![]() One Friday in April reframes suicide-whether in thought or action-as an illness in its own right, a unique consequence of trauma and personal isolation, rather than the choice of a depressed person. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the roof and what happened after he came back down: two hospitalizations, weeks of fruitless clinical trials, the terror of submitting to ECT-and the saving call from David Foster Wallace that convinced him to try it-as well as years of fitful recovery and setback. ![]() ![]() ![]() A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.Īs the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. ![]()
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![]() Even the police treat their father, a white man, differently than their mother, a black woman. This book is unflinchingly honest in how it deals with how others treat Donte differently than his brother Trey, who has lighter skin. Jewell Parker Rhodes shows a range of characters including those who willingly ignore the racism, those who show microaggressions, and finally those who are outright racist like Alan. Through Donte and his family’s eyes, Black Brother, Black Brother tackles systemic racism head-on. ![]() ![]() ![]() With support from his friends, family, and the folks at the youth center, Donte begins to unpack the systemic racism that has sought to hold him down all his life. Jones begins to train Donte to take on his main bully: the Middlefield Prep fencing captain, Alan. Then Donte meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. When Donte gets bullied and arrested for something he didn’t do, he feels immensely frustrated and helpless. To make matters worse, the administration turns a blind eye when the students harass Donte. They especially won’t let him forget that they like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey, more than Donte. ![]() Donte is black, and the white kids at Middlefield Prep won’t let him forget it. ![]() ![]() ![]() This however did not happen and the Japanese suffered because the trusted the government too much. The Japanese trusted the American government to take care of them. In a similar fashion, the Japanese population in American chose to trust their government and to think that nothing bad will happen to them. ![]() Ironically however, the reason why the dog died was because it trusted its human friends too much. The White Dog was adopted by the woman who took care of it and feed it regularly. ![]() The White dog is an important element in the story because it has a metaphorical meaning. The bonsai tree is an important element because it is a metaphor used by the author to make reference to the things the family leaves behind, their legacy that continues to live on even if they leave their home to go to an unknown place. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.īefore leaving, the woman plants in the backyard a bonsai tree she is unable to take with her. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also honors the translators themselves and is sympathetic to the obstacles they faced: he describes, for instance, a 16th-century bishop who destroyed Mayan codices even as he left "essential clues" for the decipherment of those that remained he hails the young 18th-century Englishman whose friends called him "Phenomenon Young" as the man who "really launched the decipherment" of the Rosetta Stone. Whether conveying the gradual discoveries in cracking Minoan writing and Mayan glyphs or the ongoing frustrations with the mysterious texts of ancient Sudan, Crete, Iran and India, Robinson ( The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms) is always careful to address the lay reader in clear prose, and to offer relevant photos, drawings, charts and maps. Major breakthroughs, such as the Rosetta Stone and its key to Egyptian hieroglyphs, and continuing enigmas-such as the undeciphered scripts of the Etruscans and Easter Islanders-are explored with all the fervor of a contemporary news story. This richly illustrated book, which highlights the thrills of archeological sleuthing, recounts the many attempts at understanding ancient civilizations through the decipherment of their long-lost writing. ![]() ![]() I’ll confess, before settling down to read this book, I didn”t know a huge amount about them mostly their actions form the 19th century onwards and some details about the unfortunate case of Charles II, the last Habsburg king of Spain. Up first is The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady, which gives a broad overview of Habsburg family history. So I’m going to ring in the new year by having a two-fer special on one of Europe’s best and messiest: The Habsburgs But the lives of royals are always ripe for high drama, if you are into that kind of thing. And now her grandson seems to be taking his turn airing out the dirty laundry, much to people’s delight. And, really, how could they not? Liz the Second-who we all thought was destined to live forever-shockingly popped her clogs last year. ![]() For all the royal watching going on right now, its the British Royal Family that’s hugging the spotlight. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.Īmerica is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published' GLORIA STEINEM ![]() If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true. ![]() There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother. ![]() In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.Īsha was born into a broken world. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. Many of the novels she wrote were part of three different book series called The Patternist series, the Xenogenesis series, and the Parable series or the. Nearly 30 years after the books were originally published, Butler's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER The complete Parable Duology, a dystopian sci-fi classic from renowned author, Octavia Butler. 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. ![]() ![]() Together with the Merry Thieves, Cordelia, James and Lucie must follow the trail of the knife-wielding killer through the city’s most dangerous streets. And a serial murderer is targeting the Shadowhunters of London, killing under cover of darkness, then vanishing without a trace. Cortana burns Cordelia’s hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter and angry. James is in love with the mysterious Grace Blackthorn, whose brother, Jesse, died years ago in a terrible accident. James and Cordelia’s marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia’s reputation. And she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero’s blade.īut the truth is far grimmer. She is about to be reunited with her beloved father. She has a new life in London with her best friend, Lucie Herondale, and James’ charming companions, the Merry Thieves. She’s engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has loved since childhood. Chain of Iron is a Shadowhunters novel.Ĭordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. ![]() The Shadowhunters must catch a killer in Edwardian London in this dangerous and romantic sequel to the number one New York Times best-selling novel Chain of Gold, from New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Cassandra Clare. ![]() ![]() ![]() Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.Suddenly there arose a problem: If the Bible is objective truth and was written by divinely inspired men, then what does God really mean in each portion of text? There were popular arguments going forth saying "since literature does not accurately convey reality, literary interpretation need not accurately convey the reality which is literature." This basically means that since the Bible is in written form, it's interpretation is subjective and is up to the individual. ![]() So at that point he centered his attention to the Word of God and entered seminary. Now that Piper understood his calling as a minister of the gospel, more specifically a pastor, what was next? He had no idea what it meant to be a pastor, and his fiance had no idea what it meant to be a pastor's wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of her former writers, the late Alan Conway, author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew the murder victim-an advertising executive named Frank Parris-and once visited Branlow Hall. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married-a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Branlow Hall-fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts. But is it? She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she's beginning to miss London.Īnd then the Trehernes come to stay. It should be everything she's always wanted. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. ![]() ![]() ![]() Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn characters, and explores motherhood with a power and depth only she is capable of. Harvesting the Heart is written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, and recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Kristin Hannah. ![]() But her mother's absence and shameful memories of her past force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child, gifts her own mother never gave. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. "From the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Leaving Time Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Small crease to top left corner of back cover. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. ![]() |