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Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, this short but powerful masterpiece has the heroine create a reality of her own within the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wall-paper of her bedroom-a pattern that comes to symbolize her own imprisonment. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. Themes: The Subordination of Women in Marriage, The Importance of Self-Expression, The Evils of the “Resting Cure”īook Summary: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilmanįirst published in 1892, The Yellow WallPaper is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. Major Characters: An unnamed narrator (A young, upper-middle-class married woman), John, Jennie Genre: Short Story, Feminism, Mental Health
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Beyond redemption fletcher5/13/2023 Trouble is, there are many who would see a god in their thrall, including the High Priest’s own doppelgangers, a Slaver no one can resist, and three slaves led by possibly the only sane man left.Īs these forces converge on the boy, there’s one more obstacle: time is running out. For the High Priest Konig, that means creating order out of the chaos in his city-state, leading his believers to focus on one thing: helping a young man, Morgen, ascend to become a god. Sustained by their own belief-and the beliefs of those around them-they can manipulate their surroundings. Violent and dark, the world is filled with the Geisteskranken-men and women whose delusions manifest. When belief defines reality, those with the strongest convictions-the crazy, the obsessive, the delusional-have the power to shape the world.Īnd someone is just mad enough to believe he can create a god. and the fulfillment of humanity’s desires may well prove to be its undoing. Brett, and Neil Gaiman conjures a gritty mind-bending fantasy, set in a world where delusion becomes reality. A darkly imaginative writer in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie, Peter V.
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Unnatural by alessandra hazard5/13/2023 Eridan’s just another pawn.Įridan despises his Master, and yet he finds himself craving his attention and approval like a drug he can’t live without.Ĭastien has never understood the concepts of kindness and love, but to his displeasure, his insolent apprentice has a way of getting under his skin like nothing else. Corrupt, heartless, and calculating, Castien plays with the lives of those around him as if they’re just a game. Two alphas forced into a political marriage. When Castien Idhron, the most powerful man in the Order, claims Eridan as his apprentice, Eridan’s confused and wary. Unnatural ( 2020) (The first book in the Wrong Alpha series) A novel by Alessandra Hazard Buy from Amazon Search Sorry, we've not found any editions of this book at Amazon Find this book at A planet at war. Eridan believes he’s an ordinary orphan, one of hundreds of initiates of the Order trying to survive in a nest of intrigue, rivalry, and corruption, but he’s more important than he knows. Separated from his family after an assassination attempt, Prince Eridan is rescued by the reclusive Order of monks who control High Hronthar, an isolated school for telepaths. A master manipulator and an orphaned prince caught in his schemes: it wasn’t supposed to be a love story…
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Steve alten meg books in order5/13/2023 The attack on the carrier fleet indicates that Covah is hunting down warships in an attempt to arm himself with nuclear weapons. Having constructed the $8 billion dollar warship, the Chinese become victims themselves when the sub is hijacked by the project director, Simon Bela Covah, a computer genius who once served under Rocky's command at the Navy's Undersea Warfare Center. Washington D.C.: Rocky learns that the Goliath's plans were not destroyed but secretly sold to the Chinese. Powered by its five jet-pump propulsors and hydrodynamically shaped to be virtually undetectable under water, the sub has one more feature that separates it from all other vessels on the open seas: SORCERESS -its biochemical computer brain. The Goliath: A nuclear submarine Rocky helped design almost a decade ago, a top secret DoD project canceled when the schematics were destroyed by her former fiancé and U.S. As Rocky struggles to stay alive, a monstrous mechanical steel stingray surfaces, plowing the seas it now commands. Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the "unsinkable" naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk.
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The book with no pictures read aloud5/13/2023 And the patterns, routines and attentive habits that are set now will last a lifetime. It may seem like babies are not listening, but they are absorbing the experience. Make eye contact, but don’t look for a particular reaction. Try it: Texturized books are especially good for your child’s tactile experience. Babies who are read to are learning that reading is fun and can involve all the senses: the feel of the pages, the smell of the glue (don’t go crazy), the visuals of the illustrations, the sound of the parent’s voice. Sure, it’s good to get started reading aloud the children’s books that will be part of your child’s library. Turning on a television, or even an audiobook, doesn’t count. But here’s the catch: The language has to be live, in person and directed at the child. Research has shown that the number of words an infant is exposed to has a direct impact on language development and literacy. What does matter is the sound of your voice, the cadence of the text and the words themselves. You can read anything to a newborn: a cookbook, a dystopian novel, a parenting manual. Even newborns benefit from the experience of hearing stories (and they can’t complain about your taste in books). You may think you’re off the hook with books until your baby is at least vertical, but not so.
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Creativity ed catmull5/13/2023 to account for the years after it was published and to further illuminate the development of the unique culture at Pixar. Now, Catmull is updating Creativity, Inc. His sometimes counterintuitive advice includes giving a mediocre idea to a great team (because they’ll either fix it or come up with something better) and not worrying about preventing risks (because it’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them). In 2014, Catmull shared the secrets behind the culture he helped build in Creativity, Inc., which has become a kind of bible for effective, nurturing leadership. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to establish Pixar as one of the most successful and innovative companies on earth. In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer animated movie. The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands upon his New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles used to build Pixar’s singularly successful culture, including what he got wrong-and how he made it right.
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Scott berg lindbergh5/13/2023 In speeches, he repeatedly urged America to stay out of intervening and became one of the leading voices of the America First movement (which promoted non-intervention). However, he was dead set against going to war. At the same time, he was secretly reporting on the German aviation force. He never wore the Service Cross nor took it from its box, according to Berg. That same year he was presented with the Service Cross of the German Eagle for his aviation contributions it was presented on behalf of Adolf Hilter. By 1938, they were planning to move to Berlin. He and his wife Anne attended the Olympic Games in Germany in 1936 and became very impressed with the Germany military force. Lindbergh, of course, had a colored history with Germany and had been accused of being antisemitic. The project once captured the attention of director Steven Spielberg (he bought it preemptively before it published) but he apparently decided against it once he learned more and more about the aviator. The story of Lindbergh both in his flight achievements in 1927 and the subsequent kidnapping of his young child in 1932became international news. The project will be produced by Berg, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Killoran and Kevin McCormick. Scott Berg’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the same name. Oscar-winning writer Dustin Lance Black ( Milk) has been hired to adapt Paramount TV’s event series ‘Lindbergh’ based on A.
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Glenn brown website5/13/2023 Seeking a future for painting despite its historical baggage, he made illusionistic versions of the thickly painted works of Frank Auerbach and Karel Appel, rendering their layered impasto in smoothly detailed two-dimensional brushstrokes.īrown sources images from the internet, books, and other printed materials, distorting and manipulating them. His mannerist impulses stem from a desire to breathe new life into history, using its forms as vehicles for his exploration of paint.Īs an art student at Goldsmiths College, London, in the 1980s, Brown wrestled with the idea that painting had reached its end, as artists, critics, and scholars were then proclaiming. Mining art history and popular culture, Glenn Brown has created an artistic language that eschews categorization, fusing a wide range of time periods and pictorial conventions through reference, appropriation, and precise attention to detail. For me they exist in a dream world, a world that is made up of all the accumulated images stored in our subconscious that coagulate and mutate when we sleep. I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, to be not quite of this world.
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The night swim megan goldin5/13/2023 He ran his knuckles across the corners of his glistening eyes and swallowed hard. Visibly inexperienced in dealing with tragedy. His jaw was tight under strawberry blond stubble and his light eyes were watery by the time he was done. I hugged her withered waist as he told her what he had to say. “Ma’am, I don’t know how to tell you other than to say it straight.” The policeman spoke in the low-pitched melancholic tone he’d used moments earlier when he’d pulled up and told me to wait in the patrol car as its siren lights painted our house streaks of red and blue.ĭespite his request, I’d slipped out of the back seat and rushed to Mom’s side as she turned on the front porch light and stepped onto the stoop, dazed from being woken late at night. “It’s Jenny, isn’t it?” Mom rasped, clutching the lapel of her faded dressing gown. But I saw the will to live drain out of her the moment the policeman knocked on our screen door. Killed her as good as if she’d been shot in the chest with a twelve-gauge shotgun. It was Jenny’s death that killed my mother. ’Twas a thousand pities that it should have happened to she, of all others.
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The paper crane by molly bang5/13/2023 But then Keiko is lost when Mizuki's grandfather has no option but to leave her in a safe place while he goes for help. There is also the very moving and human story as the two teenage boys with great bravery search for and find Keiko, Hiro's five-year-old sister. What follows is a searing account of the blinding flash, the harrowing search for family and the devastation both human and physical. Moments later the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what it is.We are taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at home with his friend Hiro. A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, joint winner of the UKLA 11-14 Book Award 2021 and winner of the Warwickshire Schools Library Award. |