5/22/2023 0 Comments Book see no stranger![]() “And I feel like that is my particular role in the movement now. The marches in the streets, the flooding of halls of power.…They also happen in the spaces where people are coming together to inhabit any way of being,” Kaur says. “I keep thinking, revolutions happen not only in the big, grand, public moments. She first heard racial slurs when she was in grade school, felt pressure from those around her to adopt Christianity and was the only one in high school to go to a prestigious university like Stanford, which is where she was, trying to make sense of the world, when 9/11 happened. Kaur grew up in Central Valley, California, the granddaughter of Indian immigrants, in what was a very white, Christian community. ![]() “What if the world that we dream is waiting to be born? A world that is multiracial, equitable, sustainable, healthy…” ![]() ![]() “The future is dark - is this the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb? What if our America is not dead, but a nation still waiting to be born?” Kaur says. The concept of revolutionary love, which her publisher told her is “a cultural intervention,” is her process of asking questions that she believes will lead us to a more peaceful world. Thus began her real work around the idea of revolutionary love, which is the work that guides her today, both with her book, “See No Stranger,” and with the platform she has created online around education and tools for how to talk about 9/11. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments A Queen's Spy by Samantha Burnell![]() Now he’s back in England, his bastard sibling at his side and a band of mercenaries at his back. Banished from his father’s house for the crimes he didn’t commit he’s learnt his trade well in France returning to England a self styled soldier of fortune selling his services, and those of his mercenary band to the highest bidder. So close that Seymoure was readily believed when he blamed Richard for the liberties he himself had taken with the young princess. Through his wife he became guardian of the young princess Elizabeth, and so Richard Fitzwarren became a close childhood friend of Elizabeth Tudor. ![]() Seymoure, married to Henry VIII’s widow, Catherine Parr, was as close to the power at Court as he could get. As a younger man he had been attached to Thomas Seymour’s household, working with Seymour’s spy and intelligence network. Richard Fitzwarren, a Tudor nobleman with a dubious past takes risks for a living. A fascinating insight into Tudor England and the life of Elizabeth I before she sets foot on the steps to the throne. If you enjoy Tudor Fiction by Phillipa Gregory and Alison Weir then A Queens Spy is perfect for you. Based on actual historical events, an epic tale of a young Tudor nobleman’s courage as he tries to keep the future Queen Elizabeth I safe in one of England’s most turbulent eras. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The bacchae sparknotes![]() He convinces Pentheus to dress up as a woman so that he may spy on the Bakkhai without being seen-thus quenching the young man’s curiosity and luring him inexorably into Dionysos’ followers’ claws. Dionysos, who has put on human form as a swoony, longhaired religious leader with “bedroom eyes” and “cheeks like wine” (Pentheus’ own words) is all too aware of this. As is true for most radical conservatives, Pentheus’ fury and intolerance are mixed with irrepressible obsession. Pentheus, the young and hotheaded new ruler of Thebes, thinks this is all giving his town a bad name, so he imprisons the god’s followers-the Bakkhai, including his mother Agave. He drives them into the mountains where they worship him with wild dances, ritual hunts, sexual escapades, and feasts on raw flesh and wine. ![]() ![]() ![]() From this “masculine womb” he is born again, which earns him his second nickname: “twice-born.” He stings the women of Thebes into madness with his thyrsos: a wand of giant fennel topped with a pinecone. He is nicknamed Bromios (or “boisterous”), after his birth from Zeus’ thunderbolt, which killed his mother Semele and caused the god of gods, his father, to sew Dionysos into his thigh. ![]() Dionysos is a perpetual stranger, and his religion a constant other. Dionysos has just arrived from the east though Anne Carson is quick to remind us in her new translation that his presence in Mycenaean tablets dates all the way back to the 12th century BC. The protagonists of Euripides’ Bakkhai (New Directions, Dec 2017) are a new god and a cross-dressing conservative. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Susan is passionate about animal welfare, pets play a big role in her books. She's best known for putting nuanced characters into emotionally complex, real-life situations with twists that surprise readers to laughter. #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery writes heartwarming and humorous novels about the relationships that define women's lives-family, friendship, romance. But when fate hands you a love as sweet and surprising as this, only a fool could refuse. Gabriel didn't think he was made for happily-ever-afters. Still, there are some enjoyable distractions in town, including sunny, sexy Noelle.and the red-hot mistletoe kisses they can't stop sharing. Spending the holidays with his family while he recuperates from injury sounds as appetizing as last year's eggnog. Gabriel's memories of Christmas past contain more sour grapes than sugar plums, thanks to a drill sergeant father who ran his home like a boot camp. Business is booming, and as a bonus, gorgeous army doctor Gabriel Boylan has offered to help out during the holiday rush. The Christmas Attic celebrates everything that's magical about her favorite season. That's why she ditched a frustrating legal career to open her own store in Fool's Gold, California. There's nowhere better to spend the holidays than with New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery in the town of Fool's Gold, where love is always waiting to be unwrapped. Noelle Perkins just got a second chance at life, and she intends to make the most of every minute. ![]() ![]() ![]() Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. ![]() When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. ![]() She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well. Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Hall of smoke hm long![]() ![]() ![]() Soon Hessa's trust in her goddess weakens with every unheeded prayer. But her journey reveals a harrowing truth: the gods are dying and the High Halls of the afterlife are fading. As clans from the north and legionaries from the south tear through her homeland, slaughtering everyone in their path Hessa strives to win back her goddess' favour.īeset by zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly-awakened demons at every turn, Hessa burns her path towards redemption and revenge. Grieving and alone, Hessa - the last Eangi - must find the traveller and atone for her weakness and secure her place with her loved ones in the High Halls. While she is gone, raiders raze her village and obliterate the Eangi priesthood. Banished for disobeying her goddess's command to murder a traveller, she prays for forgiveness alone on a mountainside. Hessa is an Eangi: a warrior priestess of the Goddess of War, with the power to turn an enemy's bones to dust with a scream. Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Untamed journal![]() ![]() ![]() Untamed has been described as “a wake-up call” (Tracee Ellis Ross), “an anthem for women today” (Kristen Bell), and a book that “will shake your brain and make your soul scream” (Adele). With Untamed, Glennon Doyle-writer, activist, and “patron saint of female empowerment” ( People )-ignited a movement. ![]() I created Get Untamed: The Journal as an interactive experience in charting our own way-so we can let burn that which is not true and beautiful enough and get started building what is.” -Glennon Doyle “We must stop asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This stunning hardcover journal is a bold, interactive guide to discovering and creating the truest, most beautiful lives, families, and world we can imagine, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The witch of salt and storm![]() ![]() ![]() Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. ![]() It is a case of a serious lack of communication between both mother and daughter, and while the mother is portrayed as something of a wicked-stepmother-like figure from a fairy tale, she is complex enough for readers to be intrigued about her intentions, which while misplaced, are not necessarily as selfish as they seem. The Witch of Salt and Storm - Ebook written by Kendall Kulper. Avery on the other hand isn’t interested in pretty gowns, and wants nothing more than to return to her grandmother. Her mother wants nothing to do with magic (but will hypocritically use it to keep Avery with her nonetheless), and wants to see Avery married off and wealthy, and away from Prince Island. While the premise and plot of the novel is certainly interesting, it is Avery’s relationship with her mother, which is tumultuous at best, which stands out. Avery is a strong female protagonist who takes matters into her own hands, despite the odds being against her. Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants only to take her rightful place as the sea witch of Prince Island, making the charms that. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es). The Witch of Salt and Storm is Kendall Kulper’s debut novel, and while it took me a few chapters to feel really engaged with the story, once I was, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Witch of Salt and Storm by Kendall Kulper, Sep 04, 2014, Orchard Books, imusti edition, paperback. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Public image ltd johnny rotten![]() ![]() It was usually resentful intelligentsia trying to tear me down. The British being what they are, I had to get over a few things when I started. How do you feel about the process at this point? NOISEY: You’ve been doing interviews for nearly 40 years now. These days he’ll hurl his best epithets from sunny California, because Johnny Rotten is now a U.S. As such, the artist formerly known as Johnny Rotten isn’t quite the angry young man who hoisted two upright fingers in the Queen’s direction back in 1977. Then again, you might be surprised: A quarter-century of living in America and untold decades of listening to reggae can change a person irreversibly. extravaganza, entitled fill-in-the-blank style as What the World Needs Now… Famed torch singer Jackie DeShannon would clearly replace the ellipses with “is love” as she did on her soapy 1965 hit, but it seems unlikely that the former Sex Pistol is leaning toward anything quite so maudlin. I did.” The record he’s talking about is the latest Public Image Ltd. Why didn’t I put them on the record? Oh, hello. Lydon belches loudly and says, “Jazz tones. ![]() ![]() We’re poolside, of course-or at least at a picnic table on a sun deck overlooking a pool. John Lydon is alternately sipping a beer and huffing a duke at an undisclosed location in Malibu. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Until nico by aurora rose reynolds![]() ![]() You can’t help but be drawn into their storyline and pick right back up as if you never left. There’s an edge and an ease that comes with all her characters and you can’t help but be instantly attracted to them. ![]() What I figured out was that it has rawness that you don’t find often. Everything in life worth having is worth fighting for.Įven in sleep he looks dangerous, but then I think about how gentle he is with me and I wonder how it’s possible for someone to be so complicatedly beautiful.Īs I was contemplating what to write, I really started to think what it was that made me love Aurora’s writing so much. ![]() Nico knows the kind of man he is, and the things he is capable of, and he will do everything in his power to help Sophie fight her demons so they can have their happily ever after. His whole life, he has been judged by what’s on the outside, so finding a beautiful woman who sees the real him only makes his feelings that much stronger. Nico Mayson knew the moment he saw Sophie Grates that she was the one. He forces her to see you cannot live life from the outside looking in, and sometimes you have to step out onto the ledge so you can really enjoy the view. That is, Until Nico comes in and flips her world upside-down. Sophie Grates has never had it easy, but she’s finding her way through life one step and one day at a time. ![]() |