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![]() ![]() Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family-and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves-in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation” ( The Boston Globe). ![]() Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize.a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”- The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Sas rogue warriors ben macintyre![]() With humanity, humility and heroism, these soldiers recount a revolutionary campaign of vital sabotage, intelligence gathering and guerrilla attacks – and reveal what motivated them, bound them together and drove them to become the world’s most feared fighting force. Recounted with Macintyres characteristic mix of pacey storytelling and rigorous research. This adventure unfolds in the SAS’s own words, including classified recollections on film and in memoirs, and exclusive interviews with the four living veterans of the first SAS – conveying the fury, folly and fascination of war firsthand. ![]() With unprecedented and exclusive access to explore the SAS’s secret archives, Ben Macintyre reveals the tales of bravery and ingenuity – interspersed with examples of rank incompetence, raw brutality and touching human frailty – combine to celebrate unknown heroes of unrivalled courage. Packed with new adventure and intimate revelation from their formative years, 1941-47, this is the story of WWII as you’ve never seen or heard it before, with higher stakes and greater rewards. Now, 75 years after its formation, the world’s fiercest fighting force breaks its silence for the first time, allowing the true story of its origins to finally be told in vivid detail. The SAS is a legend, enshrouded in secrecy. ![]() ![]() You need to be logged in to view this video ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Legacy by Hannah McBride![]() ![]() The awards ceremony is hosted and organized by the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Nominees are honored at the Legacy Awards ceremony, held the third Friday in October. A number of merit awards are also presented. Panels of acclaimed writers serve as judges to select nominees, finalists and winners. Įach fall, writers and publishers are invited to submit fiction, nonfiction and poetry books published that year. ![]() It is granted for fiction, nonfiction and poetry, selected in a juried competition. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers. The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards program honors Black writers in the United States and around the globe for literary achievement. Literary award for African American writers ![]() ![]() ![]() Its been two months since a leaked explicit photo got. The Exact Opposite of Okay is her first book for young adults. Izzy ONeill is back in the hilarious sequel to The Exact Opposite of Okay. Her TV pilot, Clickbait, was a finalist in British Comedy's 2016 Sitcom Mission. She has an MA in Creative Writing and works at a non-profit organisation supporting women in the creative arts. Laura Steven is an author, journalist and screenwriter from the northernmost town in England. ![]() It's the Exact Opposite of Okay.īitingly funny and shockingly relevant, The Exact Opposite of Okay is a bold, brave and necessary read. But when explicit photos involving her, a politician's son and a garden bench are published online, the trolls set out to take her apart.Īrmed with best friend Ajita and a metric ton of nachos, she tries to laugh it off - but as the daily slut-shaming intensifies, she soon learns the way the world treats teenage girls is not okay. Izzy never expected to be eighteen and internationally reviled. The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven (0) Hardcover 17.99 Hardcover 17.99 eBook 7. Izzy O'Neill here! Impoverished orphan, aspiring comedian and Slut Extraordinaire, if the gossip sites are anything to go by. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Medea play![]() ![]() Later, she murders her own sons by Jason before fleeing for Athens, where she eventually marries king Aegeus. In revenge, she murders Creusa with poisoned gifts. ![]() Medea and her sons by Jason are to be banished from Corinth. Euripides's 5th-century BCE tragedy Medea depicts the ending of her union with Jason, when after ten years of marriage, Jason abandons her to wed King Creon's daughter Creusa. Once he finished his quest, she abandons her native home of Colchis, and flees westwards with Jason, where they eventually settle in Corinth and marry. ![]() Medea plays the archetypal role of helper-maiden, aiding Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece by using her magic to save his life out of love. Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress and is often depicted as a priestess of the goddess Hecate. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, appearing in Hesiod's Theogony around 700 BCE, but best known from Euripides's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes's epic Argonautica. ![]() In Greek mythology, Medea ( / m ɪ ˈ d iː ə/ Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia, perhaps implying "planner / schemer") is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios. Vary according to tradition (names include Alcimenes, Thessalus, Tisander, Mermeros, Pheres, Eriopis, Medus) Medea on her golden chariot, by Germán Hernández Amores ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The Hoodie Girl by Yuen Wright![]() ![]() ![]() Windwalker Media, Kindle Nation Daily and its subdomains are published independently by Stephen Windwalker and Windwalker Media and is not endorsed by, Inc. This content is provided "as is" and is subject to change or removal at any time. Certain content that appears on this website is provided by Amazon Services LLC. Amazon, Kindle and the Amazon and Kindle logos are trademarks of, Inc. While all titles recommended on this website must meet our standards for price, quality, and appropriate content, some publishers or rightsholders compensate us for prominent placement on the site or in our email bulletins.Īpart from its participation in the Associates Program, Windwalker Media, Kindle Nation Daily and its subdomains are not affiliated with Amazon or Kindle in any other way. © Copyright © 2007 - 2020 Windwalker Media. KINDLES, KINDLE ACCESSORIES & WARRANTIES. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Uglies book series order![]() ![]() ![]() and what she'll discover is that it may take a villain to save them from the monsters. But the Luck Uglies have long since been exiled, and there's nobody left who can protect the village.Īs Rye dives into Drowning's maze of secrets, rules, and lies, she begins to question everything she's been told about the village's legend of outlaws and beasts. Before the monsters disappeared, there was only one way to defeat them-the Luck Uglies. Now a terrifying encounter has eleven-year-old Rye convinced that the monstrous, supposedly extinct Bog Noblins have returned. ![]() Girls aren't allowed to read anymore, and certain books-books that hold secrets about Drowning's past-have been outlawed altogether. Families are fined for breaking laws that don't even exist. Rye O'Chanter has seen a lot of strange things happen in Village Drowning: children are chased through the streets. ![]() The first in a series with the makings of a modern classic, The Luck Uglies is an irresistible cross between Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice and Chris Colfer's Land of Stories series, overflowing with adventure, secrets, friendship, and magic. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Ice novel anna kavan![]() Governments fail, militaries take over, tension increases between countries with nuclear armaments, and, most inevitably, deadly cold and walls of ice start to overtake the planet. He finally sees her, victimized by a poisonous marriage, but then she runs away, and he feels compelled to find her, beginning a lonely chase through a world succumbing to an unspecific and terrifying disaster. ![]() He blames her past rejection of him for various psychological sufferings and has vivid dreams of her enduring violent physical harm that intrude upon the narrative without warning. He has come back to “investigate rumors of a mysterious impending emergency” but is unable to focus on anything except seeing a woman he was once infatuated with. Kavan’s unnamed narrator returns to his home country after spending time abroad in the tropics and finds the countryside in the clutch of disturbing, unseasonable cold. ![]() ![]() This 50th-anniversary edition of a novel about a surreal pursuit through an apocalyptic world should bring new attention to Kavan (1901-1968 Who Are You, 1963, etc.), a writer of intense imagination. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments My fair godmother book![]() ![]() The easiest is reading other authors’ books-it’s all research! Writers are supposed to read in their genre. What’s the easiest part of being a writer? The most difficult? Repeat until the children get home from school. I type a page and then go get something else to eat. I turn on my laptop and reread what I wrote the day before. Three hours later, I realize the time and wonder where it all went and why I still have 127 unread e-mails in my inbox. I tell myself I’ll spend half an hour going over e-mails before I devote the rest of the school day to writing. I get up earlier than I’d like to, swear I will start going to bed before midnight, and get several children off to school. So I grew up thinking writing was a normal job, as opposed to a really time-consuming way to torment yourself. Some of my earliest (and only-she died when I was six years old) memories of her were of her sitting in front of a typewriter typing. ![]() ![]() Website How did you get started with your writing? ![]() |