5/23/2023 0 Comments Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima![]() ![]() ![]() Shunsuke's contempt for women leads him to admire Yuichi, whom he feels is incapable of loving women. Homosexuality: Yuichi's pursuit of his homosexual nature is a driving force of the narrative.Two involving the main characters, Yuichi and Shunsuke, are: There are many elements Mishima touches on. He advises the young man to go through with the marriage and gain financial security, but also to omit no opportunity to experiment with the emotions of others, and to have as many affairs as possible with both women and men. He tells Yuichi that his inability to feel desire for women is not a weakness but potentially a tremendous source of strength. The crafty Shunsuke senses an opportunity to mold the malleable, gullible young man into an exquisite weapon of revenge against the female sex as a whole. ![]() While he needs the marriage for financial reasons, Yuichi innocently confides to the older man that he feels no real physical desire for his bride, or for any woman. While vacationing at an exclusive Japanese resort, he meets Yuichi, a stunningly gorgeous young man of limited means and intellect who is engaged to a prim, conventional young woman from a very well-to-do family. Aging, cynical Shunsuke is one of postwar Japan's most respected authors. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Naomi novik ezüstfonás![]() ![]() Novik's first novel, His Majesty's Dragon ( Temeraire in the UK) is the first novel in the Temeraire series, an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars in a "Flintlock Fantasy" world where dragons are abundant and are used in aerial combat. She participated in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide, until she discovered that she preferred writing over game design. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature at Brown University and holds a master's degree in computer science from Columbia University. Displaying an interest in reading at a young age, she read The Lord of the Rings at age six, and developed a love for Jane Austen soon afterward. She is a second-generation American her father's family were Lithuanian Jews, and her mother's family were Polish Catholics. Novik grew up in Roslyn Heights on Long Island. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex, Audie, British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards. Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Naomi Novik (born April 30, 1973) is an American author of speculative fiction. ![]() Naomi Novik at a book signing event in Philadelphia, July 2008 ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Witch King by Martha Wells![]() ![]() The three embark on a quest to learn more about their captors, understand the changing political landscape of their world, and save Ziede’s wife, Tahren Starguard. ![]() Sanja trails along behind as he saves his best friend Ziede, who was entombed with him. Kai quickly dispatches his enemies, saving a little girl and former slave named Sanja. Over his long life of more than fifty years, he’s also had training in two other magic disciplines: cantrips, commonly used by Witches, and intentions, commonly used by expositors. As a demon from the underearth, he has the power to drain life through touch, inhabit dead-and occasionally, living-bodies, and heal himself. Book Content Warnings: self-harm, death, grief, slavery/enslavementĪrticle Content Warnings: mentions of the aboveĪfter about a year trapped in an underwater prison, Kaiisteron, known as Kai to his friends and Witch King to his enemies, surfaces to find an overconfident enemy spellcaster (called an expositor) trying to enslave his mind and will. ![]() ![]() The complete, first-ever Golden Girls retrospective, packed with hundreds of exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes and never-before-revealed stories, more than two hundred color and black-and-white photos, commentary, and more. 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By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+).BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments We Killed by Yael Kohen![]() ![]() There were battles to fight and preconceptions to shake before we could arrive in a world in which women like Chelsea Handler, Sarah Silverman, and Tina Fey can be smart, attractive, sexually confident - and, most of all, flat-out funny. Kohen brings us into the sixties and seventies,when the appearance of smart, edgy comedians (Elaine May, Lily Tomlin) and the women's movement brought a new wave of radicals: the women of SNL, tough-ass stand-ups, and a more independent breed on TV (Mary Tyler Moore and her sisters). She starts in the 1950s, when comic success meant ridiculing and desexualizing yourself when Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller emerged as America's favorite frustrated ladies when the joke was always on them. ![]() In We Killed, Kohen pieces together the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy, gathering the country's most prominent comediennes and the writers, producers, nightclub owners, and colleagues who revolved around them. ![]() It's incendiary, much discussed, and, as proven in Yael Kohen's fascinating oral history, totally wrongheaded. ![]() No matter how many times female comedians buck the conventional wisdom, people continue to ask: "Are women funny?" The question has been nagging at women off and on (mostly on) for the past sixty years. ![]() ![]() In 1977 Carter married Mark Pearce, with whom she had one son.Īs well as being a prolific writer of fiction, Carter contributed many articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman, collected in Shaking a Leg. She spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities, including the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of East Anglia. ![]() She then explored the United States, Asia, and Europe, helped by her fluency in French and German. She was there at the same time as Roland Barthes, who published his experiences in Empire of Signs (1970). In 1969 Angela Carter used the proceeds of her Somerset Maugham Award to leave her husband and relocate for two years to Tokyo, Japan, where she claims in Nothing Sacred (1982) that she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised." She wrote about her experiences there in articles for New Society and a collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), and evidence of her experiences in Japan can also be seen in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972). She married twice, first in 1960 to Paul Carter. Carter attended the University of Bristol where she studied English literature. She began work as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser, following in the footsteps of her father. ![]() ![]() Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prominent Hospitaller and Teutonic leaders sometimes held dual membership with the Templar Order, albeit the Templar affiliation would be in secret. ![]() The Crusaders and their operations were therefore closely linked with that of the Templar Order. They seeded their members into various factions the Saracens notwithstanding, this included the other two Crusader orders. By the time of the Third Crusade, the name "Templar" had been popularized for and become synonymous with this covert group among those in the know of their activities. The last was only a public front for the shadowy organization which in antiquity operated under the name the Order of the Ancients. Amongst their number were counted knightly orders such as the Knights Hospitalier, the Knights Teutonic, and the Knights Templar. These orders were largely founded in the Holy Land itself, ostensibly to protect Christian pilgrims. ![]() While a majority of Crusaders served personally in the armies of the kingdoms of Europe, the most iconic were members of a number of Christian military orders who worked in unison with these European kingdoms. The first three, and most prominent, of these conflicts involved military expeditions against the Islamic rulers of the Holy Land, aiming to forcefully claim it in the name of Christianity. The Crusaders were Europeans who undertook the call-to-arms by the Papacy to participate in the Crusades, a series of religious wars enacted against the enemies of the Latin Church. ![]() ![]() A group of prominent and powerful noblewomen, including some former mistresses of the king, were accused of buying poisons to kill their husbands or female rivals for the king’s affections. In order to do so, they would have had to make contact with the infamous women of the Parisian criminal underworld. Tucker, a professor of French, Italian and Biomedical Ethics at Vanderbilt University, answered our questions about her riveting account of the affair.Īs a French professor, you no doubt had read about this scandal many times. The Affair of the Poisons was a panic and, depending on who you believe, crime wave that swept through the French aristocracy. But this tale of Parisian witches and possibly murderous noblewomen really did happen, and it rocked the foundation of one of the most powerful monarchies the world has ever seen-the court of Louis XIV at Versailles. Holly Tucker’s City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris tells a story so outlandish, one would be forgiven for thinking the book was historical fiction. ![]() ![]() Erik Haugaard was born in Denmark and has traveled extensively in the United States, Italy, Spain, and Japan. Religious strife, World War II, and feudal Japan are just some of the settings Haugaard has explored in his books, which usually feature a child whose hardships are made all the worse due to the loss of parents or other guardians. Haugaard has written a number of acclaimed works for young adults that transport readers back to a time and place in history that placed upon children burdens nearly unimaginable to the contemporary North American adolescent. Called "a writer gifted in the art of the storyteller" by the BOSTON GLOBE, he is internationally known for his accomplishments as a playwright, poet, and translator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While Ives’s oeuvre and the Lusitania’s fate may not be the most obvious fodder for a child-friendly tale, Stanbridge wisely depicts the sinking ship’s youngest passengers being saved, and shows how tragedy can inspire art. The sweet watercolors draw the reader into a century-old world. Squeak, Rumble, Whomp Whomp Whomp ebook A Sonic Adventure By Wynton Marsalis Format ebook ISBN 9780763639914 Author Wynton Marsalis Publisher Candlewick Press Release 14 March 2013 Subjects Juvenile Fiction Juvenile Literature Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. But Charles Ives - businessman by day, modernist composer by night - “grabs that big sound with both hands and shapes it into a song.” Stanbridge writes well for young children, with a straightforward but absorbing text. When the Lusitania’s whistle blows in port, many onlookers cover their ears. Written and illustrated by Joanne Stanbridge. IVES The True Story of a Famous American Composer. Impeccable rhythm and rhyme distinguish this particular tale, filled, as always, with Donaldson’s exemplary humor and heart. It is, in short, a story of friendship and true love, of loved ones parted and reunited, and the music that binds people (and pets) together. ![]() “Tabby McTat was a busker’s cat / With a meow that was loud and strong,” it begins, and what follows is the story of a hard-up street musician, his cat and his cat’s new wife. ![]() The team behind “Room on the Broom” pair up yet again in what has become a near-annual ritual of picture book perfection. ![]() |