The death of vivek oji author6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But as The Death of Vivek Oji goes on, and Vivek’s mother Kasita becomes our detective, trying to solve the death of her son, Emezi refuses to follow the template of the genre. And on the day he died, the market in Ngwa, the Nigerian town where he lived, was burned down.Ī classic murder mystery would have us spend the rest of the novel hunting for the ne’er-do-well who killed Vivek, scanning all his closest connections for the motive that would have them commit such a dastardly crime. That line is all that exists of the first chapter, and it’s all we need to know: Vivek Oji lived, and now he is dead. “They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died,” Emezi writes, in the novel’s opening line. Vivek Oji begins, like all murder mysteries do, with a death. Probably the best advice I’ve come across when it comes to reading Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji, the Vox Book Club’s April pick, is to treat it as an inverted murder mystery. The Vox Book Club is linking to to support local and independent booksellers. ![]()
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The queen andrew morton6/9/2023 ![]() You have been writing about this family for decades now. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Morton joined me on "Salon Talks" to discuss the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, the "divisive character" of Meghan and why he thinks Diana "would entirely agree with Harry's assessment of the royal family." It's about the oppressiveness of family known as "the firm," about the fickleness of fame and the vicious hounding of the press, about private suffering and loss, and about forging a new path in a new nation.Īnd on the heels of all this tumult, author Andrew Morton, who has been covering the British royal family for 40 years, is back with a new book, "The Queen: Her Life." If you watched the new season of "The Crown," you got a peek into Morton's storied past as the biographer of "Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words" - and the writer whom Elizabeth Debicki's Diana refers to as "Clark Kent." In many ways, the story of the "Harry & Meghan" in the new six-part Netflix documentary series seems to be a continuation of the one Diana left off. ![]() But it's Harry "the spare" and his polarizing American wife Meghan who fascinate most. ![]() In the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the ascension of her 74-year-old son Charles to the throne, the monarchy has entered a new and still undetermined era. It has been a transformative year for the British royals. ![]() The man is talking about "the pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution." The man is Prince Harry. ![]() Lone star fehrenbach6/9/2023 ![]() et al Fehrenbach, Theodore Reed Fehrenbach organize filter Works by T. In fact, Fehrenbach uses Anglo and Texan interchangeably. But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans "have been made different by the crucible of history they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds. Author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans Includes the names: R.T Fehrenbach, T.R. Lone Star is a history of conquest told by a man who’s descended from the conquerors. ![]() In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. ![]() Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. ![]() The author of Fire & Blood presents this must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico. ![]() Mooncakes graphic novel6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() In one scene, with her depression at bay, Marie and Bastien hike in the woods and she teaches him about wildlife and comforts him when he’s scared. But despite the limited relief of these fantasies, Bastien just wants his mother to be present. ![]() As Marie gets electroshock therapy, for instance, Bastien envisions the superhero Wolverine strapped to a table for experimentation, and that his mother also will evolve into a superhero. ![]() Espé’s artistic virtuosity shines when depicting how Bastien uses his imagination as a defense. Often, he is relieved not to be around her, even as he misses her. ![]() Espé’s expressive linework and color choices-some sections are hued with greens, others blues, but the panels where Marie is overcome by her rages are red-convey Bastien’s shifting emotions as he watches his mother deteriorate. Eight-year-old Bastien witnesses his mother, Marie, cycle through psychiatric facilities and treatment plans, none of which do more than provide a temporary respite from her mental illness, while his father and grandparents struggle to handle her episodes. Espé’s heartbreaking graphic novel gets at the insidious nature of depression and how it is inexplicable to those not in its grasp. ![]() Someday Angeline by Louis Sachar6/8/2023 ![]() She was the inspiration behind the counselor in There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. When he first met her, she was a counselor at an elementary school. Then his books started selling well enough so that he was able to quit practicing law. For the next eight years he worked part-time as a lawyer and continued to try to write children's books. His first book was published while he was in law school. He attended Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Almost a year later, he was fired from the job. He was working at a sweater warehouse during the day and wrote at night. The next year, he wrote his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School. ![]() He went to college at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1976, as an economics major. ![]() ![]() When he was nine, he moved to Tustin, California. Louis was born in East Meadow, New York, in 1954. Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She began to spend her days behind a newspaper held wide, or at the kitchen table with a cup of Red Rose tea, staring at a spread of puzzle pieces that she never seemed to touch. Mother Roberta acquiesced-she would try to relax. Everything we knew about living, we knew because Mother Roberta had showed us. Twice in one month, we’d had to rummage through bags of trash in search of her false teeth. She was 81, frail as filament, and had started having bad days. ![]() When Father Thaddeus came to Lackawanna, he suggested she might take a break. She embroidered pillows, made punch from powder, wrote the homilies for the priest. Twice a year she sewed our made-to-measure habits from yards of a black poly-wool blend. Every morning she brewed the coffee and every night she cooked the meal. Mother Roberta made the rules: no chewing gum, no bicycles, no tree nuts, no pets. Luchette has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Lighthouse Works, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the James Merrill House, and has published work in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Granta. The following is excerpted from Claire Luchette's debut novel, Agatha of Little Neon, a novel of yearning and sisterhood. ![]() Gabriella by Alan Hardy6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() I first show how H-1B rights, already limited by the domestic politics that shaped the IMMACT, became subject to judicial retrenchment when the federal courts confined H-1B disputes under the INA to the quasi-judicial state at the Department of Labor (DOL). ![]() This paper examines H-1B employment rights enforcement under the INA as it has intersected with broader features of the American legal system: what political scientists call judicial retrenchment and the quasi-judicial state. more Foreign workers holding H-1B visas gained recourse to federal employment rights under the Immigration & Nationality Act (INA) for the very first time when Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1990 (IMMACT90). Foreign workers holding H-1B visas gained recourse to federal employment rights under the Immigra. ![]() Beloved Sacrifice by Lorraine Carey6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() “My grandfather grew up exploring the Sierra Nevadas on horseback, so he knew the country well,” Beckstrand said. It’s now a young adult suspense novel: “To Swallow the Earth” – and a finalist for the Laramie Award. ![]() ![]() His grandfather grew up ranching, hunting and fishing around the Sierra Nevada Mountains a hundred years ago and used that setting for a western thriller set in the Nevada silver rush. 21, 2016 – Award-winning author Karl Beckstrand is from San Jose, California - and is only in his forties. “To Swallow the Earth earns the Literary Classics Seal of Approval. After a clash throws them to opposite sides, Wade must decide if risking his life to help Patricia is worth the trouble, and Patricia must learn which killer to trust with her life. Few people gain her confidence, though powerful landowner Bridger Calhoun just might be the man to do it. Beautiful Patricia Laughlin is searching for her family as well. ![]() His father has disappeared, and his sister won’t speak to anyone. What if you came home after a journey and your family was gone? What if someone else was living in your house, running things-and trying to kill you? Could a beautiful woman be behind it? Wade Forester must stay in the shadows because, it seems, everyone has reason to shoot him. (Suspense) A man and a woman, each searching for missing family members, clash amid a Nevada silver rush scheme that leaves both unsure who to trust-and scrambling to stay alive. To Swallow the Earth - An Adventure 108 years in the making! ![]() Dangerous Games by Lynessa Layne6/7/2023 ![]() Instagram photos and videosLynessa Layne / Twitter Read more.She has also graced the cover of GEMS Godly Entrepreneurs & Marketers Magazine for her creative approach to marketing.For more information on upcoming releases, swag, signing events and this series, visit Lynessa Layne – Romance-Suspense Mystery & Crime WriterSocial MediaLynessa Layne | FacebookLYNESSA LAYNE ![]() ![]() She’s a fan of cosplay, exploration, history, loves the beach, a great book, Jesus and America too (RIP Tom).A military wife, she’s bounced around the US, including the settings in DCYE, currently landing in the heart of sweet home Alabama where she and her husband are raising their blended family.Lynessa is a certified copy editor, a member of Mystery Writers of America, Tuscaloosa Writers and Illustrators Guild, Florida Writers Association, Alabama Writers Conclave and The Royal Society of Literature with work featured by Writer’s Digest and in Mystery and Suspense Magazine. Lynessa Layne is a native Texan who grew up in the small town of Plantersville, home of the Texas Renaissance Festival. ![]() Then there was you kara isaac6/7/2023 ![]() When Josh and Paige are thrown together to organize his band's next tour, the sparks fly. Especially one who despises everything he's ever worked for and manages to push every button he has. The last thing he needs is some American girl tipping his ordered life upside down. ![]() He's determined to never risk it happening again. Without a doubt, the primary reason Then There Was You is a success is due to the humanity of the story. But, in the past, his failed romantic relationships almost destroyed both his reputation and his family. I haven’t seen this done as well in any other piece of Christian literature, and Isaac’s ability to pull the humanity out of the chaos and stigma that evolves around mega-churches is commendable. ![]() ![]() Josh Tyler fronts a top-selling worship band and is in demand all over the world. There she finds herself, against many of her convictions, as a logistics planner for one of Australia's biggest churches, and on a collision course with her boss's son. A moment of temporary insanity finds her leaving her life in Chicago to move to Sydney, Australia. Her boyfriend can't even commit to living in the same country, her promised promotion is dead on arrival, and the simultaneous loss of her brother and her dream of being a concert violinist has kept her playing life safe and predictable for six years. Paige McAllister needs to do something drastic. ![]() |