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Through rallies & marches in polite drawing rooms & freezing prison cells & the poverty-stricken slums of the East End three courageous young women join the fight for the vote Evelyn is seventeen & though she is rich & clever she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated she joins the Suffragettes & vows to pay the ultimate price for women's freedom May is fifteen & already sworn to the cause though she & her fellow Suffragists refuse violence When she meets Nell a girl who's grown up in hardship she sees a kindred spirit Together & in love the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn May & Nell more than they ever could believe As war looms just how much are they willing to sacrifice? ...

'as the Labour candidate I prepared for every possible question on the local radio Election Phone-In & he campaigned for a new non-selective inner-city state school then realised this meant he had to send his kids to a non-selective inner-city state school 368 pages O' Farrell John ...

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa & he is one of the most powerful men of his clan But he also has a fiery temper Determined not to be like his father he refuses to show weakness to anyone
- even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan Okonowo takes violent action Will the great man's dangerous pride eventually destroy him?
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A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler & warrior alive & his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire But when he accidentally kills a clansman things begin to fall apart Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries & colonial governors have arrived in the village With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy First published in 1958 Chinua Achebe's stark coolly ironic novel reshaped both African & world literature & has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community continued in Arrow of God & No Longer at Ease Chinua Achebe (b 1930) was raised in the large village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria & graduated from University College Ibadan The author of more than twenty books
- novels short stories essays & collections of poetry
- Achebe received numerous honours from around the world including honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges & universities He was also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement the Nigerian National Merit Award In 2007 he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction He died in 2013 If you enjoyed Things Fall Apart you might like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness also available in Penguin Classics'A great book that bespeaks a great brave kind human spirit' John Updike' His courage & generosity are made manifest in the work' Toni Morrison' The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down' Nelson Mandela

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' Only when the two come together inner & outer authority do we have true spiritual wisdom We have for too long insisted on outer authority alone without any teaching of prayer inner journey & maturing consciousness The results for the world & for religion have been disastrous I offer these reflections to again unite what should never have been separated sacred Scripture & Christian spirituality' From The Introduction In this exploration of central themes of Scripture Richard Rohr transforms the written word discovering in these ancient texts a new & vital meaning relevant & essential for modern Christians He uncovers what the Bible says about morality power wisdom & the generosity of God in a manner that demands a life-changing response from believers Rohr offers his readers a Christian vision of abundance grace & joy to counteract a world filled with scarcity judgement & fear-a vision that can revolutionize how we relate to ourselves others & the world ...

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture Here in his greatest work Rene Girard explores the function of violence mimetic desire & the mechanism of the scapegoat in the history of society & religion Girard's vision is a brilliant & devastating challenge to conventional views of literature anthropology philosophy & psychoanalysis ...

A complex & intense portrait of the mechanics of a family
- & a marriage
- through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define

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