Seven magical creatures gave hungry Tortoise a magic drum. When Tortoise tapped the drum, all kinds of fruits fell out. But the magical creatures had other surprises for Tortoise and his friends.

The Tortoise and the Seven Magical Creatures

Nnodim, Paul

Teen & Young Adult

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Chinedu Ogoke's book discusses the psychic, physical, and metaphorical exile of the African writer. Its starting point is the fact that African writers face numerous problems in their desire to be creative. In the post-colonial era, global politics and the quest for profits have led to social disorders, persecution, and worsening economic conditions in Africa. This has forced writers from the continent to move to the West in search of peace and a chance to reach a larger audience. But while the West offers improved access to publishers, exiled writers have to deal with difficult issues of language and culture in their work. Lacking the support of the traditional African family, many feel unfulfilled and simply lost in their new surroundings. Ironically, they also feel excluded from literary activities in the place they have left. African Writers in Exile traces the paths taken by these excluded artists and the implications they may have for the future of African literature. Ogoke also analyzes their arguments for economic and political reform in various African countries. At the root of these proposals is a desire to establish political structures that will remove barriers to creative pursuits while enhancing social and political progress for all in Africa.

African Writers in Exile

Literature & Fiction

Ogoke, Chinedu

British & Irish

A Woman's Way is a novel based on the life story of the 19th century French Feminist, Maria Deraismes. Sofia Diana Gabel blends historical fact with fiction as she details Maria Deraismes' struggle against misogynistic men and the French government during the turbulent 1870s in Paris. Maria gets involved with the Paris Commune in 1871 and rallies behind the new socialist government, thinking it will end inequality, but it doesn't. Violence soon erupts when troops break through the barricades on April 2nd and begin a bloody week to overthrow the Commune. Maria tries to speak for the people, but ends up in front of a firing squad. Will she manage to escape death and bring equality to Paris, or will her hopes and dreams die with her?

A Woman's Way

Politics & Social Sciences

Gabel, Sofia Diana

Women's Studies

Two teenagers, Arthur and Jennifer, unearth a medieval manuscript in Cornwall, in modern England, during the Christmas holidays. While reading the manuscript, Jennifer becomes engrossed in the story of fifteenth-century Lady Genevieve, a sixteen-year-old Cornish girl who escapes from her brother when he tries to marry her to one of the earls of Tudor against her will. Jennifer is, in reality, catapulted back to the fifteenth century, as well as to England in the sixth century. When Arthur realizes she is missing, he follows her back in time.

The Magic Manuscript: Book One - Voyage to Eve Ilion

Burgess, Barbara C.

Teaching is a paradoxical activity, beset by ironies and apparent contradictions: •Educated people are autonomous and self-directed, but schooling generally involves expert direction of compliant and dependent students. •Empathy, imagination, and creativity characterize fully actualized people, but these qualities seem at odds with mastering received bodies of material. •Societies value testable facts and abilities, but these are of little use, and can even be dangerous, without maturity of character. •Educators rightly value teaching for maturity, but risk in the process indoctrination or natural resistance. •Modeling forthrightness would seem indispensable to character development, but some of the most effective teachers induce learning by good-natured trickery. These are genuine paradoxes, in that even when we work out credible resolutions for them they tend not stay solved. Their tensions continue to bedevil us in each new class, with each new student, and at each phase of learning. The insights and conclusions of this conversation are neither inflexible doctrines nor a compendium of abstract disputes unrelated to actual teaching practices. Rather, the reader at once witnesses and participates in the philosophy of education as a vital process, experiencing the kind of passionate and imaginative conversations that good teachers often have, and from which they learn to understand and engage the elusive art of teaching.

Bridges to Autonomy: Paradoxes in Teaching and Learning

Silliman, Matthew R.

Johnson, David Kenneth

Philosophy

An animal liberation story. "You can see how it happens: the oblivious couple has their comfortable lives interrupted by a revelation that slowly makes it impossible for them to carry on as before. What seems a quick, easy read turns out to also be a true story of evolution that leaves the reader asking, "How shall I change my life?" - Ingrid Newkirk, founder PETA,

Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story

Colling, Sarat

Nocella II, Anthony J.

Contemporary

At fifteen, Njideka is caught in the deep political turmoil beleaguering Nigeria.When the government arrests and tortures her father following a peaceful protest, he returns home a shadow of himself: a changed man. Njideka's family begins to break apart under the yoke of a reckless regime. It is a story of hardship,abuse, and the resilient spirit of those desperate to breathe the air of freedom.

Eyes of a Goddess

Olisakwe, Ukamaka

The Liberators is a study in the corruption of identity in fragmented societies. Tracing the story of Dante Pugno, a man deceived as to his true antecedents, it uncovers a web of fragmented personalities whose skewed interrelationships are centred in the viciousness of political diktat.Written as a socio-political thriller, the novel examines one of the most pressing issues of our day, the entrapment of our societies by the specious liberation held out by politics and ideology.

The Liberators

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Roebert, Donovan

Fantasy

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