![]() ![]() She faced down a Delver and saw something eerily familiar about it. Spensa knows that no matter how many pilots the DDF has, there is no defeating this predator.Įxcept that Spensa is Cytonic. Ancient, mysterious alien forces that can wipe out entire planetary systems in an instant. ![]() And Spensa has seen the weapons they plan to use to end it: the Delvers. Now, the Superiority – the governing galactic alliance bent on dominating all human life – has started a galaxy-wide war. ![]() What’s more, she travelled light-years from home as a spy to infiltrate the Superiority, where she learned of the galaxy beyond her small, desolate planet home. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus and she saved her people from extermination at the hands of the Krell – the enigmatic alien species that has been holding them captive for decades. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After Hester refuses to name her lover, Chillingworth becomes obsessed with uncovering his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery. At the time of conception, Hester believed that she was a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, arrives in New England very much alive and conceals his identity. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne a child out of wedlock. ![]() The setting is the superstitious Puritan community of Boston in the seventeenth century. Although it was published in 1850, the major theme of shaming and social stigmatizing is just as relevant today. The Scarlet Letter is a classic of American literature. ![]() Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers – stern and wild ones – and they made her strong, but taught her much amiss.’ Nathaniel Hawthorne ‘The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. David Stuart Davies looks at Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic American novel, a tale of sin, guilt and redemption set in Massachusetts in the mid-seventeenth Century ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() nghi vo is actually out of her mind for these novellas, and i am blown away way passed the point of coherent words. truly unforgettable, and the layers and depth to it all is so expertly done. and how those stories get distorted over time when others write them down, sometimes trying to make them fit in boxes they never belonged in.Īnd if you all are looking for sapphic yearning, and angst, and one liners that you will physically feel in your heart and soul, i recommend this story with everything. not only a love letter to love, but a love letter to stories being told through generations and the power of stories being audibly passed down. Oh, this was a complete and utter masterpiece. “When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Captain Jack Sparrow- Pirates Of The Caribbean: At The World’s End ![]() "And that was without even a single drop of rum." I don't care where we go it what we do as long as I'm with you "Aye, Captain." He lifts the tricorne off my head and runs his fingers through my hair. "Have you decided you want to be a permanent member of the crew, then?" I tease. I could say something naughty but I won't. He is only the first of Theris's - no, Vordan's, I remind myself - crew who will die tonightĪlosa is now a captain of her own ship and has her own female pirates and we might just have some sirens too □īut will they defeat the Pirate King and get the gold? Read and find out. I catch the pirate before his corpse hits the ground and gently lower him the rest of the way. The sound of my knife slitting across a throat feels much to loud in the darkness. Alosa is back and bad to the bone! I loved the first one and love this one even more ![]() ![]() ![]() Kiese Laymon writes of his mother "You modeled a rugged love. It's masculinity it all its self-consuming threat and secret beauty. It's raw and vulnerable and suffused with fiercest seeing. Excellent * New York Times * Quite simply, Heavy is one of the most important and intense books of the year because of the unyielding, profoundly original and utterly heartbreaking way it addresses and undermines expectations for what exactly it's like to possess and make use of a male black body in America * Los Angeles Times * It's a book aching with heart yet proffering no illusions. If this book succeeds as a thoughtful and hard-wrought examination of how a black man came into his own in a country determined to prevent that from happening, it's because of the painstaking manner in which Laymon walks the reader through the various perils and costs of striving. ![]() ![]() Just wow - Roxane Gay, author of 'Hunger' Brilliant and ground-shaking - Elizabeth Gilbert Unflinchingly honest - Reni Eddo-Lodge Laymon's writing, as rich and elegant as mahogany, offers us comfort even as we grapple with his book's unflinching honesty. A gift - Jesmyn Ward, TLS Books of the Year Oh my god. So beautifully written, so insightful, so thoughtful, so honest, so vulnerable, so intimate. ![]() ![]() Can Vaught and Kisses survive in the face of an uncertain future? The publicity tour sends Mel and Sharon on a road trip back to their childhood homes in rural Florida and Kentucky, setting off a year that is the most difficult of their collective lives: as Mel's substance abuse reaches combustion levels, Sharon suffers a medical crisis, leaving Mel, who barely knows how to pay a bill, to care for both their business and Sharon. until the breakout success of their first full-length animated film. Despite their differences Mel is a wildly charismatic, drug-dabbling, party-starter, Sharon, a shy, wry, lovelorn misanthrope - the Vaught and Kisses partnership is a profoundly productive and creative one (their style: think a more feminist Fritz the Cat, with an Adult Swim sensibility). ![]() The Animators is about Sharon Kisses and her business partner and friend, Mel Vaught, two brilliant cartoonists who meet in college and begin working together. Debut author Kayla Rae Whitaker talks about The Animators, artistic ambition, and why she is moving back to her native Kentucky after seven years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All her seven novels take place here, and it’s closely based on Clifton, in Bristol, where she spent the early years of her adult life. The setting for the novel is a rather shabby but still beautiful Georgian square in an area Young calls Upper Radstowe. It was her last novel, published in 1947 when she was sixty, but set in the summer of 1939. I’ve read several of her novels since then and all are brilliant, but this one stayed in my mind as particularly good. I read this in 2010, spurred on by a reading in a book club of EH Young’s earlier novel Miss Mole. ![]() When the British Library announced the first three titles in their new Women Writers series, I was delighted see that one of them was Chatterton Square. ![]() ![]() ![]() 91 The descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism by John was the sign that this was he who was to come, the Messiah, the Son of God. CONFIRMATION IN THE ECONOMY OF SALVATIONġ286 In the Old Testament the prophets announced that the Spirit of the Lord would rest on the hoped-for Messiah for his saving mission. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed." 90 89 For "by the sacrament of Confirmation, are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. ![]() It must be explained to the faithful that the reception of the sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace. 1285 Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the "sacraments of Christian initiation," whose unity must be safeguarded. ![]() ![]() ![]() or even realistic - (God knows "real sex" is interesting enough to warrant an HBO series of the same name). The worst of it is this: if I am to be given lengthy descriptions of sex play, it had better be original and erotic or possibly comic. ![]() How did the Pink Carnation save England? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly find a hero of her own? Eloise Kelly settles in to read the secret history hoping to unmask the Pink Carnation's identity, but before she can make this discovery, she uncovers a passionate romance within the pages of the secret history that almost threw off the course of world events. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, a wildly imaginative and highly adventurous debut, opens with the story of a modern-day heroine but soon becomes a book within a book. ![]() Eloise has found the secret history of the Pink Carnation�the most elusive spy of all time, the spy who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion. ![]() What she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: a secret history that begins with a letter dated 1803. Deciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, Eloise Kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her Jimmy Choo suede boots on the day it rains, leaves Harvard's Widener Library bound for England to finish her dissertation on the dashing pair of spies the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. ![]() These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Finally, he argues that Jung’s visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing in Western society.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. Jungian analysis, and to the unjust allegation that Jung was a Nazi sympathizer. He examines Jung’s views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, `sychronicity’, and the psychology of gender differences, and he devotes separate chapters to the stages of life, Jung’s theory of psychological types, the interpretation of dreams, the practice of In this concise introduction, Anthony Stevens explains clearly the basic concepts of Jungian psychology: the collective unconscious, complex, archetype, shadow, persona, anima, animus, and the individuation of the Self. Anthony Stevens examines Jungs views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, 'synchronicity', and the psychology of gender differences. Though he was a prolific writer and an original thinker of vast erudition, Jung lacked a gift for clear exposition and his ideas are less widely appreciated than they deserve. ![]() |