The black lamb and the grey falcon5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The landscape and the people of Yugoslavia are brilliantly observed as West untangles the tensions that rule the country's history as well as its daily life. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy relationships among its ethnic groups. one of the great books of our time." - The New Yorker Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. ![]()
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The labyrinth borges5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). It includes "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges' most famous stories. Labyrinths (1962) is a collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges. (Book 441 From 1001 Books) - Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, Jorge Luis Borges Coetzee said of Borges: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists." His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor. ![]() In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime, and supported the military juntas that overthrew it.ĭue to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, usually referred to as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. ![]() Broken by the Horde King by Zoey Draven5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() It is the second book of the Horde Kings of Dakkar series. I look into his grey eyes and see not a monster, but a demon king who captures my soul.īut demons have a way of never letting go…and as the cold season descends upon Dakkar, I begin to wonder if I even want him to, even when it hurts.Ĭlaimed by the Horde King is a full-length SFR novel (95,000+ words) with an HEA. I make bargains with him on starry, cold nights. He steals me from my village and brings me back to his battle-bred horde. Instead of taking my life, he claims me as his own. When my desperate actions catch the attention of a Dakkari horde king-a cold, powerful, and merciless warrior leader, with eyes like flint and a body like steel-he seeks to punish me…and he succeeds. ![]() I hunt to survive, though it is forbidden, though it breaks the strict Dakkari laws that we all must follow. In my human settlement on the hostile plains of Dakkar, I am an outcast, a strange girl orphaned since birth, alone, and dreaming of a life I don't have. ![]() Babel 17 empire star5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() His mother, Margaret Carey Boyd Delany, was a library clerk in the New York Public Library system. He was born to a prominent black family on April 1, 1942, and raised in Harlem. Samuel Ray Delany, also known as "Chip," is an award-winning American science fiction author. Mesmo sem saber qual a mensagem nem como chegar ao seu destino, Jo não recusa esta multiplexa jornada – e suas consequências mudarão o Tempo e o Espaço como o conhecemos. Seu moribundo ocupante entrega a ele uma joia e uma missão: levar uma mensagem para Estrela Imperial. Ao compreender melhor o outro lado, será que conseguirá resistir à tentação de se juntar a ele?Ī vida do jovem Cometa Jo muda com a queda de uma nave espacial. E no que aparenta ser um eco sem nexo, ela reconhece uma mensagem coerente, com toda a beleza, ordem e poder de persuasão que só uma língua possui.Īgora, Rydra precisa reunir uma equipe improvável e dominar essa língua estranha. Desde a Invasão, a humanidade sofreu com fome, pragas e canibalismo – mas sua maior catástrofe será Babel-17.Įm meio a suspeitas de sabotagem, Rydra é convocada pelas Forças Armadas para analisar as ondas sonoras que precedem e sucedem cada ataque que ameaça minar os esforços da guerra. Quase telepaticamente perspicaz, sua obra captura o humor da humanidade após duas décadas de guerra selvagem. ![]() Aos 26 anos, Rydra Wong é a poeta mais popular das cinco galáxias conhecidas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Such a trip encompassed nearly 10,000 miles.Īccording to Thom Steinbeck, the author's oldest son, the reason for the trip was that Steinbeck knew he was dying and wanted to see his country one last time. His travels start in Long Island, New York, and roughly follow the outer border of the United States, from Maine to the Pacific Northwest, down into his native Salinas Valley in California across to Texas, through the Deep South, and then back to New York. Steinbeck tells of traveling throughout the United States in a specially made camper he named Rocinante, after Don Quixote's horse. He wrote of having many questions going into his journey, the main one being "What are Americans like today?" However, he found that he had concerns about much of the "new America" he witnessed. Steinbeck wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level because he made his living writing about it. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle Charley. Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a 1962 travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. ![]() X men vol 1 hickman5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() As part of Marvel NOW!, the title was relaunched as a new series (volume 4) written by Brian Wood and featuring an all-female team. Volume 3 began publication in September 2010 and, for most of its run featuring team-ups between the X-Men and other Marvel characters, ended at issue #41 in February 2013. The title then was briefly reverted to its original name but then subsequently renamed X-Men: Legacy. This series took the simpler, earlier name X-Men, though from 2001 until 2004 it became the flagship title of the X-Men franchise and was published as New X-Men. ![]() In 1991 a second companion series debuted, marking the first time that more than one X-Men series would be published. X-Men is a comic book ongoing series featuring the titular namesake team of superheroes, published in various incarnations by Marvel Comics, beginning in 1963.ĭuring its revival under writer Chris Claremont, the first series was eventually renamed The Uncanny X-Men with issue #114 (October 1978). ![]() An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() It's a wonderful, rich, feminist book, and I loved it." - B. I can't wait to read the next book." - Martha Wells, author of The Books of Raksura "An Accident of Stars is anchored in dozens of complex women, driven by the rooted, deep relationships they have with each other. The main character falls out of our world into a life-changing adventure, with compelling characters and a fascinating world. The main strength of this is its cast, which walks off the page - there's characters of all ages, all walks of life and all sexual orientations-and its gut punch ending." - Aliette de Bodard "Reminiscent of Ursula K LeGuin, An Accident of Stars will take you to a lush, magical new world." - Laura Lam "I very much enjoyed this. Foz Meadows has created an epic adventure unlike any I've read before." - Fran Wilde, Nebula- and Norton-nominated author of Updraft and Cloudbound "A portal fantasy for grownups, with grit and realism, and characters I loved from the first page." - Trudi Canavan, author of the Black Magician trilogy "Fantasy readers who appreciate strong characters and excellent worldbuilding will immerse themselves in this tale." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "It's quite lovely. ![]() ![]() To enter Kena and the surrounding lands is to be irrevocably and powerfully changed. "An Accident of Stars' interwoven, beautifully rendered cultures are filled with rich details, complex family bonds of all kinds, and deeply layered politics. ![]() Day Zero by Kresley Cole5/27/2023 ![]() Instead of heeding that warning, the man clutched the neck of his bottle, busting the bottom of it on the windowsill. Their voices got louder and louder, bellows of rage as they circled each other.ĭid the idiot not see that glint in Jackson's eyes? The one promising pain? Then the two squared off at the foot of the bed. Jackson was trying to kick him out, telling him never to return? Even with what I understood, I could barely follow. When the drunk lumbered toward her, Jackson smacked the man's arm away.īoth began yelling in Cajun French. ![]() I knew he'd cooked her that breakfast this morning. The way Jackson gazed at her face, so protectively. Shaking her shoulder, he urgently muttered, "Maman, reveille!" Then I saw Jackson on the other side of the bed, pulling her robe closed. ![]() I knew I needed to leave, but I was riveted to the spot, could no more look away than I could quit breathing. ![]() The end of men hanna5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosin also cites rising college graduation rates, steady employment, and an increased presence in male-dominated fields such as politics and business.Ĭarol Tavris writes in the Wall Street Journal that " avoids the journalistic habit of doing 'spotlight interviews' with individuals selected to support the writer's hypothesis, a practice she knows is misleading. Here, jobs which traditionally held male-led jobs are now lost in the face of the recession and recovery of said economy. In the text, she theorizes that women have won the gender war, having "pulled decisively ahead by almost every measure." Rosin uses the shift in the American economy as one of her main sources. Rosin's text was published in 2012 by Riverhead Books. She writes about the dominance of women in US schools and workplaces. In the book, Rosin argues that patriarchy is coming to an end. It was published by Riverhead Books in 2012. The End of Men: And the Rise of Women is a book by journalist and magazine editor Hanna Rosin, based on her cover story of the same name that appeared in The Atlantic in 2010. ![]() Rutherfurd the forest5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Following a droll chapter on the ill-fated Spanish Armada, the next segment dramatizes the beheading of Alice Lisle for her role in the 1685 Monmouth uprising, and there is a mention of Leonard Hoar, an infamous early president of Harvard. The introduction of other characters is similarly quixotic. A segment that opens with a romantic version of the death of Rufus, son of William the Conqueror, in which he is shot by a wayward hunting arrow from the bow of Walter Tyrrell, introduces a Druid-like presence in the character of Puckle, a gnarled old man who darkly personifies the Forest. ![]() Beginning in 1099, the story is divided into seven uneven parts: ""The Hunt,"" ""Beaulieu,"" ""Lymington,"" ""The Armada Tree,"" ""Alice,"" ""Albion Park"" and ""Pride of the Forest."" Intermingling real and fictional characters, the narrative traces the lineage of several families, mostly unknown outside rarified circles of Anglophiliacs. In this volume he expands his Chaucerian tapestry to include the chivalrous past of the storied New Forest bordering the south coast near the Isle of Wight. Charting an entire millennium in his newest saga, Rutherfurd continues to pursue-in meandering prose and at tedious length-his fascination with nugatory events in English history, picking up loose threads from his sprawling bestselling novels London and Sarum. ![]() |