![]() ![]() Educationĭuring World War II, Angelou moved to San Francisco, California. She returned to Arkansas and spent years as a virtual mute. So traumatized by the experience, Angelou stopped talking. As vengeance for the sexual assault, Angelou's uncles killed the boyfriend. She also suffered at the hands of a family associate around the age of 7: During a visit with her mother, Angelou was raped by her mother's boyfriend. Her parents split up when she was very young, and she and her older brother, Bailey, were sent to live with their father's mother, Anne Henderson, in Stamps, Arkansas.Īs an African American, Angelou experienced firsthand racial prejudices and discrimination in Arkansas. ![]() Early LifeĪngelou was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Angelou received several honors throughout her career, including two NAACP Image Awards in the outstanding literary work (nonfiction) category, in 20. Maya Angelou was an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman. ![]()
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![]() He works for a non-profit dedicated to saving dung beetles (Nerd Friends, read this link OMG). A lifetime of being scrutinized by the media, plus his dad leaving him and said terrible break-up, left him with massive abandonment and trust issues and low self-esteem despite a great group of friends and a supportive mother.īy the time the book starts, Luc has mostly cleaned up his act. He went through a terrible break-up in college followed by an extensive self-destructive partying period which the paparazzi LOVED. Periodically the paparazzi take an interest in Luc so he’s constantly afraid that anyone he gets close to will sell his story to the papers. His dad, Jon Fleming, abandoned him and his mother when Luc was three. The story is told by Luc, a twenty-eight-year old man who is romantically adrift. Either way you look at it, prepare to laugh and be prepared to swoon. Because it’s all told from one character’s point of view and is focused on that character’s personal and romantic development, it fits the rom-com structure more than romance. ![]() Boyfriend Material is a contemporary m/m romance/rom-com set in England. I laughed so hard at this wonderful book, and I cried a little as well. ![]() Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. And never fear, like Frances, they too will eventually, contentedly, drift off to sleep. Bedtime for Frances is the perfect goodnight story to tell your wide-eyed children. Garth Williams's illustrations complement Russell Hoban's sweet story perfectly, capturing the endless energy and overactive imagination of Frances, and the waning patience of her exhausted parents. She's almost positive there are spiders, giants, and tigers in her room.Īny parent will quickly identify with this phenomenon-how the last minutes of the day suddenly become the most action-packed. It is 7 pm and time for bed, however Frances decides to delay sleep. The original drawings were in black and white, but the modern editions illustrations are in color. A Baby Sister for Frances 1,587 copies, 15 reviews. Best Friends for Frances 1,855 copies, 22 reviews. Bedtime for Frances 2,911 copies, 36 reviews. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. She tries every delay tactic she can muster-from demanding extra hugs and kisses to volleying a series of urgent last-minute questions ("May I sleep with my teddy bear?" "May I have my door open?"). Garth Williams illustrates the furry little badger and parents. Russell Hoban, author of Bread and Jam for Frances, on LibraryThing. Frances is wide awake and bursting with youthful excitement. It's bedtime for young Frances-an adorable and irrepressible little badger-and everyone is ready but her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her writing is phenomenal – I couldn’t put down the submission and immediately knew this book was one Nightfire needed to bring to horror fans! I can’t wait for readers to experience the thrill of diving into her story! “ Manhunt feels like a much-needed creative response to Brian K. ![]() With Manhunt, Gretchen shines a spotlight on the experience trans women would face in this unique post-apocalyptic scenario, and deftly explores the complexities around identity during such a crisis. “Rarely has horror truly considered the LGBTQIA community in its stories. ![]() Here’s what Kelly Lonesome, senior editor at Nightfire, has to say about Manhunt: ![]() It’s a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, and it’s full of body horror, desire, and a grotesque spectrum of pain. Manhunt is a fast-paced novel that follows a group of trans women in a post-apocalyptic world where a viral plague has transformed all cis men into violent, feral monstrosities. This found family of survivors must also navigate an authoritarian faction of cis women who see them as a dangerous liability, tricky relationship dynamics, and a truly gruesome method of scavenging for estrogen so they don’t miss a dose – all while outrunning the feral men. Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt – a post-apocalyptic novel about trans women fighting for their very existence – will be published by Nightfire in Spring 2022! ![]() ![]() It was not an old city-not by the standards of those I had seen along my travels-but it bore itself with all the robust pomp and granite certainty of any European harbor town. I would come to know this city well, but in that cold winter of 1892, every glowing window and dark alley was strange, full of untold dangers and enticing mysteries. ![]() The solid ground beneath my feet felt odd after so many weeks at sea, and looming buildings rose up around me on all sides. I made my way forward, carrying everything that traveled with me in a single suitcase. In the inky black of the Atlantic, the reflected glow of the gaslights danced and bobbed. The city of New Fiddleham glistened in the fading dusk, lamplight playing across the icy buildings that lined the waterfront, turning their brickwork to twinkling diamonds in the dark. It was late January, and New England wore a fresh coat of snow as I stepped along the gangplank to the shore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But then newcomer Matthew Hopkins, a mysterious, pious figure dressed from head to toe in black, takes over The Thorn Inn and begins to ask questions about the women of the margins. Rebecca West, daughter of the formidable Beldam West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only by her infatuation with the clerk John Edes. At the margins of this diminished community are those who are barely tolerated by the affluent villagers - the old, the poor, the unmarried, the sharp-tongued. ![]() In Manningtree, depleted of men since the wars began, the women are left to their own devices. Puritanical fervour has gripped the nation, and the hot terror of damnation burns black in every shadow. Parliament is battling the King the war between the Roundheads and the Cavaliers rages. ![]() ![]() ![]() When one of her new neighbors dies under odd circumstances the night Zoey arrives, she is thrust into the mystery of The Dellawisp, which involves missing pages from a legendary writer whose work might be hidden there. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment at The Dellawisp, she meets her quirky, enigmatic neighbors including a girl on the run, a grieving chef whose comfort food does not comfort him, two estranged middle-aged sisters, and three ghosts. It’s called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy. Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hopefully, this will guide you to your decision. This book is a marvelous resource for people who love to get at the source material, but I couldn't give a lick about what is first, I care only for what is best. Goodness knows the movies this tale has spawned have been less than faithful, but they seem a better resource, almost, as they're better told, better written and far more engaging. Robin Hood by Stephen Thomas Knight, 2003, Cornell University Press edition, in English. ![]() I give this one three stars simply because I was so wholly unimpressed with these stories. ![]() Sometimes these translations seem a bit questionable, but they are nevertheless marvelously helpful. They are gathered here in untranslated middle English (they fix misspellings and inconsistencies, but that's it) and while that's not much fun to read, when things get complicated, the translators placed a helpful translation of some of the more difficult words on the margins. These are the tales of Robin Hood as they came out, from multiple persons at multiple points in time. The stories are, for the most part, boring and poorly told, but the underlying plot is nearly always at least compelling. It's telling that this book has received a few starrings and no real reviews. Robin Hood and other outlaw tales by Stephen Thomas Knight, Thomas H. ![]() ![]() ![]() About four years ago, I started the campaign again. “It was 20 years ago that the founding members of the Woolf Society first made approaches about a plaque on the property, but it came to nothing. It is scheduled to be unveiled on 11 September. Humm, who lives in London, said that after four years of pressing the town council, the local MP and heritage groups in St Ives, it was eventually agreed that a permanent marker should be placed on Talland House. It is the result of years of campaigning and fundraising by Professor Maggie Humm, vice-chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, who says the property, Talland House, is a “crucial part of the Woolf story”. Almost a century after Virginia Woolf wrote those words for her 1927 novel To The Lighthouse, a commemorative plaque is to be installed on the house in the Cornish town of St Ives where she spent her childhood summers and was inspired by views of Godrevy lighthouse in the bay. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future.and our end. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. ![]() Forstchen 8,137 Mass Market Paperback 9. Forstchen 25,132 Mass Market Paperback 8.99 The Final Day: A John Matherson Novel (A John Matherson Novel, 3) William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real.a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages.A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). Forstchen 216 Mass Market Paperback 29.99 One Second After (A John Matherson Novel, 1) William R. New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real.a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small. A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons. New York Times best selling author William R. ![]() |