5/30/2023 0 Comments Vintage wisdom for a modern geek![]() ![]() I was inspired by journey and made a point of saving a copy of Popular for my sister, who starts middle school this fall. I will be saving my copy to give to my daughter when she is a little older Jo Elvin, Glamour It is charming, touching, entertaining - and brought back a lot of memories about my own high school anxieties. Margaret Stohl, bestselling co-author of the bestselling Beautiful Creatures series A teenage John Green for the next generation. ![]() Told with humour and grace, Mayas journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and self-confidence. ![]() The real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprise-meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at pretty much the lowest level of people at school who arent paid to be here, Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment: spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell. ![]() Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek is a touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen. ![]()
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Set in the early-twentieth century, this book features Father Brown whose world is quintessentially English crime scenes await in country houses, rural parish churches and quaint gardens as well as foggy London streets and shadowy railway stations. ![]() Description for The Complete Father Brown Stories Paperback. ![]() ![]() Your use of the translations is subject to all use restrictions contained in your Electronic Products License Agreement and by using the translation functionality you agree to forgo any and all claims against ProQuest or its licensors for your use of the translation functionality and any output derived there from. PROQUEST AND ITS LICENSORS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES FOR AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, COMPLETENESS, NON-INFRINGMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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A few characters fall to their deaths, and several engage in fisticuffs, landing blows and breaking bones. ![]() One character jumps into the maw of a T-Rex, grenades strapped to his person. ![]() Violence: Several men fight dinosaurs, blasting them with guns and grenades and getting injured or killed by teeth and claws. As the Cold War dawns on an unsuspecting planet, so do new heroes and menaces usher in a new epoch of superhuman epics. Darwyn Cooke establishes his award-winning limited series, DC: The New Frontier, in this pocket of time. The Golden Age preceded the Silver Age, a post-World War II era that saw an uptick comic book interest after the Golden Age ran its course. From the 1930s to approximately the late 1950s, comics experienced what has been termed “The Golden Age.” Highlighted by a rapid increase in popularity towards the medium, this Golden Age saw the debut of iconic characters such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Spirit, Captain America, and even Archie Andrews. ![]() ![]() Help arrives in the form of Deming Chen, a Venator from Shanghai, who must untangle the web of deceptions before the killers strike again.Īs the young vampires struggle for the survival of the coven, they uncover a deadly secret, a truth first discovered by Schuyler’s mother during the Renaissance but kept buried for centuries. Vampires are being abducted and their captors are planning to burn them alive online…for all the world to see. Struggling with her heartache over the loss of Kingsley and with her overwhelming desire to destroy Jack, she must focus all of her energy on a perilous new threat. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the five remaining gates that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silver Bloods.īack in New York, Mimi has been elected Regent of a crumbling coven. ![]() ![]() After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence with her forbidden love, Jack. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Battle royal by lucy parker![]() That makes all the difference to me as a reader. Sylvie “detests” Dominic and she certainly thinks some less-than-flattering thoughts about him, but they are never truly mean to one another. ![]() ![]() Generally speaking I’m hesitant with books billed as “enemies to lovers” I dislike mean characters and I need to like the main characters in any romance I’m reading or else I can’t care about their journey to a HEA. It even has cake! I have a soft spot for the grumpy one and the sunshiney one and when he’s also a cinnamon roll? Sign me up. If ever a book was made to please me, Battle Royal is it. ![]() CW: parental death, emotional abuse (childhood), cancer ![]() ![]() ![]() Their book shows that it is possible to envision and create a society that is genuinely democratic, equitable, and ecologically sustainable. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old. Creating an Ecological Society reveals an overwhelmingly simple truth: Fighting for reforms is vital, but revolution is essential.īecause it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. But crucial as reforms are, they cannot solve our intertwined ecological and social crises. The need to organize for social and environmental reforms has never been greater. Already, hundreds of millions of people are facing poverty in the midst of untold wealth, perpetual war, growing racism, and gender oppression. Capitalism’s imperative-to make profits at all costs and expand without end-is destabilizing the Earth’s climate, while increasing human misery and inequality on a planetary scale. It is now clearer than ever that capitalism is also degrading the Earth’s ability to support other forms of life. ![]() Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Bastian all the stars and teeth![]() ![]() ![]() She strikes a deal with Bastian, a mysterious pirate: he’ll help her prove she’s fit to rule, if she’ll help him reclaim his stolen magic.īut sailing the kingdom holds more wonder-and more peril-than Amora anticipated. ![]() When her demonstration goes awry, Amora is forced to flee. To secure her place as heir to the throne, she must prove her mastery of the monarchy’s dangerous soul magic. The rest of the realm can choose their magic, but for Amora, it’s never been a choice. Maas’s Throne of Glass series.Īs princess of the island kingdom Visidia, Amora Montara has spent her entire life training to be High Animancer-the master of souls. Set in a kingdom where danger lurks beneath the sea, mermaids seek vengeance with song, and magic is a choice, Adalyn Grace’s All the Stars and Teeth is a thrilling fantasy for fans of Stephanie Garber’s Caraval and Sarah J. Thank you to Fierce Reads for this ARC to read and review, which does not influence my thoughts below.Īll the Stars and Teeth (All the Stars and Teeth, #1)by Adalyn Graceīookshop, IndieBound, Audiobook through LibroFM, iTunes ![]() If you are looking for a spectacular book with magic, pirates, mermaids, and a love triangle, then All the Stars and Teeth is your book! ARC Review & Event Recap: All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Samuel beckett godot![]() ![]() ![]() So, what made Beckett’s play so innovative to 1950s audiences? As Michael Patterson observes in The Oxford Guide to Plays (Oxford Quick Reference), the theme of promised salvation which never arrives had already been explored by a number of major twentieth-century playwrights, including Eugene O’Neill ( The Iceman Cometh) and Eugène Ionesco ( The Chairs).Īnd plays in which ‘nothing happens’ were already established by this point, with conversation and meandering and seemingly aimless ‘action’ dominating other twentieth-century plays. However, contrary to popular belief, this is not what made Waiting for Godot such a revolutionary piece of theatre. It is always just beyond the horizon, in the future, arriving ‘tomorrow’. ![]() With this structure in mind, it is hardly surprising that the play is often interpreted as a depiction of the pointless, uneventful, and repetitive nature of modern life, which is often lived in anticipation of something which never materialises. ![]() |