6/12/2023 0 Comments Lavinia by ursula k le guin![]() ![]() ![]() But omens decree otherwise, and Lavinia weds Trojan warrior-adventurer Aeneas, a bereaved and conflicted husband, son and father who will, over the years, earn the initially reluctant Lavinia’s undying respect and love. ![]() The story is that of the eponymous princess of Latium (a royal city before Rome existed), promised by her parents, King Latinus and Queen Amata, to neighboring Rutilian king Turnus (who is Amata’s nephew). Le Guin ( Powers, 2007, etc.) departs from her award-winning fantasy and science-fiction novels to amplify a story told only glancingly in Virgil’s epic The Aeneid. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov’s oppressors. Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. But the surreal landscape of the city itself, forever altered by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it, stands as a haunting reminder of its former supremacy. Now, Bulikov’s history has been censored and erased, its citizens subjugated. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions - until its divine protectors were killed. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments A hundred splendid suns![]() ![]() Jalil is Mariam's father, a rich movie theater owner who lives in Herat. She ultimately is tried and executed by the Taliban for her actions. ![]() At the end of the novel, Mariam rises up in revenge and strikes Rasheed dead. Her childless marriage to Rasheed eventually forces her into a life of submission and misery until close to the end of her life, when Laila provides her with some hope. After falling into deep despair following her mother's death, Mariam is abandoned by Jalil, who marries her off to Rasheed, despite her attempts to remain single. Though she is raised by Nana, her mother, she is very fond of her estranged father, Jalil. She is a strong girl who questions authority and dreams of bigger things for herself - far beyond what she finds within the walls of her small shack. ![]() She was brought up to know her place in society as a 'harami,' or bastard child. Mariam grows up in a small shack outside of the city of Herat. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The taking dean koontz movie![]() ![]() It has haunted their sleep, invaded their dreams, and now they rise to find a luminous silvery downpour drenching their small California mountain town. On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain on their roof. ![]() Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant in the face of mankind’s darkest hour, here is a small-town slice-of-doomsday thriller that strikes to the core of each of us to ask: What would you do in the midst of The Taking. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps. ![]() In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears-and best dreams. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Albert einstein young thinker![]() ![]() However, Einstein rebelled against the authoritarian attitude of some of his teachers and dropped out of school at 16. He excelled in physics and mathematics, but was a more "moderate" pupil in other subjects, Küpper wrote on his website. The second wonder came at age 12 when he discovered a book of geometry, which he worshipped, calling it his "holy geometry book."Ĭontrary to popular belief, young Albert was a good student, according to an online archive. This would lead to a lifelong fascination with unseen forces. ![]() Young Einstein encountered his first wonder - a compass - at age 5: He was mystified that invisible forces could deflect the needle. ![]() Albert Einstein: Before and after relativityĮinstein would write in his memoirs that two "wonders" deeply affected his early years, according to Hans-Josef Küpper, an Albert Einstein scholar. Was Einstein wrong? Why some astrophysicists are questioning the theory of space-time ![]() ![]() Lewis took logic very seriously as a primary means of securing truth and avoiding falsehood. He understood the pursuit of truth to require devotion to logic as well, and hence to the following out of the consequences of truths discovered. This is a very characteristic statement for Lewis. And from that point of view the very idea of something being imperfect, of its not being what it ought to be, has certain consequences. ( Mere Christianity, p. He says to the potential objector: I am not concerned at present with blame I am trying to find out the truth. There he had pointed out that human beings constantly fail to behave as they expect others to behave. ![]() In his third BBC lecture under the heading, The Case for Christianity, later published in Mere Christianity, he responds to those who might think he had been too hard on human beings in his previous lecture. His confidence in this respect did not make him arrogant and close-minded, but was, to the contrary, the foundation of his remarkable humility and openness. Lewis was devoted to the pursuit of truth, and was sure he had captured or been given a great deal of it. ![]() Single Issues of The Independent Review. ![]() Podcast: Independent Outlook / Conversations.International Economics and Development. ![]() ![]() Too bad she can't help being attracted to the way he pushes her buttons, both politically and physically. Henry is Spring's only hope at publication, but he's also the über-rich son of a land developer and cash-strapped Spring’s polar opposite. ![]() “Whatever it takes,” however, means forming a partnership with the very hot, very privileged, very conceited Henry Knightly. ![]() Spring swears she’ll do whatever it takes to ensure that happens. Both seem hopelessly unobtainable until her college professor suggests that with a new angle, her paper could be published. Spring Honeycutt wants two things: to ace her sustainable living thesis and to save the environment. Her theory of attraction is about to get a new angle. A new adult novel from Entangled's Embrace imprint. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments High risk homosexual edgar gomez![]() ![]() His uncles tried to “reform” him by setting him up with a woman one night after a cockfight. His mother and stepfather couldn’t live with the thought that Gomez was gay. Much of Gomez’s memoir recounts his struggles to find guides to help him growing up, gay and Latinx in a world that often violently rejected gay men. ![]() Within such a culture, “men must marry, spawn children, and head their households.” If it weren’t for his queerness, Gomez writes, “which made many of the benefits awarded to men who uphold machismo unappealing, I would have likely accepted them without question.” With alternating notes of gut-wrenching emotion and humor, High-Risk Homosexual chronicles not only Gomez’s coming-of-age and coming out, but also his choppy navigation of a culture and family that refused to accept him. Growing up in Florida, with roots in Puerto Rico and Nicaragua, Edgar Gomez was confronted very early in his life by a culture of machismo-a glorified, aggressive masculine pride. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome declared, “boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once.”įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature. This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on Jhaving circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km). On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. Librivox recording of Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Sorcery of thorns grimoire edition![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire, and Elisabeth is implicated in the crime. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. ![]() Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery-magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. A New York Times bestseller! “A bewitching gem.I absolutely loved every moment of this story.” -Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series “If you loved the Hogwarts Library…you’ll be right at home at Summershall.” -Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale From the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an “enthralling adventure” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom. ![]() |