![]() Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees' Award.Ī History Book of the Year. Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. ![]() ![]() Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars.īlack British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan 'blackamoors' and the global slave-trading empire. In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. Here in this book he tell the vital history and shares his insight and expertise. ![]() David Olusoga has been one of the most important and powerful voices in the Black Live matter reckoning in the UK post George Floyd's death. ![]()
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![]() That is, until the remains of a newborn buried in an old christening gown are found hidden in the foundation of her house. She simply does not have the energy to deal with one more crisis. When Melanie is roused one night by the sound of a ghostly infant crying, she chooses to ignore it. Despite an insistence that she can raise their child alone, Melanie is completely unprepared for motherhood, and she struggles to complete renovations on her house on Tradd Street before the baby arrives. ![]() She misses him desperately, but her broken heart is the least of her problems. ![]() But history has a tendency of catching up with Melanie, whether she likes it or not Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack's marriage proposal. Facing her future as a single mother, psychic Realtor Melanie Middleton is determined to be strong and leave her past with writer Jack Trenholm behind her. ![]() ![]() This portrayal of brother and sister is more true-to-the-life than a perfectly devoted pair of siblings. Their relationship is not perfect at the end of the story, but it is improved. Marly and Joe come to understand one another better as they learn to celebrate their differences. I also enjoyed the focus on sibling relationships. ![]() I rejoiced along with her when the sap first rose in the trees and when "the twigs turned to lace" and when her daddy started feeling better after everything that had happened to him in the war. ![]() Marly is most admirable in her search for miracles and especially in her discovery that she can create her own miracles. ![]() I am not at all surprised that this book won the Newbery Medal in 1957: besides having a pleasant pastoral narrative and lyrical dialogue, Miracles has an engaging, young, at times naive main character. ![]() ![]() ![]() Immodest Acts Paperback edition by Judith C. The story of the relationship between the two nuns and of Benedetta's fall from anĪbbess to an outcast is revealed in surprisingly candid archival documents and retold here with a fine sense of drama. During the course of an investigation, church authorities not only found that she had faked her visions and stigmata, but uncovered evidence of a lesbian affair with another nun, Bartolomeo. Benedetta was elected abbess due largely to these visions, but later aroused suspicions by claiming to have had supernaturalĬontacts with Christ. At twenty-three, she began to have visions of both a religious and erotic nature. Lesbian historian Lillian Faderman faults Browns work for the 'calculated sensationalism of its name' (Faderman 1987, p. In a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest documentation of lesbianism in modern Western history.īorn of well-to-do parents, Benedetta Carlini entered the convent at the age of nine. First written about in Judith Browns Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (1986), Carlinis case is intriguing and has sparked much debate. Brown).pdf - Free ebook download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read book. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. ![]() ![]() ![]() This story is truly for anyone who loves fairy tales. It works in perfect harmony with the story. It is all black and white, with only golden highlights both beautiful and a little ugly at the same time. Then there is the art work! Chris Riddell’s art is odd, detailed, and I could spend hours looking at it. I particularly loved the main character, who is a fairy tale princess, but her story picks up after the original fairy tale ends – essentially what happens after “they lived happily ever after.” The characters are unique and unexpected, and the setting is made rich and vibrant with a minimum of words. Though it is not a long story, Gaiman manages to bring the characters and story to life. It has a capable heroine who can think for herself (something I always appreciate), unexpected twists, and a bad guy that will definitely surprise you. ![]() As one might guess from the title, this fractured fairy tale is a different take on Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, but it has to be one of the most unique versions I have ever encountered. The Sleeper and The Spindle is by one of the most creative authors out there – Neil Gaiman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics looms large today as the advances in genetics in the last thirty years-from the sequencing of the human genome to modern gene editing techniques-have brought the idea of population purification back into the mainstream.Įugenics has "a short history, but a long past," Rutherford writes. How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Ĭontrol is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for molding the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The main characters of the book were well written and both had their own uniqueness, Jasmine being the woman who finally learns to stand up for herself and Luciano finally learning that control is not always the best option. Now as much as she is set on regaining her memory Luciano has other plans of the more life destroying kind, he wants revenge and when he finally gets it, he will walk away leaving her as empty as she did him all those months ago. ![]() While attending a party one evening she comes face to face with the man who placed those rings there and suddenly her memory starts returning in flashbacks and it seems that Luciano is the key to her unlocking her full past. ![]() The book was in short about Jasmine who finds herself with amnesia after surviving a nasty car accident, the only link she has to the last few months of her life before the accident is a set of gorgeously crafted rings on her left hand, and more questions than answers of who the man is she called her husband. As the title says he is bound to her by her ring and as the book unfolded I not only learned the significance of the ring but also that without the ring more than just a marriage is lost. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she’s certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton-if only she can wrap her head around the idea of magicians, fairies, aliens, and other supernatural creatures all being real. ![]() Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. Here’s the official synopsis from Harper Collins Publishers:Īmari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. The execs at Universal Pictures agree and have optioned the book for a future big screen adaptation. She’s a character that can proudly take her place next to the others. But now there’s a new strong-willed protagonist and her name is Amari Peters. Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Artemis Fowl come to mind. Middle grade fantasy has many beloved characters and series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Diana’s mission to find a witch willing to train her in the use of magic proves more difficult than expected in a time when public fear and suspicion of witches is increasing. Reunited with his old friends again, Matthew also resumes one of his other occupations – spying for Elizabeth I. Another benefit of leaving the present day behind is that Matthew and Diana will be able to escape the clutches of the other witches, vampires and daemons who have also been trying to get their hands on Ashmole 782.Īrriving in Elizabethan England, Diana discovers that Matthew is one of a group of writers, artists and scientists known as the School of Night, whose other members include Sir Walter Raleigh and Christopher (Kit) Marlowe. The second is to find another witch who can help Diana to understand and control her magical powers. ![]() ![]() The first is to hunt down Ashmole 782, an elusive manuscript which they hope will provide important information on the origins of their species – witches, vampires and daemons (known collectively as ‘creatures’). Shadow of Night follows witch Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew Clairmont as they travel back in time to the year 1590 with two goals in mind. I read the first, A Discovery of Witches, earlier this year and the third, The Book of Life, has just been published, which is what made me decide to pick up the middle book last week. This is the second book in the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As they grow closer, he finds himself willing to risk everything to keep her alive even his relationship with his devoted brother and liaison, Niklas, who now like everyone else wants Sarai dead. While on the run, Victor strays from his primal nature as he succumbs to his conscience and resolves to help Sarai. But things don't go as planned and instead of finding transport back to Tucson, she finds herself free from one dangerous man and caught in the clutches of another. When Victor arrives at the compound to collect details and payment for a hit, Sarai sees him as her only opportunity for escape. Victor is a cold-blooded assassin who, like Sarai, has known only death and violence since he was a young boy. ![]() Over time she forgot what it was like to live a normal life, but she never let go of her hope to escape the compound where she has been held for the past nine years. Sarai was only fourteen when her mother uprooted her to live in Mexico with a notorious drug lord. Redmerski, comes a dangerous and boundary-pushing new crime and suspense series, In the Company of Killers. From New York Times, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author J. ![]() |