![]() ![]() A YouTube video featuring Manal brought her international exposure. When she openly defied the ban on women driving, she was imprisoned for nine days. So she took to the streets in a one-woman protest that gave birth to a movement, Women2Drive. That's when the Saudi kingdom's contradictions became too much to bear: she was labelled a slut for chatting with male colleagues, she was forbidden to go on business trips unless chaperoned by her teenage brother and while she kept a car in the garage, she was forbidden from driving down city streets behind the wheel. By her twenties, she had become a computer engineer, working in a desert compound that resembled suburban America. ![]() In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, burning her brother's CDs in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. Manal al-Sharif was born in Mecca in 1979, the year fundamentalism took hold in the Saudi kingdom. 'Manal al-Sharif is following in a long tradition of women activists around the world who have put themselves on the line to expose and challenge discriminatory laws and policies' Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International News ![]() ![]() Books like this one can change the world' Deborah Feldman, New York Times bestselling author of Unorthodox Her gripping account of homegrown courage will speak to the fighter in all of us. 'Future generations will marvel at Manal al-Sharif, whose voice is laden with quiet dignity even at its most urgent. ![]()
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His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. ![]() ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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Suddenly, four sisters who have been fervently pursuing success and their own lives come together to share one New York brownstone, to support each other, and to pick up the pieces while one of them struggles to heal her shattered body and soul. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is utterly changed. One Fourth of July weekend, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family’s annual gathering. In New York, oldest sister Sabrina, thirty-four, is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie, at twenty-six, is an American in Florence, living for her art. ![]() Her sister Tammy, twenty-nine, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV. Twenty-one-year-old Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion’s latest international supermodel. Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage are at the heart of Danielle Steel’s new novel about a remarkable family, a stunning tragedy-and what happens when four very different young women come together under one very lively roof. ![]() ![]() ![]() Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it. ![]() Together they give us the voice of a village, and of a vanished rural England. In this perceptive and moving evocation of his home, the villagers speak candidly about their lives, from the reminiscences of survivors of the First World War to a younger generation of farm workers, as well as the personal recollections of a school teacher, blacksmith, saddler, bellringer and district nurse. ![]() Born and brought up in rural Suffolk, Ronald Blythe was fascinated by the rhythms of country life and the stories of the people he had known since childhood. ![]() ![]() Plot: It started out by talking about this guy walking around and he saw this sheep farm. The last thing I really didn't like the book is because, it was not interesting. I could understand everything and I can picture everything in my head. It was a good book when it came down to describing things. The reason why I say that is because, nothing really happens in the book. Personal Response: I thought that this book was very boring and slow. As a person from New England who has spent time in NM, this story always brings me back to that place when I read it and I can picture the arroyos and mountains and dusty terrain, as well as the melding of customs. It would lead to reading the work of contemporary Native American writers like Silko, and I used this story, which I particularly like in the way it weaves old spiritual customs with new the way it shows conflicts between the those originally in this country and those who encountered them-how very different their ideas were in the role nature plays in creation, culture, religion, medicine, and so on. ![]() We then looked at different perspectives on the early texts, such as Bradford's Of Plimoth Plantation and considered the Native American view of the same story. We began by comparing Native America creation myths with the Judeo-Christian myth (story of Genesis). ![]() For several years I taught this as a bridge between the old and new customs in America to students in my American Literature class. ![]() ![]() ![]() An expanded methodology is necessary due to the complexity of the slavery issue. My students need to grasp how the divergent beliefs that slavery was either just or unjust depended mostly upon points of view or points on a map. For them to grasp the division within the United States, more is required, much more than from a textbook alone. I need them to prove the facts regarding the complex nature of the issue. While I agree with their opinion, I need them to argue and validate their claims in a more substantial way. ![]() For the most part, my students go straight to the point that slavery was, and is, socially and morally abhorrent, and that is that. While I believe it is critical to examine slavery in the United States from multiple cultural and historical perspectives, my students do not. ![]() I consider it a daunting task to teach the existence of human bondage (slavery) in the United States to eighth-grade junior high school students. Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative by Tim Smith Introduction ![]() ![]() ![]() Ronan convinces Nova that fake dating is the answer to both their situations: He’ll hire her as his personal assistant, which will solve her money problems, while her presence will forestall the aggressive matchmakers. Now the town’s high school football coach, Ronan is hoping to parlay his team's success into bigger opportunities at the college level however, the people of Blue Belle hope that if they tie him down in a happy relationship, he’ll never want to leave. He lost his fiancee and his career after a car accident, and the one-night stand with Nova happened in a haze of post-accident drinking and depression. ![]() Ronan has worked hard to overcome his tragic past. To add insult to injury, Nova discovers that her new next-door neighbor is Ronan Smith, the NFL player she had a drunken one-night stand with in New York years ago. Unfortunately, Nova’s precarious financial state means she has to find a job fast, and there’s a dearth of jobs in Blue Belle, Texas. Nova Morgan loves her life in New York, but after the death of her mother, she returns home to raise her 15-year-old sister, Sabine. A woman falls in love with the man she had a one-night stand with two years earlier. ![]() ![]() Her best stories glory in fantastic rebellion against gender constructs and class even as they tend toward shock and tragedy. ![]() ![]() Carrington’s prose is precise and droll, even when translated from French or Spanish. Some of the later stories show women fleeing marriages or critique technology and politics, including a short satire in which a tiny effigy of Stalin is exploited to create magic medicine. In “Jemima and the Wolf,” a wild girl with claws and thorns in her hair falls in love with a shape-shifter and is misled by a corpse. Girls strive to escape nightmarish families in several of the early stories in others, woodsy half-humans live more freely: a forest nymph in “As They Rode Along the Edge,” who sold her soul “for a kilo of truffles,” has sex with a handsome boar “under a mountain of cats.” The more macabre fables risk being campy but achieve an oneiric, Jungian effect, such as “Pigeon, Fly!” in which a woman paints a corpse’s portrait and discovers “the face on the canvas was my own.” Animals transform into people and vice versa, unsure which is the true self. ![]() In “The Royal Summons,” a queen bathes in goat’s milk with live sponges and a talking tree chases a girl. Most of these 25 stories are brief gothic tales lush with surprising detail, set in worlds where the supernatural and aristocracy overlap. ![]() The first complete collection by English surrealist Carrington (1917-2011) includes three previously unpublished stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() There, she discovers the band of rebel kids who protect the kingdom, as well as an ancient, monstrous god bent on total destruction. One day, her sketchbook's calming effect is broken when her mythological characters begin springing to life and Kiki is pulled into the mystical world she drew. Kiki's sketchbook is full of fantastical doodles of the Hindu myths and legends her mother has told her since she was tiny. Did she lock the front door? Is there a terrible reason her mum is late? Recently her anxiety has been getting out of control, but one thing that has always soothed her is drawing. For 8+ fans of Abi Elphistone and The Land of Roar. A middle-grade fantasy inspired by Hindu legends about anxiety, creativity and finding your own strengths. The mythical beasts she loves to draw have come to life, and she is the only one who can defeat them. Kiki Kallira is more of a worrier than a warrior - but today she will learn to be a hero. ![]() |