“We really owe a debt of gratitude to this person, in my opinion,” said Mussell, an Americana specialist with the Pennsylvania-based company. Scott Mussell, who works for the Pennsylvania-based auction company, said a worker might have been instructed to clean out the old building and, realizing what the log book contained, saved it instead. Abernathy, who was arrested during the same march as King on April 12, 1963, for violating a court order banning the demonstration. The pages also bear the signature of King friend and aide Ralph D. The King signatures, a dozen in all in ink, are contained on four yellowed pages that have been removed from the original book. Reportedly saved by an employee at the old jail, which was demolished in 1986, the pages offered by Hake’s Auctions are a previously unknown reminder of King’s time in Birmingham, which the civil rights leader once called “the most segregated city in America.”
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At the same time that he guides us through these explorations, however, he cautions us to reject simplistic stereotypes and even interrogates his own perspective as a Westernized author (who, in a very postmodern twist, appears himself in the story as a third-person narrator) that retells the stories of Ka's life in Kars. As such, Ka's story gives Pamuk the chance to explore themes as disparate as the cultural, religious, and political divide between the East and West (broadly construed) feminism the link between artistic imagination and harsh reality and the complex, nuanced nature of Turkish identity. Ka is ostensibly in town to write about the suicide of many young girls who were banned from wearing their religious headscarves in secular, government-run schools, but he is really there to rediscover shattered fragments of his own youth and reconnect with a woman he loves, Ipek. The novel-which follows a Turkish poet named Ka as he returns from exile in Germany and travels to the rural town of Kars-is at once satirical, detached, and empathetic with the characters whose lives it depicts. Two years later in 2004, it was translated into English by Maureen Freely and published for an Anglophone audience. Snow is a novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, originally written in Turkish in 2002. Ries also recommends using a process called the Five Whys, a technique designed to reach the core of an issue.Ĭompanies cited in the book as practicing Ries's ideas include Alphabet Energy of California. Building an MVP ( Minimum viable product) and then testing and iterating quickly results in less waste and a better product market fit. Instead, Ries argues that to build a great company, one must begin with the customers in the form of interviews and research discovery. Ries sees the error in both cases as "working forward from the technology instead of working backward from the business results you're trying to achieve." Īfter Catalyst, Ries was a senior software engineer with There, Inc., which had a failed expensive product launch. Ries attributes the failure of his first startup, Catalyst Recruiting, to not understanding the wants of their target customers and focusing too much time and energy on the initial product launch. Ries developed the idea for the lean startup from his experiences as a startup advisor, employee, and founder. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses is a book by Eric Ries describing his proposed lean startup strategy for startup companies. 'A gorgeous, cosy winter read' - Sophie Cousens Nory is in a unique position to help right this wrong – but uncovering the truth might mean pushing Isaac away once more. But as she steals more time away to spend with him, Isaac reveals an astonishing secret about his past. Nory and Isaac have more in common these days than they could ever have imagined. Desperate for a moment of peace, Nory escapes and crashes into Isaac, the castle’s gardener – and her former school rival. Still, she supposes, being the only single person means she gets a king-size bed in the idyllic castle venue all to herself.Īs the champagne flows, the years roll back and soon the air is alive with old sparks and old tensions. But that group has long since drifted apart, and Nory is dreading the lavish, week-long affair. 'An uplifting, happily-ever-after gem that epitomises the perfect Christmas read' Northern LifeĪ winter wedding of school friends should be the highlight of Nory Noel’s festive calendar. 'Jenny Bayliss is the queen of funny, smart romantic comedies' Freya Sampson, author of The Last Library 'A warm-hearted romance to cosy up with this Christmas' Woman's Own Don't miss the Christmas wedding of the year, in Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, by the bestselling author of The Twelve Dates of Christmas, Jenny Bayliss. You can live without the coin, but you need the dating information. In archaeology it’s whether that datable coin is found in the wall foundations or its demolition infill. In policing it’s whether the broken glass is on the inside or the outside. It’s a religion they share with scene of crime technicians and it had been drummed into me from my first day at Hendon.Ĭontext – where you find an object – is more important than the actual object. Dear Ben Aaronovitch, I’ve enjoyed all but one of your books in the Rivers of London series, so I was happy to obtain an ARC of False Value, book number eight. ‘We wouldn’t have even noticed some of the thefts if they hadn’t been important to the context,’ said Adrian.Ĭontext being the key concept of modern scientific archaeology, and what separates your modern professional from the fumbling archivists and swivel-eyed tomb raiders of the past. Big events took place in Lies Sleeping that are mentioned in this review of False Value. Archaeology came in all shapes, sizes, and apparent degrees of nickableness. Important in archaeological terms not always being the same as valuable – at least not in the fenceable sense. ‘That depends on how you define it,’ said Adrian.īecause material went missing off sites all the time, which is why important finds were collated and secured the day they were found. Read Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch Peter is a sarcastic and entertaining narrator, and he’s an excellent guide through a world where London isn’t just the setting, but a character itself. “How many thefts have there been?’ I asked. Even the weirdest events relate to the topic, "So that yeti right there is an illusion?" Oliver said, pointing at the giant white creature that stood on its hind legs in front of them (London 127). This book is beautiful, the plot is nicely made, and the events in the story do not stray from the plot, "I believe this is a piece of-" "The Lost Tablets of Alexandria!" Dr.Navel interrupted (London 51)."Poppycock!" Sir Edmund shouted (London 63). He also includes a profusion of jokes about TV shows that Oliver and Celia watched, "This is just like the second season of Million Dollar Mountain Challenge," Celia said (London 99). In the last sentence of every chapter, there is a hook that C.Alexander London puts in,"I'm sure we'll meet again," the boy shouted, his voice muffled by the heavy stone (London 242). This book makes me anxious to read more and laugh. I think C.Alexander London achieved his purpose in writing An Accidental Adventure We Are Not Eaten By Yaks. Sadly, the worldbuilding is also reductive as the backmatter makes clear, the values of the kingdoms are indistinguishable from the characteristics of the citizens. While the racial differences have some parallels to real-world power structures, the story never examines race in any meaningful way. Thia and her people are brown-skinned while her best friend is blonde and likes girls, something the text treats as unremarkable the wicked Illucians are also fair-skinned. There is diversity in this world the kingdoms vary in culture, values, and appearance. This gives her the strength to become angry and fight her depression, fomenting rebellion (and falling in love-but not with the prince). Months later, about to be married to the Illucian prince, Thia discovers one surviving crow egg. Princess Anthia has been depressed since the military might of neighboring kingdom Illucia destroyed her nation’s magical crows and killed her mother. A familiar premise enlivened by some surprises. In AGAIN THE MAGIC, the scenes between Aline and McKenna are so powerfully written that it is as if I am part of their lives instead of a mere onlooker. Lisa Kleypas has the extraordinary ability to draw me into her books and I always feel a deep connection to her characters. The emotional impact of this powerful and moving love story never diminishes no matter how many times I read it. If I were asked to choose one special book by my favourite author Lisa Kleypas, it would have to be Again The Magic, the prequel to her Wallflower series. or risk everything for his first, and only, love And now he must decide whether to let vengeance take its toll. But the magic between them burns as bright as ever. His ruthless plan is to take revenge on the woman who shattered his dreams of love. Now McKenna has made his fortune, and he has returned - more boldly handsome and more mesmerizing than before. Their passionate transgression was unforgivable - John was sent away, and Aline was left to live in the countryside. Instead, she willingly gave her innocence to John McKenna, a servant on her father’s estate. Lady Aline Marsden was brought up for one reason: to make an advantageous marriage to a member of her own class. At the same time, the novel also provokes a more critical glimpse at the unsustainability of such ideals and the. Told with wit, eroticism and unashamed lyricism, it remains a heart-breaking love letter to New York's hedonistic past, and a testament to the brilliance of our passions as they burn brightest. Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance not only provides an excellent panorama of New York’s gay subculture of the 1970s, but also highlights its obsession with youthful beauty and the resulting marginalization of gay aging. It is love that Malone is longing for, and soon he will have to set himself free.įirst published in 1978, Dancer from the Dance is widely considered the greatest, most exciting novel of the post-Stonewall generation. Joining an unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies - at its centre Malone befriends the flamboyant queen, Sutherland, who takes this new arrival under his preened wing.īut for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days, are close to burning out. Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York's 1970's gay scene. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday's London' Rupert Everett The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation' Harpers The book starts on a farm down in the Southern United States at the beginning of the 20th century. Love-The love from Mr_ and Celie for Shug Avery Liberation- The liberation of women and men from their respective traditional rules, but within their own cultural context. Exploitation- The exploitation of women by men, blacks by white and the African culture by the western culture. Do not let people make you think you are something that you’re not. The theme of the book is to be honest to yourself in spite of difficulties and never let go of what you believe in. When Shug explains to Celie how important freedom is, she says: “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” When Celie can choose a dress for the first time in her life, she chooses a purple one. It plays an important role in Celie’s and Shug’s life. The color purple stands for independence and liberation of one’s mind and feelings. The Color Purple, Groningen, 1997, (BlackBirds nr.4) |