![]() ![]() “It was an easy labor,” said the Midwife. Or perhaps it would be the girl born under the best shield of luck. One would rise to become queen in her place. Three black witches, the mainland would say. The triplets were born, in silence and in private, with only the queen, the king-consort, and the Midwife to bear witness. ![]() ![]() All across Fennbirn-from the capital of Indrid Down to the smallest villages-elders and the dwindling number of seers cast divinations and downed trance potions, only to pass out drunk and see the oracle bones lie on the ground in nonsense patterns. No bloody fish kill against the rocks to signal the coming of the war gift. There was no great wind to howl the arrival of an elemental queen. The day of the birth of the queens who would come to be known as Mirabella, Arsinoe, and Katharine was still, unremarkable, and without omens. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Rich furniture and ragged furniture, carts, wagons, and drays, ropes, canvas, and straw, packers, porters, and draymen, white, yellow, and black, occupy the streets from east to west, from north to south, on this day.Īll over New York, tenants along with their belongings abandoned their abodes to criss-cross the city in mass migration to fresh dwellings. ![]() On the 1st of May the city of New York has the appearance of sending off a population flying from the plague, or of a town which had surrendered on condition of carrying away all their goods and chattels. ![]() Within moments the streets of New York were a jangling amorphous pandemonium.Įnglish author Frances Trollope happened to be in New York City to witness this peculiar spectacle: At 9:00am, almost as if on cue, thousands of doors on thousands of buildings burst open to vomit humans, furniture, and other sundries out into the bright morning sun. The ordinarily gentle horse-drawn traffic of the up-and-coming metropolis seemed a bit more dense than usual, and as the morning progressed the avenues and boulevards became increasingly crowded. It was early in the morning on the 1st of May 1832 in New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 The Reconstruction of Nations examined the emergence of the Central and Eastern European nations, beginning in the early modern period. First published in 1998, Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe explored the life and work of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, a Polish philosopher and sociologist active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Snyder’s earlier books were concerned with more distant times. This role is, in fact, a relatively recent development. Snyder, an American historian and professor at Yale, has become well-known for his commentary on contemporary politics, striving not only to divine meaning in the complications and chaos of the present, but also to explain the historical roots of current phenomena. In The Road to Unfreedom, Snyder seeks “patterns and concepts that can help us make sense of our own time,” and to “define the political problems of the present, and to dispel some of the myths that enshroud them.” 1 Political and media manipulation, he believes, has obscured our understanding of the present time. ![]() In recounting the conflict between the Delian and Peloponnesian leagues, Thucydides rejected the lies and propaganda disseminated by the leaders of both sides, seeking instead to discern and describe their real motives. T hucydides, the ancient Greek historian whose account of the Peloponnesian War marks the beginning of modern historiography, can be considered the patron of Timothy Snyder’s latest book. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America ![]() ![]() ![]() It has its roots deep in the heart of the relations between the weak and the strong, between the controllers of environment and those who are controlled by it. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a mood which one carries around with himself, distilled from the acrid conflict with which his days are surrounded. It is nowhere in particular yet everywhere. It is a climate closing in it is like the fog in San Francisco or in London. The ever-present fear that besets the vast poor, the economically and socially insecure, is a fear of still a different breed. Our homes, institutions, prisons, churches, are crowded with people who are hounded by day and harrowed by night because of some fear that lurks ready to spring into action as soon as one is alone, or as soon as the lights go out, or as soon as one’s social defenses are temporarily removed. Then there is fear which has to do with aspects of experience and detailed states of mind. Fears are of many kinds-fear of objects, fear of people, fear of the future, fear of nature, fear of the unknown, fear of old age, fear of disease, and fear of life itself. There is nothing new or recent about fear-it is doubtless as old as the life of man on the planet. “Fear is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the dispossessed, the disinherited. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Review Team program is a separate part of than Bookshelves. does have a different section of the website called the Review Team, which offers free books in exchange for review. Bookshelves is not for downloading or buying books directly. Similarly, books are not available to purchase directly from. ![]() ![]() One important thing to note is that books are generally not available to download directly from Bookshelves, and nowhere on our website do we represent they are. In one way, Bookshelves is the version of Goodreads, except with Bookshelves you are able to get a much more personalized experience. You can also use it to discover new books to read and learn more about books. has many other features too.īookshelves is a free tool to track books you have read and want to read. Bookshelves is only one of many features at. You are currently viewing the details page on Bookshelves for the book Still Waters by Alex Gabriel.īookshelves is one feature of Bookshelves is found under the /shelves/ subfolder at. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can find her online at or follow her on Twitter Twitter * Instagram ![]() from Yale University in 2012 and is currently a professor of psychology and professional writing at the University of Oklahoma. Jen is also a Fulbright Scholar with advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty acclaimed young adult novels, including The Inheritance Games, Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals, The Lovely and the Lost, and The Naturals series: The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood and the e-novella, Twelve. ![]() Introducing Jennifer Lynn Barnes , YABC’s Author of the Week!! We will also be hosting a giveaway of the book we are highlighting!! Welcome to our weekly special feature post, Author Of The Week!!Įach week we will be interviewing a different YA author and highlighting their upcoming release! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this affectionate and balanced analysis of two of the most popular books ever written for children, Paula T. Christopher Robin on his "expeditions." Companionship, safe adventuring, and the acceptance of characters' flaws and foibles are common themes throughout both books, and the episodes tend to have a similar form in which characters meet, adventure together, and then either reconcile if need be or, more frequently, return to their homes - in Pooh's case, usually for some honey. ![]() Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), we never see any "Hostile Animals" as one the size of a piglet might fear, but instead we see a community of toy animals - Pooh Bear, Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Tigger - who accompany their friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now his sister, Carine McCandless, has written a brave and sensitive memoir that fills in the gaps. But they didn’t know the whole story of the violent dysfunction that Chris was escaping in his bid for freedom. Or so I thought.Īpart from one lone hippie idealist, the other students condemned Chris for his selfishness: How could he turn his back on his parents after all they had done for him? As it turns out, many other readers felt the same way. Chris’ tragic journey may have ended with his death, but his quest for purity and adventure was inspirational. I thought the story of Chris McCandless, who turned his back on civilization to hike into the Alaskan wilderness, would resonate with undergraduates. ![]() A few years ago, I taught Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild in a college freshman writing class. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was disappointed though that a lot of the details were glazed over or omitted (I found myself wanting to know more about the supernatural beings' back-story). There is a spooky twist in the last third of the book that was unexpected. The unseen is usually more terrifying that meeting a ghost head on. ![]() Part of the spookiness is eliminated when Lea (the main character) begins to interact with Catherine on a regular basis. We meet Catherine, the ghost early on (a little before or right at the middle of the book). It is one of the few Fear Street books that is supernatural. ![]() Stine's teen books are mostly character and plot-driven, with a lot of dialogue. I don't think I finished this one when I first read it as a teen (if I did, I don't remember it). This is the first book I tackled after deciding to re-read the Fear Street series (I'm now in my late twenties). ![]() ![]() ![]() Some pieces display King's charging, looser, richly vulgar style ("Dolan's Cadillac," a revenge tale in which the narrator gets even with a Mafia chieftain who killed the hero's wife, and buries him alive in his Caddie), while others occasionally show an unusually neat style hardly different from any other journeyman writer's, aside from the magical King touches ("The Moving Finger"-perhaps the best in the collection, about a man haunted by a live finger that keeps climbing out of the drain of his bathroom sink and finally grows to seven feet). King's introduction (a defense against the ivory tower opinions of his critics) and endnotes mentions several sources, including The New Yorker, which printed the lengthy "Heads Down"-about Little League teams up in Maine-that King calls "the best nonfiction writing of my life." Other oddities are a nostalgic baseball poem and a downbeat teleplay, "Sorry, Right Number," which appeared on Tales from the Darkside. A handful of the stories have been rewritten or dressed up for this occasion. King's third collection, after Night Shift (1978) and Skeleton Crew (1985), offers 23 formerly uncollected works, with King as bizarre as ever. ![]() |