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Los Angeles Noir , which is also edited by Denise Hamilton, is one of the best-selling in the Noir Series; with sales of roughly 20,000 copies to date it is currently in its 8th printing. Los Angeles Noir featured «The Golden Gopher» by Susan Straight, which won an Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Hamilton, has also sold very well and is currently in a second printing with approximately 7,000 copies sold. Denise Hamilton is the author of the nationally best-selling Eve Diamond series, published by Simon & Schuster. Hamilton is very well-connected within the Southern California book world, and does numerous events at libraries, bookstores, etc. Speculative Los Angeles will come out just before the 2021 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and the festival will feature Hamilton & select contributors on a program focused on this new anthology. Similar to the city-based Akashic Noir Series, each story in Speculative Los Angeles is set in a distinct neighborhood filled with local color, landmarks, and flavor. Speculative Los Angeles features brand-new stories by: Aimee Bender, Lisa Morton, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. Winters, Denise Hamilton, Lynell George, Stephen Blackmoore, Francesca Lia Block, Charles Yu, Duane Swierczynski, Luis J. Rodriguez, A.G. Lombardo, Kathleen Kaufman, and S. Qiouyi Lu.
Here Lies a Father
Fifteen-year-old Ian Daly's moral universe is turned upside down when, at this father's funeral, he discovers that his father had two secret families. "Cassidy's debut is affecting…Like the best coming-of-age novels, Here Lies a Father grounds its big concerns in the exquisite particulars of one person’s life."– Literary Hub “Mckenzie Cassidy stuns with his beautiful debut novel, Here Lies a Father . Told as a classic coming-of-age story, Cassidy’s narrator, fifteen-year-old Ian Daly, is a nuanced combination of the naivete of Huckleberry Finn and the shrewdness of Holden Caufield."– Southern Review of Books ”Cassidy’s engrossing debut…convincingly depicts the ways his sensitive, turbulent protagonist navigates the murky period between adolescence and adulthood. Cassidy’s distinctive coming-of-age story will move readers.”– Publishers Weekly "Ian is a worthy literary cousin of Holden Caulfield, another kid with little tolerance for fakes and phonies and too much hard-won skepticism for his age. The grown-ups have let Ian down; now he must create himself."– Kirkus Reviews "If you're looking for a good, quicker read that will get you thinking about family life, mental health and how the environment someone grew up in can affect how they are as a person, I'd definitely recommend Here Lies A Father ."– Girls at the Rock Show " Here Lies a Father is a fantastic, page-turning read, chock full of surprises and deeply manifesting home truths and their layered meanings, and so clearly points to the fact that even after just the one book, Mckenzie Cassidy has hit a literary home run."– Exclusive Magazine "Here Lies A Father is a coming of age story ripe with secrets and lies. Mckenzie Cassidy captures all the wonder and confusion of one teen’s rites of passage as he grapples with the truth about his parents and the mystery of the past."–Stewart O'Nan, author of Snow Angels"Keenly observed and beautifully written, Mckenzie Cassidy's Here Lies a Father follows a blue-collar Holden Caulfield through a weekend odyssey of family secrets, lies, and revelations. It's a novel for anyone who has ever wondered about their parents' pasts–I couldn't put it down."–Sara Pritchard, author of Help Wanted: Female "A marvelous read, full of surprises, home truths, and excellent prose. Mckenzie Cassidy has joined the illustrious ranks of Ivan Turgenev and his classic Fathers and Sons ."–John Bowers, author of The Colony " Here Lies A Father is a raw balance of beauty and sadness, both a compelling page-turner and a call to linger over each of Cassidy's exquisitely crafted sentences."–Libby Cudmore, author of The Big Rewind When Ian Daly and his sister Catherine arrive for their wayward father’s funeral in his small and desolate upstate New York hometown, a secret that was kept from them their entire lives emerges: their father Thomas abandoned two other families, leaving behind two furious wives and several children who never knew their father. Ian wants to know more of the truth, but his sister and mother want to preserve the carefully constructed myth they’ve created around who Thomas really was.In the cold, lonely winter landscape of small-town New York, fifteen-year-old Ian sets out alone to learn the truth about his father’s past and the families he left behind. Here Lies a Father examines the long-term effects shameful secrets have on a family, and how difficult it is for a young man to reconstruct his own sense of right and wrong, when every value and moral principle he was ever taught was based on a lie.
Creatures of Passage
With echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved , Yejidé's novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it. "Yejidé’s writing captures both real news and spiritual truths with the deftness and capacious imagination of her writing foremothers: Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and N.K. Jemisin… Creatures of Passage is that rare novel that dispenses ancestral wisdom and literary virtuosity in equal measure."– Washington Post " Creatures of Passage resists comparison. It's reminiscent of Beloved as well as the Odyssey , but perhaps its most apt progenitor is the genre of epic poems performed by the djelis of West Africa…All these otherwise clashing elements become, in this cast, a cohesive whole, telling us that this, too, is America."– New York Times Book Review "In its luminous prose, and its nods to mysticism and myth, the novel brings to mind the best of Toni Morrison. It’s that good."– Washington Post , One of the Best Books about Washington, DC, recommended by George Pelecanos"Yejidé's surreal new novel has no shortage of otherworldly surprises, but it's her this-worldly protagonist who steals the show…Informed by a richly woven mythology and propelled by themes of regret and revenge, Creatures of Passage has earned some apt comparisons to Toni Morrison's Beloved ."– Philadelphia Inquirer , One of the Best Books of Winter 2021"Written over the course of 17 years, Morowa Yejidé‘s new book, Creatures of Passage , is set in Anacostia in 1977 and follows twins–one living, one dead–who share names with the Egyptian gods Nephthys and Osiris. But that barely hints at the richness and complexity of the book’s many strands."– Washingtonian "Hauntingly magical, this sophomore novel by Morowa Yejidé centers a young woman dealing with the loss of her brother, her young great-nephew who mysteriously shows up at her door and Washington, DC, the city that provides an otherworldly backdrop to this imaginative thriller."– Ms. Magazine , A Most Anticipated Book of 2021“Morowa Yejidé's Creatures of Passage gives readers a chance to experience grief and intergenerational trauma in a unique way."– The Root "This enthralling, otherworldly story follows Nepthys Kinwell, a taxi driver in Washington, D.C., as she grapples with grief."– Woman's World "Comparisons to Toni Morrison's masterpiece Beloved always perk up our ears, but in the case of Morowa Yejidé’s Creatures of Passage the hype is warranted…History-haunted in the best sense, readers shouldn’t miss this mythic thriller."– Chicago Review of Books Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River.Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash–reeling from having witnessed an act of molestation at his school, but still questioning what and who he saw–has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the «River Man.»When Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys's door bearing a cryptic note about his unusual conversations with the River Man, Nephthys must face what frightens her most.Morowa Yejidé's deeply captivating novel shows us an unseen Washington filled with otherworldly landscapes, flawed super-humans, and reluctant ghosts, and brings together a community intent on saving one young boy in order to reclaim itself.
Cane Warriors
Alex Wheatle is an award-winning, best-selling author in the UK, published by the Hachette/Little, Brown imprint, Atom. Akashic’s edition will come out simultaneously with the Hachette UK edition. Wheatle regularly contributes to the Guardian, the Independent, and other high profile UK publications. Akashic is well-connected to Jamaican/Caribbean community in the US.
Accra Noir
Danquah is best-known for her memoir, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression (Norton), which received glowing praise from the Washington Post , etc. Danquah is a highly sought-after speaker and has delivered keynote speeches and addresses at dozens of conferences and events, including at: the Carter Center, Atlanta GA; Barnard College, New York, NY; University of Ghana, Legon; University of California, Los Angeles; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, etc. Danquah has taught at Otis College of Arts and Sciences, Antioch College, the NYU in Ghana program, and at the University of Ghana. Additionally, she taught creative writing for the city of Manhattan Beach, California as a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence, and poetry to grades K-12 in the Los Angeles Unified School District as a California Poet-in-the-Schools. Danquah has been published in many newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Africa Report, etc. Danquah splits her time between Southern California and Ghana. Accra Noir includes brand-new stories by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Kwame Dawes, Adjoa Twum, Kofi Blankson Ocansey, Billie McTernan, Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo, Patrick Smith, Anne Sackey, Gbontwi Anyetei, Nana-Ama Danquah, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh, and Anna Bossman.
Early Detection and Intervention in Audiology
A textbook with case studies for audiologists and speech pathologists to make recommendations for early detection and intervention of hearing impairments in the South African context Early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) is the gold standard for any practicing audiologist, and for families of infants and children with hearing impairment. EHDI programs aim to identify, diagnose and provide intervention to children with hearing impairment from as early as six months old (as well as those at risk for hearing impairment) to ensure they develop and achieve to their potential. Yet EHDI remains a significant challenge for Africa, and various initiatives are in place to address this gap in transferring policy into practice within the southern African context. The diversity of factors in the southern African context presents unique challenges to teaching and research in this field, which has prompted this book project. The South African government’s heightened focus on increasing access to health care which includes ongoing Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs, make this an opportune time for establishing and documenting evidence-based research for current undergraduate and postgraduate students. Early Detection and Intervention in Audiology: An African Perspective aims to address this opportunity. Grounded in an African context with detailed case studies, this book provides rich content that pays careful attention to contextual relevance and contextual responsiveness to both identification and intervention in hearing impairment. With diverse contributions from experts in local and international contexts, but always with an African perspective, this is textbook will be an invaluable resource for students, researchers and practitioners.
Decolonising the Human
Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting ‘the human’ in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions The ‘human’ emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle, and the degradation, marginalisation and immiseration of those excluded as the different and inferior Other, the less than human. Speaking from Africa, a key site where the category of the human has been used throughout European modernity to control, exclude and deny equality of being, the contributors use decoloniality as a potent theoretical and philosophical tool, gesturing towards a liberated, pluriversal world where human difference will be recognised as a gift, not used to police the boundaries of the human. Here is a transdisciplinary critical exploration of a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and decolonial studies.
The House on Henry Street
Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty-stricken streets of New York’s Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom where a young mother lay dying—abandoned by her doctor because she could not pay his fee. The misery in the room and the walk to reach it inspired Wald to establish Henry Street Settlement, which would become one of the most influential social welfare organizations in American history.Through personal narratives, vivid images, and previously untold stories, Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier chronicles Henry Street’s sweeping history from 1893 to today. From the fights for public health and immigrants’ rights that fueled its founding, to advocating for relief during the Great Depression, all the way to tackling homelessness and AIDS in the 1980s, and into today—Henry Street has been a champion for social justice. Its powerful narrative illuminates larger stories about poverty, and who is “worthy” of help; immigration and migration, and who is welcomed; human rights, and whose voice is heard.For over 125 years, Henry Street Settlement has survived in a changing city and nation because of its ability to change with the times; because of the ingenuity of its guiding principle—that by bridging divides of class, culture, and race we could create a more equitable world; and because of the persistence of poverty, racism, and income disparity that it has pledged to confront. This makes the story of Henry Street as relevant today as it was more than a century ago. The House on Henry Street is not just about the challenges of overcoming hardship, but about the best possibilities of urban life and the hope and ambition it takes to achieve them.