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Omega by Camille Flammarion7/8/2023 Other titles by this author include: “The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds” (1862), “Real and Imaginary Worlds” (1865), and “God in Nature” (1866). A prolific writer, he produced over fifty books including science fiction novels, works on astronomy, and works on physical research. Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (1842–1925) was a French author and astronomer. Camille Flammarion's 1893 science fiction novel “Omega” marries reasonable scientific speculation and philosophy in this impressive exploration of things that may be to come. Beautifully illustrated, this novel is a fascinating vision of humanity millions of years in the future. Faced with this apocalyptic knowledge, humanity undergoes a multitude of social, physical and psychic changes that engender incredible alterations to both people and planet over many millennia. In the twenty-fifth century AD, a comet will collide with the earth and bring about the end of the world.
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Valley of the dolls paperback7/8/2023 And even though the message which is encapsulated is that you should tiptoe past the medicine cabinet, the book has been written in the attempt to keep you awake in a numbed sort of condition. But they go through a lot- fag husbands, abortions, stomach pumps, sleep cures, cancer, adultery you name it, they've had it. Then there's SEX, and actually not in some time has there been quite so much femme- styled exposure it's so overstimulated that no wonder these girls need pills. The girls make it Jen as a European sex goddess whose mammary equipment is unbeatable Neely in Hollywood- she can sing too and Anne, quiet, nice Anne who is always in love with one man who picks her up and puts her down, in television. All three girls start out together in New York and for a few pages it promises to be a Xeroxed copy of Rona Jaffe (without the style). Before the book is over, and it's told in spansule form over some twenty years, Jon has committed suicide Neely who has worked her way up to fifty a day dissolved in Scotch, has been in and out of the ""funny farm"" and Anne is just working her way through her first prescription. The dolls of the title are barbiturates, seconal is red, nembutal yellow, and amytal emerald green, and they seem to be one of the occupational inevitabilities of show business.
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Smooth talking stranger7/8/2023 You, playing off of her statement: “Ah, I’ve got so many jokes about unemployed people. Her: “I’ve been looking for a new job, so I’m between careers at the moment.” To truly learn about correct alpha behavior and how to build your masculine foundation to the point where women text you much more often than you text them, I highly recommend you check out my in-depth Dating & Masculinity Transformation Package, freshly released in March 2023. Well, in this guide you’re going to learn how to avoid doing all of these things.īut the very first step to overcoming all of these issues is to develop strong masculine frame.
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Zami audre lorde sparknotes7/7/2023 And while deciding to return to graduate school after a 5-year hiatus certainly comes with its own challenges, it was the challenge of New York I’ve found myself clinging to. So great, in fact, that I can’t pass up the opportunity entirely.Īfter seven years and nearly as many apartments, I left New York. In the spirit of relying on ancestral wisdom, centering QTPOC voices, wellness, and just generally leveling up, we believe that the Lorde has already gifted us with the tools we need for our survival.Īs a writer who recently moved out of New York, the temptation is great to contribute to the genre of “Leaving New York” essays. Year of Our (Audre) Lorde is a monthly analysis of works by queen mother Audre Lorde as they apply to our current political moment. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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The Yearning by Kate Belle7/7/2023 Most important, we show that analytic attention to interpretive strategies allows sociologists to analyze both the meanings constructed from texts and the differential judgments attached to them under varying interpretive strategies. Late-twentieth-century feminist interpretive strategies, however, were highly productive tools for rereading The Awakening, generating a socially resonant narrative focused on the search for an independent female self. The dominant interpretive strategies of nineteenth-century reviewers sentimentalized women as selless wives and mothers responsible for moral purity, making it diffcult to construct a valued or fruitful narrative from The Awakening. We explain The Awakening's ascendancy from an initial negative critical position in 1899 to its current canonical status by the emergence of new " interpretive strategies " for understanding and evaluating texts. We use the reception history of Kate Chopin's The Awakening to study the social context in which and processes through which literary texts are evaluated.
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Pitch dark by courtney alameda7/7/2023 Her debut novel, Shutter, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and hailed as a “standout in the genre” by School Library Journal. Can Kira save humankind? Or will the demon king succeed in bringing eternal darkness upon the world?Ĭourtney Alameda is a writer, veteran bookseller, and librarian. They include Shiro, a kitsune with boy-band looks who is more flirtatious than helpful, and O-bei, a regal demon courtesan with covert reasons of her own for getting involved.Īs the confrontation with Shuten-doji draws nearer by the day, the fate of Japan hangs in the balance. Not exactly skilled at fighting anything, much less the dead, Kira enlists the aid of seven powerful death gods to help her slay Shuten-doji. But things accelerate from bad to worse when she learns that Shuten-doji, the demon king, will rise at the next blood moon to hunt down an ancient relic and bring the world to a catastrophic end. And she’s also plagued with a secret: She can see yokai, the ghosts and demons that haunt the streets of Japan. She’s bullied by the popular girls in school. Seventeen-year-old Kira Fujikawa has never had it easy. Maetani will read from and sign their new young adult novel, Seven Deadly Shadows.Īlameda and Maetani will be in conversation with Christian McKay Heidicker.
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Plague by H.W. "Buzz" Bernard7/7/2023 The dead and dying lay in the streets, abandoned by frightened friends and relatives. No one – peasant or aristocrat – was safe from the disease, and once it was contracted, a horrible and painful death was almost a certainty. The plague was much more severe in the cities than in the countryside, but its psychological impact penetrated all areas of society. Those infected usually died within three days of showing symptoms and the death toll rose so quickly that the people of Europe had no time to grasp what was happening, why, or what they should do about the situation. Eventually, a number of the city's inhabitants fled the city by ship, first arriving at Sicilian ports and then at Marseilles and others from whence the plague spread inland. As Djanibek's troops died of the plague, he had their corpses catapulted over the city's walls, infecting the people of Caffa through their contact with the decomposing corpses.
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Eventide haruf7/6/2023 His collected works speak to the grace that lies in each of us. He is also known his other books set in Holt, CO: Benediction, Eventide and Our Souls at Night, which was recently made into a Netflix movie starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. It represents the best of rural Colorado, capturing the unique beauty and struggle of that kind of life. The New York Times described it as: "A novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has power to exalt the reader." Plainsong, a powerful tale of seven lonely lives and the windswept, high plains country that possesses them, connected with readers all over the country. The book, based in the small town of Holt, tells the story of Tom Guthrie, a high school teacher struggling to keep his life together a pregnant teenage girl, abandoned by those who should protect her and two elderly bachelor brothers who work the family farm, isolated from life beyond their own community. Utterly true to the sad, exhilarating and brutal rhythms of life, Plainsong is the story of a town and a people. His book, Plainsong, is simply put, his Colorado masterpiece – a classic for all time. There are few Colorado authors as beloved as the late Kent Haruf.
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The red headed league book7/6/2023 Many readers enjoy matching their wits against Sherlock Holmes, trying to see if they can solve the mystery along with him. The existence of today’s popular detective tales, whether in the form of books, movies, or television shows, are in large part due to Doyle’s influence. Further, the Sherlock Holmes stories provided later writers with models for their own work. Doyle’s ingenious plots and captivating central characters, Holmes and his sidekick Watson, brought the author literary success in his own time. Its style and structure make it a nearly perfect example of the modern detective story, first devised by Edgar Allan Poe fifty years previously. It was republished in 1892, along with eleven other Sherlock Holmes stories, in the collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. “The Red-Headed League” first appeared in a popular British magazine, the Strand, in August of 1891.
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Chapter 2 teaches seven powers for self-control which increase resourcefulness in disciplinary situations with children from toddler through school age: perception, attention, free will, unity, love, acceptance, and intention. Chapter 1 introduces the framework built on the premise that parents' perceptions dictate their actions such that to change behavior, the focus must be on perceptions as well as actions. Based on the view that parents discipline their children in the same way they discipline themselves, this book helps parents become aware of how they treat themselves and presents a framework called loving guidance. |