The iron king by julie kagawa7/8/2023 ![]() I've run across quite a few books lately that retread the ground of classic fairy legends, and I've honestly been a bit disappointed at the lack of anything new or innovative. The Otherworld, Tir na Nog, and Faerie courts seem to be a current popular topic in YA. I kind of swung between, "meh," and "Oh!" I was kind of surprised by my reaction to this book. “The Iron King is a must read!” New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter Read more Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no fairy creature dare face and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart. ![]() When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.īut she could never have guessed the truth that she is the daughter of a mythical fairy king and is a pawn in a deadly war. She has never quite fit in at school or at home. ![]() Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. ![]() I don't think it will be that way for me. ![]() Countless stories, songs and poems have been written about this wonderful age, when a girl finds true love and the stars shine for her and the handsome prince carries her off into the sunset. In less than twenty–four hours I'll be sixteen. Meghan Chase has a secret destiny – one she could never have imagined ![]()
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Clotel by William Wells Brown7/8/2023 ![]() A contemporary of Frederick Douglass, Wells Brown was overshadowed by the charismatic orator and the two feuded publicly. After his freedom was purchased by a British couple in 1854, he and his family returned to the US, where he rejoined the abolitionist lecture circuit. ![]() Lecturing in England when the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law was passed in the US, which required people in the North to aid in the capture of fugitive slaves, Brown stayed for several years to avoid the risk of capture and re-enslavement. He has a school named after him in Lexington, Kentucky and was among the first writers inducted to the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama. His novel Clotel (1853) is considered the first novel written by an African American it was published in London, where he was living at the time. ![]() Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North in 1834, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer. ![]() William Wells Brown was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. ![]() ![]() ![]() He succeeded Oliver Goldsmith at the Royal Academy as 'professor in ancient history' (honorary but prestigious). Johnson's Literary Club, and looked in from time to time on his friend Holroyd in Sussex. He took to London society quite easily, and joined the better social clubs, including Dr. By February 1773, he was writing in earnest, but not without the occasional self-imposed distraction. His father died in 1770, and after tending to the estate, which was by no means in good condition, there remained quite enough for Gibbon to settle fashionably in London at 7 Bentinck Street, independent of financial concerns. The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion. ![]() His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 17. Edward Gibbon ( – 16 January 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. ![]() Savage rivals by becca7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() But Liam hasn’t allowed himself to consider the possibility that he could be bisexual, and he wants to be with Noah only as long as no one else knows. But one kiss flips the story and Noah realizes that Liam wants him just as much. He knows it’s a disaster waiting to happen because Liam says he is straight. ![]() Noah doesn’t want to be attracted to Liam, but he can’t help it. The tension between Noah and Liam is dialed up from the start. Noah was looking forward to getting away from football players (American soccer), but not only is Liam on the team, but all of Noah’s housemates are as well. However, it turns out that the car belongs to one of Noah’s new housemates, Liam. But just at the start of the year, Noah crashes into someone’s car-a hot angry someone-and the guys hate each other immediately. He’s ready to make a new life for himself away from what was an uncomfortable high school experience. Noah is thrilled to be away at university. ![]() Blue Jacket by John Sugden7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Known as “southerners” by their Algonquian relatives, the Shawnees had a history of migrating between worlds. His genius lay in his ability to fully articulate religious, racial, and cultural ideals borne out of his people’s existence on fault lines between competing empires and Indian confederacies. Lauded for his oratory, military and diplomatic skills, and, ultimately, his humanity, Tecumseh presided over the greatest Indian resistance movement that had ever been assembled in the eastern half of North America. Described as a “chief among chiefs” by the British, and by his arch-rival, William Henry Harrison, as “one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things,” Tecumseh impressed all who knew him. ![]() Finding my father blair linne7/7/2023 ![]() There is a cohesion and flow that can only come from a true poet. Adoption is championed as what keeps the Christian’s heart pumping.Īs a spoken word artist, this book proves that Linne works wonders in writing. Linne shares concise and clear Biblical wisdom and practicality in regards to marriage, family, and the church. I would actually consider it an excellent introduction to a theology of God as our Heavenly Father and the earthly station of fatherhood. Linne does not leave out God and the gospel in this book. My eyes were opened and my heart was moved. Nevertheless, what she has already lived through is compelling and courageous. I will not spoil it here in this review, but it is safe to say that there is still more to her story. There is a twist in her tale that caught me off-guard. ![]() I was captivated by her writing, and extremely encouraged by her faith. ![]() It is a story of self-discovery, but also a story of her finding a Savior. ![]() What does the Christian faith say about absent fathers? In Finding My Father, Blair Linne helps us see how the gospel heals the pain of fatherlessness.īy sharing her story, Linne allows us to journey with her as she learned to navigate the feelings and findings of fatherlessness. ![]() War Talk by Arundhati Roy7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() And throughout her essays, Roy interrogates her own roles as writer and activist. Desperately working against the backdrop of the nuclear recklessness between her homeland and Pakistan, she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity. demands for a war on Iraq, Roy confronts the call to militarism. From the horrific pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat, India, to U.S. Her work highlights the global rise of religious and racial violence. War Talk collects new essays by this prolific writer. ![]() Her previous essays on globalization and dissent have led many to see Roy as India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence (New York Times). Invited to lecture as part of the prestigious Lannan -Foundation series on the first anniversary of the unconscionable attacks of September 11, 2001, Roy challenged those who equate dissent with being anti-American. ![]() The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Roy's political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel. ![]() As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays. ![]() Murderbot rogue protocol7/7/2023 ![]() Meanwhile the PreservationAux survey team, led by Dr. Further investigation reveals that some sections of their maps are missing as well. Murderbot soon discovers that information regarding hazardous fauna has been deleted from their survey packet of the planet. Though it has hacked the governor module that allows it to be controlled by humans, and would much rather be watching soap operas, the SecUnit has a vested interest in keeping its human clients safe and alive, since it has an especially grisly past expedition on its record. She is saved by the expedition's SecUnit (Security Unit), a cyborg security agent which has secretly named itself "Murderbot". As it spends more time with some caring humans, it starts developing feelings that it does not care for.Ī scientific expedition on an alien planet goes awry when one of its members is attacked by a giant native creature. ![]() It calls itself Murderbot, and likes to watch unrealistic soap operas. The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. The first in a series called The Murderbot Diaries, it was published by Tor.com. ![]() All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. ![]() ![]() ![]() As powerfully raw and transcendent as Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Theresa Cha’s Dictée, to name but a few, Last Words from Montmartre proves Qiu Miaojin to be one of the finest experimentalists and modernist Chinese-language writers of our generation. Her final novel, an experimental memoir written on the eve of her death, titled Last Words from Montmartre (translated to English by Ari Larissa Heinrich and published by New York Review Books in 2014), earned Qiu recognition in broader literary circles as the quintessential author’s author and a writer of exceptional genius. They display wrenching insights into what it means to live between cultures, languages, and genders-until the genderless character Zoë appears, and the narrator’s spiritual and physical identity is transformed. The letters (which, Qiu tells us, can be read in any order) leap between Paris, Taipei, and Tokyo. In a style that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to pathos, compulsive repetition to rhapsodic musings, reticence to vulnerability, Qiu’s genre-bending novel is at once a psychological thriller, a sublime romance, and the author’s own suicide note. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship between two young women-their sexual awakening, their gradual breakup, and the devastating aftermath of their broken love. When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. ![]() Meeting Mr Kim by Jennifer Barclay7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() I've been lucky enough to visit Greece twice a year for the last fifteen years and intend to keep doing so. Regular readers of Random Things will know that I love Greece and all things Greek. Bursting with Mediterranean flavour, An Octopus in my Ouzo takes you from surviving storms to serving drinks on the beach, dancing and walking and swimming you way around the island with an exuberant fisherman and an adorable canine companion - a funny, sad and inspiring journey to find that happiness lies in living small and thinking big.Īn Octopus in my Ouzo by Jennifer Barclay is published in paperback by Summersdaleon 14 April 2016. ![]() With a laptop and hiking boots, surrounded by wild beauty and traces of ancient history, Jennifer plans to embrace her new life on a tiny Greek island to the full. ![]() |