![]() ![]() ![]() Having been inaugurated into liking Cat V. Space Opera was already in my Audible library from a Daily Deal, and I’d seen the spectacular cover on my own bookshelf (again, wife’s a big fan) more than once. Cat has been online for longer than that, but I’ve still seen enough epochs rise and fall to feel like an old man on the internet, screaming at The Cloud (heh). It spoke to me, both as a software developer who has just barely more insight into the health of the web than the average person on the street (insight which disturbs me), and as someone who’s been a participant in online discourse since MySpace. ![]() I heard about Cat Valente many times from my wife, a fan, but she entered my own scope through a post about how the internet has changed, and how that change has been for the worse as we repeatedly jump from social media platform to platform as each one is invariably purchased by a prick or overwhelmed by trolls. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And in the book’s most powerful passages, Rankine reports from the site of her own body, detailing the racist comments she’s been subjected to, the “jokes,” the judgments. ![]() Citizen guides us from spectacle to spectacle, from a consideration of Serena Williams’s career and the racist taunting she has endured to a beautifully reproduced photograph of Kate Clark’s Little Girl, a sculpture of a hoofed woman from an elegy for Trayvon Martin to Carrie Mae Weems’s Blue Black Boy, in which three identical blue-hued prints of a boy are presented side by side, one labeled BLUE, one BLACK, one BOY. Its pages are slick and pearly, and the full-color images-paintings, TV screenshots, photographs-give it the feel of a gallery catalogue, which, in a way, it is. But where Lonely was jangly and capacious, an effort to pin down the mood of a particular moment-the paranoia of post-9/11 America and the racial targeting of black and brown men in those years- Citizen’s project is more oblique, more mysterious.įor the book is, first of all, a surprisingly seductive object. ![]() It’s a sequel of sorts to Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2004), sharing its subtitle ( An American Lyric) and ambidextrous approach: Both books combine poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, words and images. Claudia Rankine’s Citizen is an anatomy of American racism in the new millennium, a slender, musical book that arrives with the force of a thunderclap. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, YZ Chin's debut reexamines the relationship between the global and the intimate. Central to the book is Isabella Sin, a small-town girl-and frustrated writer-transformed into a prisoner of conscience in Malaysia's most notorious detention camp. In these stories, characters navigate fate via deft sleights of hand: A grandfather gambles on the monsoon rains a consort finds herself a new assignment a religious man struggles to keep his demons at bay. Though I Get Home is an intimate and complex look into Malaysian culture and politics, and a reminder of the importance of art in the struggle for social justice." -Ana Castillo, author of So Far from God and prize judge "A welcome read in American contemporary literature. ![]() Subtly interlinked vignettes trace postcolonial memory and political dissidence across Malaysia, England, and the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It continues to blow my mind that this series isn’t getting more attention. Trigger warnings: death, torture, body horror, violence, injury, blood, needles, threats. Unfortunately, she may have let something much worse back into the Night World when she crossed over. Though she doesn’t trust him, he seems to want Rowan dead as much as she does. ![]() Determined to find a way back on her own, even if it puts a rift in their relationship, Nora grudgingly turns to Kail, one of the nightmares who tricked her into killing the Weaver in the first place. The Sandman is determined to help her get a handle on her new powers before she returns to the Night World, but she’s impatient to claim her world before Rowan gets a foothold there. Nora is counting down her last days in the human world. There are spoilers ahead for Dream Keeper. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gaining position to fire a torpedo that has only a 60 percent chance of exploding belies the number of ships sunk. More fascinating is his explanation of the intricacy of sailing, submerging and maneuvering a U-boat. The author works with a broad scope, examining the shipping business, wartime policies, the government leaders and even U-boat construction. ![]() A gem of the Cunard fleet, she drew the cream of society, and life aboard was the epitome of Edwardian luxury. “ Lucy,” as she was fondly known, was one of the “greyhounds,” ships that vied for the Blue Riband award for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. ![]() Larson ( In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, 2011, etc.) once again demonstrates his expert researching skills and writing abilities, this time shedding light on nagging questions about the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915. ![]() ![]() ![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: The Gulf by Rachel Cochran. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second book which will be published in April, Gus makes his mom a gift. Gus Makes a Friend and Gus Makes a Gift, both by Frank Remkiewicz, has Gus, who is a rhinoceros, heading outside to build a snowman in the first book. The pictures are simple, colorful and are filled with white background helping and not detracting from the story. The second book features his little friend becoming lost. ![]() He carries his stuffed tiny toy octopus, Otto, and experiences all kinds of outdoor activities. Gideon and Gideon & Otto, both by Olivier Dunrea, are adorable smallish sized books featuring Gideon, a young gosling, who plays all day with an abounding amount of energy. I Spy Funny Frogs, I Spy an Apple and I Spy Sticker Book and Picture Riddles are all by Jean Marzollo, and photographed by Walter Wick, and have few words and fun riddles challenging youngsters to locate the items they read on the full page and the bright photos. I Spy Animals, I Spy Numbers, I Spy Letters. ![]() ![]() The I Spy series has the perfect books that make it great fun to read. The repetitive “hand” words throughout along with rhyming action words that hands perform make this an enticing winner! Hand Book, by Jeff Newman, is a clever picture book with a perfect format for the new reader. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Susan is now nationally known as an advocate for restoring basic civil and human rights to those who have served time. Her organization, A New Way of Life, now operates five safe homes in Los Angeles that supply a lifeline to hundreds of formerly incarcerated women and their children-setting them on the track to education and employment rather than returns to prison. She began by greeting women as they took their first steps of freedom, welcoming them into her home, providing a space of safety and community. Once clean, Susan dedicated her life to supporting women facing similar struggles. ![]() ![]() On her own, she eventually found a private drug rehabilitation facility. ![]() She cycled in and out of prison for fifteen years never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction. As a resident of South L.A., an impoverished black community under siege by the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. Susan Burton’s world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van on their street in South Los Angeles. One woman’s remarkable odyssey from tragedy to prison to recovery-and recognition as a leading figure in the national justice reform movement ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL6669770W Page_number_confidence 95.56 Pages 182 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210112144908 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 314 Scandate 20210109183901 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0722659032 Tts_version 4. A question of courage by Marjorie Darke, 1975, Crowell edition, in English. Urn:lcp:questionofcourag0000dark_s6b8:epub:817253d0-5945-47d4-8186-3cb79b3d1ded Foldoutcount 0 Identifier questionofcourag0000dark_s6b8 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2p65jh8q Invoice 1652 Isbn 0722659032 Lccn 75332135 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9322 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000182 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:05:00 Boxid IA40032613 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() |