![]() ![]() The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life - an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. Released from prison in 1990, Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa in 1994. ![]() Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. ![]() ![]() After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But relationships aren’t built to last, so it shouldn’t be that hard. When her pledge to stay single in February inspires readers to #gosolo, Sora has a responsibility to empower her readers. What is it with the commercial love machine? Why do we pin our hopes on one romantic day, when staying home with a package of bacon and a bottle of tequila would be way better? Sora’s been betrayed and disappointed more than once and her heart is starting to feel like her Grandma Mitsuye’s antique Japanese ceramic bowl, with its many gold-filled cracks. The one thing that disrupts her inertia: an intense dislike for Valentine’s Day. She’d rather stay at home with her insufferable neighbor and her adorable pitbull. ![]() For Sora, minimal input, minimal expectations is the way to go. ![]() She’s the odd one out in a close-knit family of go-getters, including her Japanese-American mom, who hints about her need to lose weight, and her soon-to-be married, overachieving younger sister, who needs her to have a date for the wedding, since a wedding party couples' dance with their Scottish great uncle Bob simply won't do. ![]() Cheerfully irreverent, bitingly funny, and filled with romantic charm, Cara Tanamachi's The Second You're Single is all about navigating the most romantic month of the year, and how love always seems to arrive when you least expect it.įreelance writer Sora Reid believes in inertia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a captivating narrative, full of honesty as well as hope – in which it’s ok to express that poorly people can be annoying that feeling jealous of the attention given to an ill sibling isn’t actually a sign of an evil character and most of all, that miracles come in all shapes and sizes, even if the one you long for above all else never arrives.ĭeath or Ice Cream? (Gareth P. ![]() She has quite enough going on at home and at school to occupy her thoughts – and besides, she’s blessed with a Big Imagination and knows how to put it to good use, creating an entire fantasy land where she can escape and explore, at the same time as negotiating the world immediately around her. Right from the start, however, as the narrator of her own life, Miranda refuses to dwell on the grim details. We don’t know exactly what is wrong with her, but it’s a ‘condition’ that means regular hospital stays, operations, and a good deal of fear and stress for the whole family. There’s a heartbreaking reality at the centre of Miranda’s story: her big sister, Gemma, is sick. Miraculous Miranda (Siobhan Parkinson, Hachette, £10.99) ![]() ![]() Narratives incorporating this understanding might be termed ludic fiction. Play, he argued, involved free and joyous adherence to absolute order. And in Homo Ludens: Proeve Eener Bepaling Van Het Spel-Element Der Cultuur ( 1938 trans R F C Hull as Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture 1949), he suggests from the darkening but not yet apocalyptic perspective of 1938 Netherlands that (within its terms) an utterly serious, essential (and essentially nondamaging) element of formal and (less importantly) informal play was inherent in the formation of human groupings and that a healthy civilization must be capable of acknowledging and praising that element of play. ![]() In Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen: Studie over Levens- en Gedachtenvormen der 14de en 15de Eeuw in Frankrijk en de Nederlanden ( 1919 cut trans Frits Hopman as The Waning of the Middle Ages 1924 full trans Diane Webb as Autumntide of the Middle Ages 2020), an emphasis on aesthetically heightened romantic courtesy and chivalry as a bastion against Decadence proved indirectly influential on writers like Poul Anderson, and in its concentration on Burgundy may have directly helped shape Mary Gentle's Ash sequence. ![]() (1872-1945) Dutch historian, linguist, and philosopher who is best known internationally for two books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Banishment, attacks, and then, last night, Commander Ricci’s revenge. And she’d paid for that decision with pain as well. She’d submitted rather than kill Anika, a girl from Hotel Misery. When it had been Serina’s time to fight, she’d found she couldn’t do it. And then there was the agony of the fights themselves, watching women kill each other for rations. ![]() The pain of being stripped down and inspected by Commander Ricci. The pain of the shackles, of her fellow prisoners’ sobs. Since the first moment she’d stepped on this island, condemned for reading-her sister’s crime, not her own-she’d been surrounded by it. ![]() She should have known that here on Mount Ruin, survival would mean pain. In truth, finding a place where her hurts didn’t lick at her, hungry and hot, was a difficult job.īut it was the memory of Jacana’s small lifeless body, Oracle’s sightless eyes, the rows upon rows of brave dead women that caused her the most agony. The half-healed slash on her arm burned, the bullet wound in her shoulder ached, and her bruises from Commander Ricci’s punishing fists screamed. WITH EVERY BREATH, Serina Tessaro’s broken rib flamed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just to ensure it’s not too high brow, Herbert includes giant space worms because of reasons. ![]() The fascinating thing about this novel is that it’s Sci-Fi, but draws heavily upon fantasy, Shakespearean tragedy, Islamic mythology, and philosophy. Throw in some religious fervour and autocracy onto an already burning pyre, and you’ll get a glimpse into the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Whereas the Atreides relied on water and wind power on Caladan, desert power reigns on Arrakis – known also as Dune.įrank Herbert’s first entry in the so-called ‘Duniverse’, is the coming of age story of Paul Atreides – a man who’s descent from comfort and privilege into hardship is an undeniably compelling tale.Īlong the way, Herbert examines complex topics such as planetary ecology and the politics of empire. To put this in perspective, the spice is akin to oil in our own times – highly sought after, difficult to mine, and often the source of conflict. ![]() The house of Atreides, previously of Caladan (a planet similar to Earth), is tasked with ruling the fiefdom of Arrakis – an inhospitable desert planet that just happens to provide the only source of melange (a rare spice) in the universe. ![]() ![]() Tucker has spent years clawing his way up from nothing. The only thing Tucker ever wanted was Nate Silva, so he drove him away. He looks at Nate like he craves him.īut Nate knows better than anyone that Tucker isn’t capable of love. Tucker is smoke and shadows, fury and calm, and as wild as the horses he tames. So when a family crisis brings him home for the first time in years, the last thing Nate wants is to be drawn to the cruel cowboy he left in the dust. He’s a man people rely on, but he’s tired of fixing other people’s problems. Nate ditched his hell-raising childhood for the big city and a string of disastrous relationships. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s as cruel as he is gorgeous, with a devastating loneliness in his cold blue eyes. The one person Nate could never ignore was Tucker Grace. His dark secret drove away the only boy he ever loved. ![]() ![]() Then I became their maid.Įvery day more than half a million people tune in to watch my show. My life used to consist of nothing but work, keeping Allen out of trouble, and if I had time, sleep. The Anatomy of Jane is a thrilling story that accelerates your heart and mind while burning you up before leaving you in a gasping state of shock with one hell of a cliffhanger ending. ![]() My heart also broke a little for each of them and their family battles, social battles and what the future may hold. My heart and mind warred with each other over Max and Wes, what would happen, would Jane get one? Which one? I was fully captivated by the relationship and the dynamic between the three of them. ![]() There is an undeniable push & pull feeling when reading this book. With just enough suspensful back ground action to keep the story flowing, The Anatomy of Jane is addicting. A blistering connection JUMPED out of this book and GRABBED me.įrom page one Amelia sets a story that lights up every part of the reader. Jane, Max & Wes are a total match made in heaven. The Anatomy of Jane so, so sexy, so sinful, I literally BLUSHED and FANNED myself SO MANY TIMES! ![]() This has to be the hottest book I’ve read all year. ![]() ![]() It is a prophetic and haunting tale that exposes the worst crimes imaginable: the destruction of freedom and truth. The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwell's nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is still the great modern classic of negative Utopia. He knows even as he continues to pursue his forbidden love affair that eventually he will come to destruction. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. ![]() Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this immensely popular book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Steeped in myth and magical realism, Wright's hypnotic storytelling exposes the heartbreaking realities of Aboriginal life.īy turns operatic and everyday, surreal and sensational, the novel teems with extraordinary, larger-than-life characters. In the sparsely populated northern Queensland town of Desperance, loyalties run deep and battle lines have been drawn between the powerful Phantom family, leaders of the Westend Pricklebush people, and Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob, and their disputes with the white officials of neighboring towns. Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous award-winning novel by Australian Aboriginal writer and activist Alexis Wright.Īlexis Wright employs mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination to re-create the land and the Aboriginal people of Carpentaria. ![]() |