![]() ![]() Holly is particularly well known for writing down the novels of the very popular Spiderwick Chronicles series. Many of her novels based on the children’s fantasy and horror genres have become bestsellers in a number of countries worldwide. Other than being a writer, she is also a reputed editor and producer. Holly Black is one of the famous and bestselling American authors of the contemporary and fantasy genres. ![]() Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly TalesĮx Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010īloody Fabulous: Stories of Fantasy and Fashion Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard's Name ![]() The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sienna has successfully navigated the labyrinth of Hollywood heart-throbs. And habit of looking at her too long and too often. Sienna is accustomed to high levels of man-handsome, so it's not Jethro's chiseled features or his perfect physique that make Sienna stutter. Much to her consternation, Sienna's most frequent savior is a ridiculously handsome, charming, and cheeky Park Ranger by the name of Jethro Winston. Penny Reid Awards & Accolades Penny Reid books have been nominated for multiple awards, Beard Science was nominated for the Goodreads Awards, Best Romance, in 2016. Therefore, when Sienna's latest starring role takes her to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park she finds herself continually lost while trying to navigate the backroads of Green Valley, Tennessee. Penny Reid has also written the Winston Brothers series which has 8 books including Truth or Beard and Grin and Beard It. But she has a problem, she can't read maps and her sense of direction is almost as bad as her comedic timing is stellar. The simple truth is, everyone loves plus-si. ![]() ![]() ![]() The movie studio executives can't explain it, but her films are out-grossing all the fit and trim headliners and Hollywood's most beautiful elite. Beards, brothers, and bikers! Oh my! Sienna Diaz is everyone's favorite "fat" funny lady. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This thesis concluded that persuasion can only be achieved when narrative probability and narrative fidelity are present. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a hilarious and extraordinary courtroom drama where historys most infamous betrayal is dissected by the forces of good and evil. Fisher's narrative paradigm as a framework to answer the research question(s): (1) If Guirgis's ideology and created world in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot are foreign and imagined, how is narrative probability and narrative fidelity achieved? and, (2) How does Guirgis persuade his audience through narrative probability and narrative fidelity? Research found that Guirgis achieves narrative probability and narrative fidelity because his dramatic action is complete, self-contained, purposeful, varied, engages and maintains the interest of the audience, and is probable. This qualitative study focused on Guirgis's narrative, using Walter R. Fisher's narrative analysis, through form identification and a functional analysis, determined how Guirgis accomplishes persuasion. ![]() Stephen Adly Guirgis has created an era-melting play, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, which explores the timeless debate between divine mercy and free will. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That review I read was right: this is a promising place to sample the work of Alan Nourse, and this affordable, available collection would make a nice addition to any SF reader’s shelves. Those favorites, “The Coffin Cure”, “An Ounce of Cure” and “Problem”, while having their sociological elements along with a large dose of human nature plus the future, involve clever solutions to unsuspected problems, while “Native Soil” is one of the few to take place off Earth. Interesting, but these were not the stories I liked best in the book. Norse is good at these stories, but has an irritating habit of leaving the endings very much up in the air, obviously intending for the reader to apply a conclusion depending on how they interpret what he has written. Nourse, who was also a trained doctor, set his novel in a dystopian US, where free healthcare is provided for all, as long as they undergo sterilisation and give up other freedoms. ![]() The collection is correctly labeled science fiction, but a majority of the stories are psychological, sociological, nature-of-mankind fiction that might have fitted as well in Atlantic Monthly as Galaxy. The review made it sound interesting, a promising place to try an author I’d not previously sampled. This collection of a dozen science fiction short stories came into my hands because I read a review of it on one of the many blogs I visit. Norse, (no editor named), stories © 1954-1963, WLC Books, 2010 trade paper, science fiction short story collection ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re all great in their own way, and I like 1914 in particular. Indeed, the poem for which this edition is named is fantastic, but is not the only poem in here worthy of merit. ![]() The men are slaughtered like animals by the noisy artillery, and the tears that are shed are not strong enough to mourn the true horrors of war. In the anthem the noise from artillery shells becomes the choir, men become cattle and the tears of the fallen become candles. The title immediately suggests that the young soldiers of both sides are fated to die they will die in the trenches and in the fields thus, the “anthem” is a mockery at the patriotic society that naively pushed these youngsters into uniform. His time in the trenches enlightened him to his fact, as his personal experience led him to the reality. Thus, the message of Anthem for Doomed Youth is abundantly clear: war is terrible. The result of his service was a radical shift in his poetry it became anti-war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and she finds in her colleagues a group of friends-even a new girlfriend-and for the first time in her life, her future seems bright.īut soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. ![]() So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst-but Kayleigh needs money. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Harari's unique ability to make sense of where we have come from and where we are going has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. In twenty-one accessible chapters that are both provocative and profound, Harari builds on the ideas explored in his previous books, untangling political, technological, social, and existential issues and offering advice on how to prepare for a very different future from the world we now live in: How can we retain freedom of choice when Big Data is watching us? What will the future workforce look like, and how should we ready ourselves for it? How should we deal with the threat of terrorism? Why is liberal democracy in crisis? ![]() As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions we need to ask ourselves in order to survive. Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? ![]() Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. ![]() ![]() He now runs his own publishing house called Infected Books. ![]() His book Autumn (2001) was adapted into a 2009 Canadian horror film by the same name, starring Dexter Fletcher and Dickon Tolson.ĭespite not having an agent when he self-published his novel Hater in 2006, Moody still succeeded in selling the film rights for the novel to Mark Johnson–the producer of Breaking Bad–and Guillermo Del Toro, the director of The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth. After all, working in a bank made him contemplate Armageddon often, and nothing could quite match writing engrossing tales about the end of the world. Raised in Birmingham where he had a constant supply of trashy horror and pulp science fiction books and films, Moody always aspired to become an author.Īlthough he went on to work as a bank manager and as an operations manager for several financial institutions, Moody would ultimately quit his day job in an effort to pursue his dreams of becoming an author. ![]() David Moody is a British author of horror, science fiction, mystery, and thriller novels. ![]() ![]() Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. ![]() HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained have influenced numerous poets and writers, including many of the Romantics, William Blake, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and T. Read Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton with a free trial. Paradise Regained was published four years after Paradise Lost, and alternatively focuses on the temptation of Christ and the recapturing on all that man had lost in Paradise Lost.Īfter publishing Paradise Lost, author John Milton was immediately recognized and lauded as one of the greatest English poets. The poem details Satan’s journey to the Garden of Eden and his intent to destroy God’s new creation, and examines the personalities and motivations of Adam and Eve, before and after the fateful temptation. ![]() The epic poem Paradise Lost tells the story of the fall of man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout his life Gombrich maintained a deep love and knowledge of classical music. ![]() Adolf Busch and members of the Busch Quartet regularly met and played in the family home. She also knew Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf and Johannes Brahms. However, rather than follow a career as a concert pianist (which would have been difficult to combine with her family life in this period) she became an assistant of Theodor Leschetizky. His father was a lawyer and former classmate of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his mother was a distinguished pianist who graduated from the Vienna Conservatoire with the School's Medal of Distinction.Īt the Conservatoire she was a pupil of, amongst others, Anton Bruckner. The son of Karl Gombrich and Leonie Hock, Gombrich was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, into an assimilated bourgeois family of Jewish origin who were part of a sophisticated social and musical milieu. Gombrich was the author of many works of cultural history and art history, most notably The Story of Art, a book widely regarded as one of the most accessible introductions to the visual arts, and Art and Illusion, a major work in the psychology of perception that influenced thinkers as diverse as Carlo Ginzburg, Nelson Goodman, Umberto Eco, and Thomas Kuhn. ![]() Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich OM CBE FBA ( / ˈ ɡ ɒ m b r ɪ k/ German: 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. ![]() |