![]() ![]() This book introduces readers to the burgeoning artists creating Afrofuturist works, the history of innovators in the past, and the wide range of subjects they explore.įrom the sci-fi literature of Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and NK Jemisin to the musical cosmos of Sun Ra, George Clinton, and the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am, to the visual and multimedia artists inspired by African Dogon myths and Egyptian deities, topics range from the “alien” experience of blacks in America to the “wake up” cry that peppers sci-fi literature, sermons, and activism. With a twofold aim to entertain and enlighten, Afrofuturists strive to break down racial, ethnic, and all social limitations to empower and free individuals to be themselves. Nonfiction - Literary Criticism - Social SciencesĢ014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction CategoryĬomprising elements of the avant-garde, science fiction, cutting-edge hip-hop, black comix, and graphic novels, Afrofuturism spans both underground and mainstream pop culture. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s an eye-opener for fans, but it also shows a gifted writer even at a young age. She writes at length about her three-month affair with her co-star, Harrison Ford, who was 15 years older. In her funny and frequently touching new memoir The Princess Diarist (Blue Rider Press, 272 pp., *** out of four stars), the iconic Star Wars actress and author ( Postcards From the Edge) reveals the diaries she kept as a 19-year-old starring in the blockbuster sci-fi film. Carrie Fisher just happened to have hers 40 years ago while making arguably the biggest movie of all time. ![]() Most of us have a romantic relationship (or something like it) we look back upon fondly, and questioningly, years later. Watch Video: Carrie Fisher says she had an affair with Harrison Ford while filming 'Star Wars' ![]() ![]() I was really annoyed and it diminished the rest of the book for me. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Baloghs The Secret Mistress.New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the seductive world. However, I did not like that the conflict between the characters was based on an incident in Francis’ past that was so easily resolved once Francis told Lucius the truth. I also loved how Lucius could not let Francis go. However, the two end up encountering each other again and again.Įvaluating this book is difficult to me. The two have a wonderful two days together but there seems to be no way that a Viscount and a schoolteacher could ever have a relationship. Coming from from Christmas holidays, Francis ends up stranded with Lucius Marshall, Viscount Sinclair. New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the. With this series, Balogh has created a wonderfully romantic world fo Regency culture and society. ![]() This book is about Francis Allard, the music teacher at the school. Read 508 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A powerful love story with the special touch only Mary Balogh can bring. This series is the story if four teachers at a girls school in Bath. SIMPLY UNFORGETTABLE is the first book in the Simply Quartet that is also related to the Bedwyn series. ![]() ![]() ![]() With candor and insight, she recollects nearly ten decades of world shaking events, heart breaking romances, and artistic achievement. Now one of America's acclaimed ceramicists, Beatrice Wood shares the intriguing details of her unconventional life in I Shock Myself. Her promising youth was followed by a disastrous marriage, financial woes and a debilitating physical affliction but in 1933, at the age of forty, she discovered the passion that would change her life: pottery. She fled to Paris for several bohemian seasons as a painter and actress, then returned to New York where she fell into the loving clutches of two Frenchmen: Henri-Pierre Roche, the author of Jules and Jim, and Marcel Duchamp, the iconoclastic Dadaist. Rebellious, radical and romantic, Beatrice Wood was determined to be an artist. ![]() Beatrice Wood's Life has been extraordinary in every way, from earliest childhood, when her dominating Victorian mother realized she "wasn't like the rest of them," to her productive life at ninety-five in California's Ojiai Valley. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float into the sky to join the ball." Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder. You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. This book follows the widely acclaimed publication in 2012 of Glück’s Poems 1962-2012. ![]() Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. What makes Glück’s latest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, so powerful is the inventiveness with which the poet responds not only to her own mortality, but to the entirely new vantage on the world that her predicament affords. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. ![]() Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryĪ luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" ( The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet ![]() ![]() ![]() But, while we, the readers, are not surprised that his life goes badly, we are certainly glad that the bottom comes quickly. You don’t want to know too much about him because you don’t want it to rub off on you.Įven worse than the worst stuff happens to him, of course. He’s everything that a person hopes that they are not. ![]() I wasn’t sure I could go through with this novel to begin with because I didn’t know that I wanted to spend that much time with such a pathetic, self-victimizing, paragraph of depression as him. ![]() We begin with a man named Quoyle who, in the outside world, is soggy and loathsome. Annie Proulx has convinced me of this world and the way she does it is so ultra clever. I would rather go to Newfoundland and eat flipper pie, work for a local newspaper full of typos and drive a boat to work than live in Manhattan and work for the New York Times. I am desperate to go to Newfoundland now, just desperate. ![]() The thing that will strike the reader most about The Shipping News is not the story itself, but the atmosphere of the book. I don’t read every book that I find in a free pile, but when three of my friends randomly came into possession of the same book, we decided to read it together. This week’s Retro Review is a book that I found in the free pile in my friend’s building’s laundry room. The name is probably obvious, but I’ll just say that Retro Reviews are reviews of old books that randomly come to me by word of mouth or pushy book-lenders. ![]() ![]() ![]() She then hears the sad news that her childhood friend, Rolfe, now the Earl of Linwood, is being forced to sell the neighbouring Priory with all its contents and its huge estate to pay off the accumulated debts of his now dead elder brother, So when her uncle and Guardian insists that she should marry the middle-aged Duke of Malnesbury, she is appalled at the idea and refuses point blank. ![]() ![]() Having inherited a considerable fortune from her American Godmother, the beautiful young debutante,Zarina Bryden, really is the belle of the ball throughout London Society, wooed by an endless parade of insincere suitors in love with her money and not with her.īoth her mother and father have died and so she is an orphan, but a very rich one indeed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Benedict Lightwood, who holds a grudge against Granville Fairchild, Charlotte's father, persuades Consul Wayland to give Charlotte an ultimatum: unless she is able to capture Mortmain within two weeks, she will have to resign as head of the London Institute. Plot Īfter the events of the previous book, Charlotte Branwell, accompanied by her husband Henry, Tessa Gray, Will Herondale, Jem Carstairs, and Jessamine Lovelace, are called to a Shadowhunters' Council meeting to give testimony regarding her failure to capture Axel Mortmain, the leader of the Pandemonium Club. ![]() The book also contains many quotes referring to famous pieces of Victorian literature, for example, Alfred Tennyson's The Palace of Art, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, and the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.Ī sequel to Clockwork Prince, titled Clockwork Princess, was released on March 19, 2013. Now Tessa and her friends must find Mortmain – an evil industrialist bent on destroying all the Nephilim in the world – or risk losing control of the Institute. After the recent failings of Charlotte, the head of the London Institute, the Council of Shadowhunters begin to question her ability to lead. It is the second novel in The Infernal Devices trilogy and is written through the perspective of the protagonist, Tessa Gray, who lives at the London Institute among Shadowhunters, a group of half-angel/half-human beings called Nephilim. Clockwork Prince is a 2011 novel written by Cassandra Clare. ![]() ![]() ![]() … He’s one of so many people cut from the same cloth. ![]() “He took control and owned it and took the fight to them. ![]() It just happens he was assigned that team on that night and he did what he had to do,” Longfritz said in a recent interview. “John wasn’t an anomaly in the Combat Control community. The full story is told in the new book, "Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force" (Grand Central Publishing, 352 pages), a work Chapman's sister Lori Chapman Longfritz and her co-author Dan Schilling hope will shine a light not only on Chapman’s selfless actions but the broader elite unit - the Air Force’s Combat Control - he served and believed in. It would take 16 years and the tireless efforts of John Chapman’s family to bring those heroic events to light. SALT LAKE CITY - In the early days of the War on Terror, a member of an elite Air Force unit single-handedly took on more than two dozen hardened fighters while mortally wounded and ultimately saved not only the lives of his team, but of an incoming rescue squad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Slave Religion is a must-read for anyone wanting a full picture of this "invisible institution.". He presents the narratives of the slaves themselves, as well as missionary reports, travel accounts, folklore, black autobiographies, and the journals of white observers to describe the day-to-day religious life in the slave communities. Using a variety of first and second-hand sources- some objective, some personal, all riveting- Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years, and how he would write it differently today. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. ![]() ![]() Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. Holdings Description Table of Contents Other Versions (1). Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-388) and index. Slave religion : the invisible institution in the Antebellum South / Albert J. ![]() |