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Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), poet, historian, the most powerful chieftain in Iceland and "Lawspeaker" of the Icelandic Parliament, The Althing is a significant figure in Icelandic history. The result is the Prose Edda, a unique glimpse of early Norse mythology. In 1220, Snorri Sturluson, a respected poet, parliamentarian, and a visitor to the royal court of Norway, decided to compile the myths and poetic conventions of Norse mythology before they vanished under the influence of Christianity and the verse forms of Europe. The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda and, historically, simply as Edda, was written in Old Norse in Iceland during the thirteenth century. Norse mythology has captured many imaginations, and inspired epics including Wagner's The Ring and J. The Edda is our richest treasure trove of Norse mythology-starting with a creation myth, passing through the struggle of the gods, giants, dwarves, and elves for survival and supremacy, and ending in the Ragnarok, a final all-engulfing battle wherein the world itself is destroyed. It's been nearly 30 years since William McFeely's epic biography of Frederick Douglass, and as historian David Blight notes with depressing accuracy in his magisterial new book Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom (beautifully produced by Simon & Schuster), “The problem of the twenty-first century is still some agonizingly enduring combination of the legacies bleeding from slavery and color lines.” Relevance is a wobbly leg on which to rest the weight of a biography, particularly a 900-page doorstop, and Blight, a Yale University professor, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and editor of annotated editions of Douglass's first two autobiographies, wisely here crafts a monument to the man his his own time rather than in the lens of our own. Their feeling for each other, as it is revealed, root in an even bigger conflict in the past. Even though she works for them, Karou fascinates him deeply and she eventually returns this fascination. 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Mysterious, blue-haired, seventeen-year-old Karou leads two lives at once: On the one side, she is a not-so-normal art student in Prague, where she lives in a beautifully decorated flat and meets her best friend Zuzana at fancy cafes. Malorie has already lost so much: her sister, a house full of people who meant everything, and any chance at an ordinary life. Someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope. But then comes what feels like impossible news. All Malorie can do is survive-and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence. You can check out the synopsis for the book below, but just beware that it contains spoilers for the first movie: Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. 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In the years that followed, she became a force in her own right - as the Bob Marley Foundation's spokesperson and a performer in her reggae group, the I-Three. The press repeatedly reported that Bob was unmarried to preserve his "image." But Rita kept her self-respect, and when Bob succumbed to cancer in 1981, she was at his side. There were his liaisons with other women-some of which produced children and were conducted under Rita's roof. But while Rita displayed blazing courage, joy, and an indisputable devotion to her husband, life with Bob was not easy. The rest is history: Bob Marley and the Wailers set Jamaica and the world on fire. At the ages of 21 and 19, Bob and Rita were married. Bob and Rita became close friends, fell in love, and soon, she and her girlfriends were singing backup for the Wailers. By the age of 18, Rita was an unwed mother, and it was then that she met Bob Marley at a recording studio in Trench Town. 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