Persepolis was originally published in France in two volumes as Persepolis 1 and Persepolis 2 in 20, respectively. Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi's childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family of her homecoming-both sweet and terrible and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.Ĭollects a two-part graphic memoir, in which the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran, a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.Ĭontains the author's Persepolis (2003) and Persepolis 2 (2004).
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No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude. A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.īefore the end of the Civil War, more than one hundred former slaves had published moving stories of their captivity and escape, joined by a similar number after the war. We can’t go to the lighthouse because we burned that down. We can’t go to the beach because of the sharks, Sally said as she listed the various possibilities. As often was the case, they were trying to decide what to do with the day. It was a hot summer Wednesday, ten in the morning, a perfect time for a milk shake. Later, that is, when they couldn’t find their way out of the castle. Of course later they would blame each other for the idea. 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Small town girl, Molly Bennett, moves to Los Angeles where she becomes an outsider while attending Beverly Hills High School. What appealed to me about these worlds was the room they give to marginalised voices, the way they overturn our stereotypes of Victorian gentility. The first was that of working-class life as it emerges from the interviews carried out by journalist Henry Mayhew for his brilliantly evocative book London Labour and the London Poor the second was that of “sensation” fiction, the blockbuster genre established in the 1860s by novelists such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, whose tales of gothic melodrama revel in themes of domestic violence, secrets, and lost and shifting identities. It shares their 19th-century setting, but it was inspired by two particular Victorian worlds. 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I’ve missed you so fucking much!”Īdam was always braver than me. First time I saw him in years, and I about punched him. I dropped my fist and whirled away to hide the water in my eyes. “Sorry! God, Donnie, I’m really sorry, just don’t go yet. Adam flinched back, his empty palms held out. Fast as a snake, I hit his grip off my arm, harder than I meant to, my other fist coming up.
After awhile, Maggie starts to realize that losing her sight doesn’t have to mean losing everything she dreamed of. Ben’s life isn’t easy, but he doesn’t see limits, only possibilities. But only one person: Ben, a precocious ten-year-old unlike anyone she’s ever met. Then Maggie’s whole world is turned upside down. But she isn’t interested in rehabilitation, not when she’s still mourning the loss of her professional-soccer dreams, and furious at her so-called friends, who lost interest in her as soon as she could no longer lead the team to victory. Ever since losing her sight six months ago, Maggie’s rebellious streak has taken on a life of its own, culminating with an elaborate school prank. Maggie Sanders might be blind, but she won’t invite anyone to her pity party. Follow 2015 YA & MG Debut Authors on Follow us on Twitter They are happily together, starting their life as one on the other side of the world. I quickly fell for both Rafa and Shane in the first book and couldn’t wait to continue on with their journey. I had the pleasure of reading both books in this series back to back. It features a May-December age difference, sex on the beach, and of course a happy ending. This gay romance from Keira Andrews is the conclusion of the Valor duology. Shane and Rafa just want a normal life together-but when they must suddenly battle for survival, they fight to prove their fierce love can withstand any threat. They don’t see how their son could possibly be happy settling down with an older man, and they question Shane’s motives. Rafa’s parents certainly don’t approve of his romance with forty-year-old Shane, and they’re determined to make him see reason. Now they just have to get through a visit from the former president and first lady. Though Shane struggles with nightmares and his over-protective instincts while Rafa fights his own insecurity, they love each other more than ever. Eager to get away from the questions and judgement, Rafa and Shane are building a new life together in Australia. Shane’s given up his career for Rafa, a move his fellow agents question the sanity and morality of. With his father no longer president, twenty-two-year-old Rafa Castillo can finally be with ex-Secret Service agent Shane Kendrick. They’re free of the White House, but can their forbidden romance survive in the real world? |