![]() ![]() ![]() Levar Burton as Kunta Kinte in the 1977 mini series of Roots. But after it, Octavia Butler used time travel to explore slavery in Kindred (1979), Alice Walker deployed an African subplot in The Color Purple (1982) and Toni Morrison made a fugitive slave her protagonist in Beloved (1987). ![]() Before Roots, leading black novelists – Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin – had largely stuck to contemporary or recent-past American subject matter. Published the previous year, the saga charts the lives of six generations of Haley’s family, starting with a putative 18th-century ancestor in the Gambia, Kunta Kinte, who is enslaved and transported to America, and put slavery and Africa back on the agenda. ![]() What’s strange about the sniffiness towards Haley is that his impact was felt in literary fiction, as well as by the 130 million Americans who viewed the (much less classy) original adaptation of Roots in 1977. That the latter was not accompanied by a clutch of major reassessments testifies to his fascinatingly ambiguous status: he is the most-read African American author ever – The Autobiography of Malcolm X (which he co-authored with the black nationalist leader) sold 6m copies in its first decade, Roots sold the same number in its first year alone – yet is forever tainted by controversy and kept out of the canon. This week saw both the debut on BBC4 of a star-studded mini-series based on Alex Haley’s Roots, and the 25th anniversary of Haley’s death on 10 February 1992. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases-and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares.ĭuring his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life.Īs the model for Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, Douglas has confronted, interviewed, and studied scores of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Ed Gein, who dressed himself in his victims' peeled skin. Douglas' twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country's most notorious serial killers and criminals. Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The NMR shift provides direct information about the s- and d-electron contributions to the density of states DOS at the Fermi level E F, whereas the spin lattice relaxation provides information about the low energy excitations onto s- and d-electrons around E F. Magnetic resonance has (in contrast to neutron scattering) a large potential as a local probe for linear d- electron bands. Furthermore pronounced quantum oscillations of hole and electron bands could be observed and, due to the moderate spin-orbit interaction, these Landau bands are spin-splitted. As a consequence, Weyl fermions show unconventional electron and heat transport phenomena. The density of states (DOS) for Dirac- and Weyl-SMs exhibits an unconventional energy-dependence with N(E) ~ E 2 which is in contrast to conventional metals where N(E) ~ E 1/2 is valid. Furthermore due to the spin orbit coupling the Weyl fermions have a chirality on their linear dispersive bands. ![]() In contrast to the topological insulators where a linear dispersion is found on the surface in WSM this dispersion is found in the bulk. The hallmark of Weyl semimetals is the formation of pairs of Weyl points in reciprocal space and their linear dispersion relation leading to mass less fermions when the Fermi energy crosses exactly the Weyl points. Compensated d-electron semimetals (SM) like the monophosphites NbP and TaP, with non centrosymmetric structure and sizable spin orbit interaction (few tens meV) form a new class of material: the Weyl semimetals (WSM). ![]() ![]() ![]() And in Starry Eyes, it was definitely not what Zorie had planned for a camping trip. Trapped in the wilderness with the boy who broke your heart isn’t an ideal situation for anyone. But what Bailey doesn’t know is that Porter isn’t just any local surfer dude. Or that she’s landed a job where she’s being tormented daily by her coworker: smart-alecky yet irritatingly hot surfer boy Porter Roth. Especially for Bailey in Alex, Approximately after she falls for a sensitive film geek she only knows online as “Alex.” It also just so happens that Bailey is moving to California-to the same coastal town as her online crush-and yet she is too afraid to tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown. When the guy you’re meant to be with is your worst enemy, things can get a little…complicated. Hate-to-love romance takes center stage in Jenn Bennett’s contemporary novels, Alex Approximately and Starry Eyes, now together in one incredible package that’s perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson. ![]() ![]() It set a snare to catch one who was a hero-for heroes are delicious when they fall. Still, it could not, by virtue of what it was, allow such a one to live. ![]() The evil deemed it no more of a meal than a thousand others like it. ![]() On the evil one’s webs came whispers of a monster who fought other monsters. ![]() It became aware of one who sought, like the spring once had, to do a little good in a world now bleak and dark. Sometimes it fed upon innocence, sometimes magic, sometimes beauty-but the evil always took satisfaction in robbing the world of any good it could find. Time changed, and the evil changed with it, grew more clever about drawing prey to it. This evil held the now-polluted spring, one way or another, for a very long while. Thus died a little joy in the world, and evil was satisfied for a time. Eventually, even the earth’s magic could not cleanse the evil from the water, and the spring’s small magic was turned to darker uses. Such an evil came to dwell at the spring, culling victims from those who came to seek the little surcease it offered. There is a certain sort of evil that cannot abide happiness, even such humble joys as lived in that spring. ![]() Once upon a time, there was a small spring that, touched by the earth’s spirit, bore a sparkle of magic scattered in its cold, pure water.It was only a little magic, but it brought good things into the world-tiny bits of goodness born of the tiny bits of magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Eloise Greenfield, an award-winning writer whose dozens of works helped broaden children’s literature so that young African Americans could see themselves, their history and their hopes in the. ![]() Don is a founding host of the The Brown Bookshelf – a blog dedicated to books for African American young readers and a member of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign, created to address the lack of diverse, non-majority narratives in children’s literature. Order 25+ copies of Par-tay: Dance of the Veggies and Their Friends by Eloise Greenfield and Don Tate at wholesale pricing. He is also the author of Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton, and It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started To Draw, both books are Ezra Jack Keats award winners. Don Tate is an award-winning illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children. Africa Dream received the Coretta Scott King Award while the Coretta Scott King Author Honor and an ALA 2012 Notable Children’s book honored her title, The Great Migration: Journey to the North. She has been inducted into the National Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. Dean Award, an NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children among others. Multiple lifetime achievement awards include a Living Legacy Award, a Hope S. With many award-winning books to her credit, Eloise Greenfield has achieved her status among the most celebrated of children’s authors. ![]() ![]() Moments: Choose Your Story FATAL SHADOWS (mobile game ap)ĪUDIO - Seance on a Summer's Night (narrated by Matt Haynes)ĪUDIO - The Ghost Had an Early Check-out (narrated by Michael Pauley) But that really goes against my long-held conviction that five is the perfect number for a series. The Monuments Men (Art of Murder 4) - only one more installment to go! It's going to be very hard to end this series, so yes, I'm tempted to go for more than five books. In the age of binge-consumption, this kind of part-one-of-a-three-part-story drives (some) readers crazy. ![]() The plan was always for rapid release, but now I view it as more mandatory than optional. ![]() The next two installments will be pretty quick-October and February, I'm guessing. ![]() Mainly by Moonlight (Witches Brew) Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1 - That just came out this last Wednesday. But better still, it's been a very creative year.īut, in case you missed it all, here's what's already been delivered: ![]() It's August, we're more than halfway through the year, and my last check-in was May. Well, I wouldn't say easy, exactly, but the livin' is warmer and the ground is softer. :-DĪh, but it's summer now and the livin' is. Remember that fairy tale and that Arthur Rackham illustration?Īnd let me tell you, the frozen bare ground hurts your feet in winter. ![]() ![]() ![]() But he's met at the airport by one of their colleagues, who explains that his parents have gone missing at the remote Maya temple of Ix Chel. When he's mysteriously summoned to San Xavier, he thinks they've had a change of heart. ![]() He's always suspected that his parents cared more about the Ancient Maya than about him and this proves it. They must leave immediately for a dig in San Xavier, the tiny Central American country where his father grew up. But his parents, both archaeologists and Maya experts, announce a change in plan. How could this be? Was this some sorcery sent by his half-brother, Tzelok, the evil priest? 1200 years later, in Boston, Massachusetts, 14-year-old Max Murphy is looking forward to a family vacation. ![]() A great warrior king of the mighty Maya, he has dreamed he was a lowly, flea-bitten monkey. "In the ancient city of Itzamna, Lord Six-Rabbit wakes up screaming. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This fact resulted in the highest call volume seen by the department since those call statistics began to be acquired in 2016.”……”The final numbers do indicate that in 2022 despite a rapidly growing city, Locust remains a very safe city with an overall low volume of crime and criminal activity, and numbers continued for the eleventh straight year to show an overall low daily incidence of larceny, fraud, and assault activity and near zero incidents of violent crime.” 2022 statistics as well as a comparison to past years does also show that although crime is low, the tremendous growth that has occurred and is ongoing in Locust has resulted in a continuously elevated call volume for the agency. Chapter 160D: Land Development Ordinance UpdateĬhief Shew remarked in his final analysis “In 2022, for the eleventh consecutive year since these reports have been published, law enforcement activities and statistics for the City of Locust again showed the result of low criminal activity which continues to make Locust an extremely safe city to visit and live. ![]() ![]() ![]() For a while, she refused to pursue what scared her, saying "no" when she could’ve said "yes" and "yes" when she probably should’ve said "no." Over the course of 15 chapters, Shonda Rhimes evolves from saying “no” to “maybe” to “um, yes?” to a firm “yes!” in situations that she fears. Six words from her sister Delorse (“You never say 'yes' to anything.”) triggered Shonda's realization of how miserable she was. The book details her struggle finding the balance between being a business woman, a single parent, and a working mother with a lot of expectations thrown her way-including those she holds for herself. ![]() It's also a heartfelt and personal ode to understanding and recognizing your feminist self, filled with excerpts that may incite an internal (or external) “ Yas Queen!” In Year of Yes, readers learn what it’s really like to be the Shonda Rhimes, one of the most powerful women in television. Shonda Rhimes’ bestselling work Year of Yes is part self-help book, part humorous biography. ![]() |