![]() ![]() Not imitation but evocation has been the goal. Since you cannot get the desert into a book any more than a fisherman can haul up the sea with his nets, I have tried to create a world of words in which the desert figures more as medium than as material. What I have tried to do then is something a bit different. ![]() ![]() Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument. If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite. But the desertis a vast world, an oceanic world, as deep in its way and complex and various as the sea. “In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have striven above all for accuracy, since I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. government has begun developing Abbey’s beloved park beyond recognition, he’s now publishing his experiences in that area in hopes of accurately reflecting the beauty of the wilderness and calling out the. “This is not primarily a book about the desert,” writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. Desert Solitaire is Edward Abbey ’s memoir of a summer spent in 1956, 10 years prior to writing the book, as a park ranger in Arches National Monument near Moab, Utah. a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.”-Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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![]() ![]() Both men want Eona, but do they truly love her, or just the power she can give them?Eona must face assassins, savage battles, jealousy and betrayal to discover the heartbreaking truth about herself, the Mirror Dragon and the String of Pearls. As the race for the Black Folio intensifies, she finds herself forced to choose between Ido and Kygo. Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl with a deformed hip, has disguised herself as a boy named Eon in the hopes of winning the chance to become a vaunted Dragoneye. ![]() But first she must learn to resist the power of ten mourning dragons, and only Lord Ido, the man responsible for their grief, can help her. Eona's only hope is to find the stolen Black Folio before he does. On the run after the massacre in the Imperial Palace, she must find a way to restore Kygo, the dead Pearl Emperor's true heir, to the throne.But High Lord Sethon has claimed the throne for himself, and he is determined to create the String of Pearls, a terrible weapon that combines the power of all twelve dragons. Eon is now Eona, the Mirror Dragoneye - one of just two surviving Dragoneyes, the human links to the twelve energy dragons and their power. ![]() ![]() When Veronyka strikes out on her own, the only way she can join them is to disguise herself as a boy, but as the lies pile up, she knows it’s only a matter of time before they all come tumbling down around her. 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Hierdie impak word in beide hierdie lande ondersoek, in sowel sy historiese vorm van rassediskriminasie, as die moderne gevolge van die koloniale verlede. Die historiese impak van die Britse Ryk kan vandag nog steeds gevoel word in lande so uiteenlopend soos Australië en Suid-Afrika. Kolonialisme het ’n groot impak op die regstelsels van lande regoor die wêreld gehad. OPSOMMING Kolonialisme, geregtigheid en die oppergesag van die reg: ’n Suider-Afrikaanse en Australiese verhaal ![]() Lecturer in Law, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University Reader in Law, Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln Assessor Juris (LMU, Germany), LLM (Stell), LLD (UJ) ![]() ![]() ![]() Nacho’s and away from their planned safe house, they grow to trust each other and find that love follows trust. With one coincidence after another driving them to the sleepy seaside town of St. Dmytro doesn’t have time for a romantic dalliance, and Ajax is a client, albeit one with unexpected depths. 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I argue that in Melmoth, Perry uses gothic forms such as the tale and the found manuscript in ways that allow the reader to experience the moral and ethical dilemmas raised by the acts of violence and genocide that the novel references, including the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust. I read Perry’s Melmoth through the lens of memory scholar Michael Rothberg’s 2019 The Implicated Subject, which provides a conceptual framework for moving beyond the victim/perpetrator binary when considering responsibility for historical violence and its legacies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even on those few other copies we have ever examined where the covers have stayed light green, the spine cloth has still faded to a dull green or light tan, but this copy actually still retains the original light green color to the spine! By far, the finest copy we have ever seen in over 40 years of handling this title. The cloth is still light green in color – not faded as on nearly every other copy we've ever seen. A remarkably clean, bright copy of Baum's masterpiece. Housed in a custom-made slip-case.įirst edition, second state, binding state "C", bearing all of the second state points for the text and the plates (Bienvenue p.4-6). A surprisingly bright, sharp copy, with contents clean and bright. ![]() Pictorial fixed endpapers 24 color plates and two-color illustrations on nearly every page. ![]() Light green cloth pictorially stamped in green and red. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the tradition of Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket, and Brian Selznick, Nicholas Gannon’s wildly imaginative world of The Doldrums and the Helmsley Curse is packed with sly humor, an undeniably charming cast of characters, and the thrill of discovering secrets and adventures right in your own backyard. ![]() ![]() With his best friends, Oliver and Adélaïde, and their new neighbor, Kana, Archer sets out during a snowstorm to rescue his grandparents’ reputation. Rumors are flying that Archer’s grandparents were never really abandoned on the iceberg that they’re making it all up. Archer is overjoyed, but he may be the only one. The Doldrums and the Helmsley Curse is a timeless tale and a beautiful gift for a young reader.Īrcher Helmsley’s grandparents-famous explorers who went missing on an iceberg two years ago-are finally coming home. The exquisite hardcover package features Gannon’s distinctive full color full-page art throughout, as well as black-and-white spot illustrations. It brims with the spirit of exploration and celebrates the bond of friendship. ![]() The stand-alone sequel to The Doldrums, which the New York Times called “a dreamy charmer of a book,” is a second tour-de-force by author-illustrator Nicholas Gannon. ![]() ![]() Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /data/apa/htdocs/wp-content/themes/stardustwp/includes/qode-body-classes.php on line 38 ![]() Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /data/apa/htdocs/wp-content/themes/stardustwp/includes/qode-body-classes.php on line 36 Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /data/apa/htdocs/wp-content/themes/stardustwp/functions.php on line 270 Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /data/apa/htdocs/wp-content/themes/stardustwp/functions.php on line 266 ![]() Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /data/apa/htdocs/wp-content/themes/stardustwp/functions.php on line 255 Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /data/apa/htdocs/wp-content/themes/stardustwp/functions.php on line 236 ![]() Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /data/apa/htdocs/wp-content/themes/stardustwp/functions.php on line 106 Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /data/apa/htdocs/wp-content/themes/stardustwp/functions.php on line 81 Twelve Percent Dread by Emily McGovern – BookDragon ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis, Missouri Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld is an American writer, the author of several novels and a collection of short stories. It is a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare. Author Bio BirthAug WhereCincinnati, Ohio, USA EducationB.A., Stanford University M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop Currentlylives in St. ![]() It is a gorgeously written novel that weaves race, class, fate and wealth into a brilliant tapestry. American Wife is not a novel about politics. Alice Blackwell, Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. Alice candidly describes her small-town upbringing, and the tragedy that shaped her identity she recalls her early adulthood as a librarian, and her surprising courtship with the man who swept her off her feet she tells of the crisis that almost ended their marriage and she confides the privileges and difficulties of being first lady, a role that is uniquely cloistered and public, secretive and exposed. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself remarkable. As First Lady Alice Blackwell looks back over her life in Curtis Sittenfelds American Wife: A Novel, she wonders if the choices she has made have jeopardized. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. ![]() Print American Wife: The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller ![]() |