, though, is a night in jail for hitting the policeman who questions him about the dog (the cop made the mistake of grabbing the boy by the arm when he can’t stand to be touched-any more than he can stand the colors yellow or brown, or not knowing what’s going to happen next). A teacher said that he should write something that he “would like to read himself”-and so he embarks on this book, a murder mystery that will reveal who killed Mrs. Britisher Haddon debuts in the adult novel with the bittersweet tale of a 15-year-old autistic who’s also a math genius.Ĭhristopher Boone has had some bad knocks: his mother has died (well, she went to the hospital and never came back), and soon after he found a neighbor’s dog on the front lawn, slain by a garden fork stuck through it. ![]() |