![]() ![]() As they go close to Father’s hidden books, Parvana yells at them to cause a distraction. The soldiers rip open the cupboard and throw things out. One day after dinner while Father tells the story of a brave young girl named Malali who leads men into a battle against the British in 1880, the Talibs burst into Parvana’s apartment and arrest Father. Father tries to earn money for his family by reading letters to people in the market since most citizens are illiterate. Father lost his leg when the school where he was a teacher was bombed. Parvana who is a small eleven-year-old is allowed to go to the market with her father because he can’t walk without her help. All females including teens must be accompanied by males and wear burqas when they go outside. ![]() ![]() This heartwarming story follows Parvana who lives in Afghanistan where the Taliban have recently taken over the country. If you haven’t read The Breadwinner novel, then you are in for a rare treat. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() When Mary’s estranged childhood friend, Isabel Dwyer offers her a two-week stay in a gorgeous manor house in England, she reluctantly agrees in hopes that the holiday will shake up her quiet life in just the right ways.īut Mary gets more than she bargained for when Isabel loses her memory and fully believes she lives in Jane Austen’s Bath. ![]() Working as an engineer, she genuinely enjoys her job and her colleagues-particularly a certain adorable and intelligent consultant. Official Synopsis of The Austen Escape: Falling into the past will change their futures forever….Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and productive life. I was not financially compensated for this post and all opinions are my own.) (I received a free copy of The Austen Escape from Thomas Nelson – Fiction to write an honest review on The Silver Petticoat Review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let the reader beware, for Firestarter is Stephen King at his most mesmerizing. What they don't take into account is that even a child can know the pleasure of the whip hand and the satisfaction of revenge. ago My big thing is suspense I just can’t deal with it, my favorite King book is actually his On writing farmsfarts 2 yr. It's not scary in a traditional horror way, it's more a suspense novel with a lot of heart. ![]() And once they get her they plan to use Charlie's capacity for love to force her into developing a power as horrifyingly destructive as it is seductive. Firestarter is an emotional book, especially if you are a parent. Her parents have taught her to control her pyrokinesis, the ability to set anything-toys, clothes, even people-aflame.īut The Shop knows about and wants this pigtailed "ultimate weapon." Shop agents set out to hunt down Charlie and her father in a ruthless and terrifying chase that ranges from the streets of New York to the backwoods of Vermont. ![]() Now that Charlie is eight, she doesn't start fires anymore. ![]() she appears in the first two books: The Magicians Nephew, and The Lion. Two years after that their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire. Halloween lovers and writers alike cant get enough of scary names for girls. In 1969 Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in a drug experiment run by a veiled government agency known as The Shop. He looked down at her and saw her face, so small, now so strange. The hair on his arms suddenly began to stir and move, like kelp in an invisible tide. "Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ability of fungi to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web’, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties, which have influenced societies since antiquity, have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. ![]() They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence’, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. ![]() Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space and it thrives amidst nuclear radiation. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. ![]() There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works. ![]() ![]() Going Beyond Ministries also equips believers through books and Bible study resources. This free gathering brings together thousands of women from different denominations and backgrounds several times a year in an effort to stir revival. In addition to Priscilla’s participation in many church and para-church conferences across the globe each year, Going Beyond Ministries hosts AWAKEN – an outreach event in their hometown designed to encourage and mobilize women locally. But put a Bible in her hand and a message in her heart and you’ll see why thousands flock to her conferences and dive into her Bible study series’ and books each year.Ī graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, Priscilla holds a Master’s degree in Biblical Studies and considers it a privilege to serve believers from every denomination and culture by helping them to know the truths of Scripture intellectually and encouraging them to experience these truths practically by the power of the Holy Spirit. ![]() Priscilla Shirer is a wife and a mom first. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The founding members of LOTE were the writer and artist (and professional beauty) Stephen Tennant Hermia Druitt, an obscure Black Scottish modernist poet Richard Bruce Nugent the Harlem Renaissance writer and aesthete, and the poet, publisher and activist Nancy Cunard. Members of LOTE believed that the mythological Lotus Eaters were in fact a very real mostly queer proto-communist society located in West Africa and organised around pleasure, luxury and the decorative arts. ![]() In the town she meets Erskine-Lily who like her is obsessed with an interwar modernist cult known as LOTE. When she arrives however, she is unable to tell whether it is a theoretical artist’s residency or a corporate business retreat. Mathilda has come to an unspecified European town known as Dun having applied to a residency purely for the stipend. 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Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967 ![]() Below, I’ve selected one hundred different covers used for One Hundred Years of Solitude, published around the world between 19. This is a lush, descriptive, and relentlessly irreal novel, and as such, its cover treatments have varied wildly over the years. For a while it is a kind of utopia, though a strange one, but eventually, the encroachment of the outside world destroys everything the Buendías have built. Pablo Neruda once called Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude “perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes.” Now a beloved classic for millions, and the defining pinnacle of magical realist literature, the novel traces the Buendía family over seven generations spent in their fictional hometown of Macondo-founded in the Colombian rainforest by their patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía-which is reportedly based on Márquez’s own hometown of Aracataca, near the northern coast of Colombia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Metacritic reports a 79 out of 100 rating based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The site's consensus states: "Essential viewing for cineastes while still offering rich rewards for neophytes, Hitchcock/Truffaut offers an affectionate - and well-crafted - tribute to a legend". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 95% "Certified Fresh" score based on 110 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. Hitchcock/Truffaut received critical acclaim. ![]() Hitchcock/Truffaut premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and was shown in the TIFF Docs section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The documentary features reflections from directors including James Gray, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, and Olivier Assayas, and is narrated by Bob Balaban, who co-starred with Truffaut in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Truffaut had interviewed his fellow film director Hitchcock over the course of eight days in 1962 at the latter's offices at Universal Studios, Hollywood, to write his book. It is about François Truffaut's 1966 book on Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock/Truffaut, and its impact on cinema. Hitchcock/Truffaut is a 2015 French-American documentary film directed by Kent Jones. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is gorgeous! The author is obviously very talented as she is credited with being the cover artist too! ![]() ".and as the fast-breaking dawn light crept into the sky, he felt blessed, like he'd been touched by an angel." There is no happy ending in the traditional sense, more a reinforcement that some people can enter your life for a short period and touch deeply. "Dex was like a short summer rain: heady, unexpected and all too rare." We don't learn a lot about Dex and even at the end of the story he is still a mystery. Seb is intrigued by the quiet and vulnerable Dex and over many weeks they develop a unique friendship. ![]() Likewise with Seb - although a short story, there is a real feel for the type of man Seb is and of the life he leads. There is a real sense of the place and people. It is beautifully descriptive and makes it so easy to imagine the small town of Padstow in Cornwall. The author does a wonderful job of describing the setting for the story. It is a gentle story that provides a glimpse into the life of Seb, who owns a fudge shop and Dex, a young man who enters his life for a short time. Short but oh, so sweet! This is a beautifully written story. ![]() |