The author asks the question “does silence heal pain or prolong it?” and talks about stolen babies of former Civil War Republicans. Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys takes place in Spain during the Franco dictatorship of the 1950s.The author was inspired by a photograph of living underground in Portland, OR, and by the circumstance of Chinese field laborers coming to the South after the Civil War to replace freed slaves. …recommends these new or forthcoming historical fiction books about obscure or little-known topics!Ī Chinese advice columnist lives hidden in 1890’s Atlanta because of discrimination. Here, in Fuller’s Africa, is a story of joy, resilience, and vitality, from one of our finest writers. After her father’s sudden death, Alexandra realizes that if she is going to weather his loss, she will need to become the parts of him she misses most.įuller moves seamlessly between the days and months following her father’s death, as she and her mother return to his farm with his ashes and contend with his overwhelming absence, and her childhood spent running after him in southern and central Africa. Travel light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller tells the utterly original story of Alexandra’s father, Tim Fuller, and is a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived. If she was that little, was I that little too? This book recalls the unwinding mysteries that childhood poses, when everything is new and imbued with wonder, and trusting a parent means that we come to understand the imagination and its connection to reality. We see mom as a tiny child in the way that Thumbelina is tiny, and we begin to wonder if mom was really ever that little. In this case ‘little’ takes on magical connotations. The mother tells the story of when she was little. Written by Sara O’Leary, the book is illustrated by Julie Morstad in a series of delicate line drawings that guide the reader through a conversation between a mother and child. “Sweet,” is the best word to describe this little book. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains. By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the “Triple Crown” of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)–a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. Thirst by Heather Anderson is a memoir by the National Geographic 2019 Adventurer of the Year. The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting of The Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People… – Library catalog Hunger Games meets Divergent meets “The Bachelorette” in this tale of fierce intrigue! Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas by Dustin Black.Commendable Captive! Captive State(DVD) A surprisingly good, down ‘n’ dirty take on the aliens-have-conquered Earth scenario, reminiscent of the now-defunct USA series “Colony.” It features young star du jour Ashton Sanders (of the Oscar-winning “Moonlight”), but John Goodman steals the show as a cop bent on bringing down a resistance group.Awesome Alita! Alita: Battle Angel(DVD) A dystopian tale co-written by James Cameron and directed by Robert Rodriguez (and based on a 1990s series of Japanese manga), ‘Alita’ proves incredibly satisfying, thanks to some nicely seamless CGI and appealing performances from lead Rosa Salazar and supporting player Christoph Waltz.
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