![]() ![]() But there is a cost to living inside a lie.Īs Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti's political coming of age, Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees uses one woman's lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle toward selfhood. When their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. ![]() They are from different ethnic communities. ![]() Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He was to become Balzan, adopted son in a tribe of bipeds resembling earth cats! THE BLOOD STONES Reptilian raiders, flashing deadly neutron swords, had taken Balzan's cat-people into slavery to satisfy the blood-lust of an insatiable queen. Only an infant boy, sleeping in stasis inside a safety cube, survived. Then IT happened! The craft was plucked out of the solar system to crash on a wild planet never seen by man. But first he must learn the terrible truth about the evil blood stones, even if the knowledge destroyed him! WALLACE MOORE ~ Balzan of the Cat People ~ The Blood Stones Publication: US, "Pyramid edition published May 1975" Font size: small, well spaced #1 Space flight Ares Probe One was 13 months away from earth on a manned journey to Mars. Reptilian raiders, flashing deadly neutron swords, had taken Balzan's cat-people into slavery to satisfy the blood-lust of an insatiable queen. Item: 255911288026 WALLACE MOORE Balzan of the Cat People: The Blood Stones, The Caves of Madness. ![]() ![]() Undeterred in her mission to help save this threatened species, Alex tracks wolverines on foot and by cameras positioned in remote regions of the preserve. While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. The first book in a thrilling series featuring an intrepid wildlife biologist who's dedicated to saving endangered species.and relies on her superior survival skills to thwart those who aim to stop her. It reminded me of the best of Nevada Barr." -James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Odyssey Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo "Both a mystery and a survival story, here is a novel written with a naturalist's eye for detail and an unrelenting pace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What if she’s gotten so used to lying she no longer knows what to believe? With everything spiraling out of control, Finn has to pretend he’s okay.Īnd for Natalie, the lies of the other world include some she wishes were actually true. ![]() Despite all her brains, Emma can’t seem to break the code. To do so, they have to go back: into the other world, where even telling the truth can be illegal.īut in such a terrifying place, Chess doubts he can ever be brave enough. Now the four kids-brave Chess, smart Emma, kind Finn, and savvy Natalie-are determined to rescue everyone. Their mother tried to fix it, but she and an ally got trapped there along with Ms. It’s a mirror image, except things are wrong. Until their mother vanished, the Greystone kids-Chess, Emma, and Finn-knew nothing about the other world.Įverything is different there. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Devlin lives in a world where everything is beautiful, ordered. ![]() The events of FRAGILE ETERNITY have left the faery world off-balance, its key players fighting to maintain control over their world - and its secrets. ![]() Melissa Marr's New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series continues with the fourth - and penultimate - installment in the darkly seductive story about the collision of the mortal and faery worlds. Will Seth's mortality lose him the one thing he loves above all others? As Niall seeks to control his new Court, Aislinn attempts to resist the seduction of summer, and Seth searches desperately for the gift of immortality, a delicate balance is threatened, and a terrible plot is revealed. But Aislinn is the Summer Queen and Keenan is her king - and as summer approaches, their chemistry sparks. But will Niall's kindness survive his new responsibility to the most violent of Faerie courts? Meanwhile, Seth and Aislinn attempt to mend their relationship. After the terrible events of Ink Exchange, the Dark Court has a new ruler. Mortal affections and faery rivalries continue to collide in the town of Huntsdale, as New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr takes urban fantasy to new heights. Titles in this set: Fragile Eternity Radiant Shadows Ink Exchange Darkest Mercy Wicked Lovely ![]() ![]() Misplaced arrogance in his own recognizance is a key factor to his crimes. ![]() He says his will is strong enough to overpower any passionate urge which may supersede a weaker will. Nikolay repeatedly talks of his ability to govern his actions. ![]() This is a commentary by Dostoevsky on the evils of not atheism in itself, but rather of humanity shouldering too much of its own destiny, and the crippling consequences of believing such ideology. It could be argued that he may not have committed such heinous crimes had he been faced with the religious fear of retribution from an unhappy God. Nikolay rationalizes his horrible deeds by asserting that he was in charge of his actions and, therefore, he was not working on impulses, but rather he was deliberately fulfilling his own wishes and desires. Nikolay Stavrogin embodies some of the flawed necessities of a revolutionary according to Dostoevsky: pride and over estimation. Demon Immorality: A Quick Look At Nikolay Stavroginįyodor Dostoevsky suggests that human arrogance is the main cause for immorality and most, if not all, of human evils. ![]() ![]() ![]() This story follows the journey of Fierce Heart from Farrendel's point of view. The first book is the only one told entirely from Essie's POV, thus this look back.įull disclosure: I've read Elf Prince before, (as in as soon as it released on Kindle) and loved the book. Overall, I'm not sorry I got it, but you absolutely should not listen to this until you're past the first three books and have gotten to know Farendell in those first. In others, she speeds up and chatty becomes manic. In some books, she manages to just make Essie sound young and chirpy. I've had issues with the pace this narrator sets from the beginning. ![]() It really, really should have been a male narrator. But if you have read the series and want more Farendell, this does offer some original scenes including his thoughts while he's away fighting, and stuff he did while Essie was shopping for shampoo. Darcy he is (seriously socially awkward? Just say nothing and scowl. By the end of the book we mostly just know how deeply scarred by the fighting he is (pretty clear in the original and in further books with dual POV) and how deeply Mr. So, it reads a little like fan fiction, and at times feels redundant. ![]() It doesn't have the cohesiveness or originality of the main books in the series-it's quite literally just his POV. This is an enjoyable story if you've already completed the series. ![]() ![]() After briefly consideringīuddhism, it occurred to me that the answer would likely lie in virtueĮthics. How to navigate what life was throwing at me. Which I had adopted since I was a teenager and had left the CatholicĬhurch, but which just didn’t seem to offer me any practical guidance on So I was looking for a new framework to replace my secular humanism, ![]() ![]() While not unusual, that sort of things, especially when Through a bit of mid-life crisis, some personal issues (divorce, myįather’s death), as well as a transition to a new job and a move to a "I can tell you the exact date: September 5th, 2014! I had been going In a recent interview for Modern Stoicism he was asked when and how he first became interested in Stoicism: ![]() My interest in Massimo Pigliucci is as a philosopher, and specifically as an pro-active exponent of Stoicism. Is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of United States 30 years ago and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Philosopher, teaching at the City College of New York”. ![]() He is anĮxtremely well educated man, holding doctorates in genetics, biology, and philosophy of science Pigliucci was born in Monrovia, Liberia and raised in Rome, Italy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It “gets you,” as one critic noted, “inside the very skin of post-war working-class Australians the way Joyce makes you feel like a turn-of-century Dubliner.” It carries the reader through the lives of the several members of the two families as they struggle with addictions, depressions, illnesses, losses and each other and as they celebrate their very survival through the recessions, World War II, urbanization, the supernatural, love and a serial killer. As those later works, Winton’s prose in Cloudstreet is mesmerizingly energetic and flowing, linked intimately to the physical environment and to the human spirit. It preceded Riders (1994), Dirt Music(2001)-both of which were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize-and Breath (2008). The families-the Lambs and the Pickles-share during those 20 years a home in the suburbs of Perth named Cloudstreet, which itself emerges magically as one of the main characters. It is the saga of two Western Australian, working class families from 1944 through 1964. Cloudstreet is Tim Winton’s probably best known and best loved work, at least in Australia where it has been incorporated into the school curriculum and adapted for stage and television. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The author wrote the book while serving in the office of Bishop of Tours. One main feature is that this is a portal through which knowledge that had not previously been available in English has become so. The book is presented in a straightforward manner with an Introduction at the front. This work has been carefully compiled and modified by a professional editorial staff. As a consequence, his work is part of what contemporary people have available to them to learn about the author's day and age. The Bishop of Tours is presently deeply appreciated for writing on the history of the day, which no one else seems to have done. The individual was a successful military man who later turned his talents to both religion and politics as a Bishop. This work was written by a high class man during the transition from what is presently perceived to be "the ancient world" into the earliest forms of the modern world. ![]() |