![]() ![]() She is a pillar, an icon, and an inspiration. ![]() "Tamora Pierce's books shaped me not only as a young writer but also as a young woman. ![]() Here, Pierce gives fans exactly what they want-a smart, savvy heroine making a name for herself on the mean streets of Tortall's Lower City-while offering plenty to appeal to new readers as well! ![]() The Beka Cooper Trilogy introduces an amazing young woman who is the ancestor to one of Tamora Pierce's most popular characters: George Cooper. Beka must decide whom she can trust with her country's future. Soon they are wading deep into a world of power, corruption, and betrayal that threatens the Tortall royal family. And when the pair is joined by a wide-eyed young mage who seems too green to be on a case of such importance, it becomes clear that threats lurk around every corner. He informs Beka that she and her scent hound, Achoo, are the best team for the job, but he won't tell her anything else. After suffering a terrible loss, Beka is grateful when Lord Gershom calls on her with a top-secret Hunt. Sometimes a distraction arrives at just the right time. The more secret the Hunt, the more dangerous the mission. In the final book in the Beka Cooper Trilogy, Beka uses her unique magic and street smarts to crack the case that will change an empire! A New York Times bestseller from the fantasy author who is legend herself: TAMORA PIERCE. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Women Who Dared by Linda Skeers![]() ![]() Each has a full-page biography with some fun graphics, created by illustrator Livi Gosling, and a full-page drawing of the woman. This is just one example of these many fascinating women. She was an entrepreneur who built a business on transporting luggage and making wake-up calls. She was a former slave who escaped to Canada with her family in the late 1700s. Author Linda Skeers has gathered the stories of 52 women who did amazing and wonderful things with their lives in times and places when, according to their societies, they had absolutely no business doing them. ![]() ![]() What do a wing-walker, a wrestler, a cosmonaut, a lighthouse-keeper, and a spy all have in common? They are all women who did these things long before it was acceptable for women to be in such professions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly I had a few wonderful moments when everything clicked together and I felt so accomplished for having solved a problem in an unexpected way. I can't overstate how clever these puzzles were. I just wish they’d put a section in there that would help a kid is struggling to see how to approach the problem and at least provide an answer. Other than that, I think it’s a great idea to have the kind of puzzles that the kids in the books had to solve. It just doesn’t make any sense to me that you would have a puzzle book and then have an attitude about it that “if you’re too stupid to solve the puzzles then don’t read the book”. I don’t think that’s ever appropriate for kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the problem is that if you’ve tried to work a puzzle and can’t get it, and you’ve looked at the hint and still can’t get it, and then you can’t find the answer you just wind up feeling stupid. Don’t get me wrong - I think the hints are a great idea and I wish more puzzle books would do that, i.e., give you a hint so you could still get it yourself. One problem with the book is that it does not give you the answers, it only gives hints. I wish it had done more to explain how the puzzles are solved. I found this book a little disappointing from the standpoint that I think kids that are already good at solving puzzles will enjoy it, and kids who aren’t won’t. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Wretched of the earth on violence![]() ![]() Through critiques of nationalism and of imperialism, Fanon presents a discussion of personal and societal mental health, a discussion of how the use of language (vocabulary) is applied to the establishment of imperialist identities, such as colonizer and colonized, to teach and psychologically mold the native and the colonist into their respective roles as slave and master, and a discussion of the role of the intellectual in a revolution. The French-language title derives from the opening lyrics of " The Internationale". The Wretched of the Earth ( French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the philosopher Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing a social movement for the decolonization of a person and of a people. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Sequel to the silent corner![]() ![]() ![]() Too many have already died, and those responsible will learn that all their malevolent power may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless-and who is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. and dangerously devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. Book 1 in the gripping thriller series featuring rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk, from the master of suspense and New York Times 1 bestselling author Dean Koontz. Because those arrayed against her are legion. ![]() Although people of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers, no one else is willing to give up everything, just to seek, to find, to know. There is no one else to speak for Jane's husband-or the others who have followed him into death at their own hands. unless she does what all the grief, fear, confusion, and fury inside of her demand: find the truth, no matter what. In the void that remains stands his widow, Jane, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered. "I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for-but took his own life. propelled by the singular narrative genius of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. A dazzling new series debuts with a remarkable heroine certain to become a new icon of suspense. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Elantris by Brandon Sanderson![]() ![]() Hrathen’s words, though stated by a fictional character, have been proven repeatedly in the course of human history, especially in the case of the Nazis uniting under Hitler. ![]() He claims that “hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could” (Sanderson 74). Hrathen holds true to his words throughout the story, working with the Arelians’ best interests in mind even though he feels no emotional attachment towards the actual people of Arelon.Īs Hrathen speaks tells his followers his plan to seize control of Arelon, he explains his reasoning behind getting the Arelians to detest the Elantrians. ![]() ![]() He decides that forcing a country to convert to Shu-Dereth would not benefit the people after all, and he helps the Arelians fend off the forces of the Fjordell army. However, as the novel progresses, Hrathen begins to lose faith in his own religion. Hrathen believes that he is saving the country of Arelon by converting them to Shu-Dereth. Hrathen finds Fjon to be too friendly with the Arelian people and scorns Fjon’s affectionate ways, so Hrathen tells him, “We are not here to love the people we are here to help them” (Sanderson 32). Fjon is a priest who had originally immigrated from Hrathen’s country of Fjordell to Arelon to preach the Shu-Dereth religion to the Arelians, but he was unable to convert many people. When Hrathen arrives in Arelon, he speaks with a man named Fjon. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Chamber of secrets minalima![]() ![]() Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. ![]() She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. ![]() As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Although she writes under the pen name J.K. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments The secret man by bob woodward![]() Bob Woodward es tan sincero que expone sus propias fallas en favor de esclarecer los trascendentes acontecimientos de la investigación periodística del caso watergate y el. The Secret Man: The Story of Watergates Deep Throat.
![]() ![]() No one will do this for us we must ourselves develop the men and women who will faithfully portray the inmost thoughts and feelings of the Negro with all the fire and romance which lie dormant in our history, and, as yet, unrecognized by writers of the Anglo-Saxon race. ![]() It is a record of growth and development from generation to generation. Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs-religious, political and social. In another of her works, the author explained the nature and purpose of her literary efforts: "But, after all, it is the simple, homely tale, unassumingly told, which cements the bond of brotherhood among all classes and all complexions. The book was described as "a powerful narrative of love and intrigue, founded on events which happened in the exciting times immediately following the assassination of President Lincoln: a story of the Republic in the power of Southern caste prejudice toward the Negro." (From the January, 1901, issue of "The Colored American Magazine") Hopkins, a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, historian, and playwright. Hagar's Daughter was first published serially in "The Colored American Magazine" in 1901-1902 by Pauline E. Pauline Hopkins, in full Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, (born 1859, Portland, Maine, U.S.died Aug. ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert Hagar's Daughter. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Kill the Messenger by Maz Maddox![]() ![]() Kirt Graves is an amazing narrator and he did a great job with the voices in book one, but this seems like a rushed job to me. Montana, Dalton and Simon have barely discernible voice differences and were not how they sounded in Smash & Grab (I listened to both back to back). While Baha’s voice is the same as it was in book one (breathe a sigh of relief with me), the voices for the other characters that also appeared in Smash & Grab do not match very well. But, one of my major pet peeves with series narrated by the same person with the same characters is when the voices don’t match from one audiobook to the other. ![]() Maz Maddox has become a 1-click author for me and I highly, highly recommend the RELIC series. My irritation has nothing to do with the author OR the book. I was excited for Baha to get his HEA and it was everything I had hoped for and more! Jackson was the perfect character to complement Baha when he’s a grumpy grumposaurus. A+++ for the story….jury is out on narrationīefore I get into what disappointed me with the audiobook, Sink or Swim is probably my favorite book out of the RELIC series (and I’ve read them all). ![]() |