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The Other Duke by Jess Michaels5/22/2023 ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is basically a daily journal of the main character's time at the magic academy, and being a super dedicated student is just not very exciting. The magic system isn't revolutionary - just a typical cultivation system from xianxia stories - but it is coherent and makes sense. ![]() using "drug" instead of "dragged"), but on the whole the editing is to be commended. A few minor typos, and some strange word choices that I suspect are a result of the author's dialect (e.g. The good: the grammar and formatting is quite good for a self-published novel. The story doesn't make any real effort to get away from the tropes of the genre, so if you're familiar with stories like this you can predict how the plot goes. The premise is pretty standard for isekai stories: guy gets hit by a truck and then reincarnates in a different body as the "chosen one" of his new world. This isn't awful for a first effort from a new author, but there is significant room for improvement. ![]()
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Echo pam munoz ryan sparknotes5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Pairing primary sources with the book creates necessary background knowledge to understand historical concepts such as Nazi Germany and Natural Selection, The Great Depression and orphanages of that time, and the Japanese internment camps and farm worker school segregation laws. For many students, Echo may be intimidating by its size and content. ![]() Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica–and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.Įcho is a masterpiece with primary source pairing opportunities woven through each of the stories that complete this rich novel. ![]()
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A Kiss to Remember by Teresa Medeiros5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() When she assures him he is the perfect gentleman, he wonders if he's lost his wits as well as his memory. With her sun-kissed cheeks and smattering of freckles, she looks every inch the innocent, but her curves possess a woman's allure. Sterling Harlow, the notorious rakehell known as the "Devil of Devonbrooke," awakens to the enchanting kiss of a lovely young woman who informs him he is her long-lost betrothed. Little does she know that her fallen angel is really the devil in disguise. ![]() When she finds a mysterious stranger with the face of an angel and the body of Adonis unconscious in the forest and with no memory of his name or his past, she decides to claim him for her own. If she is to keep a roof over her siblings' heads, the prim rector's daughter must wed by her twenty-first birthday. ![]()
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One heartbeat away by mark cahill5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() No such argument can be made for any other religious book. ![]() It also is the only major religious book that claims to be the Word of God. Let’s take a look at the Bible – what makes it unique? It contains 66 books recorded by over 40 authors over 1500 years, with a common theme, ZERO historical or scientific errors or contradictions, and HUNDREDS of fulfilled prophesies.Can’t have it both ways just so we can all feel good about being inclusive. The God of the Bible is the true God or he isn’t. ![]()
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When we were sisters a novel5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Penguin Random House) Along with Safia Elhillo, they are the editor of Halal If You Hear Me, an anthology that celebrates Muslim writers who are also women, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans.Īs She Appears by Shelley Wong (YesYes Books)ĭictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (University of California Press re-issue)īe Holding by Ross Gay (University of Pittsburgh Press) ![]() They are the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Fatimah is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. ![]() ![]() This novel very tenderly examines the bonds and fractures of sibling-hood, names the perils of being three female-bodied, Muslim American children alone against the world, and ultimately illustrates how those who’ve lost everything might still make homes in one another.įatimah Asghar is the author of If They Come for Us and When We Were Sisters. Monsters aren’t just monsters they are subject to demons of their own.” Shared trauma disintegrates relationships as much as it strengthens them. As Bindu Bansinath writes of the book, “There is no idealism in When We Were Sisters. This week on The Write Question, host Lauren Korn speaks with Fatimah Asghar, author of When We Were Sisters, a novel that traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. ![]()
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These are my words ruby slipperjack5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() This reading of the role of more-than-humans in Silent Words also identifies Nature’s propensity to share Anishinaabe teachings in subtle and unexpected ways for those who are willing to listen. ![]() Danny achieves this on his journey through the woods while decolonizing and re-indigenizing himself. The Anishinaabe medicine wheel teachings profess that a holistically healthy person seeks to find balance among their intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and physical self. ![]() With the help of some human interpreters, Danny develops the epistemological tools and the humility to allow Nature to heal his past traumas as well. Danny’s reconnection to Nature and his willingness to listen to its many abstract teachings are central to the reclamation of his indigeneity. The relationship between boy and Nature transcends the boundary between the human and the more-than-human world and becomes that of a student and teacher. When Danny flees his run-down house in a settler-colonial town, he finds limitless support from the plant and animal life of Northern Ontario. This presentation examines the extent of which Nature in Ruby Slipperjack’s Silent Words (1992) serves to reconnect 11-year-old protagonist, Danny, to his Anishinaabe identity. ![]()
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The snail and the whale sticker book5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() In the event that any product purchased proves to be unsatisfactory in use due to defective workmanship or faulty material, you can return them to us. The WDC Shop supply goods which are guaranteed to be durable and reliable. We use Royal Mail for delivery and you should ensure that someone is available to receive the parcel. DELIVERY COSTSĪny customs duty that may be payable on these orders is your responsibility and not that of WDC (Trading) Limited. If you wish to use this service, please select Special Delivery in the Delivery To box at checkout. ![]() Orders must be placed before 2pm for next day delivery (subject to availability of stock). We also offer a Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm service for the UK only. If any item is out of stock you will receive a credit note or an item will be substituted. ![]() However, please allow another 7 working days before querying a non-delivery. EU customers please allow 7-14 working days and Rest of the World please allow 14-21 working days. For UK customers, we aim to deliver your goods to you within 3 to 5 working days of receiving your order. ![]()
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The bean trees cover5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() From the very first page, Kingsolver's characters tug at the heart and soul." - Ms. ![]() It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling." - Los Angeles Times "A major new talent. It is the southern novel taken west, its colors as translucent and polished as one of those slices of rose agate from a desert shop." - New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary good novel, tough and tender and gritty and moving." - Anne Rivers Siddons "So wry and wise we wish it would never end.The chatty, down-home audacity of Barbara Kingsolver's remarkable first novel hooks us on the first page." - San Francisco Chronicle "The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling." - Los Angeles Times "As clear as air. ![]()
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