![]() ![]() So it is safe because if they're in there working, taking care of the animals and such, then no one has to worry about what else they're doing. On the space Samuel and and Isaiah are able to make for themselves in a barnĪ safe space, a place of peace, of longing, fulfilled because it functions as a place where they labor. It was just a part of the landscape and there was no need to single it out or call it by a different name. ![]() In many of the communities that lived in precolonial Africa, queerness was just as normal as heterosexuality. What my research showed was, in fact, that what Europe brought with them to Africa was homophobia, through the violence and the religion. And that it wasn't until European interference through war, through religion and such that Black people engaged in this thing we call queerness. There is this notion in many Black communities that queerness, or homosexuality, or whatever term you wish to use is the result of some sort of colonial trauma. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A leading voice for immigration reform, C sar Cuauht moc Garc a Hern ndez explores the emergence of immigration imprisonment in the mid-1980s, with enforcement resources deployed disproportionately against Latinos, and looks at both the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually now spend some time locked up pending the result of a civil or criminal immigration proceeding.Ĭalled a "fierce critique" (Publishers Weekly), "a chilling, timely overview" ( Kirkus Reviews), and "a passionate and credible treatise" ( Shelf Awareness), Migrating to Prison takes a hard look at the immigration prison system's origins, how it currently operates, and why. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. ![]() A powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants, addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system, with a new preface by the authorįor most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to learn alongside the emperor’s son, mastering archery and magic, even as passion flames between her and the prince. ![]() But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.Īlone, powerless, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. ![]() A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang’e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. ![]() ![]() ![]() I get easily distracted by shiny new books, and there’s a number of July titles I have my eye on. I expect I will read the final book of the trilogy, The Winter of the Witch, fairly soon, but we’ll see. This is all a very long-winded way of saying that it took a while, but I did it, and I am still very enthusiastic about this series. So then, I had to find time to re-read the first book, The Bear and the Nightingale, before I could forge ahead in the second one. I started it, but kept putting it down because I felt like I was missing a bunch of stuff since I had forgotten most of the first book. Well, actually the plan was to read the second book before the third one came out (which was released earlier this year in January), but obviously that did not happen.Īnyway, I finally finished The Girl in the Tower this week, which I have been reading on and off for a while. I’ve been meaning to read the second book in Katherine Arden’s delightful Winternight Trilogy pretty much ever since I read the first book. ![]() By Jennifer Marie Lin on Jul 4th, 2019 (Last Updated Oct 19th, 2020) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, he made clear there would be no tolerance for self-enrichment by officials and banned the use of limousines by high-ranking members of his government. 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I met Sankara by happy accident shortly after arriving in Ouagadougou by train from Abidjan, in Ivory Coast, where I lived. ![]() ![]() ![]() In desperation, the hatchling calls out to a boat, and then a plane (but neither respond), and at last, he approaches and climbs onto the teeth of an enormous steam shovel calling to it "Mother, Mother! Here I am, Mother!". Refusing to give up, he does not walk, but runs as he sees an old car, which he realizes certainly cannot be his mother. While he cannot yet fly, he walks, and in his search, he asks a kitten (who did not hear a word the baby bird said because he says nothing), a hen, a dog, and a cow if they are his mother, but none of them are. The hatchling does not understand where his mother is so he goes to look for her. ![]() ![]() The baby bird hatches while the mother is away. ![]() His mother, thinking her egg will stay in her nest where she left it, leaves her egg alone and flies off to find food. Plot summary Īre You My Mother? is a story about a hatchling bird. It was published by Random House Books for Young Readers on June 12, 1960, as part of its Beginner Books series.īased on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. Are You My Mother? is a children's book written and illustrated by P. ![]() ![]() But heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and when he is maimed while rescuing a prince, Brute’s life changes abruptly. No one, including Brute, expects him to be more than a laborer. He is seven and a half feet of ugly, and of disreputable descent. Subreddit Schedule & Eventsĭetails on past, current, and upcoming special events, author AMAs, and monthly reading challenges are listed in the schedule section of the subreddit wiki. Brute leads a lonely life in a world where magic is commonplace. 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She and a friend tried to hitchhike by boat but the ship they'd selected turned out to be stolen and was boarded by the Coast Guard just outside the Golden Gate Bridge. Restless, again, she decided to visit Africa. ![]() When she returned, she moved into a commune in Berkeley, sold newspapers on the street for a while, then got a job in the Entomology department at UC Berkeley and also took courses in Chemistry there. Instead of taking a regular job, she joined the Peace Corps and was sent to India (1963-1965). She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, earning her BA in 1963. She also found time to hang out in the old state prison and the hobo jungle along the banks of the Colorado River. Nancy was born in 1941 in Phoenix and grew up in a hotel on the Arizona-Mexico border where she worked the switchboard at the age of nine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this, his last published work, Antonio Benítez Rojo takes the outline provided by historical events and weaves a richly detailed backdrop for Faber, who becomes a vivid and complex figure grappling with the strictures of her time. She was last seen on a boat headed to New Orleans in 1827. A sensational legal trial ensued, and Faber was stripped of her medical license, forced to dress as a woman, sentenced to prison, and ultimately sent into exile. Three years into their marriage, de León turned Faber in to the authorities, demanding that the marriage be annulled. She later embarked to the Caribbean and set up a medical practice in a remote Cuban village, where she married Juana de León, an impoverished local. She would spend the next fifteen years practicing medicine and living as a man.ĭrafted to serve as a surgeon in Napoleon's army, Faber endured the horrors of the 1812 retreat across Russia. In 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris-and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is flawed and brilliant, sweet and vulnerable. Woody is developed with a soft touch that makes him likable and admirable. There is also a corrupt attorney general, a corrupt sheriff, and a corrupting billionaire, and all of them are converging on Woody and Megan.ĭevoted highlights both Dean Koontz’s strengths and weaknesses as a storyteller. Its single survivor is a tech millionaire with a fixation on Megan and a degenerating mind. In another Northern California town, Kipp, a Golden Retriever with human-like intelligence hears Woody’s murmurings telepathically on “the wire.” In central Utah a super-secret research facility explodes. While Woody is snooping on the dark web, he tips his hand to the “bad hats.” His father’s death was determined to be an accident, but Woody has compiled a dossier of evidence proving that his father was murdered. He and his mother, Megan, moved to a small Northern California town when Woody’s father was killed in a helicopter crash two years earlier. Woody has never spoken to or willingly touched another person. ![]() ![]() Woody Bookman is a high-functioning, autodidactic autistic 11-year-old boy with an astronomical IQ. Devoted is a sprawling and flawed (but still entertaining) thriller by the master of the genre, Dean Koontz. ![]() |