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Bay Area Book Festival Begins With A Star-Studded Roster Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail Bay City News Foundation The seventh annual Bay Area Book Festival, going all virtual for the second year in a row, launched its nine-day run on Saturday and is such a high-wattage affair, attendees may want to consider donning sunglasses to tune in. The literary luminaries who will be featured include Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, 2020 National Book Award winner Charles Yu, renowned journ...

Five books by women to add to your reading list this International Womens Day Posted SatSaturday 6 MarMarch 2021 at 9:00pm Looking for a page turner? RN has compiled a list of books from female authors for International Womens Day. ( Print text only After a new book to get wrapped up in? For International Womens Day, weve made a list of books to surprise, inspire and entertain written by five of the women whove recently joined us on RN Drives The Drawing Room. From the backrooms of an internat...

4:00 “The Shadow King” begins and ends in a train station in the Ethiopian city of Addis Ababa in 1974. In the streets, the uprising that would lead to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie brews. In the station, an Ethiopian woman named Hirut waits for a Jewish-Italian photographer named Ettore. They plan to meet so she can give him back a box of photographs that document Italy’s invasion and occupation of Ethiopia under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in 1935. Being from Addis ...

The East African Friday December 18 2020 Summary An emblem of comfort, power, and independence, Hirut’s rifle is a symbol of her future as an extraordinary soldier. As the battle between Italy and Ethiopia intensifies, Hirut demonstrates integrity, resilience, and determination in the face of brutal treatment and imprisonment, ascending to her destiny as a strong and graceful warrior in the powerful novel. Advertisement A new novel by the Ethiopian author Maaza Mengiste titled The Shadow Kin...