![]() Meanwhile, Callum’s family is poverty-stricken, but proud. ![]() While Sephy’s family – led by Paterson Joseph as her high-powered politician father – seem to have it all, relations are strained. Such is the timeliness of the show that the grime star Stormzy – a longtime fan of Blackman – also makes a cameo as a newspaper editor, Kolawale, in a role created specifically for the adaptation.īrimah, a newcomer, plays Minerva, the unapologetically black, privileged younger sister of the “cross” protagonist Sephy (Masali Baduza), while Jack Rowan plays Sephy’s childhood friend turned love interest, Callum – a nought trying to make a positive impact on the world despite adversity. In the books, white “noughts” have their names mispronounced, are labelled as gang members or are dismissed as “uppity”. The first book was published two decades ago, but Brexit, Meghxit and the current political regime mean they offer a particularly prescient and vivid representation of what is going on in black people’s minds. Written by one of the country’s most celebrated black female authors, the books dissect the inequalities between black and white Britons by turning them on their head, and imagining a world in which black supremacy is the norm, and Europe lives in the shadow of colonial Africa (renamed “Aprica”). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Talking about her decision to write from the perspective of Four, Roth said, "In my mind, he has a distinct history and a complex psychology, so there’s always a lot to draw from when he’s on the page, and it’s an opportunity for me to break from Tris’s sparse, straightforward voice and try to introduce just a little bit more poetic language. Together, they form a kind of Tobias-centered Divergent prequel, though there is some overlap." She said, "The e-shorts will address Tobias's backstory and some of the mysterious things going on in the world before Tris chose Dauntless. Background Īccording to Roth, the stories serve as a prequel to the Divergent trilogy. Simultaneously with the release of last three short stories, a collected edition of the five short stories titled Four: A Divergent Collection was released on July 8, 2014, which also features three exclusive scenes. The third story titled The Initiate, the fourth story The Son and the fifth and final story The Traitor were released on July 8, 2014. The second story, The Transfer, was released on September 3, 2013. The first story of the collection, Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene, was released as an e-book on April 23, 2012. Four: A Divergent Collection is a collection of five short stories from the Divergent trilogy, told from Tobias Eaton's (Four) perspective, and written by Veronica Roth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Morris seamlessly and beautifully weaves together multiple plotlines (including frank talk about sex) with crisp and sometimes humorous dialogue that always rings true.Ī timely, poignant page-turner about grief, love, and facing your fears.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. This portrait of Black boys as sensitive, vulnerable, and complex is refreshing, unfolding within a powerful and provocative narrative about brotherly love and the insidiousness of racism. But when Alex has a vision foretelling Isaiah’s impending death, his anxiety goes through the roof: The clock is ticking, and he must journey into his ancestral past and grapple with what it means to be a man. Alex’s constant visions interfere with his job at an ice cream shop and his intimate relationship with Talia. Alex keeps his secret powers from everyone, including his devoted Spanish-speaking girlfriend, Talia, whose family struggles to make ends meet. ![]() ![]() Alex and his 12-year-old brother, Isaiah, live with their Aunt Mackie in an affluent suburban Chicago neighborhood. ![]() Rather than giving Alex an advantage, this supernatural gift gives him endless anxiety. For 16-year-old Alex, having a secret superpower is more of a curse than a blessing.Įver since his parents’ deaths, Alex can see into the future-seconds, days, and years beyond the present of anything he touches. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family of her homecoming-both sweet and terrible and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. ![]() ![]() ![]() Given the price on both Doran and Solara’s heads, it may just be the safest place in the universe. The tables suddenly turn when Doran is framed for conspiracy on Earth, and Solara cons him into playing the role of her servant on board the Banshee, a ship manned by an eccentric crew with their own secrets. ![]() She just wishes it could have been to anyone besides Doran Spaulding, the rich, pretty-boy quarterback who made her life miserable in school. Still, off-world travel doesn’t come cheap Solara is left with no choice but to indenture herself in exchange for passage to the outer realm. ![]() The outer realm may be lawless, but it’s not like the law has ever been on her side. Solara Brooks needs a fresh start, someplace where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. ![]() ![]() Shielding Aristide from the expected fallout isn’t easy, though, for he refuses to let anything – not the crooked city police or the mounting rage from radical conservatives – dictate his life.Įnter streetwise Cordelia Lehane, a top dancer at the Bumble Bee Cabaret and Aristide’s runner, who could be the key to Cyril’s plans-if she can be trusted. They suit each other: Aristide turns a blind eye to Cyril’s clandestine affairs, and Cyril keeps his lover’s moonlighting job as a smuggler under wraps.Ĭyril participates on a mission that leads to disastrous results, leaving smoke from various political fires smoldering throughout the city. Trust no one with anything – especially in Amberlough City.Ĭovert agent Cyril DePaul thinks he’s good at keeping secrets, especially from Aristide Makricosta. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amberlough by Laura Elena Donnelly Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly is a debut spy thriller that follows a gay double-agent as he schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coup (available February 7, 2017). ![]() ![]() ![]() Happy pub day to this unputdownable addiction! □□□□ ![]() Twisty, poignant, and redemptive, The Night Shift is a story about the legacy of trauma and how the broken can come out on the other side, and it solidifies Alex Finlay as one of the new leading voices in the world of thrillers. On a collision course toward the truth, all three lives will forever be changed, and not everyone will make it out alive. In the aftermath, three lives intersect: the survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive her tragedy the brother of the original suspect, who’s convinced the police have it wrong and the FBI agent, who’s determined to solve both cases. Police quickly identify a suspect who flees and is never seen again.įifteen years later, in the same town, four teenage employees working late at an ice cream store are attacked, and again only one makes it out alive.īoth surviving victims recall the killer speaking only a few final words. But at a Blockbuster Video in Linden, New Jersey, four teenage girls working the night shift are attacked. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The marketing boost for TB12, of course, is free.Īdults who embrace the "TB12 Method," as Brady described it in a 2017 book, can meet with a trainer for $200 an hour at one of his company's training centers. The TB12 Foundation, the charitable arm of Brady's fitness business, is picking up the tab to train district staff and provide them with equipment. "It really helps."Ī pilot project has embedded parts of the program in gym and health courses in 10 middle and high schools in the 96,000-student district. "My legs are a lot more loose, and they're not so heavy on me," said Antoine James, an eighth-grader. ![]() But the program - and its connection with the seven-time Super Bowl champion - has stirred student interest in fitness and nutrition, others say. Physical education experts have raised questions about the approach's suitability for school-age children. The arrangement with schools in Pinellas County, Florida, marks a foray into education for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers superstar and his methods - including some that have been criticized as pseudoscience. It's all part of a new physical education curriculum from quarterback Tom Brady, whose vision for healthy living is fueling a fitness empire. In some Tampa Bay-area schools, students use foam rollers and vibrating spheres to massage their muscles as they work toward goals of strength and flexibility. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions. The film stars Petula Clark and Don Francks. The film stars Peter Kastner, Karen Black (front), Geraldine Page (back), Tony Bill, Elizabeth Hartman.Īn Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people’s lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician. Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass. ![]() The film stars William Campbell, Luana Anders and Bart Patton. Shocked by the death of her spouse, a scheming widow hatches a bold plan to get her hands on the inheritance, unaware that she is targeted by an axe-wielding murderer who lurks in the family’s estate. The film stars Karl Schanzer, Don Kenney and Marli Renfro. On a club stage reality and fiction are mixed. The film stars June Wilkinson, Don Kenney and Karin Dor. This Bellboy is after more than just big tips. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His poem, originally written for his own children, has appeared in a variety of formats since it’s early appearances, including newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, and separate publications. Moore (1779-1863) was a professor of literature and divinity at the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Moore was not identified as the author until the 1837 publication of the poem in The New-York Book of Poetry published by George Dearborn (which we do have a copy of here in Special Collections). Though the poem was reprinted several times in the following years, Clement C. The seasonal poem first appeared uncredited in a New York state newspaper, The Troy Sentinel, in 1823. Nicholas”, also known as “The Night Before Christmas”. ![]() In fact, here in Special Collections, “not a creature stirring – not even a mouse”…and that’s the way we like it since mice are bad for rare books and manuscripts! Of course, I’m quoting that most famous of Christmas poems, Clement C. Oxford and campus are blanketed by a picturesque layer of snow and all is calm after the flurry of activity surrounding this semester’s classes, researchers, and programs. Now that the students have gone home for the holiday break, it’s very quiet here in the library. ![]() |