5/12/2023 0 Comments The Extra Man by Indra AndersonAs the Chair of the Integrated Care System Health Inequalities Network, he is working across places to raise awareness and build the capacity and capability in the system to tackle health inequalities.Īde is Co-Chair for the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Staff Network of NHS England and NHS Improvement and was awarded an MBE for services to Global Health policy. In Bradford District and Craven, he is working with organisations, community partnerships and primary care networks to embed a population health management approach to reduce health inequalities and develop the district inequalities action plan alongside public health colleagues and system partners to address the wider determinants of health. Sohail is passionate about system working and harnessing the power of communities. He holds the fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners, membership of the Royal College of Physicians, MSc in diabetes and an executive MBA. He is also a GP partner in Bradford City and a GP with special interest in diabetes. Sohail has been working in the NHS since 2003 and has previously worked as the Clinical Chair of Bradford City Clinical Commissioning Group and Clinical Director of Community Services in Salford Royal Foundation Trust.
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Sea Witch by Sarah HenningI recently read another one of these retellings about Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, but I enjoyed “Sea Witch” so much more. It’s like looking through history with a different lens, you recognize the events but there is a new perspective. We get a chance to see the history of this character and discover what might have made them evil. How wonderful, when an author can create an original backstory for a character that has always been one dimensional. And is there anything older than sea? This is the prequel to “The Little Mermaid” and tells the story of how the sea witch (dubbed Ursula in the Disney version) came to be. There is nothing that I look forward to more than a good retelling of an old tale. My opinions are my own and independent of receiving an advanced copy.I fell in love with this story. My thanks to Edelweiss, Katherine Teigen Books, Harper Collins Canada and Sarah Henning for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. He gave whites a compelling reminder of the ugliness of racial exploitation and blacks a sense of ownership of their past, with all its travails but also its triumphs.” “More than any other writer, he changed the way the masses of Americans understood the black experience. “Haley wrote the two most important works in black culture in the twentieth century,” argues Norrell. In Alex Haley and the Books That Changed a Nation, Robert Norrell recovers the extraordinary tale of the author and his monumental, controversy-laden bestsellers.Ī distinguished historian of African-American life at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Norrell sheds light on the avuncular, gifted storyteller who struggled to achieve professional success. Their common thread is Alex Haley, who collaborated with Malcolm X and then wrote about his own ancestors in an epic saga. The stories in these books reached ever-wider audiences through movies and television. Roots stimulated a massive appreciation for the African-American past, from the heritage of Africa through the trials of slavery. The Autobiography of Malcolm X enshrined its protagonist’s place in American history. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Shining by Stephen KingI love how King fleshed out Jack’s inner turmoil and conflict. He is thus able to see through what really happened with Jack and all the ghosts and horrific elements of the Overlook Hotel. He has the ability to read minds, see ghosts and see through the future or past incidents. We also follow Danny’s experience in the Overlook Hotel. At the end, Jack went mad and tried to murder his son, Danny and his wife, Wendy. The Overlook Hotel sort of came alive and “possessed” Jack by manipulating and using his past demons. Jack moved into the hotel with his family and a lot of strange things happened. In summary, this is a story about a father (Jack Torrance) who is haunted by his past demons and decided to start afresh by accepting a new job as a caretaker of the Overlook Hotel (which is haunted). As for The Shining, it is heavily character driven. The first being The Institute and I think it is more plot driven. Stephen King blew my mind away with this iconic horror story! “This inhuman place makes human monsters” And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote…and more sinister. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The archived schwab“Because the only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.” With Mackenzie already struggling to juggle the two sides of her life, the stakes are raised even higher when she learns that somehow, someone has been erasing the memories of the Histories, putting both the Archived and the world of the living under threat. The Archived follows Mackenzie Bishop, a teenage girl tasked with the job of stopping the dead from awakening and escaping the realm in which they are held. Since this bind-up contains two books, I will mainly discuss the first book in the series to avoid spoilers. After reading The Archived earlier this year, I was lucky enough to receive an advanced review copy of the UK release of the bind-up from the publisher, which meant I got to enjoy both books in the series so far, plus a bonus short story. The Dark Vault is a bind-up of The Archived and The Unbound, the first two books in Victoria Schwab’s The Archived series. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Ship of theseus novelHand written letter on Pollard State University stationary from Jen to Ericīlue and white stationary To my new friends:. Napkin Pronghorn Java with map drawn on it.Ī card with a hooded person holding a bird Jean-Bernard Desjardins on back a quote by V M Straka Of a woman on deck near a ship stamp on back 8NGĬard with a monkey on front newspaper clipping inside - obituary- from E P Yellow legal note paper 3 sheets hand written Gray stationary 2 sheets from Jen to Ericīlank post card of brick wall w/ arch faint S in brickĬrimped edged post card of gate and tall palms from EĬrimped edge post card pictorial Brazil - like a map- from E Postal Telegraph The International System - McKay's Magazine Boston The Burning Word: The 1759 fire that destroyed San Tadeo. Translator's notes and foreword between pgs 2&3 or You may edit and make a list about it if you like and delete this comment after. This is the way I remember things for myself. You don't have an email yet so I'll post it here. Read on twitter you were looking for a list of items in the book. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Kappus rilkeAt that time Horaček had been working there as chaplain of the establishment, and he still remembered the boy of those days perfectly. “So young René Rilke has become a poet.”Īnd I heard about the small, pale boy, whom his parents had sent more than fifteen years before to the military Unterrealschule in Sankt-Pölten, intending that he should afterwards become an officer. Then he turned over the leaves here and there, scanned a few verses, looked thoughtfully into the distance, and finally nodded. “Rainer Maria Rilke’s Poems”? he asked thoughtfully. He took the volume out of my hand, considered the binding, and shook his head. I was so engrossed in my reading that I hardly noticed that the only one of our masters who was not an officer, the learned kindly chaplain of the Academy, Horaček, had joined me. It was in the late autumn of 1902-I was sitting under some century-old chestnut trees in the park of the Military Academy in Wiener-Neustadt reading a book. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Before Bethlehem by James FlerlageHe and James witness abhorring violence at the hands of the Romans, and outlandish abuses of power by their own religious leaders. Joseph fights to maintain his spiritual integrity while trying desperately to keep his family together and his farm alive. By accepting the Rabbi’s request, Joseph unknowingly thrusts himself and his family into a bitter and emotionally draining life-or-death conflict. With crisp prose, tangible description and thought-provoking insights, Before Bethlehem takes readers on a vivid journey to the dusty Galilean village of Nazareth, where Joseph is summoned by Rabbi Boethus, a Sadducean high priest, to marry an orphaned virgin in Jerusalem. This spellbinding work of historical fiction offers the eyewitness account of 15-year-old James, son of Joseph bar Jacob, and the dangerous and heartrending choices they must make in the days leading up to Joseph’s relationship with Mary, and the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The Pinnacle of History, Through the Eyes of a Boy "The whole nation was keyed up for another race riot, and you're sending northern black troops to train in South Carolina. Tense standoffs arose between the Hellfighters and white residents in Spartanburg. Just weeks earlier, the arrival of another African-American regiment sparked a race riot in Houston. Their first battle was during training camp in Spartanburg, S.C., in October 1917. But Sanders hasn't forgotten the unit's early history of fighting on the front lines in France and in the U.S. Today's Hellfighters specialize in combat logistics in places like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Mali. "Our enemies gave us our name, is an honor." Reginald Sanders, a former commander of the 369th Sustainment Brigade, which descended from the original World War I unit. "We did not give ourselves our name ," says Col. As soldiers, the Harlem Hellfighters left their mark in the trenches of France. The syncopated stylings of their regimental band, led by James Reese Europe, introduced French listeners to American jazz. "The French called them the 'Men of Bronze' out of respect, and the Germans called them the 'Harlem Hellfighters' out of fear," explains Max Brooks, author of The Harlem Hellfighters, a new graphic novel about the first African-American infantry unit to fight in World War I. They returned home one of the most decorated American units of World War I. The 369th Infantry Regiment served 191 days under enemy fire in Europe. The Harlem Hellfighters: Fighting Racism In The Trenches Of WWI “He is most appreciated for his novels – for “ Rehepapp ehk November” ( November, 2000), and “ Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu” ( The Man Who Spoke Snakish, 2007), literary fantasies based on folklore, the last of them an allegory about a vanishing world.” His book “ Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu” ( The Man Who Spoke Snakish) (2007) has been one of the top selling books in Estonia. Over 30,000 copies of his novel “ Rehepapp ehk November“, 2000 ( Old Barny or November) had been sold, making him the most popular 21st century Estonian writer. Kivirähk has studied journalism at the University of Tartu, and now works in the daily paper “Eesti Päevaleht”, writing weekly columns. He is a virtuoso who can easily shift from one style to another, producing short stories, newspaper columns, pamphlets and dramatic texts, writing for children and for TV, varying black humour with even unexpected tender sensitivity, making one smile through one’s tears.”Īndrus Kivirähk (born 17 August 1970) is an Estonian writer. “ Andrus Kivirähk is a most remarkably prolific, innovative and powerful figure on the Estonian literary scene of today, probably the most beloved and talented Estonian writer nowadays. |