![]() ![]() ![]() It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. “Cassaras’s propulsive and profound first novel, finding one’s home in the world-particularly in a subculture plagued by fear and intolerance from society-comes with tragedy as well as extraordinary personal freedom.” - EsquireĪ gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and ’90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed ![]()
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![]() He suffers from severe cowardice due to the physical and emotional abuse he was subjected to in his childhood by his father. His talent is spotted and he is called upon by the prince and the war counsel to give advice on fortifying the city.Īedan is also human and has his share of flaws. He has a sharp mind for war strategies and can work out ways to win from the most desperate situations. Aedan joins the marshals and begins his training in the academy. Soon after arriving in Castath, Aedan father abandons him and his mother. On their journey, they pick up a married couple, Borr and Harriet. ![]() After losing his friend, Kalry, to the slave traders, Aedan and his parents leave their home in Mistyvales and move to the city of Castath. The story revolves around Aedan a thirteen-year-old boy whose beautiful childhood in the Mistyvales is cut short by the dangerous Lekran slave traders. ![]() SummaryDawn of Wonder: The Wakening, Book 1 Audiobook by Jonathan Renshaw is the first book in The Wakening series. The readers can download Dawn of Wonder: The Wakening, Book 1 Audiobook for free via Audible Free Trial. ![]() Dawn of Wonder: The Wakening, Book 1 by Jonathan Renshaw ![]() ![]() Director Van Hove (West End’s All About Eve Broadway’s Network) finds simplistic magic, even as I waited for some of his typical cinematic flairs to present themselves. ![]() The 70-minute monologue play, written by Cocteau (1934’s La Machine Infernale, 1938’s Les Parents Terribles) and first performed in Paris in 1930, stretches out before us plainly, presenting with dutiful expertise the lies that are told to try to hold on, and the uncomfortable truths that exist underneath. It’s an intense repetitive beginning, making an odd reference to the 1930s Parisian phone system that allowed misdiallers to occasionally connect to the wrong line, but with Wilson, the two-time Olivier and Golden Globe Award winner, playing the lost soul in the center with an intense singularity, she, the actress, somehow manages to pull us in, even as we experience and register the tense triggering separation that exists somewhere between ‘She’ and him, and her and us. “ Hello!” “ Is that you?” ‘She’, the one and only Ruth Wilson (Broadway’s Constellations King Lear) all alone on stage behind a plate of glass, says, repeatedly, into the phone, as the call comes in from a person, the person, she is most desperate to engage with. The unbearable tension of disconnection rings out loud and clear in Ivo Van Hove’s compelling and complex adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice. ![]() ![]() ![]() He traveled with a pantomime troupe in the 1950s, and within a couple years had made his way to Paris where he collaborated with the world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau. Jodorowsky was multi-talented from an early age, becoming skilled in puppetry and mime, in addition to writing, by his late teens. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic proportions that has Difool fighting for not only his very life but for the survival of the entire universe.īorn February 7th, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile, of a Jewish Ukrainian immigrant family. John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called "The Incal." Difool’s adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy’s greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. ![]() The Sci-Fi masterpiece by Mœbius and Jodorowsky about the tribulations of the shabby detective John Difool as he searches for the precious and coveted Incal-released for the first time ever in English in this Black & White Special Edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Things get even more grim as she is shipped off to the court of Versailles and introduced to her puffy, awkward future husband and confronted with the court’s ridiculous customs. To prepare her for this awesome responsibility, she must be trained to write, read, speak French, dress, act… even breathe. Thus, the future of Austria and France falls upon Maria Antonia’s young shoulders. Arranged marriages were common in that day and age–as the Empress Theresa (of the Holy Roman Empire of the Germanic Nations) sought to consolidate power among nations by marrying off her children. ![]() In this engrossing addition to the Royal Diaries series ( Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile), Kathryn Lasky invents a diary of the young Marie Antoinette in 1769–the year she is to be married off to Dauphin Louis Auguste, eldest grandson of the French king Louis XV. So writes the headstrong 13-year-old Maria Antonia–future Queen of France–in her diary on October 23, 1769. ![]() “I look up now into the oval mirror and see barely a trace of the mud-splattered girl tearing through the woodland on her horse, or the barefoot girl wading at Schonbrunn… I have become what Mama set out for me to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. And at its peak-in Holland and the Ardennes-Easy Company was as good a rifle company as any in the world.įrom the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen E. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, I did learn a lot about Russell from reading it. It is primarily told from the point of view of Bertrand Russell, and so is almost a biography of this important 20th century mathematician/philosopher. ![]() And (in a twist that mimics the ways in which modern logic and computers gain their power by self-reference and introspection) it is the story of the book itself. ![]() It is also the story of the twentieth century, of its triumph and tragedy, of its conflicts and contradictions - intellectual and otherwise - of the ideas that defined it and propelled it to its strange destiny. It is really the story of two friends, Apostolos and myself, as they try to understand the lives and times and ideas of the remarkable people who developed mathematical logic - the science of rigorous reasoning - and to come to grips with the strange fact that so many of them died insane. ![]() In an interview (available online here) Papadimitriou says: Note: This work of mathematical fiction is recommended by Alex for young adults and math majors, math grad students (and maybe even math professors).Ī graphic novel on the history of mathematical logic by the authors of Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture and Turing. (click on names to see more mathematical fiction A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston)Īpostolos Doxiadis / Christos Papadimitriou ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With that foundation, Douglass then taught himself to read and write. Douglass credits Hugh’s wife Sophia with first teaching him the alphabet. However, at the age of six, he was moved away from her to live and work on the Wye House plantation in Maryland.įrom there, Douglass was “given” to Lucretia Auld, whose husband, Thomas, sent him to work with his brother Hugh in Baltimore. His full name at birth was “Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.”Īfter he was separated from his mother as an infant, Douglass lived for a time with his maternal grandmother, Betty Bailey. He was actually born Frederick Bailey (his mother’s name), and took the name Douglass only after he escaped. His mother was an enslaved Black women and his father was white and of European descent. Douglass himself was never sure of his exact birth date. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in or around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. ![]() Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. ![]() ![]() ![]() I work full time at a non-writing job but would love to shift into a more writing-centred life. Apparently hes out of jail and hanging out with his old crowd, which has to be a breach of parole, right Pulled over upon leaving the bar, Lucas blows a clean. Not that I don’t sometimes miss the city, but it’s not that far away–I can always visit when I want to. And most of them will have animals–wild or tame, large or small–because I truly believe animals bring out the best in people (as well as the worst, unfortunately), and I want my characters to be at their best.īasic bio stuff? I live in Cottage Country–the water-filled world north of Toronto and the rest of the cities, the land where summers are crowded with visitors and winters are snowy and isolated. ![]() They’ll all show characters who are far from perfect, but who are trying to be better. ![]() All the stories will have some kind of humour, even in the darkest times. One person who’s lucky enough to get to live a bunch of extra lives through the characters in her books, and who’s trying desperately to keep all the lives organized into some sort of categories… so each name writes a different type of story.īut really, beneath the genre categories? They’ll all me. Kate Sherwood, Cate Cameron, Catherine Dale… and probably a few new names, eventually. ![]() |