![]() ![]() ![]() The story takes place in an anachronistic England in which Fey Kind and humans dwell in an ill-defined time period after the fall of Rome, and no attempt has been made toward historical accuracy or verisimilitude. Wheeler ( The Arcanum) retains names from the Arthurian stories but little else: Merlin is a magicless fraud, Sir Bors is a thug, and Lancelot and Percival are nigh unrecognizable. Sword Arthur and establishes herself as the figurehead of resistance against the Red Paladins and King Uther Pendragon’s court. Along the way, she allies herself with roguish sell. Charged with taking the sword to the wizard Merlin, Nimue, oft judged for “the scars on her back,” uses it instead to avenge and protect her people, who are being persecuted by religious zealots known as the Red Paladins. In this loose reimagining of the Arthurian mythos (companion to a forthcoming Netflix series), a teenage member of the Fey Kind becomes the epicenter of momentous events after she receives the fabled Sword of Power from her dying mother. ![]()
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![]() In this sweet book, a young girl asks her parents to repeat the story of her birth and adoption and how they became a family. ![]() Most children love to hear stories about themselves as babies or toddlers – moments in their lives that were momentous but that they can’t remember. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell I hope your family will find these picture books about adoption and foster care helpful too!ġ3 Picture Books about Adoption and Foster Care While none of my children are adopted, reading these titles together has been a wonderful opportunity for us to talk about adoption and foster care together and the many ways that a family can be made. ![]() ![]() I’ve included all the responses here, if you’d like to see them (they include books outside the scope of this post, including middle grade, young adult, and adult titles). When someone asked recently for recommendations of books about adoption and foster care, I turned to Instagram for suggestions and got a FLOOD of terrific titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Adichie has been invited t Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her husband had been running a Ponzi scheme and had stolen millions from people. ![]() It’s been 3 years since Cam’s husband died and the end of a very long year that she’s been under investigation by the FBI. ![]() The protagonist of this stand alone novel has a propensity for profanity and sexual shenanigans. And he doesn’t know what’s worse, that he promised to be civil, or that he’s attracted to her. Problem is.there’s one living in his house. Not since his wife, presently ex-wife, got knocked up by the guy she was cheating on him with. He loves women, he just doesn’t want anything to do with ‘um. Now all she has to do is find a safe place in her mind to hide whenever she feels the need to throat punch him into tomorrow…which is often.Ĭalvin Shaw has zero interest in women. How else would you describe losing your husband, your job, and your money all at once? Desperate times call for desperate measures, so when salvation comes in the form of one intolerable a-hole, who just happens to be the starting quarterback for the vaunted NY Titans, she has no choice but to accept his offer as a live-in nanny slash teacher for his eight year old nephew. Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play BooksĬam DeSantis’ life is a hot, steaming pile. ![]() ![]() ![]() “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. Metaphorical or otherwise, these quotes may help you reflect on your own life and your place in the universe.ġ. Quotes About HumanityĪlthough The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy revolves around interstellar travel and the destruction of Earth, Adams's insights on the human condition are just as relevant on our home planet. ![]() These 42 quotes from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series are some of our favorites in the whole saga-maybe even the whole galaxy. ![]() ![]() But before it was published, it was a series of broadcasts on BBC Radio-and listening to the audiobook lets you enjoy the original charm of its spoken performance. In his narration of the iconic volume that inspired six more books, a television series, a video game, and a feature film, esteemed actor Stephen Fry enhances Adams’s thought-provoking passages while delivering impeccable comedic execution of the novel’s off-the-wall, absurdist humor. The first novel in Douglas Adams’s beloved sci-fi franchise, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been enthralling earthlings since 1979. ![]() ![]() ![]() RELATED: Transformers: Why Did Megatron Turn Evil? Who is Unicron? But despite this, it’s possible that Unicron’s inclusion in Rise of the Beasts may be a bad omen for the upcoming sequel. Unicron is an absolutely massive figure in Transformers lore, in more ways than one, and the reveal that he’ll finally be making his live action debut has made fans even more hyped to see the new film. However, when the film’s second trailer was recently released, it dropped a massive bombshell regarding the plot of the movie: the main villain of Rise of the Beasts will not be the Terrorcon leader Scourge (voiced by Peter Dinklage) as previously believed, but rather the planet-sized destroyer of worlds Unicron. Featuring the fan-favorite Maximals from the beloved Beast Wars: Transformers cartoon, the first trailer for the upcoming film inspired no shortage of excitement among countless fans of the franchise. ![]() After a five-year hiatus following 2018’s Bumblebee, the Transformers series is finally racing back into theaters this June with Rise of the Beasts. ![]() ![]() ![]() George and Chuck become increasingly uneasy when they learn that the monks believe that once they have compiled all nine billion names of God, the human race will have achieved its purpose, and there will be no point in continuing. The monks carefully cut and paste the sheets into enormous books. George and Chuck are initially sceptical of the project's validity but agree to help the monks.įor weeks, the Mark V computer has been generating sheets filled with gibberish as it rearranges letters in all their possible combinations. The computer can churn out lists of names much faster than the monks could do it by hand. The monks seek the help of two engineers, George and Chuck, to speed up the project by using an automatic sequence computer, the Mark V. They have been systematically permuting letters to list all possible names. According to the monks, all of God's names can be written with no more than nine letters in an alphabet they have devised. ![]() The project involves compiling a list of all possible names of God. The story revolves around a project that the monks have been working on for three centuries. ![]() Clarke is a science fiction story set in a Tibetan monastery. "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Kolbert writes in her prologue, the story beings with “the emergence of a new species maybe two hundred thousand years ago. As Kolbert writes, “If extinction is a morbid topic, mass extinction is, well, massively so…I try to convey both sides: the excitement of what’s being learned as well as the horror of it.”Īnd while the science Kolbert brings us in The Sixth Extinction is indeed exciting, the ultimate effect of humans on the planet is horrific. ![]() In first half of the book, Kolbert covers species that are already gone-the mastodon, the great auk-and while this is fascinating reading, what’s even more compelling is the second half, which deals with the current crises facing the planet. “What this history reveals, in its ups and downs” Kolbert writes, “is that life is extremely resilient but not infinitely so.” Elizabeth Kolbert’s wonderful book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History outlines the human impact on the globe by following researchers who are studying not only the past but today’s resources and species currently at risk, from the oceans to the rainforests. The planet has survived five mass extinctions, but it’s the sixth that we should be worried about. ![]() ![]() When LeBay dies, Dennis meets his younger brother, George, who reveals LeBay's history of anger and violent behavior. As Arnie restores the car, he stops wearing his glasses and his blemishes disappear, but he also becomes withdrawn, humorless, and cynical. Arnie brings Christine to a do-it-yourself garage run by Will Darnell, who is suspected of using the garage as a front for illicit operations. Frightened, Dennis decides he dislikes Christine. While Arnie finishes the paperwork, Dennis sits inside Christine and has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they existed when the car was new, 20 years earlier. ![]() Despite Dennis's reservations, Arnie buys Christine, as LeBay named the vehicle, for $250. LeBay, an elderly gentleman with a back supporter and a grouchy manner. In 1978, bespectacled, acne-ridden, nerdy teen Arnold and his pal Dennis notice a dilapidated 1958 Plymouth Fury being sold by Roland D. ![]() ![]() In April 2013, PS Publishing released Christine in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition. A film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter, was released eight months later in December of the same year. It tells the story of a car (a 1958 Plymouth Fury) apparently possessed by malevolent supernatural forces. Christine is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1983. ![]() ![]() When she began teaching as an English professor at Saint Mary's in 1931, she was assigned the courses on rhetoric, grammar, and composition. Holding degrees from Saint Mary's College in Indiana, University of Notre Dame, and Columbia University, Sister spent her life supporting her belief that women could be fine journalists and that more quality writers with a Christian and Catholic faith would help to address the ills of society. Sister Miriam Joseph, the author, wrote the book from a strong academic perspective. ![]() Have you read all the books on classical education and still find yourself longing for more? The republication of The Trivium, written in the 1930s, offers a wealth of technical details that are sure to provide plenty of fuel for the inquisitive mind. Support by using our Amazon link to buy this book. Purchase details: The Trivium, The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, Understanding the Nature and Function of Language by Sister Miriam Joseph, C.S.C., Ph.D. ![]() The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph, C.S.C., Ph.D. ![]() |