![]() ![]() Dick award and multiple book-of-the-year awards in 2016. Joining in conversation is local science fiction treasure and Kepler's favorite, Meg Elison, author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, which won the Philip K. ![]() Beagle's latest published anthology honors a recurring figure of optimism from over half a century of his writing: unicorns at their finest. Endlessly imaginative, Beagle weaves unexpected magic into literary landscapes which most need hope. This writer’s words have graced print, stage, and screen in a countless array of imagined worlds, from Middle Earth to outer space, from Hagsgate to a unicorn-laden Calabria. In a discussion around his latest edited collection, The Unicorn Anthology, Beagle will sign books and share about his career in the five decades since The Last Unicorn was published. The acclaimed author's effortless fantasy writing first entered print with the novel A Fine & Private Place, when he was just nineteen years old. Beagle of The Last Unicorn, visits Kepler’s Books in June for a celebration of his lifetime achievements.īeagle’s many beloved works include Tamsin, Summerlong, The Overneath, and more, alongside edited collections like The Urban Fantasy Anthology and The Secret History of Fantasy. At summer’s start, unicorns arrive to Kepler's Literary Foundation! One of fantasy’s most lauded authors, Peter S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() War between the devas and the demons is imminent, and the Otherworld is on high alert. If she doesn't find the arrow by the next full moon, she'll be kicked out of the Otherworld. If that weren't bad enough, somehow Aru gets framed as the thief. Instead, they're turning people into heartless fighting-machine zombies. The god of love's bow and arrow have gone missing, and the thief isn't playing Cupid. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? Whilst her classmates are jetting off to exotic locales, she'll be at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture where her mother works. Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have included in this list only those surnames of which seven or more people married persons with Eva's genes. Nobody has ever sat down to work out how many Afrikaners have non-European genes which would enable them to claim to be Blacks, but I have now made a list of the surnames and numbers of people who married descendants of just one of Eva's great-grandchildren. ![]() Heese's book, Groep Sonder Grense, the particulars of more than a thousand marriages between Europeans and non-European people in the period 1652 to 1795 in the Cape are recorded. I went on to say that Eva, the Khoi (or "Hottentot") girl,who grew up in Jan van Riebeeck's house, was not the only non-European woman to marry a European in South Africa. ![]() I contended that anyone claiming to have the genes of an indigenous African or of any non-European, can, in terms of the Act, claim to be Black. It merely states that Blacks are "Africans, Coloureds and Indians". In a previous article I claimed that the Black Economic Empowerment Act provides no definition for "Coloureds". The controversy around the statement about the number of "Coloureds" in the Western Cape and recent articles about this group of people promp one to ask for a definition of a "Coloured" person. Piet Swanepoel says most Afrikaners can claim black descent ![]() ![]() Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städning meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. ![]() *The basis for the wonderfully funny and moving TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions*Ī charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life. ![]() ![]() Jackie Morris grew up in the Vale of Evesham and studied at Hereford College of Arts and at Bath Academy. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently completing Underland, about underworlds real and imagined. Most recently, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the EM Forster Award for Literature 2017. His work has been translated into many languages and widely adapted for film, television and radio, and his essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and the Guardian. ![]() Robert Macfarlane is the author of a number of bestselling and prize-winning books including The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Holloway and Landmarks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or maybe a reality they cannot comprehend lies just beyond the next turn.Praise for Alive “Suspenseful. Maybe there’s a way out, a rational explanation, and a fighting chance against the dangers to come. If she has to lead, she will make sure they survive. Whatever the truth is, she is determined to find it and confront it. Now, if they’re to have any chance, she must get them to trust one another. She is not the biggest among them, or the boldest, but for some reason the others trust her. Savage, which was engraved on the foot of her coffin-yet she finds herself in charge. She knows only one thing about herself-her name, M. Beyond their room lies a corridor filled with bones and dust, but no people. Fighting her way free brings little relief-she discovers only a room lined with caskets and a handful of equally mystified survivors. ![]() She has no idea who she is, where she is, or how she got there. a lid.” A teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. There is a board right in front of my face. it thumps against something solid and unmoving. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else. Their only hope lies with an indomitable young woman who must lead them not only to answers but to survival. For fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising comes a gripping sci-fi adventure in which a group of teenagers wake up in a mysterious corridor with no knowledge of who they are or how they got trapped. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shelley's openness and vulnerability as she shares her own story of hope and healing through her books will inspire and encourage you. She is also the owner of where she helps pastors, ministry leaders, and Christian entrepreneurs get published and market their books. She does this through her books, websites and speaking engagements. She has been ministering alongside her husband, CJ, since 1998 and her main passion is to share God's truth and the freedom in Christ she has found with others. However, most importantly she is a wife, daughter, sister, friend and follower of Christ. ![]() => Connect with Shelley online at her website, Shelley Hitz is an award-winning and international best-selling author. ![]() Shelley Hitz is an award-winning and international best-selling author. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Long Song is sung by Miss July, a former slave whose life began well before the 10-day Baptist War of 1831 brought an end to slavery on the island. Though it lacks the span and richness of her earlier work, Levy’s exuberance, lively language and finely honed sense of the droll-mixed with the gravity of historical events-make this new novel a pleasure to read. While Small Island follows the lives of four characters in post-WWII London, in Levy’s latest, The Long Song, the location shifts to 19th-century Jamaica in and around the years following the abolition of slavery. Winner of numerous British awards in 20, the novel was catapulted across the Atlantic to further praise and critical acclaim. Andrea Levy’s Small Island is a hard act to follow. ![]() ![]() 24, he brings his critique of America’s obsession with weight to the BU School of Public Health, where he will deliver the 2013 William J. ![]() The University of Colorado at Boulder law professor, who authored the controversial 2004 book The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health, has been a vocal critic of what he considers a self-defeating war on fat that has no basis in science and can have devastating consequences for women. “While the changes are small, for the first time in a generation, they are going in the right direction.”įor Paul Campos, concerns about obesity have been headed in the wrong direction for generations. “Although obesity remains epidemic, the tide has begun to turn for some kids in some states,” CDC Director Thomas Frieden said in heralding the news. This summer, there was much rejoicing in the public health community, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data showing obesity rates among preschoolers falling in many states for the first time in decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roberta and Tommy Lee are the children of the Metropolis Health Department's newest Chief Bacteriologist, and as such, find themselves moving to a completely different-some would say "nicer"-part of Metropolis. It shows that although this is a Superman story, it's not solely his. ![]() (Who doesn't want to see Supes smashing some racists?) I also love how the characters are nearly the same size. It's very title-forward, focusing instead on the text rather than the characters, but the title really does catch your attention. Much like a yellow traffic light, the mustard-yellow background of the cover of Superman Smashes the Klan tells readers to pause and pay attention. And while Tommy Lee finds his place quickly and easily, his younger sister Roberta struggles with feeling generally out of sync with the world around her. ![]() There, they come face-to-face with a seriously evil hate group and the Man of Steel himself. ![]() Set in 1946, the book centers on a Chinese-American family, the Lees, who move out of Chinatown and into a different part of Metropolis. Written by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by artist team Gurihiru, the book is-obviously-about Superman taking down some "bigots in bedsheets" (a phrase I've pulled from the book that is absolutely *chef's kiss*), but it's also a story about being true to oneself in the face of harsh scrutiny and fear. DC’s newest YA graphic novel, Superman Smashes the Klan, is a story with layers. ![]() |