![]() As British rule nears its end, the country is torn between modernizing influences and the call of traditions past-a conflict reflected in the growing tensions between Mahmoud’s two wives: the younger, Nabilah, longs to return to Egypt and escape “backward-looking” Sudan while Waheeba lives traditionally behind veils and closed doors. But when Mahmoud’s son, Nur, the brilliant, handsome heir to the business empire, suffers a debilitating accident, the family stands divided in the face of an uncertain future. With Mahmoud Bey at its helm, they can do no wrong. In 1950s Sudan, the powerful Abuzeid dynasty has amassed a fortune through their trading firm. Lyrics Alley is the evocative story of an affluent Sudanese family shaken by the shifting powers in their country and the near-tragedy that threatens the legacy they’ve built for decades. From the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Translator: a novel of the “rich and complex world of a Sudanese patriarch in the 1950s” (Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress). ![]()
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Pascal developed a love of the English language through listening with his father to the BBC World Service, and it was while earning money as a waiter in a restaurant in Mandalay to pay for his studies that he met the Cambridge don, John Casey, who was to prove his saviour. ![]() In the 1930s, Pascal's grandfather (and head of the clan) captured an Italian Jesuit, mistaking him for a giant or a wild beast the Jesuit in turn converted the tribe. ![]() Pascal Khoo Thwe describes his childhood and early days as a member of the Padaung hill tribe, where ancestor worship and communion with spirits blended with the tribe's recent conversion to Christianity. Tiffany E.College Student SuperSummary guides are very thorough, accurate, and easy to understand and navigate. The guide themes, chapter outlines and character summaries are more detailed than other sites. 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Kirkus Reviews From her creation of the "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV."Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic-smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful."-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR ![]() From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That would be my only grouse, well that and the fact that most of the men (even the good ones) seemed way too dense. My only complaint is that the end felt a little rushed especially the main fight at the climax. The best part about it was that it was just a really fun read coupled with a strong plot. It was also thoroughly engrossing and I found myself reading it well into the night. The writing was straightforward which I appreciated, it was also in keeping with the two main characters since one was a warrior and the other was a wild-spirit at heart. The Winter King is a fairly predictable fantasy romance but it was done exceedingly well with amazing world-building and characters. I guess it helped that I had little to no expectations from The Winter King, but that’s not to say that it’s not a really fun read, far from it in fact. I dropped another book before I picked this up because it was so slow that it felt like it was going nowhere, very slowly. Wow, this turned out to be such a gem, I didn’t expect to enjoy half as much as I did. Aurora Burning (Aurora Cycle #02) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Review.Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson #11) & Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson #12) by Patricia Briggs Review. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was exactly the kind of adventure that she loved. The next summer, one of her girlfriends decided to take a month off and travel the length of the Pacific coast, camping along the way. The first year after high school, Renée, who could no longer take living with her pessimistic mother, moved in with a friend who had space available in her small apartment, working several temporary jobs to pay for it. During her teenage years she was unable to hold onto a job for long, though she always interviewed very well. ![]() She did not do well in school, despite the fact that she tested well. Renée had a very different personality: fun-loving, creative and artistic, but flighty and inconsistent. Her mother, Marie, was a difficult and bitter woman, but also hardworking and loyal. Her parents divorced when she was still a child, and she never had much contact with her father. ![]() 1.6 Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Lexi had no idea "home" would mean the one-and-only land of creation.or that she'd trigger a prophecy that could doom her newfound race. When Eryx's nemesis tags Lexi as his next target, Eryx insists on taking her home where he can keep her safe. The question is, is she Myren, or human - which makes her forbidden fruit? She’s twenty five years old now, working two jobs, one being a bartender nights in a busy bar, and going to school during the day. Alexis (Lexi) Merrill has never felt like she fit in, always felt off in some way. Yet The Fates have led him through his dreams to Lexi, a temptation he doesn't want to resist. Unexpected Eden is book one in the Eden series by Rhenna Morgan. As king of the Myren race, Eryx is duty-bound to enforce the laws preventing exposure of their existence to humans. 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Reverend Lance Carbuncle is going to kick you square in the balls and send you on a wild ride that may or may not answer the following questions: what happens when two white trash, trailer park-dwelling, platonic life partners go on a moronic and misdirected crime spree? can their manly love for each other endure when one of them suffers a psychological bitch-slap that renders him a homicidal maniac? will a snaggletoothed teenage prostitute tear them apart? what is the best way to use a dead illegal alien to your advantage in a hostage situation? what’s that smell? and, what the hell is Alf the Sacred Burro coughing up? Carbuncle’s latest offering, Grundish and Askew, ponders these troubling questions and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() What da cover says: Strap on your athletic cup and grab a barf bag. ![]() ![]() ![]() These gentlemen seemed to take it for granted that no coloured man suitable for the position could be secured, and they were expecting the General to recommend a white man for the place. One night in the chapel, after the usual chapel exercises were over, General Armstrong referred to the fact that he had received a letter from some gentlemen in Alabama asking him to recommend some one to take charge of what was to be a normal school for the coloured people in the little town of Tuskegee in that state. ![]() In May, 1881, near the close of my first year in teaching the night–school, in a way that I had not dared expect, the opportunity opened for me to begin my life–work. Frissell, the present Principal of the Hampton Institute, General Armstrong's successor. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!ĭuring the time that I had charge of the Indians and the night–school at Hampton, I pursued some studies myself, under the direction of the instructors there. The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon after the death of his mother in 1895, Anderson enlisted for a five-year term with the Ohio National Guard. Anderson worked odd jobs while attending school and, feeling the need to help support his family, Anderson quit high school in 1893. His formative years were spent in Clyde, and he later lived for a number of years in Elyria. ![]() The family moved several times before settling in Clyde, Ohio, when Anderson was eight years old. With his almost staccato style of writing and by his injecting his own personal experiences and people he knew into his own novels, Anderson helped set a new standard for Midwestern literature.īorn in Camden, Ohio, on September 13, 1876, Sherwood was the third of seven children born to Emma Jane (nee Smith) and Irwin McClain Anderson. Sherwood Anderson was, essentially, a self-educated short-story writer and novelist. ![]() |