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Armadale collins5/11/2023 What makes it to my mind more gothic is its bold splash of the supernatural: its reliance on dreams, coincidences and fate to suggest another way of reading the world, its exploration of identity and its central use of the motif of the double, an old favourite of gothic writers including E.T.A. It contains everything you would wish to find in such a book: intrigue, murder, deception, fraud, a secret diary and a wicked lady whom you rather hope will triumph in her criminal ways though you fear she won’t. After a rush of children’s books and detective novels about which I felt I had nothing interesting to write, I have been wallowing in the Victorian delights of Armadale and I have Thoughts.įirst serialised in 1864–66, Armadale is a wonderful chunk of nineteenth-century fiction which is usually classed, alongside Lady Audley’s Secret et al., as sensationalist, but in my opinion is more of a gothic novel. Hello again! I’m sorry, I haven’t felt like writing here for weeks – for no particular reason, we are all fine, the cats are fine, the hens are fine though on strike (and when they do bother to lay an egg, as often as not they just let it fall out wherever they happen to be and then stand on it). (John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Thoughts of the Past, oil on canvas, first exhibited 1859 Tate Britain found here)
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Fantasy Sports No. 1 by Sam Bosma5/11/2023 "As a YA release with a standout female protagonist, it’ll hit off with readers off all ages." "Sam Bosma delivers an irrepressibly fun, knowing, and breezy tale of sporting playoffs, magical mages, and surprisingly cute skeletons in Fantasy Sports." The only drawback to this winning combo of wizarding and athletics is that it is over too soon!" "Bosma’s colorfully jumbled, slanty panels look like the inspired offspring of Spirited Away and Space Jam, capturing magical intrigue, fast-paced basketball action, and the best kind of on-the-court trash talk in one go. "A great choice where graphic novels are popular, especially quirky ones that blur the lines between genres." "Bosma successfully blends fantasy, myth, and sports to kick off this new modern comic(al) series." “One of the most charming and enjoyable comics around…There’s something immensely refreshing about seeing someone as attentive to action as Bosma channel incredible choreography and framing normally seen on a battlefield or in a duel to a basketball or volleyball court." The Bulletin of The Center For Children’s Books, Starred Review "A sequel can’t come quickly enough, and fans across genres (fantasy, sports buffs, comics fans, and adventure readers) will likely all be eagerly waiting for it." Winner of the 2016 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic Optioned by Disney TV and being developed for animation by LeBron James’ production studio SpringHill Company!
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Headstone by Ken Bruen5/11/2023 Jack’s usual allies, Ridge and Stewart, are also in the line of terror. Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this organization seems like it will act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack’s life. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland. Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages.
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This is a collection full of surprises that will make you savour the wonderful, elusive, untranslatable words that make up a language. The words and definitions range from the lovely, such as goya, the Urdu word to describe the transporting suspension of belief that can occur in good storytelling, to the funny, like the Malay word pisanzapra, which translates as 'the time needed to eat a banana'. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation before a trip? Lost in Translation, a New York Times bestseller, brings the nuanced beauty of language to life with over 50 beautiful ink illustrations.
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Katy evans remy pdf5/10/2023 As though there's a string between us, one end in him, and the other end in me.' 'There is something about telling someone a secret that binds and locks you together. "I think that you're quiet enough that you can hear me." 'You never know what really lies under a look and you can't apply reason to every feeling. Usually they don't talk too much, but they open up in each other's presence. And the story begin! They have chemistry, and they can understand each other. It's easy to identify with this character. Honestly I like Reese's character more than Brooke's. So every day she is going to the gym, and working out. Besides it, she wants to loose weight, and be fit. I like her character, because she isn't perfect, she has a problem, and she fights every day against it. She is looking after Racer, and wants to change her life. Reese is Brooke's cousin, and spend the summer with the Tate Family travelling the country.
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George and Martha by James Marshall5/10/2023 "The spare text, a treat for beginning readers or for sharing with pre-readers, perfectly matches the deceptively simple illustrations, which glow with humor and affection. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play of Level Two books are proven to help kids take their next steps toward reading success. George and Martha is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help. Includes "Spilt Pea Soup" and "The Flying Machine," plus games and activities to strengthen reading skills and comprehension. In each of the short stories in this book, George and Martha model healthy ways to navigate the sometimes complicated waters of friendship. The stories are as diminutive as their principals are gross, and there's nothing heavy about the moral verities tucked in among the nonsense. With original art and text from Marshall's classic storybooks and themes that will resonate with beginning readers, these deeply humorous, deeply honest stories are sure to inspire a love of books and reading. GEORGE AND MARTHA by James Marshall RELEASE DATE: Ma'Five stories about two great friends' a pair of hippos named George and Martha. Iconic best hippo friends George and Martha discover that, among other things, pouring split pea soup into your loafers to spare the chef's feelings is not the best-laid plan in this Level Two I Can Read.
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Unearthly book 25/10/2023 (For the record, usually in life it’s not a good sign when you’re hearing voices, but as a writer that’s how it usually first comes to me, a voice that wants to tell a story. The seed that became Unearthly was always Clara-I clearly started to hear the voice of this character, this girl who knew that it was her destiny to save a boy who she kept seeing in visions. Why did I choose to write about angels? This is a question I get a lot these days, and I always feel a little funny answering it, because the truth is, there was never a clear, definitive moment where I said to myself, “you know what? I’m going to write about angels!” It just sort of came about organically. What was it about angels that grabbed you as opposed to witches, warlocks, vamps etc?īrace yourself: I have a long answer for this one: Debuting Author Cynthia Hand wants to get the word out about about her first book Unearthly, along with give us a little insight in to her life.
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Therein should reside society’s larger focus. There is still much to be done, they argue. Women also routinely confront harassment and discrimination in the workplace, and elsewhere. The pay gap has narrowed, they acknowledge. But women still earn less than men, and hold fewer executive positions. Yes, women are doing better professionally than they were in the past. They could use a hand, some say, lest these rates worsen. Meanwhile, men face higher levels of substance abuse, more overdoses, higher incarceration rates, lower life expectancies, and suicide levels that are nearly four times as high as women. Women, by contrast, are not only enrolling – and graduating – from university in higher numbers – but once they graduate, according to a 2018 McKinsey Report, they at times report negotiating for raises more than men. manufacturing jobs, largely brought on increased international competition, which became especially pronounced after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Economists often point to a steady erosion of U.S. That rate has fallen more than 10 percentage points over the past half-century. As women’s participation in the labor force climbs, men are dropping out in record numbers.
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Books similar to clan of the cave bear5/10/2023 Still, they are brutish and sexually violent, with a limited vocabulary and even more limited emotional range.ĭecades later, the scientific view of Neanderthals has evolved - there’s evidence that they wore decorative feathers, buried their dead and were skilled leatherworkers - and so has their portrayal in fiction. Auel’s 1980 novel, “The Clan of the Cave Bear,” a best-selling prehistoric drama about an orphaned Cro-Magnon girl who is taken in by a Neanderthal tribe. Neanderthal characters are slightly more appealing in Jean M. Wells wrote about Neanderthals in his short story “The Grisly Folk.” “Hairy or grisly, with a big face like a mask, great brow ridges and no forehead, clutching an enormous flint, and running like a baboon with his head forward and not, like a man,” H. Fiction hasn’t always been kind to Neanderthals.
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The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan5/10/2023 He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York-the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. |