![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. And they're like, what are we supposed to do with this? You know, there was no box for that!Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Night Song Author Beverly Jenkins It's the story of a Buffalo soldier and Oberlin-educated schoolteacher in an all-Black town on the plains of Kansas in the 1880s. ![]() This is my first book, Night Song, which is still in print. ![]() So here I come with a story about a Buffalo soldier. The "but" had to do with what we're talking about right here, because in publishing's eyes, a 19th century story concerning African Americans should have dealt with slavery. I received enough rejections to probably paper my house and yours! And most of the letters said "Great writing, but." When I started the market was basically closed to African American romance writers. ![]() ![]() So I was basically just writing it for me and sort of stumbled into the publishing world. I mean, even when there was nothing in the mass media that reflected who I am and, you know, my cousins, and parents, and those people at church who had been married for 50 years and were still holding hands going to the car afterward. Many people know that you write romance-you are, as you like to say, a proud romance writer-but we don't all know why you write romance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It's had several adaptions over the years, the two most notable being the Samurai Trilogy of films starring Toshiro Mifune, note Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple and Samurai III Duel At Ganryu Island and the manga Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue. A long Serial Novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa and published between 19, this novel follows the path of legendary Rōnin Miyamoto Musashi as he slowly transforms from violent thug to Martial Pacifist using the Way of the Sword. ![]() Featuring awesome swordfights, epic Character Development, melodramatic loves, thrilling escapes, and thoughtful reflections that don't sound like they came out of a Cracker Jack box, Musashi is perhaps the quintessential samurai epic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her 1983 novel, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, reflected her upbringing as a mixed-blood struggling with creative expression. In 1978 she received a NEA creative writing fellowship, followed two years later by a postdoctoral fellowship to study at UCLA. in American Studies with a concentration in Native American Literature. ![]() After receiving her BA and MFA degrees from the University of Oregon, Allen returned to New Mexico to receive her Ph.D. Daughter of a Lebanese-American father and a Laguna-Sioux-Scottish mother, Allen was raised in New Mexico on the Laguna Pueblo where she was deeply influenced by matriarchal Pueblo culture. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”Īt a time when academia still denied the existence of Native American literature, Paula Gunn Allen recognized its importance and dedicated her career to proving its merit. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. “Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Escapism with no apologies.”- Publishers Weekly, starred review Now if they can just keep their attraction under wraps, Ash’s lost dream could finally come true. And her business expertise might be Ash’s best bet for getting her last film-and her last chance-financed. She’s curvy, beautiful, and just so damn put together. ![]() Not since her ex ripped her heart from her chest in Spielberg-esque style, crushing Ash’s reputation, dreams, and directorial career in one brutal blow. So why does it feel like it’s not quite enough? Which is exactly when former filmmaker Ash Stewart enters camera left, and Rose’s world suddenly goes full technicolor. Still, life is good, with her work, her sisters, and a secret hobby creating incredibly tactile (if surprisingly sexy) mindfulness videos. ![]() īusiness consultant Rose Josten might not have officially reached “pug lady” middle age, but she’s already got the pugs-along with their little Gucci coats and trash-lovin’ appetites. Fans of Abby Jimenez and Meryl Wilsner will fall in love with this hilarious and refreshingly authentic novel about second chances, pugs, and finding the perfect muse. ![]() ![]() Glennon Doyle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers UNTAMED (a Reese’s Book Club selection) and LOVE WARRIOR ( an Oprah's Book Club selection), as well as the New York Times bestseller CARRY ON, WARRIOR. Follow Glennon on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and sign up for her email updates here: htt Author, Activist, Founder of Together Rising, and Host of the We Can Do Hard Things Podcast. She lives in California with her wife and three children. ![]() An activist and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People), Glennon is the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women-led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy – raising over $35 million for women, families, and children in crisis. ![]() Author, Activist, Founder of Together Rising, and Host of the We Can Do Hard Things Podcast. ![]() ![]() ![]() The owl is a powerful amplifier, and if it dies, Iris's dark spell will be unleashed not only on Pike, but on everyone in the region.įorced to work together, Iris and Pike trek through the wilderness in search of the bird that could cost Pike his life. But just as she's about to dispel it, an owl swoops down and steals the curse before flying far away from the refuge. When Pike makes a particularly hurtful comment, Iris concocts a cruel torment for him. And while she loves working at the wildlife refuge she runs with her mother, she loathes Pike Alder, the witch-hating aspiring ornithologist who interns with them. Now settled in Washington, Iris hides who she really is and vents her frustrations by writing curses she never intends to cast. It doesn't matter that the Witches' Council found her innocent or that her magic was once viewed as a marvel-that night on the lake changed everything. When eighteen-year-old witch Iris Gray accidentally enacts a curse that could have dire consequences, she must journey through the Pacific Northwest wilderness with a boy who hates witches to make sure her magic isn't unleashed on the world.Īfter a night of magic turns deadly, Iris Gray vows to never let another person learn she's a witch. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches comes another immersive, high-stakes contemporary fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() I recently read and was rather impressed by another of Morris’ works, The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan, and so was looking forward to reading The World of the Shining Prince even more. Beginning in 1994, later editions of the work also include an introduction by Barbara Ruch. ![]() The World of the Shining Prince was originally published in 1964. In many ways, The World of the Shining Prince serves as a companion to The Tale of Genji as Morris explores the historical reality of the aristocracy of Heian-era Japan. The volume takes its title from the hero of The Tale of Genji who is referred to as the shining prince due to his exquisite visage and exceptional character. Ever since finishing The Tale of Genji for the first time, I’ve been meaning to read Ivan Morris’ The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan. It was a pretty big undertaking, but absolutely worth it. Several years ago I read the entirety of The Tale of Genji, a novel written by Murasaki Shikibu in the eleventh century. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a high school student, she traveled solo by train to NYC early every Saturday morning, lugging her double-bass from her home in Saratoga to Juilliard's precollege program. In addition to English, she speaks French (her first language), Arabic, Spanish, and Farsi. The daughter of a Tunisian-born French literature professor and a Swiss-born painter, Jaouad is a lifelong over-achiever. She had become a different sort of war correspondent.īetween Two Kingdoms, Jaouad's searching memoir of her illness and its aftermath, takes its title from an observation in Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor: "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick." The line between them, Jaouad discovers, is more porous than most people realize. During her "incanceration"-months in isolation to prevent infections-she documented her grueling treatments, first in a blog, then in a weekly column and videos for The New York Times called "Life, Interrupted," which generated an enormous response. Jaouad started writing about what it's like to face a life-threatening illness at 22. She quickly found herself fighting for her life in New York City cancer wards, where she was given a 35 percent chance of survival. ![]() Instead, within months, she was diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia. When Suleika Jaouad graduated from Princeton in 2010, she was considering a career as a war correspondent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And so I’ve used fairy tales in lots of my books–not only those you mention(incidentally, Hunter’s Moon isn’t out till 2015), but also in much earlier novels such as Carabas (Puss in Boots) Clementine(Sleeping Beauty) and Cold Iron(Tattercoats, the English version of Cinderella) What is it about fairy tales that attracts you?Īs a reader: Their extraordinary mix of lightness and depth, magic and earthiness, freshness and warmth, ruthlessness and hope the timeless atmosphere, the unexpected encounters, archetypal characters–and of course, as a writer, the wonderful riches I can use to create magical worlds of my own. * Many fairy tales weave through your books including The Crystal Heart (Rapunzel), Scarlet in the Snow (Beauty and the Beast), Moonlight and Ashes (Cinderella), and Hunter’s Moon (Snow White). We spoke to Sophie Masson about the fairy tales weaving through her books. ![]() ![]() That is just what our family did, both sides. The family in this story shared meals together, appreciated their land and their roots, literal and figurative together and went to church together and celebrated with each other. I am still close with my family and we are a special family. I couldn't wait to be with family and be in a place of love. ![]() We went once a year to Florida and I was always so excited. My dad's family lived close, only a 2 hour drive while my mom's family was in Florida and took 17 hours to get there. Our family did reunions on both sides of the family and we would have cousins and family to be with. It is different and so I think it does warrant the nom. The artwork looks like she is blending watercolors with other mediums and she swirls the colors into unique shapes. I do like it, but I feel the story is better. The art is certainly inventive and interesting. ![]() A great story about "nothing is more important than family" and family reunions. ![]() |