![]() ![]() When Okorafor was 19 years old, she had surgery to correct scoliosis (a curvature of the spine). ![]() She was also adept at science and at one point thought she would study to become an entomologist. ![]() In high school she excelled as an athlete, playing tennis and running track. Okorafor was raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, but during school vacations frequently spent time with family in Nigeria. Her parents were immigrants from Nigeria. Nnedimma “Nnedi” Nkemdili Okorafor was born on April 8, 1974, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Okorafor often promoted young Black girls as superheroes in her work while exploring social issues such as racial inequality, political violence, and corruption. Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that blends in aspects of African spiritualism. Africanfuturism is a term she created to describe a subcategory of science fiction that focuses on African culture, history, and mythology and is centered in Africa (rather than in the Western world). ![]() She centered her work on Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism. Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor wrote science-fiction and fantasy novels, short stories, and comics for both children and adults. Neilson Barnard - Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images ![]()
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![]() ![]() I had the same confused, uneasy feeling I have always had about the original.Īlice is our beleaguered hero, struggling to survive. ![]() Both works cleverly use names and themes from Alice in Wonderland. But, to win, she will need to harness her newfound abilities and ally herself with someone even more powerful-the mysterious and vengeful Red Queen. Each move brings Alice closer to her destiny. The pieces are set and the game has already begun. Still, Alice and Hatcher are on a mission to find his daughter, a quest they will not forsake even as it takes them deep into the clutches of the mad White Queen and her goblin or into the realm of the twisted and cruel Black King. But the verdant fields are nothing but ash-and hope is nowhere to be found. A place where Alice could finally rest, no longer the plaything of the Rabbit, the pawn of Cheshire, or the prey of the Jabberwocky. The land outside of the Old City was supposed to be green, lush, hopeful. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. ![]() ![]() With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. Ideal preparation for both KS3 and KS4 students preparing for new spec English Literature GCSEs.Ĭheck out our English Shop for loads more free and inexpensive KS3, KS4, KS5, Literacy and whole school resources. The Sign of the Four By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter 1 The Science of Deduction Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel- piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. The lesson supports students as they analyse the characters of Miss Morstan and the case she brings to Watson and Holmes. when we are introduced to Miss Morstan and her mystery. Sign of Four - A fully differentiated and resourced lesson that looks at the second chapter of The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ![]() ![]() ![]() While writing my debut suspense novel I developed a tiny obsession with amnesia. In Ess’s world, the earth is precariously balanced at a climate tipping point, and she is perched at the edge of a choice: which life does she want? The one taken from her-and the dangerous secret that was buried-or the new one she can make for herself?Ī galvanizing riddle that is just as unmooring as it seems, this sharp character-driven odyssey explores a future challenged by our quickly changing world and the choices we must make to save what matters most. But why? And someone is watching her…someone who knows she must never learn her truth. The chilling clues she uncovers point to a desperate attempt at erasing her former life. She sails over a turbulent ocean to a town hundreds of miles away that, she hopes, might offer insight. She finds a note, but it’s more warning than comfort: Start over. Here’s the publisher’s description:Įss wakes up alone on a sailboat in the remote Pacific Northwest with no memory of who she is or how she got there. Lisa Brideau is joining us today to talk about her novel, Adrift. ![]() ![]() Because, come on…who's more racist than Hitler? (Don't actually answer that.) He's not only one of the best track athletes in the history of the United States, but he broke some amazing barriers in terms of race and prejudice in the face of extraordinary adversity. If you're not familiar with the name Jesse Owens, we'd like you to direct us to the rock you've been living under, because after his performance in the 1936 Olympics, he's rightfully pretty famous. But our mistake was actually a blessing in disguise, because the untold story of Jesse Owens is an amazing read. Serves us right for not paying attention. ![]() When we picked this book off the shelves, we mistakenly thought we were going to read about Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. ![]() ![]() If he had ever, like Saint Augustine, stolen fruit from an orchard, the fact would have had no place in this life which is dedicated to the ideal of moderation, and also perfection as a soldier, an official, and a Roman. ![]() The way in which the person, Agricola in this case, is an ideal type, distinct and apart already in childhood from "the temptations of evil companions" p54. To robbery, butchery, and rapine, they give the lying name of "government" they create a desolation and call it peace.įrom Calgacus' address to the Caledonians p80-81Ĭoming to Tacitus' eulogy of his father-in-law Agricola after reading Visions of Glory the elements that will be recycled into Christian Hagiography stand out. ![]() They are the only people on earth to whose covetousness both riches and poverty are equally tempting. ![]() East and West alike have failed to satisfy them. A rich enemy excites their cupidity a poor one, their lust for power. Pillagers of the world, they have exhausted the land by their indiscriminate plunder, and now they ransack the sea. ![]() there are no more nations beyond us nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than these - for in them is an arrogance which no submission or good behaviour can escape. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rousseau does not write in a European context, but in a Geneva context, he is proud of his Geneva citizenship. Geneva in the 18th century: a struggle between social classes He tackles a multitude of subjects, he is the author of treatises on music, a treatise on languages, a political and literary work, he was interested in education, he was a man of genius who touched everything he is the Mozart of the humanities, he has something universal for having touched many and varied subjects. Rousseau is a great traveller who has had a wandering life, he has the experience of the humanity of men, but also the experience of travel and wandering. Rousseau is a man who has experienced the relationship of domination having worked for people who did not always treat him well, he has the experience of a craftsman, the experience of service, he has worked in multiple trades giving him considerable human experience. We owe you Calvin, you owe us Rousseau. ». Marc Monnier addresses the French delegation : « You gave us the Reformation, we gave you the Revolution. 1878: Celebration in Geneva of the "Centenary of Jean-Jacques" on the hundredth anniversary of his death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of literature’s best-written fantasy worlds. Will he too succumb, or can he hold them back? But over the years, Ged witnesses true magic and the ancient ways submit to the forces of evil and death. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician.Īnd it is as the Archmage Sparrowhawk that he helps the High Priestess Tenar escape the labyrinth of darkness. Ged is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Some of them are written on my soul’ Neil GaimanĪ Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * Tehanu ‘One of the literary greats’ Margaret Atwood Discover the late Ursula Le Guin’s passionate and enthralling story of a young boy sent to a school of wizardry to learn the ways of magic in the opening quartet of the Earthsea story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poirot must have met Reggie Fortune recently, for, in addition to certain mannerisms (“Oh, my Japp”), he suspects a vast conspiracy behind three deaths (the “suicide” of Poirot’s dentist, the poisoning of a Greek blackmailer and the murder of an unknown woman in a fur-chest) despite police incredulity and a desire to see only the obvious and, at the end, in a remarkable scene which shows Poirot’s conscience, he condemns the murderer with the Old Testament. May well be the refrain of this detective story, for it is from an examination of trivia – shoes, stockings and false teeth, those outward appurtenances which maketh the man (or woman, as the case may be) – that Poirot is able to discover one of the most cold-blooded and elaborate plots which even Agatha Christie has devised, and which the reader can – very dimly – see from the moment that Poirot, attending morning service for the only time in the books, discovers that he has very nearly fallen into a trap. ![]() “For want of a buckle, the shoe was lost ![]() ![]() ![]() Malcom Barton is what the man who murdered his wife made him-a beast. ![]() The beast only wins the beauty’s heart in fairy tales. Malcolm Barton popped up in Smith’s book ( THEIR MASTER) and captivated me so utterly that I immediately started writing his book and finished it before Smith’s. HER BEAST is a character you won’t have met in the other books. If you have enjoyed my historical erotic romance series VICTORIAN DECADENCE, then you’ll be pleased to hear that I have two new books up for pre-order in the series: HER BEAST & THEIR MASTER. HUGO AND THE MAIDEN is available in print from all booksellers and in ebook exclusively on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited. And of course he is dressed in his signature black. Hugo is one of my favorite characters and this cover does an excellent job of depicting the powerful body I imagined for him. Like the new cover for JOSS AND THE COUNTESS, this is substantially sexier. ![]() I loved the pink of the first cover so much that I asked my cover designer to keep it for this one. The “re-covering” of my SEDUCERS series continues and I’m thrilled to unveil the new cover for HUGO AND THE MAIDEN. ![]() |