![]() ![]() Tensions between Indians and Africans intensify and the deadline to leave is fast approaching. Now as neighbors leave and soldiers line the streets, the two friends find that nothing seems sure-not even their friendship. ![]() But Yesofu is torn, pulled between his friends, his family, and a promise of a better future. A critically acclaimed tale of empathy, hope, and resilience, Tina Athaides unforgettable middle grade debut follows two friends whose lives are transformed by Idi Amins decision to expel Indians from Uganda in 1972. Tall.īut when Idi Amin announces that Indians have ninety days to leave the country, suddenly those differences are the only things that people in Entebbe can see-not the shared after-school samosas or Asha cheering for Yesofu at every cricket game.ĭetermined for her life to stay the same, Asha clings to her world tighter than ever before. Perfect for fans of Half from the East and Inside Out and Back Again.Īsha and her best friend, Yesofu, never cared about the differences between them: Indian. From debut author Tina Athaide comes a soaring tale of empathy, hope, and resilience, as two best friends living under Ugandan President Amin’s divisive rule must examine where-and who-they call home. ![]()
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![]() THIS is the sense of wonder I'm looking for in a SF story. "Egan questions what it really means to be human in a way that it's quite unsurpassed in my mind" - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ![]() I can only marvel at how he finds his inspiration for a high-tech tale in an ancient wisdom like Kabbalah, and then proceeds to out-Kabbalah even the Kabbalists with his creativity" - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Readers are having their minds blown by PERMUTATION CITY: ![]() Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - Permutation city is filled with the sense of wonder and dread.Ĭan what makes you human be distilled into data? And what happens if you can't afford to pay? Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes grows beyond his control. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet there is a serpent in Eden and his name is Damian, the knight’s squire who is so enamoured of May “that for the very pain he was nearly crazy.” January, believing that Damian is truly sick, visits him with May, whereupon Damian secretly give her a letter and she learns of his passion for her. Chaucer ensures that the descriptions of January are unflattering and lecherous, to place the reader into May’s viewpoint, and as January spends hours satisfying his passion with her and assuring her that he can do no wrong in the eyes of the law, she finally takes to her room and locks herself in for four days. ![]() The wedding is described in detail, but January wishes it to end so he can slake his amorous desires on his new wife. ![]() and, of course, Chaucer’s playful spirit. Justinus assures him that will not be the case, and, in fact, he can take comfort in the fact that his marriage will probably be a purgatory.Īnd so “tender youth has wedded stooping age” and all around them is mirth …. It is said men cannot experience bliss twice and he is concerned that all the happiness he is sure to find with his wife, will then be denied to him in Heaven. He finds the perfect wife in May, a poor yet fair girl, but January is tormented by another thought. ![]() ![]() The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.Īs I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. ![]() I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.īut since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. ![]() We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. ![]() ![]() ![]() one human at a time It is the summer of 2007. 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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() He leaves the police force, loses his home, and winds up on the street, taking piecemeal jobs as a private investigator when he can.īut over a year later, a man turns himself in to the police and confesses to the murders. His family destroyed, their killer’s identity as mysterious as the motive behind the crime, and unable to forget a single detail from that horrible night, Decker finds his world collapsing around him. Now a police detective, Decker returned from a stakeout one evening and entered a nightmare–his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law had been murdered. ![]() The second time was at home nearly two decades later. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field forever, and left him with an improbable side effect–he can forget nothing. ![]() But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to play in the NFL. This “impossible to put down” #1 New York Times bestseller introduces Amos Decker, a gifted police detective with a perfect memory who must solve a mystery he wishes he could forget: his family’s murder ( Washington Post).Īmos Decker’s life changed forever–twice. ![]() ![]() But there was this other story I’d started working on, and I was having problems figuring out the plot of the Blue Notes book. ![]() I had committed to submitting another Blue Notes Series book in early 2013. Take my Mermen of Ea Series, for example. There’s no better way to bring on writer’s block than to force yourself to write a story you just aren’t up to writing. So how do I figure out what to write? To be honest, sometimes I write the story that’s most dying to be told and listen to my muse. Contemporary, sci fi, fantasy, paranormal, even historical to some degree (my Blood Series takes place in part in the 19th Century), I’ve written them all. And for a writer (and reader) like me, that creates a constant push and pull that I sometimes fight.Ĭall me a “restless writer,” or call me someone with eclectic tastes, but whatever you call me, you’ll probably have a hard time pigeon-holing me into a genre. As many genres as the “straight” fiction category encompasses. But as readers, we know that there are so many genres that fall under the MM romance umbrella. ![]() ![]() I write gay romance, so I when I’m asked what genre I write, that’s what I generally tell folks. ![]() ![]() Iron Kingdom deftly captures the many contradictions of Prussia, a medieval backwater that became a major European power and the force behind the mighty German empire. The truth is that Prussia was a European state long before it became a German one. Its exquisite bindings are the work of eminent graphic artist and Folio favourite Neil Gower, with designs featuring the Order of the Black Eagle, the Pickelhaube (pointed helmet) and the Prussian coat of arms. ![]() Maps within the text clearly illustrate territorial changes, and each volume has 32 pages of carefully selected colour and black-and-white images – from paintings of Prussian royalty to political leaflets and vivid war photography. This two-volume Folio edition is beautifully presented and lavishly illustrated. In this masterful study, Christopher Clark argues for a more nuanced appraisal of the 350-year-old state that perished, unmourned, in the ashes of the Third Reich. ![]() For many Germans, ‘Prussia’ remains synonymous with everything repellent in German history: militarism, conquest, arrogance and illiberality.Īs Europe lay in ruins after the Second World War, Prussia abruptly ceased to exist – wiped off the map by the victorious Allies as the prime ‘bearer of militarism and reaction in Germany’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Edward Longacre's meticulous research suggests that Chamberlain's own accounts of some of his actions can no longer be taken entirely at face value and that his character had a darker side, but the various flaws and failings of Chamberlain the real man as recounted here serve in the end to emphasize rather than diminish the remarkable nature of his accomplishments. ![]() ![]() Previously unknown aspects of Chamberlain's experiences before the war and at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and Appomattox are presented to a wider audience here for the first time. Now he provides the first biography of Joshua Chamberlain that places his Civil War career in the full context of his life before and after the war, explores all aspects of his character, and draws on independent, and occasionally contradictory, eyewitness accounts of his battlefield actions. Several books on Joshua Chamberlain have appeared in recent years, but most have been either hero-worship or have relied too heavily on his own account of his actions.Edward Longacre has joined the front ranks of American Civil War historians with The Cavalry at Gettysburg, General John Buford, and Custer and his Wolverines. Joshua Chamberlain's exploits on Little Round Top have gained worldwide fame since the release of the film Gettysburg. ![]() ![]() ![]() Filled with telling personal anecdotes and high adventure, with narratives from the CIA and from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the twentieth century. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned. ![]() As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operations brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the story of Lockheeds legendary Skunk Works is a high-stakes drama of cold war confrontations and Gulf War. This classic history of Americas high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is a gripping technothriller. ![]() From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. Buy a cheap copy of Skunk Works book by Ben R. ![]() This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" ( New York Times Book Review). ![]() |