"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Eventually, their paths both lead back to the mighty Eze.īut can they defeat the man who brought the gods themselves to their knees? Both girls are tested in ways that awaken a mystical, formidable power deep within themselves. The twin girls were separated at birth, a price paid to ensure their survival from Eze Ochichiri, the man who rules the Kingdom of Nri. Though miles apart, both girls share an indestructible bond: they share the same blood, the same face, and possess the same unspoken magic, thought to have vanished with the lost gods. While the more reserved Sinai resides in the cold and political palace of Nri. Strong-willed Naala grows up seeking adventure in her quiet and small village. Daughters Of Nri explores their epic journey of self-discovery as they embark on a path back to one another. Goddesses who grow up believing that they are human. The only remnants of their existence lie in two girls. Today I am interviewing Reni K Amayo on her debut Young Adult book, Daughters of Nri that is coming out October 1st, 2019 Hello Reni, thank you so much for joining us on JheartLovesBooks. A gruesome war results in the old gods' departure from earth.
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For nearly three decades he has been engaged in consciousness research. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Longer Bio: Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and and Associated Distinguished Professor of Transpersonal and Integral Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is author or coauthor of hundreds of technical and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, and four books including the award-winning and best-selling "The Conscious Universe" (HarperOne, 1997), "Entangled Minds" (Simon & Schuster, 2006), "Supernormal" (Random House, 2013), and the latest, "Real Magic" (Penguin Random House, 2018). Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Convinced she’s being haunted by a restless spirit, she’s also in danger of losing herselfーshe becomes obsessed with solving the 20-year-old mystery surrounding missing girl Hannah Holt, and William Dean, the boy who took his own secrets to the grave.īRK: Where did the inspiration for this book come from? Why did you decide to write this? One night a simple pipe dare goes wrong and Grace experiences something she can’t explain. She lost her mother two years ago, and she’s finding it hard to keep up appearances she’s struggling at school, and her friends are hooking up and moving on. Grace Foley has always been the funny girl in her close group of friends, but the dynamics are changing. Vikki Wakefield: Thank you! Ballad for a Mad Girl is a mash-up of crime/mystery/thriller/horror (and the supernatural), but at its core it’s still very much a contemporary YA novel about growing up. Better Reading Kids spoke to Vikki about young adult literature, madness, and grief.īetter Reading Kids: Congratulations on your new book, Ballad for a Mad Girl! Tell us about it. Just a hint of advice before diving into it, though – you might want to read it with the lights on. A master of the YA genre and Australian native, Ballad For A Mad Girl is her fourth book, and it does not disappoint. Rose’s curiosity and wanting to experiment with new things may resonate with teens especially with the confusion, anger, and embarrassing moments that go along with it. Rose and Windy are very different, yet still friends and are going through different situations and stages in their life. I think the writing and the way the characters present themselves will be factors that help teens connect to the characters and the story. This book is very ‘teen.’ I do not mean this in a bad way, but just as fact. Staying away from the awkward atmosphere at the cabin, Rose and Windy stay outside more, but have found drama going on with the locals. Rose and Windy end up involved in the local problems, so there is no escape from the real world. There is tension between Rose’s parents and they just won’t stop fighting. Unfortunately, this summer real world problems sneak into their vacation time. Windy, Rose’s summer friend, is also there too making the vacation fun. It is their home away from home and an escape from the real world. Going to a lake house on Awago Beach during the summer is a tradition for Rose’s family. Reading Level/Interest Level: 9th grade +įirst Publication Date: May 6th 2014 (320 pages)Īvailable Formats on Amazon: e-book, paperback, hardback A crush on an older boy who may have made his girlfriend pregnant make her vacation even more emotionally complicated. Rose’s family is going through a difficult, putting a dark cloud over their summer vacation they take every year. Peterson also talks openly of losing friends during the AIDS crisis of the early 1980s, which at times are simply heartwrenching, and even during a global pandemic, are hard to imagine. You may feel like this is the conclusion of the story, but from here on out we only get more tales, some quite graphic (a whole chapter is dedicated to sexual assault) plus there are the capers of filming the camp classic Mistress of the Dark feature. Long before she became Elvira, Cassandra had tried many careers, but her persistence paid off once she landed the gig as the Mistress of the Dark. We get a warts and all experience of a woman trying to make it big in a man’s world. The number of people she has crossed over the years, from Tom Jones to Robert DeNiro. It’s the book we never thought we needed – but now can’t put down.Īfter just hitting her 70th year, Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira: Mistress of the Dark has released a tell-all book about her, quite frankly, astonishing life.įrom burning herself at a young age through to becoming a showgirl in Las Vegas at the age of just 17, there is enough story in the first 150 pages to fill an entire book. What’s right and what’s permitted are sometimes different things. If I started letting myself feel afraid I would never be able to stop. I took a deep breath, and filled my lungs with the scent of the ocean. On the other, the ocean spread flat and clean. On one side hills rose covered in brown winter grass. “It’s too late for me to have one now.” (c) “I needed a doll a long time ago,” I said. “The only way out of this is straight through." (с) I would have to think hard to find any good memories. I choked and then I was sobbing, and Susan rocked me back and forth, back and forth as if I was a little baby, as if she loved me, as if she always had. I went away to Butter’s pasture, to galloping through the green fields on Butter- (c) When things were very bad I could go away in my head, to a place where no one could touch me. We were still struggling not to drown in the storm-tossed sea. Jamie and I were shipwrecked, but we hadn’t been rescued after all. The Swiss Family Robinson got shipwrecked onto a beautiful island where everything turned out splendid for them. Mam hadn’t been much for words, and there was a limit to how much I could teach myself, looking out the one window of our flat. You can know things all you like, but that doesn’t mean you believe them. The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2) It combines aspects of the American road novel and the ghost story with a timely treatment of the long aftershocks of a hurricane and the opioid epidemic devouring rural America.Ĭredit. However eternal its concerns, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” Ward’s new book, is perfectly poised for the moment. “ Men We Reaped” (2013), her memoir, is a requiem for five young black men, including the author’s brother, who were lost to murder, suicide and addiction. “ Salvage the Bones” (2011), her National Book Award-winning novel, follows a family caught in Hurricane Katrina (which Ward and her family narrowly survived). Her characters are tested not by the gods but by other elements, no less absolute in their pronouncements. Not for her the austerity and self-conscious ironies of so much American fiction her books reach for the sweep, force and sense of inevitability of the Greek myths, but as translated to the small, mostly poor, mostly black town in Mississippi where she grew up and where she still lives. Her memoir and three novels - produced in the span of less than a decade - feel hewn from these grand Faulknerian verities. The novelist Jesmyn Ward pinned this speech above her desk. In his wonderfully cranky Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner exhorted his fellow writers to create from the heart, not “the glands.” Address the immortal truths, he instructed: “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.” Here’s Burton Brown’s warning, from Chapter 11 of her book:Ī major pitfall in social justice work is the divisive spirit that permeates various movements. While a diverse approach to making abortion both unwanted and unthinkable is no doubt necessary, what happens all-too-often, Burton Brown cautions, is an unhealthy competition that exalts one approach, organization or individual to the detriment of the pro-life movement. In her book released late this summer, “ Do Justice: Practical Ways to Engage the World,” pro-life attorney and columnist Kristi Burton Brown lays a strong biblical foundation for the Christian church’s call to fight and work toward true justice in a world rife with empty calls to “unify” around shallow and often-undefined goals.ĭrawing upon the testimony of the Old and New Testaments, Burton Brown also highlights examples of Christians throughout church history-including missionaries like William Carey, Gladys Aylward who ended societal oppression where they served-as well as modern-day pro-life figures to illustrate the variety of ways Christians can live out the biblical call to “do justice, and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8).Īlong the way, Burton Brown-an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and editor of Live Action News-strikes a much-needed chord for those involved in the everyday work of rescuing lives from abortion. He wants to help her pick up the pieces of her life, but is she willing to do what it takes to become whole again?Ĭan she trust him with a piece of herself? Leaving her old life behind, she sets forth on a pilgrimage that will bring her back to the boy she could never forget. When faced, yet again, with more pieces to pick up, Beth begins to question what her choices have cost her. Years later, another tragedy threatens to shatter the life Beth has carefully crafted. For one incredible summer, Ryan shows Beth what it’s like to act her own age. In her darkest moments, she meets a boy named Ryan. Surrounded by the comfort and protection of her extended family, Beth embarks on a journey of healing far from the horrors of her home. From the moment a trusted family friend steals her innocence until the moment another rescues her, she struggles to just survive. Life shouldn’t be about picking up the pieces.īeth Bradshaw has spent her life hiding from her tragic past. The evidence is as damning as you'd expect: Sam was carrying on a heated affair with Marcie, who was pregnant with his child and refused an abortion. Sam, currently the track coach at Lake City High, has been accused of murdering Marcie Calder, one of his star athletes. Now a desperate call from Sue Robb brings Tony back to Lake City. Despite the efforts of the Lake City police and the hatred of everyone in town-only Sam and his girlfriend, Sue Cash, stood by him-Tony was never charged with the murder, and eventually escaped to Harvard Law, a movie-star wife, and a son who's the age Alison was when she died. But all that changed when class president Alison Taylor was raped and strangled minutes after saying good-night to Tony. A generation ago, Anthony Lord and Sam Robb thought the defining moment of their high-school careers would be when one of them was named Athlete of the Year. A successful San Francisco lawyer returns to Lake City, Ohio, to defend a childhood friend on murder charges-and to confront the townsfolk who are convinced that the lawyer himself is a killer. |