今年选择的书籍《The Covenant of Water》探讨了土著人民的历史与身份问题。研究表明,参与此类项目的学生在批判性思维和沟通能力上有显著提升。此外,UMass Dartmouth的Leduc Center和University of Maryland的教育学院也通过类似的社区参与项目,培养学生的公民责任感和社会意识。多元化的文学选择在教育中逐渐显得重要,通过引导...
The scope of this novel is truly breathtaking, and I couldn't put the book down until the very last page." "The Covenant of Water" is a highly anticipated new release from Verghese, renowned for his word-of-mouth bestseller "Cutting for Stone," which has captivated over 1.5 million ...
For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly—moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them. Then, when they were got together, he rose and spoke among them. "Son of A...
“The Covenant of Water," published Tuesday, is Verghese's first work of fiction since his million-selling “Cutting for Stone” came out in 2009. Verghese's current book is a multigenerational saga set in India from 1900-1977. “This is one of the top five books I’ve rea...
Read an excerpt from Dead In The Water:Chapter One It was, I told myself, all my worst nightmares come true. All at once. I may live at Land’s End, out at the tip of Cape Cod where the land curls into itself and for centuries foghorns warned of early death and disaster; I ...
Namara’s death had been ordered by another god, but it was the human group called the Hand of Heaven that destroyed the temple. It was the Hand that tortured and killed the Namara’s Blades. Aral is one of the few surviving Blades, but only because he was on a mission far away ...
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Cutting for Stone author Abraham Verghese’s literary epic The Covenant of Water would have to be one of the most anticipated books published in 2023. ‘A stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith, and medicine’, it is receiving rave early reviews. Fans of author Kylie Chan (White...