![]() ![]() She must navigate this, keeping her true identity secret, to try to find a way to free her mother from her prison, and return home herself. When a sudden burst of power draws the attention of the rulers of Heaven, Xingyin is pushed out of the home she has always known, and into the wide world of the immortals, full of inequalities, cruelty and power struggles. Chang’e has kept Xingyin’s existence a secret from everyone, but as her daughter’s abilities grow and develop, this is becoming impossible. ![]() Little do they know, she has a daughter, the child of her husband Houyi, with whom she was pregnant when she ascended to godhood. Chang’e, goddess of the moon, has been imprisoned by the Emperor and Empress of Heaven, alone and far from all immortals and mortals alike. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() It’s a book for anyone who has secluded themselves in headphones, pressed play, and heard themselves singing back in someone else’s voice. ![]() It’s a tribute to A Tribe Called Quest and a tribute to the power music has to grow with the listener. ![]() It’s illuminating for fans of the group, but even hip-hop novices will be moved by Abdurraqib’s book. Go Ahead in the Rain further functions as a pocket history of a hip-hop golden age, illustrating Tribe’s importance through collaborators and rivals. Tribe’s albums, infused with the jazz from their own parents’ record crates, were among the few hip-hop works approved by Abdurraqib’s parents in an era where media scaremongering around N.W.A. Pedro Pascal Lists A Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde As Favorite RappersĪbdurraqib ambitiously blends the universal and the personal: the first chapter traces the roots of hip-hop and jazz back to rhythms preserved by enslaved Africans in the Americas, and the author crystalizes those centuries of history into a story of his father rebuking a micro-aggressive middle school jazz teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() But a greater violence lurks beneath the surface of the storm… Country Place is a classic, page-turning story that masterfully captures the transformation of small-town life in America from one of the twentieth century’s finest writers. ![]() In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one. But his first doubts of Gloria’s infidelity are created on the way home by the local taxi driver, a passionate gossip, and these doubts which mature with the hurricane that is bearing down on them darkening the seemingly perfect town of Lennox, Connecticut. The Street / The Narrows by Ann Petry - book cover, description. ![]() Johnnie Roane has come home from four years of fighting in World War II to his loving parents and his beautiful wife, Gloria. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” - Tayari Jones, New York Times Book Reviewįrom the author of the bestselling novel The Street, Ann Petry’s classic 1947 novel portrays a small, sleepy New England town grappling with the indignities and lies of American life. “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the evil Duke of Argyll has made it his life's work to destroy all MacGregors, especially Callum and Maggie. With the help of other sympatric clans he refuses to drop away and hide as anything but a MacGregor and instead becomes their laird. One day he finally escapes with Maggie by killing his captors and becoming known as the evil MacGregor. Callum never gives up and his hatred grows as he continues to grow up in the dungeon. The strong and handsome highlander Callum MacGregor and his darling of a sister Maggie grow up as small children surrounded in evil as they are imprisoned and shackled deep in the Campbell's dungeon, after their family was killed, their lands taken away, and their very name wiped away as a Scottish clan. It is a time in Scotland where the name of MacGregor has been declared under proscription wiped out from the name of all Scottish clans. Paula Quinn breaks away from her Risande Family trilogy with this masterfully written medieval of the highlands. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.Īll Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. ![]() The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us-whose writing is “emotionally wrenching and utterly original” (Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)-delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Beloved and bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with the spellbinding story of two young people with devastating pasts who embark on a passionate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the middle of all of this is Anita Blake, the heroine of the series, who tries to figure out her own life and relationships while doing her part to keep the people safe from the monsters - and, when the situation calls for it, the monsters safe from the people and/or each other. ![]() This parallel world is complex and ever-changing, as the relationships and power structures evolve and we learn more about the numerous subgroups. exist, where humans can have a wide variety of psychic and magical abilities from clairvoyance to re-animating the dead, and where faith causes religious items to glow in the presence of active vampire powers regardless of the religion. Narrative style: First person POV, Anita BlakeĪnita Blake, Vampire Hunter is a series of fictional works set into a fantasy world parallel to our own, where vampires, shapeshifters (including lycanthropes such as werewolves), faeries, etc.Genres: Urban Fantasy, Erotica, Paranormal P.I. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a difficult chapter in history to talk about, but messages about gratitude, empathy, perseverance, courage, and kindness prevail. The main character as a young teen is separated from her parents and not sure whether they're alive. Characters are in danger of being rounded up by Nazis, or of being reported for harboring Jews, which maintains a sense of scariness and dread throughout. A bully shoves a kid who uses crutches to the ground, and several panels show the bloody nose and blood dripping onto his shirt and jacket. Other violence includes illustrations showing blood on two dead bodies and bullet wounds in the back of civilians fleeing German soldiers. No concentration camps are depicted, but they're mentioned. The Holocaust and the loss of parents and other family and friends are prominent themes. It continues and enlarges a story in Palacio's Auggie & Me about Julian's grandmother and her experience hiding from the Nazis during World War II in France. Parents need to know that White Bird: A Wonder Story is the first graphic novel by R.J. ![]() ![]() The next day, when I called, she told me the lady she'd in mind was a niece of hers, a Mrs. Come in tomorrow and we'll talk about it." She asked me what ailed me to look so white, and when I told her, "Why, Hartley," says she, "I believe I've got the very place for you. Railton, a friend of the lady that first brought me out to the States, met me one day and stopped to speak to me: she was one that had always a friendly way with her. It did though - or I thought so at the time. ![]() Most of my money was gone, and after I'd boarded for two months, hanging about the employment agencies, and answering any advertisement that looked any way respectable, I pretty nearly lost heart, for fretting hadn't made me fatter, and I didn't see why my luck should ever turn. I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came out I looked so weak and tottery that the two or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me. ![]() ![]() It was the autumn after I had the typhoid. ![]() ![]() Of course, it is possible that there were further contemporary sources that do not survive, but in the absence of any evidence to the contrary I think most researchers accept that Plato was present at the trial. Sadly, none of these explicitly state whether Plato was present at the trial or not. In addition, we have some surviving fragmentary works by Aeschines, Antisthenes, Euclid of Megara, Phaedo of Elis and Timon of Phlius. ![]() Other significant sources for details about the life of Socrates are Aristophanes and Aristotle (although Aristotle was not a contemporary of Socrates). Both were disciples of Socrates, although neither mentions the other. However, we also have nothing that contradicts it.Īs others have already mentioned in the comments, our two main sources of information for Socrates' later life are Plato and Xenophon. ![]() You are correct that there are no extant sources that corroborate Plato's claim to have been present at Socrates' trial. ![]() ![]() ![]() This success is partly explained by the way Schwab’s otherworldly stories are grounded in everyday life, rendering their magical elements palpable, and her explorations of identity personal. ![]() Schwab”) and young adult novels (under “Victoria Schwab”) have left readers spellbound, catapulting her to the New York Times bestseller list, even to No. At age 33, she has already published 20 novels, traversing the genres of fantasy, sci-fi and horror. Schwab is now one of today’s most prolific writers. What WashU did, at every step, was to encourage curiosity and embrace ambition.” I finished the book a week before graduation, and it sold that September. “I set aside two hours every night, walked to a nearby café, and wrote from 9 p.m. Undeterred, Schwab began her second novel as a WashU senior. ![]() |