6/27/2023 0 Comments Threading my prayer rugBeginning with a sweetly funny, moving account of her arranged marriage, the author undercuts stereotypes and offers the refreshing view of an American life through Muslim eyes. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United States in an arranged marriage that becomes a love match lasting forty years from secular Muslim in an Islamic society to devout Muslim in a society ignorant of Islam, and from liberal to conservative to American Muslim from student to bride and mother and from an immigrant intending to stay two years to an American citizen, business executive, grandmother, and tireless advocate for interfaith understanding. Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. Honorable Mention in the 2017 San Francisco Book Festival Awards, Spiritual Category A 2019 United Methodist Women Reading Program Selection This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on being Muslim in America today. ONE OF BOOKLIST' S TOP TEN DIVERSE NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2017. ONE OF BOOKLIST' S TOP TEN RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY BOOKS OF 2016. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING.
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Dangerous angels bookI would imagine that this is something that you will either love or hate. I don't believe that everyone will love this book. These books were "edgy" before edgy became so common, so expected, so normal. I would say that the books-especially the first one-were groundbreaking. The remaining four books were published between 19. The first book, Weetzie Bat, was published in 1989. They're very original, very unique, very postmodern. But bizarre in a strange-and-surreal-but-beautiful kind of way. What can I say about this series of books? Well, they're all bizarre. In fact, most of them aren't-three of them are narrated by Weetzie Bat's children. Not all books are narrated by Weetzie Bat. Dangerous Angels: The Weezie Bat Books.ĭangerous Angels is an all-in-one edition of the five Weetzie Bats books: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be Bop. But when the relationship verges on something more, Emily will have to rethink what she truly wants and the chances she’s willing to take. Although Emily’s inquiries about the house are rudely rebuffed, her rocky start with the owner eventually blossoms into a friendship. She has her eye on one house in particular-with room for kids. Having given up on marriage, Emily dreams of adopting children someday. Recovering from a twice-broken heart, Emily Gaffney, a young teacher, is staying at the inn while she looks for a home of her own. Determined to move forward, she begins dating again, and finds companionship when she takes on a boarder who is starting a new chapter herself. The Rose Harbor Inn barely seems the same without Mark, but Jo Marie can’t bear to lose herself in grief once more. Though Mark finally confessed his love for her, innkeeper Jo Marie Rose is unsure if he’s ever coming back. Nine months ago, Mark Taylor abruptly left Cedar Cove on a perilous mission to right a wrong from his past. The much-anticipated conclusion to Debbie Macomber’s beloved Rose Harbor series, set in the picturesque town of Cedar Cove, Sweet Tomorrows is a vibrant and poignant novel of letting go of fear, following your heart, and embracing the future-come what may. There he finds a calling amid a royal court rife with intrigue and danger, where he meets Niya, Princess Elyssa’s handmaid, who is not who she appears to be and whose true identity will spell death if revealed. Enlisted from his earliest days to kill without mercy, he has never seen sun or sky, not until a quest for vengeance propels him aboveground. As the gap between rich and poor widens and famine threatens the land, rumors of a prophecy begin to spread: a great hope, a True Queen who will ascend and save the kingdom.īut rumors will not help Lazarus, a boy on the verge of manhood, trapped in the clandestine underworld known as the Creche. The Tearling, founded as a utopia, has collapsed and reverted to feudalism. “A suspenseful, multilayered tale of how the sparks of revolution are kindled, and of those who strive to ignite them.”-Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling authorĪs a kingdom descends into darkness and new alliances are forged under fire, a battle begins over a prophecy that will change the course of history in this much-anticipated stand-alone prequel to the bestselling Queen of the Tearling trilogy. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Downbelow Station by C.J. CherryhThe importance of Earth faded and the Company reaped ever smaller profits as the economic focus of space turned outward. Then came Cyteen, and later others, and a new and frighteningly different society grew in the farther reaches of space. Earth was no longer the anchor which kept this vast empire from coming adrift, the one living mote in a sterile universe.īut Pell was just the first living planet. The discovery of Pell's World forever altered the power balance of the Beyond. Then came Pell, the first station centered around a newly discovered living planet. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Hugo Award-winning classic sci-fi novel, brought to life with a full cast, sound effects and cinematic music! And if you happen to be Bulgarian: there is also a good Bulgarian translation available I had some contribution to.) Perhaps this can be found on second-hand bookselling sites. (Of which there is by the way a congenial English translation in a double-language edition once issued by the Münchner Rück insurance company. The best book, in my perception, is "Komm süßer Tod". All novels are criminal stories in an Austrian environment. Language is easy-going casual (but grammatically correct). Wolf Haas (as first recommended by Everything Flows) is indeed a good idea. That's by the way a book very few people in Germany actually know because everybody was so in love with Winnetou and the "Wild West". I recommend "Das Buschgespenst" - a novel describing the harsh living conditions of the working class in a 1860s Saxonian village oppressed by corrupt industrialists, embedded in a detective story. It is not really contemporary, but it is a cornerstone of German culture. Have you tried Karl May? That's what (some decades ago) practically every German speaking child and adolescent read. Without knowing more about you, your command of German, and your interests, it is practically impossible to give right advice, because every arrow will be sent into the dark. 6/26/2023 0 Comments American hookup cultureShe groups them into "abstainers," "dabblers," "strivers," and "enthusiasts." Both the media and the students themselves overestimate how much sex is happening on campus, and this leaves those who aren't having sex (intentionally or not) feeling left out. Wade includes firsthand accounts from her research subjects (her students from the two American liberal arts colleges where she's taught), who report in fresh and candid language on their experiences. Wade, a professor of sociology at Occidental College, reframes the conversation about casual sex on college campuses today with a sharp, canny report on how hookup culture has become a new norm of American campus life ("It's more than just a behavior it's the climate"), and why its sexual dynamics should be cause for concern. This was without doubt Johnson's finest hour, before his aspirations and accomplishments were overshadowed and eroded by the trap of Vietnam. Caro makes clear how the political genius with which Johnson had ruled the Senate now enabled him to make the presidency wholly his own. We see how within weeks - grasping the reins of the presidency with supreme mastery - he propels through Congress essential legislation that at the time of Kennedy's death seemed hopelessly logjammed and seizes on a dormant Kennedy program to create the revolutionary War on Poverty. We watch Johnson step into the presidency, inheriting a staff fiercely loyal to his slain predecessor a Congress determined to retain its power over the executive branch and a nation in shock and mourning. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin's bullet to reach its mark.įor the first time, we see the Kennedy assassination through Lyndon Johnson's eyes. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The emerald city of oz 1910This is the first time in the Oz series that Baum made use of double plots for one of the books. While they are toured through the Quadling Country, the Nome King is assembling allies for an invasion of Oz. Originally published on July 20, 1910, it is the story of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em coming to live in Oz permanently. It was also adapted into a Canadian animated film in 1987. The Emerald City of Oz is the sixth of L. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The four winds book reviewElsa is disowned by her family for getting pregnant and also for marrying (gasp) an Italian.Īfter that, it skips ahead thirteen years to when the drought and the Depression happened. Her escape from this is reading romance novels and it says early on that she would do anything to be loved, so that’s her big goal in life.Ī short ways into the book, Elsa meets a young man named Rafe and she becomes pregnant with his child out of wedlock, so they have to get married. She’s looked down on by her family for being unattractive and seen as weak because of an illness she had as a child. The main character of The Four Winds is a young woman named Elsa. I picked this book since it’s her most recent release. The plot points from the beginning and middle section are all mainly things you know from the promotional blurb, except for like one from the middle section, but it’s not integral to the plot anyway, so I don’t think knowing it necessarily changes how you read the book.ĥ2 Books in 52 Weeks – Book 12/Week 12 – Book by Kristin Hannah The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah Spoiler Warning: I wouldn’t consider anything up until the end section spoilers. |