![]() Rumor has it that the legendary Head of the Dragon had one last treasure-the plunder of a thousand ports-that for decades has only been a myth, a fool's journey. The revelation that Xiang's father sailed with the Dragon Fleet and tucked away this secret changes everything. ![]() Her single memento of him is a pendant she always wears, a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry.īut the pendant's true nature is revealed when a mysterious girl named Anh steals it, only to return it to Xiang in exchange for her help in decoding the tiny map scroll hidden inside. Her father is also only a story, dead at sea before Xiang was born. She desperately wants to prove her worth, especially to her mother, a shrewd businesswoman who never seems to have enough time for Xiang. Its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Head of the Dragon, is now only a story, like the ones Xiang has grown up with all her life. The sun is setting on the golden age of piracy, and the legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two intrepid queer girls of color embark on a legendary treasure hunt in this YA remix of Treasure Island, flipping the script on a notoriously Euro-centric sausage-fest of a classic.ġ826. In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. ![]()
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![]() Although the siblings' voices are essentially the same, McVoy (After the Kiss) switches between their perspectives frequently, keeping the story moving, and her writing brings the summer camp setting to life. Watching Daisy learn to stand up for herself in the face of bullying is perhaps the most moving part of this well-told story that celebrates the powerful love between sisters. ![]() Daisy's summer is off to a strong start when cute Joel seeks her out, but after a make-out session gone bad, it takes a nosedive. Violet embarks on a forbidden relationship with James, a camp counselor, but is also drawn to bad girl Brynn, which leads to problems for all three sisters. They’ve been best friends for years, but Calla has never worked up the nerve to tell him how she really feels. ![]() One life-changing summer.Calla loves summer because summer means Duncan. Readers will relate as Calla creates meaning in every comment and look from her crush, while understanding her sisters' frustration at her passivity. Now in paperback, a sweet and sexy novel about summer romance and sisterly bonds, from the author of Pure and After the Kiss.Three sisters. Calla, who is starting college in the fall, has loved best friend Duncan for years and is hoping this will be the summer they finally get together. Violet isnt much of a rule breaker in real life. This summer, the summer before college, is Callas last chance. Theyve been best friends for years, but Calla has never worked up the nerve to tell him how she really feels. ![]() Sisters Calla, Violet, and Daisy are overjoyed to be back at their beloved Camp Callanwolde for another summer together. Calla loves summer because summer means Duncan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clearly, GRRM focused this first book on developing the Stark family, who would play a huge role in the coming crisis.Īlthough it looks like Eddard is our manly hero, nearly half of the book is told from the perspective of women. In fact, only 25% of the book is told from another family's perspective - and 10 of those chapters are following Daenerys on an entirely separate continent. The majority of the first book is told from the perspective of the Stark family. Can we learn much about the books from such a high-level view? Let's take a look. ![]() Since each chapter is named after the character it focuses on, we can get a bird's eye view of each book by counting how many chapters are dedicated to each character. I've been catching up on the "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series lately and ran across an Amazon book review that had an interesting take on reviewing the books. ![]() ![]() ![]() His path isn't clear-and the pressure to join a "crew," as his brother did, is always there. Now, faced with a pile of building blocks and no instructions, Lolly must find his own way forward. ![]() Lolly's always loved Legos, and he prides himself on following the kit instructions exactly. Then Lolly's mother's girlfriend brings him a gift that will change everything: two enormous bags filled with Legos. They're still reeling from his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting just a few months earlier. Jordan! It's Christmas Eve in Harlem, but twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul and his mom aren't celebrating. Winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent and soon to be a major motion picture directed by Michael B. ![]() The New York TimesĪ boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death in this outstanding debut novel that celebrates community and creativity. It's not just a narrative it's an experience. About the Book A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death in this outstanding debut novel described as a "fast and furious read in which we meet some amazing people" (Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson).īook Synopsis The right story at the right time. ![]() ![]() ![]() The white clergy leaders urged the Black community to "withdraw support from the demonstrations and to work peacefully for a better Birmingham." They condemned the demonstrations as being "led in part by outsiders" and praised "the community as a whole - local news media and law enforcement officials in particular - for the calm manner in which these demonstrations have been handled." King responds to eight white Alabama clergymen who penned a public statement appealing for "law and order" in the face of demonstrations by the Black community led by King and other local leaders. ![]() It stands out to me as both a movement leader’s brilliant response to criticism from those who should be supporting his work and a lesson on what lies at the heart of a true democracy: justice for all. icon-linked Created with Sketch.Įach Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then I’ve found myself returning to it again and again. Much to my good fortune, last year during an intersectional feminist faculty learning circle, a colleague* recommended brown’s Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017). ![]() Social Forum and as executive director of The Ruckus Society, brown is shaped by and remains a crucial voice in contemporary struggles for justice. ![]() Having previously served as a national coordinator for the 2010 U.S. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brownĭetroit-based writer and trailblazing pleasure activist adrienne maree brown has been deeply engaged in organizing around black liberation, climate justice, and feminism for over two decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game. Read reviews and buy The 48 Laws of Power - by Robert Greene (Paperback) at Target. Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers, is Penelope Fitzgerald, who won Britain's Booker Prize in 1979 for ''Offshore.'' Her latest book, ''The Beginning of Spring,'' is a very good comedy of One of the best, only recently familiar to American The United States has never been very good at turning out comedies of manners, but the form still flourishes in England, where there is a whole new stream both of heirs and innovators to the tradition. But his first novel, ''Where Angels Fear to Tread'' - now there's a book you can To India,'' is thought to be the height of profundity to me, it's just another long-winded book about a trial. It is considered a little too shallow, a little too polite to be taken all that seriously. Own friends, with their schemes, self-delusions and operatic emotions, is the literary equivalent of a whole pint of rum raisin ice cream.īut for all the pleasure it gives, the comedy of manners remains a vastly underrated art form. ![]() ![]() What is it that makes a good old-fashioned comedy of manners just about the most satisfying reading there is? For many people - certainly me - a few days spent immersed in a tiny domestic atmosphere, full of characters as ordinary (and as weird) as my THE BEGINNING OF SPRING By Penelope Fitzgerald. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy ROBERT PLUNKET Robert Plunket, the author of the novel ''My Search for Warren Harding,'' is a columnist for SarasotaJU magazine. May 7, 1989, Sunday, Late City Final Edition The New York Times: Book Review Search Article ![]() ![]() ![]() Family moves from the big nasty city to small rural village and begin the long process of being accepted by the locals. Think 'The Wicker Man' meets 'The Stepford Wives' and you're pretty much in the general area of 'Harvest Home'. But what followed after their adoption of Cornwall Coombe turned their dream into the most horrific nightmare. ![]() Quite and sedate, it appeared to offer everything they wanted. ![]() Ned and Beth Constantine came across the hamlet of Cornwall Coombe almost by mistake - and thought it the place they had been looking for all the time. You will be scared stiff - but fascinated' 'Evokes all sorts of primitive memories and instincts. 'The slow shift from pastoral bliss to the chilling horror of ritual murder is beautifully done. Well chuffed that it turned out to be the same edition with the dodgy skeleton! Glad to say, it has stood the test of time fairly well. I picked this one up on Amazon last week (as well as 'The Other' by the same author) 'cos I remembered it being pretty good from when I first encountered it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I learned when I lived in Manhattan that New Yorkers’ proud sense of identity is reinforced at every turn by the way novels, graphic art, poems, popular songs, and movies burnish even the most mundane New York places and experiences with a glow of significance. Toronto is in desperate need of such writers. The pavements, the laneways, the stink of the dump, and the shrieks of the rollercoaster riders at Sunnyside amusement park – Thurman Hunter’s sharp recall of the sights and sounds of a Toronto childhood gives her stories tremendous immediacy. Montgomery infused the landscape of Prince Edward Island with an almost erotically seductive sensuality Thurman Hunter celebrated Depression-era Toronto not for its beauty, but for the intensity with which an imaginative child experienced daily life there. ![]() More than any other children’s author who used Toronto as a setting, Thurman Hunter sang the city into vivid life on the page. Bernice Thurman Hunter, who died in May 2002, was Toronto’s L.M. ![]() |