![]() ![]() There are so many incredible scenes, but the most poignant story moments for me are: ![]() ![]() ![]() Her stories sweep you away, and her characters are AMAZING! My all-time favorite SEP novel is, Dream a Little Dream! A heart-wrenching story of Rachel Stone's struggle to save her son, and Gabe Bonner's not giving a damn attitude/lifestyle. I'm a H-U-G-E Susan Elizabeth Phillips fan. Otherwise, it was a very elegant nose." Of course, nothing beats the first line of Natural Born Charmer: "It wasn't every day a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road, not even in Dean Robillard's larger-than-life world." Love it! Love SEP! The first lines still make me smile: "Cornelia Litchfield Case had an itchy nose. : ) I loved everything about it - the dialogue, the Winnebago, the kids, the love story. I had no idea what to expect, but I knew she was kinda popular. My favorite SEP book of all time is First Lady, simply because it was the first SEP book I read. 26, HEA asked some of our favorite authors to share their favorite romances by SEP (as she's so affectionately known).īefore we hear from other authors, I want to share mine: As we gear up for the release of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' Heroes Are My Weakness on Aug. ![]()
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![]() ![]() By making the narrator of King of Angels a slightly older gay boy, Brass introduces a twist to the Southern coming of age story.” Lambda Literary Foundation Newsletter, June 14, 2012. “King of Angels might be compared to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, substituting the turbulent 1960s with Lee’s depression-era setting and replacing Catholic-Jewish antagonism and homophobia for the race relations that drive To Kill a Mockingbird. Now back to read it all over again.” Reviews by Amos Lassen, Ma() ![]() Accepting ourselves is part of it all and Perry Brass helps us with that in his brilliant new book. “I laughed and I cried but most of all I thought and I remembered how it was growing up in one of the most turbulent periods of American history when communities tried to come together. Winner: 2012, “Ippy” Independent Publisher Book Award, Bronze Medal Young Adult Fictionįinalist: Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction, 2013 “Perry Brass is a literary polymath who enthralls readers no matter the genre.” Richard Labonte, syndicated book columnist, Book Marks. By the acclaimed author of How to Survive Your Own Gay Life, Carnal Sacraments, The Substance of God, Warlock, and bestselling Ippy-Award Gold Medalist The Manly Art of Seduction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Knight Errant: The story begins with the Red Cross Knight riding across a plain, bound on a great adventure, sent by the Queen of the Fairies to fight the dragon.Both times he's looked after and prayed for by Una, recovering to fight again. Heroic Second Wind: Twice the knight is gravely wounded.Heroes Want Redheads: The knight is smitten with red-haired Una after he sees her when she's changed into a fine dress on coming home, and he readily agrees to marry her, becoming king after her father ( once he fulfills his quest, that is), but beforehand the knight didn't appear to have noticed her at all that way.He says that eventually the knight will go there, but only after he's done his duty on Earth. Heaven: The old hermit gives the knight a glimpse of a shining city in the clouds which is clearly this.Damsel Errant: Princess Una traveled a long, long way before she found the Red Cross Knight. ![]() As a result, she returns with a knight who pledges to fight it for her. ![]() The Champion: Una set out alone from the safety of the castle walls to look for a champion who would face the terrible dragon.A book by Margaret Hodges, a partial retelling of the epic poem The Faerie Queene written by Edmund Spenser, specifically the portion about the legendary dragon-slayer Saint George. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Where interpreters have traditionally viewed the wave of witch-hunting as one last outburst of medieval superstition in a world that had not yet become fully modern, Federici argues that we need to see the witch-hunts as integral to what is euphemistically called “the transition to capitalism.”įar from an anachronistic holdover, in Federici’s account the witch-hunts were the most extreme and vicious outgrowth of a broader campaign to discipline female bodies, and particularly their reproductive power, in ways that would support the demands of capitalist accumulation. Along with her work and advocacy in wages for housework campaigns, she is best known for her book Caliban and the Witch, which advances a daring reinterpretation of the phenomenon of witch-hunting in early modern Europe and the colonial world. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist and scholar with vast interdisciplinary reach. ![]() ![]() ![]() He meets one of the world's most accomplished lip readers in Canada, learns how endangered languages like Manx are being revived and corresponds with native speakers of Esperanto in their mother tongue. ![]() Tammet goes back in time to explore the numeric language of his autistic childhood he looks at the music and patterns that. Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language. Tammet goes back in time to explore the numeric language of his autistic childhood he looks at the music and patterns that words make, and how languages evolve and are translated. Every word is a bird we teach to sing: encounters with the mysteries and meanings of language Daniel Tammet. Tammet likes words and he has long chains of them (with translation) that he appreciates for their sound or their spelling or their. There are chapters on telephone etiquette, the deaf, OuLiPo (fun exercises with words and letters) and various foreign languages. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing are 9780316353069, 031635306X and the print ISBNs are 9780316353069, 031635306X. Every Word Is A Bird We Teach To Sing is a survey of interpersonal communications. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language. Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language is written by Daniel Tammet and published by Little, Brown Spark. Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Book Cover for: The Do-Over, Lynn Painter. In addition to Josh’s recurring infidelity, Emilie can’t get away from the enigmatic Nick, who she keeps running into-sometimes literally-in unfortunate ways. In this riotous young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girls Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a teen girl has the. After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentines Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmothers house. And the next day? Another horrendous V-Day.Įmilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can’t wake up from as she re-watches her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. The Do-Over (English, Hardcover, Painter Lynn) Language: English Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9781534478862. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she’s back home in her own bed-and it’s Valentine’s Day all over again. ![]() In this “unequivocally hilarious and delightful” ( Kirkus Reviews) young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a teen girl has the worst Valentine’s Day ever-only to relive it over and over again.Īfter living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother’s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry’s. The Do-Over by Lynn Painter Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Publish a review Be the first to react Start reading for free Digital format to read on Glose 8. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first postwar parliamentary elections (October 1945) the CPN, which previously had no representatives in the Storting, received 11.9 percent of the votes and thus 11 seats in the parliament. ![]() After the country was liberated (May 1945), representatives of the CPN became members of Norway’s postwar coalition government (June 1945). Members of the party were active in the national Resistance Movement the party’s prestige and its influence among the masses grew, and its membership increased. In 1937–38 the CPN participated in the movement of solidarity with Republican Spain Norwegian Communists fought in the ranks of the International Brigades.ĭuring the occupation of Norway by fascist Germany (1940–45) the CPN went underground. In the 1930’s its activity was carried out under the banner of the struggle for uniting the country’s progressive forces in the face of the growing threat of fascism and war. Along with the struggle against reformism and the policy of compromise pursued by right-wing Social Democrats, the CPN conducted a long struggle for the ideological and organizational strengthening of its ranks on the basis of Marxism-Leninism. From the first days of its existence the CPN actively supported the vital interests of the Norwegian working class. ![]() ![]() (CPN Norges Kommunistiske Parti), founded in Oslo in November 1923 by representatives of the left wing of the Social Democrats after the split in the Norwegian Labor Party (which was established in 1887 and was a member of the Comintern from 1919 to 1923). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Als Shanna Pranaitis mich bat, ein Stück für sie und Frauke Aulbert zu schreiben, zögerte ich nicht, mich diesem Sujet zuzuwenden. Immerhin ist Wallace einer meiner Lieblingsschriftsteller. ![]() Diese Passage verschwand über Jahre nicht aus meinem Kopf. PRIVATELY RELEASED ON MAGNETIC VIDEO BY LATRODECTUS MACTANS PRODUCTIONS.« Das ist eine Fußnote in einer langen Liste von realisierten Filmen des Protagonisten. riots of January/Whopper, all intercut with ambiguous shots of a human thumb’s alterations in the interference pattern of a plucked string. catapult to a wastequarry in southern Québec to its use in the F.L.Q.-incited anti-O.N.A.N. Boston’s historical Back Bay streets are stripped of brick and repaved with polymerized cement, the resultant career of one stripped brick is followed, from found-art temporary installation to displacement by E.W.D. 52 minutes color w/ red filter and oscillophotography silent w/ narration. In David Foster Wallaces Opus magnum Infinite Jest findet sich diese Stelle: » The American Century as Seen Through a Brick. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of both Hoffman’s earlier work and Anita Diamant’s bestselling “Red Tent,” another feminist take set in Biblical times, should devour the multipart epic. And, for the most part, she succeeds – delivering her best novel in years. In The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman travels far from the New England setting of bestsellers such as “Practical Magic” and “Here on Earth” for the biggest, most ambitious book of her career. Only two women and five children survived the the first century A.D siege, according to the historian Josephus, who published the only known account. After holding out for months against the Romans, more than 900 Jews, including children, died in a suicide pact rather than surrender. Few times in history has the phrase “death before dishonor” been taken to such an extreme as at the siege of Masada. ![]() ![]() In 1980, when Yolen was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, the citation recognized that "throughout her writing career she has remained true to her primary source of inspiration-folk culture." Folklore is the "perfect second skin," writes Yolen. For twenty years, she ran a monthly writer's workshop for new children's book authors. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother.Īctive in several organizations, Yolen has been on the Board of Directors of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1986 to 1988, is on the editorial board of several magazines, and was a founding member of the Western New England Storytellers Guild, the Western Massachusetts Illustrators Guild, and the Bay State Writers Guild. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. ![]() She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. ![]() Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. ![]() |