![]() ![]() Specific, concrete, and image-evoking nouns and action verbs always trump vague summary, even more so entire visualized scenes like Clarence and Rary punching into karate instructor Darren Briggs' mitted hands rather than "Two students practiced karate." I can understand Francis' love for detail. This is not a very special episode of Blossom. I have causes too, but let's pace ourselves, ADHD. ![]() They cannot sink into the scene if the author intrudes to demonstrate that BDSM culture is harmless or lesbian kisses or whatever his pet subculture-cause of the moment. Secondary characters, while fun, are the novel.) Every character imparts wisdom or lectures about subcultures or magic minutiae. Look, readers complain about invincible, tree-swinging superheroes and Joe Schmo protagonists solving triple homicides, but shadowing Tammy Tattoo or the BDSM twins is no substitute, especially since Francis takes an instructive tone. Who cares about a serial killer? Dakota doesn't do investigations either. In her own words, Dakota Frost's no "bounty hunter" or "detective, or anything like that." She's handed her arse, but mostly she chats alternative culture. ![]() Gothic Lolita and calling attacks, which is lame), Goth, tattooing- everything except the WHAM-BAM-POW brawls I associate with UF. Within 284 pages, author Anthony Francis stuffs in BDSM, Magic: The Gathering, anime (e.g. ![]() Frost Moon's more alternative culture than urban fantasy. ![]()
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Urn:lcp:waysofseeing00berg:lcpdf:ddb015a9-137a-464f-b808-bab6671ed609 The author published a book called ‘Ways of Seeing’ as a companion to a BBC series (also called Ways of Seeing). ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:34:10 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA109704 Camera Canon 5D City London Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Reprinted External-identifier ![]() ![]() To make the grade, he'll have to finally show up for class - and overcome his own private fear that love was never meant to last. ![]() He discovers love is a crash course in determination. As Walter sets out to lure Kelly out of his shell, staying just friends is harder than he anticipated. Everyone is better off having as much fun as possible with as many people as possible - except his shy, sad little sack of a roommate is seriously screwing up his world view. Walter Lucas doesn't believe in storybook love. Worst of all, he's landed the charming, handsome, gay campus Casanova as a roommate, whose bed might as well be equipped with a revolving door. ![]() ![]() In fact, Kelly could be the only virgin on campus. But when he arrives at Hope University, he quickly realizes finding his Prince Charming isn't so easy. Kelly Davidson has waited what seems like forever to graduate high school and get out of his small-minded, small town. ![]() ![]() ![]() Understood what danger she might be in, and later in life she makes a mistake Punished and judged those who had fallen foul of men’s selfish seductions.Įmmeline is punished throughout her life for the crime of another, she hadn’t ![]() The injustices and cruelties that existed for women and girls in a society that The reader’s anger for Emmeline builds gradually, Judith Rossner reveals Immediately compelling, Emmeline spans a period ofĪbout sixty years, though the majority of the story takes place in the 1840sĪnd 50s. It is also, devastatingly, largely a true story, based on the life of Emeline Bachelder Gurney. This novel Ellmann claims – and I absolutely agree – is a howl against the patriarchy. Yet it is that novel which made the author’s name. ![]() I haven’t read that earlier novel, which according to Lucy Ellmann in her afterword to this edition is not nearly so well written as Emmeline, calling it a sub-porn peep show. Emmeline is Persephone book number 123, reissued by Persephone in 2017, it’s an American historical novel first published in 1980, by the author of Looking for Mr Goodbar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the majority of its biological population can have almost anything they want without the need to work, there is little need for laws or enforcement, and the culture is described by Banks as space socialism. ![]() The Culture is a society formed by various humanoid species and artificial intelligences about 9,000 years before the events of novels in the series. Each novel is a self-contained story with new characters, although reference is occasionally made to the events of previous novels. In some of the stories action takes place mainly in non-Culture environments, and the leading characters are often on the fringes of (or non-members of) the Culture, sometimes acting as agents of Culture (knowing and unknowing) in its plans to civilize the galaxy. The main themes of the series are the dilemmas that an idealistic, more-advanced civilization faces in dealing with smaller, less-advanced civilizations that do not share its ideals, and whose behaviour it sometimes finds barbaric. The stories centre on The Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society of humanoid aliens, and advanced superintelligent artificial intelligences living in artificial habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy. Banks and released from 1987 through to 2012. ![]() The Culture series is a science fiction series written by Scottish author Iain M. ![]() ![]() ![]() With only a vision from the Clayr to guide her and the help of her companions-Sam, the Disreputable Dog, and Mogget-Lirael must search in both Life and Death for some means to defeat the evil destructor. ![]() If Oranniss unspeakable powers are unleashed, it will mean the end of all Life. The Abhorsen Sabriel and King Touchstone are missing, leaving only Lirael-newly come into her inheritance as the Abhorsen-in-Waiting-to stop the Destroyer. Book Synopsis What began with Sabriel 25 years ago comes to an unforgettable conclusion to the Old Kingdom Trilogy in Abhosren by master of fantasy and globally bestselling Garth Nix, now available in a special anniversary edition with original art by Leo and Diane Dillon. About the Book Includes excerpt: Clariel, a prequel to Sabriel and an excerpt from Terciel & Elinor, a prequel to Sabriel. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The depth and variety of Einstein's thinking about nature, the scope and color of his life, and the complexity of his character have," he admits, "about them something alarming to a biographer."Įven so, Foelsing, a physicist- turned-science journalist in his native Germany, manages to bring to life the man who rose from the obscurity of the Swiss patent office not only to shake physics with his revolutionary ideas about space and time but also to become for much of the public the very personification of science. Sometimes saintly, other times fiercely combative, Einstein is, in Foelsing's view, a figure of almost "unfathomable" subtlety. Yet somehow Albrecht Foelsing, in his massive and richly detailed "Albert Einstein: A Biography," has managed to bring a fresh tint to this iconic figure of modern science.Įinstein, as portrayed by Foelsing, is still recognizable as the shaggy-haired genius whose unsettled private life stood in perplexing contrast to his serene contemplation of the universe. ![]() In the four decades since his death, so much has been written about Albert Einstein - as a scientist, humanist and all- purpose sage - it's hard to imagine that anything new could be said about the father of relativity. By Albrecht Foelsing, translated by Ewald Osers ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Ariely was 18, just after he had joined the Israeli military, he was at a meeting in a room filled with munitions when a magnesium flare, the kind used to light up battlefields at night, inexplicably ignited. ![]() An Israeli who was born in New York City but raised in Ramat HaSharon, a small city just north of Tel Aviv, Ariely welcomes combative discourse with the relish of someone who has endured tougher battles. Treading on the sacred ground of mainstream economics set off an intense controversy and inter- and intra-disciplinary sniping that has continued unabated ever since.įor Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and author of the best-selling “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions” (Harper, 2008), a little testy debate about his work pales in comparison to his own remarkable odyssey. Becoming a star in the controversial academic discipline of behavioral economics is not for the faint of heart.īattle lines were drawn nearly four decades ago when innovative thinkers such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Richard H.Thaler challenged traditional economic dogma with their theories about the unpredictable impact of human behavior on tried-and-true economic models. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reborn is full length (115k) words, and is the final in the Shadow Beast Shifters series, and does NOT end on a cliffhanger. *If you like sexy, dark paranormal romances, with humor, steam, action, a tough heroine and an antihero, this is for you. I need to get to the bottom of this mystery.Īnd when I figure out who stole my memories, they’re going to wish they never messed with Mera Callahan. It’s my nature after all.Īs I search out random growls, flutters in my chest, and a suspicion that there’s so much more going on than I could even imagine, I sense that I’m racing against an unknown clock. Whoever did this to me should have known I’d pick at it until it bled. Someone messed with me and no matter how often I’m told to forget it and move on as Torin’s mate, there’s no way I can. I’m being lied to and missing weeks and months of time. Funny how quickly dreams turn into nightmares. It seems my childhood dreams were finally a reality. ![]() I’d all but given up, until a quirk of true mate genetics gifted me a true mate like no other. ![]() Of course, that dream existed before my father betrayed the pack and turned me into their punching bag. ![]() Growing up in Torma, the strongest of the shifter packs, I wanted nothing more than to find my true mate and live my best life. So why does it taste like ash on my tongue? I finally have the life I always dreamed of. The epic conclusion to the Shadow Beast Shifters. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Patrick Green – author and illustrator of the hilarious InvestiGATORS series Refund Policy:hould an event be cancelled then the Yellow-Lighted Bookshop will refund ticket holders with a voucher to the full value of the ticket purchased._ Sunday Pass - buy tickets for all Five Events taking place on Sunday and receive a discount (applied at checkout) She is condemned to a life of shadows and darkness. The power cannot be controlled: Medusa can look at nothing without destroying it. Writhing snakes replace her hair and her gaze now turns any living creature to stone. ![]() When the sea god Poseidon commits an unforgivable act in the temple of Athene, the goddess takes her revenge wherever she can – and Medusa is changed forever. And her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. Growing up with her Gorgon sisters, she begins to realise that she is the only one who experiences change, the only one who can be hurt. Medusa is the sole mortal in a family of gods. ![]() |