Green Mile by Stephen King In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is
sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the
fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough,
but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift
for healing.
This extremely useful book concentrates more on Bell's work as an educator and inventor than on his personal life. Two-to-three page inserts explain the various scientific principles discussed in the main text. For example, Bell was intensely involved in teaching the deaf. As this part of his life is discussed, an insert explains sound, speech, and hearing, and how all three are intertwined. Glimpses of the man behind the scientist are given in a lively, yet informative fashion. Black-and-white photos and reproductions enhance the presentation and bring the personal details to life.
Stupid White Men
Stupid White Men ...and Other Excuses For the State of the Nation! is a book by
Michael Moore published in
2001. Although the publishers were convinced it would be rejected by the American reading public after the
September 11, 2001 attacks, it spent 50 consecutive weeks on the
New York Times bestseller list (eight weeks at #1) for hardcover nonfiction and is in its 43rd printing. It is generally known by its short title,
Stupid White Men.
The book is highly critical of recent
U.S. government policies in general, and the policies of the
Bush administration in particular. Moore's
A Prayer to Afflict the Comfortable was originally published in this book.
"The Woman in White"
by Wilkie Collins
[A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
