![]() ![]() A radical reimagining of the New Testament that reflects on women’s longing and silencing and awakening, it is a true masterpiece.” “I kept having to close this novel and breathe deeply, again and again. There’s an exuberance to Ana that vibrates off every page, and that is a testament to Kidd’s gifts.” ![]() Instead it’s an exploration of a triumphant, fierce spirit and the stories she aches to tell. “Kidd’s narrative, etched into the emotionally precise and tactile prose of Ana’s first-person voice. “Historical fiction page-turner… An excellent book club choice…The intensity, bravery, and strength of character of Ana, as imagined by Kidd will inspire readers but in a different way: to live authentically and remain true to oneself.” ![]() “A richly imagined first-person narrative…In addition to providing a woman-centered version of New Testament events, Kidd’s novel is also a vibrant portrait of a woman striving to preserve and celebrate women’s stories-her own and countless others.” …an epic masterpiece that is a triumph of insight and storytelling.” How many authors would take this on?…The Book of Longings is not just an extraordinary novel, but one with lasting power…Kidd’s brilliance shines through on so many levels, but not the least in her masterful, reverential approach to capturing Jesus of Nazareth as a fully human young man in his 20’s. ![]() “Kidd is courageous in imagining the life of Jesus as a married man. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "And now I ordered my shipmates all to cast lots-who'd brave it out with me to hoist our stake and grind it into his eye when sleep had overcome him. But Odysseus lets his pride overcome him when he tells the Cyclops his name. Odysseus and his men defeat the Cyclops by spearing him in the eye and blinding him after they get him drunk and asleep. "And back he came from pasture, late in the day, herding his flocks home, and lugging a huge load of good dry logs to fuel his fire at supper." 263-265 Odysseus takes his men into the cave of the Cyclops where they decide to spend a night or two. ![]() "Now, a level island stretches flat across the harbor, not close inshore to the Cyclops' coast, not too far out, thick with woods where the wild goats breed by hundreds." 128-131 Odysseus and his men arrive at the island of Polyphemus, the Cyclops. ".Lotus-eaters, people who eat the lotus, mellow fruit and flower." 95-96 The Lotus Eaters are people who eat lotus flowers and lotus fruit. ".the Cicones broke our lines and beat us down at last." 68 "Then on the tenth our squadron reached the land of the Lotus-eaters." 94-95 ![]() ![]() Odysseus and his men escaped the Cycones and sailed off to the island of the Lotus Eaters. Keep in mind that these questions ask you to. Odysseus reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. "The wind drove me out of Ilium on to ismarus, the Cicones' stronghold." 44-45 Read The Odyssey, Book 9: In the One-Eyed Giants Cave from lines 1-262. Odysseus and his men arrive at Ismarus, the Cycones town. ![]() ![]() ![]() As their relationship grows between each new letter and she discovers that his confusing iconography can finally be explained through their story, an underlying plot of murder and art forgery is uncovered in the present. Through the mysterious properties of the letter, Emily is raptured to the past where she becomes the muse who influences Manet's greatest works. ![]() While x-raying a painting for an upcoming Edouard Manet exhibition at the Art Institute, Emily stumbles upon a hidden letter painted in lead white beneath the layers of oil and varnish. He made her fall in love with art when she was nine years old and yet Emily was the muse of Edouard's greatest artwork 150 years before she was born. Emily Porterfield is a conservator of paintings in 21st century Chicago. ![]() Edouard Manet is an infamous painter in 19th century Paris. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stone Cold is an exciting and disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.Ĭondition: Muy bueno. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Also by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land Room 13 Stone Cold Nightmare Stairs Unbeliever Blitzed Ruby Tanya The Thousand Eyes of Night The Tunnel The Shade of Hettie Daynes Burnout In the Nick of Time Daz 4 Zoe Snakebite Snapshot Branded Roger's War No Angels Wrecked Jacqueline Hyde Stayling Up A Serpent's Tooth Follow a Shadow Timesnatch Unbeliever The Last Bus. In 1994, he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD, and also the Sheffield Book Award. He has won the Children's Book Award twice, for BROTHER IN THE LAND and for ROOM 13. ![]() Winner of the Carnegie Medal Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors and is a full-time writer. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and that she's prepared to use herself as bait. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, homeless like him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding. He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. ![]() The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. ![]() Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ending is where the story really falls apart and is reminiscent of the August Derleth stories in the Lovecraft universe. ![]() If Holmes had designed such an artifact, why had he not used it earlier when he suspected the snake men had become much more active? There is an attempt to wrap up some loose threads from other stories, such as the snake men that had been released into London but the resolution there seemed too deus ex machina, involving the creation of another Crown to control the snake men. Yes, Lovegrove incorporates some of the elements from the later Holmes stories, such as beekeeping, but it feels tired at this point. Doyle only returned to Holmes reluctantly, and the stories of Holmes towards the end did not have the same energy or enthusiasm as the earlier works. The fist difficulty is with the source material. This book concludes Lovegrove’s trilogy of placing Holmes into a Lovecraftian universe and the results are not that great. Wrapping up a series based on someone else’s original work, doubly so (a fact all Game of Thrones fans learned the hard way this year). ![]() ![]() These were followed by The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), a Victorian romance set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where Fowles lived. After graduatiing from Oxford, Fowles taught English on a Greek island, an experience that inspired The Collector & The Magus (both in 1965), highly respected best-sellers. John Robert Fowles (1926 - 2005) was an English novelist of remarkable scope and ability. EXCEPTIONAL SIGNED "Collector's Edition of the much praised and bestselling volume of JOHN FOWLES historical fiction that brings to life the problematic romance of an officer and his mistress. With Certificate of Authenticity Signed by John Fowles witnessed & with signature of the Publisher of Easton Press & "a note about The French Lieutenant's Woman / and the author" laid in. 22kt gold title and embellishments on spine and further scrolling on front cover, peach silk moiré endpapers, silk ribbon page-marker, all edges gilt + 467 pages. ![]() SIGNED by the Author on the signature page & on a Certificate of Authenticity, tall 8vo, full brown leather with four raised bands and. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1969 she moved to Europe, where she suffered through an abusive marriage. During an anti– Vietnam War protest march in New York City, she was arrested and subjected to a violent and humiliating body cavity search by two male policemen. Dworkin was one of the most radical American feministsīorn in Camden, New Jersey, Dworkin attended Bennington College in Vermont. In defense of women’s rights, Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005), a radical feminist writer and theorist, launched sweeping attacks on pornography that led to harsh criticism of her by civil libertarians as well as by anti-feminists. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, used with permission from the Associated Press) She denied First Amendment protections for pornography. Dworkin was a feminist who viewed pornography as a violation of women's civil rights and a direct cause of rape and violence. Civil rights advocate and author Andrea Dworkin speaks to a federal commission on pornography in New York in this 1986 photo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Scope of Book: The book shows how, 28,000 British men and women moved 8,000 miles to fight on a tiny relic of Britain’s imperial past. They argue that the operation was under the guise that this was what the Falklanders wanted and that under UN mandate for self-determination of peoples, the British were justified. It is a narrative history that accounts for British political decision making and the naval and military operations to secure the islands again as a British protectorate. Hasting covered the war for the London Standard and then interviewed returnees Jenkins, political editor of The Economist, covered the war’s political beat and the prior diplomatic-ups-and-downs.Ĭentral Thesis: The book is the story of what the authors called “almost certainly the last colonial war that Britain will ever fight. ![]() Hastings was embedded with the British task force sent to re-take the islands while Jenkins was covering events in London. Overview: A sweeping narrative history on the political and military pieces that make up the Battle of the Falklands. He once was editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph. Simon Jenkins is another journalist and editor who has also written a plethora of works on everything from history and politics to architecture in England. Norton and Company, 1983)īiography: Hastings is a British journalist and military historian who has written extensively on conflicts around the world. Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins, The Battle for the Falklands(New York: W.W. ![]() ![]() Such beautifully elusive words is what writer and illustrator Ella Frances Sanders, a self-described “intentional” global nomad, explores in Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World ( public library), published shortly before Sanders turned twenty-one. Indeed, this immeasurably complex yet vastly underappreciated art of multilingual gymnastics, which helps words belong to each other and can reveal volumes about the human condition, is often best illuminated through the negative space around it - those foreign words so rich and layered in meaning that the English language, despite its own unusual vocabulary, renders them practically untranslatable. ![]() But what happens when words are kept apart by too much unbridgeable otherness? “Barring downright deceivers, mild imbeciles and impotent poets, there exist, roughly speaking, three types of translators,” Vladimir Nabokov opened his strongly worded opinion on translation. ![]() ![]() “Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf said in the only surviving recording of her voice, a magnificent meditation on the beauty of language. ![]() |