![]() ![]() ” -Renée Ahdieh, New York Times bestselling author of Flame in the Mist Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. ![]() But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield-her brother, fighting with the enemy-the brother she watched die five years ago.įaced with her brother's betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. ![]() A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book from debut author Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings-and all heart. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To him, transsexuality is all about a person’s sexual habits and appetites, rather than their sense of internal identity. This transphobia plays itself out with Bailey characterizing transsexual women as people with paraphilias, which he defines as unusual sexual preferences that include sadism, necrophilia, bestiality and paedophilia. Out of the total of six women who were used as subjects in the book, three others have filed similar complaints.Ī second important critique of the Bailey book stems from his prejudicial generalizations about transsexual women. ![]() Most keenly she expresses she is “unhappy and most concerned with the presumptions and misinterpretations” he made of her life in the book in order to “suit his needs.” ![]() Her complaint cites many examples of unethical research practices, including that she “was a participant in a research study without being informed,” that she “did not receive, nor was asked to sign, an informed consent document” and that Bailey’s role as the doctor providing her approval letter for sex reassignment surgery constituted a conflict of interest. Charges have been filed against Bailey and his institution, Northwestern University, by Anjelica Kieltyka, the woman known as “Cher” in the book. A significant critique of Bailey’s book centres on its positioning as scientific research. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most illuminating of all, he learns that these abilities are reflected in our own remarkable, and often hidden, potential-including echolocation, directional sense, and the profound bodily changes humans undergo when underwater. ![]() He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and other strange phenomena. Fascinated by the sport of freediving-in which competitors descend great depths on a single breath-James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers. “Fascinating, informative, exhilarating.” - Wall Street Journalĭeep is a voyage from the ocean’s surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth. New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This drug allows people to have out-of-body experiences and explore different dimensions and times. The general plot line is based around a drug called Soy Sauce that has become extremely popular. This is a clever and unique book with lots going on – you’re guaranteed to stay interested, regardless of what you usually read. However, the premise is sometimes considered too silly for fans of intense horror books. John Dies at the End is an interesting novel, often labeled as ‘weird’, ‘thought-provoking’, ‘dumb’, and ‘intelligent’ – you can tell it’s complex in its construction! It’s a hugely varied book, appealing to many different readers. So, you can find a horror book that is predominantly scary but with a hint of humor to help lighten the overall tone, or you can find a book that is primarily funny and only flirts with elements of horror.Īlthough this genre is smaller than others, it is varied enough for you to find a book that corresponds with what you’re looking for, whether that’s a hilarious novel set in a creepy house or a terrifying novel that is occasionally funny. These books can be either simple or complex in theme and can be imbalanced when incorporating comedy and terror. These books are extremely well-constructed, creating a brilliant blend of fear and humor. Comic horror is not a huge genre, so there’s a market there if you think you can write one! But those that have been written have been adored by fans and critics alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Renunciation of Personal Gratification in the Name of a Devotion to the Collectivity 48 The Struggle Against Passivity: Aurobindo 31Ĭhapter IV: The Social Psychology of Nationalism 1. The Struggle Against Passivity: Lenin 24 3. The Struggle Against Passivity: Hitler 19 2. The Disease Within the Nation as a Projection of Malignant Internal Objects 16 Chapter III: Revolution as a Struggle Against Passivity 1. Racism and Revolution as a Wish to Eliminate the '1Jisease" from Within the Body of the Nation 12 2. The Country as a Projection of Infantile Narcissism 10 Chapter II: The Country as a Living Organism 12 1. LCN: 76-16304 ISBN: 0-91 Manufactured in the United States of AmericaĬhapter 1: The Country, The Mother, and Infantile Narcissism 1. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form (except for brief quotations in connection with reviews) without the written permission of the publisher. PSYCHOANALYSIS OF RACISM, REVOLUTION AND NATIONAl JISMĬopyright © 1977 by The Librazy of Social Science All rights reserved. THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF RACISM, REVOLUTION AND NATIONALISM ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "In Life on Mars, Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation. ![]() These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like love and illness now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. What Would your life say if it could talk? -from No Fly Zone With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. Smith, whose lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. ![]() ![]() Twisted Game is a full-length new adult romance with dark themes, damaged anti-heroes, and high heat. I’m a loose thread to them-but somehow, I’m becoming more than that too.Īnd no matter how much I try to deny the terrifying attraction that pulses between us, I know if I don’t find a way out of this tangled web soon… These three dangerous brothers will do anything to make sure I keep my mouth shut about what I saw, even if it means stalking my every movement. They don’t… but they don’t forget about me, either. ![]() When they drag me from the blood-soaked bed, I’m certain they’re going to kill me too. On the night I’m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three men storm into the room like dark shadows and kill him before he can claim me. So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence. ![]() My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars. ![]() ![]() Summarized here is the 2019 paperback version of the book published by Graphix. In September 2019, Guts rose to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List for all books. ![]() In 2020, Guts received two Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, graphic literature’s highest honors-one for Best Writer/Artist and one for Best Publication for Kids. The cartoon strips she draws to mitigate her distress become a major part of her adult life, along with anxiety and IBS. Her narrative chronicles how she tries to cope with these illnesses as a preadolescent while simultaneously encountering bullying and injustice at school and benign chaos in the two-bedroom apartment she shares with her parents, sister, brother, and occasionally her grandmother. Panic attacks accompany the IBS, and the two conditions exacerbate each other, intensifying her distress. During this period, she first experiences gastrointestinal issues, eventually diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). ![]() Guts specifically records Raina’s fourth- and fifth-grade years, when she transitioned from nine to 10 years old. Guts is the third mid-grade graphic memoir in a trilogy by author/illustrator Raina Telgemeier through which she relates the true story of her childhood. ![]() ![]() I could name the very moment when it had begun, and one day I knew I should be able to name the final hour. ![]() When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end. Bendrix’s latest book features a character who works in the civil service hence he has a semi-legitimate reason to ask Sarah to have dinner with him – what better way to find out about the working life of a public servant than to talk to his wife? By the end of their dinner date, it is clear that Bendrix and Sarah are deeply attracted to one another and so their love affair begins, a liaison that seems blighted virtually from the outset. Under the guise of conducting some research for his latest novel, Bendrix forms a connection with Sarah, the wife of a government official and neighbour, Henry Miles. The End of the Affair is narrated by Maurice Bendrix, a moderately successful single writer living in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() My copy of his 1951 novel, The End of the Affair, has been languishing on the shelves for what feels like ages, so when I compiled my reading list for the Classics Club back in December, it seemed a natural fit for the project. It’s been a very long time since I last read one of Graham Greene’s books, maybe twenty or twenty-five years. ![]() ![]() Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-375) and index This ambitious work appraises a broad trajectory of influences-including Shakespeare's plays, John Locke's theories of education, Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and the Puritan tradition-which have each shaped children's literature through the ages as well.-From publisher description Along the way, Lerer also looks at the changing environments of family life and human growth, schooling and scholarship, and publishing and politics in which children found themselves changed by the books they read. ![]() Seth Lerer here explores the iconic books, ancient and contemporary alike, that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. ![]() |