![]() ![]() Mama Elena angrily reminds Tita of the family tradition demanding the youngest daughter stay at home and care for her mother (until the mother’s death) instead of getting married. One holiday season when Tita is fifteen years old, she tells Mama Elena that a suitor, Pedro Musquiz, wants to come speak to her. Mama Elena must manage the ranch, so she leaves Tita’s care to Nacha, the cook, whom Tita comes to see as her “real mother.” Unlike her older sisters, Gertrudis and Rosaura, Tita develops a deep love of cooking. Two days after her birth, her father, Juan de la Garza, dies of a heart attack. Her tears send “Mama Elena” into labor, and Tita is born on the kitchen table. Each chapter begins with a recipe in Tita’s cookbook, which has been inherited by the story’s narrator, Tita’s great-niece.īefore Tita’s birth, she cries in the womb while her mother, Elena de la Garza, is chopping onions. ![]() Like Water for Chocolate is set in Northern Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, from about 1910-1920. ![]()
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![]() Interviewees include Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO and executive chairman Antonio Garcia Martinez, author, tech entrepreneur and former Facebook product manager Stanley McChrystal, former head of Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq and Alex Stamos, former head of security at Facebook. Each one-hour episode features interviews with network theorists, social scientists and data analysts. Its roots go back several centuries, as it turns out.įrom the Reformation and the 17th century witch craze, through the American Revolution and George Orwell’s 1984, Ferguson explores the intersection of social media, technology and the spread of cultural movements. With the influence of such digital platforms as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok continuing to grow as ethical and legal questions about them multiply, the show tells the origin story of social networking. BBC & PBS Team To Build Waterhole In Tanzania & Rig It With Wildlife Cameras PBS ![]() ![]() ![]() As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows - a love that is both captivating and forbidden. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. After her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the. The bet does more than expose Persephone’s failure as a Goddess, however. ![]() But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist. After a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favourite bets are rumoured to be impossible. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. ![]() Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shrivelled at her touch. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. Clair comes a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth. ![]() ![]() Zenith supposedly is a slacker superhero, and these stories are old enough that Generation X (my generation) was the one filled with young lazy layabouts who couldn’t be bothered to work - whereas now we know that really describes millennials, who have the bad grace to be young now, when so many of us are sadly no longer so. (Not that Morrison was lacking in either of those.) ![]() All the stories were written by Grant Morrison, at that point the current snotty Young Turk of British Comics, and drawn by Steve Yeowell, who had no such easy hook to be hung on and so had to get by on hard work and talent. His stories originally ran in the UK comics magazine 2000 AD, in weekly installments between 19, which explains the five-page-chapters issue. That sounds like damning with faint praise, and there’s an aspect of that - those short chapters put Morrison and Yeowell’s work in a straitjacket that they can never get free from, denying them all but the most absolutely necessary splash pages and forcing every installment to move forward quickly and efficiently - but it’s still an impressive achievement, and a pretty good revisionist superhero in general. Zenith is quite likely the best possible revisionist superhero comic series told in five-page chapters. ![]() ![]() ![]() These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. ![]() Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. ![]() Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. ![]() ![]() ![]() Resourceful, resilient, and quick-thinking, Pellow was selected by Moulay Ismail for special treatment, and was one of the fortunate few who survived to tell his tale. ![]() Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco, Moulay Ismail, who was constructing an imperial palace of such scale and grandeur that it would surpass every other building in the world, a palace built entirely by Christian slave labor. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis, and Sale in Morocco, where they were sold at auction to the highest bidder. France, Spain, England, and Italy had suffered a series of devastating attacks. Their captors-Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders-had declared war on the whole of Christendom. In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. ![]() White Gold is the remarkable true story of white European slaves in eighteenth-century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco, told in inimitable style by one of our finest popular historians. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s because it is a story-within-a-story-within-a-story in which boredom leads Henry to read “A Report on an Interview with Imhrat Khan, The Man Who Could See Without His Eyes” by Dr. We also find out that Henry is easily bored and it is this aspect of Henry Sugar’s personality that is the engine driving the story. The opening line of the story are direct and unambiguous in telling us about Henry: he’s forty-one, single, rich, tall, has capped teeth, is a natty dresser, drives a Ferrari, lives in London in the summer but flees to warmer climes come winter and, like all wealthy men, is not satisfied with what he’s got. Henry Sugar, John Cartwright, Imhrat Khan We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will find the complex and flawed characters immensely relatable. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain on a dangerous mission and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.Īs Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world-and of each other. Now, she believes herself untouchable-until her mother vanishes without a trace, along with countless other women in their city. When the Undying Empire conquered her kingdom, she embraced violence to keep her family alive. ![]() If she fails, she will be executed.unless the trials kill her first.Ī thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. ![]() The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. ![]() When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. Furyborn (Empirium, #1) by Claire Legrandįollows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world.or doom it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has five children whom she loves deeply, but her husband is extremely violent towards her. Minny works as a maid, but frequently find herself dismissed from her cleaning jobs due to her sarcastic comments. Aibileen takes primary responsibility for recruiting other maids to work on the project in order to protect her friend Minny. It is this loss that motivates her to take part on Skeeter's project to document the lives of maids in Mississippi. She still mourns the loss of her son, Treelore, who died in an industrial accident. She dotes on Mae Mobley, their two-year-old daughter. Aibileen ClarkĪibileen is a gracious, gentle woman who earns her living from taking care of the children of white families, most recently the Leefolt family. Skeeter cannot stand hypocrisy and lies, and will often ask difficult and uncomfortable questions. She was inspired to write about this topic because of her close relationship with her family's maid Constantine, who disappeared mysteriously shortly before Skeeter came back from college. ![]() Fixated on her idea of writing a book about the lives of colored maids in Mississippi, she teams up with Aibileen and Minny. Unique among young women in her social circle, she is far more interested in writing than in pursuing marriage and family life. The daughter of a wealthy white Southern family, Skeeter is bit of a misfit. Buy Study Guide Eugenia ("Skeeter") Phelan ![]() |