![]() ![]() As a mother I could not help but judge both Marco and especially Anne for choosing to leave their daughter at home alone in the house. This book left my emotions in complete turmoil. ![]() The Couple Next Door follows Anne and Marco, who after coming home after a party next door find their 6 month old baby missing. What would you be capable of, when pushed past your limit? But now they’re in your home, and who knows what they’ll find there. You’ve never had to call the police before. But now, as you race up the stairs in your deathly quiet house, your worst fears are realized. Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on her last. You’ll have the baby monitor and you’ll take it in turns to go back every half hour. Nothing personal, she just couldn’t stand her crying. Your neighbour told you that she didn’t want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. You never know what’s happening on the other side of the wall. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Overall, I thought the book/speech was incredible and highlighted some of the key points in feminism.Īt the beginning of the book Chimamanda says,” You know you’re a feminist. ![]() She also addresses numerous misconceptions on feminism and feminists and exploits the ignorance and misogyny behind these misbeliefs. Throughout the less than 60 page speech, Chimamanda speaks of the taboo of feminism in Nigeria and what feminism has evolved to in modern day society. But the quality of her words and the influence and message they promote make up for the book’s lack of quantity. We Should All Be Feminists is actually a version of the author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s, speech on feminism and gender equality on Ted translated into a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Complex mixtures of uses ensure that diverse individuals populate neighborhoods and use common facilities at different times. Part 2, “The Conditions for City Diversity,” examines the various mechanisms that generate diversity, an essential component for successful cities. ![]() Jacobs describes neighborhoods as organs of self-government that require active participation from their dwellers for success. Given their safety, it is preferable for children to play on sidewalks than to segregate them in parks and playgrounds, which lack the informal surveillance mechanisms of street environments. As primary points of contact and interaction, sidewalks are key to building community trust. Safety depends on a clear demarcation of the public and the private and the spontaneous protection afforded by pedestrians and casual onlookers inside buildings. Part 1, “The Peculiar Nature of Cities,” addresses the main uses of sidewalks: safety, contact, and assimilating children. She positions herself against orthodox city planners, whose harmful policies are rooted in three major urban movements: the Garden City, the Radiant City, and the City Beautiful. ![]() ![]() Jacobs opens her book with an attack on city planning as it is theorized and practiced in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the emperor's rivals learn of her deception, there is hell to pay, but the war raging around Maia is nothing compared to the battle within.Įver since she was touched by the demon Bandur, she has been changing. Edan, the boy she loves, is gone-perhaps forever-and no sooner does she set foot in the Autumn Palace than she is forced to don the dress of the sun and assume the place of the emperor's bride-to-be to keep the peace. She returns to a kingdom on the brink of war. Maia Tamarin's journey to sew the dresses of the sun, the moon, and the stars has taken a grievous toll. the stakes are higher than ever in this thrilling sequel to Spin the Dawn! From the New York Times bestselling author of Six Crimson Cranes comes a fantasy filled with courtly intrigue, deceitful demons, and breathtaking gowns. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a true story of a single career woman whose life was happy in spite of her being single. This was not,thankfully,that kind of film. Now in "84 Charing Cross Road," the heroine's finances prevent her from crossing the ocean to actually meet the married man of her daydreams- but even if she had been able to visit England and meet him,I doubt she would have baked his children's pets or kidnapped his children. This was one of them the other was "Fatal Attraction." What a difference! People flocked to see the latter film in which (spoilers for "F.A." here) a single urban career woman has a brief affair with a married man, tries to kill herself, tries to kill everyone else, fricassees a pet rabbit, etc. What is really amazing however-and a sad comment on where people's attentions are focused-is that in 1987 there were two movies that dealt with married men and single women. It remains for me a gem-an amazingly done story. I saw this movie in 1987, read the book, and just rented it again in memory of Anne Bancroft. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lord Desio of the Minwanabi, son of the defeated Lord Jingu, swears an unbreakable blood oath to the Red God of Death that he will destroy the Acoma or end his own bloodline. Having risen in wealth, power and social standing but still threatened by powerful enemies, Lady Mara of the Acoma is in as much danger as ever after her triumphs in Daughter of the Empire. After buying a group of Midkemian prisoners-of-war, she finds one of them-Kevin of Zūn-to be a great asset in her ongoing struggle for survival and power. In the world of Kelewan, Mara of the Acoma has now become an expert player in the Game of the Council through bloody political maneuvering. ![]() Published in 1990, it is the second book in the Empire Trilogy, preceded by 1987's Daughter of the Empire and followed by Mistress of the Empire in 1992. Servant of the Empire is a fantasy novel by American writers Raymond E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many clear Holmesian parallels that allowed Hornung to mimic Doyle’s financial success. Raffles, in his 1944 essay “Raffles and Miss Blandish,” Orwell describes the thief as “one of the best-known characters in English fiction”-though, perhaps the bulk of that fame is limited to the British Isles. ![]() The Raffles and Bunny stories are notable not only for Hornung’s curious relation to Doyle, but also for their longstanding position in the popular consciousness, compared to some of their now-faded contemporaries. His old schoolmate, accomplice, and chronicler Harry “Bunny” Manders is not a doctor, but a financially distressed journalist. Raffles is a brilliant criminal, who steals from the wealthy of his own milieu to fund his own comfortable lifestyle of cricket and gentlemen’s clubs. Hornung took the alternative course to the justice-serving detective types that proliferated the market. In the absence of Holmes, plenty of fictional detectives had attempted to draw Doyle’s former audience. At the time of Raffles’ first appearance, Sherlock Holmes had already reached soaring heights success-and Doyle had already unceremoniously killed the character off in “The Adventure of the Final Problem,” published in The Strand magazine in 1893. ![]() Raffles (who first appeared in print in 1898) resembles his creator like Hornung, he is a thief. As a distorted reflection of Sherlock Holmes, A. ![]() ![]() ![]() A stirring tale of passion, loss and betrayal, Ethersay is a novel about the search for truth, but also the pain of remembering.", After being involved in a car accident she is knocked unconscious and when she wakes, she finds herself inexplicably marooned on an isolated Scottish island, Ethersay.Suffering from memory loss, Rebecca finds herself drawn into the island's mysteries, particularly those surrounding the strange disappearance of a young woman, Delilah Berry. As Rebecca draws closer to the truth about Delilah, she is forced to confront what happened to her in Glasgow, and everything she lost, with devastating consequences. Suffering from memory loss, Rebecca finds herself drawn into the island's mysteries, particularly those surrounding the strange disappearance of a young woman, Delilah Berry, whose fate seems to be inextricably intertwined with her own. After being involved in a car accident she is knocked unconscious and when she wakes, she finds herself inexplicably marooned on an isolated Scottish island, Ethersay. The day after the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, Glaswegian Yes activist Rebecca Owen decides to run away. "item_description" : "The day after the referendum, my life fell apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When they're not bickering, they're fighting off the infected in a bloody battle for survival. Now they're on the run-and stuck with each other. After these quick and deadly creepers swarm campus, Parker only escapes thanks to Adam swooping him onto the back of his trusty motorcycle. He's going to drop Adam Hawkins's film class and start fresh tomorrow after he's had a good sulk.īut Parker's about to find out what a bad day really looks like-if he can survive the night.Ī virus is unleashed, transforming infected people into zombie-like killers. He humiliated himself trying to pick up a cute guy, he hasn't made any friends at school, and his stupidly hot jerk of a TA gave him a crappy grade on his paper. To live through the zombie apocalypse they have to survive each other first.Ĭollege freshman Parker Osborne is having the worst day ever. Keira Andrews presents Book 1 in the Kick at the Darkness series. ![]() ![]() Upper left - Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Ronald Himler published in 1991. From book summary: "Despite the ridicule of the other animals, Swan persists in his adoration for a swan-shaped boat named Dora." Lower right - Swan in Love by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Jo Ellen McAllister Stammen published in 2000. From book summary: "A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict." Lower left - The Wall by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Ronald Himler published in 1990. From book summary: "Duck's birthday gifts from his animal friends are wonderful but cannot be used away from the water, a problem eventually solved by the arrival of his last gift." Upper right - Happy Birthday, Dear Duck by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Jan Brett published in 1988. From book summary: "Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving." ![]() Upper left - How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Beth Peck published in 1988. ![]() |