![]() ![]() ![]() More than that, his long-awaited final year in law school promises to deliver a crucial puzzle piece of the Great Plan immigrant: a degree from a prestigious university.īut a year is more than the sum of its parts, and en route to the future, the present must be lived through and even the past must be survived in this “hilarious and heartbreaking” (Adam Smyer, author of Knucklehead) intersection of pre- and post-1994 Rwanda, colonial and post-independence Windhoek, Paris and Brussels in the 70s, Nairobi public schools, and the racially charged streets of Cape Town. Soon he will leave the confines of his family life for the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, where loyal friends, hormone-saturated parties, adventurous conquests, and race controversies await. One might as well start with Séraphin: playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool, Rwandan, stifled and living in Namibia. The most one can do is make some sort of start and then work toward some kind of ending. Nobody ever makes it to the start of a story, not even the people in it. “Meet the future of African literature” ( Mukoma Wa Ngugi, author of Nairobi Heat) with this “gorgeous, wildly funny, and, above all, profoundly moving and humane” (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale following a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda and make sense of his reality. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You wine them, dine them, flash them smiles, slip them gifts, massage them with compliments and praise and give them the old hey-buddy-buddy. With the right pen, a man can rule the world. This isn’t the first book I’ve dedicated to you, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Proofing: Erica Russikoff: Erica’s Editing Services, Michele Ficht No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.Ĭover Design: Letitia Hasser: RBA Designs ![]() ![]() ![]() In a desolate city with its near empty streets, this place is thriving since everyone eats. ![]() To them toilet paper’s the KEY to survival.Īs I walked to the exit looking down at my cart, a face stared back. I couldn’t help thinking, “What does this mean?” Once peaceful people had become bitter rivals. I asked the store manager, “What is the issue?” He said, “It’s because we’re out of toilet tissue!” Paper towels, Kleenex, sanitizers all stripped clean. As the shelves emptied out some were extremely vocal. The aisles were packed with panicky locals. I grabbed a few things and looked quickly around. ![]() I ran to the grocery store in my hometown. “Non-Essential” businesses, schools even closed. Events were soon cancelled, then games and live shows. First they called it Corona, then Covid-19. They were hugging, high-fiving, and none of them guessed, soon a turn of events would create such a mess.Ī virus crept in like nobody had seen. The stands full of fans as I watched on TV. ‘Twas the year 2020, normal as it could be. A special thanks to Tim Andrews, National Sales Director with Cartvertising at IndoorMedia, for this exceptional recap of 2020! ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet they’re brilliant in that they, along with everything else in this book, give children the sense that somebody else understands what it’s like to be a child. The thoughtful correlations that Beezus eventually makes between herself and Ramona and their mother and Aunt Beatrice are simple, easily grasped. Not to be naughty, in this instance, or to ruin Beezus’s birthday, but just “To see what would happen.” Naturally. Cleary gets why Ramona would do something so silly and troublesome as dump and mix whole eggs, shells and all, into the batter that’s supposed to become Beezus’s birthday cake. ![]() She gets why four-year-old Ramona, whenever asked what color her eyes are, would answer, “Brown and white,” and why Beezus would be so annoyed at this answer that just isn’t right, even while she grudgingly has to admit, inwardly, that Ramona makes sense. Nine-year-old Beezus (so nicknamed back when her younger sister could not yet pronounce “Beatrice”) is sure her sister Ramona must be the most “exasperating” sister in the world, and this chronicle shows how much their unremarkable yet remarkable little adventures warrant…well, warrant being chronicled.Ĭleary just gets it. ![]() I tend to rate books not according to how “perfect” they are, seem to be, or are said to be in general but rather to how perfect they are to me.īeezus and Ramona: the first book in an awesome series by my favorite childhood author, Beverly Cleary. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is made with my money, but money cannot be sudra because money is continuously changing hands from sudra to brahmin, from brahmin to chhatriya. I have not entered the inner shrine I have not even seen the statue of Krishna that is inside the temple. ![]() And she explained to the brahmins, “I have not even entered the temple I simply go up to the steps and bow down from there. So no brahmin was ready to worship in her temple, although she was immensely rich and she was ready to give as much money as you wanted. But Rani Rasmani was not a high-caste Hindu, she was a sudra, she was untouchable. ![]() It happened that just in the last part of the last century, Rani Rasmani built a temple in Calcutta, in Dakshineshwar on the bank of the Ganges. Dakshineshwar Kali Temple, built by Rani Rasmani Once we are without imagination then reality is there face to face,” says Osho. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an ambitious premise, but if anyone can pull it off, it’s Brooks. 2015) takes readers back three thousand years to ask: who was David? And, in seeking an answer, gives voice to those history has traditionally overlooked. Geraldine Brooks’ The Secret Chord (Hachette Australia, Oct. ![]() Everyone knows David the myth, but little is known of David the man. That was my task: to uncover those earliest roots.Įven if you’re not religious, you’re likely familiar with the story of King David, the shepherd boy with a talent for music who slayed a giant, gathered an army and became King of Israel. They pull life from whatever surfaces they cling to, while the roots, maybe, wither and rot until you cannot find the place from which the seed of the vine has truly sprung. …The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. ![]() ![]() In Lies We Sing to the Sea, debut author Sarah Underwood delivers a thrilling and breathtaking tale that will enthral readers from the very first page as they are transported to the cursed shores of Ithaca.Ī reclamation of a story from thousands of years ago, Lies We Sing to the Sea is about love and fate, grief and sacrifice, and, ultimately, the power we must find within. Leto must kill the last prince of Ithaca. ![]() But when Leto awakens from her death on the shore of a long-forgotten island, its enigmatic keeper Melantho tells her that there’s only one way the curse can be broken. In the cursed kingdom of Ithaca, each spring brings the hanging of twelve maidens, a gift to the vengeful Poseidon. Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne and Elektra A story overflowing with emotion and full of magic.’ ’A lovely, lyrical fantasy which takes the fate of the hanged maids of the Odyssey and weaves something brand new. ‘A lavish epic of power, vengeance, love and fate.’ ![]() ![]() A fantasy romance, by dazzling new talent Sarah Underwood, inspired by Greek mythology and the tale of Penelope’s twelve hanged maids. ![]() ![]() ![]() His views were shaped by his own experiences as a child in the United States and as a young adult in Haiti. In 1990, he earned a PhD in anthropology alongside a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he later taught global health and social medicine. Farmer treated patients up until his death in Rwanda, aged 62. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Farmer and his colleagues denounced monopolies on vaccines that help to account for why fewer than 10% of people have been fully vaccinated in low-income countries ( P. As a co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH), a non-profit organization that provides free medical care in low-income countries including Haiti, Peru and Rwanda, he used the group’s results to change global guidelines on how to treat tuberculosis and HIV. ![]() A doctor, medical anthropologist and activist, Farmer devoted his life to advocating for health equity. “What happens to poor people is never divorced from the actions of the powerful,” Paul Farmer wrote in his 2005 book Pathologies of Power. Credit: Gary Coronado/Palm Beach Post/ZUMA/Alamy ![]() ![]() Her upmarket fiction stories contain non-gory violence, no profanity, and no explicit sex/nudity in their pages. If you like page-turning dramatic plots, simple style and dialogue, stories that evoke strong emotions, well-researched historical settings, and characters with genuine, relatable feelings, a majority of Lauren's reader reviews say you will like her books. ![]() She likes to dive into history and find overlooked, under-appreciated and relatively unknown tidbits of our past to craft engaging stories with characters who love and lose, fight wrong with right, and hope in times of despair. She loves to daydream about times long past while sipping green tea and watching the experts on the Discovery channel unearth our ancestors' civilizations. Lauren writes family sagas set in ancient places, merging the drama, coming of age, women's fiction, and sweet romance genres. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whenever Lauren Lee Merewether visits a place seemingly untouched by time, an emotionally intense family saga is born soon after. ![]() |