6/27/2023 0 Comments The Water Witch by Juliet Dark![]() ![]() With factions turning on one another, all are cruelly forced to take sides. ![]() The enchanted town of Fairwick’s dazzling mix of mythical creatures has come under siege from the Grove: a sinister group of witches determined to banish the fey back to their ancestral land. But in the nearby thicket of the honeysuckle forest, and in the currents of the rushing Undine stream, more trouble is stirring. Perfect for fans of Deborah Harkness and Elizabeth Kostova, The Water Watch is a breathtakingly sexy and atmospheric new novel of ancient folklore, passionate love, and thrilling magic.Īfter casting out a dark spirit, Callie McFay, a professor of gothic literature, has at last restored a semblance of calm to her rambling Victorian house. ![]()
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Teardrop lauren kate saga![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. ![]() And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love st. From Lauren Kate comes an epic saga of heart-stopping romance, devastating secrets, and dark magic. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. 3.75 44,302 Ratings 1,969 Reviews published 2012 11 editions. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. a world where everything you love can be washed away. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. From Lauren Kate comes an epic saga of herat-stopping romance, devastating secrets, and dark magic. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Sanditon story![]() So there was pressure, and I wrote endless drafts." Most romantic declarations of love in cinema – whether it's 'Shut up and deal,' or 'I really hate you, Harry' – they're not people saying, 'I love you' in so many words. "Personally, I'm allergic to people saying, 'I love you'. ![]() "That was one of the hardest things, writing those declaration of love moments because everyone's waiting for them," Young told Salon in a Zoom interview. I cannot imagine how fathomless they might be once we've shared a lifetime together."īoth that scene and the ensuing declaration caused "Sanditon" head writer Justin Young no small amount of agony. ![]() Indeed, they've only grown deeper with every second I've spent in your company. "You bewitched me in the very first moment we met, and ever since my affections have not wavered. After clearing up a mutual misunderstanding – neither one is engaged to other people – they're able to finally acknowledge their love for each other.Ĭolbourne channels his best Darcy for this swoonworthy declaration: On PBS' "Masterpiece" adaptation Sunday night, the broody yet handsome widower Alexander Colbourne (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) pulls the Regency equivalent of chasing after someone to the airport by galloping up to Charlotte's (Rose Williams) carriage on a seaside cliff before she leaves for Ireland. ![]() "Ultimately, it felt like a kind of gift and an acknowledgement of the fans who had said, 'You can't leave her here.'" ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Daughter of Chaos by Jen McConnel![]() Will Lena learn enough about her power before it’s too late, or will she become a walking disaster? Now Lena’s on the run, struggling to master the forces of chaos she now controls while at the same time staying out of the way of the crazy gods and goddesses who want her to use Red Magic to cause chaos. ![]() ![]() Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, shows up in her living room and pressures her to choose her path, and Lena does something stupid she declares that she’ll be a Red Witch, something that doesn’t exist…or does it? Darlena isn’t expecting the form it takes, though. ![]() She’s torn between her best friend’s choice of the Black path, and her on-again, off-again boyfriend’s choice of the White path, so she tries to stall, waiting for divine inspiration. But for Darlena Agara, things just keep getting harder. Magic is supposed to be easy there’s Black, White, and Green Magic, and once a Witch picks a path, that’s really all she has to worry about. Choose now, and choose once, for once taken, the path becomes your fate.” ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Helen macdonald author![]() ![]() I quite like sharing this place with other creatures." We don't like when they cross into our spaces. With essays about birds who know no national boundaries, refugees denied safety because of artificial borders and creatures pushed from their homes by human selfishness, Macdonald finds myriad ways to make the case that, unlike humans, animals do not feel a need to "own" their spaces: "We are so careful in the modern world to police the boundaries between our lives and other animals. ![]() That's a nifty metaphor for her "Vesper Flights," which makes connections between humans and other creatures, guided by a belief that it's not them who should be figuring out how to adapt to us, but us who need to fit into the natural world. I'm not the world's greatest housekeeper, so I can look into the corner and see their webs." "I have these birds who use it as their nesting place. ![]() "I live on my own but the thought that the house doesn't just belong to me as a habitation is really pleasing," said Macdonald by phone from her home in Suffolk, England. By most accounts, the writer who will lead a Talking Volumes online event Wednesday lives alone. ![]() When Helen Macdonald refers to "our house" in her new essay collection, she doesn't mean her boyfriend or a member of her family. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Wild Things by Bruce Handy![]() ![]() ( 5.) Eric Carle’s Very Hungry Caterpillar. ( 3.) Bruce Handy, the not-actually-this-stylish author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult. ( 1–2.) Wild Things and Max, from Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. See.” Literary criticism through the prism of memoir, Wild Things is a “These are works of art,” Handy says, “and as with Lewis and God, and the revelation that is Laura Goodnight Moon, ends with Charlotte’s Web, and in between exploresīeatrix Potter’s principled anthropomorphism, Sendak and the fairy tale, ![]() To what is he responding? Handy starts with Response-intellectual, conspiratorial, comic, quizzical, charmed, To his children, Handy finds himself in a heightened realm of The books he read as a boy and to the books he discovered while reading Subjects high and low, silly and serious. Handy (a contributing editor at Vanity Fair) has ranged elegantly among Where mystical and marvelous surprises await. Golden Ticket into the Whipple-Scrumptious world of children’s classics, Literature as an Adult (Simon & Schuster). Out his first book, Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s That I would rather have read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”Īlready he was the smart aleck who would cut his teeth at Spy magazine.īut more than that, his answer was prophetic, for Handy is now bringing “What did you learn writing this paper?”-Handy wrote, “I learned The subject was Dostoyevsky’sĬrime and Punishment, and at the end of the paper-to the question ![]() Helping his mother with a recent move, Bruce Handy came across a paper ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The map that changed the world![]() ![]() ![]() When put together on a wall, the map is 8 1/2 feet high and 6 feet across. After more than 20 years of work and many reverses, he produced the first geological map of the British isles, an enormous and beautiful affair titled ''A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales With Part of Scotland.'' It consisted of 15 sheets, published over several years but with a printed date of 1815, on a scale of five miles to the inch. ''Strata'' Smith was Britain's first great field stratigrapher and stratigraphic paleontologist. His interests and occupation made it possible for him, almost single-handedly, to change the way the English-speaking population of the world looked at the pile of fossil-bearing sedimentary rock layers that embalm much of Earth's history. WILLIAM SMITH (1769-1839) was a surveyor, a largely self-taught land drainer and a superintendent for a company building canals to barge coal cheaply to rapidly growing English cities as the Industrial Revolution took hold. ![]() THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Tess D'Urberville by Thomas Hardy![]() ![]() The novel centers around a young woman who struggles to find her place in society. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)įor further information, including links to M4B audio book, online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks or to become a volunteer reader, please visit Hardy was an unflinching observer and in TESS has left us some unforgettable vignettes of rural life in late 19th-century England: the slow death of a flock of wounded pheasants, the monotony of field labour under an iron gray sky, and the itinerant farm worker’s seasonal round. He was a controversial writer whose work often showed the result of flouting the rigid Victorian moral code - his novel JUDE THE OBSCURE was (allegedly) burned by the Bishop of Wakefield for its shocking content. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) set most of his stories in the region between Berkshire and Dorset in the fictional county of Wessex. ![]() One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Librivox recording of Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. ![]() ![]() ![]() HALLOWEEN BOOKS Picture books full of tricks and treats, pumpkins, witches, and spooks, and all kinds of Halloween fun! Have a favorite Halloween read that isn’t on this list? Please share it in the comments below! This list represents a sampling of favorite books I’ve used in storytimes, books my own kids enjoy, as well as books I’ve been reading since I was a wee Hallowe’en witchy. Perhaps it was the glowing pumpkins lining the streets, or stories of witches riding in the night, or inky October evenings with the moon hanging low in the sky… Aaaaah Halloween! But one thing I know for sure is my romance with this holiday was encouraged by many of the books I read or was read aloud to as a child. My fondness of Halloween started at a very young age. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It may not be possible today to produce another Mickey Mouse, because many of its early cartoon themes might be considered "derivative works" of some existing copyrighted material (as indicated in the subtitle to the hardback edition and in numerous examples in this book). ![]() The result is a legal and economic environment that stifles "the Progress of Science and useful Arts", exactly the opposite of the purpose cited in the US Constitution. Venture capitalists who funded Napster.Lawyers who advised MP3.com that they had reasonable grounds to believe streaming an MP3 uploaded by a customer only to computers that the customer has logged-in on for the service is legal, and.College students for close to $100 billion, because their improvements of search engines made it easier for people in a university intranet to find copyrighted music placed by others in their "public" folder.It also documents how this industry has successfully used the legal system to limit competition to the major media corporations through legal action against: concentration and integration of the media industry.control (including "derivative works" defined so broadly that virtually any new content could be sued by some copyright holder as a "derivative work" of something), and.scope (from publishers to virtually everyone),.This book documents how copyright power has expanded substantially since 1974 in five critical dimensions: This Flash presentation combines Lawrence Lessigs original 243-slide presentation (on the current state of intellectual. ![]() |