![]() ![]() ![]() Over a distinguished 50-year career, Adrienne Rich has explored history, gender and ideology with tenacity and courage. ![]() Unlike many poets, who are often not skilled orators, she reads dazzlingly, excavating the depths and finding intricate threads of meaning running through each image.įrom "Power", her 1974 poem about Marie Curie, she gives a chilling edge to the concluding line: "Her wounds came from the same source as her power." However, most startling is her rendition of "Diving into the Wreck", a landmark poem which not only marked a leap forward in American poetry, but also mapped out a watershed in Rich's own transformation from a poet of distinction into a poet fully aware of her own creative destiny as a lesbian and feminist: Her voice couldn't be more of a contrast: still tinged with the southern drawl of her native Baltimore, the cadences are sharp and resonant as they project her imagery and symbolism. Behind the sound-proof glass that separates the inner chamber from the banks of dials and diodes, she looks small and frail. ![]() In a cramped studio in Shepherd's Bush, Adrienne Rich is recording some of her work for the new Poetry Archive, a project that aims to make recordings of major poets available via the internet. ![]()
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![]() What is Leviathan About and Why Should I Care? World War I might seem like a thing of the past, but in Westerfeld's hands, it's a fantastical tale for the ages. Westerfeld usually sticks to science fiction, and there's plenty of that on display here, along with a healthy dose of history and a suggestion of romance to boot. Published in 2009, Leviathan is the first book in a trilogy that covers the early days of World War I in this very different world. It's still 1914, and there are still entangling alliances (another thing we think of when we think of World War I), but this is World War I like we've never seen it before. ![]() Leviathan is set in an alternate reality where Darwinists (the folks with the beasties) align against Clankers (the folks with the walkers) for a massive world war. Come to think of it, the secrets part is true of almost any war. When Leviathan's author, Scott Westerfeld, thinks World War I, though, he thinks colossal beasties fabricated out of the DNA of multiple species patrolling the skies, steam-powered walkers dominating the land, and secrets. When we think World War I, we think trench warfare, Franz Ferdinand, and War Horse. ![]() ![]() ![]() All from 3.39 New from 175.83 Used from 3. A wordless picture book with four-color art throughout. ![]() Have one to sell Shop with confidence eBay Money Back Guarantee Get the item you ordered or get your money back. Children can follow along as a family member prepares for, celebrates, and recovers from their joyous winter holiday. Peter Spiers Christmas by Peter Spier (1983, Hardcover) 9780385131834 eBay The seller has not uploaded any pictures. Due to size and depending on shipping method/destination, extra postage may be required. Each picture in this holiday favorite is crammed with detail which will delight young and old readers alike. 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The book without words follow a family through the Holiday Season, beginning with decorations going up around the town to the days after Christmas with boxes and wrapping paper curbside. ![]() Illustrated paper over boards, matches dust jacket. Approximately 10 1/2 inches by 10 1/4 inches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aria was only fifteen when her parents betrothed her to Luca – The Vice – Vitiello, the oldest son of the head of the New York Cosa Nostra to ensure peace between the two families.Now at eighteen, the day Aria has been dreading for years is looming dangerously: her wedding to Luca.Aria is terrified of marrying a man she hardly knows, especially someone like Luca who got his nickname 'the Vice' for crushing a man's throat with his bare hands. ![]() This boxed set includes the first three books in the Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles:Bound By HonorBound By DutyBound By HatredBound By Honor:Born into one of the leading Mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi struggles to find her own path in a world where no choices are given. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To respect yourself, to love yourself-should not have to be a radical decision. In an anthology of revolution and resistance, a sisterhood of YA writers shines a light on a century and a half of heroines on the margins and in the intersections. ![]() Even if it means all-out war.In the highly anticipated sequel to Born Wicked, the Cahill Witch Chronicles continue Cate, Maura and Tess's quest to find love, protect family, and explore their magic against all odds in an alternate history of New England. But when her sisters Maura and Tess join the Sisterhood, Maura makes it clear that she’ll do whatever it takes to lead the witches to victory. ![]() Then, when Cate’s friend Sachi is arrested for witchery, a formidable group of war-thirsty Sisters plan to destroy the Brotherhood from the inside, whether or not Cate is ready for battle.Cate doesn’t want to be a weapon, and she doesn’t want to risk involving Finn in the Sisterhood’s schemes. Now, with the Brotherhood and a reluctant Finn persecuting witches and women like never before, a divided Sisterhood looks to Cate for answers-answers that she doesn’t have. A witchy, magical saga for fans of Beautiful Creatures and A Discovery of Witches Cate Cahill left everything behind to keep her family safe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She's letting her hair down, dancing the night away at clubs, and laughing and flirting with men for the first time in, well, ever. ![]() But she can pretend, right? One makeover later, Daisy has transformed herself into a party girl extraordinaire. But can a lifelong good girl turn bad? No, not exactly. So when she wakes up on her thirty-fourth birthday, still living with her widowed mom and spinster aunt, she decides it's time to get a life. She's never even had a lukewarm love affair, let alone a hot one. A plain, small-town librarian, she's got a wardrobe as sexy as a dictionary and hasn't been on a date in years. Seamlessly blending heart-pounding romance and breathless intrigue, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard writes a masterful, stylish, and provocative suspense novel that absolutely defies readers to put it down. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this explosive series finale, allegiances Walls of Fablehaven to strange and exotic magical preserves across the globe, where the end of every quest becomes the beginning of another. To this end, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn will venture far beyond the ![]() Light must unite in a final effort to thwart the Sphinx’s designs and find a safe home for the five artifacts. ![]() Facing the potential of a world-ending calamity, all friends of Of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison. Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. Title: Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison (Book 5)įablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary ![]() ![]() ![]() Haley, Crouch insists, was a “ruthless hustler” and “one of the biggest damn liars this country has ever seen.” Crouch likens Haley to Tawana Brawley, the young black woman who infamously lied about being raped and humiliated by a white police officer. ![]() In at least three critical respects, Haley was downright dishonest.īlack commentator Stanley Crouch doesn’t mince words when it comes to Alex Haley. In fact, to describe Roots merely as “fiction” is to treat Haley with more charity than he deserves. To listen to Oprah and the actors with whom she was accompanied, one could be forgiven for regarding this as news. ![]() This is worth commenting upon only because, for as provocative and entertaining as both book and movie undoubtedly are - I read the book twice and watched the miniseries numerous times - Roots, the author’s assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, is a work of fiction through and through. Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society ![]() ![]() ![]() His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. ![]() Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. ![]() Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. THE KREUTZER SONATA by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy First Published in 1889 Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude Distributed by the Tolstoy Library OnLine But I say unto you, that everyone that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The article continued: “If the Inspector General finds that such experiments occurred, then, according to the bill, they must provide the House and Senate Armed Services committees with a report on the scope of the research and ‘whether any ticks or insects used in such experiments were released outside of any laboratory by accident or experimental design’…potentially leading to the spread of diseases such as Lyme.” House of Representatives having “quietly passed a bill requiring the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to conduct a review into whether the Pentagon experimented with ticks and other blood-sucking insects for use as biological weapons between 19.” “Pentagon May Have Released Weaponized Ticks That Helped Spread of Lyme Disease: Investigation Ordered” was the Newsweek headline last month. 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