![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The conservative wing of the GOP, which had toiled for so long as the minority partner in a coalition dominated by more liberal brethren, finally had risen to power and nominated one of its own, only to him crash in terrible splendor. In 1964 President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, trounced his opponent, Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona, in a blowout of historic proportions. Subscribe to e-mail newslettersĬom - customized news, traffic, weather and more. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lewis is working to ensure that the hard truths about race in America and his own legacy aren’t erased. ![]() One person who is well-versed in these kinds of racial politics is Representative John Lewis, whose career as a black civil-rights icon and renown as the last living speaker at the famed 1963 March on Washington are now the stuff of legend. Many of those ideas make the Trumpian vow to “Make America Great Again” sound more like a threat than a promise. Whether it’s an all-white breakout panel promoting unity, Representative Steve King laying out a defense of white supremacy on live television, or the routine dog-whistle criminalization of immigrants and black people that has been a Republican Party trademark for years, race and racism have been central to the theater in Cleveland. It’s not one of the official daily themes at the Republican National Convention, but at the heart of every pledge to make the country great or safe or “one” again has been the issue of race. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. I was a good girl once, but now I dance with devils. I’m a loose thread to them-but somehow, I’m becoming more than that too.Īnd no matter how much I try to deny the terrifying attraction that pulses between us, I know if I don’t find a way out of this tangled web soon… These three dangerous brothers will do anything to make sure I keep my mouth shut about what I saw, even if it means stalking my every movement. They don’t… but they don’t forget about me, either. When they drag me from the blood-soaked bed, I’m certain they’re going to kill me too. On the night I’m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three men storm into the room like dark shadows and kill him before he can claim me. So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence. My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack was innocent of the charge but had agreed to plea bargain in order to spend a certain eight months in prison rather than contemplate the possibility of a far longer sentence were he to be found guilty. Bride, scion of a wealthy family, and successful athlete and instructor, has spent eight months in gaol after being accused of sleeping with one of his students, Catherine Marsh. Picoult, whose first job was as a page at a public library, always knew she wanted to be a writer and her books amply demonstrate her success. ![]() ![]() I count myself fortunate to have discovered it since it gives the reader an insight into the mind of this accomplished wordsmith. This novel is a modern re-telling of the old Salem witch hunts.Īllen & Unwin include a brief biography of Jodi Picoult on the cover of her latest book, Salem Falls, but, alas, do not tell readers that there is an interview done by them available on the Internet. ![]() Unlike Sturgeon, who was a master in the science fiction and fantasy field, Picoult ties her tales to mystery and suspense and very successfully indeed does she do this. XJodi Picoult,( Songs of the Humpback Whale, Harvesting the Heart, Picture Perfect, Mercy, The Pact, Keeping Faith, Plain Truth)like fellow American Theodore Sturgeon, writes about forms of love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It introduces a new protest language – art – a present tense. SA’s Dirty Laundry asks South Africans to see their own story in one of the 3600 pieces of dirty underwear. The artivism featured works by womxn students from the University of the Witwatersrand, questioning presence in protest performance (art, reality). Love being understood as a revolutionary sentiment that demands action, as various notable revolutionaries have espoused. ![]() Visual artist Jenny Nijenhuis and performance artist Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga respectively collaborated to host, with SoMa Art + Space, an exhibition plus street performances under the title The Things We Do for Love. A womxn puts her body on the line by stripping off the layers of clothing that en-role her as an object because of her gender, taking off layer after layer of soiled white panties until she stands in the street, naked, with only a childhood panty as covering. The artivism: 3600 pairs of underwear hang on a washing line of 1.2 km, over the city of Johannesburg’s Maboneng precinct – used underwear donated by people across the country as a means to share their story or support of surviving rape. Take a walk in my shoes by allowing yourself to shed your defences and put your underwear on the line…SA’s Dirty Laundry is an artivism (art plus activism) campaign that took the call for re-introduced and re-viewed forms of protest to heart, by using art to bring awareness to the issue of rape. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was thrilled to hit the road with this determined crew. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the. And I loved this quest’s opening promise: Four boys with places to be standing in a barn, sliding the tarp off of Emmett’s sole possession, a baby blue Studebaker, the dusty roads calling like a treasure map. Buy a cheap copy of The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles. I loved the landscape, the rich tapestry of mid-century Americana, prairies and cities. When two other characters enter the story-acquaintances from Emmett’s recent past named Woolly and Duchess-a third path opens. Billy has a plan too, a journey mapped by a mysterious series of postcards laid in a line on the kitchen table. Emmett has big reasons to leave the state, and a plan. The two boys are alone, but have each other. The Lincoln Highway begins with eighteen-year-old Emmett, recently returned from juvenile detention in 1954, reuniting with his little brother, Billy, on their foreclosed Nebraska farm. ![]() I can’t remember the last time I cared more about the heroes of a book so thoroughly and quickly. ![]() When I opened the first pages of Amor Towles’s newest novel, The Lincoln Highway, I had a feeling I was in for just this kind of experience-bighearted and hopeful, perilous and enlightening. The stakes are even higher when the underdogs are kids or teens-adventures like This Tender Land, classics like Huckleberry Finn. Give me a group of underdogs with a sea or continent to cross, the promise of treasure and an arduous road, and I’m all in. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Under his training, she has taken up nursing, and is much admired, even venerated, for her work in the famous sulphur baths that gave the city its name: she is known as the White Angel of the baths, and is believed to have healing powers. She is the daughter of a celebrated Bath physician her mother has died some years earlier and she and her widowed father are very close. Obviously this must apply to the central character, a young woman by the name of Jane Adeane. I read that Rose Tremain described this novel as being about the quest to find meaning in a life. Throughout most of the novel, the two parts seem only very slimly connected, though at the end the two come together in the death of one character. ![]() Islands of Mercy is set in 1865, and, in a split narrative, covers events in England and Sarawak, in Borneo. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this online talk, Ruth Franklin will demonstrate how Shirley Jackson’s unique contribution to twentieth century literature came from her focus on ‘domestic horror’. In keeping with the dark nature of her work, Jackson’s seemingly bucolic life in the New England town of North Bennington was, below its surface, far more tumultuous and haunted than it seemed. ![]() A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone in her classic, gothic novels The Haunting of Hill House (1959, later successfully filmed by Robert Wise in 1963 as The Haunting) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Known to millions primarily as the author of the archly disturbing short story ‘The Lottery’, Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has until recently been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Humanity’s neighbors have extended an invitation. Peter J Aldin's science fiction novel 'Third Contact (Envoys Book 1)' is on sale for only 99 cents. With the confirmation that aliens are building their own space-faring civilization 260 lightyears away, the human race’s petty brawling seems suddenly insignificant. S Br.Tbage E 1 01 SDB Fir 1 Vardell Bg Beatment 127 Sndrld 5 C.Wardeli 11. The crew of the starship Assured are in the midst of fighting the final pocket of pirate resistance on the verges of human-explored space when the battle is interrupted by a deep space transmission from a long-lost probe. ![]() ![]() In the year 3014, the fledgling Confederation of Colonies must overcome one last barrier to unity: the centuries-old scourge of the pirate factions. Now a message from one of them offers bright hope … or will it lead to a new darkness? They were never heard from again.Īs humanity’s star-colonies struggle to emerge from a long dark age, the probes are all but forgotten. 900 years ago, we launched the probes, hoping to find the light of intelligence in the vast dark. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Glitches - Continuing from the last prequel, we get to see Cinder's story from the moment her hardware is installed to her adopted father contracts the plague. Years later, the same doctor comes to earth, carrying the broken body of toddler-Cinder - begging for her to hide the little girl. This doctor avoids using glamours and quickly charms Scarlet's grandmother - nine months later, Scarlet's father was born. The keeper - This is the earliest prequel of the series - we follow Scarlet's Grandmother as she travels to Lunar as a young army piolet and meets a strange doctor. ![]() Nearly every story is based on a key event mentioned in one of our 8 main character's backgrounds. While there aren't any major spoilers, you won't appreciate these short stories without finishing the series. I desperately need a sequel to this prequelĮvery one of them was just fabulous - seriously! ![]() |