![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a heartbreaking scene in which Celestial’s uncle-Roy’s attorney-encourages her to forget everything she knows about presenting herself while she speaks in her husband’s defense. Roy is arrested, tried, convicted, and imprisoned in Louisiana, the state with the highest per-capita rate of incarceration in the United States, and where the ratio of black to white prisoners is 4 to 1. ![]() This novel is peopled by vividly realized, individual characters and driven by interpersonal drama, but it is also very much about being black in contemporary America. Once Roy is released, the narrative resumes a rotating first person, but there’s a new voice, that of Andre, once Celestial’s best friend and now something more. Roy is incarcerated in Louisiana, Celestial is in Atlanta, and Jones’ formal choice underscores their separation. The epistolary style makes perfect sense. When Roy goes to prison, it becomes a novel in letters. Jones begins with chapters written from the points of view of her main characters. Then, on a visit back home, Roy is arrested for a crime he did not commit. After a year of marriage, they’re thinking about buying a bigger house and starting a family. ![]() By the time he marries Spelman alum Celestial, she’s an up-and-coming artist. Growing up in a working-class family in Louisiana, he took advantage of all the help he could get and earned a scholarship to Morehouse College. A look at the personal toll of the criminal justice system from the author of Silver Sparrow (2011) and The Untelling (2005). ![]()
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![]() Yesterday’s girl next door falls under the glam-rocking spell of David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, while Neil Young’s equally popular Harvest seems to serenade a parallel sphere. ![]() Identity is up for grabs, as experience and circumstance wreak transformations that leave some of these kids strangers to themselves, as well as to their friends. Within the world delineated through the nightmare caricatures of Burns, intercourse can leave an indelible impression on the skin, like a strange stigmata, while indulging in drugs can blur the already thin line between reality and illusion. It details the sexual and psychedelic misadventures of a group of teenagers, from their initiation into the grisly mysteries of Biology 101 through a summer in which some of their lives seem like science experiments gone awry. Though originally issued as a series of 12 comic books, this anthology by the Seattle-based Burns ( Big Baby, 1985) has the thematic coherence of a graphic novel. ![]() There’s nothing funny about high school in this black-and-white comics collection, which should strike a particularly sharp chord among those who endured and survived their adolescent rites of passage in the early 1970s. ![]() ![]() I took his arm, placed my forefinger over his lips, and led him into the house. Come to seek your services, he added, on the recommendation of. Of the household of the most esteemed Marcus Tullius Cicero, he added, pausing with a slight inclination of his head to see if I recognized the name. No grub from the stables, then, but clearly the educated and pampered servant of a fond master. His Latin was impeccable (better than mine), and the voice that delivered it was as beautifully modulated as a flute. He had a quiet manner that was respectful but far from groveling-the politeness one expects from any young man addressing another man ten years his elder. The slave who stood at my door on this particular morning, however, was very clean and meticulously groomed. I take no offense-so long as my accounts are paid on time and in full. It’s as if I were a leper, or the priest of some unclean Oriental cult. It’s a kind of formality when one seeks out the services of Gordianus the Finder, one keeps a certain distance and restraint. ![]() ![]() Usually, when a client sends for me, the messenger is a slave from the very lowest rung of the household-a grub, a cripple, a half-wit boy from the stables stinking of dung and sneezing from the bits of straw in his hair. The slave who came to fetch me on that unseasonably warm spring morning was a young man, hardly more than twenty. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as she is guided through lessons in the art of witchcraft by the somewhat mysterious Mrs. Now the mistress of the castle, Zita soon realizes foul play led to the death of her family. ![]() Twelve-year-old Zita, an orphan and a housemaid, has resigned herself to a life of drudgery when a strange letter arrives, naming her the only living heir to the Brydgeborn fortune. ![]() When a 12-year-old orphan unexpectedly becomes the mistress of a seemingly abandoned castle, she is thrust into a mysterious plot involving murderous spells, false identity, and a magical battle of wills between the living and the dead.įans of Kate Milford's Greenglass House, Victoria Schwab's City of Ghosts , and Diana Wynne Jones will be riveted. A suspenseful tale of witches, family, and magic from internationally best-selling author Stefan Bachmann. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Her books include Antigonick, Nox, Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos, winner of the T.S. She is an internationally acclaimed writer. She has published eighteen books as of 2013, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Ancient Greek literature. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.Ĭarson (with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art) blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. ![]() Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987. ![]() Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. ![]() ![]() Investigating the murder are Chief Inspector Isabelle Lacoste and an outsider, Deputy Commissioner Paul Gélinas from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.Īuthorities rule out no one, including Gamache and four cadets, who have been researching a mysterious map found in the wall of the Three Pines bistro. ![]() Many are nervous about the changes and wonder, is Gamache doing the right thing?Ĭlasses begin and the cadets and professors settle into the new regime, but it isn’t long before a shocking murder upends the academy. ![]() Gamache also decides to keep Serge Leduc, formerly second in command at the academy and rumored to be the cruelest and most corrupt at the school. ![]() Their bond shattered after Brébeuf’s unforgivable betrayal while at the Sûreté. While some get the axe, new professors are hired, including his boyhood friend, Michel Brébeuf.īrébeuf is no friend now, however. There’s been a bad batch of cadets from the police academy, not to mention a corrupt administration, and Gamache is determined to clean house. He’s regrouping in the cozy village of Three Pines with his wife Reine-Marie while he prepares for his new job: Commander of the Sûreté Academy. ![]() After a deadly hostage situation, Former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has taken early retirement from the Sûreté du Québec. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the first time ever, she ahas asked for a story to be switched off! When you consider some of the other Audible titles and the production that goes into them (the How to Train Your Dragin titles spring to mind), would hiring a narrator from the country where a book is set be such a hardship? If not, why not read the story in a neutral accent? It wouldn't lose anything in the reading and would be better than the unappealing dross that they have produced for Snow Spider. ![]() This story quickly becomes a chore to listen to, which is a shame as it was bought for my daughter to listen to when we are in the car. I found myself laughing at every new crap Welsh accent as they sauntered from Caernarfon to Calcutta via Cardiff. The narrator's accent jumps wildly between a poor attempt at a south wales lilt to something akin to the fake Indian accents last heard on Carry on up the Khyber! There is no continuity and all the characters are made to sound stupid by the lack of ability of the narrator to stick to one accent. I have loved this story since childhood, and find myself bitterly dissapointed in this rendition! The narraton of this story is beyond abysmal! The story is set in Wales, so you'd think that finding a narrator who is even somewhat capable of reading in a Welsh accent would have been a consideration for the production team. Brilliant story destroyed by poor narration! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it was Botany of Desire, published a full decade later, that put him on the map. Pollan's first book, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (1991), was selected by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 best books ever written about gardening. ![]()
![]() ![]() Understanding and applying the principles ethically is cost-free and deceptively easy. Unity, the newest principle for this edition.You may think you know these principles, but without understanding their intricacies, you may be ceding their power to someone else. You’ll learn Cialdini’s Universal Principles of Influence, including new research and new uses so you can become an even more skilled persuader-and just as importantly, you’ll learn how to defend yourself against unethical influence attempts. ![]() ![]() With Cialdini as a guide, you don’t have to be a scientist to learn how to use this science. Using memorable stories and relatable examples, Cialdini makes this crucially important subject surprisingly easy. In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdini- New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion-explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically in business and everyday settings. The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion-a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold-now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications. ![]() |