Bøker av Octavia Butler

Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler's mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century. Butler's most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre-Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana's own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him. Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.

How absurd is the thought of living for God without Him? Imagine being so involved with day to day routine, missing encounter after encounter. Picture missing and being left out of God's next move in your life and the lives around you. What if in doing all of this the key to the next door of your breakthrough is never found. Think about experience after experience that you have found yourself struggling to handle and cope with on your own. I challenge you to screenshot the relationship you have with God provided by your connection through prayer. Could it be worked on? This book highlights the importance of relationship with God created by a steady prayer life in practice. It provides insight of what God desires on an individual base. It dives in on relationships with God and people. It discusses time management and priority in relations to prayer. It deals with prayer and consistency. Overall this book presents prayer and relationship in a simple perspective.