![]() ![]() This is not a story about the McCarthy era so much as one about how one girl-who has been trained to be quiet and obedient by her school, family, church and culture-learns to speak up for herself. When she meets Sophie Bowman and her father, she’s encouraged to think about issues in the news: the atomic bomb, peace, communism and blacklisting. ![]() It’s 1949, and 13-year-old Francine Green lives in “the land of ‘Sit down, Francine’ and ‘Be quiet, Francine’ ” at All Saints School for Girls in Los Angeles. Phillip's chapters, in a terse first person, depict the narrowness of his mother's world with a clarity heightened by Phillip's blindness. Laced with a lilting island cadence, Timothy's chapters sketch a murky sea of racial prejudice readers will ache with him at his losses. Alternating chapters follow Timothy from his early abandonment by his mother through his struggles to sail the sea and his command of his own ship and Phillip's agony as he returns to the busy streets and busy lives of his parents, through an operation to regain his sight, and finally to a return with his father to Timothy's cay. ![]() The Cay (the award-winning 1969 novel about racial prejudice in the 1940s) is the unseen vessel in the middle of a ``prequel/sequel'' in which Taylor explores both the black man Timothy's life as it leads up to the wreck of the Hato in the Caribbean during WW II and 12-year-old Phillip Enright's journey back to civilization after his rescue from the island. ![]()
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In a world that should breed fear and concern, an environment that makes his fellow coworkers falter, Jake instead finds himself thriving. Into a tutorial filled with dangers and opportunities. Jake, a seemingly average office worker, finds himself thrust into this new world. A world where power is the only thing that one can truly rely on. ![]() The universe had reached a threshold humanity didn’t even know existed, and it was time to finally be integrated into the vast multiverse. On just another normal Monday, the world changed. ![]() ![]() ![]() #1 Imager / #2 Imager’s Challenge / #3 Imager’s Intrigue / #4 Scholar / #5 Princeps / #6 Imager’s Battalion / #7 Antiagon Fire / #8 Rex Regis / #9 Madness in Solidar / #10 Treachery’s Tools / #11 Assassin’s Price*/* #12 EndgamesĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. 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To uncover hidden talent in children's writing Award The Waterstone Children's Book Prize ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This novella became the movie Stand By Me.įinally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in "The Breathing Method." ![]() In "The Body," four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. ![]() Next is "Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. This gripping collection begins with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Includes the stories "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineĪ "hypnotic" ( The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas-including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption-from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() And all that remains is a handsome, unsettling stranger who claims to be her husband, whispered rumors about a dead child whom she cannot recall.and a terrifying premonition that something truly horrible is about to occur. Her life has become a vacuum-her past vanished.or stolen. Frightened and confused, she wanders the streets of Boston wearing a blood-soaked dress-and carrying $10,000 in her pocket. Her life has become a vacuum, her past vanished.or stolen. Frightened and confused, she wanders the streets of Boston wearing a blood-stained blue dress and carrying 10,000 in her pocket. She doesn’t know her name, her age.or even what she looks like. And all that remains is a handsome, unsettling stranger who claims to be her husband, whispered rumors about a dead child whom she cannot recall.and a terrifying premonition that something truly horrible is about to occur.Jane Whittaker has awakened to a nightmare. Jane Whittaker has awakened to a nightmare. ![]() Jane Whittaker has awakened to a nightmare. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Lori survived, was rescued by the family of a fellow inmate and flew back to the United States to tell people about her horrific experiences in Iran. Her husband, though, became abusive, and when she finally decided to return to America, she was arrested and held captive in an Iranian camp where she was brutally tortured. ![]() She had a hard time adjusting to the eastern culture that oppresses women however, she soon managed to run a successful business and gain the respect of the local people. Lori Foroozandeh trusted a man and followed him to his home country, Iran, where all her troubles began. The facts the author describes seem unbelievable at first, yet as the reader goes on they come to understand the author's personality and identify with her in the events to come. Lori's Song is a memoir that reads like an adventure story. Rambles.NET: Lori Foroozandeh, Lori's Song: The True Story of an American Woman Held Captive in Iran Lori Foroozandeh, ![]() ![]() ![]() She bravely returns to Coroa to confront King Jameson when she finds out that he, too, has carried out unspeakable crimes. ![]() When Etan wants to lead a revolt against his own King Quinten, who is just one of the novel’s major betrayers, Hollis uses her wits to get the evidence needed to convince others that he is guilty of crimes against his own people. The society they live in, modeled after medieval Europe, with castles, tournaments, kings, queens, and nobles, generally follows traditional gender roles, but Hollis sometimes breaks through the accepted boundaries. Etan, Silas’ cousin, arrives to escort the family, and he clashes with Hollis from the moment they meet. Formerly primarily interested in dresses, dancing, and romance, Hollis now proves her mettle. Since Silas, his father, his brothers, and her parents have been killed, she decides to travel to Isolte with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. In The Betrothed (2020), Hollis fell in love with Silas, the son of an Isolten family who sought asylum from their cruel king, and chose him over her intended match, King Jameson. ![]() ![]() Lady Hollis flees her country after her new husband is killed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether it is the concept of women as weaker and inferior to men, the uterus as being the seat of all illnesses, or the undue burdens of chronic pain and autoimmune conditions, the system has always been stacked against women when it comes to receiving adequate medical care. ![]() The female body, long-held in a place of simultaneous mystique and disgust, is still poorly understood compared to the male body. The theme, across countries and time periods, is centered on disbelief. Elinor Cleghorn’s Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World is an intriguing exploration of the history of women’s health, specifically how women are perceived as individuals and members of a larger healthcare system. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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