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Their assignment is to meet and befriend Jane Austen in order to bring back a trove of lost letters, as well as an unpublished manuscript. As part of a scientifically sanctioned journey, Rachel and Liam are selected and rigorously trained to travel back to 1815. Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucaneis come from a technically advanced future where food is 3-D generated, there’s been an ecological die off, and time travel has become successful. Book Barmy readers know I’m a sucker for time travel books.ĭr. I dashed over to my branch, and read the back cover blurb as I walked home - (What do you say, you don’t read and walk? It can be done, albeit carefully in a city) - A Jane Austen time travel piece? Why yes - yes please. Then, lo and behold, my requested copy of The Jane Austen Project came through from the library. But my mind was reluctant to leave the 19th Century. FlynnĪfter my last slow, careful reading of Crossriggs, I wanted my next book to be an easier read.
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Fish out of water book eric metaxas6/27/2023 Renowned for his biographies of William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther, Metaxas is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, the witty host of the acclaimed Socrates in the City conversation series, and a nationally syndicated radio personality. What Happens When One of America’s Most Admired Biographers Writes His Own Biography?įor Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life-a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit. Learn how Eric Metaxas became the thought leader he is today.
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Joan nestle the persistent desire6/27/2023 This project became known as the Lesbian Herstory Archives.Ī Restricted Country, Nestle’s autobiography, was published in 1987. Nestle met other lesbians with similar social and political concerns through the GAU, and in 1973, they began a collaborative project to assemble historical information about lesbianism in America before the development of the feminist movement. Through the efforts of the GAU, gay and lesbian speakers such as Nestle speak at the campuses of colleges and universities across the United States. The following year, she helped form the Gay Academic Union, an organization known as the GAU. In 1971, Nestle once again acted on her political and social convictions by joining the Lesbian Liberation Committee. She worked with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and in registration drives to bring out black voters. In 1965, she traveled to Alabama to participate in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. After studies, Joan Nestle turned her attention to events in the South.
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Till we have faces book review6/27/2023 There are no deliveries on Saturdays, Sundays or Bank Holidays. This is the third time I’ve read this novel, and I think I’m ready to give up on liking it. The resulting story explores the themes of faith, jealousy, love, and the deceptiveness of words. As he explains in a note at the end, he alters the tale somewhat. Lewis’ retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. These times are an estimation, not a guarantee. 16 August, 2010 Till We Have Faces is C.S. These delivery times are the maximum delivery periods that a purchase can take to reach our customers. Standard Delivery: Free (2-4 working days) Express Delivery: £2.49 (reduced rate, 1-2 working days)Įxpress Delivery: Free (1-2 working days) Standard Delivery: £2.99 (2-4 working days) Express Delivery: £4.99 (1-2 working days) If any items are missing from your delivery, please allow 2 working days for the rest of your order to arrive before contacting us at of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you! Items from our extended range section are dispatched separately. We sometimes split orders between multiple parcels. Please note orders are only processed Monday-Friday. The orders go into our warehouse to be picked, packed and consolidated into one parcel where appropriate. We aim to process and dispatch our orders within 24 hours.
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الإنسان الباهت by طيبة أحمد الإبراهيم6/26/2023 In Iraq, the political science professor at Baghdad University and expert on Security Affairs Ahmad sharifi, number between eight to ten thousand, sixty percent of them Iraqis. * Who are the fighters There are a number of documented number of fighters of the “Islamic State”, but the Syrian Observatory for human rights estimates the number of fighters with more than 50 thousand in Syria, including more than 20,000 foreigners in Chechnya, Europe, China and Arab countries. As a senior leader of the Islamic Caliphate, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Al-Khalifa said. Abdel Atwan bar and the threat of growing organization Daash Prosecutor Ali al-Islam and dangerous Arabs and the WestĪbdel-Bari Atwan, and the threat from al-Islam Daash plaintiffs worsening on channel France 24Īt the end of June 2014, the jihadist wing Tanzim, which has become known as the “changed its name to daash” Islamic State “.
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Love and Leprechauns by Zara Keane6/26/2023 I loved Olivia's spirit, unwavering attitude and her easy going nature when interacting with Luca. I appreciated his apprehension and difficulty in trying to understand Luca, and the realization that there was no easy fix for his son, and that he needed to adjust his life to meet his son's needs. Jonas is a single father who's struggling to connect with his autistic son, Luca, and find balance between work and caring for a special needs child. It's apparent she writes what she knows and does it so well! I really enjoyed this second chance romance and have been looking forward to reading about Jonas and Olivia since they first appeared in Love and Shenanigans. Zara Keane's characters and stories exude the essence of her home country and small town life. 4.5 Stars! I love this author's authentic writing!
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Medieval bodies hartnell6/26/2023 Ravaged by plague, war and famine, the Middle Ages can seem an era defined by mortality – a millennium of corrupt decline following the fall of Rome, before a heady rebirth of science and culture in the Renaissance.īut as Jack Hartnell argues in this dazzling tour through physiognomy and across time, medieval bodies are a route into understanding a richly imaginative and curious age, where the barriers between earthly, heavenly and infernal worlds were parchment-thin – and where immortality was found within the pages of books as well as in a life beyond this mortal coil. Paper falls into decay centuries faster than near-indestructible parchment, a skin stripped of its fleshy corruptibility and able to withstand most of the vagaries of time. An obvious cost-cutting decision, maybe – and one that reflects a modern understanding of the law as mutable, editable and of its time. Until 2017, the United Kingdom’s laws were still painstakingly recorded on it, until MPs voted to save £80,000 a year by switching to paper. But parchment is not just a historic curio. Calf or lamb’s hide washed and scraped into smooth parchment, found in every monastery and royal court, was the foundation on which medieval libraries were built. In the Middle Ages, skin stretched beyond the body.
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Neil gaiman snow white retelling6/25/2023 The queen will later fight against Snow White in order to save her kingdom. Even more curiously, the queen is described as a young woman in love with the king, but stricken with terror by her stepdaughter. As told in the story by Neil Gaiman though, it reveals him to be a lust-driven necrophiliac that takes what he desires (one of those things happening to be the queen earlier in the story). The prince is presented once again as a love-struck prince, in awe of the beauty of the dead body of Snow White. This description is almost exactly the same as the description given in the previous version of the story, but interestingly enough when described in the given circumstances (being resurrected in the woods) the description seems much scarier. She is described as an adult at the age of twelve, as well as pale skinned, her eyes coal black, and her lips as red as blood. Snow White is presented as an incestuous creature or vampire that preyed on her own father. The interesting part of this though, is that while maintaining the story in its basic sense, he completely changes the story’s meaning by altering the characters and their motivations. In the story, “Snow, Glass, Apples” Neil Gaiman parallels the archaic story, “Snow White” by reusing a familiar story structure, and retelling the story in his own manner.
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Borges and me parini6/25/2023 Parini also plans to meet his thesis subject, poet George Mackay Brown, on the isle of Orkney, but on the way realizes that Borges, a “batty old man of letters,” is a literary jukebox, referring to such literary works as Beowulf (while capsizing their rowboat on Loch Ness) and writers including Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. His mission: to describe the entire trip for the blind writer (“He knew what he wanted to see. Then, after Parini’s writing mentor, poet Alastair Reid, asks him to host his houseguest, Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges, a one-week ramble through the Scottish Highlands ensues. He soon falls for antiwar activist Bella Law, who has a boyfriend and is indifferent to Parini’s meek advances. There, he describes himself as the “last 22-year-old virgin in the Age of Aquarius” as he finds his voice as a writer and escapes the draft. In this astute memoir, novelist Parini ( The Last Station) writes of leaving Pennsylvania in 1971 to pursue a PhD in literature at St.
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Nine Minutes by Beth Flynn6/25/2023 When Jonas and Lucy return to their normal lives, he discovers that she’s in danger. When Jonas cleverly deceives her into accompanying him to a secluded cabin in the alligator-infested Florida Everglades, she's beyond furious-until her anger fades and their passion ignites. Finding the good in people is her biggest strength-and greatest weakness. But the beautiful, kind, and intelligent Lucy Renquest sees beyond his frightening exterior the moment she lays eyes on him.ĭespite being an outcast with an extremely high IQ, Lucy's confidence and courage propels her to success. With his massive size and alarming tattoos, Jonas terrifies people on sight. Some souls are more tarnished than others, but when two collide, not once but twice, it seems fate may just have her way.Įx-con and ruthless biker, Jonas Brooks is stunned when he encounters the selfless angel who saved his life six years ago. |