As attached as some were to their grandmothers’ cooking and to bits of folklore, they preferred to keep the country at a distance.Īnthony Shadid was an exception. Prominent Lebanese Americans like Ralph Nader, Michael DeBakey, William Peter Blatty, Senator James Abourezk and General John Abizaid rarely visited Lebanon itself. They graduated from peddling linens and household gadgets to practising law and medicine. Within a generation, they had forgotten their Arabic and were deserting their churches. With his Ottoman moustache, three-piece suit and bundles of goat’s cheese and stuffed vine leaves, Uncle Tannous incarnated all that the Americanising immigrants were desperate to escape, but couldn’t, quite.ĭescendants of the Lebanese emigrants who began arriving in the New World after the massacres of Christians in Greater Syria in the 1860s for the most part divorced themselves from the Old Country. On the show, it fell to Uncle Tannous to expose the Lebanese heart beating within the American persona of Thomas’s character. His assimilation was so thorough that he took the Al Jolson role of cantor’s son in a 1952 remake of The Jazz Singer. Danny Thomas was the son of Maronite Christian immigrants from Kahlil Gibran’s village, Becharre, in north Lebanon. Hans Conried was a comic actor of Austrian Jewish origin, who portrayed the gauche Uncle Tannous (a diminutive of Antonius/Anthony) on a weekly sitcom called The Danny Thomas Show. When Anthony Shadid was born in Oklahoma in 1968, the only Lebanese personality most Americans knew was not Lebanese at all.
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Hadassah struggles to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and to treat her masters in a manner in keeping with His teachings, but she is forced to keep her religious identity a secret in order to survive. Brought to Rome, she is pressed into service as a personal slave to hedonistic Julia Valerian. After surviving the massacre of her family and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, Hadassah is captured and sold to a well-to-do merchant’s family. Following the prides and passions of a group of Jews, Romans and Barbarians living at the time of the siege, the narrative is centered on an ill-fated romance between a steadfast slave girl, Hadassah, and Marcus, the brother of her owner and a handsome aristocrat. With this opening sentence, A Voice in the Wind transports readers back to Jerusalem during the first Jewish-Roman War, some seventy years after the death of Christ. Tour-wide Rafflecopterprovided to all tour hosts, providing maximum exposure and entries.Review copies must be available to hosts at least 4 weeks in advance.Media Kits and HTML ready documents will be provided to bloggers, Instagrammers and tiktokers (items for kits will be provided to us by author).Book tour banner featured on our sidebar.
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And as Jake and his friends try to find a way to bring Pride to Barton Springs, it seems suspicious that the mayor’s son, Brett, suddenly wants to spend time with Jake.īut someone that cute couldn’t possibly be in league with his mayoral mother, could he? Why can’t they hold a pride festival in Barton Springs? The problem is, Jake knows he’ll have to get approval from the town council, and the mayor won’t be on his side. A few people are even concerned the flag will lead to something truly outlandish: a pride parade.Įxcept Jake doesn’t think that’s a ridiculous idea. When Jake’s dad hangs a comically large pride flag in their front yard in an overblown show of love, the mayor begins to receive complaints. While his family and friends are accepting and supportive, the same can’t be said about everyone in their small town of Barton Springs, Ohio. It’s an uplifting story about the power of love and acceptance, and, of course, taking pride in who you are.īlurb: Jake is just starting to enjoy life as his school’s first openly gay kid. At a Glance: Just in time for Pride month, Small Town Pride is a book that needs to be given a place on middle school library shelves. Forkle confirmed, winking as he shuffled his ruckleberry-bloated body closer to the door. “So, this is your secret office,” she clarified, feeling goose bumps prickle her skin at the thought. Forkle” was his much more enigmatic side. Forkle and Magnate Leto were actually the same person-and “Mr. Which was an easy mistake to make, considering the fact that Mr. Not Magnate Leto’s office at Foxfire, like she’d been expecting. Sophie opened her mouth to argue-then realized what he meant. “I thought you were taking me to your office,” she told him, shifting her gaze toward the windblown meadow and searching the swaying wildflowers for clues as to where they were. 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Beyond books (and extended family & friends), her passions include theatre art, music, and community building. Because of Covid-19 state-mandated restrictions on retail businesses, founder/proprietor Dawn Daniels is postponing a "grand opening" celebration gathering until a future date when it is safer to host a public gathering.ĭescribing herself on the store's website as " a native Michigander and unrepentant bibliophile," Daniels noted that the bookshop's "mission is to build and sustain a fiercely independent, creative, and consciously curated bookstore dedicated to the cultivation of community through the provision of safe space for both public dialogue and personal exploration. in downtown Alma, Mich., on Independent Bookstore Day, August 29. Soon, others will have no choice but to follow. that are filling with the people of color who are America’s first climate refugees. In the United States, it’s Denver Santa Fe, N.M. And, by 2072 they are already migrating-inward and upward. Some Black Americans have found one potential silver lining in all those disparities: fewer economic and social ties to cut when the rising water forces a move. The small and nearly all-white billionaire class has the resources for joy rides beyond earth’s atmosphere, but hasn’t resolved a litany of major terrestrial social, civil, physical, and economic challenges.Īs sea levels in places like Southeast Florida have risen nearly two feet upward on the measuring stick from where they were in 2019, white Americans have remained more likely to own homes and be made whole by insurance and government aid when disasters hit. A substantial portion of the nation’s diverse workforce is poised to be replaced by robots. White America has aged, and has shrunk in number and size, while other fast-growing demographic groups are still not served well by the economy or included without friction in American representative democracy. It is a reality rooted in rollbacks of social-inclusion measures and voting-rights protections-changes that took place even though, more than a decade ago, people of color became America’s supermajority, comprising nearly 60% of the entire population. Along the way, they confront creatures most people believe exist only in folklore and nightmares, including wendigos, ghosts, pagan gods, and vampires. Now, with their father missing and Sam's girlfriend murdered by the same force that killed their mother, the Winchester brothers take to the road in their 1967 Chevy Impala to search for their father and the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Their father, John, raised them to be soldiers, teaching them how to hunt and kill the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America. Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic force. Supernatural, the hit show with a compelling mix of horror, thrills, and family drama from The CW, hit the ground running during its heart-stopping, spine-tingling, hair-raising first season. Take a spooky road trip through the dark heart of America. In addition, the title for the upcoming meeting will be 15% off all month, every month. Quick Summary: Before Dungeon Meshi, Kui Ryoko published this anthology of seven. You bring your opinions and ideas, and we’ll bring the Pocky! The club also offers attendees a 10% discount on ALL manga in the store during each meeting. The Dragons Seven Adorable Daughters, Seven Little Sons of the. This title will be 15% off between 4/8 and 5/13, so give it a read!Ĭome to Next Chapter Booksellers at 5:00pm on the second Saturday of every month to talk manga with other weebs, dweebs, and otaku! Hosted by our resident manga experts Graham and Emily, the Manga Club provides a forum to casually discuss a new title every month. Covering a broad range of themes and time periods, no two stories in this collection are alike! A preview for Seven Little Sons of the Dragon : A Collection of Seven. Covering a broad range of themes and time periods, no two stories in this collection are alike. Ryoko Kui, the master storyteller behind the beloved manga series Delicious in Dungeon, pens seven brand-new tales that will delight fantasy fans and manga devotees equally. Ryoko Kui, the master storyteller behind the beloved manga series Delicious in Dungeon, pens seven brand-new tales that will delight fantasy fans and manga devotees equally. Ryoko Kui, the master storyteller behind the beloved manga series Delicious in Dungeon, pens seven brand-new tales that will delight fantasy fans and manga devotees equally. May 13, 2023: Seven Little Sons of the Dragon by Ryoko Kui. May 13, 2023: Seven Little Sons of the Dragon by Ryoko Kui |