Her life then entered its best known phas: the early struggles with John Knox, and the unruly Scottish nobility the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death her marriage to Bothwell, the chief suspect, that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her, and her execution at the age of forty four. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Mary passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Antonia Fraser’s classic biography of her won the James Tait Prize when it was first published in 1969, became an international bestseller and was translated into nine languages. More than four hundred years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history.
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A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one."e -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours. A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett"e Prodigiously researched. You’ll let me have a quick peep in there, won’t you? I just need to take back the book I loaned him.” Through watery eyes, I think I see his eyebrows rise. “He’s unavailable.” Hasn’t shown up to work: but same difference around here. “I need to have a quick word with the boss,” he says. Secondly, the delectable scent he’s wearing is barely detectable through my stuffy nose. Which means that when a short, adorable stranger comes through the door and leans against my desk to smile at me, his wiles do him absolutely no good. My pill is nowhere to be seen, but what can I do? There’s a cat in the office almost as often as the boss is in there: they’re not in today-boss or cat-but the dander is still there, doing a number on my sinuses. I’ve just sneezed, so my cheeks are probably nearly as red as my nose, and I don’t want to look too closely at my desk in the direction of that sneeze, either. Enjoy!)Īllergies are a vicious circle-or do I mean cycle?-a Catch-22 of sneezes, watery eyes, and successive brain explosions that make it impossible to find the little pill you desperately need to help with the symptoms because you dropped it while you were sneezing. (Another throwback story, this one from a CardCaper Monday cycle. Margot has an ex-boyfriend who threatens to publicize photos of her/them on social media if she will not continue to have sex with him. Ori is African-American who has a white-supremacist for a teacher who targets all the Black kids. Nomi and her mother have been in hiding from her physically abusive stepdad who runs a meth lab in his basement. She aligns herself with three other girls from school who are going through their own forms of persecutions that they cannot escape. Though she has taken the first two letters to the police they have not helped her indeed they think it is possible she concocted the whole thing for attention. But, though she escaped, her ordeal will not end: her kidnapper keeps sending her letters and seems to know everything she does. What did you like about the book? When Cass is kidnapped and thrown into the trunk of a car, she manages to escape. Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Out of the Fire -Andrea Contos, Scholastic, 2021. Photos are prominent in the book, and include work by Glen E. Following it is an afterword by Rollins describing the effects that his experiences with Black Flag had on him and the time immediately following the band's breakup. As the narrative continues, Rollins describes the band as being alienated by its audience and how he alienated himself from the band. A major part of the writings about 1982 is dedicated to the band's first tour of England, which Rollins paints as a mostly ugly affair. From there, Rollins recounts a string of violent shows, long hours on the road, and abuse by police while immersed in the poverty-stricken bohemian lifestyle the band had maintained. The entries begin in the spring of 1981, and document the time surrounding Rollins' personal introduction to and joining of Black Flag. Sections of the book were read and recorded by Rollins and released as a 2-CD set, which won a Grammy in 1995 for Best Spoken Word Album. Other text includes recollections of times when he had yet to start, or had lapsed in, his journal-keeping. The book is composed of journal entries that Rollins kept while he was lead singer of the band Black Flag from 1981 to its breakup in 1986. Get in the Van is a memoir by singer, writer and spoken word artist Henry Rollins first published in 1994 by Rollins' own company, 2.13.61 Publications. Residents of Winnipeg's North End neighbourhood take turns narrating Katherena Vermette's debut novel The Break. Katherena Vermette is the author of the novel The Break. If you have finished Five Little Indians and are looking for a new read, check out these Canadian books that explore similar themes - including intergenerational trauma, identity, healing and reconciliation. It also won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Haunted by the trauma of their childhood, the five friends cross paths over the decades and struggle with the weight of their shared past.įive Little Indiansis Good's debut novel. Barely out of childhood, they are released without resources and left to establish adult lives in eastside Vancouver. Michelle Good's bestselling novel Five Little Indians wins Canada Reads 2022įive Little Indiansfollows five characters - Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie - who were taken from their families and sent to a residential school when they were very small.What should you read next? CBC Books has some ideas for you.Ĭhristian Allaire championed Five Little Indiansby Michelle Good and won Canada Reads2022. The great Canadian book debate has come to an end for another year. The boy absorbs the folklore and also begins to glean his grandfather’s tragic involvement in Klisura’s troubled past, “like stepping stones that lead you to yourself.” The boy falls in love with Elif, the daughter of the local imam with whom Grandpa has a long-standing feud, meeting her in secret in a stork’s nest in the trees. The village is steeped in mysteries and vendettas. The young man discovers a place where exiled Christians dance on fire in honor of their saints, where Muslims were converted and given new names by a cynical Communist regime, and where storks come each spring to bear their own young in giant walnut trees. and his family, and to claim an inheritance he believes is his. Looking for a way to pay his debts, he returns to the village of Klisura, on the Bulgarian side of the Turkish border, to find out why his grandfather fled the U.S. This first novel from Penkov (author of the story collection East of the West) is about a boy who leaves America for the desolate borderlands of Bulgaria in search of his grandfather. With freedom to roam, time to enjoy the wilderness she’d previously found scary, and the friendship of several Indians, Mary felt guilty for enjoying herself and is devastated to be ransomed back to Puritan life. Though forced to perform labor she found distasteful, her life as a slave was very different from the way she and her fellow Puritans treated their own African and Indian slaves. She has no desire to live as a “savage” but, in time, comes to appreciate the Indian way of life. However Mary, now a slave of a female sachem, is expected to learn the ways of her Indian captives. As a Puritan, she had been conditioned to fear, hate, despise and be otherwise prejudiced towards all things Indian. In this extraordinary book, readers learn about Mary Rowlandson who was captured by a group of Indians after they raided her Massachusetts town in 1676. Includes “Author’s Note,” “A Conversation with Amy Belding Brown,” and “Questions for Discussion.” Yes, I know, writers aren't supposed to only write the things they're familiar with. There wasn't anything incorrect about it, it's just felt like someone who never eat orange described the taste of the fruit. Somehow it failed to describe the soul of the faith. It felt more like of someone from the outside looking at Moslems (which probably is the case, but the main character was a moslem boy). What bothers me a little though, is when the author describes the Moslem characters. The setting felt real, the characters vivid (which was most likely the reason why I felt so emotionally attached to it). What I liked about this book is the detail on 15th century Spain. I'm sorry, but I'd rather read books that made me feel hopeful. The main character in this book had so many bad things happened to him, and I felt after 300 pages (the book is about 900 pages) I just couldn't take it anymore. It wasn't really because the book is bad, but I just couldn't go on reading it because it's somehow made me feel sad and depressed. Today’s advances in space exploration signal to Michio Kaku that things could be more spacey in the future. Based on this belief, he made three predictions about the future. For Kaku it is important to determine a possible future from the perceptible advances of the current world. However, this theory is not born from a hunch and much less from a vision. Recognized for a long career in physics, a contributor to string theory and a great fan of research into Einstein’s theory of relativity, Michio Kaku presented a possible future for human beings. Even if it is for a few minutes, we are going to immerse ourselves in the thought of the physicist Michio Kaku and glimpse the future of humanity from science. On this occasion, we would like to propose something different to you. If you wanted to know what the future of humanity will be like… who would you ask? Some will trust seers, others will ask sorcerers, and some will stick to religion. |