![]() ![]() The Cleaner’s Son – a toilet cleaner is forced to borrow from a loan shark to save her HIV infected son and ends up being arrested for drug trafficking Through her work for a client, she discovers a dark secret between her adoptive father and an estranged sister Mei Kwei, I Love You – Cha-li is a specialist in unfaithfulness, a private eye who channels the Monkey God to peer into hearts seething with dark secrets and contradictions. The four additional stories in this collection are: The stories speak to those who know what it is like to love at the margins of society dealing with issues we do not discuss with our family members. Published in 2017, The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong: Stories of the Unsung, Unsaid and Uncelebrated in Singapore by Suchen Christine Lim, winner of Singapore Literature Prize, is an updated and expanded version of The Lies That Build A Marriage. ![]()
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![]() Tacky's War was the most significant slave uprising in the Caribbean between the 1733 slave insurrection on St. Led by Akan people (then referred to as Coromantee but originally from around Kromantsie in the Central Region of Ghana) - tribes including Ashanti, Fanti, Nzema and Akyem, - it was loosely led by a Fanti royal and warlord called Tacky (Takyi) in eastern Jamaica, and Dahomean war chief or coastal headman Apongo in the western end of the island. Tacky's War, Tacky's Revolt, or Tacky's Rebellion was a widespread slave rebellion in the British Colony of Jamaica in the 1760s. ![]() Superintendent Charles Swigle, Charles Town MaroonsĤ00 black slaves in St Mary, 700 in western Jamaica, ![]() Enslaved "Coromantee" people - likely of Ashanti, Fante and Akyem origin ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In “A Drug Called Tradition,” Alexie writes longingly of a shared vision experienced by Victor, Junior, and Thomas-a vision attained after the three of them experiment with drugs at a local lake. “Everybody,” he continues, “in the book is drunk or in love with a drunk.” Throughout the text, the appearance of alcohol-or an alcoholic character-represents the cultural loss, longing, and pain that all of these characters experience each day alcohol represents a void that opportunity might have filled in, were opportunities for success, health, and happiness more readily available to the Indians of Alexie’s reservation. In the introduction, Alexie himself states that he was “vilified in certain circles for alcohol-soaked stories” when the collection debuted. ![]() In almost every story in The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Sherman Alexie engages directly with the common cultural stereotype-and devastating real-life epidemic-of Native Americans falling victim to alcoholism, or engaging in excessive drinking. ![]() ![]() It’s smart and funny and original, and has characters I will follow to the ends of the earth.” - Ellen Kushner, World Fantasy Award-winning author. ![]() “Just when you thought there was nothing new to say about dragons, it turns out there is, and plenty! Rachel Hartman’s rich invention never fails to impress - and to convince. Seraphina is her first Young Adult novel. She was born in Kentucky, although she has lived in many locations around the world, from Chicago to London. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband, whippet, frog and salamander. I love this book!” - Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author. Rachel Hartman is the author of Seraphina. ![]() “Seraphina is strong, complex, talented - she makes mistakes and struggles to trust, with good reason, and she fights to survive in a world that would tear her apart. ![]() “A book worth hoarding, as glittering and silver-bright as dragon scales, with a heroine who insists on carving herself a place in your mind.” - Naomi Novik, New York Times bestselling author of the Temeraire series. Here are some things that are already being said about Seraphina by some fabulous authors: Her first YA fantasy novel, Seraphina, was published by Random House on July 10th, 2012. Rachel Hartman lives and writes in Vancouver, BC. Seraphina Seraphina Series by Rachel Hartman (0 review) Main Series Other Titles Filter Book 1 Seraphina The kingdom of Goredd is populated by humans and by dragons who fold themselves into a human form. ![]() ![]() We learn what the material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest galaxy and at all the levels in between. It is, in the best sense, learned." -"Winnipeg Free Press", "Stylish stunningly accurate prose. You can't help but enjoy his writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind." -"Ottawa Citizen" "Wonderfully readable. a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world's biggest story." -"Seattle Times" "Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable." -Simon Winchester, "The Globe and Mail" "All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists, too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable explanations." -"National Post ""Bryson is a terrific stylist. destined to become a modern classic of science writing." -"The New York Times" "Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time Bryson hikes through the world of science." -"People" "Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely eloquent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Stylish Ýand¨ stunningly accurate prose. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that a context is being set along with the habit remove the need for extra thinking, making it more obvious.Ģnd Law of Behavior Change - Make It Attractive With specific time and location pre-defined. The best way to start a habit is using what is called You need to be aware of your current habits before you can change them, listing them is a simple way to show to yourself what you are doing and how these habits contribute or not towards your desired identity. Making a habit obvious using tools or environment addresses the cue phase, and it will trigger your brain for the next part of the habit loop which is the craving, awareness is key. The cue is the indication of a reward later on. This law addresses the first part of the habit loop, the cue. The 4 Laws of Behavior Change 1st Law of Behavior Change - Make It Obvious ![]() ![]() The extent of his betrayal only became apparent after his defection in 1963. He was recruited by the Soviet Union in the early 1930s and remained fully committed to the communist cause for the rest of his life. The whole time Philby was working for his country, he was also jeopardising it. ![]() He was admired, respected and, above all, trusted. Some of his colleagues believed he would come to lead the service. For the best part of his career, he could do no wrong. Rising through the ranks, Philby was posted to Istanbul in 1947 and two years later secured the plum post of MI6 chief in Washington. ![]() During the second world war, Philby worked in Section V of the Secret Intelligence Service, where he analysed intercepted German wireless messages alongside Graham Greene (who was already a celebrated novelist). ![]() ![]() And Infinite Jest, for the uninitiated, takes place primarily in an amateur tennis academy-a fact that always seems odd when you put it next to the novel’s aureate, bro-canon reputation. We now live in a world of pickleball influencers and pickleball leagues, a fact that has upset a whole lot of recreational tennis (and basketball) players as the pickleballers take up permanent residence on their courts. ![]() Pickleball has become extremely popular in the U.S. It emphasizes underhand strokes, requires limited agility, and is generally more approachable and casual in vibe-downright friendly compared with its racket/paddle brethren. ![]() Pickleball, for the uninitiated, is a hybrid of tennis and badminton that is played on a bisected tennis court. ![]() ![]() The men of Athens have waged war for twenty years, and there appears to be no end to the war, in the foreseeable future. Aristophanes' comedy provides women with a strong incentive to, and an even stronger means to, create peace. ![]() The premise of Lysistrata is easy to understand: if men will not fix the mess they have made, then women must fix it for them. In the following essay, she discusses Aristophanes' depiction of women and suggests that this depiction of women in Lysistrata misinforms the audience about the public forums available to women in 5th-century B.C. ![]() Metzger has a Ph.D., and specializes in literature and drama at The University of New Mexico, where she is a Lecturer in the English Department and an Adjunct Professor in the University Honors Program. ![]() ![]() ![]() His contributions to Magizoology earned him an Order of Merlin, Second Class in 1979. ![]() His career included a brief stint in the Office of House-elf Relocation, a transfer to the Beast Division, the creation of the Werewolf Register in 1947, the 1965 passage of the Ban on Experimental Breeding, and many research trips for the Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau. Here is a bit more info on the known character's future history: Her response: there are four more movies. One fan asked Rowling why Newt can carry a wand, practice magic, and do work for the Ministry of Magic when he was expelled from Hogwarts, especially since Hagrid wasn't afforded those liberties. In between the two books, she released a slim series companion book called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The Hufflepuff was expelled from Hogwarts, and later joined the Ministry of Magic in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. According to the "About the Author" section of the book, Scamander became a magizoologist because of his own interest in fabulous beasts, as well as the encouragement of his mother, an enthusiastic Hippogriff breeder. ![]() |