![]() This important volume will be a must-read not only for the scholar of early English history and literature, but for all those who are interested in practical applications of the new technologies. It also offers a new Introduction in which the author describes the value of electronic study of Beowulf, and a new Appendix that lists all the letters and parts of letters revealed by backlighting. ![]() This volume reprints Kiernan's earlier study of the manuscript, in which he presented his novel conclusions about the date of Beowulf. The heroic Anglo-Saxon story survives to the world in one eleventh-century manuscript that was badly burned in 1731, and in two eighteenth-century transcriptions of the manuscripts. Kiernan, one of the world's foremost Beowulf scholars, has studied the manuscript extensively with the most up-to-date methods, including fiber-optic backlighting and computer digitization. The story of Beowulf and his hard-fought victory over the monster Grendel has captured the imagination of readers and listeners for a millennium. ![]() The story of Beowulf and his hard-fought victory over the monster Grendel has captured the imagination of readers and listeners for a millennium. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.įriends, enemies, lovers. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter―like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.īut when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away.because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros ![]() ![]() ![]() With grit and gumption, Millie and her friends do their best to find their way through first loves and heartbreaks, and balancing their duty of care with looking after each other. But it's not only the patients that need Millie as matters of the heart bring both tears and joy for the young nurses. ![]() While she witnesses tragedy and brutality in her job, Millie also finds strength and kindness as her training begins to pay off, helping her to bring her patients back to health and welcome babies into the world. London is putting itself back together and twenty-five-year-old Millie is at the forefront of the effort as she tends to the East End community around her. 'A delightful, well researched story that really does depict nursing and the living conditions in the East End at the end of the war' Lesley Pearse ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Often this is because a character stands in for a group. (There is no obvious sexual dimorphism in wombats - you can’t easily tell the sex of a wombat unless you’re an expert.) I wonder if you assumed the wombat was male until “For Pete’s sake! Give her some carrots!” A study by Janet McCabe told us that unless animal characters are given obvious female markers then we tend to read them as male. This is partly to do with the realistic style of art. Unusually for a children’s book, the wombat is female yet has not been given any typically feminine markers, such as a big pink bow. STORY STRUCTURE OF DIARY OF A WOMBAT WHO IS THE MAIN CHARACTER? Bruce Whatley illustrates animals in a mostly realistic style, with only a few modifications to make the facial expressions more human, making the pairing perfect. ![]() Jackie French could have anthropomorphised the wombat and taken her off on an adventure to save the world, but this wombat is inspired by the wombats around French’s own house. But wombats don’t really do much and have little to report. We expect that if someone has taken the trouble to write something down then it must be something important. ![]() Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Diary of a Wombat is a parody of a diary. ![]() ![]() ![]() She looks at enduring matters of culture: the role of the artist in society, the literary imagination, the Afro-American presence in American literature, and in her Nobel lecture, the power of language itself. In the writings and speeches included here, Morrison takes on contested social issues: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, "Black matter(s)", and human rights. It is divided into three parts: The first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11 the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King, Jr., and the last by a heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. ![]() The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For 28 years, first as assistant to the chief usher, then as chief usher, he witnessed national crises and triumphs, and interacted daily with six consecutive presidents and first ladies, their parents, children and grandchildren, and houseguests-including friends, relatives, and heads of state. He directed state functions planned parties, weddings, funerals, gardens, playgrounds, and extensive renovations and with a large staff, supervised every activity in the presidential home. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue-and coordinated its daily life-at the request of the president and his family. ![]() A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at life on Pennsylvania Avenue with America's first families, by the man who spent nearly three decades in their midst. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Imitate Jesus and Socrates.Īs for how to acquire these virtues, Franklin advised: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.ġ3. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.ġ2. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.ġ1. Avoid extreams forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.ġ0. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.ĩ. Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.Ĩ. Lose no time be always employ’d in something useful cut off all unnecessary actions.ħ. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself i.e., waste nothing.Ħ. ![]() ![]() Resolve to perform what you ought perform without fail what you resolve.ĥ. Let all your things have their places let each part of your business have its time.Ĥ. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.ģ. Eat not to dullness drink not to elevation.Ģ. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:ġ. In The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, we find a list of thirteen virtues that “occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable.” ![]() ![]() The book “Mockingjay” by Suzanne Collins, is a book that I would highly recommend to anyone who is looking for a good and easy read. ![]() ![]() This may not be capital L literature, but it is nonetheless a gripping and thought-provoking read. Collins gives the reader believable characters and an electrifying plot with plenty of twists. In this thrilling finale, Collins uses her main character to comment on: the power of the media and those who control it how circumstances can turn gentle people into warriors how power corrupts the futility of war and how those who develop weapons have no control over how they will be used. But while the revolution gains strength, Katniss is torn by the number of people dying for the cause she is heading: she is beginning to wonder if the regimentation of District 13 and President Alma Coin are any better than the Capitol and Snow. It takes a reminder of President Coriolanus Snow to cement her resolve to become the Mockingjay. But while her mother and her sister Prim were rescued by her best friend, Gale, her own District 12 has been destroyed and Peeta Melark is a captive of the Capitol. ![]() Katniss Everdeen, having survived her first Hunger Games and been plucked out of the Quarter Quell by the rebels living in District t13, is now required to become the symbol of the rebellion, the Mockingjay. Mockingjay is the final exciting instalment of the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeff Hopper is out-casted by the FBI after the murder because fellow agents believe he’s responsible for the outcome of the incident. The story also follows the investigation of one of the FBI agents (Jeff Hopper) that was in the vicinity during the murder. ![]() Sal must now go undercover to avoid bringing heat to the rest of the mob, and with the help of a couple of his mob connections he finds himself in Las Vegas where he must now live as a Rabbi. The story follows a Chicago hitman for the mob (named Sal Cupertine), who’s left in hot water after murdering two FBI agents. Tod talks about the origins of the book in detail in our interview with him. After writing the characters in Mitzvah, Tod knew he had to turn it into a fully-fledged novel, and that’s how Gangsterland was born. Mitzvah was written for Las Vegas Noir, an anthology of short stories about Las Vegas. Gangsterland is based on one of Tod Goldberg’s short stories, Mitzvah. ![]() If you haven’t already, be sure to sign up to the reader’s group to be in with a chance of winning November’s featured book which will be revealed within a matter of hours. We chose Gangsterland as the featured book for our book club, we also gave away a digital copy of the book to a lucky subscriber. It’s about that time where we review the featured book for October 2015. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The nun has been in solitary seclusion for over a decade, and her earnestness is akin to a newborn when she emerges into this new, 'silent war'-torn era. Cho deftly weaves elegant prose, quite a few eyebrow-raising moments, and many thought-provoking themes throughout this story of a nun who joins a group of roving bandits who are much more than they seem. An underlying theme I took away is discovering your true self even though circumstances around you are in a constant state of change. Instead, it throws a massive curveball and tells a powerful story of identity and how it evolves across different people, customs, and lands. It seemed like it was going to lean into an action-oriented saga of black magic and banditry, bounty hunting and showdowns. The way that Zen Cho's new novella The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water began was a major feint. ![]() |