![]() Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book. Synopsis for Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living (from Goodreads): ![]() ![]() Single Sundays: While this blog may be focused on reviewing book series as a whole, we can’t forget about the good ole’ standalone novel! On Sundays, I will review a novel that is considered to be a standalone novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There were also some kinks in the release order: it was decided to release all the Telzey Amberdon stories first, with the result that every Telzey team-up story appears before the story introducing the character she's teaming up with. The reissue attracted some controversy among long-standing fans because of the editor's decision to tighten up a few of the stories, a process that in some cases more closely resembled major surgery. ![]() Beyond that, there are a handful of stories featuring other minor characters, some of whom have smaller roles in the main Telzey/Trigger storyline.īaen Books have brought the series back into print in recent years. In addition, there is one short novel and one short story starring biologist Nile Etland though Nile never encounters Telzey or Trigger. There are also several stories and one short novel starring or co-starring the young student Trigger Argee, who gets caught up in interplanetary intrigue, and later in the series, becomes friends with Telzey. The majority of the stories (and the majority of the words in the series) are about teenaged psychic Telzey Amberdon. The series as a whole is considered memorable as one of the earliest in mainstream SF to feature strong female leads.Īlmost all of the stories feature one or more of three different young women. They are connected by their setting, an interstellar federation in the far future located toward the center of the galaxy. ![]() The Federation of the Hub is a series of science fiction short-stories and novels by James H. ![]() ![]() He controversially argues that murder and betrayal are acceptable if they lead to the attainment and retention of power. Machiavelli aimed to reveal human nature and power structures for what they really are, by looking at the real results of men’s past actions. The Prince marks an important break from previous trends in Western political thought, as it is based on real past experiences, rather than abstract ethical and political principles. ![]() Machiavelli was an Italian politician living in Florence. ![]() He addresses ethical and political concerns by trying to answer the question: ‘why do men behave justly?’ He believed that, in order to be ‘just’, men must also be ‘good’.Ģ. ![]() The Republic discusses the meaning and nature of justice, arguing that a ‘just’ society depends on having a good relationship between three different groups: ‘producers’ (craftsmen, farmers), ‘auxiliaries’ (soldiers) and ‘guardians’ (rulers, politicians). Plato was an Athenian philosopher, and one of the first Western thinkers to marry philosophy and politics. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Speak graphic novel![]() ![]() Freeman and a classmate of her David Petrakis. ![]() The only person that seems to be aware of Melinda is her art teacher, Mr. Melinda has so much pain in her and I am blown away again by the fact that her parents were this clueless. She is unable to speak and as we follow her through four quarters at Merryweather High School we find out what led Melinda to lose her voice and how in the end she gets it back. Melinda is starting her freshman year in high school and the novel quickly shows how alone she feels. “Speak: The Graphic Novel” follows the main character, Melinda. Seeing it via another medium made it even more powerful. I already knew the story that Anderson was going to tell. The illustrations add so much to this story and I am glad that I read “Speak” first and then this graphic novel next. The graphic novel does a great job with showing us Melinda in the present day and her memories of her friends and of a party that changed everything via the illustrations by Emily Carroll. ![]() I felt for Melinda and wanted to hug her throughout the story and loved how Anderson takes a long road to showing us what happened to Melinda and how her life became unraveled before her freshman year of high school. I loved “Speak” when I read it back in 2015. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Corrie ten Boom by Sam Wellman![]() ![]() Sam Wellman is the author of books such as Billy Graham. Urn:oclc:38125199 Republisher_date 20120814003259 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120809102706 Scanner . Sam Wellman Biography - Sam Wellman Biography and List of Works - Sam. At the conclusion of this world-shattering debacle, she had become a woman on a mission from God, a woman literally saved and. OL82039W Page_number_confidence 94.81 Pages 214 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1557487294 'Sharing God's love was as natural to her as smiling.' At the start of WWII, Corrie ten Boom was, by all accounts, an ordinary, middle-aged, unmarried Dutch woman. Material type: TextSeries: Heroes of the Faith SeriesPublication details: United. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:54:07 Boxid IA136721 Boxid_2 CH120121101-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Ulrichsville, OH Donor Heroine of Haarlem / Corrie Ten Boom, Sam Wellman. ![]() ![]() ![]() It'd be extremely helpful for some people, given the atrocious levels of sex education most of us receive at home or at school, and for others, it might be life-changing. That's where it makes the most good, imo. Yes, it'll talk quite openly about the sexual act, but also teach people about consent, safety, risk prevention, respect for your partner, self-exploration, to enjoy giving and receiving pleasure, and to accept your sexuality and that of other people. But it's a book that teaches that sex and sexuality are natural, enjoyable things that nonetheless carry with them a weight of respect, responsibility, maturity and knowledge. I still have my copy, and crack it open every now and then, just to look up something, or re-read what the author said regarding a particular topic. I just recommended it to people on a different subreddit, and putting into words why I think it's important for people to have this book (especially if you're high school or college-aged) made me remember how much it helped me mature and achieve a new, healthier perspective, on sexuality as a part of the human experience. The 'Guide to Getting It On', by Paul Joannides is, I think, the only book I've ever read that I genuinely think would make the world a better place, if everyone read it. ![]() I figured this book would have been mentioned a bunch of times already, but searching didn't turn up many results, so here it goes. ![]() ![]() But Penn may not have a choice-Callan could be the secret weapon she needs to save the world. ![]() Which she could figure out if it weren't for that evil, apocalyptic plot she's trying to stop. If they succeed, Penn succumbs to centuries of sleep again, and magic will be unleashed on a completely unprepared world.Īnd to add to her ridiculously complicated life, something isn't quite right with Callan. Falling asleep for almost 300 years was never part of Pennraes plan. Penn may have saved the world, but her actions have set a chain of events in motion. The attack at first seems incidental and unprovokeduntil she discovers the true cause. Now, the Jigori's master has her scent, and their eye on stealing her 300 years of life. Affordable digital textbook from RedShelf: Magic Dark, Magic Divine by: A.J. An ancient forest guardian known as a Kiabia warrior of magic and almost impossible to defeathas marked Penn to die. All is well until a Jigori-a nightmarish magic-eating monster-shows up at a New York City street fair, forcing Penn to use her Shaper magic, which allows her to transform wood and metal into deadly weapons. So Penn works as a karate instructor, trying very hard to dodge her hot, flirty, and super annoying colleague, Callan. Of course, when you're a mercenary with magical abilities and defy a spellbinding prophecy. Contains mature themes.įalling asleep for almost 300 years was never part of Pennrae's plan. Locke presents Book 1 in the Warrior of the Divine Sword series. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Cars and trucks and things that go![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012. Find items like Cars & Trucks & Things That Go Hardcover Book and read 1 review with a 5/5 star rating at Acorn. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world, and are currently published in over twenty languages. RICHARD SCARRY is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! In his extraordinary career, Scarry illustrated over 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Maitreyi roman![]() He had tried to live like an Indian, even to become one, and now he had been rejected, like a foreign body in a healthy organism. ![]() Eliade thought his teacher would be delighted.īut when Dasgupta found out about the affair, Eliade was told to leave the house immediately. He despised the Eurasians, or “Anglo-Indians,” whom he describes as “idiots” and “fanatics.” He did not feel he was a visitor in India: “I felt completely at home.” 3 And he fell in love with Professor Dasgupta’s teen-age daughter, Maitreyi, a talented poet already at sixteen, whose first volume was introduced by Rabindranath Tagore. As he wrote much later, after he had become a famous historian of comparative religion: “In India I discovered what I later came to refer to as cosmic religious feeling.” 1 He took to wearing a dhoti-“the apparel of the people with whom I wished to become one” 2-and eating with his hands. Dasgupta was so taken with his Romanian student that he invited him to live in his house.Įliade fell in love with India. His purpose was to study in Calcutta under Surendranath Dasgupta, a famous historian of Indian philosophy. He was a twenty-one-year-old student of philosophy, and an aspiring novelist. ![]() ![]() In 1928 Mircea Eliade left Bucharest for India. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Sisman le carre![]() ![]() ![]() He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem to offer tantalizing glimpses of their author - but in the narrative of his life fact and fiction have become intertwined, and little is really known of one of the world's most successful writers. Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carre a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2023.Hong Kong Golden Dragon Books 2022-2023. ![]() |