Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery by Neta Jackson

 

 

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us comes a powerful story about fishing, baseball, home cooking, and other matters of life and death . . .

“Martin understands the power of story and he uses it to alter the souls and lives of both his characters and his readers . . .” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author

They have one summer to find what was lost long ago.

“Never settle for less than the truth,” she told him.

On a stifling summer day, an old Chevy Impala ignored the warning signals and was annihilated by the oncoming train. What no one realized until much later was that the driver had paused just before entering the tracks and kicked a small boy out of the car. A small boy with broken glasses who is clutching a notebook with all his might . . . but who never speaks.

Chase Walker was one of the lucky ones. He was in foster care as a child, but he finally ended up with a family who loved him and cared for him. Now, as a journalist for the local paper, he’s moved on and put the past behind him.

But when he’s assigned the story of this young boy, painful, haunting questions about his own childhood begin to rise to the surface.

And as Chase Walker discovers, learning the truth about who you are can be as elusive—and as magical—as chasing fireflies on a summer night.

“[C]olorful, memorable characters; Southern regional flavor that’s drop-dead accurate; and lyrical, intelligent writing make Chasing Fireflies an exceptionally good read.” —Aspiring Retail

“If I could use only one word to describe Chasing Fireflies it would have to be ‘WOW!’ From the very beginning of the book I was drawn into the story and could not put it down.” —epinions.com

 

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

 

 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Over two million copies sold! “Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick)

In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • Cosmopolitan • Marie Claire • Bloomberg • Parade • “Untamed will liberate women—emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love

This is how you find yourself.

There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent—even from ourselves.

For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. But she soon realized they had come to her from within. This was her own voice—the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world’s expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living.

Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member’s ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is.

Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get.

 

Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

 

 

USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

The Ground Is Moving
The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked the nation. As riots rocked American cities, Christians affirmed from the pulpit and in social media that “black lives matter” and that racial justice “is a gospel issue.”

But what if there is more to the social justice movement than those Christians understand? Even worse: What if they’ve been duped into preaching ideas that actually oppose the Kingdom of God?

In this powerful book, Voddie Baucham, a preacher, professor, and cultural apologist, explains the sinister worldview behind the social justice movement and Critical Race Theory—revealing how it already has infiltrated some seminaries, leading to internal denominational conflict, canceled careers, and lost livelihoods. Like a fault line, it threatens American culture in general—and the evangelical church in particular.

Whether you’re a layperson who has woken up in a strange new world and wonders how to engage sensitively and effectively in the conversation on race or a pastor who is grappling with a polarized congregation, this book offers the clarity and understanding to either hold your ground or reclaim it.

The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today by Shannon Bream

 

 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 

The women of the Bible lived timeless stories—by examining them, we can understand what it means to be a woman of faith.

People unfamiliar with Scripture often assume that women play a small, secondary role in the Bible. But in fact, they were central figures in numerous Biblical tales. It was Queen Esther’s bravery at a vital point in history which saved her entire people. The Bible contains warriors like Jael, judges like Deborah, and prophets like Miriam. The first person to witness Jesus’ resurrection was Mary Magdalene, who promptly became the first Christian evangelist, eager to share the news which would change the world forever.

In The Women of the Bible Speak, Fox News Channel's Shannon Bream opens up the lives of sixteen of these Biblical women, arranging them into pairs and contrasting their journeys. In pairing their stories, Shannon helps us reflect not only on the meaning of each individual’s life, but on how they relate to each other and to us.

From the shepherdesses of ancient Israel who helped raise the future leaders of the people of God, to the courageous early Christians, the narrative of the Bible offers us many vivid and fascinating female characters. In their lives we can see common struggles to resist bitterness, despair, and pride, and to instead find their true selves in faith, hope, and love. In studying these heroes of the faith, we can find wisdom and warnings for how to better navigate our own faith journeys.

The Women of the Bible Speak outlines the lessons we can take from the valor of Esther, the hope of Hannah, the audacity of Rahab, and the faith of Mary. In broadening each woman’s individual story, Shannon offers us a deeper understanding of each, and wisdom and insights that can transform our own lives today.

 

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman

 

 

A New York Times bestseller for 10 years running.

Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?

In the #1 New York Times international bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you’ll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman’s proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.

The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work.

Includes the Couple's Personal Profile assessment so you can discover your love language and that of your loved one.

 

Romanzo caporale di Annibale Gagliani ( I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)

La fine dell’uomo nel caos italiano. Sulla terra vermiglia della Cava di Bauxite, a Otranto, il suicidio narra, attraverso il flusso di coscienza, la vita da cacciatore di lucciole del protagonista, che ricorda l’Alì dagli occhi azzurri di Pier Paolo Pasolini. Un condottiero possibile del Kenya, animato da due modelli filosofici: don Donato Panna e Thomas Sankara. La corruzione politica del suo Paese lo costringe a fuggire in Italia col sogno di costruire un avvenire di pace per la sua famiglia. La disumana navigazione sul Mediterraneo lo conduce in una terra intollerante, avvolta da buio impenetrabile. Ma lui, come Sisifo, porta il masso sopra la montagna. Diventa schiavo del caporalato, ma non s’arrende: sfida il Fattore C sedimentato tra le sinapsi della gente comune. La tragedia, dalla sequenza circolare, ha due insegnanti autorevoli: la storia e il dolore. Il giovane antieroe è l’effige più lucida dello stoicismo di Lucio Anneo Seneca. Annibale Gagliani nasce il 4 ottobre 1992 a Mesagne (BR). Professore di lettere, giornalista pubblicista, scrittore. Nel 2018 ha pubblicato i saggi Impegno e disincanto e Ground zero con IQdB Edizioni. Romanzo caporale è il suo terzo lavoro editoriale. Credits Prefazione di Fabrizio Peronaci / Postfazione di Raffaele Gorgoni

In copertina una fotografia di Massimo Bietti fotoreporter premiato dal National Geographic

 

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Arcipelago N. Variazioni sul narcisismo di Vittorio Lingiardi (#Einaudi)

Das Malta Notizbuch di Das Notizbuch

 

 

 

Twerking queen (El resto es nada) Elettra Lamborghini

Ti racconterò tutte le storie che potrò di Agnese Borsellino

 

 

Di Paolo Borsellino, del suo esempio e del suo lavoro di contrasto alla mafia, si è sempre parlato molto. Negli ultimi tempi, forse, si parla più della sua morte, dei misteri che la avvolgono, delle trame che si sono consumate prima e dopo di essa. Ma della famiglia Borsellino, dell'uomo anziché del giudice, dei figli e della moglie, non si sa molto. Fin dai primi, terribili giorni dopo l'attentato di via D'Amelio, infatti, la moglie Agnese e i figli Lucia, Manfredi e Fiammetta - allora poco più che adolescenti - hanno mantenuto uno stretto riserbo e sono intervenuti solo raramente nel dibattito mediatico. La signora, che proprio quest'anno si è dovuta arrendere a un male che l'ha perseguitata per anni, ha voluto utilizzare gli ultimi mesi della sua vita per lasciare dietro di sé - ai figli, ai nipoti, alle persone che mantengono vivo il ricordo di Paolo Borsellino e, in definitiva, a tutti gli italiani - i ricordi di una vita accanto a un eroe civile, che era un uomo normale, innamorato della moglie, giocoso con i figli, timido ma anche provocatorio, generoso e indimenticabile.

Sandra Rizza L'agenda rossa di Paolo Borsellino

 

 

Molto è stato detto per celebrare la figura eroica di Paolo Borsellino. Molto poco invece si sa degli ultimi 56 giorni della sua vita, dalla strage di Capaci all'esplosione di via d'Amelio, quando qualcuno decide la sua condanna a morte. Lo Bianco e Rizza ricostruiscono quei giorni drammatici con l'aiuto delle carte giudiziarie, le testimonianze di pentiti e di ex colleghi magistrati, le confidenze di amici e familiari. E ci restituiscono le pagine dell'agenda scomparsa nell'inferno di via d'Amelio, in cui Borsellino annotava le riflessioni e i fatti più segreti. Qualcuno si affrettò a requisirla: troppo scottante ciò che il magistrato aveva annotato nella sua corsa contro il tempo, giorno dopo giorno. Chi incontrava? Chi intralciava il suo lavoro in Procura? Quali verità  andava scoprendo? E perché, lasciato solo negli ultimi giorni della sua vita, disse: "Ho capito tutto... mi uccideranno, ma non sarà  una vendetta della mafia... Forse saranno mafiosi quelli che materialmente mi uccideranno, ma quelli che avranno voluto la mia morte saranno altri"?

Paolo Borsellino parla ai ragazzi di Pietro Grasso

 

 

"Quella domenica di luglio, Paolo Borsellino si alzò alle cinque del mattino. Approfittò di quel momento di calma per scrivere una lettera di risposta a un liceo di Padova. Per capire chi era Paolo, quale fosse il dolore che provava in quei giorni, la determinazione che lo spingeva a lavorare senza sosta e perché avesse deciso di dedicare alcune ore del suo tempo, così prezioso quell'estate, ai ragazzi di una scuola lontana, dobbiamo fare alcuni passi indietro, e raccontare questa storia dall'inizio. È la storia di un uomo, di un gruppo di amici e colleghi, di una stagione fatta di grandi successi e brucianti sconfitte. È anche una parte della mia storia personale, perché io ho conosciuto e ho lavorato con tutte le persone di cui vado a raccontarvi, ma è soprattutto un pezzo importante della storia del nostro Paese." Una vita in 57 giorni. Una lettera lasciata a metà. Una testimonianza civile per le nuove generazioni. L'ultima mattina della sua vita Paolo Borsellino scrive agli studenti di una scuola che non aveva mai incontrato per rispondere a nove domande sul suo lavoro e sulla mafia. Dopo quasi trent'anni, Pietro Grasso raccoglie la penna che la bomba di via D'Amelio lo costrinse ad abbandonare, per raccontare a chi quell'estate del '92 non era ancora nato, la storia di un gruppo di giudici e del loro straordinario coraggio. Introduzione di Pif.

Forget The World by Afrojack

 

 

 

Afrojack Legendary Coloring Book: Relax and Unwind Your Emotions with our Inspirational and Affirmative Designs by Emery Stone

 

 

Afrojack stress-relieving adult coloring book is one of our bestselling coloring books this year. With beautiful patterns for any skill level and great single-sided coloring pages, our designs are of the greatest quality.We take great care and great pride in our creations. Our intent is to use art therapy to calm your mind and destress.

Freak Show Legacies: How the Cute, Camp and Creepy Shaped Modern Popular Culture by Gary S. Cross

 

 

Society has long been fascinated with the freakish, shocking and strange. In this book Gary Cross shows how freakish elements have been embedded in modern popular culture over the course of the 20th century despite the evident disenchantment with this once widespread cultural outlet. Exploring how the spectacle of freakishness conflicted with genteel culture, he shows how the condemnation of the freak show by middle-class America led to a transformation and merging of genteel and freak culture through the cute, the camp and the creepy.

Though the carnival and circus freak was marginalised by the 1960s and had largely disappeared by the 1980s, forms of freakish culture survived and today appear in reality TV, horror movies, dark comedies and the popularity of tattoos. Freak Show Legacies will focus less on the individual 'freak' as 'the other' in society, and more on the audience for the freakish and the transformation of wonder, sensibility and sensitivity that this phenomenon entailed. It will use the phenomenon of 'the freak' to understand the transformation of American popular culture across the 20th century, identify elements of 'the freak' in popular culture both past and present, and ask how it has prevailed despite its apparent unpopularity.

American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Christine Stansell

 

 

In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods--home to art, poetry, cafes, and cabarets in the European tradition--provided a place where the fancies and forms of a new America could be tested. Some called themselves Bohemians, some members of the avant-garde, but all took pleasure in the exotic, new, and forbidden.

In American Moderns, Christine Stansell tells the story of the most famous of these neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, which--thanks to cultural icons such as Eugene O'Neill, Isadora Duncan, and Emma Goldman--became a symbol of social and intellectual freedom. Stansell eloquently explains how the mixing of old and new worlds, politics and art, and radicalism and commerce so characteristic of New York shaped the modern American urban scene. American Moderns is both an examination and a celebration of a way of life that's been nearly forgotten.

The Remarkable Big Band Era by John Rayburn

 

 

This book is about one of the greatest periods in American history, a time when music helped relieve some of the worries of the Great Depression and World War II.

It was a magical time enhanced by radio as well as the great live performances. Radio and music of the Big Band Era were made for each other, and the so-called Swing Years were a golden age of rhythm. It was not just music that made you want to dance. It was music that made you glow, music that made you want to sing, music that made you come alive, music for falling in love. And, despite the passage of time, it still is.

This is an effort to relive the compelling, pulsating excitement that filled ballrooms across the land—a chance to be somewhat a part of the invigorating time when, as someone once remarked, “the sounds of a thousand golden horns filled the air,” those ballrooms were packed, and radio and jukeboxes poured music into the air.

Author John Rayburn had conversations and interviews with many of the stars of the glorious past, so many of the stories have a warm, personalized flavor. He tells you about their talent, their beautiful music, and how they were able to help push aside some of the fears of the day. It’s as though you’re sitting there listening to radio shunt aside the anguish of one of the most outstanding eras in the nation’s 242-year history.

You feel as though you’re there with personalized stories of such major stars as Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Nat King Cole, Jo Stafford, Buddy Rich, Anita O’Day, Charlie Barnet, Helen Forrest, Les Paul, Sarah Vaughan and a great many more.

You will be told such personalized anecdotes as which famous crooner was invited to sing along with a big band when he was only four years old? Which big band enjoyed receiving big tips from mobster Al Capone? How did Nathaniel Adams Coles become Nat King Cole? Who gambled away part of a band’s income and left Woody Herman in serious debt to the IRS? What was Norma Deloris Egstrom’s professional name? Who once angrily threw a pitcher of water at drummer Buddy Rich? How did Shirley Luster become June Christy?

 

The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins

 

 

Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s? Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. These white Christians entered the battle certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights movement triumphed in the 1960s and, with its success, fundamentally transformed American society. But this victory did little to change southern white evangelicals' theological commitment to segregation. Rather than abandoning their segregationist theology in the second half of the 1960s, white evangelicals turned their focus on institutions they still controlled--churches, homes, denominations, and private colleges and secondary schools--and fought on.

Focusing on the case of South Carolina, The Bible Told Them So shows how, despite suffering defeat in the public sphere, white evangelicals continued to battle for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a segregationist Christianity they continued to believe reflected God's will.
Increasingly caught in the tension between their sincere belief that God desired segregation and their reluctance to give voice to such ideas for fear of being perceived as bigoted or intolerant, by the late 1960s southern white evangelicals embraced the rhetoric of colorblindness and protection of the family as measures to maintain both segregation and respectable social standing. This strategy set southern white evangelicals on an alternative path for race relations in the decades ahead.

Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898–1945: Unsparing Honesty (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 1st Edition by Walter A. Jackson

 

 

Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes the connections between the public and private dimensions of their lives. Drawing on their extensive personal correspondence and diaries between their electrifying first meeting in 1919 and their protracted marital crisis in the early 1940s, this book presents the psychologist and the economist as they sought to combine love and work in an equal partnership. Alva and Gunnar simultaneously experimented with a new kind of intimate relationship and designed the social supports necessary for women both to bear and raise children and to contribute their talents and energies to society. Like all genuine revolutionaries, they struggled to free themselves from the burdens of their upbringings; to evaluate their own actions with what they called "unsparing honesty," and to test their policy recommendations in practice, measuring everything against the values they shared.

Playing with History: American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture by Molly Rosner

 

 

Since the advent of the American toy industry, children’s cultural products have attempted to teach and sell ideas of American identity. By examining cultural products geared towards teaching children American history, Playing With History highlights the changes and constancies in depictions of the American story and ideals of citizenship over the last one hundred years. This book examines political and ideological messages sold to children throughout the twentieth century, tracing the messages conveyed by racist toy banks, early governmental interventions meant to protect the toy industry, influences and pressures surrounding Cold War stories of the western frontier, the fractures visible in the American story at a mid-century history themed amusement park. The study culminates in a look at the successes and limitations of the American Girl Company empire.

To Serve the People: My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor by LeRoy Chatfield and Jorge Mariscal

 

 

The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten. From the cloisters of the Christian Brothers and the halls of secondary education to the fields of Central California and the streets of Sacramento, Chatfield's story reveals a fierce commitment to those who were denied the promises of the American dream. In this collection of what the author calls Easy Essays, Chatfield recounts his childhood, explains the social issues that have played a significant role in his life and work, and uncovers the lack of justice he saw all too frequently. His journey, alongside Cesar and Helen Chavez, Marshall Ganz, Bonnie Chatfield, Philip Vera Cruz, and countless others, displays an unwavering focus on organizing communities and expanding their agency. Follow and explore a life dedicated to equality of opportunity for all. May it inspire and guide you in your own quest for a fairer and more just society.

Building the Population Bomb by Emily Klancher Merchant

 

 

 

Across the twentieth century, Earth's human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000. As population grew, it also began to take the blame for some of the world's most serious problems, from global poverty to environmental
degradation, and became an object of intervention for governments and nongovernmental organizations. But the links between population, poverty, and pollution were neither obvious nor uncontested.

Building the Population Bomb tells the story of the twentieth-century population crisis by examining how scientists, philanthropists, and governments across the globe came to define the rise of the world's human numbers as a problem. It narrates the history of demography and population control in
the twentieth century, examining alliances and rivalries between natural scientists concerned about the depletion of the world's natural resources, social scientists concerned about a bifurcated global economy, philanthropists aiming to preserve American political and economic hegemony, and heads of
state in the Global South seeking rapid economic development. It explains how these groups forged a consensus that promoted fertility limitation at the expense of women, people of color, the world's poor, and the Earth itself.

As the world's population continues to grow--with the United Nations projecting 11 billion people by the year 2100--Building the Population Bomb steps back from the conventional population debate to demonstrate that our anxieties about future population growth are not obvious but learned.
Ultimately, this critical volume shows how population growth itself is not a barrier to economic, environmental, or reproductive justice; rather, it is our anxiety over population growth that distracts us from the pursuit of these urgent goals.

For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality (America in the World, 45) by Dorothy Sue Cobble

 

 

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad

For the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all. Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Cobble follows egalitarian women’s activism from the explosion of democracy movements before World War I to the establishment of the New Deal, through the upheavals in rights and social citizenship at midcentury, to the reassertion of conservatism and the revival of female-led movements today.

Cobble brings to life the women who crossed borders of class, race, and nation to build grassroots campaigns, found international institutions, and enact policies dedicated to raising standards of life for everyone. Readers encounter famous figures, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, and Mary McLeod Bethune, together with less well-known leaders, such as Rose Schneiderman, Maida Springer Kemp, and Esther Peterson. Multiple generations partnered to expand social and economic rights, and despite setbacks, the fight for the many persists, as twenty-first-century activists urgently demand a more caring, inclusive world.

Putting women at the center of US political history, For the Many reveals the powerful currents of democratic equality that spurred American feminists to seek a better life for all.

Disappearing Appalachia in Tennessee: A Picture of a Vanished Land and Its People by Harry Moore and Fred Brown

 

Stepping through time to past and present communities, settled in deep hollows and surrounded by ridges and mountains in Tennessee's Appalachia, is to confront a different and disappearing realm. Travel along Hogskin and Richland Valleys. Visit Frenches Mill and Dulaney General Store while passing cantilever barns, one-room school buildings and steepled churches. Listen as octogenarians Robert, Charles, Glenn and others explain life without electricity. Former Cades Cove residents Lois and Inez tell stories of living in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park before it was a national park. Authors Fred Brown, retired journalist, and Harry Moore, retired geologist, explore Tennessee's Appalachian region, recalling its culture, land and people before it vanishes into the abyss of time.

Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice by Stephen Preskill

 

 

How Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School catalyzed social justice and democratic education
 

For too long, the story of life-changing teacher and activist Myles Horton has escaped the public spotlight. An inspiring and humble leader whose work influenced the civil rights movement, Horton helped thousands of marginalized people gain greater control over their lives. Born and raised in early twentieth-century Tennessee, Horton was appalled by the disrespect and discrimination that was heaped on poor people—both black and white—throughout Appalachia. He resolved to create a place that would be available to all, where regular people could talk, learn from one another, and get to the heart of issues of class and race, and right and wrong. And so in 1932, Horton cofounded the Highlander Folk School, smack in the middle of Tennessee.

The first biography of Myles Horton in twenty-five years, Education in Black and White focuses on the educational theories and strategies he first developed at Highlander to serve the interests of the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed. His personal vision keenly influenced everyone from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt and Congressman John Lewis. Stephen Preskill chronicles how Horton gained influence as an advocate for organized labor, an activist for civil rights, a supporter of Appalachian self-empowerment, an architect of an international popular-education network, and a champion for direct democracy, showing how the example Horton set remains education’s best hope for today.

 

 

 

 

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton

 

 

“[A] groundbreaking, deeply researched and profoundly heart-rending account of the origins of our national crisis of police violence against Black America.” ―Peniel Joseph, New York Times Book Review

From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding of the post–civil rights era.

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire, the events of 2020 had clear precursors―and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past.

Even in the aftermath of Donald Trump, many Americans consider the decades since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton’s sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history, taking us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of structural racism and one of its primary consequences, the so-called urban riot. Hinton offers a critical corrective: the word riot was nothing less than a racist trope applied to events that can only be properly understood as rebellions―explosions of collective resistance to an unequal and violent order. As she suggests, if rebellion and the conditions that precipitated it never disappeared, the optimistic story of a post–Jim Crow United States no longer holds.

Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Crime,” sending militarized police forces into impoverished Black neighborhoods. Facing increasing surveillance and brutality, residents threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers, plundered local businesses, and vandalized exploitative institutions. Hinton draws on exclusive sources to uncover a previously hidden geography of violence in smaller American cities, from York, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, to Stockton, California.

The central lesson from these eruptions―that police violence invariably leads to community violence―continues to escape policymakers, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s enduring strife, America on Fire is also a warning: rebellions will surely continue unless police are no longer called on to manage the consequences of dismal conditions beyond their control, and until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality.

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Contro Venere di Alessandra Merico (I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)

“Fosse anche stretto tra le mie dita, io lo vedrò il tuo cuore bruciare all’inferno.” Così si apre  “Contro Venere”, un libro che parla d'amore e di guerra. Di una guerra d'amore ma non per l'amore stesso. Per amore della guerra. Parla di armi e di baci. E di baci usati come armi. Parla di potere all'interno dei rapporti. Parla di disturbi affettivi. E di due persone che potrebbero amarsi ma non ne sono capaci. E per questo si annientano. "Certo è che il libro che tenete tra le mani ha dentro una certa quantità di esplosivo, e va maneggiato con cura. Quella cura che se manca uccide Venere. Vediamo di non essere altri killer." Dalla prefazione di Davide Rondoni

Alessandra Merico nasce a Maglie (Le) nel 1986. Nel 2012 si diploma all’ “Accademia Internazionale di Teatro” di Roma. Nel 2013 vince il “Teglio teatro festival” in Valtellina con “ODI A SE. Soliloqui e dialoghi di solitudini nell’Odissea” scritto, diretto e interpretato dalla stessa e dal collega Giuseppe Zonno. Nel 2016, per Rai fiction, produzione Endemol, prende parte a “Scomparsa” regia di Fabrizio Costa. Nel 2017 pubblica con I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno la sua prima raccolta poetica Contro Venere con la prefazione di Davide Rondoni.

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La storia che ho voluto raccontare, lo dico subito, è una storia crudele. Per festeggiare il superamento dell'esame di maturità, quattro ragazzi, quattro compagni di scuola di un liceo di provincia, affrontano un epico viaggio in auto attraverso l'Europa. Il pretesto per partire è fornito dal concerto londinese di uno dei loro miti, Joe Strummer, l'ex leader dei Clash. Ma i tempi sono cambiati, il punk e il post-punk sono svaniti, la cultura hip-hop ha cominciato a raccontare al mondo la rabbia dei ghetti americani, Joe Strummer sta affrontando una nuova vita artistica con un progetto solista, e i quattro amici si trovano all'improvviso, in anticipo sulle previsioni, a dover compiere una scelta terribile, una scelta da cui dipende la possibilità di avere un futuro. Vent'anni dopo, tre di quei ragazzi sono diventati adulti, si sono fatti una famiglia e una posizione, ma sentono il bisogno di "ritornare" sull'evento drammatico, sul cruento rito di passaggio che ha sancito la fine della loro giovinezza. Andranno a fare visita all'unico del gruppo rimasto, in un modo estremo, lo stesso di allora.