6/29/2023 0 Comments The northern lights trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() Although her interest is aroused, it’s not until one of her friends is taken by the notorious, child-snatching Gobblers, that Lyra is drawn into the most fantastic quest. When Lyra eavesdrops on an important college meeting involving her uncle, the brusque Lord Asriel, she learns something of ‘dust’, a mysterious and little understood substance that is somehow intrinsic to the functioning of her world, and which various sinister bodies have a vested interest in. Lyra is a boisterous and feisty child, who is most at home scaling the roofs of the great college where she resides, or fighting with children from the town. ![]() Children’s daemons are able to change shape at will until they reach adulthood when they settle on a particular form, one that best represents their human’s character. In this universe all humans are accompanied by daemons, small animal familiars that represent their human’s soul. Here one is introduced to Lyra Bellacqua, a young girl estranged from her parents, and being brought up in the scholarly atmosphere of Jordan College, Oxford in an alternate universe. ![]() Northern Lights (1995), published as The Golden Compass in some territories, is the first book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Ancient sorceries blackwood![]() ![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. ![]() Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: Only the Dead by Jack Carr. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The slynx by tatyana tolstaya![]() ![]() ![]() Yet even more impressive is the fact Gambrell must take what I presume were bastardized versions of Russian words and translate them into a bastardized English word. Passers by on the streets and neighbors in the village here may lapse into phrases and insults that seem as appropriate to Brooklyn or the Bronx. And not being familiar with the Russian language, I can’t imagine what Gambrell’s efforts. I understand translation is difficult because certain words or idioms simply do not translate well or at all between languages. But their recollections of pre-Blast life and much of their language are meaningless to the people who inhabit this Russia. The Olderners – people who survived the Blast – have their own Consequences. ![]() Those born after the Blast have to live with Consequences – too few, too many and/or deformed eyes, ears or limbs gills nostrils on their knees or cockscomb growing on various parts of the body. The wheel was only recently reinvented, mice are a dietary staple and a medium of economic exchange, and fire is still considered so magical that people must rely on “stokers,” whose sole job is to reignite stoves in homes when the fire goes out. The Slynx is a satire set in a Russia more than 200 years after “the Blast.” Life has reverted to a feudal state. That said, one of the more intriguing aspects of Tolstaya’s The Slynx is Jamey Gambrell’s translation of the work. I never want to take anything away from an author as gifted as Tatyana Tolstaya. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Poor condition books are still perfect for a good read, all pages will be intact and none threatening to fall out most probably a reading copy only. When prankster Papa Bear plays ghost at the Bear Scouts sleep-out in the Great. Poor: We rarely sell poor condition books, unless the books are in demand and difficult to find in a better condition. The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest Illus. 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We are very proud of the condition of the books we sell (please read our testimonials to find out more!)Īs New: Pretty much new but shows small signs of having been read inside it will be clean without any inscriptions or stamps might contain a remainder mark. Booktopia has Berenstain Bears & Ghost Of The Forest, First Time Readers by Jan Berenstain. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Caveman by Jo Raven![]() ![]() Then I ran from myself, and I still haven’t stopped. The beginning and the end of the road are covered in mist. I don’t know what I was looking for, or running from. ![]() I’d never heard of Destiny, Missouri, in my life, and that was good enough a reason for me when I grabbed my two kids, stuffed everything I own in my truck, and drove down here. The low porch overlooks the overgrown garden, and I gaze at it blindly, not quite sure how I got here. ![]() The house is big, the town small, a smattering of houses and trees scattered on the plain. So here I am now, standing in the early morning, staring at nothing. Let myself roll in the warmth, believe I had reached my destination. There’s a bright, warm place men call home. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Gibson william burning chrome![]() He buys her a return ticket as well but she never uses it. She uses her earnings to buy a set of cybernetic eye implants for herself and go to Hollywood however, Jack uses his money to switch her plane ticket to Chiba City, where Rikki has always dreamed of going. The break-in is successful, and Jack and Bobby empty Chrome's bank accounts, but they discover afterward that Rikki had been working in a brothel with ties to Chrome. Bobby suggests that they use it to break into the system of a notorious and vicious criminal known as Chrome, who handles money transfers for organized crime, and Jack reluctantly agrees to help. Jack has acquired a powerful Russian "icebreaker" program that can penetrate corporate security systems. Bobby becomes infatuated with a girl named Rikki and wants to become wealthy in order to impress her. "Burning Chrome" tells the story of two freelance hackers-Automatic Jack, the narrator and a hardware specialist and Bobby Quine, a software expert. It was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1983 and collected with the rest of Gibson's early short fiction in a 1986 volume of the same name. Gibson first read the story at a science fiction convention in Denver, Colorado in the autumn of 1981, to an audience of four people, among them Bruce Sterling (who Gibson later said "completely got it"). " Burning Chrome" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer William Gibson, first published in Omni in July 1982. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Short story by William Gibson "Burning Chrome" ![]() ![]() The Grimms thought the stories and their morals emanated naturally from the German people in an oral tradition, and they wanted to preserve them before the tales were lost forever. ![]() The tales are about children and families and how they reacted to the difficult conditions under which they lived. The stories the Brothers Grimm first collected are brusque, blunt, absurd, comical, and tragic, and are not, strictly speaking, “fairy tales.” In fact, the Grimms never intended the tales to be read by children. ![]() ![]() Between 18, seven editions of their tales appeared, each one different from the last, until the final, best-known version barely resembled the first. Given that the first edition has recently been honored in bicentenary celebrations throughout the world, it is perhaps a good time to reexamine what we think we know about the original tales of the Brothers Grimm. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The plague laura marris![]() We contemplate the skies of a plague spring, examining the body politic and the politics of immunity. Through these pages, we document how our sense of The Plague evolved under the force of a new reality, alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care. Kaplan’s chapters explore the book’s tangled and vivid history, while mine are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language, particularly in translation. These thirteen linked chapters hold the past and present of The Plague in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people at the current moment. I am also the co-author, with Alice Kaplan, of States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic (University of Chicago Press, 2022, French edition from Gallimard, translated by Patrick Hersant). From snowy owls at the Buffalo airport, to a fake city for self-driving cars, to redoing my father’s bird count route, these essays examine how much everyday absence goes unnoticed in landscape and the ways people try to account for it. ![]() This collection of linked essays focuses on nine landscapes where personal and ecological loneliness overlap and inform each other. My current book in progress is The Age of Loneliness (forthcoming from Graywolf Press, 2024) ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon![]() ![]() I mean, my fourth graders love to play games still and I sure know that they love to play hide and seek. Honestly, this is a one-of-a-kind creeptastic book that I will forever recommend to all of my students who want that chill factor. All they can do now is hide from the Seeker. ![]() Justin and his friends realize this horrible place is where Zee had been trapped. One by one, everyone who plays the game disappears, pulled into a world of nightmares come to life. At Zee’s welcome home party, Justin and the neighborhood crew play Hide Justin knows that something is wrong with his best friend.Zee went missing for a year. I went up the hill, the hill was muddy, stomped my toe and made it bloody, should I wash it? ![]() One of our most iconic childhood games receives a creepy twist as it becomes the gateway to a nightmare world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Use this unit in part or in whole, depending on the needs of your students. ![]() This HUNDRED DRESSES novel study unit includes a wide range of resources for teaching cause and effect, character traits, parts of speech, summarizing, vocabulary, and more, in the context of Eleanor Estes' novel, The Hundred Dresses. ![]() |