![]() ![]() ![]() Perdita is a young water sprite, delighting in the wet splash and sparkle, and sad about the day her people will finally finish building their door to another world, in search of a place that humans have not yet discovered.īut when Luna’s little sister falls ill with the river sickness, everyone knows she has only three weeks to live. These are just stories, though-no sensible person would believe in such things.īeneath the waves is someone who might disagree. All her life she has heard tales of the time before the dam appeared, when sprites danced in the currents and no one got the mysterious wasting illness from a mouthful of river water. In a small river village where the water is cursed, a girl’s bravery-and the existence of magic-could mean the difference between life and death in this elegant, luminous tale from the author of Parched and Audacity.Īlong a lively river, in a village raised on stilts, lives a girl named Luna. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So when Nina Stack, the commander of Moon Base Alpha, mysteriously vanishes, the Moonies are at a total loss. After all, its only the size of a soccer field. ![]() Theres nowhere to hide on the worlds first moon base. Whoever poisoned Lars will stop at nothing to keep his-or her-identity a secret. The second mind-boggling mystery of the Moon Base Alpha series from beloved author Stuart Gibbs. Suddenly Dash finds himself with a target on his back. ![]() Now there’s another potential killer loose on Moon Base Alpha, and Dash is forced to identify the most likely suspects. But, of course, trillionaire (and total pain) Lars Sjoburg ruins it-by being poisoned. Now, he just wants to have a calm, quiet thirteenth birthday. He’s already had to solve a murder and locate a missing moon base commander. Moon Base Alpha was supposed to be an exciting place to live, but Dashiell Gibson didn’t expect for it to be this exciting. Tensions are running high when multi-billionaire Lars Sjoburg is poisoned and everyone is looking to Dash Gibson to solve the case in this third and final book in the New York Times bestselling Moon Base Alpha series. ![]() ![]() Listen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. ![]() ![]() As such – as Mr Barrington Walker Esq himself might have acknowledged – it is very clever indeed. Listen to Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo with a free trial. ![]() (Also an unabridged audio book from Whole Audiobooks on Amazon) ‘A brilliant study of great characters in modern London. Mr Loverman is a ground-breaking exploration of Britain’s older Caribbean community which explodes cultural myths and fallacies and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away? A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather – but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris. His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. Loverman By: Bernardine Evaristo A groundbreaking, hilarious novel about two elder gay Caribbean men coming to terms with being closeted in a changing world. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney since the sixties. A novel about a closet gay septuagenarian Antiguan-Londoner.īarrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Assigned to her first position at Arkham Hospital, she will discover, deep in the asylum, something dangerous and alluring, something quite unlike anything else she has ever known before: The Joker. Years later, Harleen has put her past behind her and used her intelligence and ambition to escape her childhood of poverty with a career in psychiatry. But there, pursued into the Funhouse by the men who brutalized her father, she beheld unimaginable horrors. That night she ran away to the safest place she could think of: Coney Island amusement park. Here was her story at the beginning, as told in the Mad Love comics: When she was only seven years old, Harleen Quinzel witnessed her father being beaten up by thugs, and then arrested by the police. She became a recurring character on the show and, because of her popularity, she made the transition to paper, joining the Batman comic book canon seven years later. Harley Quinn is a rarity in the Comic Book World because she was created on TV by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm in Batman: The Animated Series, in 1992. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though it contains a fictional scene here and there, the bulk of the text is written as a series of essays. It is with his 1905 book A Modern Utopia, however, that Wells seems bent on writing a utopia to end all utopias by not merely contributing to the utopian subgenre but also critiquing it.Īmid Wells’s prolific bibliography, one will find A Modern Utopia listed among his novels, but it really isn’t one. ![]() ![]() Wells, one of the pioneering masters of science fiction, penned a number of works set in utopian societies, among them When the Sleeper Awakes (1899) and Men Like Gods (1923). As the science fiction genre came to prominence in the late 19th century, however, utopias multiplied like rabbits. Thomas More may have coined the term Utopia in 1516 with his book of the same name, but utopian fiction has a history that goes back to ancient times. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The potential spin-off would focus on the titular Crows, which is a criminal group that worked their way out of the Dregs in order to pursue their own objectives. "The eight-episode scripts are phenomenal and I'm really proud of my team for those." Clearly, the executives' passion for this universe argues that the potential expansion will be produced out of love for the characters, more than simply the creation of more content. We are ready to launch that as its own story," said Eric Heisserer, who served as a showrunner for the second season of Shadow and Bone, during the interview. "One of the reasons, not all of them, that I got the privilege of working with Daegan Fryklind as co-showrunner in season 2 is that I was busy with the writers' room for Six of Crows. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, when Suyuan once attempts to make Jing-Mei go to her piano class, the girl thinks: “I didn’t have to do what my mother said anymore. However, as an American, Jing-Mei is highly individualistic and prefers to live in accordance with her personal views. Such an attitude is rather common in the conservative Chinese tradition that requires showing respect to authoritative figures, including parents and seniors. Suyuan always tries to control her daughter and expects her to behave accordingly. The clash between another pair of characters Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo, is also due to the daughter’s disobedience. Nevertheless, Lindo’s conservative views on marriage add an extra dimension to the conflict. Overall, the cultural and generational differences are deeply interrelated in this case since a child’s disobedience is pretty common in many families. Thus, when she gets pregnant as an adolescent, a serious dispute in the family occurs. However, as an Asian-American, Waverly neither seeks her mother’s permission for dating boys and nor expects her to get involved in these matters. In the Chinese tradition in which Lindo is raised, it was normal to get married and engage in intimate relationships only with the agreement of seniors who often arranged marriages for their children. The main conflict between the first pair of characters Lindo and Waverly Jong, is due to different views on romantic relationships. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Crocodile was first performed on 13 July 2015 at the Pavilion Theatre, Manchester, as part of Manchester International Festival. Read moreĬopyright and Performing Rights Information Regardless, this work is for Dostoevsky diehards only. That would have been rather heartless indeed, despite their ideological differences, since Dostoevsky knew first-hand just how cruel and unfair imprisonment for political reasons was, but his account, which includes personal anecdotes with Chernyshevsky, seems believable. Frankly, it was more interesting to me to read his rebuttal to the claim that the man represented Nikolai Chernyshevsky, which he did years later in ‘Diary of a Writer’ and which was excerpted in the afterward. Dostoevsky himself said that it was the first part to a comic story that he never finished, and it shows. ![]() Clearly, the crocodile that swallows a man only to have him continue philosophizing within its belly is meant to be an absurd satire on these ideals, but it isn’t all that well developed. ![]() The period in which Dostoevsky wrote this was one of great personal and economic strife, and he was finding an outlet for his increasing dislike of progressive European ideals. It’s not that I didn’t like this short story from Dostoevsky, it’s just that it’s incomplete, and comes across as a fragment of an idea. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's no princess, but he wants to marry her all the same-but how will she ever pass the terrible tests? ![]() Meanwhile, Nicholas has fallen in love with Lorelei, a mere blacksmith's daughter. So he devises a series of princess tests, designed to weed out the phonies and the fakes. But he must make sure the bride is a real princess. In The Princess Test, King Humphrey has decided it's time for his son, Prince Nicholas, to marry. The fairy Ethelinda feels she's meted out justice just right-until she discovers Rosella has been locked up by a greedy prince and Myrtle is having the time of her life! ![]() Her punishment: Bugs and vipers slither out of her mouth. Her reward: Jewels and gems tumble out of her mouth whenever she speaks. In The Fairy's Mistake, two very different sisters have two very different encounters with the fairy Ethelinda. Now this award-winning author turns her attention to two more classic fairy tales, and deftly turns them upside down and inside out with her trademark wit and hilarity. Gail Carson Levine charmed the world with Ella Enchanted, her spirited retelling of the Cinderella story. ![]() ![]() ![]() If our commitment to diversity is more than skin deep, we must cultivate deep friendships with smart people with whom we fundamentally disagree. But our society seems to be losing the art of debate within friendships, and we instead surround ourselves with people who think like us. Indeed, I debate hardest with the people I respect the most, because I take their ideas seriously. (45)ĭisagreement is not evidence of disrespect. If you care about diversity, don’t dismiss Christianity: it is the most diverse, multiethnic, and multicultural movement in all of history. Read the New Testament, and you will find that trying to marry biblical Christianity to white-centric nationalism is like trying to marry a cat to a mouse: one is designed to hunt the other, not mate with it. The idea that Christianity is a diversity-resistant, white Western religion of privilege is utterly irreconcilable with the New Testament. Indeed, calling Christianity “Western” is like calling literacy “Western.”. ![]() While Christianity held a monopoly on Western culture, Western culture never held a monopoly on Christianity. Turn this data on its head and the trend toward secularization in America is a public-health crisis. In general, religious participation appears to be good for your health and happiness. But to say that religion is bad for you is like saying, “Drugs are bad for you,” without distinguishing cocaine from life-saving medication. ![]() We need only open a newspaper to see that religious beliefs can cause harm. ![]() |