{"id":72552,"date":"2019-02-27T21:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T03:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=72552"},"modified":"2019-02-27T21:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T03:49:30","slug":"ayesha-harruna-attah-and-adam-makos-will-read-on-thacker-mountain-radio-thursday-2-28-at-the-lyric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ayesha-harruna-attah-and-adam-makos-will-read-on-thacker-mountain-radio-thursday-2-28-at-the-lyric\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayesha Harruna Attah and Adam Makos Will Read on Thacker Mountain Radio Thursday, 2\/28 at The Lyric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom in precolonial Ghana, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that transforms her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father’s court. These two women’s lives converge as infighting among Wurche’s people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Through the experiences of Aminah and Wurche, The Hundred Wells of Salaga<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people.
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Ayesha Harruna Attah<\/strong>\u00a0grew up in Accra, Ghana<\/strong> and was educated at Mount Holyoke College<\/strong>, Columbia University<\/strong>, and New York University<\/strong>. Her writing has appeared in the\u00a0New York Times Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0Asymptote Magazine<\/em>, and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers’ Anthology. Attah is an Instituto Sacatar Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for nonfiction. She lives in Senegal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> bestselling author comes Spearhead<\/em>, the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner\u2019s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel\u2014and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner\u2019s seat of his Sherman tank, his crewmates discover that the gentle giant from Pennsylvania has a hidden talent: He\u2019s a natural-born shooter.

At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division\u2014\u201cSpearhead\u201d\u2014thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next. Soon a pattern emerged:\u00a0The lead tank always gets hit.<\/em>

After Clarence sees his friends cut down breaching the West Wall and holding the line in the Battle of the Bulge, he and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge their fallen brothers: the Pershing, a state-of-the-art \u201csuper tank,\u201d one of twenty in the European theater.

But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility: Now\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0will spearhead every attack. That\u2019s how Clarence, the corporal from coal country, finds himself leading the U.S. Army into its largest urban battle of the European war, the fight for Cologne, the \u201cFortress City\u201d of Germany.

Battling through the ruins, Clarence will engage the fearsome Panther in a duel immortalized by an army cameraman. And he will square off with Gustav Schaefer, a teenager behind the trigger in a Panzer IV tank, whose crew has been sent on a suicide mission to stop the Americans.

As Clarence and Gustav trade fire down a long boulevard, they are taken by surprise by a tragic mistake of war. What happens next will haunt Clarence to the modern day, drawing him back to Cologne to do the unthinkable: to face his enemy, one last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author<\/strong>
Hailed as \u201ca masterful storyteller\u201d by the Associated Press,\u00a0Adam Makos<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>bestseller\u00a0A Higher\u00a0Call<\/em>\u00a0and the critically acclaimed\u00a0Devotion<\/em>. Inspired by his grandfathers\u2019 service, Makos chronicles the stories of American veterans in his trademark fusion of intense human drama and fast-paced military action,\u00a0securing his place \u201cin the top ranks of military writers,\u201d according to the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0In the course of his research, Makos has flown a World War II bomber, accompanied a Special Forces raid in Iraq, and journeyed into North Korea in search of an MIA American airman. He lives in Denver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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