“Cookies were a hobby to relieve stress,” says his son Shawn Amos, musician, and author of Cookies & Milk. He began baking cookies using his Aunt Della’s recipe. When a new job opportunity in Los Angeles backfired, Amos grew disillusioned with show business. Amos headed the rock ’n’ roll department, where he signed Simon and Garfunkel and worked with Motown megastars The Supremes, Diana Ross, Sam Cooke and Dionne Warwick. In 1957, he returned to New York and joined the William Morris Agency, where he worked his way up from the mailroom to become the first black talent agent in the industry. Amos dropped out of high school, but earned his G.E.D. He moved to New York City’s Harlem at age 12 to live with his Aunt Della. Amos challenged the barriers of entertainment as a Black man and went on to create a flourishing cookie empire. His rise serves as the most infamous cautionary tales for aspiring entrepreneurs. When Wally Amos first developed Famous Amos cookies in 1975, the brand became one of the most unlikely success stories in food history.
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Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Palle Oswald resides in Maryland and is author of the debut novel Half A Lion.Ī place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. His writing adopts the best of both worlds. In school, the traditional fare was complimented with Western classics such as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. The stories that frightened other children, fascinated him. He was raised on a staple of folklore, of magical battles and mythical beasts. Palle Oswald was born in a country of about 240 tribes. Palle Oswald resides in Maryland and is author of the debut novel Half A Lion. Grass opens not at the end, nor at the beginning, but at a significant moment in Lee Ok-sun’s life as she, who has spent fifty-five years living as a wife and mother in China, is at last able to return home in the winter of 1996. The story of Grassbegins a little jumbled, narratively and chronologically, but the initial confusion serves to disorientate and unbalance the reader effectively before the stark and impactful tale truly begins. It’s a grisly but stoic, blunt, poignant, gripping, and enraging tale of one woman’s survival as a victim of kidnapping, abuse, and rape during a time of imperialism and war. What we have here is a result of her painstakingly crafting an honest, moving tale, using only the truth, and telling it in such a way that will effortlessly move the reader to tears but does not cloud the truth with distracting emotion and drama. No matter my position, I avoided sensationalising the violence, pain, and suffering of the characters.” This approach to the retelling of Granny Lee Ok-sun paid off in spades. Keum Suk Gendry-kim, creator of Grass, remarked in her afterword: “I resolved to try telling her story in a calm and even tone.
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And by re-arranging, I mean throwing out the ones I have completely no interest in reading and starting to read the ones I still am interested in. Now, skipping to my current state where I still have like a month and a half left of holiday and also am currently overbored, I decided to re-arrange my list of to-read books on Goodreads. But I did not read it until now since I kind of lost interest in it for a while. I found it sitting on the recommendation section on my Goodreads account and add it to my to-read list. Back then, dystopia and paranormal themed books were totally so in the hype. I first discovered Pivot Point years ago before its second book came out. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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In Davis’ telling, the protagonist is not so much Arnaud du Tilh, but is, in fact, Bertrande de Rols, the wife of Martin Guerre. Natalie Zemon Davis, in her book The Return of Martin Guerre, approaches the story from a fresh perspective, hoping to link the impostor’s ruse with the creation of personal identity, and in doing so, shorten the gap between sixteenth century French peasants and the upper class. As a result, a traditional version of the story quickly developed that focused on the cunning of the impostor, Arnaud du Tilh, and his “marvelous deception.” Only two contemporary sources exist that speak directly to the case, and from these sources all subsequent versions of the story derive. The events occurred over four hundred years ago in rural France, and few of the participants had the capacity to write. For the academic historian, the faithful retelling of the story of Martin Guerre is a treacherous exercise. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.Īccompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.Īs a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured." For only ten pounds we have access to a book of 157 pages which catalogue all the artistic movements from the Modern Era, each of them is given a chapter where we can find many information related to the period and the artists who brought up the art movement they are attached with. I was quite disappointed by the book from the exhibition therefore I looked upon the rest of the books available in the shop and I found the book named ISMS, understanding Modern Art by Sam Phillips. I have recently purchased a book while visiting the Salt and Silver exhibition at the Tate Britain. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren't sure. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy, and the outside world is largely unknown. After the catastrophes converged-the end of oil, climate change, global pandemics, and resource wars-they are doing whatever they can to get by. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. With World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence, and shows us what life may be like following the long emergency. Offering a shocking vision for the coming trauma of our post-oil future, The Long Emergency was a tremendous success and a best seller, selling over 100,000 copies. He observed that the terminal decline of oil production, combined with the perils of climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In his previous book, celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the age of globalization and mankind's explosive progress over the last two hundred years was based on the availability of cheap fossil fuels. |