![]() ![]() Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans-the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers-Ailey carries Du Bois’s Problem on her shoulders.Īiley is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. ![]() Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. ![]() ![]() The NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic-an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing Sing, Unburied, Sing and The Water Dancer-that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction.Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction.WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONįinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021.An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller ![]()
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![]() She also imparts her own survivor skills and wisdom based on her years of activist work, empowering the disabled-in particular, those in queer and/or BIPOC communities-and granting them the necessary tools by which they can imagine a future where no one is left behind. ![]() In her latest book of essays, Leah writes passionately and personally about disability justice, on subject such as the creation of care webs, collective access, and radically accessible spaces. She is also a long-time member of the disability justice movement, which advocates for the rights of the disabled. Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. ![]() ![]() Whitetail is a beautiful blend of the region and history I was blessed to experience during my time there. It took one trip to a local winery to fall in love, and I have to admit, research was not chore. When I moved to Virginia over two years ago, I had no idea I’d be living in wine country. ![]() ![]() Thank you for taking a chance on my books. I adore you all.Īnd finally, to all my readers and bloggers – Thank you for yours and all your efforts in making Vines everything I dreamed. Time is one of the most precious gifts one human can give another. To Rae Larand, Ivy, Laurie, Penny and Kristan – Thank you for supporting me and always being there to straighten out my possessive/non-possessive issues. The Three T’s will unite someday and when it happens, the world had better brace. You’ve become the sweetest friends and I treasure you both. I can’t remember the last time a day has gone by and we haven’t connected. You’ll always be the first to read my words. He’s perfect and I love creating characters with you. ![]() ![]() The next thing I knew, Crew and Addy were born. It feels like just yesterday we were standing in a winery in Virginia doing a tasting when this new world popped into my head. After twenty-one years of marriage, it just gets better and better. Please purchase only authorized editions.īeautiful Life – The Carpino Series Book 2 Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copy-written materials in violation of author’s rights. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission from the author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was one person with one life as a child and then a different person with a different life. So impactful and painful, she tends to think of her life as separate lives. Tragedy actually feels like too kind a word for the horrors Hero experienced and it certainly WAS sensational. ![]() There’s this weird out-of-place ghost story that I tried to understand the need for, which ended with, “Tragedy could be unsensational.” How does that sentiment relate to Hero… America Is Not the Heart by Elaine CastilloĮlaine Castillo’s writing is to me like Helen Hunt is to Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, it made me want to be a better writer. This story is about Hero, a woman in her early thirties, who, given the genre will better understand herself throughout the novel. ![]() ![]() When Beksiński Zdzisław was ten, World War II began and the Nazis invaded Poland. ![]() Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński was born in Southern Poland in the town of Sanok in 1929. Much of his work echoed the horrors of World War II, but his dark aesthetic has become particularly popular in the internet age.īeksiński brought global attention to Polish art and he is arguably the greatest Polish artist to date. Throughout his 50-year career, Zdzisław Beksiński‘s paintings went through a variety of styles. ![]() War, doomsday, devastation, death, desolation, emaciation, spirituality, eroticism, religion, architecture Into the Abyss with Zdzisław Beksiński Date of Birth 4.3 What Does Beksiński Have to Do with Metal Music?. ![]() 1 Into the Abyss with Zdzisław Beksiński. ![]() ![]() ![]() Memory, which is at the heart of Galloway’s new novel, is perhaps the most remarkable magic trick there is. ![]() “I don’t really have an explanation for why I can remember that story as vividly as I do. “Even knowing it’s not real I can still remember it really, really clearly,” he says. Perhaps it was another relative who visited that day, one whom Galloway mistook for the uncle he never met. Maybe he saw a photograph of his uncle sitting at the picnic table, or overheard a story that he internalized and made his own. He’s since struggled to understand how the incident lodged itself in his memory. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an area that Gaffigan’s standup has explored more in recent years, with some of the book’s material taken nearly verbatim from his most recent special, Mr. Undoubtedly best known for his food material (“Jim Gaffigan wrote a book? Isn’t the Hot Pockets guy?” is the very first sentence of the book’s forward), Dad Is Fat instead draws from the reliable comedic well that is parenthood. ![]() ![]() Those things make him an anomaly in the comedy world, and so it’s not surprising that they serve as the inspiration for his new book, Dad is Fat. ![]() Even more amazing to many is his home life-a devoted churchgoer and father of five, he and his family live in a two-bedroom walkup in New York City’s East Village. His broad appeal and ability to do the same clean material in every type of room is widely admired. “If you’re a comedian, you should be able to perform in front of any kind of crowd, and the goal is to be someone like Jim Gaffigan who can do Eugene ’s show and he can do my show, but then he can also perform at Carnegie Hall or whatever, the Pepsi Thunderdome in Janesville, Wisconsin, and do as well in front of every kind of crowd,” Liam McEneaney told me last year. In comedy circles, Jim Gaffigan has almost a living-legend aura around him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() You shall not take the name of Yahweh in vain. You shall not make for yourself any graven image. You shall not have any other gods besides me. ![]() 'I am Yahweh your God that brought you out of the lands of Egypt.'.It is a summary of the Ten Commandments from Exodus 20:2-17." 1000 BC) under Greek consists of nine lines, reading from right to left. "The Las Lunas Decalogue is an example of early Hebrew script resembling Phoenician writing(cir. The following is from the note accompanying a picture of a rock face in New Mexico: The back cover of America BC has a map that shows the migrations of the Micmac, Algonquin, Iroquois, Zuni, and Pima Indians. ![]() I have reason to believe that he is aware of the fact. Now, I don't understand why he doesn't go a couple steps farther and identify the migrant Indians as Israelites, unless he didn't want his work to become embroiled in the Lost Tribes controversy and thereby be swept under the rug. He's dealing mostly with north America and more specifically with the US, but his research has uncovered mountains of evidence regarding the Indians on this continent. American Indians, The Ten Commandments and Barry Fell AMERICAĪs an adjunct to the Lost Tribes teaching, Barry Fell's books, Saga America, America BC, Bronze Age AmericaĪre astounding. ![]() ![]() She was placed in Chelmno concentration camp in a queue to be executed. She learns that Gemma was a survivor of the Holocaust who narrowly escaped death due to her Jewish identity. ![]() Rebecca asks her friend Stan, an investigative journalist who works for a historical newspaper. Gemma’s youngest granddaughter, Rebecca Berlin, suspects that there is a real memory behind her grandmother’s bedtime story, which she has told countless times. The novel begins at home in Gemma’s Boston suburb just after the death of her grandmother. The third story, back in Massachusetts, unites the first and second. The first takes place at Gemma’s home in the present day and the second in World War II Poland at a concentration camp called Chelmno, or “the castle. In 1993, the novel was nominated for the Nebula Award, one of the highest honors in fiction. Gemma is a repeat storyteller, and the plot cycles back and forth through time as she recalls the story over many nights. ![]() Much of the story is told in fragments by an old woman named Gemma as she relays it to her three granddaughters during bedtime. A blend of the classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty (alternately Briar Rose), Jewish history, and Yolen’s own life, it was first published in the Fairy Tale Series curated by Terri Windling. ![]() Briar Rose is a 1992 novel for young adults by American author Jane Yolen. ![]() |