The Dawning will present you with the evocative, richly detailed, all too human saga, of our earliest ancestors.įar from just a burial site, Sunghir was a substantial village. The Dawning will transport you 33,000 years into our deep past. What happened when our two ancestral peoples came face to face on the ice bound plains of prehistory?įollow the gripping tale of two young lovers and the sweeping narrative of ancient cultures in conflict set against the fabulous painted caves of Southwestern France. Five thousand years later, the Neanderthals had disappeared.

Dark-skinned Cro-Magnons, our direct ancestors, appeared forty-five thousand years ago. The Neanderthals, a pale skinned people occupied Ice Age Europe for three hundred thousand years. The Dawning tells an age-old-all too familiar-story of deadly struggle and a heart-rending tale of young love-its aspirations, pain, disappointments and triumph. They encounter a clan of Neanderthal hunters and they and their Ice Age world are torn apart. The clear pattern of discrimination revealed by the data subsequently helps this network of faith-based organizations negotiate a major reinvestment agreement with local lenders.Ejil and Lada, son and daughter of a Cro-Magnon tribe-on the verge of adulthood-have begun to explore their maturing feelings. This semi-autobiographical novel describes how a small group of community activists, working through their churches, compelled the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to require banks to disclose where they were making loans. during the last quarter of the 20th century.

He then quickly exposes them to an epic battle over the future of American cities being waged in low-income communities throughout the U.S. In the first few pages of Redlined: A Novel of Boston, Wise seizes the attention of readers eager to know who caused Sandy Morgan’s death. Wise tells a powerful story of the urban development wars that took place at a time when powerful developers, financiers, politicians, and nonprofit leaders promoting upscale place-making in pursuit of “trickle-down benefits” were pitted against poor and working-class residents struggling to preserve their neighborhoods. With a deep understanding that’s largely based upon his experience working as a community organizer in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, Richard W. Within moments, the arsonists’ timer triggers a violent blast that hurls her body against a brick wall, killing her instantly.

Curious as to what took place inside the building, community organizer Sandy Morgan enters one of its open apartments. Minutes later they return to the vehicle and speed off into the night. Shortly after 2 a.m., a car stops and its passengers enter the structure. An organizer, eager to discover who is responsible for the destruction of her Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, stakes out a vacant building that arsonists are expected to hit.

Redlined by Richard W. Wise