OL15488146W Page_number_confidence 85.19 Pages 218 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1611730201 The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience, showing us how a small part of the natural world can illuminate our own human existence, while providing an appreciation of what it means to be fully alive. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:58:27.352776 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1146305 City Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Skilled craftsmen like Grandible create all sorts of things with fantastical properties to sell to the court, like cheeses that can bring on wondrous visions, perfumes that can influence the emotions of others, wines that can make you forget your worst memories, and much more. Caverna, as its name would suggest, is a huge underground city made up of tunnels. From that moment on, he has instructed Neverfell to always wear a mask in public, though he refuses to tell her the real reason why, letting her believe she is hideous and disfigured.įor years afterward, Neverfell trains with Grandible as his apprentice, learning all about the ways of Caverna and cheese-making since she herself has no memory of who she was or where she came from. But as soon as the cheesemaker cleaned off the little girl and looked at her face, he could tell something was seriously wrong. Our protagonist Neverfell was just a child when she was found practically half-drowned in a vat of curds by Master Grandible, Caverna’s foremost maker of fine, magical cheeses. Sitting in that much-needed place between Middle Grade and Young Adult, A Face Like Glass is a coming-of-age novel about a younger protagonist, but the challenges she must deal with are no less difficult or complex. Now I really wish I had read this book sooner, because in a word, it’s amazing. Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade/ Young Adult This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own. I received a review copy from the publisher. 6/29/2023 0 Comments The layover book lacie waldonAnd all too soon, she might have to choose between keeping her feet on the ground and her head in the clouds…. Yet the more time Ava spends with him under the hot Caribbean sun, the more she begins to second-guess everything she thought she knew about him…and everything she thought she wanted from her life. A flight attendant based in Los Angeles, Waldon spends her days writing from the jump seat and searching the world for new stories. Being stranded with him at a luxury resort in paradise? Even with the sultry breeze and white sand to distract her, it will take all the rum punch in the country to drown out his larger-than-life presence. Getting stuck on a three-hour flight with her nemesis was bad enough. Good thing she never has to see him again after they land….īut when their plane encounters mechanical problems, what should have been a quick stop at the Belize airport suddenly becomes a weekend layover. And he has the nerve to flirt with her, as if he doesn’t remember the role he played in the most humiliating night of her life. But then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone-the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she’s held a secret grudge against for years-is on her flight. She’s got one trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. The Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game in this breezy debut romantic comedy about life-and love-30,000 feet above the ground.Īfter ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. 6/29/2023 0 Comments The blacktongue thief book 2Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva's. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants. Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path.īut today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark. Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos, Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief begins a 'dazzling' (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other. The contributors, all of whom live currently in the u.s.a. For this collection, some of the contributors have chosen to write in essay style, and some have chosen to write in fiction, autobiography, poetic prose and experimental forms. Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures is a hybrid site for discussion of, work on, and delight in this sometimes uneasy, sometimes painful, sometimes surprising and wonderful, lesbian pluralism. Each lesbian has distinctive perspectives on lesbian existence, friendships and sexualities, separatism and coalition building, theories of knowledge and ethics, language and writing. Each lesbian reflects, directly and indirectly, her relations to her own and to other ethnicities, races, social classes, physical abilities, ages, and nationalities. Each lesbian has her ways of knowing, her voices, approaches, methodologies, languages. The lesbians who have contributed to this book are theorists and activists who write as members of diverse lesbian cultures. For more than ten years, he has been involved in researching about the later period of the Roman Empire and writing about its army. This re-awakened his interest in ancient history.Īfter returning to the UK, Ross began studying ancient empires in order to create historical fiction novels. Ross used the opportunity to explore the ruins of ancient castles. He has lived in Italy for a year, where he taught English. All the time he spent in these professions was mostly utilized for honing his writing abilities. Throughout his career, Ross has traveled a lot and took various professions such as working as a tutor, university lecturer, and bookseller. He studied painting before moving on to write fiction. He is well known for writing the Twilight of Empire series. Ian Ross is a famous author of historical fiction stories hailing from The United Kingdom. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Outlander beesWhile discussing the different combinations of characters, Gabaldon says, "There is a brand-new person who is extremely interesting, but I can't tell you who she is as yet." Thankfully, Gabaldon is willing to say who she's associated with. For Bees, she says, "I think it's about the same number of people, but they're kind of in different combinations." And that means that it could "sometimes" lead to main character interacting with different people than expected. According to the author, she likes to try a new storytelling device with each of her books and for Book 9 (which she notes is a "little bit longer" than she originally anticipated), "It's got an unusual structure in that I'm following multiple people all of the time." In the eighth book, Written in My Own Heart's Blood ( MOBY), she followed eight major characters. Where things differ, however, is the way the story will be told. Rest assured, the official Bees synopsis confirmed that the core characters of Claire, Jamie, Roger, Brianna, Jem, Mandy, Lord John Grey, and William will all be there. In a recent interview with The Dipp, Gabaldon discusses some of the characters who will appear in her upcoming ninth installment when it's released on Nov. But that doesn't mean she's shied away from introducing new characters in Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (or just, Bees). With so many characters in her Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon admits it can be a bit tough to keep track of everybody. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Ball 4 jim boutonLouis Cardinals.īouton injured his right arm in 1965, going 4-15 that season, and saw limited action the next three seasons with New York. The Yankees lost the World Series both years, with Bouton losing his lone start in 1963 in New York’s loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers and winning twice the following year in the Yankees’ loss to the St. Throwing so hard that his cap often flew off his head, Bouton was 21-8 with six shutouts in 1963 - his second season in the majors and his only year as an All-Star - and went 18-13 with four more shutouts in 1964. He wasn’t invited to the Yankees’ Old-Timers’ Day until 1998. Bouton’s revealing look at baseball off the field made for eye-opening and entertaining reading, but he paid a big price for the best-seller when former teammates and players and executives across baseball ostracized him for exposing their secrets. Published in 1970, “Ball Four” detailed Yankees great Mickey Mantle’s carousing and the use of stimulants in the major leagues. He fought a brain disease linked to dementia and was in hospice care. He was 80.īouton’s family said he died Wednesday at the Great Barrington home he shared with wife Paula Kurman. (AP) - Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Sea people by thompsonHow did the earliest Polynesians find and colonise these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind.įor Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. She has also begun to understand how the roads she has traveled have led her to this day. Now she suffers in secret, knowing she is personally culpable for the mishandling of evidence. A homophobic homicide far too reminiscent of a recent, haunting, life-changing investigation of the murder of a young lesbian at the Nightwood Bar. Not even her loyal LAPD colleagues can protect her from an attack that may come from anywhere, anytime.įour years retired, Kate Delafield has a twenty-year old case roaring back on her, a case from which she had recoiled, withdrawn herself. Had known from the start this was as real as death.ĭeath is now on her doorstep. “-that like most threats they were just threats,” Kate finished for him. “Kate,” Detective Joe Cameron said, “there was always the possibility-” The most celebrated detective in lesbian literature returns in the most fateful case of her career… Exciting news! Delafield, the 10th in the Kate Delafield series is available at Bella Books! |