![]() ![]() ![]() This book is an exploration of Black mental health in today’s world, the forces that have undermined mental health progress for African Americans, and what needs to happen for African Americans to heal psychological distress, find community, and undo years of stigma and marginalization in order to access effective mental health care. Black people die at disproportionately high rates due to chronic illness, suffer from poverty, under-education, and the effects of racism. We can’t deny it any longer: there is a Black mental health crisis in our world today. An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis-and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her mother died giving birth to the siblings, but Nisha’s Papa, a doctor at Mirpur Khas City Hospital, her grandma Dadi, her brother and Kazi all live together in harmony with their surroundings and each other. ![]() ![]() Nisha is smart, studious, silent, and surrounded by love. Nisha decides that night is the best time to write in her diary, as “that way, no one will ask me any questions.” Oh, and the name Nisha means night. Their beloved family retainer Kazi gifted Nisha a silk-and-sequin-covered diary, with thick unlined paper that Nisha likes way better than lined. Jis a special day–Nisha and her twin brother Amil have just turned twelve. Hindus and Sikhs from the newly created state of Pakistan migrated to India, while Muslims from India went northwest to Pakistan most estimates have over a million lives lost during this exchange. If you have even a passing acquaintance with the Indian subcontinent, you’ll have heard of the 1947 Partition (with a capital P), when 14 million people were displaced as British administrators pencilled a line carving up India on the eve of the region’s independence from British rule. Whatever planet rules kidlit featuring South Asian history must be on the ascendant no sooner did I finish Ahimsa, about India’s independence struggle, than I heard about The Night Diary, which provides a child’s-eye view of the partition of newly independent India. ![]() ![]() The film adaptation faced difficulties after the events of 9/11 in the United States, with Miramax stating that they would re-write the movie script to remove mentions of Osama bin Laden. In 2001 Miramax Films' Bonnie Timmermann purchased the rights to the series with the intention to film the second book in the Nick Stone series, Crisis Four. The series has Stone dealing with assassination, political intrigue, as well as human rights, modern slavery, and prostitution. Stone now works as a paid mercenary, willing to work in even the most difficult circumstances. The series follows the character of Nick Stone, an ex-military man who previously worked for the SAS, British Intelligence, and an American agency. ![]() The first book in the series, Remote Control was published in February 1998 by Transworld Publishers under their Corgi imprint. The Nick Stone Missions are a series of action thriller novels written by author Andy McNab, based on his own experiences in the SAS. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was generally sceptical of most offered explanations, whether it came from the most eminent scientist or a man on the street. If it walked through walls, levitated, spontaneously burst into flames or was dish shaped and flew across the sky at great speed Mr Fort would be there on the scene. “People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.”Ĭharles Hoy Fort, a writer and researcher born in Albany, New York in Augwas intrigued by anomalous phenomena - or what us normal people might describe as the weird. ![]() ![]() Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of the Huguenots in France the often-bloody struggle between Catholics and Protestants for primacy on the island.bitter rivalry between Elizabeth and her half-sister, Mary Queen of Scots.The defining events of the eraĪgain, as in the previous novels, Follett builds his tale in A Column of Fire around the defining events of the era: Each is peopled with a huge cast of characters, rich and poor, powerful and helpless, giving a richly nuanced picture of life in England over the centuries. ![]() Together, these three books weigh in at a total of 2,965 pages. The first two volumes of the Kingsbridge saga have sold nearly eighty million copies worldwide. ![]() (In 2020, Follett published a prequel, The Evening and the Morning.) A Column of Fire continues the story through the sixteenth century, spanning the years 1558 to 1606, when Queen Elizabeth I ruled England. ![]() This first novel was followed in 2007 by World Without End, which picks up the Kingsbridge saga two centuries later, in the years just before, during, and after the Black Death. The Pillars of the Earth, published in 1989, relates the story of the Kingsbridge Cathedral and the talented men who began its construction in the twelfth century. A Column of Fire is the fourth volume in Ken Follett‘s sprawling series of historical novels illuminating the history of England. ![]() ![]() In Daughter of the Siren Queen, Tricia Levenseller brings together the perfect mix of thrilling action, tense battle scenes, and a heart-pounding romance. ![]() after all, she is the daughter of the Siren Queen. Despite the danger, Alosa knows they will recover the treasure first. This thrilling YA novel follows the fierce seventeen-year-old pirate captain, Alosa, on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map leading to a legendary treasure trove. When Vordan exposes a secret her father has kept for years, Alosa and her crew find themselves in a deadly race with the feared Pirate King. 4.0 (149k) Fantasy Fiction Teen & Young Adult Romance. And she takes great comfort in knowing that the villainous Vordan will soon be facing her father's justice. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. ![]() The capable, confident, and occasionally ruthless heroine of Daughter of the Pirate King is back in this action-packed sequel that promises rousing high seas adventures and the perfect dash of magic.Īlosa's mission is finally complete. ![]() ![]() ![]() The attraction is immediate, the friendship is earned, and the love is undeniable. She's immune to rainbows, fairytales, pixy dust, and the "L" word. Lautner is every girl's dream, but Sydney is not every girl. He knows how to woo a woman with flowers, pastries, and sweet tea. Lautner Sullivan is a college wide receiver turned pediatric resident. ![]() With eyes of iridescent blue oceans, he is mesmerizing, sexy, and addictive. Within twenty-four hours of her arrival, Sydney's cleaning up runny dog poo, taking an uncooperative pooch to a handsome yet awkward vet, and being rescued from the bottom of the pool by a naked "pool guy." Lautner, "pool guy," has a hot body and a cool persona. ![]() When her aunt and uncle need a house and dog sitter for thirty days in Palo Alto, Sydney can't turn down the chance to be closer to her sister in L.A. Who gets paid to walk a dog and recline by the pool all day? Sydney Montgomery, aspiring museum curator and professional house-sitter, that's who. One crazy dog-one awkward vet-one naked pool guy-and one life-changing month in California to make friends, fall in love, and twist fate. ![]() ![]() ![]() The back half of my childhood was a grim experience, and as soon as I could I left SoCal and have since only returned to periodically visit family members and friends still down there. It was a disgustingly idyllic place to grow up, and I wish I could have stayed.īut my mother got sick and we lost everything and had to move in with my grandmother down in Los Angeles. Lithia Park was there, too, and me and my friends had a lot of fun running around and exploring. We lived close to this beautiful old library, and so even at the age of six or seven, I was heading down there on my own quite a lot to read and pick up something to take home. I got to watch Geordi LaForge step out of my TV and do a play with words I could barely understand. If you’ve heard of that town, it’s probably because of the annual Shakespeare festival. ![]() ![]() Until I was 10, I lived in Ashland, Oregon. My childhood is almost perfectly split in half. Let’s presume that’s a misunderstanding and take a stab at something more family friendly: An adolescence of growing up in Los Angeles, with its notoriously seedy free “newspapers” and the ads featured on their back pages makes me think you’re asking something horribly invasive. I have no idea what “back cover” means in this context. ![]() What’s the “back cover” version of April Daniels? Reading Dreadnought then learning a bit about you, leads me to realize “ordinary” is the last possible word one could use to describe you, in all the best ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of his friends are black and poor, but DeWitt Albright, a white man wearing a linen suit with a Panama straw hat, pays him generously to find Daphne. Easy is a World War II vet who just lost his job at a defense plant and has to make some quick money to meet the mortgage. Life was still hard in L.A., and if you worked every day you still found yourself on the bottom.”Įzekiel (Easy) Rawlins goes into John’s speak-easy to find out if anyone has seen Daphne Monet, a white woman who likes to hang out in black jazz clubs. The stories were true for the most part, but the truth wasn’t like the dream. People told stories of how you could eat fruit right off the trees and get enough work to retire one day. California was like heaven for the Southern Negro. All of them and John and half the people in that crowded room had migrated from Houston after the war, and some before that. I had been hearing Lips and Willie and Flattop since I was a boy in Houston. “When I opened the door I was slapped in the face by the force of Lips’ alto horn. ![]() Within the first 50 pages, Walter Mosley takes us through the back door of a little market at the corner of Central Avenue and 89th Place in Los Angeles and into an illegal black nightclub: Reflexively you blink from the sting of the dark, smoky surroundings and lick your lips to wipe away the taste of the cheap Scotch, as the sweet sounds of an alto saxophone whine up out of the pages of this richly atmospheric detective novel of the ‘40s. ![]() ![]() ![]() But eventually a sort of amnesia had overtaken Susan her rebellion and hurt had melted away, deliquesced into a sweet, eternal sunniness that was terrible in the way that life would be terrible, Ted supposed, without death to give it gravitas and shape. ![]() Susan was baffled at first, then distraught she’d hit him twice across the face she’d run from the house in a thunderstorm and slept at a motel she’d wrestled Ted to the bedroom floor in a pair of black crotchless underpants. His desire was so small in the end that Ted could slip it inside his desk or a pocket and forget about it, and this gave him a feeling of safety and accomplishment, of having dismantled a perilous apparatus that might have crushed them both. Then in half again, so he hardly felt it. Then in half again, so that feeling desire entailed no immediate need to act. ![]() ![]() Then he’d folded it in half again, so when he felt desire for Susan, it no longer brought with it an edgy terror of never being satisfied. “Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so he no longer had a drowning, helpless feeling when he glimpsed her beside him in bed: her ropy arms and soft, generous ass. ![]() |