![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Serpell begins with the colonial explorer Dr. "To err is human, that's your doom and delight," they tell us, and prove it, showing Zambia as a confected nation, an error of colonialism and history. We've been around here as long as you have - for eons before, say the fossils."Ī mosquito chorus drifts through this ambitious multigenerational epic set in Zambia, providing the long view of human history from a species that knows us down to our skin and blood. But while you all rule the earth and destroy it for kicks, we linger and loaf, unsung heroes. " warn the chorus of Namwali Serpell's lush speculative novel The Old Drift.Ĭan you guess who they are? "We're perfectly matched. "We're your oldest friend, your ancient enemy. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Old Drift Author Namwali Serpell ![]()
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Her interest piqued, Dosanjh set out to interview and learn from a number of other South Asian pioneer families in B.C. “That’s where my love of documenting and preserving South Asian history started.” “He came to Canada in 1906 and was really instrumental in sponsoring other key members to come here, including my father,” Dosanjh said. ![]() when she realized the impact that his sacrifices, and those of others like him, had on her family. In 2006, Dosanjh and her family were celebrating the 100-year anniversary of her grandfather’s journey from Punjab, India to B.C. A family celebration a century in the making spurred White Rock’s Karen Dosanjh to undertake an ambitious project – documenting the oft-forgotten stories of not just her own ancestors, but those of hundreds of other South Asian families in British Columbia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lyudmila is watching and waiting the family in order to prevent the escape. 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The story was captivating from the beginning and the pacing was good not too fast that the reader zipped right through it, and not too slow that it bored the reader, it was a nice in between. ![]() ![]() How long does playing last until it becomes real? This novel was fun, sexy, and an all-around good time. Realizing this is giving Zaf attention to his charity, he asks Dani to play along. ![]() But when Zafir heroically rescues her from an elevator during a fire drill, rumours fly and everyone starts to ship them. Not looking for a romantic relationship, she just wishes for the perfect friends with benefits situation. ![]() Take a Hint, Dani Brown by: Talia Hibbert: Dani loves her work and is dedicated to it. ![]() ![]() An anthology of short stories, GIVE ME A TEXAN, will be available in February 2008. TEXAS PRINCESS, the next novel in the series was published in November 2007. TEXAS RAIN, the first book in her latest historical "Whispering Mountain" series, was released in November 2006. When not working on a novel or inspiring students to pursue a writing career, Thomas enjoys traveling with her husband and renovating an historical home they bought in Amarillo. ![]() Honored in 2002 as a Distinguished Alumni by Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Thomas enjoys interacting with students on the West Texas A & M University campus, where she currently serves as Writer In Residence. With a degree in Family Studies, Thomas is a marriage and family counselor by education, a background that enables her to write about family dynamics. A fifth-generation Texan who taught family living, Jodi Thomas chooses to set the majority of her novels in her home state, where her grandmother was born in a covered wagon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis must have felt in creating this enchanted world is conjured up once again in this thrilling dramatisation of one of the best stories ever told. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order) 1) When Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy took their first steps into the. 'A full length play for a cast of 16 performers and extras'-P. Only one thing can hold fast against such wickedness: the mighty Aslan. Soon, though, Peter, Edmund and Susan find Narnia too and the adventures really begin.Together they must battle against the evil White Witch to break her cruel grip on Narnia, a land she has cast in perpetual winter, without Christmas. It is so extraordinary that at first her brothers and sister don't believe it can be real. While exploring, Lucy steps into a large wardrobe full of fur coats and. But then she tumbles headlong into a magical world of fauns, dwarves and giants, of animals that talk and horses that fly - the land of Narnia. A full-colour paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, fantasy novel for children by C.S. When Lucy comes across the old wardrobe standing alone in the spare room, she thinks she has found a good place for hide and seek. ![]() ![]() Under the limelight of his grandfather’s victories, Lan despite being the Pillar, isn’t really one. 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But now the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress and threatening Luddite control Elliot’s estate is floundering and she’s forced to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth-an almost unrecognizable Kai. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. Eighteen-year-old Luddite Elliot North has always known her place in this caste system. Generations ago, a genetic experiment gone wrong-the Reduction-decimated humanity, giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology. ![]() |