![]() An engaging blend of romance, suspense and parody, this fantasy is well-nigh irresistible. ![]() While the themes about tyranny and heroism are timeless, Avi leavens his treatment with such 20th-century touches as Poppy's jive-talking boyfriend and Poppy's own romantic vision of herself as Ginger Rogers. To prove that the intimidating ruler is really a phony, Poppy embarks on a dangerous and eye-opening quest, which ends with her one-on-one battle with Ocax. ![]() As ruler of Dimwood Forest, Ocax the hoot owl has promised to protect the mice occupying an abandoned farmhouse as long as they ask permission before ``moving about.'' Poppy, a timid dormouse, is a loyal, obedient subject-until she sees Ocax devour her fiance and hears the owl deny her father's request to seek new living quarters. The first book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medalwinning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medalwinning artist Brian Floca, is available as an ebook for the first time A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. ![]() ![]() Newbery Honor author Avi (Tom, Babette and Simon, reviewed June 12) turns out another winner with this fanciful tale featuring a cast of woodland creatures. The Poppy Stories (also known as the Tales from Dimwood Forest) Bundle includes: Ragweed (book 1). Avi is the award-winning author of more than eighty-two books for young readers, ranging from animal fantasy to gripping historical fiction, picture books to young adult novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() YESSSS! □□ When I think Mafia books, THIS is the kind of book that comes to mind. self harm via cutting - no help sought after - one H encourages it and maybe finds it sexy? □ ![]() graphic depictions of child molestation - including anal rape h is a virgin - she has never had consensual sex - she was raped as a child by a family member ![]() OM drama - all 3 men are a little jealous of each other OW drama - the h witnesses 2 of her men getting blowies. They haven’t been intimate yet, but they are officially engaged. cheating - depends on your definition - the H that the h is engaged to (arranged marriage) gets a bj from another woman at their engagement party. These big bad mafia dudes were just beta simps overcome with instalove for the nympho virgin h. □□♀️īottom Line? I finished, but mostly I was wondering how the author was gonna pull this off in a standalone… and I’m not sure she did. As is? It’s just 4 very horny people having a lot of sex and thinking a lot about sex.Īnd mafia dons making wedding mood boards on Pinterest. So I’m assuming that if this didn’t need to be a standalone we would have gotten all the character and relationship development this book desperately needed. It’s hard to do an RH in under 600 pages. ![]() ![]() The concept is an intriguing one but, for me, the execution wasn’t amazing. There were parts where I thought I perhaps would have understood or enjoyed it more if I were high. And, unfortunately for me, it was not bizarre/odd/weird in a good way. I picked this up after hearing so many glowing things said about it in reviews and from friends … none of those reviews highlighted just how bizarre/odd/weird this book is. My Rating of ‘Senlin Ascends’: 2 out of 5 And if he hopes to ever see his wife again, he will have to do more than just survive…this quiet man of letters must become a man of action. To find her, Senlin must enter the Tower of Babel – a world of geniuses and tyrants, of menace and wonder, of unusual animals and mysterious machines. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when he loses his new bride shortly after embarking on the honeymoon of their dreams, he is ill-prepared for the trouble that follows. Mild-mannered headmaster, Thomas Senlin prefers his adventures to be safely contained within the pages of a book. ![]() ![]() It is always relational it depends on others’ deference. ![]() Nobody has power in the absence of relationships to other people. It’s a resource that exists for the protection of groups. But if you look at power out in the world, in a human context or even in an animal context, what you see is that power has another purpose. ![]() So what matters most is how we act with the power we already have, despite our feelings, and our impact on other people.Īnother misconception is that we tend to think of power as the answer to our powerless feelings, like a resource for personal consumption and self-enhancement. Your power depends on other people’s feelings - do they need you, do they fear you, do they feel obligated to you, do they trust and respect you? That is where our power comes from - our capacity to affect other people’s feelings. But our feelings have little to do with it. ![]() There’s this idea that if you can find a way to feel more powerful, you’ll actually be more powerful. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Gruenfeld recently sat for an interview with Insights by Stanford Business. ![]() Inspired by the popular Stanford GSB course of the same name, Gruenfeld’s new book, Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe, dismantles our misconceptions about the word, shows us how it’s about connection as well as control, and outlines what it means to use power well. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted the book to hurt to read, just as the story itself is about trauma and violence. It’s an old-fashioned outlook, I think, and I decided to embrace it with These Violent Delights, because I wanted the book itself to be an old-fashioned story about moral grappling and the limits of rationality. ![]() I love art that is visceral and disturbing, rooted in the frailty of the body and the smallness of human being-that alludes to the unspeakable things we do to each other in the name of an impossible control. I think art should be challenging, and I want the challenge to go to the heart as much as the brain. I love art that is emotional and chaotic, encapsulating the pain of being unable to gain control no matter how much rationality you try to exert. My own taste in art and literature skews Romantic. MN: There are a few of dramatic, sweeping aphorisms in the book that I actually agree with, and this line of Paul’s is one of them. I wondered if you could talk a bit about the connection between beauty, pain and violence within These Violent Delights ? GC: In an early scene in the book, Paul says to Julian that “beautiful things are supposed to hurt,” a line that echoed for me through my reading of the rest of the novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He knows only too well that with each passing hour time is running out. Desperate, Cork begins tracking the killers but his own skills as a hunter are severely tested by nightfall and a late season snowstorm. ![]() Meanwhile, in Aurora, Cork works feverishly to identify the hunters and the reason for their relentless pursuit, but he has little to go on. On the last journey he may ever take into this beloved land, Meloux must do his best to outwit the deadly mercenaries who follow. Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O’Connor’s wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. The New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor Mystery Series returns with this “genuinely thrilling and atmospheric novel” ( The New York Times Book Review) as Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. ![]() ![]() Thalli thought escaping to the surface would mean freedom. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() The emergence of Chinese nationalism during this period is often portrayed as following from China’s position vis-à-vis Japan and the West. ![]() She argues that at this historical moment a growing Chinese identification with what we now call the Third World first made the modern world visible as a totality and that the key components of Chinese nationalist discourse developed in reference to this worldview. ![]() Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911. ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Yet Crowley never slips, not upon a single word, and the book grows more powerful with every page.'' -Katharine Kerr, bestselling authorĪmbitious, dazzling, strangely moving, a marvelous magic-realist family chronicle.'' - Washington Post Reading it I felt as if I were watching a high-wire artist: one slip and he would fall into the dreadful net of Twee. ''One of my favorite works of modern fantasy, Little, Big, is an amazing tale told in an amazing way. I once knew an adverbial clause who was so infatuated with the linguistic beauty of Little, Big that the poor creature pined away into a comma.'' -James Morrow, World Fantasy Award-winning author ![]() 1942) masterpiece, Little, Big, which influential American literary critic Harold Bloom proposed for inclusion in the Western Canon, and which has been hailed as the closest literary achievement we have to Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland. ''John Crowley writes sentences of such coruscating magnificence that the rest of the English language has fallen in love with them. : Little, Big: Proof copy of John Crowleys (b. ''Ambitious, dazzling, strangely moving, a marvelous magic-realist family chronicle.'' - Washington Post Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.'' -Peter Straub, award-winning horror fiction author ''Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. ''A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.'' -Ursula K. ![]() ![]() Davies peers through the cracks in the mainstream accounts of modern-day states to dazzle us with extraordinary stories of barely remembered pasts, and of the traces they left behind. ![]() We come across forgotten characters and famous ones - King Arthur and Macbeth, Napoleon and Queen Victoria, right up to Stalin and Gorbachev - and discover how faulty memory can be, and how much we can glean from these lost empires. Europe's past is littered with states and kingdoms, large and small, that are scarcely remembered today, and while their names may be unfamiliar - Aragon, Etruria, the Kingdom of the Two Burgundies - their stories should change our mental map of the past. There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. ![]() An evocative account of 14 European kingdoms - their rise, maturity, and eventual disappearance. ![]() |