5/13/2023 0 Comments Kololo hill by neema shah![]() ![]() Shah explores the chaos and fear of ordinary people's lives during Amin's rule, weaving personal stories of love and betrayal into heightening tension and violence. This is a novel about home, about belonging and exile a compelling and complex insight into a recent past that still resonates. ![]() Nikita Gill, author of The Girl and the Goddess Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781529030501 Number of pages: 352 Weight: 460 g Dimensions: 224 x 145 x 37 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĪn impressive, confident debut about family and survival, against the backdrop of a history that is not written about often enough. Will they all make it to safety in Britain and will they be given refuge if they do?Īnd all the while, a terrible secret about the expulsion hangs over them, threatening to tear the family apart. But violence is escalating in Kampala, and people are disappearing. For his mother, Jaya, it means saying goodbye to the house that has been her home for decades. ![]() ![]() They must take only what they can carry, give up their money and never return.įor Asha and Pran, married a matter of months, it means abandoning the family business that Pran has worked so hard to save. When you're left with nothing but your secrets, how do you start again?Ī devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. From the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Neema Shah's extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill explores what it means to leave your home behind, what it takes to start again, and the lengths some will go to protect their loved ones. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments R.U.R. by Josef/Karel Capek![]() ![]() ![]() With technology booming immediately after the end of World War I, R.U.R. The problems this play deals with are not the realities of everyday life instead Capek is exploring the larger issues of the human condition. The word “robot” is derived from the Czech word robota, meaning forced labor, but it was the topic of the play, that technology can imperil the world, that made the play controversial. Capek’s drama is also responsible for coining a new word, “robot,” which became an important fixture of Hollywood films, especially the B-films of the 1950s. may appear slightly dated nearly eighty years later, the concerns expressed by the playwright are still interesting to modern audiences, and the play is still performed in regional theatres. (the acronymic title is short for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) was first performed in 1921, it became a major international success and made Capek an internationally known playwright. ![]() ![]() ![]() He and Atherton are sent to an empty flat where the body of a young naked woman has been found. Perhaps burnout is why Slider takes their new case so personally. And, she harangues him, saying no one in the police department respects him. She’s disappointed in his lack of career trajectory, and his lack of interest in moving up in society. Don’t marry a woman without a sense of humor. He’s been married for fifteen years to Irene, has two children, but his sergeant, Jim Atherton, and others, warned him. Slider is approaching burnout, in his career and his marriage. There might have been a little more cop humor in the latest book, but this first book serves as an outstanding launch to the series. So, I went back and picked up the first one, Orchestrated Death. I’m a fan of police procedurals, and this book introduced me to a group of fascinating characters, Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team. I hadn’t read any of the books in the series when I received the most recent one, Headlong, for review. ![]() I didn’t know how the first Bill Slider mystery would hold up. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Rachel vincent stray series![]() ![]() Faythe Sanders and her South Central Pride find themselves in a tangled web of deceit and corruption, woven by the power-hungry Calvin Malone. ‘Alpha’ picks up where the mess of ‘Shift ’ left off. ‘Alpha’ is the highly-anticipated (craved, salivated, desired) sixth and final book in Rachel Vincent’s ‘Werecats’ series. No decisions will be is easy, and not everyone will survive this epic fight to the death. She must also finally choose between Marc and Jace. ![]() Forced to rise to the occasion, Faythe must balance experience, advice, and the urge for vengeance. It's down to Faythe to take on the role of Alpha before she feels completely ready for the job. Power, revenge, and justice - prepare yourself for the final battle! In the final chapter of "The Shifters Series", Faythe and her Pride must fight a tyrannical werecat intent on taking over the territorial council, and the south-central Pride in particular. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Marko kloos aftershocks![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And for those of you who kept asking on Twitter and via email: there will be another Frontlines novel, I will be writing it between now and the end of the year, and it will be out next year as well. I am about to turn in the second novel, called BALLISTIC, which is scheduled to be released in June of next year. I get royalties from the pre-sales, so I’ll be able to write more books, and you get to keep the Kindle book even if you maxed out your Prime Reading borrowing library because you own it for good.) (If you are a Prime member and you pre-ordered the Kindle version already, don’t get too upset about not getting to read it for free like those late-to-the-party Prime Reading bandwagon jumpers. And if you are a Prime member in the US, the Kindle version is available to you free to read for the month of July as part of the Prime Reading program. It’s available on Amazon in Kindle, Audible, trade paperback, and hardcover forms. AFTERSHOCKS, the first book in my new SF series called “The Palladium Wars”, is out today! ![]() ![]() ![]() So begins Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. And every night they are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pa’s fiddle sending Laura and her sisters off to sleep. But it is also exciting as Laura and her family celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town. ![]() Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Told from four-year-old Laura’s point of view, this story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. This edition features Garth Williams’ interior art in vibrant full color. ![]() Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series, which was based on her life growing up as an American pioneer. Publisher: HarperCollins Reprint edition () Illustrators: Helen Sewell and Garth Williams Here is a brief overview of Little House in the Big Woods. Our Recommended Reading for Children & Young Adults and Recommended Reading for Adults articles have been popular resources for readers interested in Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the Prairie. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Lorenzo mattotti fires![]() “Alice’s letter had been mailed from a faraway country…very far away indeed. The four panel sequence which relates this decision is a strange union of image and text, not merely illustrating but mystifying the process of description. Darko receives a letter from her some time later-”mailed from a faraway country”-not quite asking for him, yet somehow enticing him in its self-possession, inspiring him to set out on a extended journey in search for her ![]() By the time he regains his senses, she has already left him. The disruption occurs the moment she announces that she wants to have a child with him his seeming lack of commitment or existential terror announced by a flurry of pterosaur-like shadows and a roar in his ears. ![]() Over the course of three pages, the protagonist, Samuel Darko, recounts the circumstances under which he breaks from his partner, Alice. Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner’s The Crackle of the Frost begins with a separation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The attention economy is relatively a new term. ![]() How does the attention economy benefit from our social media activity and media streaming consumption? The book became a best seller as it made them concentrate on real-life away from technology and devices and being engaged with the surroundings in a more personal way.ģ. Sometimes, doing nothing is more practical and productive, as it helps people relax their minds and body. She clears the doubts of not being productive, by explaining that productivity is not productive always. This book by Odell allows people to justify the time they spend with themselves processing their thoughts. It encourages them to stay away from their phone and focus on life and other things around them. This book has a great message for people. It almost became impossible for them to differentiate between work and leisure time. People were spending most of their energy on using social media and playing games. They did not have enough social and work activities, which led them, have a feeling that they were becoming unproductive eventually. The bookselling stats suggest that this book became an unexpected bestseller in Corona Times, I think the main reason behind this due to lockdown people were restricted to their homes. Why do you think this book, released by indie publishing house Melville Press, has become an unexpected bestseller in Corona Times? ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Sean howe marvel![]() As the company has weathered Wall Street machinations, Hollywood failures, and the collapse of the comic book market, its characters have been passed along among generations of editors, artists, and writers-also known as the celebrated Marvel Bullpen.Įntrusted to carry on tradition, Marvel's contributors-impoverished child prodigies, hallucinating peaceniks, and mercenary careerists among them-struggled with commercial mandates, a fickle audience, and, over matters of credit and control, one another. ![]() Throughout this decades-long journey to becoming a multibillion-dollar enterprise, Marvel's identity has continually shifted, careening between scrappy underdog and corporate behemoth. Over the course of a half century, Marvel's epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers. Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, Daredevil - these superheroes quickly won children's hearts and sparked the imaginations of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. ![]() ![]() Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is known for her contributions to Peanuts Motion Comics (2008), Stripped (2014), and Samantha Brown’s Places to Love (2018). She worked with her husband, accompanied him to his business dinners, and even visited his studios. Not much is known about her early life but in 1973, she got married to American cartoonist and creator Charles M. Jean Schulz CareerĪfter earning her degree in English Literature, Jean worked as a telephone operator in her younger years. After moving to America, Jean earned her Bachelor’s degree in English literature from Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Her family owns the Berlitz Language School and not much is known about them. Jean Forsyth was born in Manheim, Germany to German parents but was mainly raised in California, United States. ![]() Jean is the widow of Charles Schulz and gained widespread fame for her work in Peanuts Motion Comics, Stripped, and Samantha Brown’s Places to Love. Schulz Museum and she is the one who is keeping alive the legacy of the “Peanuts” comic strip. Jean Schulz is President of the Board of Directors at the Charles M. ![]() |