![]() The former slave Rebecca Protten had a life story that makes for a fascinating read.
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![]() ![]() ![]() While many of the Clanton residents demand a swift trial and the death penalty, Brigance digs deeper to discover there's more to the story than meets the eye. A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, 1), John Grisham A Time to Kill is a 1988 legal thriller by John Grisham. The film also starred Oliver Platt, Donald Sutherland and Kiefer Sutherland.Ī Time for Mercy is set five years after Brigance's monumental court case, during which he is reluctantly assigned to the case of a young man who shot and killed his mother's boyfriend, who is a deputy sheriff. ![]() The Ku Klux Klan incite violence as 'retribution' in the small fictional town of Clanton. The legal thriller - set in 1980s Mississippi, where racial tensions are simmering - follows Brigance and his assistant (played by Bullock) defending a Black man called Carl Lee Hailey (Jackson) on trial, who is accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter. A TV adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling novel A Time For Mercy, which is a sequel to his classic thriller A Time to Kill, is currently in development at US network HBO, which has acquired the rights to the book.Ī Time to Kill was adapted into the 1996 movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock and Samuel L Jackson, and Deadline reports that McConaughey is in talks to reprise his role as defence attorney Jake Brigance. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think the author was very bold and for that, she made me a fan." - Sunny The only hint I can give is that it doesn't go down the way traditional love triangles go. I can't really explain it with out giving it away. The author makes it where it will just shock the sh*t out of you. "I have to give the author credit – Love Triangle – very different. She is an amazing author who can weave her magic so throughly that you feel as if you are there." - Jessica Bolton, Book Rock Goddess "I love Kailin Gows books and Frost Kisses is no exception. I love reading Kailin's books." – Jamie Johnson, Fantasy Book Chick blog "OMG.this series just keeps getting better! I absolutely love this series. ![]() "This is my first novel by Kailin Gow and I promise it won't be the last! She has a wonderful way of capturing the reader from the start and easily transports them to an interesting and fascinating world of Feyland where fairies, pixies and werewolves exist – a beautiful place where magic is normal and necessary, and a place where humans normally cannot survive." - Theresa, Just One More Paragraph Gow will be the next it author." - Amanda Drost, Broken Arrow ![]() "Loved this book and am so excited to see what happens in the next one. From the author of the ALA YALSA Reader's Choice Winner in Science Fiction and Fantasy and award-winning filmmaker Kailin Gow comes an epic fantasy series, called Bitter Frost! ![]() ![]() ![]() Sol chooses not one, but two Jade competitors. But then, for the first time in over a century, the impossible happens. His best friend, Niya is a Gold semidiós and a shoo-in for the Trials, and while he trusts her abilities, the odds of becoming the sacrifice is one-in-ten. ![]() Teo, a seventeen-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of the goddess of birds, isn't worried about the Trials. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all-they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body melted down to refuel the Sun Stones, protecting the world for another ten years. ![]() Sol selects ten of the most worthy semidioses to compete in the Sunbearer Trials. I'm not a real hero." As each new decade begins, the Sun's power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the chaotic Obsidian gods at bay. "Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead it became a worldwide phenomenon, winner of nine Emmy Awards, and its final episode remains the third-highest rated show of all time. ![]() After screening the series, network executives were fearful that this horrifying reality would scare away audiences, so they decided to "dump" it over consecutive nights, just get it over with. On January 23, 1977,the first in an eight episode TV adaptation premiered on ABC, simply called Roots, and it did not shy away from depicting the raw brutality and absolute inhumanity of the slave experience. Starting with an ancestor named Kunta Kinte of the Mandinka people in Gambia who was enslaved and brought to America in the late 1700s, it traced his family line through his descendants as they suffered the horrors of slavery, abuse, imprisonment, rape, and murder for more than half a century, until the end of the Civil War. In 1976, Alex Haley published the book Roots:The Saga of an American Family, telling the story of what he believed to be his family's history. ![]() ![]() ![]() A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and accessible primer."-Laura Garmeson, Financial Times The result is a uniquely enjoyable volume that succeeds in illuminating the economic ideas and forces that shape our world. He recounts the contributions of key thinkers including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and others, while examining topics ranging from the invention of money and the rise of agrarianism to the Great Depression, entrepreneurship, environmental destruction, inequality, and behavioral economics. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to economics and for all readers who seek a better understanding of the full sweep of economic history and ideas.Įconomic historian Niall Kishtainy organizes short, chronological chapters that center on big ideas and events. What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. ![]() A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each chapter also has a lovely mehendi design and a quote from the MC’s family’s matchmaking guide, which I thought was excellent symbolism for the book as a whole. The pacing is very fast and I flew through the book so quickly that I didn’t even realize it was almost the end. The setting of the high school was pretty realistic too and I liked that the author didn’t try too much to get the teenage voice right. I thought the author’s idea of combining the traditional Indian style of matchmaking with modern and technologically advanced dating apps was genius and it made for a very lovely story - while giving us the pros and cons of both methods. The writing is light hearted, fun, with lots of awkward and silly and adorable moments and on the whole, just some thorough entertainment. The one thing I could tell right from the first page is that I was gonna smile through the whole book. But I was delighted to finally get my library copy so that I can join in with my friends who have all loved it so much. And it didn’t help that I always seem to get rejected for ownvoices ARCs. ![]() ![]() I have been waiting to read this book for so long now that I’ve lost count. CW: bullying, public outing of a character ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By turns thought-provoking and stomach-turning, here monsters take the shapes of furry woodland creatures and danger lurks in unexpected corners of everyday apartment buildings. “Like the work of Carmen Maria Machado and Aoko Matsuda, Chung’s stories are so wonderfully, blisteringly strange and powerful that it's almost impossible to put Cursed Bunny down.” ―Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get In TroubleĪ stunning, wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature-surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) biteįrom an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy categorization. "Cool, brilliantly demented K-horror-just the way I like it!" - Ed Park, author of Personal Days SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT ![]() ![]() ![]() Van der Ruit portrays the teacher, Mr Lennox, in a cameo role. The 4th book Spud: Exit, Pursued by a Bear was released in 2012 on the 4th of August.įollowing the sale of the rights to film producer Ross Garland, the film Spud - the Movie was shot between March and April 2010, and released on 3 December 2010. The first book Spud has also been recorded as an audio book, read by the author. The third book Spud - Learning to Fly was released on 10 June 2009. It won the 2006 Bookseller's Choice Award. ![]() The book was a runaway success in South Africa. He still hasn’t reached puberty, hasn’t cemented a relationship with Durban beauty queen Mermaid and is still a bit of a pawn in the boarding-school game. His first novel was published in 2005 by Penguin, entitled Spud. In the much-anticipated sequel to the surprise South African bestseller Spud (2007), John Spud Milton’s tale of boarding-school life picks up with 14-year-old John ready for his next school year. He is best known for his collaboration with Ben Voss on the satirical sketch show Green Mamba which has toured extensively throughout Southern Africa since 2002. He then went on to complete a master's degree in Drama and Performance at the then University of Natal. ![]() He was born in Durban and educated at Michaelhouse, where he stayed in Founders House and from where he matriculated in 1993. He has been a professional actor, playwright and producer since 1998. ![]() John Howard van de Ruit (born 20 April 1975) is a South African novelist, actor, playwright and producer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Combined, the two protagonists’ stories are like a bildungsroman in forward and reverse. Both characters are on Odyssean quests that are piloted by fate and haunted by echoes of the past. The young “Kafka” searches for his mother who abandoned him, and Nakata seeks his destiny as a conduit between different states of reality. Kafka on the Shore interweaves the stories of “Kafka” Tamura, a fifteen-year-old runaway and Nakata, an older man with magical gifts bestowed upon him after a near-death experience dating from his youth. Murakami manages to masterfully preserve a strong sense of narrative and readability despite his experimental techniques and complex explorations of fundamental themes. It is a sumptuous novel, layered with symbolism and literary references. As usual, Murakami provides his delighted readers with a unique experience in Kafka on the Shore. ![]() |