![]() ![]() Deceptively simple and direct, The Chronicles of Narnia continue to captivate fans with adventures, characters and truths that speak to readers of all ages, even fifty years after they were first published… ![]() The books are presented according to Lewis’s preferred order, each chapter graced with illustrations by the books’ original artist, Pauline Baynes. This edition presents all seven unabridged books in one impressive volume. Each of the seven books is a masterpiece, drawing the reader into a world where magic meets reality and the result is a fictional world whose scope has fascinated generations. Six more books followed and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia.įor the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre to become part of the canon of classic literature. Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures and epic battles between good and evil – what more could any reader ask for in one book? That book was The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, written in 1949 by C S Lewis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In this race, Apollo and Meg run into Python and figure out that they are under Delphi. The goal of this race is to come back with 3 golden apples. Later that evening, they have a 3 legged death race in the Labyrinth. Also, Chiron (the director of the camp and is also a centaur) tells Apollo about the missing campers. During their time at the camp, Meg finds out that she is a daughter of Demeter. Apollo is sent on a quest to secure the Oracles and is expected to have to face his old nemesis Python to become a god again.Īpollo goes to Camp Half Blood which just happens to be a camp for half-bloods/demigods. His father Zeus believes Apollo is responsible for the damage during the rise of Gaea because of encouraging his legacy, Octavian to pursue his perilous approach to conflict.ĭuring his time on earth, Apollo happens to find himself a demigod master a 12 year old girl named Meg McCaffrey. In this series, Apollo, (the god of music, poetry, archery, the oracle, healing, and the sun) is cast down to earth and is stripped of his immortality. ![]() ![]() It contains the mathematical and astronomical data that form the basis of the Copernican system.Ĭentral to his model is his proposal that the earth has three distinct motions: a daily axial rotation, an annual rotation about the sun, and a third motion related to precession (the 25,800-year long cycle reflecting the changing position of the Earth in space). He placed the sun as the center of the solar system, not the earth, and thereby provided a new understanding of the planets and their movement - a scientific revolution.Īfter years of study and just before his death in 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published his masterpiece, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres ( De Revolutionibus Orbitum Coelestium). ![]() ![]() Polish astronomer Mikołaj Kopernik, better known as Nicolaus Copernicus, is one of the greatest figures in science. ![]() ![]() ![]() The collected edition was published in August of 2022. In 2021, Jude published Maw, a 5-issue comic series with artist A.L. The Atlantic predicted that " Trainwreck will very likely join the feminist canon." Doyle’s second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (Melville House, 2019) was named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and was shortlisted for Starburst Magazine’s Brave New Words award. and Why (Melville House 2016), which has been called "smart, funny and fearless" (Boston Globe), "compelling" and "persuasive" (New York Times Book Review). Under his former pen name “Sady Doyle,” Jude is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear. ![]() Doyle is an author, columnist, and comic book writer living in upstate New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vasilisa is the youngest daughter of one of these boyars, but she’s not like the other girls. Despite the characters being wealthy for their day, compared to the modern day, it feels very rural and peasant-like. Some of the characters and places in the story were real, and the folklore is distinctly Russian as well, allowing you to immerse yourself into the life of an early Russian boyar family (boyars were wealthy landowners). The Bear and the Nightingale is set in early Russia, which is what drew me to the story in the first place. Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale is a story that reminds me of cold winter nights in front of a fire - which is why, after reading this book in April (when we were still receiving snowstorms in Colorado) that I thought it probably wouldn’t be a great idea to publish this review in July. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains. In this book, gone are the docile women and male saviors. Through her gorgeous reimagining of fairytale classics and spellbinding original tales, she dismantles the old-fashioned tropes that have been ingrained in our minds. Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses girls who need rescuing and men who take all the glory.īut in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wikipedia says that it originally appeared as a 4-part series The Last Days on Earth in a British newspaper and was rewritten for the novel. Nothing else matches but there may be a reason for that: In the novel there is one other surviving submarine, USS Swordfish in the Atlantic, which sends a couple of messages but is otherwise not involved in the plot. The submarine visits San Francisco (but everyone is dead there). A nuclear war in the northern hemisphere has produced a radioactive cloud which is remorselessly spreading south. ![]() The submarine is running further and further south in the Pacific to find surviving people. ![]() It was made into a major film (Gregory Peck as the submarine captain) and remade in 2000 as a TV film. This was a 1957 novel by mainstream author Nevil Shute. This is likely to be On the Beach, sort of. ![]() ![]() He made it very clear that he was only the support act the real star of the evening was Ariana.Īs both Diana Norman and Ariana Franklin, and before her marriage as Diana Narracott, she was very much her own person. I clearly recall the flurry of interest which ran through the crowded shop many people hadn’t connected the face from the television with one of crime fiction’s newer names, and wondered why he was there. Until 2006 she was better known as Diana Norman, the author of well-researched historical novels without the crime element – and perhaps, though unfairly, better still as the wife of journalist, film critic and TV presenter Barry Norman, whose face was the one everyone recognized when they arrived in Cambridge one year to take part in Bodies in the Bookshop, Heffers bookstore’s annual celebration of the crime genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Historical crime fiction lost a late-flowering gem when Ariana Franklin died in 2011. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Identity crisis" / Sherry Turkle - "They call me Cyberboy" / Douglas Rushkoff- "The people's net" / Douglas Rushkoff - "Social currency" / Douglas Rushkoff - "The eight net gen norms" / Don Tapscott - Love online" / Henry Jenkins - "We can't ignore the influence of digital technologies" / Cathy Davidson - "Virtual friendship and the new narcissism" / Christine Rosen - "Activists" / John Palfrey and Urs Gasser - The Fate of Culture. ![]() ![]() "Digital natives, digital immigrants" / Marc Prensky - "Do they really think differently?" / Marc Prensky - "The internet" / Steven Johnson - "Learning to think in a digital world" / Maryanne Wolf - "Learning theory, video games, and popular culture" / James Gee - "Usability of websites for teenagers" / Jakob Nielsen - "User skills improving, but only slightly" / Jakob Nielson - "Is Google making us stupid?" / Nicholas Carr - "Your brain is evolving right now" / Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan - Social Life, Personal Life, School. Includes bibliographical references and index Collects writings by leading thinkers and cultural commentators on the pros and cons of the social media revolution, covering topics ranging from reading skills and attention spans to cyberbullying and the digital playground ![]() ![]() Matilda is a young girl of genius intelligence, having developed skills such as walking and speech at an early age. In the 2022 film, she is played by Alisha Weir. In the BBC Radio 4 two-part adaptation of the novel, she is played by Lauren Mote, and in the 1996 film, she is portrayed by American actress Mara Wilson. She discovers she has telekinetic powers which she uses to her advantage. She then gets adopted by Miss Honey, who has taught her at her school, who is very nice to her and does notice her intelligence. Her parents do not recognize her great intelligence and show little interest in her, particularly her father, a secondhand car dealer who verbally abuses her. She is a highly precocious five and a half (six and a half in the 1996 film) year old girl who has a passion for reading books. ![]() ![]() Matilda Wormwood, also known by her adoptive name Matilda Honey, is the title character of the bestselling 1988 children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl. ![]() Magnus Honey (adoptive grandfather, deceased) ![]() |