![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This may be in part because the book is semi-autobiographical as the author suffered the same cancer as Ross. The anger and frustration expressed by Ross feels very realistic and moving. In my opinion, Wink is both a funny and well written novel similar to Wonder by RJ Palacio. Eventually Ross learns to channel his anger into learning how to play guitar, hoping to prove himself at the school’s talent show and meeting an important mentor character in his teacher and fellow cancer patient Jerry. The story revolves around Ross’s anger and frustration with his struggles and with kids making hurtful memes about him and with the feeling of abandonment by his best friend Isacc. This story follows seventh grader Ross Maloy who is diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer, causing Ross’s eye to close in a permanent wink and requiring him to constantly wear a cowboy hat to protect his eyes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Cas and Lena soon realize that who is behind the attacks is far less important than why. one that leads him to form an unexpected bond with a brilliant young historian named Lena. When an assassin targets those closest to the queen, Cas is drawn into a search for a killer. And they have brought their enemies with them. His castle has become a refuge for the royal court. ![]() Having survived a rotting prison cell and a merciless illness, Cas, now eighteen, wants only to return to his home in the mountains and forget past horrors. ![]() Since then, a devastating plague has swept the land, leaving countless dead and the kingdom forever altered. Three years ago, Lord Cassia disappeared in the midst of war, on a mission entrusted to him by the king. I devoured it in one sitting!' Kristin Cashore, author of the New York Times bestselling Graceling Realm books 'I love the magic Lucier weaves through this dark yet hopeful tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s been a few years and my outlook has changed. Needless to say, I got very little personally out of the readings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not surprising, being as I was an archaeology major looking for a humanities credit. Although interesting, my interpretation was very academic, somewhat clinical like an anthropological exercise. I first time I read The Bhagavad Gita was in university. He is also considered to be the scribe of Purānās, ancient Hindu texts eulogizing various deities, primarily the divine Trimurti God in Hinduism through divine stories. It was chiefy put down in the written form only somewhere between 300 BCE to 300 CE.Īs the name would suggest, Vyāsa is believed to have categorised the primordial single Veda into its four canonical collections. The date of composition of this epic is not known - It was definitvely part of the traditions in Indian subcontinent at the time Gautam Buddha (~500 BCE) which would suggest it having been already around for atleast a few centuries. A significant portion of the epic later was only added in later centuries, which then came to be known as the Mahābhārata. He is traditonally regarded as the author of the Mahābhārata, although it is also widely held that he only composed the core of the epic, the Bhārata. Krishna Dvaipāyana Vyāsa, also known as Vyāsa or Veda-Vyāsa (वेदव्यास, the one who classified the Vedas into four parts) is a central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having now become classics of our time, the Harry Potter audiobooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism to listeners of all ages. But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'" "'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. ![]() ![]() Language, I think, is the mediator of human values and human expectations into our descriptions of nature. ![]() What does rhetoric have to do with science, I thought, when I first heard about you?ĮVELYN FOX KELLER: Right. Keller teaches in the department of rhetoric. Why is this so, she wondered? Trained since then as a theoretical physicist, she has taught mathematics and done research in mathematical biology, but it is her work on the history of science, her book, Reflections on Gender and Science, and her biography of the geneticist Barbara McClintock that brought me to the University of California at Berkeley where Dr. ![]() Not only because most scientists were men, but because the language of science itself reflected masculine metaphors and values. ![]() BILL MOYERS: When Evelyn Fox Keller set out in the 1950s to be a scientist, she discovered it was a man’s world. ![]() ![]() Like the first Alice book, Looking-Glass is a brilliantly plotted, wonderfully inventive nonsense story, full of humour, riddles and rhymes. Through the Looking-Glass was published in 1871, and is the famous sequel to Alice in Wonderland. On her travels she meets a whole host of characters: the White Knight Tweedledum and Tweedledee the Walrus and the Carpenter the Rocking-Horse Fly – and even Humpty Dumpty himself. All the world’s citizens are a part of this great game of chess, explains the White Queen, who appoints Alice to be her pawn, and sends her on a magical journey across this strange country. The looking-glass world she enters takes the form of a giant chessboard, the squares divided by green hedges and brooks. ![]() ![]() Suddenly the glass turns to mist – and Alice passes through it to the other side. ![]() Gazing into a huge mirror above the drawing room mantelpiece, she wonders what the world would look like if everything in it was turned around, like a reflection. A winter’s day, and Alice is feeling thoughtful. ![]() ![]() Lee McKenzie, author of Sliding on the Edge and The Princess of Las Pulgas Pandemic is an exciting new addition to young adult books.” ― C. and fearful her attacker will return at any moment. You’ll have to find out how Lil survives. This fast paced story about a teen who struggles to regain her sense of safety after an assault will have you reading well into the night. “Yvonne Ventresca’s debut novel hits the ground running and never stops until the last page. Bravo!” ― Mike Mullin, award-winning author of the Ashfall trilogy ![]() Ventresca’s debut novel will appeal to those who love realistic coming of age stories, romances, or disaster fiction. Pandemic is truly exceptional in that regard―its teen protagonist, Lily, is stuggling with a dark secret from her past, her first tentative romances, and a horrifying pandemic that throws her town into utter chaos. “The best novels are multi-layered, presenting the reader with new questions at every turn of the page. Shortlisted for the West Australian Young Readers Book Award Winner of the 2015 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the Atlantic region ![]() Publisher: Sky Pony Press Reprint edition (July 5, 2016) ![]() ![]() ![]() The thesis was later developed into Worsley's book Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses published in 2007. In 2001, she was awarded a DPhil degree from the University of Sussex for a thesis on The Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, 1593–1676. During that time, she studied the life of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle and wrote the English Heritage guide to his home, Bolsover Castle. ![]() From 1996 to 2002, she was an inspector of historic buildings for English Heritage in the East Midlands region. before working for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Worsley began her career as a historic house curator at Milton Manor, near Abingdon, in the summer of 1995. In 2001, she was awarded a DPhil degree from the University of Sussex. She studied Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford, graduating in 1995 with a BA First-class honours degree. Before going to university, Worsley attended The Abbey School, Reading, St Bartholomew's School, Newbury, and West Bridgford School, Nottingham. Her father taught geology at Reading University, while her mother was a consultant in educational policy and practice. Worsley was born in Reading, Berkshire, to Peter and Enid ( née Kay) Worsley. She is joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces but is best known as a presenter of BBC Television series on historical topics. Lucy Worsley OBE (born 18 December 1973) is a British historian, author, curator and television presenter. ![]() Historian, author, curator, television presenter ![]() ![]() ![]() He does not fit in, the proverbial hayseed come to town. ![]() Wishing to hope without a hope, some fearsĪnd, more than all, a strangeness in the mind, ![]() I was disturbed at times by prudent thoughts, He has many jobs but gets no richer.Ī Strangeness in My Mind takes its title from Wordsworth’s “The Prelude.” After a poor school career and a few years in the army, he elopes with Rahiya, the sister of the woman to whom he had been writing love letters during the three years he was in the army. He joins his father in Istanbul in an effort to seek his fortune by selling boza, a sweet and sour Turkish drink, on the street. “This is the story of the life and daydreams of Mevlut Karataş, a seller of boza and yogurt.” Thus begins A Strangeness in My Mind, the story of a 12-year old boy who moved from central Turkey to Istanbul and the concurrent story of that city from 1969 to 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though there were some challenges to the revolution, many members of the Russian nobility fled the country and the Soviet Union was created in 1922, when the novel begins. The October Revolution in the same year then abolished all classes of nobility and began Soviet rule in Russia. Spurred by a desire to escape autocratic rule, mutinies sprang up and Nicholas was ousted in 1917 in what became known as the February Revolution. These issues were compounded by Russia’s military failure throughout much of World War I, due largely to Tsar Nicholas II’s decision to take personal command of the army. The peasants experienced severe working conditions through the first two decades of the 20th century and were frustrated with the inequality between the classes. The lower class also provided the rest of the labor for the country. The upper class of landed nobility often did not work, instead owning estates that were staffed by lower-class servants. Prior to 1917, Russian society was structured into a rigid class system, with a Tsar at its head. The novel takes place over a period of Russian history between 19, but it is also important to understand the dynamics of Russian society leading up to this period. ![]() Book 5, Antagonists at Arms (And an Absolution). ![]() ![]() Book 3, Antics, Antitheses, an Accident.Book 2, 1923, An Actress, an Apparition, an Apiary. ![]() |