![]() ![]() ![]() With time running out, Ash faces an excruciating choice: Can he use his powers not to save a life but to take it? Abandoned at birth, Jenna Bandelow was told that the magemark on the back of her neck would make her a target. Now he’s closer than ever to killing the man responsible, the cruel king of Arden. Ash is forced into hiding after a series of murders throws the queendom into chaos. Adrian sul’Han, known as Ash, is a trained healer with a powerful gift of magic-and a thirst for revenge. This dazzling beginning to a new series is indispensable for fans of Cinda Williams Chima and a perfect starting point for readers who are new to her work. ![]() Set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Seven Realms series, a generation later, this is a breathtaking story of dark magic, chilling threats, and two unforgettable characters walking a knife-sharp line between life and death. ![]()
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![]() Plato concludes the Republic with the myth of Er, which explores the fate of souls after death. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! ![]() ![]() Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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With fierce determination, she establishes a bowling alley that uses newfangled candlepins, a game that she (falsely) claims to have invented. Townspeople, meanwhile, find Bertha charismatic they begin to dream about her and to credit her with magical powers. The two marry and have a daughter, Minna. Bertha is middle-aged, plump, and enjoys the absence of a corset, but in spite of her unprepossessing appearance, she initiates a love affair with Leviticus Sprague, the doctor who revives her at the cemetery. McCracken’s stellar novel (after Thunderstruck) opens at the turn of the 20th century with Bertha Truitt being discovered unconscious in a cemetery in little Salford, Mass., seemingly having fallen from the sky. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This Pueblo Indian myth explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.ĮAudiobook on hoopla / eAudioook on Overdrive Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. It brings families together for meals and new memories. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. This powerful picture book biography contains backmatter including a timeline and a portion of the Navajo code.ĮAudiobook on hoopla / Movie Readalong on hooplaįry bread is food. ![]() ![]() Suddenly the language he had been told to forget was needed to fight a war. Years later, during World War II, Chester-and other Navajo men like him-was recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to create an unbreakable military code. But Chester refused to give up his heritage. Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code by Joseph BruchacĪs a young Navajo boy, Chester Nez had to leave the reservation and attend boarding school, where he was taught that his native language and culture were useless. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henkin grew up speaking Yiddish and attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, learning to speak English in the process of helping his father mail letters to other rabbinic scholars across the country. ![]() The family emigrated to the United States in 1923, residing on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His mother died when he was two years old while she was helping deal with a dysentery outbreak and he and his five siblings were raised by his stepmother. ![]() He was born Eliezer Henkin on November 11, 1917, in Smolyany, in present-day Belarus, the son of Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, an authority in Jewish law. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was until his death the chairman of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He was a former president of the American Society of International Law and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and University Professor emeritus at Columbia Law School. Louis Henkin (Novem– October 14, 2010), widely considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States, who was "often credited with creating the field of human rights law". American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The original, written in Sanskrit some 2,000 years ago, is thought to be one of the world's largest books, its verses amounting to 1.8 million words. These elements and many more are found in abundance in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's new novel, "The Palace of Illusions," which ambitiously encapsulates the Indian epic "Mahabharat" within a 360-page novel. Your truly epic narrative myth calls for bitter experience descending, avalanche-like, down dynasties, incorporating dramatic turning points of ineradicable impact curses looming fates tricky and meddlesome gods feuds sages, sorcerers and wars. The Headless Horseman, Rip Van Winkle and John Wayne seem cut from a different cloth than Odysseus, Odin and Beowulf. And a bloke who is obsessed with his own reflection." Say what you like about "old" Europe and other cultures longer in the tooth than settler U.S.A., but they've ripened some fine mythologies over the years. In a start-of-the-new-year promotion, Britain's Guardian newspaper has been giving away a series of booklets and wall charts featuring the Greek myths, using the advertising copy: "Baby-eating gods. ![]() ![]() By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni DOUBLEDAY 360 PAGES $23.95 ![]() ![]() He regarded the department as a microcosm of all broadcasting, stating: "Nothing but the best is good enough for children. He was appointed head of children's broadcasting in 1933, serving in that position until 1951. The programme included talks, plays, music and drama serials. He became second in command on Children's Hour in 1931 and was placed in charge of it in 1933. ![]() He was the commentator on the first radio broadcast of the FA Cup Final in 1927. He joined the BBC in 1926 as an announcer. After the war he worked in Argentina on the railways, but had to return to England because of ill health. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He served until 1921 with the infantry, where he was commissioned into the Green Howards, and in the Royal Flying Corps as an equipment officer, including a spell on HMS Valiant. ![]() ![]() The First World War interrupted his education, and he enlisted in 1915 in the Public Schools Battalion of the 16th Middlesex Regiment at the age of 17. McCulloch was born in Plymouth to Scottish parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() To achieve such an honest pairing of gore with tenderness is no small feat. A dystopian story collection as full of violence as it is of heart. ![]() We await your encore' Mary KarrĪn unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice. 'An excitement and a wonder' George Saunders 'The writing in this outstanding collection will make you hurt and demand your hope' Roxane Gay 'The fiction debut of the year. Fresh, exciting, vital and contemporary, Friday Black will appeal to people who love Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad, the TV show Black Mirror, the work of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders, and anyone looking for stories that speak to the world we live in now. And Friday Black and How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all. In Zimmer Land we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. In the first, unforgettable story of this collection, The Finkelstein Five, Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unstinting reckoning of the brutal prejudice of the US justice system. ![]() The instant New York Times bestseller 'An unbelievable debut' New York Times Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacological Love, despite everything A Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2018 Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explores the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicolas de La Reynie, Tucker’s central subject and the chief of police of Paris, was an obsessive note taker and recorder of information-indeed, this attention to detail was what made him so well suited to the job. Thankfully, the man who uncovered the scandal kept his personal papers separate from the archive of incriminating records that Louis XIV burned. “he king silenced the horrors of the affair and the screams of its victims for good,” we read, before Tucker deftly assures us, “Or so he believed.” The two men watched the parchment curl and catch fire.” The king and Pontchartrain thought they were destroying all evidence of a seventeenth century scandal amongst the nobility, the Affair of the Poisons. ![]() King Louis XIV and his minister Louis de Pontchartrain stand before the hearth in the counsel room, where “Page by page, Pontchartrain handed … documents to the king, who fed each of them into the hungry flames. The preface, which Tucker entitles “Burn Notice,” is set in the palace of Versailles in 1709. Although Professor Holly Tucker wrote her new book for a non-academic audience, City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris begins with a scene uniquely suited to evoke terror and handwringing from historians. ![]() |