![]() ![]() Īs Gyre descends, little inconsistencies-missing supplies, unexpected changes in the route, and, worst of all, shifts in Em's motivations-drive her out of her depths. Em knows all about Gyre's falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leash-and a lash. Keeping her sane.Įm sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre's body with drugs or withholding critical information to "ensure the smooth operation" of her expedition. She also thought that the fat paycheck-enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother-meant she'd get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. ![]() When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she'd be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. ![]() ![]() "This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Andy Weir's The Martian." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)Ī thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best First Novel! ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Heidi the novel![]() ![]() The old man stood looking down on the sleeping child until the moon again disappeared behind the clouds and he could see no more, then he went back to bed. She lay under the heavy coverlid, her cheeks rosy with sleep, her head peacefully resting on her little round arm, and with a happy expression on her baby face as if dreaming of something pleasant. ![]() Just now the moonlight was falling through the round window straight on to Heidi's bed. Outside the moon was struggling with the dark, fast-driving clouds, which at one moment left it clear and shining, and the next swept over it, and all again was dark. He mounted the ladder and went and stood by the child's bed. "The child will be frightened," he murmured half aloud. In the middle of the night the old man got up. It came howling and wailing down the chimney like voices of those in pain, and it raged with such fury among the old fir trees that here and there a branch was snapped and fell. Set in Switzerland, the story follows Heidi, a young orphan girl, as her cheerfulness and good-hearted nature endears her to everyone around her. The wind grew so tempestuous during the night, and blew in such gusts against the walls, that the hut trembled and the old beams groaned and creaked. Published in 1881, Heidi is a children's fiction novel by Johanna Spyri. “Not long after, and while it was still twilight, the grandfather also went to bed, for he was up every morning at sunrise, and the sun came climbing up over the mountains at a very early hour during these summer months. ![]() ![]() Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco. OL8300669W Page-progression lr Pages 14 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1860210422 When Rabbit is rescued from the toy cupboard, a magic fairy changes him into a real rabbit, like those in the. Urn:lcp:velveteenrabbitb00dav_ry4:epub:21cecf4a-c463-4b81-86a5-75697eec8fb6 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier velveteenrabbitb00dav_ry4 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0ps0c00g Invoice 11 Isbn 067980644Xĩ780679806448 Lccn 89063161 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7701572M Openlibrary_edition ![]() ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ Was Always More Than a Children’s Book In Margery Williams Bianco’s classic, imagination is a vehicle for truth. ![]() Urn:lcp:velveteenrabbitb00dav_ry4:lcpdf:1e89a583-2d66-4fda-a82b-eed6cec360d3 The Nanny director is done explaining herself. A deluxe gift edition of one of the most beloved children’s storiesa gorgeous, collectable keepsake. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:03:24 Boxid IA122601 Boxid_2 CH117601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Veronika decides to die sparknotes![]() ![]() ![]() Coelho has been called a New Age writer for his use of allegories, moral messages, and uplifting life lessons. Coelho best explains the personal crisis of the villagers through the young barmaid Chantal, who becomes the visitor's messenger and struggles with her choices and beliefs about good and evil in humankind. After burying some gold in the forest, a visitor arrives in a small village in the Pyrenees and initiates a power struggle among the villagers by offering to give them the gold if they kill one of their own. In this case, Coelho's fable revolves around the question of whether people will commit evil in order to gain wealth and power. Like these two titles, Coelho's new novel reflects his professed belief that the most profound changes in individuals and in society occur in brief periods of time, as the result of extreme challenges. ![]() ![]() Acclaimed Brazilian author Coelho presents the third title in a trilogy that began with the novels A orillas del Rio Piedra me sent y llore (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Planeta, 1998) and Veronika decide morir (Veronika Decides to Die, Planeta, 2000), both of which concern a week in the life of an ordinary person suddenly confronted with love and death. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Men of Bronze by Scott Oden![]() ![]() A man now motivated as much by love as anger. Once a fearsome demigod of war, Hasdrabal Barca becomes human again. Though her hands tend to Barca’s countless wounds, it is her spirit that heals and changes him. She is Arabian, dark-haired and proud a healer with gifts her blood, her station, and her gender overshadow. Caught in the midst of this violence is Jauharah, a slave in the House of Life. From the political wasteland of Palestine, to the searing deserts east of the Nile, to the streets of ancient Memphis, Barca and Phanes play a desperate game of cat-and-mouse a game culminating in the bloodiest battle of Egypt’s history. But, when one of Egypt’s most celebrated generals, a Greek mercenary called Phanes, defects to the Persians, it triggers a savage war that will tax Barca’s skills, and his humanity, to the limit. Possessed of a rage few men can fathom and fewer can withstand, Barca struggles each day to preserve the last sliver of his humanity. ![]() Leading the fight to preserve the soul of Egypt is Hasdrabal Barca, Pharaoh’s deadliest killer. While across the expanse of Sinai, like jackals drawn to carrion, the forces of the King of Persia watch and wait. Decay riddles its cities, infects its aristocracy, and weakens its armies. ![]() and the empire of the Pharaohs is dying, crushed by the weight of its own antiquity. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Duino elegy 1![]() The language of the first stanza is discursive, its repeated conjunctions and adverbs sustaining a voice of supplication, and apart from the opening and concluding ones, line lengths are in atypically long hexameter form. The text, accordingly, is formed through upward-reaching verbs, flowing participle forms and a tone of exhortation, which announce in miniature the key themes of the Elegy: the desire of the lyrical subject to make contact with an unspecified Other (the “call” theme) the attempt to break the bonds of creaturely life, symbolised by the flight of the bird and the trope of the inwardness of the spirit (the single heart), which alone offers redemption. ![]() ![]() The first Elegy began with a cry of (muted) anguish, but the cry of this Elegy has its origins not in despair but in the will to transcendence. Wenn ihn die Jahreszeit aufhebt, die steigende, beinah vergessend,ĭaß er ein kümmerndes Tier und nicht nur ein einzelnes Herz sei,ĭas sie ins Heitere wirft, in die innigen Himmel. Sei deines Schreies Natur zwar schrieest du rein wie der Vogel, Werbung nicht mehr, nicht Werbung, entwachsene Stimme, ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Hermann hesse steppenwolf english![]() ![]() ![]() Kurt Beals restores the original meaning of this hallucinatory German tale in a recognizably modern voice. There has never been a translation that fully captures the essence of Hermann Hesse’s own spiritual questioning until now. ![]() Harry becomes a man divided-lost in a surreal underground world of pleasure and set on a collision course with his innermost desires. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of the bourgeois society he always despised. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller-better known as the Steppenwolf. This revolutionary translation is the only way to experience the novel as Hesse envisioned it nearly one hundred years ago. ![]() ![]() Temple Grandin appeared at the Michigan Theater Thursday.Īnimals, too. "If you're going to tell your autistic child not to cross the street, you better tell them in 10 different places. "Most kids, when you tell them 'don't cross the street without looking,' understand that to mean streets in general," Grandin said. "I feel like an anthropologist on Mars," she replied.Īnd much of her lecture focused on the failures of language to reach the autistic mind. Someone once asked Grandin, who is autistic and has Asperger's syndrome, what it's like to communicate with "normal" people. ![]() "And to understand animals, autistic people, mathematics - that requires getting away from verbal language." ![]() ![]() "I want you to think about thinking," she said before the lecture. Grandin, a professor of animal science, a designer, and an author, focused her lecture on autism, animals, and the sensory-thinking approach both use to understand the world.īeyond that work, Grandin has gained renown for designing humane slaughter facilities and a grading system to assess them. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Wilder ebony and ivy![]() ![]() ![]() from the School of the Prophets’: The Colonizationist Ascendance at General Theological Seminary,” the inaugural essay in the digital journal New York History. His recent essays include: “War and Priests: Catholic Colleges and Slavery in the Age of Revolution,” in Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, eds., Slavery’s Capitalism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and “‘Driven. ![]() He is also the author of A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000/2001) and In the Company of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City (New York: New York University Press, 2001/2004). A book titled Ebony & Ivy was featured in the film “Dear White People” (2014). It inspired the Grammy Award-winning artist Esperanza Spalding’s song, “Ebony and Ivy” in “Emily’s D+Evolution” (2016). ![]() Professor Wilder’s most recent book is Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), which Kirkus Reviews named one of the best nonfiction books of the year and which won multiple book awards. Craig Steven Wilder is a historian of American institutions and ideas. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Review the story of edgar sawtelle![]() ![]() Yet at one visit to a doctor, Edgar is told to speak during the examination and Edgar croaks a word and the doctor is so displeased with the sound that he tells Edgar to speak no more. For example, Edgar’s inability to speak is unexplained other than saying doctors found no explanation. ![]() The fact that he is hiding with three large 90-pound dogs is in itself a bit hard to fathom, but I am an accepting reader and I let my imagination follow them through their trials and tribulations. Edgar must rely on survival skills with three dogs in tow as he goes into hiding in the forest. The story takes some twists and turns and quickly becomes a page turner. Edgar, an only child, is groomed (pardon the pun) to carry on the family business. This is what the Sawtelle family does for a living generation after generation. The dogs are raised and trained for 18 months before finding suitable homes. The Sawtelles breed and raise dogs with traits so carefully established that the breed is named for them, and for posterity. This is the story of Edgar Sawtelle, a mute boy, mute for unknown reasons, and his well-trained dogs. ![]() |