![]() Look out, as well, for the Blyton Colour Reads series. Also available in beautiful deluxe editions. Look out for the other titles in The Magic Faraway Tree series: The Magic Faraway Tree, Folk of the Faraway Tree, and Up the Faraway Tree. What can they do to save it? Anything’s possible in THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE! The Faraway Tree stories have been delighting readers for over 75 years. ![]() Not only is Connie quite bossy but she also refuses to believe in the Magic Faraway Tree – until she meets Moon-Face, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy! But when the Faraway Tree starts to fade, nobody knows what’s wrong and even Connie is worried. Come on a journey full of magic and adventure! When family friend, Connie, comes to stay, neither Joe, Beth nor Frannie are very impressed. The Folk of the Faraway Tree is the third magical story in the Faraway Tree series by the world’s best-loved children’s author, Enid Blyton. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Moreau is the earliest example of what would become a popular science fiction motif called “uplift,” in which a more advanced race interferes with the evolution of the animal species to bring the latter to a higher level of intelligence. Wells was creating new worlds for which he would become known as one of the founding fathers of the science fiction genre. With The Island of Doctor Moreau published just one year after his first novel, The Time Machine, H.G. Originally published in 1896, Wells’s story reflects the scientific controversies disrupting the societal norm in the late 1800s, including increased opposition to animal vivisection and growing discussion of Darwinism and the degeneration of the human race. While gene-splicing and bioengineering are common practices today, Wells’s haunting vision raised ethical questions more than a century before our time. When Edward Prendick is rescued from a shipwreck, he is left on a nearby island and soon discovers the home of the depraved Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist conducting unspeakable animal experiments with hideous, human-like results. Wells a classic work of early science fiction that remains one of the author’s most disturbing and unforgettable novels. ![]() This year marks the 125th anniversary of the first publication of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Evanss In Defense of History not only defends historians from these fashionable barbs, but shows how the discipline is adapting to this assault on its empiricist base. "Essential reading for coming generations."-Keith Thomas. Historys claims to objective knowledge have recently been critiqued by post-foundationalists who argue that facts cannot exist outside of the 'prison house' of language. Evans brings "a remarkable range, a nose for the archives, a taste for controversy, and a fluent pen" (The New Republic) to this splendid work. Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who see all judgments as subjective. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation and powerful computer models to the skilled investigator's sudden insight, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. So while Johnson is correct to say the book defends history as an academic discipline, principally against its critics within the academy, he is wrong to say it represents in so doing the swansong of a declining elite, and wrong to say that it has no application to non-academic versions of history. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. ![]() Carr's "What Is History?", a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth. ![]() ![]() because all the aliens are mating with the humans in each book, kira is concerned that she won’t be wanted/loved because she can’t have children. i also ended up really liking love interest in this one, which is a new feeling lol.Īll of that sounds so good, right? then why only two stars? one of the things that set this book apart from the others is that the main character, kira, is infertile. THIS ONE WAS SO MUCH BETTER!! oh, the wonders that can happen when some actual plot is added? love to see it. but can I give up my new life and the man I desire more than anything? And will he even want me if he knows my secrets? More worryingly, the aliens who abducted me are back, and thanks to the translator in my ear, they can find me. I’m convinced that Aehako can never love me if he knows the full truth. ![]() It’s hard to push away the sexy, flirtatious Aehako when I long to grab him by his horns and insist he take me to his furs.īut I’ve got a terrible secret-a few of them, actually. Human women are treasured here, and one alien in particular has made it clear that he’s interested in me. ![]() But when Aehako comes along, everything changes.Īs one of the humans stranded on the ice planet, I should be happy that I have a new home. ![]() Kira plans on remaining single on this alien planet-she doesn’t want a mate anyway. ![]() The third novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, an international publishing phenomenon-now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue! ![]() ![]() I'm glad I read the book, but not certain I could read the sequel without some seriously uplifting music playing in the background. Still, the style is rather simplistic (Irish Catholics: good! Irish Protestants and the British: bad!) and the book drags on from one injustice to another, leading up to what can only be a bad ending for our hero - and it's almost a relief when it's over. I'm glad I read it, if only to get a glimpse into the effects of the British Industrial revolution on their Irish subjects, and the ongoing political oppression that leads to the beginning of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. This type of approach may not bother many readers, but I found it disconcerting, like the author couldn't make up his mind how best to present it all. ![]() Then, he's out of the story line and we're back to the tale recounted in third person. ![]() Uris goes from telling his tale from first to third person, then back again as it seems to suit - whenever the protagonist's best buddy is around to pick up the narrative, we hear it all through him for a certain number of pages. ![]() Having run away from home at age seventeen, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Some of the characters are drawn better than others, and there are large portions of the story that were very entertaining. Leon Uris (19242003) was an American novelist. This book offers up an interesting time in history in a country not given much thought aside from silly-jolly St. ![]() ![]() ![]() The DB12 was unveiled by Aston Martin Formula One drivers Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso, who’s himself been the subject of a five-part docuseries, ahead of their participation this week in the Monaco Grand Prix.ĭescribed by Aston Martin executive chairman Lawrence Stroll as “the world’s first Super Tourer”, the DB12 heralds a new era of high performance and ultra-luxury for the British company. The world of fashion was represented by top models Winnie Harlow, Lais Ribeiro, Alessandra Ambrosio and Poppy Delevingne, adds ‘Variety’. ![]() ![]() They were joined by singer-songwriter Adam Lambert. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage. Elisa's last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth.Īrriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest-until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary. After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity-and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, from today’s vantage point the Algerian War looks like a full-dress rehearsal for the sort of amorphous struggle that convulsed the Balkans in the 1990s and that now ravages the Middle East, from Beirut to Baghdad-struggles in which questions of religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism take on a new and increasingly lethal intensity. Nearly half a century has passed since this savagely fought war ended in Algeria’s independence, and yet its repercussions continue to be felt not only in Algeria and France but throughout the world. ![]() Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and repressive torture. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict, and as many European settlers were driven into exile. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories in this collection are set in 2048 and offer an imaginary glimpse into what might be. In her introduction to this collection of science fiction stories by Palestinian writers, editor Basma Ghalayini describes Palestinian writing as "a search for their lost inheritance, as well as an attempt to keep the memory of that loss from fading." How would memory be processed and disseminated, 100 years after the Nakba? ![]() The Palestinian return necessitates the transmission of memory through generations, notably the memory of what was lost. In writing, absence reflects the same dynamics that continue to propel Palestinian resistance: their displacement is intrinsically tied to their belief of return. The 1948 Nakba and its ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people from their land have generated a perpetual reality of absence. ![]() ![]() I read this book the same day i found out that sparkling ice had introduced two new flavors, pineapple coconut and lemonade. ![]() She died of a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 73 in New York City. In 1944, Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943. In later life, she experienced much negative criticism for her conservative politics and became reclusive, burning some of her letters and personal papers, including her last manuscript. She travelled widely and often spent summers in New Brunswick, Canada. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, 'One of Ours' (1922), set during World War I. Her novels on frontier life brought her to national recognition. Because of this, she changed her major and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English.Īfter graduation in 1894, she worked in Pittsburgh as writer for various publications and as a school teacher for approximately 13 years, thereafter moving to New York City for the remainder of her life. ![]() She then attended the University of Nebraska, initially planning to become a physician, but after writing an article for the Nebraska State Journal, she became a regular contributor to this journal. Wilella Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley (Gore), Virginia, in December 7, 1873. ![]() |