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The iron fey book 25/13/2023 “I know what you must think of me, but…” The voice broke off, took a ragged breath. “Please.” A hand gripped mine, real and solid, anchoring me to the present. And, through the layer of dreams and delirium, I heard a quiet sob. I drew back from Ash’s voice, deeper into the comforting blackness. If I was asleep, I didn’t have to face Ash and the cold contempt on his face when he looked at me. If I was asleep, I couldn’t feel anything. There was nothing but pain waiting for me in the real world. If you don’t come out of this soon, you’ll fade away and drift forever. “Wake up,” he murmured, his deep voice cutting through the layers of the darkness. I recognized it immediately, just as I realized it was a figment of my desperate imagination, because the real owner of that voice would never be here, talking to me. Their son, King Keirran of the Forgotten, is missing. “Meghan,” whispered a voice, heart wrenchingly familiar, drawing me out of the void. to always stand beside Queen Meghan of the Iron Fey.Now he faces even more incomprehensible odds.
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Barrayar5/13/2023 Her base camp is attacked by a Barrayarian, her crew escapes, but she is marooned with one of the most famous of Barrayar’s soldiers, the noted “Butcher of Komarr” - Aral Vorkosigan. Ruled by an emperor, Barrayar is primitive, patriarchal, and flat out backwards in the viewpoint of one of its most famous ladies - Countess Vorkosigan - Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Beta Colony system.Ĭaptain Cordelia Naismith is a competent and respected captain, in charge of a scientific exploration mission (the highest honor for a Betan commander), when she runs into Barrayar in Shards of Honor (1986). Smack dab in the middle of the speculative fiction universe, lies a parochial planetary empire, somewhere to the right of the Cyteen System in firm Space Opera territories, lies Barrayar.
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The Universe Next Door by James W. Sire5/12/2023 UND is a book about Western world views - you'll need to read missiological literature for an examination of Islamic, animist or other world views. I read the first edition of this book as an undergraduate, and it provided a valuable guide to the concept of worldview - that people arrive at different conclusions about the world because they have different basic assumptions. If you must read this one, stop just before the end-trust me, you’ll feel a lot better about it. But simply dismissing billions of people as not living a good life is both insulting and deflating. That is not to say that Christian theism isn’t a worthy worldview for some people. After a competent exploration of the world of philosophy, he dumps all but one into a bucket labelled “Not Worth Your Time.” The conclusion he brings the book to is to that to live a “well-examined” life, one must be a Christian theist. But sadly, it’s the last chapter that wallops you on the side of the head. And his dutiful explanations of each school are decent I’ll give him that. He indeed covers the whole spectrum, from theism to nihilism to naturalism to existentialism to postmodernism. Ostensibly, it goes through the six to ten (depending on how you count and group them) major philosophical schools and examines each one for strengths and flaws. James Sire caught me with my proverbial pants down (so to say) with his Universe Next Door.
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Meredith alone by claire alexander5/12/2023 "Alexander creates a winning heroine in Meredith and likable characters in her kind friends. An optimistic, feel-good novel."- Kirkus Reviews "Executed with care, humor, and grace, this novel pokes at the bubble of solitude to show each of us that suffering has a sense of community and with that, the prospect of optimism."- Library Journal."A timely and poignant book about trauma, loneliness, and stepping outside of our comfort zones - literally."- Buzzfeed " Meredith, Alone is a touching contemporary fiction following one woman's journey back into the world." - Popsugar “A novel that examines our most private spaces and what it means to be alone versus lonely, this charming, thought-provoking debut novel will be a big hit.”- Good Morning America "A gorgeous, charming novel.Sweet, moving, funny and hopeful, with a courageous heroine who sweeps you up in her story."- Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne "I laughed, I cried, and I bowed down to the brilliant author of this brilliant book."- Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time
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Before the storm rick perlstein5/12/2023 This was not simply a triumph of reactionaries. Perlstein is the first to suggest that Republicans got there first. What had happened? Other historians have noted that democracy went into the streets in the 1960’s, but Mr. Ten new Republican governors (including Ronald Reagan) would come to power in 1966, and Republicans would win five out of the next six Presidential elections. The Goldwaterite Young Americans for Freedom recruited 5,400 new members in that campaign summer, as against 1,500 for Students for a Democratic Society. Goldwater gathered more than a million–along with a record 3.9 million volunteers. Kennedy had 22,000 donors, Richard Nixon 44,000. Rick Perlstein’s Before the Storm sees the Goldwater debacle as a lost battle in a won war.
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Fires by raymond carver5/12/2023 As if it might be almost impossible to say what you wanted to say. Hardly begins to do justice to his speech this condition was aggravated whenever he was pressed into the regions of generality or prescription.Īs I say, he mumbled, and if it once seemed merely a physical tic, akin to cracking knuckles or the drumming of a foot, I now think it was a function of a deep humility and a respect for the language bordering on awe, a reflection of his sense that words A few days later the interviewer called up, near despair: Ray's voice on the tapes was nearly inaudible. Moved the tape recorder closer and closer and finally asked if Carver would put it in his lap. I once sat in and listened while Carver was interviewed for two and a half hours. Waist, saying, ''Beg pardon, Ray?'' Never insisting, rarely asserting, he was an unlikely teacher. Smoke could be filling the room, flames streaking across the carpet, before Carver would ask, ''Is it, uh, getting a little hot in here, maybe?'' And you would be sitting in your chair, bent achingly forward at the Eliot once described Ezra Pound, qua mentor, as ''a man trying to convey to a very deaf person the fact that the house is on fire.'' Raymond Carver had precisely the opposite manner. Year after his death, the recurring image I associate with Raymond Carver is one of people leaning toward him, working very hard at the act of Raymond Carver: A Still, Small Voice By JAY McINERNEY
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Darkwing kenneth oppel5/12/2023 JON KLASSEN is the author-illustrator of This Is Not My Hat, winner of the Caldecott Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and I Want My Hat Back, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. Born on Vancouver Island, he has lived in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and in England and Ireland, and now resides in Toronto with his wife and children. He is also the author of Half Brother, This Dark Endeavor, Such Wicked Intent and The Boundless. Printz Honor Book Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award its sequel, Skybreaker, was a New York Times bestseller and was named Children’s Novel of the Year by The Times (London). His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide and was adapted into an animated TV series and stage play. KENNETH OPPEL is the author of numerous books for young readers.
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The shelters of stone5/12/2023 She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of her people, a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills. Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. This is another paragraph Product Description: Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. 776pp including list of characters.Price un-clipped.Heavy book.First edition-first printing. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the Dj (a couple of small marks inside the edges of the Dj cover). Illustrated with a map inside the front and back cover.Nice and clean pages but with a couple marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,two small ink marks on the edges of the pages. First UK edition-first printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1).Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the front cover) with Dj (two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC.
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The story of o reage5/10/2023 Once again, Grove Press became the delivery vehicle for sophisticated titillation. The History: Written in 1954 by Pauline Reage, the pen name for the novelist Anne Desclos, it became a literary sensation in Europe and the United States. This essay series gave me reason to read and analyze the novel, determining if Sontag was correct about assessing it with literary value. Up to this point, I had never read the actual novel. In her groundbreaking essay, “The Pornographic Imagination,” she wrote about Story of O. Some time later I became a fan of cultural critic and essayist Susan Sontag. Then I imagine I exited the store, simultaneously curious and horrified at humanity’s darker nature. Needless to say, since I was in high school, I didn’t really dwell on the text of said comic. While there I happened upon Story of O by the comics artist Guido Crepax. On one of those occasions I wandered into the comics and graphics novel section. Before the emergence of omnipresent Barnes & Noble, I hung around the various different sections of the rather smallish bookstore. Back in those days it would have been Scribner’s at Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Personal History: During my high school years, I spent most of my time at the bookstore at the mall.
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This new translation seeks to retain both the literal sense and the poetic music of the original, and capture the poem's spontaneity and wit. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and it shows him attempting to transform himself from a romantic poet into a realistic novelist. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.Įngaging, full of suspense, and varied intone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. |