![]() Photo © Tia StrombeckHow could that be? It’s hard to find an animal more unlike a human than an octopus. ![]() ![]() ![]() This bore out what scant experience I had already had like many who visit octopuses in public aquaria, I’ve often had the feeling the octopus I was watching was watching me back, with an interest as keen as my own. Most fascinating of all, I had read that octopuses are smart. It can weigh as much as a man and stretch as long as a car, yet can pour its baggy, boneless body through an opening the size of an orange. Here is an animal that has venom like a snake, a beak like a parrot, and ink like an old-fashioned pen. I knew little about octopuses-not even that the correct plural is not octopi, as I had always believed (it turns out you can’t put a Latin ending-i-on a word derived from the Greek, like octopus). Her name was Athena, but I didn’t know that then. I had a date with a giant Pacific octopus. On a rare, warm day in mid-March, when back in New Hampshire the snow was melting into mud, and in Boston, everyone else was strolling along the harbor or sitting on benches licking ice cream cones, I quit the blessed sunlight for the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium. A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness ![]()
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![]() I despaired and thought I wouldn’t be able to do the book. They were the only ones who stopped responding to any email or text I sent them. And because of that I scared those girls away. I was too shockable, too unaware of what was going on in the sex lives of teen girls. I am still in touch with some of the girls I interviewed for my first book-they’re now in their late thirties!-and there are a number of young women I interviewed for Girls and Sex that I continue to talk to and correspond with regularly.īut I suppose in some ways my favorite interviews were the first couple I did because they didn’t go well. ![]() I felt that way in the ’90s when I wrote Schoolgirls, and I feel that way now. I find young women to be so thoroughly thoughtful and openhearted and intellectually engaged and funny and willing to go deep. That’s why I’ve written so much about them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There was no fortress that the Soviet people could not storm as long as they fought under the banner of Marxism Leninism and the leadership of the Bolshevik party headed by Lenin and Stalin…But, beginning with the 20th Congress, which brought the Khrushchevite revisionist clique to power in the CPSU, all this changed. All the same, it defeated internal saboteurs and imperialist interventionist armies at a time when it was incomparably weaker than its enemies it scored unprecedented achievements in socialist construction it made the greatest contribution to the achievement of victory in the war against fascism and it rendered selfless internationalist support to proletarian revolutionary and national-liberation struggles of the people of all countries. ![]() ![]() “From its very birth, the Soviet republic faced formidable challenges, both internal and external. ![]() ![]() ![]() Katie Zhao’s YA debut is an edge-of-your-seat drama set in the pressure-cooker world of academics and image at Sinclair Prep, where the past threatens the future these teens have carefully crafted for themselves. Soon, Nancy suspects that her friends may be keeping secrets from her, too. The four must uncover the true killer before The Proctor exposes more than they can bear and costs them more than they can afford, like Nancy’s full scholarship. Now, somehow the Proctor knows them, too. They all used to be Jamie’s closest friends, and she knew each of their deepest, darkest secrets. Nancy is even more shocked when word starts to spread that she and her friends-Krystal, Akil, and Alexander-are the prime suspects, thanks to "the Proctor," someone anonymously incriminating them via the school’s social media app. ![]() Nancy Luo is shocked when her former best friend, Jamie Ruan, top-ranked junior at Sinclair Prep, goes missing, and then is found dead. ![]() In a YA thriller that is Crazy Rich Asians meets One of Us is Lying, students at an elite prep school are forced to confront their secrets when their ex-best friend turns up dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ariadne tells the story of the daughters of King Minos, Ariadne and Phaedra. But this didn’t hamper my enjoyment of this novel at all. Beautifully written and completely immersive, this is an exceptional debut novel.įor a person who owns a dog named Zeus, I know very little about Ancient Greek mythology. In a world where women are nothing more than the pawns of powerful men, will Ariadne’s decision to betray Crete for Theseus ensure her happy ending? Or will she find herself sacrificed for her lover’s ambition?ĪRIADNE gives a voice to the forgotten women of one of the most famous Greek myths, and speaks to their strength in the face of angry, petulant Gods. But helping Theseus kill the monster means betraying her family and country, and Ariadne knows only too well that in a world ruled by mercurial gods – drawing their attention can cost you everything. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives in Crete as a sacrifice to the beast, Ariadne falls in love with him. The Minotaur – Minos’s greatest shame and Ariadne’s brother – demands blood every year. ![]() ![]() Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS.Īs Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace. This is her story.Ī mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. In one of the most famous Greek myths, Ariadne betrayed her father, King Minos, to help Theseus defeat the Minotaur. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quickly, almost in a fever, Shari begins to write it down, sure that it is nothing more than a wonderful fable. An ancient tale that speaks of the origin of mankind and the purpose of human life. Then one special night a story of incomparable beauty and mystery comes to her. Her talent is inspired, her destiny great, and it is not long before Shari and her books are known all over the world. ![]() More than that she has realized her purpose in returning to mortal life - to write stories for young people to help them understand the immortal life that is to follow. Shari has regained her memory of her previous life. Shari Cooper had died once, and then returned to Earth as a Wanderer - a soul who had been given permission to take the place of another soul in a mature body. ![]() Someone did not like Shari Cooper writing her stories. ![]() ![]() The author acknowledges the trademark status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events or locales is purely coincidental. Names, characters, businesses, brands, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. The only exception is brief quotations to be used in book reviews. ![]() ![]() Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without prior written permission of the author of this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() These mini-adventures are tied together by the central conflicts of the series, which span several volumes at a time and are developed and resolved in surprising yet satisfying ways. The Yamada family gradually gets used to life with Chi, but their apartment complex doesn’t allow its residents to keep pets.Įach short, eight-page chapter of the manga focuses on one small episode in the life of Chi and the Yamada family. Chi gradually gets used to her new home with the Yamada family, but she still misses her mother. After Yōhei’s mother finds him, the pair takes the exhausted kitten home. ![]() She ends up crying on the grass of a neighborhood park, where she comes face to face with a small boy named Yōhei, who has also gotten lost. Utterly and irredeemably cute.Ĭhi is a small grey tabby kitten who gets lost after she becomes distracted while out for a walk with her mother. It will not blow you away with its brilliance and depth. Publication Year: 2004 (Volume 1) – 2009 (Volume 6)Ĭhi’s Sweet Home is not a masterpiece of manga. ![]() ![]() The author seems to have written many of these pieces in Toronto. ![]() Humourous selections, prose-poems, etc: - A tale of the twelfth - The haunted trolley - A memory - The master marksman - Scene from Azrael - Two historic costumes - Something. Fires : essays, poems, stories / Raymond Carver Book, Online - Google Books Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988 Santa Barbara, CA : Capra Press, 1983 189 p. Essays: - The great days - A poet politician - A master of intrigue - Genius and patriotism - A midnight minstrel - Impressions of Rossetti - Politics as a fine art - An exile from Erin - Impressions of a poet. Pat - Jonah and the whale - Peace and war. Grundy - Apollo and Tomkins - King Billy and St. Poems: - The city celestial - The eternal fires - Spirit sonnet - Accursed sleep - Ode to a book - Love and pride - Utophia. ![]() Satires: - Thou shalt not smile - The splendid soul - The intruder. Contents: Stories: - A face on King Street - A guest of God - A tragic smile - The last patient - Fall of the curate - The terrible tale - The yellow mask - The triumph of realism - One chum - A rebel - Sweet Marie - An extraordinary episode. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet such a balanced picture of Jefferson remains somehow unsatisfactory, no doubt because a man of so many contradictions slips away from every biographer, the tensions in the man mirroring those of his times. Providing along the way a short, up-to-date history of the early 19th-century nation, she also concisely surveys the day's great issues voting, democracy, political parties, commerce, westering and religion. If some of her criticisms of Jefferson seem more perfunctory than heartfelt, she fully explains the man's sorry record and tortured views on slavery and race. ![]() Appleby convincingly argues that the third president's greatest legacies were limited government (breached, however, by the opportunism that characterized his own presidency) and the great expansion of democracy. Schlesinger Jr., her elegant book is a liberal's take on the complex, sphinxlike founder of American liberalism. Another in a series on the American chief executives edited by Arthur M. But UCLA historian Appleby (Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans) has succeeded in writing as good a brief study of this complex man as is imaginable. ![]() Thomas Jefferson, so multifaceted and long-lived, tries the skills of most who venture to write his biography, especially a short one like this. ![]() |