![]() Sometimes the lies are for her mama, Evie’s sake-to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper. In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. ![]() "An important novel, beautifully written, this is a story to cherish." -Susan Wiggs, # 1 New York Times bestselling author "Young Dixie Dupree is an indomitable spirit in this coming-of-age novel that is a heartbreaking and honest witness to the resilience of human nature and the fighting spirit and courage residing in all of us." - The Huffington Post, Kim Michele Richardson, author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek ![]() This story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves, will take readers on a heartfelt and heartbreaking journey. A remarkable debut from the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill, composed in a voice as sure and resonant as that of The Secret Life of Bees. ![]()
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![]() If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. ![]() Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. ![]() Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thompson has contributed thought-leadership and scholarship to groups interested in organizational transformation, contemplative practices, trauma, healing and social justice globally. Since 2015 she has worked in Greece as a human rights advocate with people from Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia. She also teaches yoga at the Dorchester YMCA in Boston. ![]() She is a professor of sociology in the College of Social Sciences, Policy and Practice at Simmons University. Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights in North AmericaĬreative Justice Chapbook Award for Zero is the Whole I Fall into at Nightīecky Thompson is a US-based scholar, human rights activist, cross-cultural trainer, poet and yoga teacher. Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Afro-American Studies, Princeton University Winner, Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Book Prize for To Speak in Salt Scholar, human rights activist, cross-cultural trainer, poet and yoga teacher ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to the Materials Use Policy before using archival materials. Papers, photographic images, research materials, scrapbooks, and speeches. Also present are correspondence, personal and business In total, the papers accountįor the majority of Uris's literary output, beginning with his first novel, Battle Cry (1953), through God in The first accession wasįormerly housed at the University of Colorado, and several subsequent accretionsĬame from Uris's estate after his death in June 2003. Leon Uris: A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers in the Manuscript Collection at theġ69 boxes, 43 oversize boxes, 6 galley folders (108 linear feet), and 14 electronicĪt the Ransom Center between 1997-2004 from two sources. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the conference, that past all comes hurtling at Nada, bringing new complications and a moment of reckoning. ![]() And did Haleema mention Zayn's brother Baz will be there? What Haleema doesn't know is that Nada and Baz have a past-some of it good, some of it bad and all of it secret. ![]() Nada's best friend Haleema is determined to pry her from her shell.and what better place than at the giant annual Muslim conference held downtown, where Nada can finally meet Haleema's fiance, Zayn. Something needs to change, but the past is holding on too tightly to let her move forward. Nothing in her life has turned out the way it was supposed to, and Nada feels like a failure. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her start-up dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper instead of a bang because of a double-crossing business partner. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get ma. Much Ado About Nada (Trade Paperback / Paperback)Ī sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has become almost standard that after high school, pupils go to Israel for a year or two. Some of the major achievements of the Modern Orthodox movement are in education.Modern Orthodoxy could even grow among the non-Orthodox, if solutions could be found for the financial commitments it requires mainly for education. ![]() Modern Orthodoxy keeps most of their young in their camp, even if there are many challenges to it from both the Left and the Right.
![]() ![]() ![]() Why is being an artist so at odds with the kind of mentality needed to find stability in our modern world? What do we give up as we pursue economic gain? How can we find agency-write our own rules for living-while also making our way within enormous capitalist systems that are entrenched and seemingly immovable? These are the big questions Biss approaches in her compulsively readable memoir, Having and Being Had, which blends research (the notes section is nearly 50 pages long), reflection and richly rendered personal experience. As she came to terms with her new success, she also found herself reflecting on precarity-as well as money, art and capitalism. The moment her contract shifted from visiting artist to a more permanent title, Biss and her family bought a house. ![]() Writer Eula Biss worked a variety of temporary jobs before achieving economic security as an English professor at Northwestern University. ![]() ![]() ![]() Warning: Spoilers For Behind Her Eyes Ahead. Read my spoiler free Behind Her Eyes review. So if you haven’t seen the series or read the book, and want to go in blind, stop reading now and come back later. ![]() However, those answers can be a bit confusing when you do get them so let me give you the ending of Behind Her Eyes explained! I certainly hope this helps!īe warned, this article has major spoilers for the Netflix series, Behind Her Eyes, as well as for the book. Netflix’s Behind Your Eyes is a psychological thriller that gets a bit confusing toward the end - here is the ending explained.īehind Her Eyes is a psychological thriller that will have you hooked from the start! Things are very clearly not what they seem and you will continue to watch because you just need answers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Viv's mum was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the '90s, and now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates Moxie, a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment and gross comments from guys during class. Fed up with her high school teachers who think the football team can do no wrong. ![]() It's time to fight like a girl! Perfect for fans of Holly Bourne. When an unlikely teenager stands up to sexism in her high school she unwittingly starts a feminist revolution that shakes her whole town. I'm proud to be a Moxie girl!' Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe ![]() Read the book behind the upcoming NETFLIX movie launching on 3rd March 2021, directed by and starring Amy Poehler. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Takes a damn long time to learn that, don’t it?” Wanda nodded but didn’t look at me, just sat there twisting the ring on her middle finger and staring into the parking lot across the street. Took me a long time to grow up and stop falling in love with women who would treat me bad.” I said it as if it were accomplished, as if I were not at that moment in love with yet another hard-eyed bitter woman. ![]() She treated me just about like he treated you. ![]() She was like that boy you wanted to marry. “The woman love you back?” Wanda asked me. Sex was dangerous enough, and our family was proof that love was a disaster waiting to happen. I reminded myself that there were just some things we never had talked about before, like sex, money, and broken bones. “Well,” she drawled, and looked away as if that would help her not to laugh, “that’ll do it, I suppose. Her mouth quirked, one side twitching as if she wanted to grin but didn’t dare. “I fell in love with a woman,” I said, matching her in tone and attitude. I looked into her deceptively clear brown eyes and considered the question. ![]() |