![]() ![]() The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. ![]() In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father’s funeral takes place. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water. ![]() Bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series’, Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a brand-new series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. ![]()
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![]() In the calculus of her schemes, all ledgers must be balanced, and the price of liberation paid in full. To survive, Baru will need to untangle this land’s intricate web of treachery – and conceal her attraction to the dangerously fascinating Duchess Tain Hu.īut Baru is a savant in games of power, as ruthless in her tactics as she is fixated on her goals. Aurdwynn kills everyone who tries to rule it. ![]() In a final test of her loyalty, the Masquerade will send Baru to bring order to distant Aurdwynn, a snakepit of rebels, informants, and seditious dukes. And she’ll claw her way high enough up the rungs of power to set her people free. ![]() She’ll swallow her hate, prove her talent, and join the Masquerade. ![]() They’ll conquer Baru’s island, rewrite her culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose of one of her fathers. ![]() The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home and see red sails on the horizon. THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT is an epic geopolitical fantasy about one woman’s mission to tear down an empire by learning how to rule it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once Myshkin recovers, he once again demonstrates deep selflessness of his character by apologizing to Rogozhin for suspecting his friend of plotting to kill him. Jealous, Rogozhin attempts to murder Myshkin, but the latter has an attack of epilepsy, forcing Rogozhin to abandon his malicious plan. When Prince Myshkin and his acquaintance Rogozhin become close, Myshkin opens up about his feelings for Nastassya to his friend. ![]() Prince Myshkin involuntarily becomes a middleman between Ganya and Aglaya, but soon discovers that the woman is disgusted with her potential fiance and turns him down. Realizing that marriage to Aglaya promises more social and financial benefits to him, the General’s secretary Ganya does not want to marry Nastassya, unless he knows for sure that he has no chance with Aglaya. ![]() ![]() ![]() During his time on Malacandra the professor learns much about the planet and its inhabitants, but even more about his own home, the Earth, and the place of human kind in the universe. His curiosity overcomes his fear, however, when he discovers that many of the native creatures possess the ability to speak and share a common tongue. The professor escapes his captors soon after they land, and he finds himself terrified in an unfamiliar world. Lewis tells the story of a philology professor, much reminiscent of Lewis’s friend J.R.R Tolkien, who, while exploring a mysterious house in the English countryside, is kidnapped and brought to the mysterious planet of Malacandra aboard a strange space–going vehicle. In this early work of science fiction ( Out of the Silent Planet was first published in 1938) C.S. MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center.Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum. ![]() My Account Accessibility Hours Contact Donate Search for: Search What to search ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Izzy and her furry friends have a new pet project-collaring a killer.Īs many cozy mysteries that I read, I liked this one as it was quite different in that you never really saw the police investigating this murder, but instead you had Izzy, our heroine and Sean, the lawyer, looking for others with a stronger motive to have murdered the local activist than Izzy’s best friend. Sherry is found murdered in back of the shop, and Rena is immediately named as the lead suspect. The two manage to stop Sherry’s protest in its tracks, but the trouble for Trendy Tails is just beginning. Izzy and her best friend Rena have their hands full meeting Merryville’s menagerie and serving tasty pupcakes and kitty canapes from their “barkery.” The last thing they need is Sherry Harper, the town’s local activist, scaring off customers and getting tongues wagging by picketing the event. ![]() ![]() Feisty feline Jinx is large and in charge, and happy mutt Packer is lapping up the attention. Izzy’s own beloved pets are dressed to the nines for the grand opening of Trendy Tails. But at the store’s opening, it turns out it’s a human who’s dressed to kill. Izzy McHale wants her new Trendy Tails Pet Boutique in Merryville, Minnesota, to be the height of canine couture and feline fashions. Paws For Murder by Annie Knox is the first book in the new “Pet Boutique” mystery series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meet Bungleton Green-an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black. Why this important first has been forgotten is a mystery, but celebrating it today is critical. Buy a copy of Bungleton Green and The Mystic Commandos book by Jay Jackson. The result was some of the strongest social commentary ever put into comic form, with excoriations of white supremacy, bigotry, and systemic racism that resonate with current events. ![]() Jackson felt that Americans needed to be reminded of the unequal status of black Americans fighting in and supporting a war effort purported for the freedom of all. That he did this during World War II is no coincidence the time was ripe. Bungleton Green, the name of the character as well as the strip, became the literal embodiment of the black ideal, a man who in all ways was equal, even superior, to the whites whose relentless oppression Jackson constantly fought. Jay Jackson introduced the world to the first black superhero on Januin the most obvious place, “the oldest, longest continuously running black comic strip,” Bungleton Green, in the pages of the country’s leading black newspaper, the Chicago Defender. Jay Jackson employed angled figures and close-ups to create dramatic tension in Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos, a fantasy about a white man facing racism in a word of green people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Triptych is quite an intense and heavy read. ![]() And it seems the mystery behind Monroe’s death is inextricably entangled with a past that refuses to stay buried … Twenty-four hours later, the violence Michael sees around him every day explodes in his own back yard. When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated.Īs a one-off killing it’s shocking, but when it becomes clear that it’s just the latest in a series of similar attacks, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are called in, and Michael is forced into working with Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team – a man he instinctively dislikes. ![]() ![]() ![]() This year, in a volume titled I Celebrate Myself, Ginsberg’s archivist and bibliographer Bill Morgan has filled in the blanks with detailed accounts of Ginsberg’s private relationships with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, et al.Īnd that ain’t the half of it. In 1999 there appeared a photo-bio by Graham Caveney, followed soon by an epic poem on Ginsberg’s poetry and life by Ed Sanders. Barry Miles wrote one in 1989 and Michael Schumacher trumped it three years later. Has ever a life been more exhaustively documented than Allen Ginsberg’s? Abraham Lincoln’s maybe, or Napoleon’s or Hitler’s, but another poet’s? Ginsberg biographies elbow each other out of the way. Edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937–1952. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Otherwise, they face the fate that Bereyter knows all too well he has seen his own people dismembered, tortured, raped, abused, tormented mentally and physically, and killed by scores and scores. The punishing brutality of Nazi Germany means that for the Jews who they persecute, fleeing Europe as a refugee is the only path that has some hope in it at all. His story shows feelings of deep self-betrayal, and he too kills himself. His choice is made for him when the Nazis draft him to help persecute his own people. Paul Bereyter has no choice but to either flee as a Jewish person from the Holocaust (he is a quarter Jewish), or to join the Nazi army. How will the rest of the story unfold, given the extreme nature of immigration? The story turns to the very real issue of refugees fleeing persecution. That puts a hell of a question-mark over the novel. Selwyn and explores the intricate difficulties of his life, the painful loneliness of his time on earth, and his sudden and tragic demise when, overwhelmed by negative emotion and feelings of hopelessness, he kills himself. The title makes the reader ask, well alright, what about these Emigrants? What are they up to? Then the novel introduces Dr. Right away, the novel comes to the reader packed with meaning and thought-provoking analysis. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() The book was first published in the US in 2014 and has since been translated into several other languages. “The book also helps parents find answers to their children’s wonder and understand their children better,” said Linh. The zen master encouraged the readers to love the present, accept anger and respect sorrow, according to editor Thuy Linh. ![]() ![]() The book also includes kid-friendly instructions for mindful breathing and mindful walking. In the book, Hanh answers questions from children of all ages, helping adults plant the seeds of mindfulness in young children.īeginning with the most basic questions such as "What is important in life?" and "Why is my brother mean to me?" and progressing through issues that we all wrestle with, such as "How do I know if I really love somebody?", "How long am I going to live?", and "What does God look like?", each page presents a question with a short answer from Hanh. I learned to release my mind after reading and illustrating the book.” “With water colours and natural spread on paper, the pictures are expected to touch readers’ hearts. ![]() “The book is about philosophy, Buddhism, mercy and meditation, so I tried to make it easy to understand for kids,” he said. “I painted illustrations for the book for a year,” said painter Hoan. The Vietnamese version Trong Cái Không Có Gì Không? is a graphic book illustrated by painter Vu Xuan Hoan. Photo courtesy of Kim Đồng Publishing House ![]() Cover of the book Is Nothing Something? translated into Vietnamese and published recently. ![]() |