![]() ![]() *ARC sent by the publisher -Simon & Schuster- for review. Even worse, Ophelia is inching closer and closer to accomplishing her grand plans of eradicating human existence once and for all.Īs Nami works with a team of rebels to bring down Ophelia and save the humans under her imprisonment, she is forced to reckon with her past, her future, and what it is that truly makes us human. ![]() She quickly discovers that Ophelia, a virtual assistant widely used by humans on Earth, has taken over the afterlife and is now posing as a queen, forcing humans into servitude the way she’d been forced to serve in the real world. When Nami wakes up, she learns she’s in a place called Infinity, where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die. The only problem? She’s murdered before she gets there. She has a great family, just graduated high school, and is on her way to a party where her entire class is waiting for her-including, most importantly, the boy she’s been in love with for years. A smart sci-fi about a teen girl navigating an afterlife in which she must defeat an AI entity intent on destroying humanity.Įighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto is certain her life is just beginning. ![]()
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![]() What intrigued me was not the Rome-China connection per se but interconnectedness itself as an aspect of human history. And, of course, big events in Rome sent ripple effects the other way. When something big happened in China-like the construction of a wall that blocked invading nomads-it sent ripple effects through the nomadic world, which eventually reached Rome. China and Rome were two entirely different worlds and knew almost nothing of each other back then, but between them stretched the Central Asian grasslands of the nomads whence the Huns came riding out. The Great Wall of China going up had something to do with the Roman Empire coming down. The third one was about barbarian warriors such as Attila the Hun attacking Rome in its later days.īecause I was reading all three books concurrently, I noticed something that probably would not have occurred to me otherwise. ![]() Another was about Central Asian nomadic life in the centuries before the Mongol conquests. One was about the First Emperor of China, who put a million peasants to work building that Great Wall. This book was born some years ago when I happened to be reading three seemingly unrelated works of history at the same time. ![]() ![]() Under that extremely tough, complicated exterior is a good heart. But he 100% looks out for the women in his life - his mahmen (their scenes were so touching!), Bella, Xhex. I didn't expect Rehv to be so compassionate. This is also the first time we get a real look at what being a sympath means and what their community is like (I'd rather be living with a group of vampires, thank you very much). Through Lover Avenged, we get to the heart of Rehvenge and the sacrifices he's made for the people he loves. ![]() Who was this guy? I was eager to find out. Club-owner, part sympath, Phury's past drug dealer, fiercely protective brother to Bella, formerly infatuated with Marissa. It's hard not to be curious about Rehvenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has to have grown up poor in a rural environment, because those things not only formed me. ![]() She has to have been estranged from her father since a young age like I was. From the start, Strayed tells us, she knew that Clare, aka Sugar, had to have her past.ĬHERYL STRAYED: She has to have lived through many of the most formative experiences I had, namely the death of my mom - my mom died very suddenly of cancer at 45. And although the series is generally fictional, it does closely mirror Strayed's own life and experiences, many of which were captured in the advice columns that Cheryl Strayed wrote anonymously under the name Sugar. The show stars Kathryn Hahn as an adult Clare and Sarah Pidgeon as a young Clare, and Merritt Wever plays Clare's mother, Frankie. It follows Clare, both the woman she is today and the teenager she was. "Tiny Beautiful Things" is a brand-new series on Hulu based on Cheryl Strayed's bestselling book of the same name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Returning to Vancouver, she completed her first novel The Daring Game which was published by Penguin Books. at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature in Boston. In 1975, she began her Library degree at the University of British Columbia and took her first jobs in that field in Ontario. ![]() She obtained a degree in English Literature at the University of Alberta. As a high-school student, she returned to Vancouver to be educated at Crofton House School. ![]() Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and spent her childhood between that city and Vancouver, British Columbia. She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2019. Pearson is perhaps best known for her linked novels The Sky Is Falling (1989), Looking at the Moon (1991), and The Lights Go on Again (1993), published in 1999 as The Guests of War Trilogy, and Awake and Dreaming (1996), which won the 1997 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. Kathleen Margaret "Kit" Pearson CM (born April 30, 1947) is a Canadian writer and winner of numerous literature awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Book of Delights is about our shared bonds, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. More than anything else, though, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world–his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the hypnotic movements of a praying mantis. ![]() But Gay never dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between the only two black people in a room. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. “Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us.” -Tracy K. The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers, award-winning poet Ross Gay. ![]() ![]() ![]() "After a few months, we started to be Italians, because we had room to be Italians," Gehl recalled. ![]() But the following year saw Gehl and Copenhagen pedestrianizing Strøget, which remains to this day a car-free zone. ![]() In the U.S., that started, arguably, with the 1961 publication of The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. Gehl then glossed over the history of the revolt against modernist city design. "Nobody thought about the fact that only if you had helicopters could you enjoy it," he reflected. Gehl discussed the many impressive features of the city: how a bird's-eye view of the city reveals a bird-shaped plan. "Architects designed cities until they had a nice composition and then people would live in them." He and his cohort, he said, were particularly enamored with Brasília, the Corbusian capital built by architect Oscar Niemeyer, planner Lúcio Costa, and landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx for Brazil's president Juscelino Kubitschek in 1956. "Cities were planned from above," Gehl said, discussing the state of the practice when he came to it, around 1960. He is the author of Life Between Buildings (1971) and Cities for People (2010), among other books. NASA Brasília as seen by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite. Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl ArchitectsUrban Quality Consultants. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry is an honorable, old-fashioned sort of guy. This just helps reaffirm his belief that his career and romance don't go well together. His ex-wife left him for a surfer after losing their baby. Harry is dealing with some issues of his own. At first the two don't seem to have anything in common and spend most of the date arguing. But the hearthrob fireman passes off the date to his captain and the grandmother passes the date off to Melissa. Her grandmother tricks her into attending and then buys a date with one of the hearthrob firemen for Melissa. She first meets Fire Captain Harry Brody at the bachelor auction where fire fighters are being auctioned for a good cause. ![]() It takes a while before she decides to stand up for herself and for what she wants. Melissa has come home partly to help out her grandmother and partly because she got her heart broken by a manipulative news director in LA. Her dying grandmother is also trying to manipulate a happy ending for her before her own death. Melissa is a news producer who lets herself get pushed around by the very egotistical on-air talent Ella Joy. This was a fun romance with great characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet nothing could soften her stubborn heart, it seemed, but to tame a man's pride. Her beauty haunted him, her arrogance enraged him, she defied and tormented him.until his passion spilled over into violence. In her innocence, she did not understand how very much he desired her. Even thought beautiful Jessie Blair could hold her own against any man in the territory and was running a ranch by herself after land grabbers had murdered her father - Chase Summers drove her to a fury of frustration. ![]() ![]() But Chase Summers wasn't a man to be trifled with. When she overheard him refuse to marry her, she swore to make him suffer any way she could. UNTIL A WOMAN KNOWS A MAN'S DESIRE, SHE CAN NEVER KNOW HIS LOVE. Love may be the only thing a woman wants and the one thing a man cannot give ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been self-publishing her own comics since she was 16 and has done various work for companies like Image Comics, First Second, Top Cow, Cartoon Network, DC, Dark Horse, Boom!, Namco, and BuzzFeed. Her work aims to connect personally with individuals through storytelling and to cultivate a kinder, more understanding future. Sloane Leong is a self-taught cartoonist, artist, and writer of Hawaiian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Native American, and European ancestries. She is the illustrator of George Takei's graphic memoir, They Called Us Enemy. ![]() Harmony Becker was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. ![]() Though each of them has her own motivations and challenges, they all deal with language barriers, being a fish out of water, self discovery, love, and family. ![]() Nao came to Japan to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, while Hyejung and Tina came to find freedom and their own paths. The three of them became fast friends through living together in the Himawari House in Tokyo and attending the same Japanese cram school. Living in a new country is no walk in the park - Nao, Hyejung, and Tina can all attest to that. About Himawari House: A YA graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. ![]() |