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Or does it belong to the ecological, geological context?Ĭraig Childs has spent most of his life asking these questions. Maybe you felt a little twinge of guilt when you moved it, maybe all you felt was the desire to keep that object, to place yourself in the story of which that object was itself only a small part. Once upon a time, hiking in the desert, you found an artifact an arrowhead, a piece of a pot, a fragment of bone. A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession ![]() ![]() Even if she’s never been attracted to big, hunky, athletic types. When Grayson, former co-captain of her university rugby team, walks into her class, she knows it’s meant to be – she has to go out with this guy. “Go out with a stereotypical romance novel hero WHO ISN’T YOUR TYPE.”Īvid reader and art student Steph is participating in a monthly blog challenge to Live Like Fiction, and this was the task for October. 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Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals.īut Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. ![]() Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. ![]() ![]() In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 Woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() It contains the final battle against Apophis.Ī guidebook about magicians and Egyptian gods. The third and final book in The Kane Chronicles series. The second book in the series details the journey of Carter and Sadie as they search for the Book of Ra, which will allow them to find Ra and gain his support in the coming battle against Apophis. They set out to stop Set from destroying North America and possibly all of the modern world and to rescue their father who has fallen into Set's clutches. 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Prize-winning author of Scottsboro, builds Republicans control of the Congress in 1994. ![]() Governor and four-time presidential candidate launched the conservative political the Wallace has been called "the most influential "This vivid portrait of George Wallace not only captures the passions of an embattled era, but taps into the pulse of today's headlines ![]() GEORGE WALLACE, THE ORIGINS OF THE NEW CONSERVATISM, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS ![]() ![]() "Atta's story uplifts as it informs and entertains as it affirms." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) PRAISE FOR THE BLACK FLAMINGO: "Courage and fierceness abound in this lyrical coming-of-age story.Gripping, unflinching, and unforgettable." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ![]() ![]() "Raw beauty and honesty are the verse novel's greatest strengths." - Kirkus Reviews Readers will become attached to Mack and will want to know exactly how this love triangle plays out." - School Library Journal "This slow-burn novel in verse is a raw, real, deep dive into the messy internal world of its relatable main character. traces a slow-burn love triangle that avoids excusing Mack's actions, centering a protagonist whose emotional arc unpacks themes of young love and self-acceptance alongside intersections of body image, gender identity, race, and sexuality." - Publishers Weekly ![]() The vivid, multifaceted depiction of teenage emotions makes this highly recommended." - Booklist (starred review) "Stonewall winner Atta's novel in verse is an exquisite and detailed look at friendship, compromises, family, and love, deftly capturing Mack's insecurities in a voice authentic to the high-school experience. ![]() ![]() Pirzada, teaching on the other side of the world. Boori Ma, sweeping steps by day, is uprooted from her home and spends her days cataloguing the misfortunes and losses that arose from her refugee status. Pirzada and Boori Ma are victims of the partition. ![]() Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies will reward readers."- USA Today "torytelling of surpassing kindness and skill. Discuss the significance of Partition as a theme in Interpreter of Maladies. ![]() "A writer of uncommon sensitivity and restraint."- Wall Street Journal "Lahiri breathers unpredictable life into the page, and the reader finished each story reseduced, wishing he could spend a whole novel with its characters."- The New York Times Book Review "Lahiri's touch is delicate yet assured, leaving no room for flubbed notes or forced epiphanies."- The Los Angeles Times "A writer of uncommon elegance and poise."- New York times "Dazzling writing, an easy-to-carry paperback format and a budget-respecting price tag of $12: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies possesses these three qualities, making it my book of choice this summer every time someone asks for a recommendation.Simply put, Lahiri displays a remarkable maturity and ability to imagine other lives.ach story offers something special. ![]() ![]() ![]() An example of this is a 99:1 bet in which you almost always win, but when you lose, you lose all your savings. Many real life phenomena are not 50:50 bets like tossing a coin, but have various unusual and counter-intuitive distributions. We see the winners and try to learn from them, while forgetting the huge number of losers. ![]() Other misperceptions of randomness that are discussed include: So they look for explanations even when there are none.
![]() ![]() In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. Three quarters of a century later, author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. ![]() ![]() In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. ![]() |