![]() Fire in the Sky: The Diary of James Collier, Tarawera, 1886 by Shirley Corlett (2005).Chinatown Girl: The Diary of Silvey Chan, Auckland, 1942 by Eva Wong Ng (2005).Below the Mountains: The Diary of Amy McDonald, Milford Road, 1935-36 by Jean Bennett (2005).A New Song in the Land: The Writings of Atapo, Paihia, c1840 by Fleur Beale (2004).Earthquake: The Diary of Katie Bourke, Napier, 1930-31 by Janine McVeagh (2004).Finding Father: The Journal of Mary Brogan, Otago, 1862 by Pauline Cartwright (2004).Abandon Ship!: The Diary of Debbie Atherton, Wellington, 1968 by Shirley Corlett (2003).A Better Life: The Diary of Ivana Ivanovich, Dargaville, 1924-25 by Amelia Batistich (2003). ![]()
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![]() Seanan McGuire is a California-based author with a strong penchant for travel and can regularly be found just about anyplace capable of supporting human life (as well as a few places that probably aren’t). "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Unable to resist Evening’s dying curse, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant to the Duke of Shadowed Hills and begin renewing old alliances that may prove her only hope of solving the mystery.before the curse catches up with her. The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose, one of the secret regents of the San Francisco Bay Area, pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unfortunately for her, Faerie has other ideas. ![]() ![]() After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating into a “normal” life. Or, in the case of October "Toby" Daye, rejecting it completely. Outsiders from birth, these half-human, half-fae children spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Secrecy is the key to Faerie's survival-but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born. ![]() The world of Faerie never disappeared it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. New York Times-bestselling October Daye faerie series � Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire � "Top of my urban-paranormal series list!" -Felicia Day ![]() ![]() ![]() I love the colorful cast of characters, especially the people of Cutter Gap. Every time I read the book I get lost in Christy’s journey, and it makes me want to love others more and open myself to a deeper spiritual life. ![]() I think because it just feels so organic to me. I feel like you could argue that the whole young protégé learning from an older, wiser woman has been done lots before, but for some reason, it never bothered me in this book. Christy relates her faith in this unassuming, humble way, and it comes across so genuinely. I’ve been meaning to actually post a review of it for years, though, since I still talk about it pretty regularly. ![]() Most recently I listened to the audiobook version, which I enjoyed, too. I think I first read it at thirteen or fourteen years old. ![]() But in these primitive surroundings, Christy’s faith would be severely tested by the unique strengths and needs of two remarkable young men - and challenged by a heart torn between desire…and love.Ĭhristy is one of those books I’ve read probably almost a dozen times. Published June 27th 2006 (first published January 1st 1967 Amazon | Barnes & Noble | GoodreadsĪt nineteen, Christy Huddleston left home to teach school in the Smokies - coming to know and care for the wild mountain people, with their fierce pride, terrible poverty, dark superstitions…and their yearning for beauty and truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lee returns with the third book in her bestselling Sidekick Squad series, which has garnered both critical acclaim and fans for its joyous tone and inclusivity.ĬW: internal shame though asexual and aromantic questioning, sci-fi violence As the Resistance moves to challenge the League, Emma realizes where her place is in this fight: at the front. A natural leader, Emma is determined to win this battle, and when that’s done, get back to school. Emma is the only member of a supercharged team without powers, and she isn’t always taken seriously. Publisher: Duet Books (YA Imprint of Interlude Press)Įmma Robledo has a few more responsibilities that the usual high school senior, but then again, she and her friends have left school to lead a fractured Resistance movement against a corrupt Heroes League of Heroes. With returning characters that fans of the series have grown to love, this inclusive series has a new chapter unfolding that will be sure to offer even more of what they’ve come to love: representation, quippy characters, and strong people that, powered or not, are going to fight to make sure they’re not kept down.Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Goodreads | Indiebound | Interlude Press | Mysterious Galaxy ![]() Is that going to stop her from leading the Resistance against a corrupt government organization with everything she does have? Not a chance. Does she have the super ability to sense direction? No. ![]() Lee’s latest installment of the Sidekick Squad series, Not Your Backup centers Emma Robledo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The end of the world didn’t happen overnight.Īfter years of societal breakdowns, wars and quakes and rising tides, humanity was already near the edge. The must-read prequel to the “highly original” ( The Seattle Times) New York Times bestseller Warm Bodies-now a major motion picture-from the author whose genre-defying debut turned the classic horror story on its head. “Refreshingly unique.I love this novella.” - LitStack “In rich, evocative prose, Marion transports his readers back into the postapocalyptic parable he first brought to life-or death-in his brilliant debut Warm Bodies.” - Library Journal (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have much excitement to know about Alexander the Great, you can read this book. 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The name “Alexander the Great” is engraved in the world’s history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fragmented and difficult, yet ordered.Reality is what looms love what pervades (x).Pattern of waking & sleeping, cycle of seasons, cycle of years, cycles of human history, presence & absence.Rhythm – “heterochronicity” – multiple modalities of time.T.S.Eliot on the “immense panorama of futility and anarchy that is contemporary history” (The Egoist) Lighthouse – signal and promise of stability amid chaos of modernity (viii).Greatest threats and dangers are those from within, moresothan from without.Ramsay are based on Woolf’s parents, Leslie Stephen & Julia Duckworth Many of the characters and events are based on autobiographical detail:.The Family is of the middle class, the father a philosophy professor. ![]() Skye is in the Hebrides, a group of islands off western coast of Scotland.Edwardian (1901-1910) English family vacationing on the Isle of Skye, Summer 1910.Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Vita Sackville-West, Clive & Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Thoby & Adrian Stephen (her brothers), E.M. Was a member of the Bloomsbury Group – a fashionable modernist coterie in London, mostly associated with the University of Cambridge.Sister, Vanessa Bell, a gifted painter.Mother, Julia Duckworth, a renowned beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first third of the film is fairly commonplace, as far as animated films go, working from the same basic blueprint as Monsters Inc. Oh, it's a cartoon all right, with anthropomorphized insects and a mostly family-friendly vibe, but make no mistake: This is Seinfeld's show from top to bottom, and there's nothing here that doesn't bear his mark-starting with the story. There's nothing like selling out or cashing in going on here the entire movie drips with Seinfeld's personality, with his own unique sense of humor, with the subtle sense of subversion that characterized the sitcom at its edgy best. Never mind the fact that, after so many years flying under the radar, it seems a bit odd for the superstar comedian to resurface as the voice of an animated bee in a feature-length cartoon that he also had a hand in writing and producing. ![]() ![]() The title of the novel refers to the old sect, the members of which believed that the salvation of the soul is possible only in isolation from public and state institutions, in the state of eternal wandering. The novel mostly contains notes on how people behave at the airport, or what they are looking at when wake up at the new hotel, or that women after 50 become invisible to everyone. Even the most voluminous and detailed stories begin and end suddenly, as if captured out of reality. It consists of disparate, unequal passages: letters, diary entries, overheard conversations, revelations of fellow travelers. The novel cannot be retold in a traditional way, as the plot is constantly slipping away. ![]() The common thing for all the fragments is the narrator, who is the author herself. A total amount of fragments is 116, but they differ one from the other in length – some are of just few sentences, some are of more than 30 pages. It consists of separate short stories, essays and travel notes, united by a common plot, which is travelling. ![]() The novel Flights is dedicated to the theme of travel. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Kennicott comes for her, two years later, she returns with him, for, though she feels no love, she respects him, and being incapable of creating her own life appears not unhappy to return to the familiar, petty Gopher Prairie. Carol draws away from her husband, falls in love with Erik Valborg, a kindred spirit, and finally goes to Washington to make her own life. She finds the village to be a smug, intolerant, unimaginatively standardized place, where the people will not accept her efforts to create more sightly homes, organize a dramatic association, and otherwise improve the village life. Carol Milford, a girl of quick intelligence but no particular talent, after graduation from college meets and marries Will Kennicott, a sober, kindly, unimaginative physician of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, who tells her that the town needs her abilities. ![]() First Edition of the book that brought fame to Sinclair Lewis - the first of his five great novels of the 1920s (followed by BABBITT, ARROWSMITH, ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH). Original medium-blue cloth lettered in orange. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. ![]() |