The nobility had never liked him, not when he was the High Prince, and certainly not since his coronation. The hammered iron crown had long since been placed on his head, his palm cut and bled on an altar as he was named king of Tranavia-his downfall was oncoming. “Any trouble is of your own making,” the voice snipped. Those strange intonations hummed constantly in his veins. The thin, reedy voice that needled him from a place past death. Horrors at the edges of his awareness and that voice. An empty glass on the floor within reach and a book hanging over the arm where Serefin had put it to mark his place as he considered the same thing he had considered every night for the last four months: dreams of moths and blood and monsters. To rouse him, clearly, but he probably wasn’t particularly surprised to find Serefin lying on the chaise in his sitting room, one foot braced on the ground, the other leg kicked up against the back. He was awake when Kacper slipped into his chambers. No, he did it because it was easier to drink himself into oblivion than face the nightmares. It wasn’t like he spent his nights awake because he was expecting another tragedy. He knew that span of hours intimately, but even knowledge of the inevitable wasn’t enough to make it less painful. It was a time when knives were unsheathed, when plans were created and seen into fruition. Serefin Meleski inhabited the sliver of night that was ripe for betrayal. A viper, a tomb, a trick of the light, Velyos is always reaching for whatever does not belong to him.
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Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for supremacy, it’s a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle for power and survival.Įight years ago, Julie Lennart left Atlanta to find out who she was. I dropped off that train around book three.įrom award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an all-new novel set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring Julie Lennart-Olsen, Kate and Curran’s ward.Ītlanta was always a dangerous city. Obviously this will be a more nuanced read if you’ve finished or are familiar with the prior series. Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews is $3.49 at Amazon! This is a spin-off of Andrews’ Kate Daniels series with the main character being Kate and Curran’s ward. Poster book–style prints can be removed easily for framing, display, or craft projects.
But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women-and their goddesses-that will change the course of the world. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. But as everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war. No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus' empty throne-not yet. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Breathtaking." - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. "North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale. From the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. Unlike Thoreau, Dillard does not make connections between the history of social and natural aspects, nor does she believe in an ordered universe. Critic Donna Mendelson notes that Thoreau's "presence is so potent in her book that Dillard can borrow from both straightforwardly and also humorously." Although the two works are often compared, Pilgrim does not comment upon the social world as Walden does rather, it is completely rooted in observations of the natural world. The book often quotes and alludes to Walden, although Dillard does not explicitly state her interest in Thoreau's work. She stated, "There's usually a bit of nature in what I write, but I don't consider myself a nature writer." Dillard has also resisted the label of "nature writer", especially in regard to Pilgrim. Although the chapters are separately named-several have also been published separately in magazines and anthologies-she referred to the book in a 1989 interview as a "single sustained nonfiction narrative". Although it is often described as a series of essays, Dillard has insisted it is a continuous work, as evidenced by references to events from previous chapters. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a work of creative nonfiction that uses poetic devices such as metaphor, repetition, and inversion to convey the importance of recurrent themes. Home Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Wikipedia: Style and genre This is the Underground Railroad’s multiperson memoir, with all the power and gravitas of an epic poem. It developed as a convergence of several. She opens: “I grew up like a neglected weed-ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.” The many narratives here are as ripe with metaphor as they are with exquisitely detailed recollections of the land and people encountered during escape, and with wonderfully rich descriptions of often-prosperous enterprises created once freedom was achieved. The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South. Occupying a mere half-page near the beginning of the book is Harriet Tubman. The result is a chorus of voices illuminating a harrowing chapter of history and the astonishing feats of resistance that ultimately beat back the system of American chattel slavery. To compile this book, Benjamin Drew, a white abolitionist from Plymouth, Mass., visited 14 communities in Canada and transcribed the stories of more than 100 formerly enslaved people. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave. A young girls courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize. Photo: Bridgeman Images A North-Side View of Slaveryġ. Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad. ‘The Underground Railroad’ (1893) by Charles T. He is a substantial writer, with over five major works on Middle Eastern history and politics to his credit. Pappe has always been controversial within his own homeland as the most ‘revisionist’ within the segment of the new historiography that has come out of Israel. In many ways, Pappe is carrying on the work of many other writers in the field of revisionist Israeli history and particularly those of writers such as Benny Morris, Nur Masalha and Walid Khalidi, albeit in a more nuanced, emphatic and clear manner. Pappe is one among the ‘New Israeli Historians’ along with others such as Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim and the present Editor of Holy Land Studies, Nur Masalha. Pappe is hardly a stranger to the pages of this journal, having been a regular contributor to it (as well as serving on its editorial board), since its inception in the early years of this decade under the co-editorship of the late Michael Prior. Having taught for over two decades at the University of Haifa in Israel, he is now on the faculty list of the University of Exeter in the UK. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 1984. Pappe was born in Haifa (Israel) in 1954. This work has been fittingly dedicated by the author to the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948. Professor Ilan Pappe's ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’ will most certainly be classified as one of the most painstakingly researched books on the Israel-Palestine question to emerge to date. In “You Just Need to Lose Weight,” Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people. Yet, these myths are as readily debunked as they are pervasive. Fat acceptance “glorifies obesity.” The BMI is an objective measure of size and health. We’re in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Losing weight is easy-calories in, calories out. The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”-Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast “One of the great thinkers of our generation. The diary caused a sensation when it was published in Japan in 1948 and is today regarded as a classic. 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Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. This action-packed YA debut pits a deadly siren princess and a siren-hunting human prince against each other as they fight to protect their kingdoms. So, I was excited to read this book especially after I remembered I already had it sitting on my bookcase for the last month or so after a major book haul. It was one of the princess movies I watched a lot (granted I normally watched the sequel). Mostly as I remembered this was a twisted reimaging of The Little Mermaid, which was one of my favorite Disney movies growing up. I ended up started it before it was decided what we were going to read for the month. One of my book clubs was debating on reading To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo. These help support the blog, so I can keep creating content.Īfter reading Hades & Persephone a few times, it was time to move onto something different. 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