after reading a book about the Congo while travelling to Australia, suddenly decided to stop off and explore Africa. Her first husband was a physician from Philadelphia and she then studied medicine with her second husband in New York. Her medical knowledge was immensely useful in a trip beset ...
a reputation which a series of novels and short stories about the sea—The Nigger of the “Narcissus”(1897),Lord Jim(1900),Youth(1902),Typhoon(1902), and others—seemed only to confirm. But words of his own about the“Narcissus”give the real reason for his choice of settings: “the ...
Children’s books can be a powerful tool for encouraging empathy. Sharing, empathy and understanding, especially going into school, is at the heart of what this is all about. Connecting people and understanding another person’s point of view; bringing compassion and trust between communities; sha...
For instance, you may have grumbled about cracking open your copy of The Great Gatsby, but after those first few chapters, you found yourself captivated by the destructive decadence of the era and the mystery surrounding Jay Gatsby and his past. You knew To Kill a Mockingbird was...
The Lumumba Plot by Stuart Reid is about what happened when the Congo (now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but also called Zaire in the past) became independent from Belgium in 1960. The democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, was killed in 1961, paving the way ...
With The Poisonwood Bible (1999), Kingsolver expanded her psychic and geographic territory, setting her story about the redemption of a missionary family in the Belgian Congo during the colony’s struggle for independence. In Prodigal Summer (2001) the intertwined lives of several characters living ...
Please keep your eyes here for announcemts in Spring 2007 about our entire new line of ComicsOnCDRom which will have larger collections of comic books than our previous CDRoms and with easier navigation.. We will also be adding many new titles from the golden age of comics as well as hu...
Mozambique decriminalized homosexuality in 2015. The book goes on to talk about masturbation as a way to “know your body, how it works,” a practice that is “natural, that allows you to prepare for sexual life” but “surrounded by all sorts of myths and beliefs.”...
My five favorite fiction books are Crossing to Safety, No Great Mischief, Sound and Fury, The Snow Child, The Princess and the Goblin, Swallows and Amazons (oh wait, that’s six). When I thought about the themes in each book that drew me to that book I saw the recurring elements of...
After the suicide death of her New York City roommate, Ann Porter fled to the West Coast to get away from the memories. Returning after a year’s absence, she thinks the memories have faded, but not only is she wrong about that, but the body of the man who at the root of ...