Crow has always wanted to know more about her past, and information from a nearby island begins to offer some clues. Crow's search will lead her to understand the true meaning of… More About This Book Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel Carl Safina Dive into the ...
end of the Great War, as he gifted it to her, after building the grand house he wanted (eyeroll), and Carmen with her sister and brother-in-law after her parents died in a boating accident. Drama ensues for them both, and they each have a mystery to solve as we go back and ...
Of course, India never had too much skin in the game to begin with to do anything there. This is wrong. We’ve always had skin in this particular game and still do. What we didn’t (and still don’t) have was the capability to influence things to proceed the way we wan...
ears, and eventually the votes of voters they’ve lost. Most of them are anodyne. Some are too equivocal to be true “principles” (trying to have it both ways through smooth words). But it looks like a good start.
She’d eventually accepted and was now in the school assembly hall waiting for Martin to return with drinks. Scanning the crowd, Olivia recognised faces she hadn’t wanted to see. There was Beccy – standing with her “In Crowd”. Olivia’s throat tightened painfully, recalling years of drea...
Those are two things which white people as a general group just do not understand. We have numbed ourselves to it. Oh, we’ll go see movies about slavery and civil rights and cluck our tongues and think, “What terrible people those white people were,” and congratulate ourselves for not...
I know that at one time in America children were forced to drink a great deal more milk than they wanted to, because their parents believed it was good for them. This caused a lot of damage, including obesity and anti-milk sentiment in the following generation of adults. Forcing a child...
d then be sold into slavery. Both the men and the women were only shackled around the necks, not the ankles, so that if you fell sick or weak along the journey or if you tried to escape, one slice of the machete would behead you, instantly separating and then releasing your body and...
“Round and Round” was one of the biggest hits of the glam era and featured an ageless video, to boot. Elsewhere, the barren riff of album opener “Wanted Man” casts the quintet as the sleaziest band on the strip, guitar-wise at least. “You’re in Trouble” and the crafty ...
For some reason, I said the hell with that and went into the water. I didn’t have any food in my belly, so there was no 15-minute rule to ignore. I also ignored my own rule of: if you go into the water, make sure someone is on shore to help if needed. I wanted to be br...