![]() It won an American Library Association Award and was an NAACP Image Award nominee. So the main character is caught between the two sides of the movement and trying to find his place. ![]() My first novel, “The Rock and The River,” is about a boy in 1968 Chicago whose father is a Civil Rights activist and then his older brother joins the Black Panther Party. Kekla Magoon: I’ve previously written several novels for children and young adults that dealt with the Civil Rights era. GR|Mag: How did you get involved as a co-author on X: A Novel? GR|Mag talked with Magoon about “X: A Novel” and how it can help teenagers today who are struggling and unsure about the future. Magoon is herself a former Michigan resident, having spent her childhood in the state as well as Indiana. ![]() Magoon said several incidents occurred during that time that likely impacted Malcolm X later in his life and helped him grow into the impactful leader he became. Though Malcolm X wasn’t born in Lansing, his family moved to Michigan’s capital while he was still a baby and they remained there until he was 14. ![]() “X: A Novel” is a young adult work that explores the early years of Civil Rights activist Malcolm X, including the time he spent in Lansing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (1/3/21) $1.99 today! Tamera Alexander is one of my favorite authors!Ī Lasting Impression (2011, Bethany House) is #1 in the Belmont Mansion series by Tamera Alexander. Adelicia Acklen, the richest woman in America in the 1860s, A Lasting Impression showcases the deep, poignant, unforgettable characters that set Tamera's stories apart and provides an inspiring love story that will capture readers' hearts and leave them eager for more. Set at Nashville's historic 1850s Belmont Mansion, a stunning antebellum manor built by Mrs. ![]() But what he discovers on his quest for vengeance reveals a truth that may cost him more than he ever imagined. He's determined to reclaim his heritage and to make the men who murdered his father pay. Trading an unwanted destiny for an unknown future, Claire finds herself in the middle of Nashville's elite society and believes her dream of creating a lasting impression in the world of art may finally be within reach.Īll that Sutton Monroe holds dear lies in ruin. But when they meet again and he refuses to come to her aid, she realizes she's sorely misjudged the man. Claire's path collides with that of Sutton Monroe, and she considers him a godsend for not turning her in to the authorities. ![]() When her fraud of a father deals her an unexpected hand, Claire is forced to flee from New Orleans to Nashville, only a year after the War Between the States has ended. ![]() To create something that will last is Claire Laurent's most fervent desire as an artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() In that moment, she’s faced with a painful realization: her dad was telling the truth. However, on the very day she chooses to destroy the traps, she discovers in one of them a creature so inhuman it can only be one thing. Done going through the motions for Doug’s sake. Done pretending she believes her father’s absurd theories. Every Sunday, she and her lifelong friend Doug Monk trudge through the woods to check the traps Lee left behind, traps he set to catch the aliens he so desperately believed were after him.īut Liv is done with childhood fantasies. Liv has long accepted that he’s dead, though that doesn’t mean she has given up their traditions. Liv Fleming’s father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Necessarily horrifying, devastatingly timely."-Kiersten White, New York Times-bestselling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein and Slayerįrom New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Kraus comes a breakneck, genre-defying YA thriller perfect for fans of Kiersten White, Neal Shusterman, and M. "Kraus gets under your skin with brutal, elegant efficiency. ![]() ![]() ![]() or how far Willow might go to keep Alex safe. He’s been searching for Willow all his life, and when Alex enlists this rival to help keep Willow safe, he can’t predict what chemistry will pass between them. ![]() When brooding, gorgeous Seb shows up in the flesh, he turns out to be another-possibly the world’s only other-half angel. And not just because she loves tinkering around. What Willow hasn’t told Alex is that there was also a mysterious boy in her dream, one she felt overpoweringly attracted to. Weatherly's ANGEL trilogy Willow knows she's different from other girls. ![]() The order of the Angel series is as follows: Angel Burn, Angel Fire, and Angel Fever. But the team remains suspicious of Willow, even after the more-experienced Alex takes over as leader, training them hard for a rush attack on the Seraphic Council, or “The Twelve.” This elite group of all-powerful angels is also under the scrutiny of Willow’s angel-father, Raziel, who has his own sinister plan to defeat them. By: L.A.Weatherly In: Action & Adventure, Fantasy. Willow’s prophetic dream points them to Mexico City, where they connect with a fledgling group of angel killers led by the exotically beautiful Kara, an Angel Killer from Alex’s past. Only half-angel Willow, 16, has the power to defeat the malevolent Church of Angels, out to destroy her. In the wake of the Second Wave, the angel menace has exploded, and Alex and Willow are on the lam. ![]() Weatherly’s wildly romantic, action-packed trilogy, the angels are back with a vengeance. Weatherly - review 'Angel Fire, the second book in an AMAZING trilogy (it's so much better than the first) IS NOW A MUST READ' XoXo, Bookworm98. ![]() ![]() Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. ![]() Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. ![]() r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. ![]() For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is not patriotic to cultivate a relationship with Muammar Gaddafi or to say that Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are superior leaders. ![]() It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It is not patriotic to ask those working, taxpaying American families to finance one’s own presidential campaign, and then to spend their contributions in one’s own companies. It is not patriotic to avoid paying taxes, especially when American working families do pay. It is not patriotic to compare one’s search for sexual partners in New York with the military service in Vietnam that one has dodged. It is not patriotic to discriminate against active-duty members of the armed forces in one’s companies, or to campaign to keep disabled veterans away from one’s property. ![]() It is not patriotic to dodge the draft and to mock war heroes and their families. “What is patriotism? Let us begin with what patriotism is not. ![]() ![]() It's hard not to be as Sebastian's family enmeshes everything and everyone it comes in contact with. Ryder is jolted into recalling his time with Sebastian and later with the boy's relatives. Charles Ryder is an army officer whose soldiers are billeted in the now deserted Brideshead. His first clever move is to deliver the story from the perspective of the Second World War. And we remain attached as the novel delves into the background of one of them, Sebastian, to uncover the even more alien world of the lordly Marchmains and their family castle, Brideshead. The novel quickly gathers us into friendship and sympathy with the spoiled, dissolute students we would normally find without redeeming value. Why do we care? In part because Evelyn Waugh is such a clever writer. Hardly the stuff of popular fiction that most of us could identify with now. Presented nostalgically and somewhat ornately. ![]() Until the story is swallowed by the larger theme of an intensely Catholic, intensely self-absorbed, aristocratic family. ![]() Why do we still read Brideshead Revisited?Īn account of aimless, upper-class, young men wasting their time at Oxford University in hedonistic pursuits. ![]() ![]() She wants nothing more than to leave and back to her island. Roz has been repaired and sold to a dairy farmer and his family. In this book she wants to get back to the island. She becomes able to act and think on her own and develops relationships with the animals there. This book is the sequel to the book THE WILD ROBOT in which we learn that Roz the robot becomes a special kind of robot on an isolated island. Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings-but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island?įrom bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, about what happens when nature and technology collide. Grade Level: 5th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) ![]() The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot, 2) ![]() Volunteers needed in May! Click here to sign up. ![]() ![]() Isaacson says it’s essential to consider the people behind scientific developments since their fingerprints are often on their inventions. His latest book, “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race,” tackles the life and career of one of the lead scientists behind CRISPR, the groundbreaking genetic editing tool. Walter Isaacsonis a best-selling author and professor of history at Tulane University. Listen: Best-selling author and historian Walter Isaacson talks gene editing and his new book “The Code Breaker.” Still, gene editing science can radically impact the quality of human life and the future of public health. ![]() And it’s simply a policy choice.” - Walter Isaacson, author of “The Code Breaker”Īccess to and exploitation of editing technology are legitimate concerns for many experts. “We can do this right if we decide to do it right. The technology has the potential to impact medicine and health dramatically, but it also comes with a host of ethical questions. ![]() Scientific developments rarely materialize without some public controversy. ![]() ![]() ![]() On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,Īnd he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name With a little old driver, so lively and quick, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,īut a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, ![]() Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below, The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap, ![]() While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads Īnd mamma in her ’kerchief, and I in my cap, The children were nestled all snug in their beds, The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house ![]() |