![]() ![]() But staying undetected when the mob is searching for her is a challenge that takes everything, especially as one of their best hunters and assassins is after her: Matteo Vitiello.Īfter six months on the run, Gianna finally settles into a tentative routine in Munich, but then Matteo and a couple of her father’s soldiers find her with another man.ĭespite her pleads they kill her boyfriend, and Gianna is forced to marry Matteo. She has enough money to flee to Europe and begin a new life. ![]() A few months before the wedding, Gianna escapes her bodyguards and runs away. ![]() Matteo – The Blade – Vitiello set his eyes on Gianna the moment he saw her on his brother Luca’s wedding, and Rocco Scuderi is more than willing to give his daughter to him, but Gianna has no intention of marrying for any other reason than love. When Gianna watched her sister Aria getting married to a man she barely knew, she promised herself she wouldn’t let the same thing happen to her. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Redemption Ground is Lorna Goodison's first essay collection. Redemption Ground is a book by Lorna Goodison. ![]() Both these texts, which served as a political and cultural call to arms for Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, were initially printed by hand and distributed in secret. His works include The Warrior's Handbook, which was published in 1979, and Rebuilding the Iroquois Confederacy. He dedicated himself to reviving traditional Mohawk culture after renouncing Christianity and a life of priesthood. Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall was a Kanien'kehá:a painter and writer from Kahnawake. The Mohawk Warrior Society contains new oral history of the Rotisken'rhakéhte's revival in the 1970s and the story of how the Kanien'kehá:ka Longhouse became one the most militant resistance groups in North America. The book provides documentation, context and analysis, including writing and artwork by visual artist and polemicist Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall. ![]() ![]() This anthology explores the hidden history of Kanien'kehá:ka survival and self-defense. The Mohawk Warrior Society is a book by Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Web site: Gwarancje Kultury 2014 rozdane! - Telewizja Polska S.A.Web site: Nagroda Literacka "Gryfia" 2014 dla Małgorzaty Rejmer.Web site: Wręczono Nagrody "Newsweeka" im.2018: Błoto słodsze niż miód, Głosy komunistycznej Albanii, Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Czarne.She holds the title of the Young Ambassador of the Polish Language. Her books, which have been translated into eight languages, include the novel Toximia (2009) and two works of nonfiction: Bucharest: Dust and Blood, which won the Newsweek Award for best book of 2014, the Gryfia Literary Award (2014), and the TVP Kultura Award (2014) and Mud Sweeter than Honey, for which she was awarded the Polityka Passport, the most prestigious prize in Poland for emerging artists, as well as the Arkady Fiedler Award. Małgorzata (Margo) Rejmer, born in 1985 in Warsaw, is a Polish novelist, reporter, and writer of short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each and every day the Wemmicks do the same thing – they hand out stickers. Eli carves each and every wooden person yet he allows them all to look different and possess varying traits. In Max Lucado’s children’s book “You Are Special” Lucado creates an allegorical world full of wooden people called Wemmicks who live in a town where every single person is carved by a man named Eli. Imagine being branded and therefore being forced to wear the title of better than or less than. ![]() Imagine wearing the thoughts, feelings and judgements of others outwardly. The gold stars in fact are handed out to people who don’t have grey dots simply to award them for being better, while grey dots are given to anyone with no stars to remind them of what they lack. The gold stars are awarded to the best looking and most talented individuals while the grey dots are given to those whose looks are deemed unworthy and whose talents are seen as lacking in merit. Imagine living in a world where the social currency is gold stars and grey dots. ![]() ![]() As she told the Guardian recently: “She just showed up and I saw her nosing her car into the marina and I thought: Oh man, she’s back.” In an excellent review of The Testaments, Pip Adam considers the sequel phenomenon. ![]() Nor did Elizabeth Strout plan on giving Olive Kitteridge a second airing. Margaret Atwood bided her time: she published The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, The Testaments 34 years later. Perhaps all novelists should write with an eye to recycling. ![]() Sales for their sequels are unconditionally guaranteed. Both the originals reaped huge acclaim in print and huge amounts more as television. Days later Elizabeth Strout published Olive, Again, a follow-up to Olive Kitteridge, which won her a Pulitzer in 2008. Last month Margaret Atwood won the Booker – or half of it – with The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. But recently two top-ranking “literary” authors produced sequels. ![]() The prissily named category defines itself, after all, as rising above the popular. On literary fiction shelves, sequels are relatively rare. Genre fiction spawns sequels: much-loved detectives solve case after case after case, and children’s stories thrive on the comfort of repetition. It’s the year of the sequel: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, Toy Story 4, Rambo 5 … Do movies ever make it to double figures? Books and miniseries certainly do. Marion McLeod revels in the return of Olive Kitteridge, the compassionate curmudgeon who won Elizabeth Strout a Pulitzer Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, after disturbing an intruder in the night, it emerges that someone else shares her gift. ![]() ![]() Together, Tanya and Fabian decide to find the truth.īut Tanya has her own secret: the ability to see fairies. ![]() His grandfather was the last person to see her alive and has lived under suspicion ever since. Fabian, the caretaker's son, is tormented by the girl's disappearance. While visiting her grandmother's manor house, an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery.įifty years ago, a girl vanished in the woods nearby - a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. The first instalment in the fairy-filled Thirteen Treasures trilogy, full of fairies, magic and pure adventure from Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner Michelle Harrison. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole a woman labelled retarded who cured her deficits with brain exercises and now cures those of others blind people who learn to see learning disorders cured IQs raised ageing brains rejuvenated stroke patients recovering their faculties children with cerebral palsy learning to move more gracefully entrenched depression and anxiety disappearing and lifelong character traits changed. ![]() Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around the United States to meet the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity, and the people whose lives they've transformed - people whose mental limitations or brain damage were previously seen as unalterable, and whose conditions had long been dismissed as hopeless. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Print The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain scienceĪn astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All while this is happening, Mrs Coulter is trying to track down Lyra. They both embark on a journey to learn more about each other and the mysterious city they find themselves in. She has never seen anyone without a Daemon before, and Will has never seen a Daemon before. The adventure continues for Lyra as she runs into Will Parry, a young boy without a Daemon who is in a lot of trouble. The next title in the series is The Subtle Knife. Lyra becomes increasingly curious about ‘Dust’ and must know more doing so causes her to be catapulted into a world beyond anything she should have imagined. Whilst at the college Lyra overhears her uncle talking about a mysterious substance he is researching called ‘Dust’. Lyra lives amongst the scholars at Jordon College, Oxford, raised by the scholars and her uncle Lord Asriel. The first book in this epic series is Northern Lights which follows Lyra Belacqua and her animal Daemon Pantalaimon (Pan for short) in an alternate world very similar to Earth. ![]() The trilogy includes witches, armoured polar bears and a truth-telling compass which all create unique and thrilling adventures for Lyra and Will. ![]() The book series is fantasy and was written with no particular genre in mind, however, it has been increasingly popular with children and young adults. The book's main protagonists are Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry. His Dark Materials is a coming-of-age story set within many parallel universes. ![]() ![]() ![]() So I picked up Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economyin part to contextualize my own experience, and to see if I could shed this work-related anxiety. And then I felt even worse for not appreciating the fact I had free time. Like many other marginalized people I know, I found myself feeling guilty for doing something frivolous when I could be hustling instead. ![]() But I realized almost immediately after I left my social-media job to freelance that, for me, free time feels suffocating. To work was be worthy, so I busted my ass juggling jobs, part-time retail gigs, and research opportunities to the point of extreme burnout. Doing nothing meant being lazy, useless, and a waste of space. I viewed moments of stillness as inefficiency. Like Mama Gorda and so many other brown women in my life, I also suffered from the constant need to work. Mama Gorda (our affectionate nickname for her) answered incredulously: “No! I have to be productive. On a recent trip home to Florida, I asked my 72-year-old grandma if, throughout her long life, she has ever stopped to just do nothing. Author Jenny Odell (Photo credit: Ryan Meyer) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state for, like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity. I have turned over various books written on the subject of education, and patiently observed the conduct of parents and the management of schools but what has been the result? a profound conviction, that the neglected education of my fellow creatures is the grand source of the misery I deplore and that women in particular, are rendered weak and wretched by a variety of concurring causes, originating from one hasty conclusion. ![]() ![]() \)įrom A Vindication of the Rights of Woman from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman License: Public Domain Mary Wollstonecraft IntroductionĪfter considering the historic page, and viewing the living world with anxious solicitude, the most melancholy emotions of sorrowful indignation have depressed my spirits, and I have sighed when obliged to confess, that either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization, which has hitherto taken place in the world, has been very partial. ![]() |