![]() With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period. Electric, exhilarating, beautifully crafted, Ghana Must Go is a testament to the transformative power of unconditional love, from a debut novelist of extraordinary talent. A buoyant and rapturous debut novel (The Wall Street Journal) about the transformative power of unconditional love. 'Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one family's fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members. ![]() Now this broken family has a chance to heal - but can the Sais take it? Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, West Africa, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. ![]() ![]() Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A phrase coined by Nigerians in an outcry when millions of Ghanaians fled to Nigeria in 1983 due to political unrest. ![]()
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![]() Here also is told how San Carlos Water was chosen for the assault and subsequent inshore operations. As Michael Clapp reveals, this was not done without generating a certain amount of friction. During the time it took to 'go south' some sense of order was imposed and a not very well defined command structure evolved. Here he describes, with considerable candour, some of the problems met in a Navy racing to war and finding it necessary to recreate a largely abandoned operational technique in a somewhat ad hoc fashion. ![]() In answer to the obvious question, 'Why has it taken him nearly fourteen years to give his account of the vital role he played?' the answer will soon become apparent. ![]() Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War of 1982, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. ![]() ![]() For seven years (2004-2012), she assisted an African-American pastor (Marshall Brandon) at her former home church. The Lord called her husband home in 2014, and amid ongoing endurance of grief, Lisa’s passion for writing was renewed. During her husband’s remissions, Lisa was able to attend two of their conferences and learn more about the business/craft, and met with agents/publishers. Her priority was as his caregiver, yet throughout, she continued her writer’s training as a member of the Christian Writers Guild, gaining education and encouragement from a Guild mentor (Joyce K. ![]() The call to write full-time came as Lisa shared through emails her late husband’s trials with cancer. ![]() She has a heart for missions, and pours what the Lord shows her into her writing. After becoming a Christian and immersing herself in Bible studies through her church body, Lisa entered Moody Bible Institute through online and extension studies. Always a lover of words and an avid reader, Lisa excelled in academic pursuits and also has a gift for languages. Lisa Loraine Baker has been writing since she was in junior high school, but finally made the transition to full-time writer in the last few years (after a career in retail and direct sales, and as a pastor’s assistant). ![]() ![]() ![]() The Subplot vividly captures the ways in which literature offers an alternative-perhaps truer-understanding of the contradictions that make up China itself. Turns out, writers write neither what their government nor foreign readers want or expect, and they work on a different wavelength to keep alive ideas and events that are either overlooked or off limits. ![]() Discover more authors you’ll love listening to on Audible. Chinese online fiction is now the largest publishing platform in the world.įueled by her passionate engagement with Chinese literature and culture, Megan Walsh, a brilliant young critic, shows us why it’s important to finally pay attention to Chinese fiction-an exuberant drama that illustrates the complex relationship between art and politics, one that is increasingly shaping the West as well. Browse Megan Walsh’s best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. ![]() The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, and Nobel laureate Mo Yan, and what is widely hailed as a golden age of Chinese science fiction. ![]() What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bonn Undercover: The Illustrated History of the American Mass Market Paperback (1982 Penguin Books pp. To counter the wide-spread belief by the book-buying public that paperback books were always shortened version of the original hardcover texts, publishers were required by the FTC to prominently indicate on the front cover if there was an original title (often shown in parentheses) and to state that the book was either an "abridgement" or identical to the original text (listed as "Complete and Unabridged"). The listing "Complete and Unabridged" is a result of action by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the post-WWII publishing industry. TAYLOR The Grinning Gismo (1952 listed as " Complete and Unabridged") and KEITH VINING Too Hot For Hell (1952 listed as " ACE Original") Cover art for both novels by Norman Saunders. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s God, but my guess is it’s the Ego, and if Art only exists to feed it, who else but an Egotist could appreciate the crowning irony of 3rd Person, which while claiming it isn’t Egotistical allows its users the delusion of Omnipresence? “All Artists have a tendency to believe that if they flog their words, colours, sounds, designs or blocks of stone for long enough they will somehow find themselves a little closer to re-assembling their broken mirrors and seeing in them exactly what it is that compels them to pick so much fruit. If that’s the only way to tell the difference then to spot an Artist you need hindsight, but I’m not so sure it is, and I have a couple of pointers of my own: ![]() We could argue all day and all night about what’s Art and what isn’t and who’s feeding his Ego and who isn’t – but even Plato and Socrates could tell you (if they were still with us,) that an Entertainer can be proven to have a limited shelf-life beyond which his market value will be reduced exponentially, whereas an Artist can’t. ![]() Egotist Circumvents Time-Traveller Principle! ![]() ![]() ![]() unsurprisingly (apocalypse book, etc) some violence is involved, so i've put up a list of content warnings here. I am happy in a way that I will never realize. I am sleepwalking through every blissful, quiet day. In an alternate reality, I never think about alternate realities. an abundance of what do we owe to each other? energy a main character in a constant state of moral crisis this is my fourth book, which has been described as "Lord of the Flies in space." that's pretty accurate, although it features less mud than the golding, and less criticism of anarchy, and also fewer british schoolboys. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars ![]() ![]() ![]() When We Were Sisters tenderly examines the bonds and fractures of sisterhood, names the perils of being three Muslim American girls alone against the world, and ultimately illustrates how those who’ve lost everything might still make homes in each other. ![]() The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of her parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her "crybaby" younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation and Noreen, the eldest, does her best in the role of sister-mother while also trying to create a life for herself, on her own terms.Īs Kausar grows up, she must contend with the collision of her private and public worlds, and choose whether to remain in the life of love, sorrow, and codependency she's known or carve out a new path for herself. ![]() In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. ![]() ![]() They are brought together by the unfortunate deaths of their friends, an unmarried couple, who have a child, Emily. ![]() Her determination guarantees her success at Stanford, but not in the way she expected.īrown's second novel, Family Trust, introduces Becca Reinhart, a Wall Street workaholic, and Edward Kirkland, a swinging bachelor who represents his wealthy family at social and charity events. Due to a creative video and the need for all forms of diversity, Stanford accepts her. Instead of wallowing in disappointment, Elle plans to win him back and applies to Stanford Law School. Warner breaks up with her in order to attend Stanford Law School and find a more studious girlfriend. Her main character, the blonde Elle Woods, a California University senior and sorority president, expects to graduate with a major in sociopolitical jewelry design and marry Warner Huntington III. ![]() Amanda Brown wrote the novel Legally Blonde, the prototype for the 2001 blockbuster movie of the same title, inspired by the law students she observed while studying at Stanford Law School. ![]() ![]() ![]() Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies.Lovecrafts major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. These stories also included fantastic elements that represented the perceived fragility of anthropocentrism. 4,249 books16.6k followers Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. In his view, humanity was an unimportant part of an uncaring cosmos that could be swept away at any moment. During the interwar period, he wrote and published stories that focused on his interpretation of humanity's place in the universe. In 1913, he wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. His interest in the supernatural started during his childhood days when his grandfather would tell him Gothic horror stories. Many of Lovecraft's stories were inspired by his nightmares. Forbidden, esoterically veiled knowledge is at the forefront of many of Lovecraft's works, as well as non-human influences on humanity, inherited guilt, fate, civilization under threat, race, risks of a scientific era, religion, and superstition. Lovecraft features an array of dark and supernatural themes. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, At the Mountains of Madness, The. This complete collection of strange and unusual stories from H. ![]() |