She persisted harriet tubman7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() It wasn’t out of sorts-it wouldn’t raise any suspicion.” It was kind of ingenious, because everyone was used to hearing owls. “If she had people hiding in the woods, the call would let them know that it’s safe to come out of hiding. “She used the hoot of the barred owl as a signal that she’d arrived,” says Angela Crenshaw, a park ranger who worked for several years at Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park. And she had a trained ear for mimicking animal calls. The Underground Railroad conductor followed the North Star by night and hid in potato holes and dense swamps by day. Harriet Tubman successfully navigated her own escape from slavery, and then led dozens of others on a path to freedom, thanks in no small part to her familiarity with the natural landscape. ![]()
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![]() ![]() McDormand initiated the project and produced the film, a fictionalised version of Jessica Bruder’s non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century. Mulan reboot is ‘humourless and sombre’ They deliver an illuminating, tough-minded portrait of older Americans displaced by society. ![]() McDormand, magnificently natural as Fern, and Chloé Zhao, the writer and director, are an ideal team. That reassurance is true but also brave and defiant, reflecting the complex reality beneath the deceptively simple Nomadland, which won the Golden Lion at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. “Don’t worry about me, I’m OK,” she says. “I’m not homeless, I’m just houseless,” Frances McDormand says as Fern, who lives in her van and has just encountered a concerned former student. ![]() Author of the wasp factory7/8/2023 ![]() In an abandoned bunker he has made an altar whose centrepiece is "Old Saul", the skull of his father's vicious bulldog, put down for biting off Frank's genitals when he was a toddler. He has invented private rituals, imitating religion. We begin to realise that he has constructed a violent mythology, in which animals become sacrificial victims, and that his bloody imaginings are the consequence of his own strange history. I already knew something was going to happen the Factory told me." We must follow Frank's account of how he fills his long, solitary summer days to work out what this means. The very title of the novel is a puzzle, confirmed by the opening paragraph: "I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. The reader has a different need for explanation. In the way of a fairy-tale or a gothic yarn, we know that we will enter this mysterious chamber before the novel ends. ![]() At intervals in the narrative he tries the door, hoping that one day his father will forget to lock it. He has a study, which is always locked Frank has never seen inside it. ![]() He lives with his taciturn father in an isolated house on the north-east coast of Scotland. The narrator of Iain Banks's novel, 16-year-old Frank Cauldhame, is looking to explain a mystery. ![]() Covenants lorna freeman7/7/2023 ![]() Do not engage in hate speech, harassment, arguing in bad faith, sealioning, or general pot stirring. 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For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() Z zelda fitzgerald7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() When Ricci appears in the doorframe, a record blaring from a phonograph stops with a scratch and everyone goes silent as she slurs in a molasses-thick Southern drawl, “If y’all don’t mind, I’d like my new husband to myself now.” The Fitzgeralds’ destructive love has been well chronicled, but this scene, like the rest of the new series, is a one-woman biographical burlesque: Hey, Zelda lets it all hang out! She doesn’t care what anyone thinks! This is a Zelda who embodies the “well-behaved women seldom make history” bumper-sticker ethos that dubs certain women of the past as “badasses” in the rearview. “But I guess they didn’t do as much because I’ve heard from people that it remains extremely large.” She’s right: the merkin is ridiculous, an instant sight gag. “I wanted them to digitally reduce it,” she told an interviewer. To spare you the click, Ricci felt that her merkin was too big. I was not surprised by this scene, but only because I came to it mentally prepared a week before, the headline “Christina Ricci Has Feelings About Her Zelda Fitzgerald Merkin” had flashed across my screen. Well, that’s not entirely true: she is wearing a gold bracelet, a black hair ribbon, and a huge brunette pubic wig. ![]() Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Christina Ricci, who plays a newly married nineteen-year-old Zelda, in 1920, appears in a doorway of a crowded hotel suite completely nude. In the fifth episode of “Z: The Beginning of Everything,” the new Amazon drama about the lives of F. ![]() Save the arctic by bethany stahl7/7/2023 ![]() Save the Ocean’s heartwarming lesson of recycling and conservation will stay with the reader for a lifetime as they learn to reduce, reuse, and recycle.īrought to you from the author who received a Certificate of Recognition from Dr. With beautiful and charming illustrations, this is an exciting Earth Day children’s book adults will love reading over and over again with their kids. All from 3.00 New Books from 9.50 Used Books from 3.00 Rare Books from 19. Discover the importance of recycling with a mermaid and sea turtle in this award-winning and best-selling tale! From exciting and adventurous to educational and captivating, Save the Ocean tells the story of Kaleisha, a mermaid, and Agwe, a silly sea turtle, who work together to discover that Agwe’s favorite food, may not be what it seems!Ĭelebrate World Oceans Day with this engaging children’s book that teaches about plastic pollution! Can you help Agwe, the hungry sea turtle, and Save the Ocean? This time, Bethany Stahls interactive book immerses children in a fun and unique journey where they can: -Name the colors of the buildings in the Arctic village -Brainstorm ideas on how you can help the Arctic from. ![]() The fifth season novel7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Essun sets off to find the girl, undertaking a journey that will force her to face unfinished business from her own secret past. Soon after Essun’s secret is revealed, her husband kills their son, and her daughter goes missing. ![]() Those who escape servitude and seek safety in the comms face expulsion and execution at the hands of the fearful. Authorities keep a brutal hold on orogenes, controlling everything about their lives, including whom they breed with. They can quell or start earthquakes, open veins of magma, and generally cause or rein in geological chaos. ![]() Essun lived quietly in a comm with her husband and children until her secret got out: she-and her children-are orogenes, those who have the ability to control Earth forces. The Stillness is a quiet and bitter land, sparsely populated by subsistence communities called comms. Humans struggle to survive on a ruined world in this elegiac, complex, and intriguing story, the first in the Broken Earth series from acclaimed author Jemisin (the Inheritance Trilogy). ![]() He Speaks to Me by Priscilla Shirer7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “When we approach God humbly and bow down before Him, we put ourselves in a position to hear from Him.” Are you longing to hear God’s voice, but feeling disconnected? God wants to speak directly to each of His beloved children, not to just a few “spiritual elite.” Priscilla Shirer looks at God’s call to Samuel and uncovers six characteristics essential for hearing from God: A simple RELATIONSHIP, unfettered by sin or pride A single-minded WORSHIP, focused on God and His glory A set-apart HOLINESS, determined to live a life that honors Him A still ATTENTIVENESS, willing to be silent before Him A sold-out HUNGER, passionately pursuing God’s presence A servant SPIRIT, submitted to God’s call Her warmth and honesty, combined with a wealth of practical help, will inspire you to cultivate these traits in your own life. ![]() David france how to survive a plague7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Weaving together the stories of dozens of individuals, this is an insider’s account of a pivotal moment in our history and one that changed the way that medical science is practised worldwide. Not since the publication of Randy Shilts’s now classic And the Band Played On in 1987 has a book sought to measure the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms. Around the globe, the 15.8 million people taking anti-AIDS drugs today are alive thanks to their efforts. ![]() How to Survive a Plague by David France is a social and scientific history of AIDS, and the grass-roots movement of activists, many of them facing their own life-or-death struggles, who grabbed the reins of scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017 Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction His documentary How to Survive A Plague was a 2012 Oscars nominee, won a Directors Guild Award and a Peabody Award, and was. He is a contributing editor to New York magazine and has also written for the New York Times. Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature David France is the author of Our Fathers, a book about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal, which Showtime adapted into a film. Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I argue that both Doumenc and Fforde adapt their chosen genres in order to explore the nature and purpose of their respective national canons. Crime and its subgenres – in the selected examples the whodunit and hard-boiled thriller – may be seen as a transnational genre which readily adapts itself to local contexts. Taking as its main examples Jasper Fforde’s 2001 novel The Eyre Affair, and Philippe Doumenc’s Contre-enquête sur la mort d’Emma Bovary (2009), this article sets out to consider what is special about crime-fiction engagements with the literary canon, and how they differ from other types of adaptation, in particular the use of the central detective figure as a proxy for the position of the reader. Since the 1990s, a trend towards adapting, rewriting, or otherwise engaging with the literary canon – especially the nineteenth-century novel – via the popular genre of crime fiction may be observed on both sides of the English Channel. ![]() |