Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.īefore John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.Īmong these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. The basis for the smash Academy Award-nominated film starring Taraji P. The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space-a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America. Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 47 minutes
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She settled in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1988 with her husband and daughter.Įducation is a chance to escape for Beatrice, a 13-year-old orphan living in Nairobi, Kenya’s Kibera area-one of the largest slums in sub-Saharan Africa. Since then she has travelled to many African countries on assignment for UN agencies, magazines and newspapers. Her career as a photographer began when she was assigned by UNICEF to photograph their projects around the south-west Pacific. Wendy Stone was raised in New York City, where she trained in photography and graphic design and worked for 13 years as a graphic designer. She has four children scattered around the world and lives with her husband in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She currently teaches creative writing and travel writing and works as a volunteer with refugee families. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi, Africa, which is the setting for When Africa Was Home, a Booklist Editors' Choice. She also lived and worked in Haiti, the setting for several books including her highly acclaimed book Circles of Hope. Karen Lynn Williams is the author of over a dozen books for children, including Galimoto, a Reading Rainbow Featured Book and one of the New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year. It is a quest that will carry you high into the Andes mountains, to ancient ruins deep in old-growth forest, and to a startling discovery. To find the manuscript - and its hidden treasures - you will join one person's search. Although few Westerners know of its existence and a government wants to suppress it, this precious document contains an important secret: the 9 insights the human race is predicted to grasp as we enter an era of true spiritual awareness. A parable filled with vital truth that reads like a gripping adventure-tale, it begins with the disappearance of an ancient Peruvian manuscript. Now you can discover for yourself the insights, the vision, and the uncanny accuracy of "The Celestine Prophecy". By word of mouth alone, news of this magical, moving work spread throughout the country, until - within months of its first printing - over hundred thousand readers had become excited by its predictions and touched by the way it made sense of what was happening in their lives. They told their friends about it, and friends in turn told their friends. When James Redfield first published this extraordinary book - an adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery - people picked it up, read it, and were stunned by its contents. Are three decades of interest in modern physics, ecology, mystical religion and interpersonal psychology finally synthesizing into a new spiritual "common sense"? Are we now beginning to live this new common sense? Can it become the dominant paradigm of the next century? Muslims are often terrorists, and you will find liberals are portrayed as evil in some of his books. The description of extreme torturing the bad guys might be too much for some people. Some people have accused him of promoting his conservative political views in his novels, while others feel that his books rely too heavily on violence and action sequences. Thor’s novels often deal with political and military intrigue and have been praised by critics for their realism and fast-paced plots.ĭespite being a famous thriller writer, Thor has also attracted some criticism in the past. The stories are based on Scot Harvath, a former Navy SEAL who now works as a counterterrorism operative for the United States government. His work includes The Lions of Lucerne, The Last Patriot, and Path of the Assassin, to name a few titles. Brad Thor is an American thriller writer who has written many popular books. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. [By M. W. Shelley.] by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley5/21/2023 In 1816, Mary, Percy, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. Galvanism and occult ideas were topics of conversation for her companions, particularly for her lover and future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. She then journeyed to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815, moving along the river Rhine in Germany, and stopping in Gernsheim, 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where, two centuries before, an alchemist had engaged in experiments. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Talese, an industry veteran whose many authors have included Ian McEwan, George Plimpton and Thomas Cahill, told Winfrey that editors who saw the book raised no questions and that "A Million Little Pieces" received a legal vetting. She lectured Talese on her responsibilities: "I'm trusting you, the publisher, to categorize this book whether as fiction or autobiographical or memoir." Winfrey noted that her staff had been alerted to possible discrepancies in Frey's book, only to be assured by the publisher. Bravado Tough Guy," she mockingly called the author whose book she had enshrined last fall and whose reputation she had recently saved. No longer, as she told King, was she saying that emotional truth mattered more than the facts. Winfrey, whose apparent indifference to the memoir's accuracy led to intense criticism, including angry e-mails on her Web site, subjected Frey to a virtual page-by-page interrogation. Talese of Doubleday, Frey was questioned about various parts of his book, from the three-month jail sentence he now says he never served to undergoing dental surgery without Novocain, a story he no longer clearly recalls. On a segment that also featured the book's publisher, Nan A. "I left the impression that the truth does not matter," Winfrey said Thursday of last week's call, saying that "e-mail after e-mail" from supporters of the book had cast a "cloud" over her judgment. "A scholarly heroine, endearing characters and settings, and enigmatic clues make for a satisfying mystery." But no other names ring a bell as culprits, and as David's investigation picks up speed, Violet will have to get in gear to clear her name. As Emerson the tuxedo cat and resident crow Faulkner look on, Charming Books steers Violet to the works of Walt Whitman to solve the crime. When Redding perishes in an accident during the race, David discovers that the brake line of the private eye's bike was cut. It takes all of Violet's and Grandma Daisy's ingenuity to keep Redding from discovering the shop's magical essence-which communicates with Violet through books. As if the bike race weren't tiring enough, pesky private investigator Joel Redding is snooping around Charming Books. But not everyone in this Niagara Region village supports the race. The race is a fundraiser to build the Cascade Springs Underground Railroad Museum. The Tour de Cascade is the brainchild of Violet's Grandma Daisy. But police chief David Rainwater wheelie wants them to enter the Tour de Cascade as a couple, so she reluctantly consents. With the help of Walt Whitman's works, magical bookshop owner Violet Waverly puts her pedal to the metal to sleuth a bicycle-race murder that tests her mettle.Ī bicycle race is not Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly's idea of a pleasant pastime. USA Today bestselling author and Agatha Award winner Amanda Flower turns the charm up to ten in her fourth Magical Bookshop mystery. In “Tongues,” a tensile power struggle between a teenager and the emotionally brutal, restrictive religious patriarchy of her family and their pastor sends her on a journey to unwrap her truest self. The title story deals with two friends on the cusp of adolescence, one Black and the other White, as they embrace their inner wildness until tragedy befalls one of them. In “The Hearts of Our Enemies,” Frankie navigates the rockiness between herself and her teenage daughter, Margot, after she tells her husband about her almost-infidelity and he moves out then she finds a note in Margot’s jeans that leads her to discover how far she will go to protect her child against an insidious predator. Each story vibrates with a thrumming undercurrent of primal power, found in both nature and in the most shadowy parts of ourselves. The feminine is sublime throughout these stories, featuring girls and women who are submerged in loss, love, death, temptation, and the cruelty and benevolence of motherhood, two sides of the same coin. This powerful debut collection is a wonderland of deep female characters navigating their lives against the ever changeable backdrop of Florida. This version of the song was used in the Disney's Sing-Along Songs video Circle of Life.Ī shorter version using the final verse from the reprise was featured in Mickey's PhilharMagic. Originally, the song was going to have more specific lyrics on the objects in Ariel's grotto, but then it was decided that since Scuttle was her provider of information, she wouldn't really know the names of these objects. It is later sung by Ursula, disguised as Vanessa, when she hypnotizes Eric. While singing, she is unknowingly being watched by Sebastian, who had been tasked with watching over Ariel by King Triton.Īfter rescuing and falling in love with Eric, a human, Ariel reprises the song, during which she shows an even greater drive to live life upon land. It reveals how she longs to be human and live in their culture, and how she's tired of being a mermaid living under the sea. It is sung by Ariel ( Jodi Benson), the title character, while in her secret grotto, which holds all of her treasures, most of which are human objects. It's first heard in the opening titles and again in the end credits. 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I was facing my second summer inside these cinder-block walls and tried not to think about it. It was on its way for those outside, anyway. Wouldn’t know it was June outside, that things were blooming and summer was on its way. You wouldn’t know what season it was from this hallway. Cinder-block walls, a linoleum floor that squeaked beneath my prison-issue shoes. This hallway always felt cold to me, no matter the time of year. North Carolina Correctional Facility for Women Raleigh, North Carolina |