![]() ![]() Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.ĭrawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.Ĭlark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. ![]() Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() At the height of Asante resistance to British colonization, a young woman searches for her ancestors in the Asante capital city of Kumasi and in a village empty of its warriors, a mother is haunted by visions of a woman made of fire. As the British end their participation in the slave trade and turn their attention to colonization in West Africa, a young man escapes his family’s shadow for the anonymity of a “small-small” (p. ![]() In Cape Coast, a reluctant son takes on his father’s mantle as a British slave trader, navigating relationships between British companies, the Fante tribes of the coast, and the Asante villages of the inland. “Every moment has a precedent and comes from this other moment, that comes from this other moment, that comes from this other moment.”Įffia and Esi’s descendants disperse and converge throughout the novel. ![]() “Our history…informs the way that we treat people in the present,” Gyasi said in an interview with TIME. In Gyasi’s deft hands, time is elastic: 20 years pass in a sentence, a single moment stretches across pages, the past folds into the present. While Effia marries an Englishman and leads a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, Esi is captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery in America. Told over the course of eight generations, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing follows the descendants of two half-sisters-Effia and Esi-who are born in 18th-century Ghana. ![]() ![]() If you want to revive the in-stock item ASAP, you must place two orders one for the items we have in stock and one for pre-ordered or back-ordered items. Therefore, if your order contains a pre-ordered or back-ordered item along with in stock item, we will only ship your order out once we have received the pre-ordered or back-ordered item. We will only ship orders out in one shipment. 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So aided a crew of unusually determined pets, Molly sets off on Pink Lightning-her tricked-out bicycle-on a chase through the hills of southern Ohio.įinding the robot culprit only creates more questions, however, and when the unlikely mastermind behind the robot is uncovered, a new story begins to unfold-one of lost love, family bonds, and some seriously weird science. If Molly wants to protect the family she has left, Wally’s rescue is going to be up to her. ![]() ![]() Sure, Wally tends to ruin everything, and his finger practically lives up his nose, but she isn’t about to let him be abducted by some unknown enemy, especially since their mom ran off to Florida two years ago and their dad, who’s slowly morphing into a couch potato, won’t be any help. But when Molly’s little brother is snatched up before her eyes, she has no choice but to follow. With sheer drop-offs at every turn, the woods behind Molly McQuirter’s house have always been a dangerous place-even before something big and metal started lurking in them. It’s the summer of 1983, and one by one, the kids of Far Flung Falls are disappearing. Perfect for fans of Stuart Gibbs and James Ponti, this hilarious and poignant middle grade sci-fi adventure set in 1980s Ohio follows a young girl who makes incredible discoveries about family and belonging while chasing a kidnapping robot. ![]() ![]() ![]() RELATED: Star Trek Gifts for the Trekkie in Your Life The entire franchise stems from a premise dreamed up by William Shatner and first established in 1989’s TekWar-with ghostwriting duties handled by Edgar Award-nominee Ron Goulart. The series also spawned a comic book series (Marvel’s TekWorld) a first-person shooter video game ( William Shatner’s TekWar) and screen adaptations in the form of made-for-TV movies and the TekWar TV series that aired from 1994 to 1996. The TekWar series is comprised of nine novels, beginning with 1989’s TekWar and concluding with 1997’s Tek Net. Let’s buckle up and take a ride, shall we? And while it doesn’t journey into the same deep space explored by the authors mentioned above, it does ask a number of questions about our relationship with technology that echo through to this day. Similarly, the first mission of Shatner’s TekWar series is to entertain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mountbatten’s father was forced to resign as the First Sea Lord following intense public pressure due to his German ancestry when the First World War broke out in 1914. He did become an Admiral of the Fleet and the First Sea Lord in 1955 thereby fulfilling a childhood vow that he would attain a position held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg. Whenever I think of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), I see an imposing figure in sparkling white Naval uniform with rows of medal ribbons on his chest. Apart from this comprehensive book on the Mounbattens, Lownie has written books on the former King Edward VIII called “The Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor” and on the Russian spy Guy Burgess, titled, “Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess’. ![]() It is written by Andrew Lownie, a renowned journalist and literary agent. To the reader in India, ” The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves” published by Blink Publishing in 2019 renews interest in a couple who played a pivotal role in the Partition of India. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2002, Hairspray was adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, which itself was adapted to a hit musical film which earned more than $200 million worldwide. Waters skirted mainstream filmmaking with Hairspray (1988), which introduced Ricki Lake and earned a modest gross of $8 million domestically. Waters skirted mainstream filmmaking with Hairspray (1988), which intr Starting with Desperate Living (1977), Waters began casting real-life convicted criminals (Liz Renay, Patricia Hearst) and infamous people (Traci Lords, a former porn star). Waters's 1970s and early '80s trash films feature his regular troupe of actors known as Dreamlanders-among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. John Waters is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Merciless Ones is the second thrilling installment of the epic fantasy series in which a young heroine fights against a world that would dare tame her. And with her own gifts changing, Deka must discover if she holds the key to saving Otera. Yet hidden secrets threaten to destroy everything Deka has known. For there is a dark force growing in Otera-a merciless power that Deka and her army must stop. but war is waging across the kingdom, and the real battle has only just begun. It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera and discovered who she really is. “Fans of Children of Blood and Bone, Mulan, and the Dora Milaje from Black Panther are going to adore. The epic, hotly anticipated sequel to the instant bestseller The Gilded Ones about a girl with the power to remake her world-or destroy it. ![]() ![]() ![]() If nothing bothers you and your pain isn’t greatĭon’t be resentful of the grimmest fate), The nincompoop was totally blind to the fact that he was situated at the center of that “golden” kernel of happiness (golden in the sense of an autumnal sky at dawn, an aspen leaf turned yellow by the sun, the luster of a perfectly formed beetle) (for as Marquis di Scampi used to croon while bathing: ![]() This was indeed so, although some individuals still managed to profit from the refuse of a moribund life in Zipcio’s case, however, everything seemed bent upon his destruction, externally as well as internally. His sole consolation derived from the fact that horrible times had befallen nearly everyone else as well. (Conceived by Witkiewicz, the photograph was taken by Józef Głogowski.)įrom the beginning of the second part of Witkacy’s novel, Insatiability: Self-portrait, Zakopane (1931) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (born 24 February, 1885 died 18 September, 1939), aka Witkacy. ![]() |