![]() ![]() Determined to wrest the throne from his brother, Severyn intended nothing less than the resurrection of the ancient naragi. Tanyrin teetered on the edge of chaos.Ī loyal and devoted friend to Tanyrin's crown prince, Michael could refuse Severyn Lothlain nothing, not even when Severyn asked the unspeakable of him. Fear of the h'nara, fanned by the Church, spread tentacles everywhere. ![]() The latest of the Lothlain kings was a weakling, unable to curb the ambitions of an increasingly powerful, corrupt clergy. In ordinary times, the paths of Michael and Stefn would never have crossed. Of all the h'nara, his family alone was immune from the persecution of the powerful Church of Loth, protected by an ancient covenant. Michael Arranz was the son of a duke and one of the despised h'naran, half-bloods cursed with the blood of the nara running through their veins. ![]() He was also a sin-catcher, living proof of God's displeasure, the shame of his existence atonement for the sins of his ancestors. Stefn Eldering was the youngest son of the Earl of Shia, the last in a long, proud line of demon hunters. ![]() For four hundred years afterwards, the land was at peace. Not until the coming of Arami Lothlain, King of Tanyrin and Blessed of Loth, did the rein of the nara come to a bloody end. The most feared among them were their naragi, sorcerers whose power was all but invincible. Human-like, but not human, the nara ruled Tanyrin for centuries. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Teo, a 17-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of Quetzal, goddess of birds, has never worried about the Trials…or rather, he’s only worried for others. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all―they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body used to fuel the Sun Stones that will protect the people of Reino del Sol for the next ten years. Ten semidioses between the ages of thirteen and eighteen are selected by Sol himself as the most worthy to compete in The Sunbearer Trials. ![]() I’m not a real hero.”Īs each new decade begins, the Sun’s power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the evil Obsidian gods at bay. “Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. ![]() Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was loving her family and she could do anything for her baby sister, Rosie. Millie or Emilia was a nice, selfless Southern girl. Feelings were mixed, emotions twisted together.” I was so crazy about her, the lines had blurred together. ![]() And I loved her when I didn’t want anything to do with her. Emilia aka the Help!!!!īut as an original jerk, he was acting like an asshole toward her and in the end, he just chase her away from her family and home, just because he was refusing to accept his true feelings.Īnd because he was obsessive and very jealous!!!! Oh, no!!!! There was something that could penetrate it after all. ![]() Nothing could penetrate his frosty heart. He was very difficult, very rude, very selfish, he didn't care about anyone and anything, he was tough and he was giving shit to the rest of the world. Vicious was exactly the opposite of Jaime. “I used to think of you as a villain, but you’re not my villain. I have a thing about assholes, what can i say? In books, not in real life!!!! Yeah, i know that in "Defy" i thought the worst about him, and still i am (Bahahaha!!!) but i loved him. God, i loved this book!!!! And i loved cold-hearted, asshole Vicious!!!! But I’d managed to crawl under his skin." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Many bright people are really in the dark about vegetable life. It may be advisable to grab her by her slippery foot and haul her back in here before it's too late.”Īnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life We threw that baby out with the bathwater. But kitchens where food is cooked and eaten, those were really a good idea. We've earned the right to forget about stupefying household busywork. An obsession with spotless collars, ironing, and kitchen floors you can eat off of-not so much. ![]() Required participation from spouse and kids is an element of the equation. But approaching mealtimes as a creative opportunity, rather than a chore, is an option. Full-time homemaking may not be an option for those of us delivered without trust funds into the modern era. Career women in many countries still routinely apply passion to their cooking, heading straight from work to the market to search out the freshest ingredients, feeding their loved ones with aplomb. “Cooking without remuneration" and "slaving over a hot stove" are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Shakespeare’s play keeps this debate alive. ![]() Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. The authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. ![]() ![]() It is the second book in the Inkheart trilogy.Īlthough a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of the extraordinary events of Inkheart, and the story whose characters strode out of the pages and changed her life forever.īut for Dustfinger, the fire-eater torn from his world of words, the need to return has become desperate. ![]() ![]() It was translated into English and released in October 2005 by Anthea Bell. Inkspell is a 2005 young adult novel by German author Cornelia Funke originally released in Germany under the title Tintenblut. ![]() Carol Lawson (map, chapter head illustratons)Ĭornelia Funke (chapter-end illustrations) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So far, so fairy-tale - though the pleasure of seeing Mayan mythology underlying what at first seems to be a straightforward rendition of the Cinderella trope adds immediate interest to Moreno-Garcia's work. Hun-Kamé has been deposed from his throne by his twin brother, Vucub-Kamé, and Casiopeia finds herself first an unwilling and then an active participant in his quest to take revenge and reclaim his standing as the ruler of Xilbaba. She stumbles upon a locked chest containing (most of) the dismembered body of one of the Lords of Xilbalba, a Mayan god of death called Hun-Kamé, and frees him - becoming spiritually linked to him in the process. The plot of the book is simple: A young woman, Casiopeia Tun, is suffering Cinderella-esque deprivation in the house of her grandfather, a wealthy rural landholder in the Yucatán. ![]() Novelist and NPR contributor Silvia Moreno-Garcia's new fantasy, Gods of Jade and Shadow, is at its witty, compelling, and merciless best when it is fully rooted in its setting, a perfectly organic combination of 1920s Jazz Age Mexico and the Mayan mythological text, the Popol Vuh. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Gods of Jade and Shadow Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia ![]() ![]() He delves deep into the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel-Palestine, providing unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. ![]() involvement with Cuba to the sanctions on Iran, he details how America’s rhetoric of freedom and human rights so often diverges from its actions. ![]() Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the sordid history of U.S. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, despite the rise of Europe and Asia, still largely sets the terms of global discourse. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights. ![]() The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the nature of U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. ![]() For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands-the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. “My favorite kind of whodunit, kept me guessing all the way through, and reminiscent of Agatha Christie at her best - with an extra dose of acid.” - Alex Michaelides, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Silent Patientįrom the author of the Reese Witherspoon book club pick The Guest ListĮveryone's invited.everyone's a suspect.ĭuring the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. ![]() ![]() She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Style section and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Architectural Digest. ![]() She began her career writing for the Style section of The Washington Post, and for fifteen years she served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. Dana Thomas is the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, and the New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, all published by Penguin Press. ![]() |