![]() ![]() ![]() For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul. ![]() Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. ![]() The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.īut when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory-and write her own legend.Īmina al-Sirafi should be content. ![]()
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![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders. ![]() He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. ![]() Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I hope women in 2021 will see that the things many of us struggle with today – family trouble, chronic illness, financial ruin, infertility and widowhood - were the same problems these women encountered centuries ago. ![]() “I pray this book will deliver a strong dose of encouragement and hope!” Bream said in an interview with The Wrap. The book, which earned the top spot on the New York Times Best Seller List, focuses on women of the Bible and how their wisdom and experience carries over to situations women face today. 4 on Publishers Weekly Religion Nonfiction bestsellers list. Shannon Bream’s ‘Women of the Bible’ Tops Popular Publishing Chartsįox News anchor Shannon Bream is topping charts with her latest book, “The Women of the Bible Speak.” The book, released in March 2021, finished the year at No. Published: JanuPhoto via Shannon Bream/Facebook ![]() ![]() ![]() I'll just come right out and say it: I had very mixed feelings about this book. This new view takes readers into the heart of Islamic teachings on women, gender, and patriarchy, allowing them to understand Islam through its most sacred scripture, rather than through Muslim cultural practices or Western media stereotypes. ![]() To the contrary, Barlas convincingly asserts that the Qur'an affirms the complete equality of the sexes, thereby offering an opportunity to theorize radical sexual equality from within the framework of its teachings. She goes on to reread the Qur'an's position on a variety of issues in order to argue that its teachings do not support patriarchy. Taking a wholly different view, Asma Barlas develops a believer's reading of the Qur'an that demonstrates the radically egalitarian and antipatriarchal nature of its teachings.īeginning with a historical analysis of religious authority and knowledge, Barlas shows how Muslims came to read inequality and patriarchy into the Qur'an to justify existing religious and social structures and demonstrates that the patriarchal meanings ascribed to the Qur'an are a function of who has read it, how, and in what contexts. ![]() Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kate Saunders' Five Children on the Western Front is both an homage and a goodbye to this twilight time. The children Nesbit depicts are both freed from the Victorian rules of their parents and more restricted than children of the mid-20th century, and as such, they live in a sort of golden, idyllic England that only existed for a very brief fragment of time.and possibly, only in the rose-tinted glow of fiction. At the time, I never really noticed that most of her books follow a reliable - even repetitive - pattern (short story mini-adventures of siblings strung out into a novel, often with a grumpy magical creature involved), that her language and attitude is distinctly upper-class, or that they wouldn't really work outside of their own era. Nesbit when I was about eight or nine years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Joan's fury feels fitting, in a new age of righteous rage and brave honesty in female-driven and female-penned art, from Promising Young Women and I May Destroy You, to Raven Leilani's Luster' - Harper's Bazaar Joan's voice is so sharp and magnetic that the reader will follow her anywhere' - New York Times ![]() ' American Psycho for the #MeToo generation' - The Times Taddeo's prose glitters with all the dark wit and flashes of insight that readers and critics admired in Three Women. Like Coel's I May Destroy You, Animal is unafraid to wrestle with big questions about sexual empowerment and consent, and doesn't pretend to have found neat answers' - Guardian She has a knack for the unexpected, shocking phrase that feels nonchalantly tossed, like dynamite to a fire' - The Globe and Mail 'Few writers can match Taddeo's swagger on sentence-level. ![]() ![]() and hidden truths surfaced.When your past hurts so much it makes it hard to breathe and your heart ache, what else can you do? What path should you take to feel something, trust someone again?Two hearts. A girl Tiffany was not.Tiffany was the one girl Seth had ever considered breaking his rules for, but swore he'd never corrupt.Until one night. 'I did not kill Markus,' Lamar Johnson told '48 Hours' Erin Moriarty. But, Seth Montgomery was unattainable, and only into one night hook-ups with a certain type of girl. Convicted at 21, and still locked up at 49, Lamar Johnson has spent most of his life in prison for a crime he did not commit. The day Seth walked into her bar, the day his steel blue eyes met hers, she was hooked. He'd never give them the satisfaction of destroying his heart.Tiffany Webster had been falling in love with one man for the past three years. He'd never give a woman all that control. ![]() After his mother abandoned their family for another man, the same man who took everything from Seth's father, Seth's life turned dark. Never give them a piece of who you are.These were the ideals that Seth Montgomery had lived with since he was a child. ![]() ![]() The novel you're reading is a cover-up, and the "true" story reveals itself in the cracks of their hilariously convoluted, and sometimes contradictory, narrative. NYT bestselling author Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic sci-fi thriller, set in the world of John Dies at the End and This Book is Full of SpidersDave, John and Amy recount what seems like a fairly straightforward tale of a shape-shifting creature from another dimension that is stealing children and brainwashing their parents, but it eventually becomes clear that someone is lying, and that someone is the narrators. ![]() What the Hell Did I Just Read (John Dies at the End, #3) Full ![]() ![]() ![]() Cabrera, Nina Crews, Pat Cummings, Laura Freeman, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Ebony Glenn, April Harrison, Vashti Harrison, Ekua Holmes, Cathy Ann Johnson, Keisha Morris, Daria Peoples-Riley, Andrea Pippins, Erin Robinson, Shadra Strickland, Nicole Tadgell, and Elizabeth Zunon. In this poetry collection, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses "The Golden Shovel" poetic method to create wholly original poems based on the works of these groundbreaking women-and to introduce readers to their work.Įach poem is paired with one-of-a-kind art from today's most exciting female African-American illustrators: Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Cozbi A. ![]() ![]() The same is true for gifted, prolific, women poets of the Harlem Renaissance who are little known, especially as compared to their male counterparts. From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance-paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators.įor centuries, accomplished women-of all races-have fallen out of the historical records. ![]() ![]() ![]() At its center is Meloni’s Nick Sax, a cop turned hit man who may or may not be immortal and in communication with a flying anthropomorphic unicorn named Happy. Happy!, which debuts on SyFy on December 6, is a phantasmagoria of bloodied corpses and imaginary friends, near-death experiences and lysergic hallucinations, costumed sex criminals and torture artists in medical scrubs. The show has been well reviewed and Abe Reisman has a set visit report that reveals that Morrison is quite, involved, do writing the script with Brian Taylor, who directed. There are lots of clips on the SyFy site, and a set of six Happy! Holiday cards which are quite handy, shown below. It’s an ongoing show although how many episodes it was ordered for isn’t clear in any of the promos. After a hit gone wrong, his inebriated life is forever changed by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary blue winged horse named Happy (Patton Oswalt). ![]() The series follows Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni, Law & Order: SVU) – an intoxicated, corrupt ex-cop turned hit man – who is adrift in a world of casual murder, soulless sex and betrayal. HAPPY! is based on New York Times best-selling author Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s graphic novel of the same name. ![]() |