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![]() ![]() Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind that would serve him well when he faced formidable obstacles during his military campaigns. ![]() Our interest in him has never faded.Īlexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. ![]() He established the greatest empire of the ancient world Greek coins and statues are found as far east as Afghanistan. He flashed across the sky of history like a comet, glowing brightly and burning out quickly: crowned at age nineteen, dead by thirty-two. He was a general of such skill and renown that for two thousand years other great leaders studied his strategy and tactics, from Hannibal to Napoleon, with countless more in between. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. ![]() ![]() The first to lose their jobs were women, migrants. But because of the work my foundation does with people at risk, I’ve been very aware that there is despair and violence and poverty. I have three things that all writers want: silence, solitude and time. In two years, I have published a feminist nonfiction book, I wrote Violeta, and then I wrote another novel about refugees that is being translated and published in 2023 probably. But now that I don’t have my mum, I don’t have a daily record of the life I have lived each day, and I realise that my days go very fast. Everything is there, my mother’s whole life, and also my life. My son hired a company to digitise the letters, and they calculated that there are about 24,000. I used to write to my mum, and she would write to me, every single day for decades. Violeta is an epistolary novel, and your debut, The House of Spirits, sprang from a letter to your grandfather. I was very aware that it was not to my advantage to be born a female I’ve always said that there’s no feminism if you cannot support yourself and your children, because if you depend, then somebody else gives the orders. Violeta is someone who can make a living, and that makes such a huge difference. My mother was like her in the sense that she was beautiful, talented, visionary, but my mother was dependent. ![]() ![]() Violeta is born in my mother’s social class, in the same time, in a place that many readers will identify as Chile. ![]() Is its eponymous heroine based on your mother? ![]() ![]() ![]() However, his wife Daphne ("Duffie"), a potter, bullies and intimidates Kathleen as she is Irish. Kathleen is treated distantly but benignly by Mr. Kathleen lives with the Duffields, a family of four, because her father is in prison. Kathleen O'Brien, rescues a filthy, wet, dying Sirius, and names him Leo. Discovered to be mongrels, the puppies are thrown into the river. If he does not, he will simply die at the end of his dog's life. If he can recover the Zoi within that dog's lifetime, he will be allowed to return to his former status as Sirius. ![]() He is sentenced to spend one lifetime in the form of a dog on Earth. His Companion gives evidence that he is guilty. Sirius, "guardian luminary" of the Dog Star, is accused of murdering a fellow luminary and losing the Zoi, an extremely powerful cosmic tool, on Earth. ![]() The book was Wynne Jones' fifth full-length novel (published the same year as her fourth and sixth novels, Cart and Cwidder and Eight Days of Luke). It tells the story of Sirius, a star who is forced to live in the body of a dog on Earth. Dogsbody is a 1975 children's novel by British writer Diana Wynne Jones, first published by Macmillan. ![]() ![]() The year’s outstanding debut authors for children: shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award announcedįor the adventurer in your life - young or old - discover a dazzling lost classic and escape to distant shores.Įepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart.Celebrate Grandparents Day with 50 great kids books about grandparents.Anxiety & Wellbeing - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health.Jacqueline Wilson - our Guest Editor of the Month. ![]()
![]() But it’s really not what you would expect at all. □ What is In Five Years about?Īt first glance, In Five Years novel sounds like a time travel novel about knowing what the future holds in five years.
![]() Stephen Mitchells translation of Lao Tzus Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) has sold over half a. Though unlikely to displace Stephen Mitchell's popular rendering of the Tao, this volume will delight spiritual seekers and devotees of Taoism, while also making a lovely gift. Newly illustrated throughout with classical Japanese art. Hamill's poetry is complemented by Kazuaki Tanahashi's dramatic calligraphy, with 18 original representations of words or characters. The Tao-literally, "the way"-resists being nailed down or put in a box and mastered. ![]() To wit, this lovely meditation: "It's best to be like water, nurturing the ten thousand things without competing, flowing into places people scorn." And yet Hamill does not seek to drain the text of its mystery. Hamill has rendered the Tao Te Ching afresh his translation from the Chinese is achingly poetic. ![]() It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom. ![]() People should "cling to no treasures," but rather devote themselves to a pure disinterestedness, becoming most truly themselves when they achieve selflessness. The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell 'Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. Lao Tzu meditates on breath, enjoining the reader to practice breathing like a baby reflects on hsu, or emptiness juxtaposes heaven and earth and soberly reminds readers of their mortality. ![]() Lao Tzu's classic Chinese text from the sixth century BCE has much to teach us today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Winslow's keen attention to drug culture isn't going to keep readers away from him. A series of breakneck twists and turns puts the two generations on a collision course, culminating in a stunning showdown that will force Ben, Chon, and O to choose between their real families and their loyalty to one another. As the trio at the center of the book does battle with a cabal of drug dealers and crooked cops, they come to learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents’ history. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, The Kings of Cool is a breathtakingly original saga of family in all its forms-fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers. Now, in this high-octane prequel to Savages, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers, Savages was a Top 10 Book of the Year selection by Janet Maslin in The New York Times and Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly. In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ara is her mute hairdresser who dissociates from the tragedy that led her to stop speaking by fangirling a particular K-Pop star. Kyuri is a “top-ten” room salon girl who has undergone massive plastic surgery to become one of the best in her business. We learn about the prevalence of plastic surgery in Korea-1 in 3 women will have a procedure by age 30. We learn about room salons, expensive private bars where Korean businessmen pay a premium in exchange for the company-both sexually and not-of beautiful and attentive young women. Instead, she masterfully contextualizes, using one character’s experiences from temporarily living in New York while attending school to shed light on the ways that Korean culture is different, for better or worse, than what the audience is may be aware of. Frances Cha is a Korean American author writing for a Western audience, but she doesn’t overly explain the differences between the cultures. I have been recommending this book since the day I started reading it. ![]() ![]() It becomes clear that French has planted plot points and the seeds for later twists throughout. ![]() But around halfway it really takes off and develops layers and complexity. The early part of the book felt to me like it was going to be a good, solid read, amusing in parts with its crudeness and entertaining with its action. Of course being out in what is effectively a Wild West they have their own harsh culture too and the "Hoof" Jackal and his fellow warriors ride in have real purpose and strong traditions. This is quite a book, it's full of big brawling characters! These half orcs are like a gang of Hells Angels but they sit astride huge hogs rather than Harleys! As you'd expect with half orcs they are coarse, vicious in battle and not exactly the kind of person you would want your son or daughter bringing home to meet! The early part of the book majors on that but they are half human too and French gives them some of humanity's nobler traits as well in a very compelling mix. ![]() |