Nov 1, 2020 | Books, Entertainment
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Barbara Borst Comrades hitting stores everywhere on September 30th, 2020.
Sandile Malindi refuses to join student strikes that convulse apartheid South Africa. A proud son of Soweto merchants, he is determined to continue his education. Peter Seibert, a white American new to Johannesburg, inadvertently offends Sandile when they meet at their private high school but earns his trust on the sports field. Kagiso Mafolo, a Soweto student organizer, visits her aunt, a maid at the Seiberts’ home. She charms Peter but clashes with Sandile over his absence from the freedom struggle. Working through conflicts over race, wealth and ideology, the three build friendships, discover love, confront danger and help each other survive in tumultuous times.
Barbara Borst teaches at the New York University in the Journalism Institute and in the master’s program at the Center for Global Affairs, where she leads study groups to Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Previously, she was an editor on the international desk at The Associated Press and frequently reported from the United Nations. While based abroad for a dozen years in Nairobi, Johannesburg, Paris and Toronto, she wrote for Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Los Angeles Times, Inter Press Service news agency, and others. Her recent work appears on her website, CivicIdea.com, as well as on The Huffington Post.
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Nov 1, 2020 | Books, Education
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Janet Mason The Unicorn, the Mystery hitting stores everywhere on October 7th, 2020.
“In The Unicorn, The Mystery, we meet a unicorn who tells us the story of the seven tapestries, called “The Hunt of the Unicorn” from the 1500s on display in “the unicorn room” in The Cloister in Manhattan, now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tapestries tell the story of what is still called an “unsolved mystery.” The story is set in an abbey in France not far from the barn in the countryside where the tapestries were discovered. Pursued by a band of hunters, the unicorn is led along by observing birds, smelling and eating the abbey flowers and fruits (including imbibing in fermented pomegranates), pursuing chaste maidens (there is one in the tapestry) and at times speaks to other animals such as the majestic stag. Experience a magical, medieval world through the eyes of a unicorn and the heretical young monk who is enthralled by her in The Unicorn, The Mystery by Janet Mason. Hunters are out to capture and perhaps kill the unicorn. The monk’s devotion may turn out to be the unicorn’s rescue or downfall. Like a beautiful tapestry, the novel weaves together theological debate and unforgettable characters, including queer nuns and their secret cat companion. Mason blends myth and history to conjure up a spellbinding vision.” – Kittredge Cherry, Publisher, Qspirit.net, Author of “Jesus in Love: A Novel”
Janet Mason, an award-winning creative writer, is the author of THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders (Adelaide Books; 2018). Her book Tea Leaves, a memoir of mothers and daughters (Bella Books; 2012) was chosen by the American Library Association for its 2013 Over the Rainbow List. Tea Leaves also received a Goldie Award. Mason is also a teacher, a Unitarian Universalist lay minister, and blogger.
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Nov 1, 2020 | Books, Entertainment
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Michael K. Mancha Citizen Warrior: The Spirit World Battle for the Soul of Your City hitting stores everywhere now.
Within the pages of Citizen Warrior, you’ll discover an invisible realm of spirit, vastly superior to the physical, where a life or death battle is being waged for you, your city, and nation. Michael’s writing highlights Savannah, Georgia, known as “The Most Haunted City in America” and “A beautiful woman with a dirty face”. Her intricate and intriguing history reveals a city subject to the licentious appetites of her leaders and the workings of a malevolent spirit enemy bent on her demise. Countering that has been the Divine presence, seeking to enlist the cooperation of ordinary citizens so they might walk a pathway of extraordinary purpose. Michael reveals how to identify the predetermined plan for your city, the hindrances that have robbed her of promise, and the decisive part you play in the prospering of the society. Most importantly, you’ll be handed seven keys that will unlock your potential to rise from the ranks of the victimized, to a place of empowerment and destiny as a Citizen Warrior!
Michael Mancha was born and raised in California. He has spent the past fifteen years as a resident of the Deep South, writing and working as an independent private investigator. He is the author of the novel, Three Dog Fright: The Savannah Ghost Chronicles. As a former missionary, Michael led relief teams to various parts of the world, including the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Asia. More recently, Michael co-founded 13th Colony Patriots, a political action group based in Savannah, Georgia, that has drawn national attention while engaged in timely protests in Washington, D.C. It is from this palette of first-hand experience Citizen Warrior has been conceived.
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Oct 28, 2020 | Books, Entertainment
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by P. David Hornik And Both Shall Row hitting stores everywhere now.
Kenny and Colleen meet on a mountain lake as teenagers. They awaken intense energies in each other—both positive and negative—until the mix explodes, leaving both of them in a sorry state. But they find that what’s between them—whatever it is—stays with them as the years progress, and that the memory of those days at the lake doesn’t fade but keeps making demands on their understanding. This is a story, spanning 25 years and two continents, of life, love, time, change, and the irresistible power of an unforgettable, formative experience in the past.
David Hornik was born to Austrian Jewish refugees in New York City in 1954, and grew up near Schenectady, NY. He received an MA in English from Binghamton University in 1978. He then worked as an editor and writer, and moved to Israel with his family in 1984. In Israel, David has worked as an editor and translator (from Hebrew to English). He has also published hundreds of articles (mostly about Israel) in popular outlets. David’s collection Choosing Life in Israel was published in 2013, and his novels You Don’t Know What Love Is in 2018, and Beside the Still Waters in 2019. He lives in Beersheva, while his three grown children live in Tel Aviv.
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Oct 28, 2020 | Books, Entertainment
ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to offer the latest work by Bettina Rotenberg The Face I Never Saw hitting stores everywhere on September 29th, 2020.
Bettina Rotenberg’s stunning rhapsody pieces together fragments of a stifled language. It assembles ambiguous memories of a lost love, twisted stories of an ancient home, a sanctuary. The task is one of reunion. As the work proceeds, it ressembles a pilgrimge, or a quest for asylum, or a ritual of patient devotion. The path is hard: deceitful signs abound, as well as false redeemers and terrible asylums. Sometimes delusions can hardly be distinguished from a prophet’s or a poet’s visions. All the while, however, a transfigured world is coming together–and the capacity to begin perceiving it, too, as it pieces itself together, over and over, in myriad mobile configurations. Among Bettina Rotenberg’s many voices–inspired, sardonic, sorrowful–there is a beautifully forthright one, greeting the future. – By Ann Smock
Bettina Rotenberg grew up in Toronto, attended Radcliffe College, studied painting for three years, and received her PhD in Comparative Literature from University of California, Berkeley. She taught art, literature, and creative writing at colleges in the Bay Area, and between 1995 and 2015 was the founding Director of VALA (Visual Arts/Language Arts). She sent visual and performing artists into public schools in the East Bay to work with poets to teach low income minority children poetry in conjunction with the arts. She wrote a book about her work, I Dare to Stop the Wind, which was published in 2010.
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