![]() Additionally, Brooks was nominated for a Critics Choice TV Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television Award and received a Primetime Emmy Award Nomination as a producer on Mahalia. On stage, Brooks starred as Beatrice in The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kenny Leon. For her performance, Brooks earned the Actress Award for Television from the Critics Choice Association Celebration of Black Cinema & Television. Brooks starred as the legendary Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in director Kenny Leon’s Mahalia which premiered on Lifetime in April. ![]() ![]() Danielle Brooks starred as Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson in Netflix’s Emmy nominated series Orange is the New Black, a role that garnered her two NAACP Image Award nominations for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. She also received the Young Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Actress. Next up, Brooks will star opposite John Cena in the HBO Max series Peacemaker, the spinoff series to James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad movie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Recommended to anyone looking for sweetly reassuring picture-books for young children, as well as to those seeking children's stories with an Inuit cultural context. This is another title from the Nunavut-based Inhabit Media, an Inuit-owned publisher concentrating on books with an Inuit cultural context, and it is another winner. The animals and land share gifts such as love, patience, respect for animals, gentleness, and kindness. I enjoyed the text, and I also appreciated the artwork from illustrator Alexandria Neonakis, with its use of color and contrast. Kulu is a term of endearment for babies and young children in Inuktitut and the poem introduces Baby Kulu to the arctic summer. From adventurous Snow Bunting, who gives Arctic cotton seeds and flowers, to powerful Polar Bear, who teaches about respect for the wild, the creatures of land and sea give Kulu a "practical foundation to balance and build upon."Apparently author Celina Kalluk is an Inuit throat singer, and her musical gift certainly comes through in the lovely sing-song narrative of Sweetest Kulu. ![]() A newborn Inuit baby named Kulu is gifted with many wonderful traits and good wishes from the animals around him in this poetic picture-book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bean's past was a battle just to survive. In Ender's Shadow, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean-the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School he was just the best of the best. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth-they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high orbital facility called the Battle School. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. ![]() The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. The novel that launched the bestselling Ender's Shadow series. ![]() ![]() Jew-ish is a brilliant collection of delicious recipes, but it's much more than that. ![]() Imagine the components of an everything bagel wrapped into a flaky galette latkes dyed vibrant yellow with saffron for a Persian spin on the potato pancake, best-ever hybrid desserts like Macaroon Brownies and Pumpkin Spice Babka! Jew-ish features elevated, yet approachable classics along with innovative creations, such as: In Jew-ish, he reinvents the food of his Ashkenazi heritage and draws inspiration from his husband's Persian-Iraqi traditions to offer recipes that are modern, fresh, and enticing for a whole new generation of readers. But as food writer and nice Jewish boy Jake Cohen demonstrates in this stunning debut cookbook, Jewish food can be so much more. When you think of Jewish food, a few classics come to mind: chicken soup with matzo balls, challah, maybe a babka if you're feeling adventurous. ![]() ![]() ![]() A brilliantly modern take on Jewish culinary traditions for a new generation of readers, from a bright new star in the culinary world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cassandra recognizes how transgenerational physical and emotional trauma is actually embedded in our DNA and how it has shaped her own life and the lives of her family. It’s a lyrical, personal memoir centered around the racist murder of her great grandfather, Burt, whom she never knew. I recently read Cassandra’s amazing book, We Are Bridgesand I was absolutely blown away. She’s an author, a mother, a current editor of LA Parent Magazine, and so much more. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Cassandra Lane. Transcript of “Race, Trauma, and Hope – A Mother’s Healing Journey (with Cassandra Lane)” It was by acknowledging and, ultimately, empathizing with the past that she became vulnerable enough to risk accepting love and eventually motherhood. ![]() “Not knowing one’s story is like being buried alive,” she says. Her artful storytelling, both memoir and historical imagining, reminds us that we are all inextricably linked to our ancestors, both genetically and experientially. She joins Janet to discuss her new book We Are Bridges in which her personal journey from a childhood of poverty and racism to motherhood is juxtaposed against the traumas and upheavals of her ancestors. Cassandra Lane is an author, Editor-in-Chief of LA Parent Magazine, and a mother (something she vowed she would never be). ![]() ![]() ![]() He then started spending much of his writing time on a first novel, which eventually turned into Revelation Space, while the few short stories he submitted from 1991–1995 were rejected. In 1991 Reynolds graduated and moved from Scotland to the Netherlands to work at ESA. Reynolds wrote his first four published science fiction short stories while still a graduate student, in 1989–1991 they appeared in 1990–1992, his first sale being to Interzone. He returned to Wales in 2008 and lives near Cardiff. There, he worked for the European Space Research and Technology Centre (part of the European Space Agency) until 2004 when he left to pursue writing full-time. ![]() ![]() In 1991, he moved to Noordwijk in the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette (who is from France). Afterwards, he earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle University, where he studied physics and astronomy. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. Former research astronomer with the European Space AgencyĪlastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a Welsh science fiction author. ![]() ![]() Her hair was nearly down to her waist, and as she swung, it flew through the air behind her like a magical cape of childhood innocence. Hannah Beyers' hair had grown like Rapunzel, earning her the nickname from her distant aunts and uncles. Now my home was filled with vases of miraculous spring blossoms and the fragrance wafting in on the breeze. Two years later, I was rewarded with my first, very own lilac. When Hannah was born, we planted lilacs on the front porch of our New York home. The house looked like it had been drawn from childhood dreams with a box of crayons. ![]() ![]() It was 2007 and they were doling out mortgages like free candy. ![]() When Graham and I bought a house in 2007, we didn't know a thing about old houses or big land. Clouds were bigger in this sky than in other places, here under the giant blue dome above my hayfield home. If there were an opposite of a green thumb, it was mine, and they didn't stand a chance. ![]() ![]() Together, they develop a brilliant video game, Ichigo, which earns them wealth and fame but brings on fresh calamities. Years later, the two run into each other again, while Sam is at Harvard and Sadie is at MIT. The novel follows its two protagonists, Sam Masur and Sadie Green, whose unlikely friendship is sparked in a children’s hospital game room. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win.” It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. In video games, the game of life never ends. But, unlike Macbeth, Zevin’s protagonists have the privilege of twentieth-century video game technology. Taking its title from the famous soliloquy from Macbeth, Zevin’s novel has it that one is but “a poor player” in the game of life. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is part coming-of-age story, part love letter to the video game industry, and part exploration of the enduring power of friendship. ![]() ![]() ![]() FYI to those reading this – most coaches would agree that the combination of vomiting, diarrhea and dizziness are worthy of a day off. This opening sets the tone for the rest of the book, which is, “fast running is the only real running and if you can’t do it, you’re wasting your time.” The glorification of overtraining is a dangerous messageīruce Denton, the role model/guru/mentor/cool older brother figure to the protagonist Quenton Cassidy sets the tone on this one when he refuses to let a violent stomach flu interfere with his training schedule. The very first line of Once A Runner disdainfully reports that “the night joggers were out as usual,” with these night joggers including “plump, determined looking women slogging along with fleshy knees quivering” (maybe you can start to see already why I might have problems with the novel’s depiction of women?). Condescension towards other runners does not make you cool ![]() ![]() ![]() Malcolm and Joanna are characters so real and funny and flawed, they feel like friends. Kelley's work evokes everything that is great about a young hipster in the Pacific Northwest, without the tragic mustaches and old-timey bicycles., Rebecca Kelley's less-than-fairytale love story marvelously details the ups and cringe-worthy downs of dating in the twenty-first century. Her characters-complex, complicated, bright women on the precipice of complete romantic meltdown, and sympathetic good guys with powerfully flawed timing-are truly likable. She paints scenes like Apartment Therapy: carefully crafted messes that beg the reader to stay for a giant mug of chai under a moss-green chenille throw. Kelley's work evokes everything that is great about a young hipster in the Pacific Northwest, without the tragic mustaches and old-timey bicycles., Rebecca Kelley's writing is meticulous yet lush, punctuated by a witty edge. ![]() ![]() Rebecca Kelley's writing is meticulous yet lush, punctuated by a witty edge. ![]() |