![]() Eventually fleeing to the Netherlands, she thought she was free and safe from the cruelty of her childhood. Growing up in Somalia, she suffered female genital mutilation under the country's oppressive regime. But Western feminists have focused their outrage elsewhere.Īli knows the pain of sexual violence firsthand. In the age of #MeToo, she asks, why is no one talking about the explosion of sexual violence in Europe's cities? As Islamic extremism spreads to the West thanks to the millions of migrants from the Middle East and Africa, it's women who are going to suffer. The New York Times bestselling author of Infidel, Nomad, and Heretic analyzes how waves of Islamic immigration are ushering in massive cultural changes and transforming sexual politics in Western Europe.Īyaan Hirsi Ali has been speaking against Islamic extremism and sexual violence for decades. ![]()
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![]() But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. As the rain continues to pour down – an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain – the guests begin to realise that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories – each a different type of folklore – that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended. Among them are a ship’s captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. The rain hasn’t stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. ![]() Nothing is what it seems and there’s always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the best-selling Greenglass House, from a National Book Award nominee and Edgar Award winning author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elliott, curator of American slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), was a source of “lingering heartbreak” for Tubman. Of her immediate family members still enslaved in the southern state, Tubman ultimately rescued all but one -Rachel Ross, who died shortly before her older sister arrived to bring her to freedom. Between 18, she returned to Maryland some 13 times, helping around 70 people -including four of her brothers, her parents and a niece-escape slavery and embark on new lives. Tubman dedicated the next decade of her life-a period chronicled in Harriet, a new biopic starring Cynthia Erivo as its eponymous heroine- to rescuing her family from bondage. ![]() ![]() I was a stranger in a strange land and my home after all, was down in Maryland because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there.” “I was free,” she recalled, “but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. The future Underground Railroad conductor’s next thoughts were of her family. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.” ![]() As she later told biographer Sarah Bradford, after crossing the Pennsylvania state boundary line in September 1849, “I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. Harriet Tubman’s first act as a free woman was poignantly simple. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I have often felt the desire to simply leave bubble up from somewhere deep inside me. I understood, far more than I wanted to, Abra’s struggle to feel and to relate and to function. I recognised so much of myself in Katie and Abra – it was like watching my own internal conflicts played out by strangers. There are few narrative complexities, no unnecessary flourishes.Īnd then, it was also difficult to read. ![]() The story is simple, at least on the surface. Gaining Ground was easy to read because of the sparse simplicity – Joan Barfoot’s style is lucid and curt with an underlying warmth to it. It is a fascinating study of mother-daughter relationships and of extremes. Katie’s very presence draws Abra into memories that she thought she had left, swamping her at times. Gaining Ground is the story of Abra, a woman who left her family and everything she knew in order to live utterly alone and whose daughter Katie has now tracked her down to confront her.Ībra has no explanations to offer, no way of making Katie understand what she has done. ![]() ![]() Then again on the other hand, it was terrifyingly difficult. On the one hand, this book was incredibly easy to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With an indomitable spirit, Maye overcame her hardships with a no-nonsense attitude and the firm belief that while one cannot control everything, you can always make a plan. In her compelling memoir, Maye shares hard-earned wisdom and frank, practical advice on careers (the harder you work, the luckier you get), family (let those you love go their own way), health (there is no magic pill), adventure (make room for discovery, but always be ready for anything), and more. She struggled emotionally and financially as a single mother to Elon, Kimbal and Tosca, battled weight issues and had to restart her life and her practice as a dietician in numerous cities over and again. Things have not always been easy for the mother of South African-born entrepreneur Elon Musk. Maye Musk, A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success 2 likes Like The secret to health is eating more fruits and vegetables and whole grains and legumes and dairy, and eating what you enjoy, in small portions, when you are hungry. When Maye Musk decided to make gray hair glamorous, she became an international supermodel and worldwide speaker in her sixties - a far cry from the young divorcée living in Durban trying to make ends meet to provide for her three children. ![]() “There’s an Afrikaans saying that I grew up with: ʼn boer maak ‘n plan.” ![]() ![]() ![]() And since she stillĬontrolled the rights to her Poppins books, my efforts at getting a Intensely disliked Walt Disney’s 1964 version. ![]() Wanted to make a sequel to Mary Poppins, and I was assigned to developīut as the new movie, Saving Mr. It was 1988, and I’d been a vice president at Disney for two years.įrom the time I got there, studio president Jeffrey Katzenberg had Travers herself.įormer Disney vice president of production Marty Kaplan describes how this deadlock resulted in the sequel film being put into limbo for decades until her death (and agreement from her family and the trustees of her 'literary estate') allowed Disney to regain the rights to exercise full creative control. Disney were keen to make a follow-up to Mary Poppins as early as 1982 but the movie ended up in a glorious legal mess because of legal clauses on both sides that required creative agreement from both Disney and P.L. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unless Cinder can reverse the mutations that were forced on them years before, Steele and his soldiers plan to satisfy their monstrous appetites with a massacre of the innocent people of Earth.Īnd to show he's serious, Steele is taking hostages.Ĭinder and Kai, Scarlet and Wolf, Cress and Thorne, and Winter and Jacin all feature in this epic new battle. ![]() Iko - an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder - has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna. The world of the Lunar Chronicles comes alive in this thrilling continuation of Wires and Nerve. The second graphic novel, and sequel to Wires and Nerve, Volume 1, from #1 New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Marissa Meyer! ![]() ![]() In 2005 he was awarded the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, and his Studio Ghibli received the festival's Osella Award for overall achievement in 2004. ![]() I ended the story at the same point as we are now, at the starting point of an incomprehensible world." -Hayao Miyazaki, from Starting Point: 1979 1996 About the Author: Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's most beloved animation directors. ![]() "Having ended Nausicaä doesn't mean that everything has ended or come to a conclusion. A modern masterpiece, the entire series is now available in this deluxe box set containing two hardcover volumes with interior color pages and a bonus poster. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is an epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is an epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. Hayao Miyazaki's own creation, the legendary Nausicaä manga is now all in one! A deluxe compilation of the classic manga series written and illustrated by Academy Award(R) winner Hayao Miyazaki. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would try them or someone similar if you would like to try agent route.Īs far as selling nonfiction to the publishers directly, I don’t know, so this a “Do No Harm” situation. ![]() Please forgive me for insulting you by googling – I know that your research skills are likely a step above mine – but I found this Writer Digest page profiling a couple of History Agents. Your specific genre is Historical nonfiction. I know nothing about how to seek representation for it. This is a nonfiction book, so it’s an entirely different ballgame. I’m so sorry, but this is out of my wheelhouse. The genre is Chinese Silk Embroidery, its ancient developmental history, its spread from the Orient over 5,000 years into different cultures and effects in those cultures, cultural changes coming from other cultures, its influences even into today’s world of commerce, not just clothes. I do have sales figures on my original book I published in 2003. ![]() I’m so glad that several of you found the previous post useful.Īfter reading the latest article on writing, I would like your take on some specific areas in the querying letter process. ![]() ![]() They live in South Philadelphia with their two daughters, dog, and cats. Greg Pizzoli works in a studio he shares with his wife Kay Healy, who is a printmaker and fiber artist. ![]() Greg taught silkscreen for seven years at UArts before leaving to pursue making picture books full-time. After two years as a VISTA volunteer, Greg earned his Masters of Fine Art in Book Arts and Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Greg studied English Literature at Millersville University before volunteering for the AmeriCORPS Volunteers in Service to America program. He is the illustrator of the Jack series by Mac Barnett, Crunch the Shy Dinosaur by Cirocco Dunlap, and two books by Margaret Wise Brown. Settle down with this funny book and learn about the magic of reading as a kind librarian teaches a silly pig how much fun reading can be The Book Hog loves books - the way they look, the way they feel, the way they smell-and hell grab whatever he can find. ![]() Greg Pizzoli is the creator of the Baloney and Friends graphic novel series, as well as the author and illustrator of the award-winning picture books The Watermelon Seed, Good Night Owl, and The Book Hog. He also writes nonfiction for kids, including the New York Times Best Illustrated title Tricky Vic, The Quest for Z, and an upcoming book about pizza. ![]() |