![]() Told in the pitch-perfect voices of Gertrude, Retta, and Annie, Call Your Daughter Home is an emotional, timeless story about the power of family, community, and ferocity of motherhood. These three women seemingly have nothing in common, yet as they unite to stand up to injustices that have long plagued the small town, they find strength in the bond that ties women together. Annie, the matriarch of the influential Coles family, offers Gertrude employment at her sewing circle, while facing problems of her own at home. Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude's aid by watching her children, despite the gossip it causes in her community. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. It's 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a crossroads. ![]() Featured on Oprah's Summer Reading List For readers of Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With over one million copies sold, her Grishaverse spans the Shadow and Bone Trilogy, the Six of Crows Duology, and The Language of Thorns-with more to come. ![]() Leigh Bardugo is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author of fantasy novels and the creator of the Grishaverse. Alina is a clever, sympathetic character I will gladly follow into the next installment-which can't come soon enough!" -Veronica Roth, New York Times-bestselling author of Divergent, on Shadow and Bone ![]() "Set in a fascinating, unique world rich with detail, Shadow and Bone was unlike anything I've ever read. This is what fantasy is for." -Laini Taylor for The New York Times on Shadow and Bone As Alina struggles to fit into her new life, a threat to the kingdom of Ravka grows-one that will test old alliances and challenge the very limits of magic, one that will forge a leader from a frightened girl. Follow Alina Starkov through Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising as she discovers her dormant powers and is swept up in a world of luxury and illusion. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix series.Īll three books in Leigh Bardugo's New York Times-bestselling Shadow and Bone Trilogy are now available together in a beautiful paperback boxed set. ![]() ![]() ![]() Introspective fellow torn between his familial obligations and his own desire to be left alone. Desai has conjured up a small Indian town, poised midway between tradition and modernity, and focused on the life of one of that town's anonymous inhabitants - a dreamy, Narayan has done in his well-known Malgudi stories, Ms. Pitch-perfect ear for character and mood, and her natural storytelling gifts.Īs Mr. ![]() Rather, the novel stands as a meticulously crafted piece of gently comic satire - a small, finely tuned fable that attests to the author's Grand, mythic visions at work in "Hullabaloo," no ambitious displays of magical realism. Roy or Salman Rushdie than with an older generation of Indian writers, including her mother, Anita Desai, and R.K. "God of Small Things," 27-year old Kiran Desai turns out to have less in common with Ms. Lthough the publishers of "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" have been comparing the book to Arundhati Roy's award-winning novel JBOOKS OF THE TIMES / By MICHIKO KAKUTANI 'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard': Celebrity Frenzy in a Sleepy Village ![]() 'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard': Celebrity Frenzy in a Sleepy Village ![]() ![]() There is much wise and insightful material in this short book, but its chief strength lies in its challenge to take seriously the pursuit of God. ![]() Each chapter closes with an earnest prayer asking God to change us and meet with us. There are chapters on what faith is, the importance of determining to exalt God, and how we can avoid a sacred-secular divide by honouring God in all things. God is of course present everywhere, but our problem is a lack of receptivity toward him. He warns that it is possible to believe in God without knowing him in personal experience, and insists that we are able to experience his presence. ![]() “The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the church is famished for want of his presence.” He asks us how serious we are about wanting God, and whether we, like Abraham are willing to give up everything. The key idea is to challenge believers to ask whether we really hunger after God. The Pursuit of God consists of 10 short chapters, making it very accessible even to those who are not big readers. Several of his books are still in print, and recently republished as a series of “classics”. I have encountered a lot of quotes by him, but this is the first book of his I have read. ![]() I suspect that many readers of this blog will at least have come across the name A W Tozer, even if they have not read any of his books. ![]() ![]() ![]() It presents the historical background and achievements of the early venereologists through to the current venereologists' fight against HIV. The Scars of Venus is illustrated with pictures of people, places, instruments and documents. Despite this general attitude, there were some doctors who persevered in their attempts to understand the causes and discover treatments for syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases. Those suffering with these diseases were often condemned as victims of their own "sinful lust of the flesh" a judgement attitude which hindered most of the early attempts at control and treatment. ![]() It is difficult for the modern reader to appreciate the fog of confusion which surrounded sexually transmitted diseases in earlier times. The effects of syphilis were so severe that it, and those suffering from it, where regarded with horror and despair. Book excerpt: In the last decade of the 15th century a new and deadly disease called Morbus Gallicus, or syphilis, appeared and spread rapidly throughout Europe. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Book Synopsis The Scars of Venus by : J.David Orielĭownload or read book The Scars of Venus written by J.David Oriel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. ![]() ![]() ![]() Benīen is Lizzie’s husband, a man who received his PhD in classics but had to take a job in IT when he was unable to get hired anywhere. Lizzie starts to frequent doomsday prepper websites where she learns how to use a can of tuna fish to make a lamp and considers whether it would be best to move somewhere colder. When she takes the job responding to podcast listeners, she begins to grow anxious about the future. Lizzie often finds herself having to care for the other people in her life, particularly her drug-addict brother and her religion-obsessed mother. She is a librarian on a university campus who often feels insecure because she does not have a degree. ![]() ![]() Lizzie is the narrator and protagonist of the story. Written by Alex Nichole and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() It received enthusiastic reviews and was nominated for Best Feature and Fierstein was nominated for Best Male Lead at the Independent Spirit Awards that year. Torch Song Trilogy won Fierstein the first two of his four Tony Awards, plus two Drama Desk Awards, and the Theatre World Award.Īt the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Torch Song Trilogy challenged both gay and straight theatre audiences to champion an effeminate gay man’s longings for love and family.įierstein adapted his play to film in 1988, starring himself as Arnold, with Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick (in a different role than the play), and Charles Pierce. The Broadway production opened in Summer 1982 where it ran for 1,300 performances. Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Estelle Gettleman (ne Scher J July 22, 2008), known professionally as Estelle Getty, was an American actress and comedian best known for her portrayal of Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (198592), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Primetime Emmy Award. ![]() The cast included Fierstein as Arnold, Matthew Broderick, and Estelle Getty. Gathered together as one play, Torch Song Trilogy first opened in October 1981, and in January 1982 it transferred to the Actors’ Playhouse in Greenwich Village, where it ran for 117 performances. Ruhl and Urie, 2018 via YouTube screen-grab ![]() ![]() ![]() Three years after that first book she began work on her second major work, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, from which her reputation has not yet recovered. ![]() It was as if Dworkin’s feminist career had been pitched right into the backlash. She was a radical feminist who published her first book, Woman Hating, in 1974, four years after the Second Wave’s bright- and quick-burning radical feminist movement had published its major works-Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics, Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex, and Robin Morgan’s Sisterhood is Powerful. ![]() Until this moment, Dworkin, who died in 2005, had always been famous primarily for her infamy. This was the sense critics shared in the first slate of reviews of Last Days at Hot Slit, a 2019 anthology edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder that collects excerpts of Dworkin’s major critical works alongside extracts of novels, lesser-known talks, and previously unpublished essays and letters. Andrea Dworkin is having a moment-finally. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the course of the story he is aided by supernatural companions and confronts and defeats a wicked magician. It follows the classic folk tale in which the hero travels to strange lands to lift a spell on his nativeĬountry or cure his father of a fatal ailment. On the surface, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" is a lively, wonderfully inventive comic tale with an updated Arabian Nights background. Who could have believed that a world-famous spiritual leader would publicly exhort his millions of followers to murder a novelist in another country, and promise them eternal salvation should they succeed?' The only difference is that the experiences that lie behind "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" are nearly as fantastic as anything in the tale. Salman Rushdie's remarkable new children's book belongs in this company. White, who both as child and adult was described as resembling a mouse, made the hero of "Stuart Little" Never attains maturity, and must borrow or steal other people's children for his playmates. ![]() Many of Beatrix Potter's animals escape from claustrophobic domestic environments like that of her own respectably repressive Victorian parents. NovemAnother Dangerous Story From Salman Rushdie By ALISON LURIEĮhind many of the greatest and most joyful children's fantasies move the shadows of real and often unhappy events in theirĪuthors' lives. ![]() Another Dangerous Story From Salman Rushdie ![]() ![]() In the 2018 revival, Urie stars as Arnold Beckoff, a gay Jewish New Yorker and part-time drag queen portrayed in the play at three different points in his life. ![]() Written and performed by Fierstein, the original production lasted for three years and won two Tonys in 1983 for best play and best performance by a leading actor in a play. Torch Song Trilogy, as the play was originally titled, premiered on Broadway in 1982 at the Little Theatre, now the Hayes Theater, which also is home to the revival. In his positive Hollywood Reporter review of the production, chief theater critic David Rooney wrote, “Taking a second stab at the material, Kaufman and his cast hit every note of humor and heartache in a durable work that functions as both a historical piece and a universal expression of our search for human connection and the comforts of family.” 6 end date, Torch Song will have played 26 previews and 77 regular performances. Total box office to date is a modest $1.9 million. Though the revival scored glowing reviews overall, Torch Song underperformed in its Broadway transfer, never playing to more than 45 percent of its gross potential or hitting $300,000 in any week. ![]() 24, Torch Song has seen slow box office returns, perhaps partly due to the fact that the production transferred from an extended off-Broadway run at Second Stage, which may have eaten into its core audience. ![]() |