![]() ![]() In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom-award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed-is unapologetically thick: deemed thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less, McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. ![]() Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The GuardianĪs featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, incisive, witty, and provocative essays ( Publishers Weekly) by one of the most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time (Rebecca Traister) FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ![]()
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![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary people, places, and events in the context of the social conventions and systems of thought and belief of the thirteenth century turning the study of history into a kind of theater.Īs Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberance-and puckish wit-to his writings.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, It’s not until just two weeks ago that the US government-mandated negative PCR tests for people flying into the country. We wanted to kill it in the egg by imposing lockouts instead of lockdowns. On January 26, 2020, we issued a warning on the Covid crisis and shortly after published a paper in Nature Physics titled ‘Tail risk of contagious diseases’ which essentially argued that there is no way to predict its future course. Tell us about your early predictions about the pandemic and takeaways for India, if any. In my book on Black Swan on page 307, I explained that because of extreme connectivity such pandemics are unavoidable. You don’ have a Black Swan when movies talk about pandemics. It’s a White Swan the fact that we didn’t have a pandemic for close to 100 years is the actual Black Swan. Was Covid the original Black Swan event for the world?Ĭovid was not a Black Swan, you don’t call something Black Swan that’s already been in the movies. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also break down everything new and upcoming in publishing this year with our featured stories: New Creative Voices to Discover, Popular Genres & Topics: Spring 2022 Predictions, 20 New & Upcoming Publications, and a great feature on BookTok: More Than A Trend. We have interviews with Matthew Lyons Author of A Black and Endless Sky, Interview with WhirlWhirl Publishing Company, Grace M. Book Requests Booklists Categories Most Popular Recently Added Top Z-Librarians Blog Main A Black and Endless Sky. 11,201,806 books books 84,837,645 articles articles ZLibrary Home Home. In this issue we take an inside look at new titles, debut authors, and upcoming genres to watch for in 2022. A Black and Endless Sky Matthew Lyons download Z-Library. ![]() Be sure to check out the first interview with The Worst Best Sellers Podcast on page 102. in an all new format.Įverything you loved about our podcast magazine is now available in each issue of Shelf Unbound in our new "Podster" column. Matthew Lyons A Black and Endless Sky Audio CD Unabridged, Apby Matthew Lyons (Author), Hillary Huber (Reader), Neil Hellegers (Reader) 76 ratings Kindle Edition 14.68 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 43.69 1 Used from 58.91 11 New from 36. Which is why we are happy to announce the return on Podster. For some it's a new version of an old favorite. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lincoln is arguably one of the most well-known and exhaustively studied American politicians, a personality on whom more than 16,000 books have been published, and whose assassination alone has been covered in over 125 books.īut here’s where Doris Kearns Goodwin differs from other scholars. The challenge with retelling the story of Abraham Lincoln, as Douglass pointed out, is that we’re pretty sure we know all the facts of his life. Any man can say things that are true of Abraham Lincoln, but no man can say anything that is new of Abraham Lincoln." - Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, page 15įortunately, we can. The whole field of fact and fancy has been gleaned and garnered. "There is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and good man, and of his high mission in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I'm happy to tell you that Ten Thousand Skies Above You held it's on and was just as amazing (if not more so) than the first novel! I don't know how Claudia Gray does it, but she has created this amazing world that should be too complicated for someone to understand (we're talking a gazillion dimensions here), but at no point was I ever confused as to what was going on or felt lost. sometimes I'm afraid to read the second book in a series because I'm usually terrified that there is no way it will be as good as the first one. Well, Tavia Gilbert does such a phenomenal job in this series I completely forget that I'm listening to only one person (or that I'm actually listening to anyone at all- most of the time I'm too completely absorbed in the story). If you listen to audiobooks like I do, you know that a narrator can either make or a break a book that you listen to. ![]() You can argue with me, but you'd be wrong. ![]() But still! Just to do a simple recap, I reread (listened) to the first book in this series (you can find my original review here) last week and finished this book today and I was not disappointed! First off, let me just say that Tavia Gilbert is the BEST narrator. I missed out on a ton of good books that year. More of this review and others at: Whimsically Bookish WHY has it taken me two years to read this?! Oh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is even invited to share her success story with eager young women at a school assembly. Within a 100 neat pages, this non-linear, stream-of-consciousness narrative follows a young black woman who has invested everything in transcending her race, class and gender to attain a high-paid position in a cut-throat bank. Natasha Brown’s debut novel is a small but blistering take on the British elite and its poisonous relationship with immigration, work and sexual politics. She developed 'Assembly' after receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category and lives in London. Natasha Brown has worked in the financial services for the last ten years and studied Maths at Cambridge University. And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. 'Assembly' is a story about the stories we live within - those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. ![]() As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? ![]() At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. The narrator of 'Assembly' is a Black British woman. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. ![]() ![]() However, for these regulations to be just, they must have been enacted by omniscient, infallible, and moral beings. ![]() Quinn first tries to evaluate the purpose of human existence by considering which external beings ought to regulate human behavior. Although it raises important questions about human duty, its idolizing of Leaver culture and gods, its misinterpretation of natural law, its black-and-white generalizations about human nature, and its unrelenting focus on the community as opposed to individuals makes it ill-suited to offer even basic answers about the role of humans in the world. The novel questions the very nature of human existence and reevaluates what we've done wrong and what we ought to do. Human society, in his view, has embarked on a selfish, destructive journey toward global hegemony. ![]() In Ishmael, Daniel Quinn uses the relationship between a human and a gorilla as a vehicle to denounce the human condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Protagonist Immanuelle tries to follow Gods orders, but her existence is sinful. ![]() Bethel is ruled by the Prophet, a man with corrupt values who has convinced the town to worship him, putting up gates around the community so no one can escape to the heathen lands. ![]() Set in Bethel, a puritanical and sexiest society, Alexis Henderson crafts a strong debut, with a clear feminist message. Trigger Warning: This book involves scenes gore, death, slaughter and sexual assault. You can also find me on Instagram, Goodreads, and Twitter for more bookish content. If you haven’t already, follow this blog. I’m really glad we started with this book, and so far, people are loving it. Perfect for spooky season, this adult stand-alone has a dangerous forest, witches, magic and horror. The Year of the Witching is the first book pick for my book club, and what a book to start with. ![]() ![]() ![]() Charlie mercilessly beats Cussy on their wedding night, then fortunately dies of a heart attack. He finally gets a taker, an old man named Charlie Frazier. The only reason Cussy has any suitors at all is because Pa has offered 10 acres of land for her dowry. She’s also afraid of the kind of man who would want to marry one of the “Kentucky Blue People.” Cussy and several generations of her ancestors have a rare genetic condition that turns their skin blue, and although they are otherwise healthy and normal, they are treated with fear and bigotry. ![]() Cussy doesn’t want to get married she has a job with the WPA’s Pack Horse Library project, delivering books to people in remote communities and homesteads in the hinterlands around Troublesome Creek. ![]() Cussy’s mother died of influenza and Pa-a Kentucky coal miner-is sick himself with black lung. In January of 1936, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter’s father is trying very hard to find a suitable husband for his daughter. ![]() |