![]() Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age-and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. With everything in their society lined up against them, will Sofie and Ivan be able to beat the odds? Or will their chance at love be destroyed by the tumultuous times they live in? When Ivan and Sofie meet, they realize that their pasts are intertwined and-with the sparks that fly between them-perhaps their futures will be too. His family escaped from Europe before the horrors of WWII, and Ivan decides to help fight injustice in their new country, even if it goes against all his instincts as a fighter. Ivan Friedman has devoted his life to boxing, loving the finesse of a well-delivered punch and the penance of receiving one. ![]() Sofie’s spent half her life being prim, proper, and reserved-as if that could bring her mother back-but the nonviolent protests happening across the South bring out her inner agitator. Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women don’t court trouble by upending the status quo, but it’s 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is in full swing. ![]() ![]() Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce will be published with DoubleDay books July 23rd. I am delighted to be sharing my review of Miss Benson’s Beetle today as part of the blog tour with Random Things Tours. 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Science-fiction films, once a cinematic counterpart to pulp fiction, are today often big-budget, overproduced spectacles that substitute grandiosity for imagination. Just as it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken, it takes a smart filmmaker to make a stupid movie, which I mean in the best possible way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Merivel exults in the king's fondness for his fool, and thinks he's been even more pampered when the king gives him a house, an income, and a bride, but soon the unraveling begins. While at court, Merivel indulges himself with food, drink and revelry and soon becomes a sort of court jester. Inadvertently, through no help from the doctor, the dog does survive. Merivel knows the only way to get ahead in England of this time is to please the king. In part one it depicts the newly-made physician Merivel's lucky break in being asked to treat the king's spaniel who is sick. ![]() There is humour in this, yes, but also much sadness. 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