In another, a man stares at his own hand which is stripped of flesh. In one, a man regurgitates a serpentine form made of flame. He puts the etching down and starts to go through others in the series. HARRY : (looking at it) A Nix speciality?īilly is getting subtly spooked now. It shows a horror we recognize: a man's hand pressed into the flesh of another man's head. On Harry, staring at the ambiguous presence.īilly picks up an etching, water-stained and dirty. The eyes are clearly different colours.īILLY : (points to man in doorway) And who's that? And in the doorway - a barely visible figure (and all the more intimidating for that) - is Nix. There are other cultists standing around. Harry picks up a faded photograph of the doorway to Nix's house (with the sigil painted on it) and Butterfield the child standing in the sun. Harry takes a sheaf of papers, and hands them to Billy.
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Rankine’s The White Card is a moving and revelatory distillation of racial divisions as experienced in the white spaces of the living room, the art gallery, the theater, and the imagination itself. Citizen : You are in the dark, in the car. One year later, the second scene brings Charlotte and Charles into the artist’s studio, and their confrontation raises both the stakes and the questions of what-and who-is actually on display. Their conversation about art and representations of race spirals toward the devastation of Virginia and Charles’s intentions. Rankine responded that all of her books begin with the title Danger: Will Robinson. When Rankine joined, he asked her about why the book got its bold title. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters’ disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation to respond.Ĭlaudia Rankine’s first published play, The White Card, poses the essential question: Can American society progress if whiteness remains invisible?Ĭomposed of two scenes, the play opens with a dinner party thrown by Virginia and Charles, an influential Manhattan couple, for the up-and-coming artist Charlotte. California Book Club host John Freeman started off an hour-long discussion of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric by noting the beautiful and disturbing images in the book. The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. His books detailing the lives of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs, and others feel more like novels than boring lists of facts and accomplishments. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.īased on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk - a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate - became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. Riggs now invites you to share his secrets of peculiar history, with a collection of original stories in this deluxe volume of Tales of the Peculiar, as collected and annotated by Millard Nullings, ward of Miss Peregrine and scholar of all things peculiar. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar-the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops-first introduced by Ransom Riggs in his #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A companion to the New York Times bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, now a major motion picture directed by Tim Burton.īefore Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. It is a very readable story, maintaining good pace throughout. I would recommend this book for readers over the age of 14. The story keeps a good pace, but contains some repetitive language and the author overuses certain phrases. The reader doesn’t get to know Arianna, Rukhsana’s girlfriend, to any depth, as well as other peripheral characters. One issue I found with the novel, is that the author doesn’t develop all the characters. It highlights the difficulties of trying to live in two cultures, straddling the fence of being both American and Bangladeshi. The novel gives the reader insight into the life of a teenager living in American society, whilst her homelife is based on a different culture. Then Rukhsana’s life gets turned upside down when her parents discover she is gay. Rukhsana struggles with the necessity of straddling two cultures – her American life, with its associated freedoms, and her family’s Muslim background and the familial and cultural expectations that come with that. With a welcome mix of humor, heart, and high-stakes drama, Sabina Khan provides a timely and honest portrait of what its like to grow up feeling unwelcome. She loves schoolwork, excels at physics, and has dreams of a career that would’ve once been dominated by men. A timely and honest coming-of-age story that explores the complicated relationship between identity, culture, family, and love. Rukhsana is a strong female character for readers to identify with. Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali has always been fascinated by the universe around her and the laws of physics that keep everything in order. When the 2 guys finally do get together, I found it sweet and almost desperate…their need and want and inexplicable connection to one another. It was a cool extra and made me feel like someone might be watching over me too…trying to direct my happiness. I didn’t quite feel like I got to know him as well as Paul…but I liked him for Paul.īecause the story is short, a lot of the details were rushed and there were things I didn’t quite buy into (If his brother was so upset at Paul’s random hook-ups, what made him think the nude dancers at his bar would be a better option? And I need more of Michael’s backstory w/ the rich boyfriend).īut, what I loved about this story was the minor paranormal element. Michael is an accountant, a twinkle-toed dancer, and apparently, on the wrong side of an abusive relationship. There’s something kinda sad and lonely about him and I related to bits of his life. I love his story of growing up reading and making up characters who’ve lived in and around his family’s property. Paul is a bartender and part owner of a family bar. Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham’s strategies. in addition, Graham helps people to come up with ways to make long term strategies that help them to meet their financial goals. This book has been acknowledged globally as the greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century and has taught and inspired people worldwide.īenjamin Graham’s philosophy of ‘value investing’ which shields the investors from making substantial errors has made this book, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, the stock market bible. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham was first published by Benjamin Graham in 1949. Book Summary: The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham Before long, the hedonistic sands of Las Vegas seduced him and lured him away from his peaceful life. Drawn to the spirituality of the Native peoples of America, he moved to Northern Arizona to live among the tribes which inhabit the area. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īuan Boonanca always had the craving to see the world outside of the bubble of the Orange County, CA ghetto where he was raised. What Cam doesn’t realize is that his transformation is far from complete. There his life begins to follow a familiar and comfortable pattern and gives him hope of a new normal. Forced to embrace his altered self, Cam starts over in the place he least expected. All attempts at finding out who or what is vandalizing his once-immaculate appearance are coming up empty, and the ever-multiplying tattoos aren’t just destroying his looks they’re destroying his whole life. Every time it’s a blemish even his most expensive exfoliant can’t scrub away. Mornings in the SoCal apartment he shares with his best bud are all starting off the same way: Cam wakes up and discovers a new ink breakout somewhere on his body. Now more tattoos are beginning to appear and Cam has no idea why. He never wanted to forget the weekend he barely remembers, so he got himself a permanent souvenir: his first tattoo. The jackpot Cam hit in Vegas finally gave him the chance to party like a rock star. A sudden storm blows Shade away from the flock in the chase to catch up, he meets Marina, a faithful companion of another bat species acquires a nemesis in Goth, a huge, seemingly indestructible tropical bat with cannibalistic tendencies escapes capture above ground and below encounters a host of allies and enemies and finds several mysteries to pursue-why other animals are so ready to wipe the bats out, what the silver bands humans give some bats portend, and especially what became of his banded father. In swift retribution, owls burn the ancient nursery of the silverwing bats, forcing them to depart early for Hibernaculum, their winter roost. In satisfying his desire to catch just a glimpse of the sun, young Shade defies a punishment imposed millions of years before when bats refused to fight in the Great War Between the Birds and the Beasts. A small bat's curiosity touches off a war of extermination against all his kind in this action-packed odyssey from the author of Dead Water Zone (1993). He went on to enroll as a doctoral student at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (now Humboldt-Universität). Harvard Ph.D.ĭu Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. While a pupil in Germany, he studied with some of the most prominent social scientists of his day and was exposed to political perspectives that he touted for the remainder of his life. After completing his master's degree, he was selected for a study-abroad program at the University of Berlin. He paid his way with money from summer jobs, scholarships and loans from friends. For the first time, he began analyzing the deep troubles of American racism.Īfter earning his bachelor's degree at Fisk, Du Bois entered Harvard University. It was there that he first encountered Jim Crow laws. In 1885, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to attend Fisk University. While growing up in a mostly white American town, Du Bois identified himself as mulatto, but freely attended school with white people and was enthusiastically supported in his academic studies by his white teachers. Du Bois, was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, better known as W.E.B. Du Bois co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) in 1909. He wrote extensively and was the best-known spokesperson for African American rights during the first half of the 20th century. Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. |