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![]() His formation of the Carter Center and his continuing prominent role in world affairs have done nothing to dampen that passion. ![]() Since his earlier days in the White House, Jimmy Carter has demonstrated an untiring passion for pursuing peace in the Middle East. (Hard cover only) 272 pages Dimensions 9 1/2, 6 1/2, 1 inchesīlood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East by Jimmy Carter Through the Carter Center, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, he has fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the world. This is the story of President Jimmy Carter's post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation's history. (Hard cover only) 128 pages Dimensions 8, 5 1/2, 1 inchesīeyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease and Building Hope by Jimmy Carter Always a Reckoning is sparked with wry and sometimes bitter humor, warmed with tenderness, and glowing with an intense and passionate caring that is born of an awareness both political and sensual. ![]() In this moving, wide-ranging, and intensely personal collection of poems - his first - President Jimmy Carter opens to us his very private and reflective world. ![]() ![]() ![]() But her sister wasn’t so fortunate-and after years of silence, Marra is done watching her suffer at the hands of a powerful and abusive prince. ![]() As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an uncaring throne. *A very special hardcover edition, featuring gold foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure. An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022 A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022 An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022 A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. ![]() ![]() ![]() The metallic liquid begins to fill up, and at the last second, just as the fluid rises above her chin, Nora screams, and we cut to a blue sky. If you’re risking your life to reunite with your long-lost children, is the last-second memory that flashes through your brain at the moment of truth the worst thing that ever happened to you? I worried for Nora just then, and wished that those final moments were reinforced by happy memories of her children, too - like birthday parties and baby steps and days at the beach. Their voices echo through her mind, and I had to wonder if that prominent nightmare was a good or bad sign. ![]() We’re not sure why or if the rapture actually occurred. The story is basically as follows: the post rapture - only more secularized. It has all of the elements of a book I enjoy, a large cast of characters, an interesting plot, and yet this book for me is a complete fail. As she makes her way to a clear orb, she flashes back to the morning of the Departure, when she snapped at her children at the breakfast table just moments before they vanished. Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers is a book that I really want to like. Prepped for her procedure, Nora disrobes and enters the truck alone, following the very specific instructions given by the doctors. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that he has no eyes, nose, or ears still disturbed…His skin was cool and almost too smooth to be real flesh…” (23). Was it only the tentacles that gave him that sea-slug appearance? His coloring hadn’t changed. How do you represent or convey something conveyed only through words, inferences, and expectations? Consider the initial descriptions of Jdahya: “His tentacles seemed to solifiy into a second skin–dark patches on his face and neck, a dark, smooth-looking mass on his head…He looked remarkably human now. ![]() The assignment prompt reads:įor this exercise, draw or create a one-page visual representation (8.5″ x 11″) of what you imagine Octavia Butler’s Dawn’s “ Oankali” to look like, be like, act like, live like. Every time I teach the novels–which are about a post-apocalyptic Earth where aliens called Oankali have “rescued” the remaining humans–I have my students do an assignment where they try to visualize, to draw the aliens. For the past few years, I have taught Octavia Butler‘s Dawn (part of her Xenogenesis trilogy) in a number of my classes, including a class on technology and identity, an introduction to LGBT studies course, and most recently, a class on African American science fiction. ![]() ![]() (The answers to the two questions above: from the dry cleaning fumes, Lily Tomlin. From the porn industry to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, from bodybuilding to Dorothy Arzner, it’s a queer, queer world, and The Queer Encyclopedia is the indispensable guide: readable, authoritative, and concise. Drawn from the fascinating online encyclopedia of queer arts and culture, which the Advocate dubbed the Encyclopedia Brittaniqueer” this may be the only reference book in which RuPaul and Jean Cocteau jostle for space. The queer encyclopedia of film & television Available at Cheng Library 2nd Floor - Circulating (PN1590. ![]() Out magazine A treat for casual fans and hardcore enthusiasts. ![]() How did Liberace’s costumes almost kill him? Which lesbian comedian spent her high school years as the best white cheerleader in Detroit?” For these answers and more, fans can dip into The Queer Encyclopedia of Film, Theater, and Popular Culture. The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television Indispensable for aficionados. Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall : Studies in a Male Homosexual Literary. The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater 36 copies. ![]() The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television 45 copies. ![]() From Hollywood films to TV soap operas, from Vegas extravaganzas to Broadway theater to haute couture, this comprehensive encyclopedia contains over 200 entries and 200 photos that document the irrepressible impact of queer creative artists on popular culture. Summers, author of The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Readers Companion to the Writers, on LibraryThing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vulnerability - the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome - is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. The Revolution," available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $9.71 It's a personal commitment that we carry in our hearts."īrown offers us the clarity and courage we need to find our way back to ourselves and to each other. But true belonging is not something we negotiate or accomplish with others it's a daily practice that demands integrity and authenticity. But in a culture that's rife with perfectionism and pleasing, and with the erosion of civility, it's easy to stay quiet, hide in our ideological bunkers, or fit in rather than show up as our true selves and brave the wilderness of uncertainty and criticism. She writes, "True belonging requires us to believe in and belong to ourselves so fully that we can find sacredness both in being a part of something and in standing alone when necessary. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging.īrown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe about ourselves and each other. In "Braving the Wilderness," Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. ![]() "Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone," available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $6.84 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize. Clarke Award for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and was long-listed for the Booker Prize. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships.įor The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex-fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on the straight and narrow.īut staying out of the game is complicated in a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.Ĭrook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of indifference, chaos and hostility.Ĭolson Whitehead is a multi-award-winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. ![]() A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has forged ties with three of the realm’s mightiest Blood warriors: Saetan, the High Lord of Hell, who trains Jaenelle in magic and adopts her as his daughter Lucivar, the winged Eyrien warlord who becomes her protector and the near-immortal Daemon, born to be Witch’s lover. ![]() Jaenelle is the most powerful Witch ever known, centuries of hopes and dreams made flesh at last. Now, the saga continues in this collection that includes four more adventures of Jaenelle and her kindred… The Black Jewels Trilogy established Anne Bishop as an author whose “sublime skill.blend the darkly macabre with spine-tingling emotional intensity”(SF Site). ![]() ![]() ![]() Historian Frederick Merk says manifest destiny always limped along because of its internal limitations and the issue of slavery, and never became a national priority of the United States. The term was used by the then-Democrats in the 1840s to justify the Mexican–American War, and it was also used to negotiate the Oregon boundary dispute. Historian Daniel Walker Howe writes, "American imperialism did not represent an American consensus it provoked bitter dissent within the national polity while the Whigs saw America's moral mission as one of democratic example rather than conquest. Historians have emphasized that "manifest destiny" was always contested many endorsed the idea, but the large majority of Whigs and many prominent Americans (such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. An irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty.The mission of the United States to redeem and remake the West in the image of the agrarian East.The special virtues of the American people and their institutions. ![]() There were three basic tenets to the concept: Manifest destiny was a cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America. ![]() |