![]() ![]() The case becomes even more fraught as a cult of white supremacists brings its gospel of hate to Repentance and violence explodes, claiming more lives. ![]() ![]() With old prejudices and new secrets spilling out into the open, the modern world soon illuminates the village’s darkest corners. Keeping order and her demons at bay becomes an impossible task when the Black drifter suspected in the earlier disappearances returns to Repentance … and another sixth grader vanishes. Today, Mary Grace is the first female sheriff of her rural town, a position that doesn’t sit well with some of the locals. Everything changed when a newcomer to town became her only best friend, and changed a second time when that friend and another classmate vanished two months later, never to be seen again. At school, a bully made her life a nightmare. Orphaned at eleven, she was forced to go live with her Bible salesman uncle, wheelchair-bound aunt, and a cousin who tortured and killed small animals. ![]() In this gripping suspense debut, the first female sheriff of a small mountain village investigates a disappearance that echoes the crimes that shattered her town decades before.įor twenty-four years, Mary Grace Dobbs has been searching for salvation. “I’m the only one who knows what happened to those girls…” ![]()
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![]() Barnardo's Barkingside Home for Girls, a local home for orphans and forgotten children found in the city's slums. ![]() When the children are caught stealing food, Winny and Mary are left in Dr. After running away from an abusive stepfather, she falls in with Mary, Jack, and their ragtag group of friends roaming the streets of Liverpool. ![]() But when her great-grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her dear late husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can't lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago.įifteen-year-old Winny has never known a real home. The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caught in a scheme to rid England's streets of destitute children, and the lengths she will go to find her way home-based on the true story of the British Home Children.Īt ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn't have much time left, and it is almost a relief to realize that once she is gone, the truth about her shameful past will die with her. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she mentions, “I think and write in conversation with scholars, teachers, and activists involved in social justice struggles” (p. Those two, scholarship and practice, co-exist and are shaped by the interaction between each other. A feminist solidarity cannot emerge without decolonising knowledge and “practice anticapitalist critique” (p.7). For Mohanty, there is no such thing as an apolitical scholarship, and her academic work is not seen as distinct from her political engagement. ![]() The three topics/sections are inseparable in understanding her argumentation on reorienting feminism. The third section ‘revisits’ her earlier writing ‘Under Western Eyes’: This revision suggests a reorientation of “transnational feminist practices towards anticapitalist struggles, by examining feminist pedagogies and scholarship on globalization and by exploring the implication of absence of racialized gender and feminist politics in anti-globalization movements” (p.13). The second part delves into the politics of knowledge, with a specific focus on academia in the US. The first part criticizes the Western-centric nature of feminism and identifies the need for more nuanced analyses. Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s book Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing and Solidarity is divided into three parts and discusses the primary subjects that have previously occupied Mohanty’s writings and interests: decolonizing feminism, demystifying capitalism, and reorienting feminism. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, for the past week, I’d counted down every minute until his business trip. I wanted to be there and settled before my clean-cut husband came looking for us. I only had three days to get to where I needed to be, and I wasn’t going to hesitate. I’d never imagined the world I chose would be far worse than the one I had left. He wouldn’t get his hands dirty, wouldn’t raise his voice, and wouldn’t carry a gun. ![]() I wanted a husband who paid taxes and would take his car to a mechanic for routine maintenance. I wanted a different life though, so I’d gone away to college, and later, I’d tried to carve out a life in the beige community where mothers brought their children to school in minivans and joined the PTA. It was the way of the world, or at least, it was the way of our world. I’d seen more than one woman slapped around by her man, and to be truthful, it had never really bothered me much. I couldn’t lie to myself anymore there was one place in the world where he’d never reach us. Every ache, every pain, and every bruise reminded me that we had to escape. My heart told me that nothing good could come from heading back to the place I’d grown up, but I knew we had nowhere else to go. ![]() I’d spent the last five years running, and now, it seemed I was going to have to retrace every excruciating step. How could someone make decision after decision attempting to get away from their past and somehow end up right back where they started? ![]() To Johni, who told me I should write a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author was inspired by his own experiences as a pilot, including his crash in the Sahara Desert, which became the basis for the book’s setting.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry drew the original illustrations for “The Little Prince,” which have become iconic in their own right. ![]() Although the story is often categorized as a children’s book, its themes and allegorical elements resonate with adult readers, making it a beloved classic across generations. The book was written while Saint-Exupéry was living in exile in the United States after the fall of France during World War II. “The Little Prince” tells the story of a young prince traveling from planet to planet, meeting various inhabitants, and learning valuable life and human nature lessons. ![]() Combining philosophical reflections on human nature, friendship, and the search for meaning with a simple yet captivating story, “The Little Prince” has captured the hearts of young and old readers. ![]() Originally written in French, the book has been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects. “The Little Prince,” a novella written by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is one of the world’s most translated and best-selling books. Publication of “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ![]() ![]() ![]() The wonderfully warm, savagely barbed, and hilariously funny novel that inspired iconic film starring Tom Hanks. Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth. Go with Forrest to Harvard University, to a Hollywood movie set, on a professional wrestling tour, and into space on the oddest NASA mission ever. ![]() It's Forrest Gump as you've never seen him before, but just as lovable as ever.Īt 6'6", 240 pounds, Forrest Gump is a difficult man to ignore, so follow Forrest from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to the Vietnam War, from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to powwows with Chairman Mao. 'Superbly controlled satire' Washington Postĭiscover the bestselling novel that inspired the classic Oscar-winning film. (born March 23, 1943) is an American novelist and non-fiction. ![]() What 1949 science fiction book by author George Orwell describes a. THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE 1994 OSCAR-WINNING FILM STARRING TOM HANKS. See all details About the author Winston Francis Groom, Jr. Trivia Question: According to Forrest Gump, life was like. ![]() ![]() Mars Will Tag No More! 2000AD abstract acrylic advertising Alan Moore Alex Nino alien Al Williamson Amazing Spider-man animal inside you animals art Avengers Batman big box of comics Bill Mantlo birth black and white Black Panther book review books brains Brave and the Bold Captain America Carmine Infantino cats Charles Yates Chris Claremont Classics Illustrated collage collection comic book collage comic books crime Dark Horse Comics DC Comics dinosaur dinosaur books dinosaur comics Dinosaurs an Illustrated Guide Dr. ![]() ![]() Follow Mars Will Send No More on Mars Will Advertise No More! Mars Will Categorize No More! ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, at the farthest outpost of the Dutch East Indies Company, Jacob de Zoet comes to make his fortune before reuniting with his fiancEe in Holland. In 1799, the artificial island of Dejima lies in Nagasaki Harbor as the Empire of Japan’s de facto gate blocking Western influence. With this sweeping work of historical fiction, he confirms his place among the world’s greatest novelists. A Booker finalist and Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner, David Mitchell was called “prodigiously daring and imaginative” by Time and “a genius” by the New York Times Book Review. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is an anti-social punishment that has been the cause of much suffering, including many attempted suicides and successful suicides. Mandated shunning weaponizes a person's need for belonging against them. Enforced ostracism removes all sense of belonging and community from the person ostracized. Members of these groups or cults are expected to shun members of their own families if they dare to question dogma or refuse to participate in certain group activities or practices. ![]() Mandated shunning requires that members of a group reject, ignore, isolate and refuse to associate with, or even talk to the person "marked" by the group's leadership. This book, however, directs its help to people who are subjected to mandated, open-ended shunning by religions, quasi-religions, cults and other extreme groups. Granted there are books about how to cope with being bullied and/or marginalized in the workplace or at school. Many studies have been published about the effects of shunning or ostracism on the person shunned but there are few books, if any, written specifically to offer help to the individual suffering from this sort of inhumane treatment. ![]() ![]() ![]() MacGregor began to write for publication in 1946. She did research in children's literature for Scott, Foresman, and Company served as the serials librarian of the Chicago Undergraduate Division of the University of Illinois and was an editor of the Illinois Women's Press Association monthly bulletin, Pen Points. She worked in Florida as a librarian at the Naval Operating Base in Key West, and organized and administered the library at the Naval Air Technical Training Center. She supervised the compilation of the Union Catalog of Art in Chicago and was a research librarian with International Harvester in Chicago, Illinois. She was a librarian for the elementary schools of the Central Hawaii School district and a cataloguer in the Hilo Library in Hawaii. She worked in numerous libraries, wrote several well-received children's books and numerous magazine articles, and died in 1954 at the age of 47. She did postgraduate work in science at the University of California, Berkeley. She attended the University of Washington in Seattle, receiving a Bachelor of Science in library science in 1926. and was educated in schools in Garfield and Kent, Washington. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to George Malcolm MacGregor and Charlotte Genevieve Noble MacGregor. ![]() ![]() She is known best for the Miss Pickerell series of children's novels. ![]() Ellen MacGregor (– March 29, 1954) was an American children's writer. ![]() |