![]() ![]() We discovered more complexity than we expected from the slim 184 pages, and the more I learned about Anita Brookner, the more surprised I felt that I’d missed her for so long. I first picked up the novel because my writing group-all of us MFAers who’ve met for ten years post-program-wanted to read a book none of us knew. It isn’t just that Edith charts a different course, maritally speaking it’s that the novel’s dramatic focus is women looking critically at other women-something that occurs because Brookner has consciously placed her characters in a “gyneceum.” Plenty to consider subversive in a context that must append the word “still” to the assertion of a single woman’s worth.Īll the attention critics give to Brookner’s unmarried heroines, though, obscures what’s truly subversive in Hotel du Lac. ![]() Thanks to the jacket copy, a generation of readers has been primed to read Anita Brookner’s 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel Hotel du Lac as “potently subversive.” Subversive how? The headline of Anne Tyler’s contemporaneous New York Times review offers one answer: “A Solitary Life is Still Worth Living.” Edith Hope, the novel’s heroine, jilts a fiancé, rejects a new proposal, and ends her affair with her married lover. ![]()
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![]() Our Grit 3rd gen has more tire clearance than ever, plus broader shoulders for increased lateral stiffness. They simply have too much friction and inertia, no matter how they’re tuned and tweaked. While they are inherently unable to come close to Lauf Grit’s response to higher frequency vibration. Traditional telescopic suspension forks are designed to absorb large impacts, and they are good at that. Lauf’s Grit forks are also far lighter than the competition, more energy efficient and they don’t require any maintenance. They iron out road imperfections like no other. ![]() They are designed for the high frequency vibration seen in gravel riding. It’s no coincidence gravel cyclists all over the world praise Lauf’s Grit forks. Single-side, SRAM Rival AXS power meter spindleĮ*thirteen XCX Aluminum (6-bolt, Shimano-style freehub, tubeless ready)Į*thirteen XCX Aluminum (6-bolt, xDR freehub, tubeless ready)Į*thirteen XCX Race Carbon (6-bolt, xDR freehub, tubeless ready)Į*thirteen XCX Race Carbon (6 bolt, xDR freehub, tubeless ready)ĩ.41 kg / 20.74 lbs (avg. SRAM Red Flat mount Hydraulic (160mm rotor front/left and rear/right) ![]() ![]() SRAM Force Flat mount Hydraulic (160mm rotor front/left and rear/right) SRAM Rival Flat mount Hydraulic (160mm rotor front/left and rear/right) Lauf Grit 3rd gen Carbon, 12x100mm thru-axle, size tuned stiffness Lauf IRM* Seigla carbon frame, 12x142mm thru-axle ![]() ![]() But now that schools starting, everythings changing. Also, why is Madeline always out EXACTLY when the city's most notorious villain commits crimes?! Is it possible that Katie's upstairs neighbor is really a super villain? Can Katie wrangle a whole lot of wayward cats, save a best friendship (why is Beth barely writing back? And who's this boy she keeps talking about?!), AND crack the biggest story in the city's history? Some heroes have capes. Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans Its back to school for Katie the Catsitter in this purr-fectly irresistible graphic novel series about friendship, heroes, and cats (lots of cats) Katie loves skating with the Wheelas and the fact that shes officially a superhero sidekick. First, Madeline has 217 cats (!) and they're not exactly. But when Katie gets a job catsitting for her mysterious upstairs neighbor, life get interesting. Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead while her best friends are all away at camp-something that's way out of Katie and her mom's budget, UNLESS Katie can figure out a way earn the money for camp herself. ![]() Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! Introducing an irresistible new middle-grade graphic novel series about growing up, friendship, heroes, and cats (lots of cats!)-perfect for fans of Guts, Awkward and Real Friends (not to mention anyone who loves cats!) ![]() ![]() ![]() ***Part fable, part surreal fantasy, part novel of suspense, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is the work of a brilliant talent. ![]() Then a chance meeting with an ageing parfumier on the Pont au Change, during which he exactly replicates a perfume for the old man, sets Grenouille on the road to fame. The other - the cause of his rejection - is that he has no smell of his own. One is that he is blessed with an extraordinarily sharp sense of smell. But as he grows up in isolation two facts begin to dawn on him. ![]() ![]() ***As a human being, Grenouille is handicapped from the start, and at the same time outstandingly gifted. For his brutal birth signals the beginning of one of the strangest lives ever imagined, and a career of very violent genius. ***'This is the story of one Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born under a fishmonger's bloody slab in eighteenth-century Paris. Slight nick to the top of the spine of the dustwrapper. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper. ***Near fine in olive green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on a paper label to the spine. This printing has four reviews of "Der Kontrabaß on the front flap of the dustwrapper, and no barcode on the back panel. First edition, later printing - published in German as "Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Morders" by Diogenes Verlag AG in Zurich in 1985, but probably a later printing, with the printer's code 500/87/24/16 implying a 1988 printing. ![]() ![]() Widowed at just 33 and with seven children to support, Mary would oversee the growth of that business to an international trading empire and go on to expand what is now Sydney's thriving business district while helping to bankroll many of the colony's first public services. 'Finding love early on her arrival in the new colony, Mary went on to develop a family business which grew to include a fleet of merchant vessels. ![]() 'It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery and tenacity - within two decades Mary would overcome the stigma of her convict past to become the richest woman in colonial Australia. 'In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. ' The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur and the most powerful woman in colonial history Sydney: HarperCollins Australia, 2023 25996248 2023 single work biography Abstract 1 y The Remarkable Mrs Reibey Grantlee Kieza, ![]() ![]() Greek and Arab myths and words are considered to a lesser extent. ![]() A substantial bulk of The Sirius Mystery consists of comparative linguistic and mythological scholarship, pointing out resemblances among Dogon, Yoruba, Egyptian and Sumerian beliefs and symbols. Temple's theory is heavily based on his interpretation of the work of ethnographers Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen. These beings, who are hypothesized to have taught the arts of civilization to humans, are claimed in the book to have originated the systems of the Pharaohs of Egypt, the mythology of Greek civilization, and the Epic of Gilgamesh, among other things. The book presents the hypothesis that the Dogon people of Mali, in West Africa, preserve a tradition of contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings from the Sirius star system. ![]() Its second, 1998, edition is called The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago. Temple (born Robert Kyle Grenville Temple in 1945) supporting the pseudoscientific ancient astronauts hypothesis that intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited the Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistoric times. ![]() ![]() The Sirius Mystery is a book written by Robert K. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Almost finished with her program, Jane is approached by an old friend, Red Jack, who needs her help finding his missing sister. Jane McKeene is one such teen, in training to be an “Attendant” (aka a zombie-blocking bodyguard for a rich White woman) at Miss Preston’s School for Combat. Northern and Southern whites are forced to come together to fight this new foe, leaving the question of slavery in limbo - rather than being abolished entirely, the Native and Negro Reeducation Act is passed, forcing Black and Native adolescents into combat schools where they are trained to fight the undead. ![]() Plot Summary: In this alternate history, the Civil War is disrupted when fallen soldiers begin to rise up as zombies, attacking the living on both sides. Reading Level/Interest Level: Grades 9-12 (Booklist). Awards or Honors: Locus Award winner for Young Adult Book (2019) School Library Journal Best Books list (2018) YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults list (2019). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The septuagenarian is the only coroner left in Laos after the Communist Pathet Lao overtook the country in 1975. Siri Paiboun, our guide through this labyrinthine intersection of history and fantasy. The annals of crime fiction have never before seen a doctor-cum-amateur sleuth like Dr. Don’t Eat Me, the thirteenth and most recent installment, continues the tradition with an irresistible mystery immersed in Laotian folklore and politics-and told with a wry, cynical sense of humor. “Superstition, religion, and custom often overlapped in Laos,” Cotterill writes in The Coronor’s Lunch (Book #1), a description that perfectly sets the tenor for the whole series. Siri Paiboun mysteries and transport yourself to a literary universe unlike any other. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of terrible screams from Bill. You won't take me back home again, will you?" "Red Chief," says I to the boy, "would you like to go home?" I'm Old Hank, the trapper, Red Chief's captive. "He's all right now," says Bill, rolling up his pants and examining wounds on his legs. "Ha! Paleface, do you dare to enter the camp of Red Chief, the terror of the plains?" ![]() The boy had two large bird feathers stuck in his hair. But, at last, we got him down in the bottom of the carriage and drove away. That boy put up a fight like a wild animal. The boy hits Bill directly in the eye with a piece of rock. "Hey little boy!" says Bill, "would you like to have a bag of candy and a nice ride?" The boy was in the street, throwing rocks at a cat on the opposite fence. One night, we drove a horse and carriage past old Dorsets house. There was an opening on the back of the mountain. ![]() ![]() But wait till I tell you.Ībout two miles from Summit was a little mountain, covered with cedar trees. Bill and I thought that Ebenezer would pay a ransom of two thousand dollars to get his boy back. We chose for our victim - the only child of an influential citizen named Ebenezer Dorset. We needed just two thousand dollars more for an illegal land deal in Illinois. Bill and I had about six hundred dollars. There was a town down there, as flat as a pancake, and called Summit. We were down south, in Alabama – Bill Driscoll and myself – when this kidnapping idea struck us. We present the short story "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. ![]() |