![]() ![]() The novel received starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal. “Dream Country” moves between the United States and Liberia from 1827 to 2018, following five generations of young people in one African-American family. “In ‘Dream Country,’ I, as an American, am confronting history that has not been confronted.” “It’s fascinating to me, as an African American, that we were the oppressors,” says Gibney, who lives in Minneapolis with her two American-Liberian children. In this story, which took Gibney 20 years to research, think about and write, she exposes a little-known secret embedded in the early days of that West African country - freed American slaves who were early settlers (known as Americo-Liberians or the Congo people) colonized the undeveloped land, pushing indigenous Africans out of the way. “The African-American story cannot be told fully without also telling the Liberian one,” Shannon Gibney says of her new young-adult novel “Dream Country.” It’s a smart, many-layered and sometimes challenging book for smart people who want to learn as they read. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hugo’s wide vision of life, encompassing everyone from king to beggar, defines his text and influenced many other authors, including Balzac and Dickens. Hunchback uses the imposing cathedral as the symbolic witness to a history of a people, and is notable in its attention to the downtrodden class of beggars who are its protagonists. The action of the novel takes place in Paris, France during the latter portion of the Middle Ages, while Louis XI was in power. The title was amended to the one by which it is commonly known when it was translated into English in 1833, due to the Gothic being more popular than romance in England at the time. ![]() The original French title was Notre-Dame de Paris and refers to the Notre Dame Cathedral, a focal point of the story. ![]() Victor Hugo’s Gothic French Romantic novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was first published in 1831. ![]() ![]() Surprisingly, however, Pasternak's poetry of the 1930s, and of the World War 2 and postwar period (including the poems of Doctor Zhivago) has remained tantalizingly resistant to the efforts of English translators. On the face of it, such writing ought to be more congenial to translation, offering the chance of closer equivalence in English and a clearer impression of the, in many cases, magnificent originals. In his later verse, Pasternak consciously cultivated a more transparent poetic idiom, striving towards Pushkinian ideals, and pursuing a new and "unheard-of" simplicity". Nevertheless, successful versions have been produced at various times by translators such as George Reavey, Robert Lowell, Lydia Pasternak Slater, Eugene Kayden, Peter France and John Stallworthy, who have given us English poetic renderings that in varying degrees balance the elements of "verbal music", rhythm, rhyme structure, and metaphor in Pasternak's early lyrics. At first sight it might seem that it is the complex earlier verse, based on a multitude of wordplays, that loses most in translation to other languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pasternak's poetic style of various periods remains one of the most challenging to translate. Academic Electronic Journal in Slavic Studiesīoris Pasternak The Poems of Doctor Zhivago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Worse, Caroline’s attacker wants her just as bad as Roric does, and he knows Roric’s secret. With vampire attacks at an all-time high and Caroline resisting him at every turn, Roric’s job, his family, even his life is at risk. But Caroline despises the monsters who killed her parents, and she’d rather die than be a vampire. ![]() When Roric intercepts a rogue vampire attack and finds Caroline dying, he can’t resist her blood or her beauty, and in a moment of passion he does the unthinkable. Until one human woman tempts him to break all the rules. 53 Published: 2018 Captured by the Vampire. See search resultsfor this author Kellie McAllen(Author)Format: Kindle Edition 4. Compelled by the Vampire: Vampire Enforcement Agency Series Book 1. As leader of the Vampire Enforcement Agency, his job is to find and capture the vampires who betray humans’ recently-earned trust. Compelled by the Vampire: A Paranormal Romance (Vampire Enforcement Agency Book 1) Kindle Edition by Kellie McAllen (Author) Visit Amazon's Kellie McAllen page Find all the books, read about the author and more. The Asylum The Vampire Diaries: Stefans Diaries 6: The Compelled. He doesn’t drink human blood, he’s never even taken a vein, and the idea of infecting a human is abhorrent to him. Captured by the Vampire - Kellie McAllen. It’s vamps like Roric who make humans believe vampires have a right to live in human society. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only after looking at both "The Last Question" and "The Last Answer is it possible to have an answer. Asimov makes us wonder is doing either moral and is each justifiable. By comparing the two, Asimov forces us to think about the possibility humanity may live forever, or the possibility we could do just the opposite and only seek destruction. By looking at the similarities and differences between the God-like beings, we can see that the public’s opinion is just an opinion, as there is evidence both supporting and disproving either side. While never validated or stated explicitly by Asimov the general public links the two omniscient presences together as if they were the same. In two of his extremely brief works, “The Last Question” and “The Last Answer,” the main topic concerns the nature of a “God” presence and how he interfaced with mankind. One controversial subject he explored, partly due to his Orthodox Jewish background, was the idea of a “God” being. Asimov was never afraid to delve into complex and untouched subjects in his writing. A special sub-genre called social science fiction, a sci-fi story that focuses less on the technology and more on the sociological speculation about human society, was even coined by him to classify most of his science fiction around the time. ![]() His writing put the Science fiction community back on the map as he kept publishing fascinating short stories one after another. In 1941, Isaac Asimov published his most famous science fiction worked titled “Nightfall,” considered a classic today. ![]() ![]() They have no future together when Warrehn and his mother are determined to crush each other. He knows this thing between them is hopeless. Warrehn unsettles him and makes him behave like another person entirely, someone Samir barely recognizes: someone desperate and shameless. Samir has never been the object of such intense hatred-and such intense passion. Unfortunately, protecting his mother means being part of her plans to keep Warrehn from the throne, which only makes Warrehn despise him more.īut when he and Warrehn are thrown together in circumstances beyond their control, they have to learn to put up with each other. Samir never thought he’d have to play the part of the villain. He knows Samir can’t be trusted, but Warrehn can’t seem to stay away from him. When he returns to reclaim his throne, all he wants is to punish the usurpers: the woman who killed his family, and her son, Samir, who has grown up to be as beautiful and as poisonous as his mother. ![]() ![]() His family brutally murdered and his throne stolen, Prince Warrehn has planned his revenge for twenty years. ![]() ![]() Who will stay by her side? Her image-conscious family? Her shallow friends? Her handsome boyfriend? Or will she be left alone in the land of the fat girls? Lara's answers come in a form she never expected. After her massive weight gain, the world as Lara knows it begins to crumble. ![]() ![]() Her serious struggle is juxtaposed against the alluring come-ons and comic voices of pop culture weight-loss gurus, all of whom promise that they alone hold the key to weight-loss success. She's certain she can take off the weight with diet and exercise-it's just a matter of will power. But when allergy medication causes her to gain 70 pounds, her world is transformed-same girl on the inside, different girl on the outside. Lara Ardeche is the perfect girl-and the prom queen-at her high school. You can't even hate her because she's so nice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their tenuous personal life (including a child he ignores), his affairs, and his insistence that his wife be more possession than spouse causes the marriage to implode. But Albert and Mileva are a product of their times the turn of the century wasn’t exactly a liberating time for women, and the self-centered Albert has no compunctions about deleting her name from papers they assiduously work on together. In her compelling novel, Benedict shows how Mileva transforms from a sheltered girl into a personally and professionally fulfilled young woman as she meets other educated women like her in the Swiss boarding house near her school and, through her new acquaintance Albert Einstein, engages in theoretical discussions with male colleagues during which her intelligence is both admired and supported. Albert Einstein may not have been the only mastermind behind his groundbreaking ideas about relativity it turns out the renowned theoretical physicist collaborated a great deal with his first wife, Mileva Maric´-a Serbian woman of modest means who was one of the few women to study math and science at the Zurich Polytechnic School where the two meet. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re both moonlighting as lifeguards for the summer. Jamie Prince is a private school teacher with an extremely low tolerance for bullshit. Marcus “Diesel” O’Shaughnessy is a brash, oversized CrossFit enthusiast with a naked lady tattooed on his rippling forearm. ![]() The first book in the series is Mouth to Mouth. Heat Stroke is a m/m story and the second book in the Beach Kingdom Series (Jamie and Marcus’s story) but it can be read as a standalone. Thoughts right after I finished it: It was SO DAMN GOOD! I can’t stop smiling! I’m honestly considering re-reading it RIGHT NOW, only five minutes after I finished it. Reasons why you need to read it: it’s a M/M romance, it’s super funny and incredibly adorable, they are both lifeguards for the summer, Marcus is a CrossFit enthusiast, Jamie is a private school teacher, there’s a LOT of sexual tension, and there is a cock cage. Heat stroke is one of my FAVORITE READS OF 2019. I’ve read it two weeks ago and I still can’t stop thinking about it. ![]() Let me tell you something: I can’t stop smiling. We’ve met Marcus and Jamie on “Mouth to Mouth”, book #1 in the series, and I was INSTANTLY hooked. I can’t even describe how much I loved Heat Stroke. ![]() ![]() ĭas Cover hat einen absoluten Wiedererkennungsfaktor für alle Fans der Mangas von Yuu Watase. Dort lernt sie einen geheimnisvollen Jungen kennen, der gerade einen Löwenzahn einpflanzt. Sie hat gerade die Schule gewechselt, ist nach Tokio gezogen und geht jetzt auf die renommierte Meio-Schule. Und genauso hartnäckig wie die Pflanze ist auch Tanpopo in allem, was sie tut. Unsere Heldin heiß Tanpopo, was auf Japanisch "Löwenzahn" bedeutet. ![]() In Chuang Yi's English-language versions of Fushigi Yugi (spelled without a macron or circumflex), her name is romanized as "Yu Watase". Her name is romanized as "Yû Watase" in earlier printings of Viz Media's publications of Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, and Ceres, The Celestial Legend, while in Viz Media's Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend her name is romanized as "Yuu Watase". In October 2008, Watase began her first shōnen serialization, Arata: The Legend in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. ![]() ![]() Because of her frequent use of beautiful male characters in her works, she is widely regarded in circles as a bishōnen manga artist. Since writing her debut short story "Pajama de Ojama" ("An Intrusion in Pajamas"), Watase has created more than 80 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. She received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Ceres, Celestial Legend in 1997. She likes all music, except heavy metal and old traditional music. ![]() She is known for her works Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, Ceres: The Celestial Legend, Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend. ![]() |