![]() ![]() ![]() With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie. A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collectionincluding a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “It suffered horrible mortality on the voyage to Vera Cruz.” More than 120 Africans aboard died en route. ![]() The ship was headed for Vera Cruz, on the coast of Mexico. She was forced aboard a slave ship, the San Juan Bautista, in Luanda, then a bustling slave-trading port on the coast of West Africa, according to Jamestown Rediscovery. “Did she have children? What did she die of? We will know more about this person, and we can reclaim her humanity.”Īngela was taken captive in 1619 during a war in Kongo. “If they find the remains, we can know how old she was when she arrived,” Newby-Alexander said. We don’t know what her original name was.” “It is presumed she was youngish - maybe in her early 20s,” said Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor at Norfolk State University and co-author of “ Black America Series: Portsmouth, Virginia.” “Angela was her Anglicized name. Yet little is known about her beyond those facts. William Pierce, first as “Angelo a Negar” and then as “Angela Negro woman in by Treasurer.” By then, she had survived two other harrowing events: a Powhatan Indian attack in 1622 that left 347 colonists dead and the famine that followed. She is listed in the 16 census as living in the household of Capt. Two years ago, researchers launched an archaeological investigation in Jamestown at the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America to find any surviving evidence of Angela. ![]() ![]() ![]() In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. All of these conflicts-including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects-are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. ![]() The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. Published with a new afterword from the author-the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the signature song from Gloria Gaynor’s, a singer whose heyday was during the 1970s, career. Meaning of “I Will Survive” as used in Song and TitleĪnd that leads us to the title. The singer is letting her ex know, in her frustration, that she will be quite okay without him. Or stated differently, ‘she will survive’ despite the two of them not being together. And with that being noted, she promptly instructs him to “walk out the door” and never to return. ![]() But the singer is not impressed at all by this re-appearance. Indeed it can be gleaned that when he dumped her, he turned her off for good. For he apparently put her under the impression that she could not “survive” without him. In other words, the addressee must’ve been convinced that Gloria would be so devastated by losing him that she could not function properly in the aftermath – or some sentiment along those lines. And on top of that, the implication is that he didn’t treat her too well even when they were together.Īnd yes, the singer does admit that at first the whole ordeal did take a significant toll on her. However, in the process of overcoming her heartbreak she not only became a stronger but also entirely “new” person. So all things considered, she is totally not entertaining the idea of getting back with the addressee. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to Phillips, who patiently oversaw his first sessions, the real Elvis quickly emerged: a dynamic performer who knew instinctively how to bring his audience to a frenzy and rapidly became a star. Amazingly, his own style seems to have emerged full-grown he took only a few guitar lessons, performed little in high school, and to all outward appearances was ``beyond shy,'' in the words of his first producer, Sam Phillips. From an early age, Elvis heard and admired gospel and rhythm and blues. The fact that his father made little attempt to lift his family out of poverty turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because they remained just one tiny rung up the social ladder from their black neighbors-and their music. ![]() The son of a ne'er-do-well father and an unnaturally devoted mother, an only child whose twin brother died at birth, Elvis grew up sheltered and alone. Whereas Albert Goldman, in his infamous trash biography (Elvis, 1981), served up an overstuffed, doped-up Elvis in a one- sided portrait of an American nightmare, Guralnick (Sweet Soul Music, 1986, etc.) takes a more sensible and sensitive approach, tracing the roots of an American dream. ![]() The first volume of two in what is bound to be the definitive biography of the King. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its every bit as enjoyable as Chernows 'The Warburgs,' but provides a better analysis than the Warburg book of key business and political developments of the. Ron Chernow talked about his biography, Washington: A Life, published in October 2010 by Penguin Press. Ron Chernows 'The House of Morgan' is both an engaging history of the Morgan banks and a brilliant account of the growth of global finance from Victorian times through the late 1980s. In 1990, he won the National Book Award for his first book, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. ![]() ![]() Chernow is the author of five other books including biographies of Alexander Hamilton and John D. The book is dedicated to his wife, Valerie, who died in 2006. The book is billed as “the first large-scale, single volume, cradle-to-grave narrative of George Washington.” Ron Chernow spent six years writing this book which is just over 900 pages long. This is the second of two parts of the interview. ![]() Other issues included: the role Washington played in molding the office of the presidency his nominations to the Supreme Court and his attitude toward slavery. He talked about some of the relationships George Washington had, including Thomas Paine, Benedict Arnold, and John Hancock. T20:00:18-04:00 Ron Chernow talked about his biography, Washington: A Life, published in October 2010 by Penguin Press. ![]() ![]() This is bound to be disconcerting, but she also happens to be married to that stranger-because Vegas is a place where good decisions are made, people. Scott does a good job of fleshing this fantasy out into a New Adult novel, although the first person perspective left me wondering at what the hero was thinking a good portion of the time and the ending was a little wobbly.Įvelyn Thomas wakes up from her 21 st birthday party in Vegas in bed with a stranger. So yeah, I get the whole popstar/rockstar crush thing. ![]() My person crush was on Kevin, the oldest member of the group, who didn’t sing so much as say things like “Baby, I love how you looked in homeroom today” before the beginning of songs, despite the fact that he was, I believe, 30 at the time. I wrote what was, although I didn’t know it, fan fiction in a notebook that, please Jesus, has since been destroyed in the fiery bowels of hell. Now, back when I was a youngster I had posters of the Backstreet Boys lining my bedroom walls. ![]() Lick by Kylie Scott is a New Adult for anyone who’s had a crush on a musician. Genre: Contemporary Romance, New Adult, Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() When Nazis begin attacking Jewish synagogues and Jewish businesses are boycotted, Peter’s outlook changes, as does his relationship with Evelyn. Peter believes Hitler has been good for the German people and its economy, a view devout Evelyn finds abhorrent. George asks his friend, Peter Lang, a PhD candidate teaching in Germany, to arrange benign interviews with his German college students. In 1938 Munich, Evelyn Brand, a foreign correspondent with the American News Service, struggles in her male-dominated field and constantly challenges bureau chief George Norwood, who heavily edits her work. ![]() In this gripping inspirational, Sundin ( Sunrise at Normandy) takes an affecting look at the rise of the Nazi Party and Jewish persecution in Germany through the eyes of an American journalist. ![]() ![]() He slips out at night to meet with his friend Teacher, who helps him to discuss his feelings of guilt and shame. The man feels guilty, even though he knows that he hasn’t done anything wrong. Oyo comments on a deal Koomson has mentioned to her involving fishing boats that she believes will make their family rich. Upon returning home, he is confronted by his wife, Oyo, who does not understand why the man refuses to participate in financial dealings which would better their family’s life. On his way home, he runs into his old classmate Koomson, who is now a corrupt minister in Nkrumah’s government. ![]() Working as a railway clerk, the unnamed protagonist refuses a bribe at work. ![]() The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born focuses on life in post-independence Ghana and takes place between Passion Week in 1965 and Febru(the day after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president). ![]() The novel tells the story of an unnamed man who struggles to reconcile himself with the reality of post-independence Ghana. ![]() It was published in 1968 by Houghton Mifflin, and then republished in the influential Heinemann African Writers Series in 1969. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the debut novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenn hopes a weekend on the coast with her young son will give her the space she needs to rebuild her confidence after Jack's betrayal.īut she's not the only person seeking sanctuary by the sea. Lucky for Jenn, her best friend gives her the keys to the Culhane family's beach shack on the white-pepper shores of Western Australia's Geographe Bay. ![]() When Jennifer Gates drives to Sea Breeze Golf Club to kick off date-night with her boyfriend, the last thing she expects is to find Golf Pro Jack giving one of his lady students a private-and very personal-lesson in bunker-play. It's going to take more than summer loving to heal old wounds, but a remote beach, old friendships and a bit of sunshine might just spark a second chance at love. ![]() |