'A remarkable set of essays unlike anything else' - Kadish Morris, Guardian As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. Written with the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, in five wide-ranging essays Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences as the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century. With calm, piercing intelligence, and a refusal to think on anyone's terms but her own, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future, and invites the reader to think alongside her in working out what the answers to these may be.

Soar above a planet of adventure! The trail of a long-vanished ally leads to the other side of a magical portal called the Doorway to the Red Star. The heroes must earn the trust of the portal's guardians then travel through it-to another planet of red sands and high adventure! Working to gain allies among scholarly brain-people and shifty ratfolk, the heroes must infiltrate a massive airship and fight to free their ally from an insidious trap on an alien world! "Doorway to the Red Star" is a Pathfinder adventure for four 15th-level characters. This adventure continues the Strength of Thousands Adventure Path, a six-part, monthly campaign in which the heroes rise from humble magic academy students to become influential teachers, and ultimately decide the fate of the Magaambya. This adventure also details people, places, and monsters of Akiton, the Red Planet, a fabulous setting for sword-and-sorcery escapades! Each monthly full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open Game License and work with both the Pathfinder RPG and the world's oldest fantasy RPG.

With the help of Peck the woodpecker and a host of forest friends, children can develop their comprehension skills. The activities in this book build confidence in reading and understanding written English, including stories, poems, adverts, instructions and letters. Beautifully illustrated by Magda Brol.

Answering a call for help from a neighboring group of settlers, the heroes embark on a rescue mission that takes them to a hidden jungle valley, where alien dinosaurs prowl among ancient elven ruins. The trail leads through a magical portal to an abandoned Azlanti base on the world's moon. There, survivors from a scouting mission gone awry huddle in the darkness, hiding from a terrifying, malevolent creature from another plane! "Whispers of the Eclipse" is a Starfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for four 5th-level characters by Kate Baker. This adventure continues the Horizons of the Vast Adventure Path, a six-part, bimonthly campaign in which the heroes are at the forefront of exploring and charting a newly discovered world filled with mystery. This volume also includes a history of the diaspora of the elves, gear from an ancient spacefaring civilization, and a selection of diverse alien creatures. Each bi-monthly full-color softcover Starfinder Adventure Path volume contains a new installment of a series of interconnected science-fantasy quests that together create a fully developed plot of sweeping scale and epic challenges. Each 64-page volume of the Starfinder Adventure Path also contains in-depth articles that detail and expand the Starfinder campaign setting and provide new rules, a host of exciting new monsters and alien races, a new planet to explore and starship to pilot, and more!

The first installment of Amy Clipston's bestselling Amish Marketplace series! Cakes, pies, and a tender romance await you in The Bake Shop. Christiana Kurtz loves to bake, but when her bake stand becomes too busy, her mother encourages her to move her business to the local market. Her new bake shop is an instant success, but it becomes so inundated with customers that the line blocks the leather and woodcraft shop next door. The shop's owner, Jeff Stoltzfus, catches Christiana's attention at first glance with his dark brown eyes and sad expression, and she longs to know more about him. After a series of mishaps and Jeff's complaints that her stand is driving away his business due to the lines, their relationship begins rockily. Drawn to each other despite themselves, Jeff and Christiana forge a friendship that begins to deepen, and Jeff slowly begins to trust her with the painful secrets of his past. When Christiana's father makes a surprise visit to the market, he is upset to find that Jeff uses the building's electricity to personalize his items. He tells Christiana that Jeff is too modern for her, and she's forbidden from dating him. Christiana is crushed, but she knows she must obey her father. When Jeff's shop catches fire one day, he puts the entire market in jeopardy-including Christiana's bake shop, but she can't deny how she feels about him despite his mistakes. Though the odds are against them, can the two young people find a way to rebuild both their businesses and their relationship? Sweet, inspirational Amish romance Full-length novel (85,000 words) First book in Amy Clipston's Amish Marketplace series Includes discussion questions for book clubs

This remarkable tale is a powerful reimagining of our species' unfolding and its future potential. Rio Abajo Rio is many things at once - part post-creation myth, part evocation of the first words ever spoken, it is simultaneously a projection of a post-apocalyptic society. This brave book is not easily described because Barbara Fairhead's narrative defies linearity in time and telling. The narration transports readers to a time and place when language was in formation and identity was fluid. Characters morph and shift with their emerging consciousness.

Legendary musician Annapurna Devi's life has been shrouded in mystery. Daughter of the unparalleled Allauddin Khan of Maitra and the first wife of Pandit Ravi Shankar, she conquered the summit of Indian classical music, only to later renounce public life to spend her entire life as a recluse in the confinement of her house. Until the age of sixteen, Annapurna Devi was confined to her family home at Maihar, where her father was a court musician and guru to the maharaja. During this period, she devoted herself exclusively to the deepest study and practice of Indian classical music under the strict tutelage of her father. After her estrangement from her husband Pandit Ravi Shankar, Annapurna Devi went ever deeper into self-imposed seclusion. The only people whom she met and communicated with were her disciples who used to visit her for music lessons, which included some of the greatest musicians our era has seen, including Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ustad Bahadur Khan, Aashish Khan, Dhyanesh Khan, Nityanand Haldipur and Basant Kabra, to name a few. Full of anecdotes and untold stories, this is her life story as told by her to her disciples over a period of time, giving valuable insights into their Guru Ma's personality, music and teachings.

BPP Learning Media provides comprehensive materials that highlight the areas to focus on for your exams and complement the syllabus to increase your understanding.

Now in paperback, the beloved Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country. Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner, but a sickly constitution has kept her confined to the house for most of her life. Hoping to improve her daughter's health-and lessen the burden on their family-Anna's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman and an Elemental Master, in a holler outside of Ducktown. As she settles into her new life, Anna learns new skills at Aunt Jinny's side and discovers that she, too, has a gift for Elemental magic that Jinny calls "the Glory". She also receives lessons from a mysterious and bewitching woman named Jolene, who assures her that, with time, Anna could become even more powerful than her aunt. But with Anna's increasing power comes increasing notice. Billie McDaran, the foreman of the Ducktown mine, begins to take an interest in Anna and her abilities-even though Anna has already fallen in love with a young man with a talent for stonecarving. If she wants to preserve the life she has come to love, Anna must use her newfound powers to oppose the foreman and protect those around her.

Kumon MathBites workbooks are designed to help children who are struggling with confidence in math develop calculation skills and feel a sense of accomplishment in their work. Each page features a small, bite-sized set of tasks that your child can do in only a few minutes. The supportive structure of each page emphasizes effort and practice, to boost your child's motivation to continue.

Kumon MathBites workbooks are designed to help children who are struggling with confidence in math develop calculation skills and feel a sense of accomplishment in their work. Each page features a small, bite-sized set of tasks that your child can do in only a few minutes. The supportive structure of each page emphasizes effort and practice, to boost your child's motivation to continue.

Die Vlaamse digter Eddy van Vliet is een van die kragtigste stemme in die Nederlandse digkuns van ná die Tweede Wêreldoorlog.

Sy gedigte word gekenmerk deur universele temas soos die liefde en dood. Die digter bou met beeldende taalgebruik 'n brose binneplaas in 'n bedreigende wêreld, 'n tydelike verblyf tot en met die onafwendbare verval.

Sy bundels De binnenplaats (1987) en De toekomstige dief (1991) is hoogtepunte in sy oeuvre. Saam vorm hulle 'n tweeluik van opbou en afbreek, van orde en chaos, van herinner en vergeet.

Lala plays with her diamond ring, mesmerized as always by the distant world it conjures for her and the jewel's extraordinary trajectory from Tsarist Russia to twenty-first-century England. An unexpected invitation has arrived and, at last, she will be able to visit Lentvaris, her paternal grandmother's ancestral home, a splendid East European estate where princely art collections, spectacular jewellery, extravagant balls and performing dwarves, coexisted with philanthropy on a grand scale and a deep sense of noblesse oblige. The First World War irrevocably altered the family's privileged lives, Lala's great-uncle was forced to flee with the last of the Romanov dynasty and her great-grandfather auctioned off his art treasures. The Second World War lost Lentvaris for ever. Lala's grandfather died in a Soviet gulag. Her grandmother, aunt and father survived harsh imprisonment and afterwards crossed continents eventually finding precarious stability living as emigres in South America. This is an epic story of dramatic escapes, concealed treasures, a lost paradise, but especially of the courage, strength and resilience shown by the female side of Lala's family, and of the power of love, humour and hope.

Designed to work with the third or fourth Edition of the Big Book. These three workbooks feature information to reinforce important points in A Program for You and include exercises for self-examination and disclosure. Clear discussions of each Step and probing questions offer us a guide to personal insight and reflection.

Thrill your friends and frighten your family with 50 delectable recipes inspired by the cult sci-fi Alien series!

Delight your friends with a journey through the Xenomorph’s terrifying life cycle. Alien: The Official Cookbook collects together 50 recipes inspired by the cult Alien franchise; featuring recipes such as avocado Xenomorph eggs and chicken facehugger cordon bleu, there’s something to whet every appetite, no matter how monstrous.

Whether you’re a fan of the Alien franchise, or you’re just looking for the perfect quirky appetizers, this cookbook will thrill the eyes and the tastebuds. At last, it is your turn to be space’s greatest apex predator.