![]() Cal know that before the Auphe get to him, they will try to destroy everything and everyone he holds dear. The last time Cal and Niko faced them, the Auphe were almost wiped out. Worse still is the return of Cal's nightmarish family, the Auphe. But the Leandros brothers have to do more than they had planned when Seamus turns up dead (or un-undead). He's being followed, and he wants to know by whom. Half-human Cal Leandros and his brother, Niko, are barely getting by with their preternatural detective agency when the vampire Seamus hires them. And if I said that to myself over and over and sprinkled around enough frigging fairy dust, maybe it would be true.' 'How I felt the mental stirrings of a bloodthirsty heritage when I passed through the gray light wasn't my favourite topic. ![]() The fourth book in the Cal Leandros series that began with Nightlife, Deathwish is clever, ironic and hugely entertaining urban fantasy in the vein of Jim Butcher by the New York Times bestselling author, Rob Thurman. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “I remember what Mother and Father always told Thoby and me,” the fictionalized Vanessa writes. This was not entirely fortunate for Virginia, nor for Vanessa and their two brothers, Thoby and Adrian. Virginia and Vanessa had both, but Virginia from the beginning was marked as a particular favourite of the gods. He expected from his two daughters not only brilliance, but beauty. Virginia’s father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a brilliant literary critic - growing up under his shadow was not easy. ![]() The object of that revenge is the “sister” of the novel’s title, Virginia Woolf, neé Stephen. Despite these latter interjections the point of view throughout is strongly Vanessa’s - her diary could be called Vanessa’s Revenge. Vanessa and Her Sister is written as an imagined diary kept by Vanessa, interspersed with correspondence between Strachey and his great friend, the British civil servant Leonard Woolf, and also by occasional letters from Virginia. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]() ![]() The student is valueless without the teacher, because the teacher is the one who gives them information. The teacher is in a roll that grants them authority and value, and their responsibility is to recite information to the students. ![]() The relationship among teacher and student, Freire argues, is a strict vertical hierarchy. The text begins by addressing the dichotomy of teacher and student, then spends quite a deal of time describing the current common mode of teaching, what the author calls the “banking concept of education”, followed by what the author suggests as a replacement to that method. The topic discussed is the failings of the educational system with regards to the freedom of thought left to students after they’ve completed their studies. It’s easy to understand why this is the first piece of reading a teacher might assign. ![]() ![]() Vivien Thomas pioneered open heart surgery on children and his compassion, intelligence and bravery has saved countless lives. Though he got no credit for his procedure until he was much older, he became a respected technician, always eager to share and teach his knowledge. When presented with the challenge of how to treat “blue babies” he excelled. Even though he faced more discrimination and segregation there than in his home of Nashville, Tennessee, he thrived. When given the chance, Vivien moved his family to Baltimore, Maryland to assist Dr. He absorbed everything very quickly, but when he learned that his official job was “janitor” (and that he made less than his white counterparts) he refused to work until that changed. ![]() As a teenager, Vivien worked as a researcher at the all white Vanderbilt University for Dr. The needles are for an operation he invented but wouldn’t get credit for for twenty-six years, all because of the color of his skin. We meet Vivien as he’s examining the tiny needles he designed. In Tiny Stitches, Gwendolyn Hooks tells the story of the incredibly gifted Vivien Thomas. Though I was fortunate to grow up with a decent education on Black History, there’s always more to learn. Historical dramas like Hidden Figures have me thinking about all the stories of black excellence I don’t know about stories that we’ve yet to discover and celebrate. ![]() Image Credit: Lee & Low Books Inc., Gwendolyn Hooks/Colin Bootman ![]() |