![]() ![]() "A brilliant tale of psychological suspense, Bunny Lake Is Missing is a classic thriller-a riveting revisit to the dark side of the fifties, where the tension beneath the calm surface has an undertow that drags the reader into its grip. ![]() Prime pulp-pure pleasure." -Linda Fairstein, author of The Bone Vault "A classic thriller-a riveting revisit to the dark side of the fifties, where the tension beneath the calm surface has an undertow that drags the reader into its grip. ![]() Blanche emerges as a new kind of heroine-a hard-boiled mom with gun in hand, willing to take any risk to find her missing daughter. In this fraught and at times freakish tale of suspense, Evelyn Piper takes us deep into the psyche of the 1950s to explore American fetishes, fallacies, and fears around motherhood and sexuality. Neither teachers nor students recall the small girl, and soon Blanche is engaged in a frantic search for any trace of her missing daughter. ![]() But her expectant waiting becomes a mother's most dreaded nightmare: Bunny never materializes. It's the first day of school when this story begins, and Blanche is eager to see how her daughter, Bunny, has fared away from home. She lives alone, has a job, and has never been married. The classic novel of suspense is "a headlong story of nerve-wracking tension, psychological validity and emotional drive" ( Oakland Tribune).īlanche Lake is not like the other mothers who come to collect their children at the local nursery school on New York's Upper East Side. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His lack of romantic success has made him noticeably forlorn as of late, much to the chagrin of his friends, who nonetheless poke fun at their lovesick friend’s melodramatic state. Romeo attends the party reluctantly, and only because he is hoping to see Rosaline, a young woman he has been hopelessly in love with-and unsuccessfully pursuing-for quite some time. During the party, two Montagues, 16-year-old Romeo and his cousin Benvolio, along with their bawdy, quick-tongued friend Mercutio, a kinsmen of Prince Escalus, crash the affair. At 13, Juliet is nearly of marriageable age, and the Capulets believe that marrying Paris would allow their daughter to ascend the social ladder in Verona. ![]() As Capulet and Lady Capulet fuss over the arrangements for the party, ensuring that everything is perfect for their friends and guests, they hope that their daughter Juliet will fall in love with the handsome count Paris at the ball. The Montagues are, of course, not invited. After a series of public brawls between both the nobles and the servants of the two families, which shed blood and disturb the peace in Verona’s city streets, Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, declares that anyone in either family involved in any future fighting will be put to death.Įvery year, the Capulets throw a masquerade ball. In Renaissance-era Verona, Italy, two noble families, the Montagues and Capulets, are locked in a bitter and ancient feud whose origin no one alive can recall. ![]() ![]() ![]() How do we honour, lament, and heal from the stories we inherit? How can spirituality not silence the body, but instead allow it to come alive? As she writes memorably of her own lived experiences of childhood and selfhood, Cole boldly explores some of the most urgent questions of life and faith: In these deeply transporting pages, Cole reflects on the stories of her grandmother and father and encounters of enfleshed, embodied spirituality. So writes Cole Arthur Riley in an unforgettable book of stories and reflections on discovering the sacred in her skin. I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity named like a mercy new each morning.’ ‘From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. ![]() ![]() Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter ‘This is the kind of book that make you different when you’re done.’ – Ashley C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Burton reprised his role in the 1988 TV movie Roots: The Gift.Īccording to the book Roots, Kunta Kinte was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Jufureh, in the Gambia. In the 2016 miniseries, he is portrayed by Malachi Kirby. In the original miniseries, the character was portrayed as a teenager by LeVar Burton and as an adult by John Amos. Kunta Kinte's life story figured in two US television series based on the book: the original 1977 TV miniseries Roots, and a 2016 remake of the same name. ![]() Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots is a mixture of fact and fiction. Kunta Kinte was based on one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1750, enslaved, and taken to America where he died around 1822. 1822 / ˈ k uː n t ɑː ˈ k ɪ n t eɪ/ KOON-tah KIN-tay) is a fictional character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte in the TV miniseries Roots ![]() ![]() ![]() The Physician is the first book in New York Times-bestselling author Noah Gordon's Dr. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival-medicine-makes a riveting modern classic. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world's most renowned physician, Avicenna. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. But as he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. ![]() Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. ![]() An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this "rich" and "vivid" historical novel from a New York Times-bestselling author (The New York Times). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Fall of Ile-Rien books were fun, but not really exceptional, and I followed new releases less avidly than before. I was disappointed when Wells, in her next books, turned so heavily back to the Ile-Rien world of Element and Necromancer. Wheel of the Infinite put her back on track. Death of the Necromancer I found to be be a bit too political for my taste – too much courtly steampunk, not enough magic. With the first two books, I was enthralled – this was clearly a writer to watch, and I was surprised she didn’t get more attention. I picked up her City of Bones soon after, and then The Death of the Necromancer and Wheel of the Infinite. I started reading Martha Wells twenty years ago, when her debut novel The Element of Fire came out. ![]() ![]() Appius has sought Eric out as a last resort, to see if Eric can help restore Alexei to sanity. He developed emotional problems as a result. Eric’s maker, Appius Livius Ocella, shows up with Eric’s ‘brother’ in tow-he is Alexei Romanov, only son of the last Czar of Russia, who as an adolescent witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution, including the slaughter of his entire family. But all the other people in Sookie’s life-Eric himself, her former lover Bill, her friend and boss Sam-are having family problems. She has finally settled into a relationship with the Viking vampire Eric, and her errant brother Jason seems to have his life in order, too, with a solid new girlfriend, Michele. When the novel begins, Sookie Stackhouse is still recovering physically and emotionally from the torture she received at the hands of demented fairies Lochlan and Neave in the previous book ( Dead and Gone). ( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perkins's own brother was killed by police. To say all lives matter "subtly suggests that black people are treated the same as everyone else." They write: " All lives can't matter until black lives matter."īoth Perkins and Gordon have seen up close and personal the mistreatment of blacks by police and by white people. But they stand firmly in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement because for much of history society has demonstrated that black lives don't matter. In answer to the titular question, they answer Yes, all lives matter. ![]() Perkins and Gordon, co-founders the Christian Community Development Association, have written a challenging new book, Do All Lives Matter? The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long For. John Perkins, a civil rights pioneer, has continued to be a prophetic voice for reconciliation in the church and in America. His story, an educated white man choosing to live and minster in a poor, urban, mostly black neighborhood challenged my sense of place. My visit to Lawndale Community Church transformed my perspective on what a church should be. ![]() Wayne Gordon has been a pastor for many years in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood. When two of my long-time heroes write another book together, I sit up and take notice. ![]() ![]() The series loosely follows the same thirteen-episode format and storytelling approach that the original Cosmos used, including elements such as the "Ship of the Imagination" and the " Cosmic Calendar", but features information updated since the 1980 series, along with extensive computer-generated graphics and animation footage augmenting the narration. The show is produced by Brannon Braga, and Alan Silvestri composed the backing score. Among the executive producers are Seth MacFarlane, whose financial investment was instrumental in bringing the show to broadcast television, and Ann Druyan, a co-author and co-creator of the original television series and Sagan's wife. The show is presented by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who, as a young high school student, was inspired by Sagan. ![]() This series was developed to bring back the foundation of science to network television at the height of other scientific-based television series and films. The show is a follow-up to the 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which was presented by Carl Sagan on the Public Broadcasting Service and is considered a milestone for scientific documentaries. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 American science documentary television series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a long way from busking in New York City, and even longer from orthodox Jewish family she left behind in Brooklyn when she realized, painfully, that neither her queerness nor her affinity for music could ever find a home among the closed-minded religious community she hailed from.īut Luce's career - and the careers of every other live entertainer - is cut short when a wave of terrorist violence sweeps America, mass shootings and bombings that progress relentlessly from isolated events to threats that shut down whole cities, then whole states. Luce Cannon is a rising music star whose unlikely hit single has garnered her a label deal, a touring band, and a succession of better and better gigs as she crisscrosses America in her band's van. Since her stories started appearing in 2013, Sarah Pinsker ( previously) has been a writer to watch, winning prestigious awards from the Nebula to the Sturgeon now, in her debut novel, A Song For a New Day, Pinsker shows that she can write long-form work that's every bit as compelling, wrenching, sweet and angry as the stories that launched her career. ![]() |