![]() For the first time, Goji's answers fail to satisfy. With the urging of his fearless and funny best friend, Harmony, Clover Blue begins to ask questions. ![]() But despite his loyalty to the commune and its guru-like founder Goji, Blue grapples with invisible ties toward another family-the one he doesn't remember. Here, everyone is family, regardless of their disparate backgrounds-surfer, midwife, Grateful Dead groupie, Vietnam deserter. What he does know with certainty is that among this close-knit, nature-loving group, he is happy. There are many things twelve-year-old Clover Blue isn't sure of: his exact date of birth, his name before he was adopted into the Saffron Freedom Community, or who his first parents were. ![]() Set against the backdrop of a 1970s commune in Northern California, Clover Blue is a compelling, beautifully written story of a young boy's search for identity. ![]()
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![]() Some see him as a visionary, some as a genius, some as a control freak, and some as a maniac. So you can say what you like about Bezos. They want(ed) to leave their mark on the world. They all have (or had) a desire to live a life that means something and to build something that is greater than themselves. It’s a passage that applies to all of these entrepreneurs, or capitalists if you prefer that term. The passage had more impact than normal since I had just watched The Men Who Built America and was in the middle of reading The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone. So, let’s be ourselves, and always remember… to be human. There’s nobody else we really need to please. What really matters is that we live a life that means something to us and brings us happiness. generations later), almost no one will remember us or know we existed anyway. There was one particular passage that resonated with me: ![]() It’s a great blog to follow, and I particularly liked a recent post on the site titled Being Human. A few months ago, I discovered a new blog via Seth Godin called A Learning a Day. ![]() ![]() Neither man knows if they can make a relationship work, but despite Miki's emotional damage, Kane is determined to teach him how to love and be loved - provided, of course, Kane can catch the killer before Miki becomes the murderer's final victim. As the murderer's body count rises, the attraction between Miki and Kane heats up. Kane Morgan, the SFPD inspector renting space in the art co-op next door, initially suspects Miki had a hand in the man's murder, but Kane soon realizes Miki is as much a victim as the man splattered inside the GTO. John's past come forward it's everything the love of his life, Kane Morgan, can do to investigate and try to keep Miki safe. But when the man who sexually abused him as a boy is killed and his remains are dumped in Miki's car, Miki fears death isn't done with him yet. Rhys Ford blends mystery, suspense, romance, and action together in Sin and Tonic the direct sequel to Absinthe of Malice. John's vintage Pontiac GTO, and he has no idea how it got there.Īfter Miki survives the tragic accident that killed his best friend and the other members of their band, Sinner's Gin, all he wants is to hide from the world in the refurbished warehouse he bought before their last tour. ![]() ![]() Youngest of the influential Heartstriker clan, he’d much rather play online games than clan politics, prefers talking to fighting and is to the constant grief of the clan matriarch Bethesda, nice! This is why Julius finds himself sealed into his human form and exiled to the Detroit Free Zone, a spirit ruled city where dragons are outlawed, with one month to dragon-up or get eaten. In a late 21st century world where a meteor crash has reawakened all the old magics, some of the most powerful beings on the planet are the dragons, aloof, calculating and constantly engaged in a Machiavellian struggle for clan dominance. However, one of the many things I like about dragons is that they always go where they please and can turn up in unexpected places, so I was more than happy to just run along and see where the ride would take me. I was a wee bit surprised when I found out I was reading a hodgepodge urban fantasy/near future sf when I was expecting traditional high fantasy. ![]() ![]() I’m also keen on books with protagonists who are simply nice people trying their best, so the title and premise of this one grabbed my attention right away. ![]() As I have mentioned before, I am a bit of a dracophile (which really should be a word), that is to say, I love dragons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ★ "An evocative and heart-lacerating debut novel. ★ " On Fragile Waves is a lyrical fabulist novel that will enchant readers of both literary fiction and fantasy." - Booklist, starred review This is a knockout." - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review ★ "In flowing, lyrical prose, Yu showcases the power of folklore and the pain of displacement. Lily Yu, winner of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer and author of the Washington Book Award-winning novel On Fragile Waves, praised by the New York Times Book Review as "devastating and perfect." For readers who loved the intelligence and compassion in Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century and the dreamlike prose of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners, this collection introduces the short fiction of E. On a nameless shore, a small monster searches for refuge and finds unexpected courage.Īt turns bittersweet and boundary-breaking, poignant and profound, these twenty-two stories sing, as the oldest fables do, of what it means to be alive in this strange, terrible, beautiful world. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god. ![]() In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers forge an indelible connection over a shared glimpse of a Vermilion Flycatcher, and fall. In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. Description The strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from award-winning writer E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Academics have had trouble identifying whether Burke, or his tract, can best be understood as "a realist or an idealist, Rationalist or a Revolutionist". Before seeing this work as a pamphlet, Burke wrote in the mode of a letter, invoking expectations of openness and selectivity that added a layer of meaning. The pamphlet has not been easy to classify. The Norton Anthology of English Literature describes Reflections as becoming the "most eloquent statement of British conservatism favoring monarchy, aristocracy, property, hereditary succession, and the wisdom of the ages." Above all else, it has been one of the defining efforts of Edmund Burke's transformation of " traditionalism into a self-conscious and fully conceived political philosophy of conservatism". ![]() ![]() One of the best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution, Reflections is a defining tract of modern conservatism as well as an important contribution to international theory. It is fundamentally a contrast of the French Revolution to that time with the unwritten British Constitution and, to a significant degree, an argument with British supporters and interpreters of the events in France. Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political pamphlet written by the Irish statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790. Reflections on the Revolution in France at Wikisource ![]() ![]() ![]() The freaky incidences increase and eventually Renai sees the ghosts. A few months pass and they move Dalton back home. Like always, paranormal oddities occur in small doses here and there until one morning they find their son Dalton in a coma. Josh (Wilson) and Renai (Byrne) Lambert have moved into a new home with their two young boys and infant girl. ![]() Horror films rarely get that infusion of talent, and as such, "Insidious" does not get lost in that dark dimension of forgettable horror. "Saw" director James Wan found something of promise in "Saw" writer Leigh Whannell's story "Insidious" and the same must've gone for stars Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson. When they do so despite years of being recycled, it's usually thanks to talent. Haunted houses and questionable children have composed many a horror film, but there's a reason they work. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this handsome series, they speak to us afresh, across the ages, vivified through Caselli's inspired art. Together they form a remarkable tapestry of human endeavor: dreams, illusions, adventures, loves lost and loves found. ![]() As enjoyable now as when Bulfinch first assembled them, these selections come from a variety of works - Ovid's classic Metamorphoses, Egyptian myths, Eastern mythology, and Hindu, Norse, and Celtic sources. Evocative four-color illustrations, many full-page, bring to life key events and characters of these universal tales and sagas - from the Greek and Roman pantheon of gods to the heroes of the Crusades, from the exploits of Robin Hood to the feats of Richard the Lionheart. Though Bulfinch's has been heralded for more than a century, it has never been published in so beautiful and accessible a format. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Here are the world's most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today's readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by Charlotte that led her and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, to publish a joint collection of their poetry in 1846, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. They later tried to open up a school at their home, but had no pupils. Later, with her sister Charlotte, she attended a private school in Brussels. In 1842, Emily commenced work as a governess at Miss Patchett's Ladies Academy at Law Hill School, near Halifax, leaving after about six months due to homesickness. Little of Emily's work from this period survived, except for poems spoken by characters (The Brontës' Web of Childhood, Fannie Ratchford, 1941). In childhood, after the death of their mother, the three sisters and their brother Patrick Branwell Brontë created imaginary lands (Angria, Gondal, Gaaldine, Oceania), which were featured in stories they wrote. In 1824, the family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it was in these surroundings that their literary oddities flourished. ![]() She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. She published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell.Įmily was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, being younger than Charlotte Brontë and older than Anne Brontë. Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. ![]() ![]() Virginia Woolf argues the link between the patriarchal family, its oppression of women and its connection to fascism, and the oppression of women in society, an argument that was at that time controversial, but taken up once more from the late 1960s by feminists who argued that the private is the political. "Three Guineas" is the lesser-known 'companion' work to "A Room of One?s Own". ***The title "Three Guineas" derives from Virginia Woolf wondering whether she should support three causes with a guinea donation: a society to stop war, a campaign to support the rebuilding of a women?s college, and an organization to promote women?s employment in the professions. 206 pages including the Introduction by Hermione Lee, Notes and References to the Introduction, and general Notes and references. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Extremities of wrappers just very slightly rubbed. ![]() ***Near fine in colour illustrated glossy card covers. This new edition has a detailed 11 page Introduction by Virginia Woolf's biographer Hermione Lee and 45 pages of detailed notes and references. Illustrated with four pages of black and white plates as per the first edition, which was published by the Hogarth Press in 1938. First impression of the first paperback edition. ![]() Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. ![]() |