![]() For more information, visit Jackson's website. Presale for the tour begins Tuesday, Feb. Her last win was Best Dance Recording for "All For You" at the 44th GRAMMY Awards. I want to show you my strength as well as give you strength." I’m a rock, I have ruff edges but I keep moving forward. ![]() I see myself as a Black Diamond in its purest form. "I see that as the hardest to hurt or destroy. "Black Diamonds are the toughest of all the diamonds, the hardest to cut," she wrote. ![]() ![]() She gave insight and why she named her album and tour after the stone in an Instagram post. In a tweet, Jackson acknowledged that her fans have been asking for new music and said the new album and tour are a part of a "new era" she is excited to share with them. The "All For You" singer hasn't released a new album since 2015's Unbreakable. The tour will close on Aug. 23 in Tacoma, Wash. The extensive Black Diamond tour will launch in Miami on June 24 and will hit cities including Atlanta, Nashville, Washington, Toronto, Houston, Los Angeles and Vancouver. ![]() Janet Jackson has announced a new album titled Black Diamond, due out later this year. The pop icon is also plotting a tour titled the 2020 Black Diamond World Tour, which will feature music from the forthcoming album as well as music from her 1989 album, Rhythm Nation 1814, which turns 31 this year. ![]()
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A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement. Summary: "This gorgeously rendered graphic-novel version provides a new perspective for old fans but also acts as an immersive introduction for youngsters as well as any adult who somehow missed out on the iconic story set in Maycomb, Alabama."-USA Today A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee's beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic, voted America's best-loved novel in PBS's Great American Read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Magdaleine comes to embrace this world, taking up a managing role, as well as raising five children. Sophie’s mother Magdaleine, married into a glass-blowing family in 1747, a world her own father warned her was a closed world, a world totally different to the one she had grown up in. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty, but he can, with that same breath, shatter and destroy it.” “Perhaps we shall not see each other again, I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. The novel is narrated by Sophie Duval – who now an elderly woman tells the story of the family history to her long-lost nephew, taking him back to the world of the glassblowers and the turbulent, frightening years of The French Revolution. Set in eighteenth-century France, this is a novel of a family, their struggles, and tragedies during an extraordinary period in the country’s history. ![]() Two other readers (at least) have written about this novel this week, and so I don’t feel it necessary to go into too much detail. ![]() ![]() My third and final read for this year’s #DDMreadingweek was The Glassblowers – an incredibly vivid historical novel based on the author’s own family history. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the largest first print in the history of publisher Random House worldwide and the massive launch has been hailed as the biggest literary event since JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows two years ago.īut Pullman, who has himself sold about 15,000,000 books, says that although Brown’s work has captured the popular imagination, it has little literary merit. The thriller, which will again feature Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, hit the shelves yesterday with a global English language first print run of 6,500,000 copies. ![]() ![]() HE may be the publishing phenomenon of the decade whose religious conspiracy theories have captivated the world, but one of the country’s most high-profile novelists has called Dan Brown’s writing “flat, stunted and ugly”.Īuthor Philip Pullman made the comments as Brown’s much-anticipated follow-up to the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, yesterday sparked a buying frenzy at book shops around the UK. ![]() |