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  2. A Dark-Adapted Eye - Wikipedia

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    A dark-adapted eye is one that has adjusted to darkness so that it is able to discern objects. [6] In the context of the novel, the title refers to Faith's ability, after many years, to examine and analyse her family's history and its tragedy.

  3. Mary P. Burrill - Wikipedia

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    Slowe and Burrill were together for twenty-five years, and their close friends, who were mostly other black female educators, treated them as a couple. Slowe was appointed in 1922 as Dean of Women at Howard University, a historically black college; she was the first black dean of women there or at any American university. She and Burrill ...

  4. An Image of Africa - Wikipedia

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    "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in February 1975. The essay was included in his 1988 collection, Hopes and Impediments.

  5. The Gathering (Armstrong novel) - Wikipedia

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    Salmon Creek was built by St. Cloud Corporation, the owners of the town and surrounding park. It was built for their employees. Maya, the main character, is the adopted daughter of the park ranger. The events actually start a year before with the death of Maya's friend, Serena. She and Maya were swimming in a lake.

  6. Darkness (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    " 'Transport Me ... into the Hearts of Men' : Bharati Mukherjee's Darkness". Carol Sicherman. Kunapipi, 14 (3), 1992. Book review by Claire Fullerton (author). Same review in the New York Journal of Books here

  7. Paingod and Other Delusions - Wikipedia

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    Paingod and Other Delusions is a collection of short stories by American writer Harlan Ellison.It was originally published in paperback in 1965 by Pyramid Books.Pyramid reissued the collection four times over the next fifteen years, with a new introduction added for a uniform edition of Ellison books in 1975.

  8. Book excerpt: "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021" by Angela Merkel - AOL

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    Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. Prologue. This book tells a story that will not happen again, because the state I lived in for thirty-five years ceased to exist in 1990. If it ...

  9. Alone Against Tomorrow - Wikipedia

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    The book was dedicated to, among others, four student protesters who were killed in the Kent State shootings of 1970. This dedication prompted a response from a reader calling the students "hooligans" who were "Communist-led radical revolutionaries and anarchists, and deserved to be shot". [ 1 ]