6/7/2023 0 Comments Court of owls volume 1![]() As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he's sworn to protect. #1 New York Times Bestseller! Following his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed run on Detective Comics, writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire) alongside artist Greg Capullo (Spawn) begins a new era of The Dark Knight with the relaunch of Batman as a part of DC Comics - The New 52! After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that, perhaps, these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. Kijk voor 'Batman Volume 1 The Court Of Owls' bij de volgende boekwinkels: ![]() Sluiten Batman Volume 1 The Court Of Owls ![]()
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![]() ![]() Based on Jean Rhys’ own experiences with Ford Madox Ford and his wife, this book tells the story of a woman in Paris who is taken in by a wealthy English couple after her husband is jailed. Quartetby Jean RhysĪn older book, but I had to sneak this in as it was one of my influences for Good Rich People. When Sara Larson desperately answers an ad for “Nanny Needed, Special Conditions Apply,” she had no idea that she is walking into a world twisted by privilege, where her wealthy clients can ask for anything, and usually do. ![]() This one is another story about the dangers of transactional relationships. Emira’s client’s efforts to “make it right” only serve to underline the self-obsession and need for control inherent to privilege. When she takes the child out to a fancy supermarket, she is accused of kidnapping. When her client calls her in for a late-night emergency, babysitter Emira gives up her own plans to help. ![]() Privilege is at the center of this story about a Black babysitter with a wealthy, white client. You almost have to assume it happens all the time…įrom a murder mystery unfolding in an elite private member’s club to a family road trip with an inheritance at stake, here are some stories about Very Bad Rich People. There are many (allegedly) fictional stories about how privileged people take advantage of the less fortunate. My novel Good Rich People is about a bored, wealthy couple who play games with disadvantaged people-just like in real life! ![]() ![]() ![]() But what most challenges Alice and the town is the foreignness of the Japanese compound and its culture, entirely perplexing to the inmates' captors. When Giancarlo, an Italian POW and anarchist from Gawell's camp, is assigned to work on their farm, Alice's view of the world and her self-knowledge are dramatically expanded. Alice is a young woman living a dull life with her father-in-law on his farm while her new husband first fights, then is taken prisoner, in Greece. In Gawell, New South Wales, a prisoner-of-war camp to house European, Korean and Japanese captives is built close to a farming community. Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs alive and well wherever they are? Tom Keneally's new novel brilliantly explores the intimacies of ordinary lives being played out against momentous world events. A Knopf book published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Freshwater by emezi![]() ![]() Emezi started reading fantasy books and with their sister Yagazie used storytelling to escape the riots, dictatorship, and dangerous reality of their childhoods. Early life and education Īkwaeke Emezi was born in Umuahia in 1987 to an Igbo Nigerian father, and a mother who was the daughter of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants living in Malaysia. In 2021, Time featured them as a Next Generation Leader. Their work has earned them several awards and nominations including the Otherwise Award and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. ![]() ![]() Emezi is a generalist who writes speculative fiction, romance, memoir and poetry for both young adults and adults with mostly LGBT themes. Akwaeke Emezi is a Nigerian fiction writer and video artist, best known for their novels Freshwater, Pet, and their New York Times bestselling novel The Death of Vivek Oji. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Sing you home soundtrack![]() ![]() It’s best to determine which key you will write your song in before starting a project. Whereas miner scales seem dark, depressing, and sad sounding. For example, many perceive major scales as bright, uplifting, and happy sounding. It ensures your melody and harmony notes match the singer’s voice. It’s essential to know the highest and lowest notes a singer can reach. Which notes accommodate a singer’s vocal range and sweet spot.It’s common practice to build a bassline using the root notes of a chord progression. Knowing the key and scale will also help you choose which notes to use for the bassline. ![]() Knowing the key and scale of a song will help you build a chord progression that harmonically supports the melody. For example, the note “G” is the tonic of both G major or G minor. The tonic is the first note of any scale, and it identifies the tonal center of your song. ![]() For example, a song in the key of A minor uses notes from the A minor scale. ![]() However, the two main types are the major scale and the minor scale. There are several types of scales, each derived from the twelve available notes. A scale identifies which notes to use for your melodies and harmonies. The key will define the makeup of your song and give you certain information about that song. Nearly every song is written in a specific key. Photo by Soonios Pro How to Choose the Right Key for a SongĬhoosing the best musical key for your song is essential. Here are four tips to consider when choosing the right key for your song. Learn how to pick the best key for a song. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once Henry Mackenzie had published his famous review in The Lounger, ‘Burns’ became virtually synonymous with ‘ploughman’, while his literary brilliance was attributed, ironically enough, not to his own careful labour but to Heaven. ![]() As Donald Low, whose own name may have sensitised him to this recurrent feature of the early critical reception, observed, ‘the subject most often under discussion was not a body of poetry but a socio-literary phenomenon’. ![]() The brief notice in the New Annual Register struck the keynote when it observed that Burns’s Poems were ‘the productions of a man in a low station of life’, for the Monthly Review ran a piece that dwelt on Burns’s situation, ‘born in a low station, and following laborious employment’, while the Critical Review began with general recollections of ‘poetical productions written by persons in the lower ranks of life’. It is not surprising, then, that the early responses to Burns’s work were conditioned by thoughts of agricultural labour and cultural limitation. The Challenge of Regional Language and the Legacy of Robert Burnsīurns’s preface to the Kilmarnock edition emphasised that his Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect had been composed ‘amid the toils and fatigues of a laborious life’ and begged readers, accordingly, to ‘make every allowance’ for his humble ‘Education and Circumstances of Life’. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Lingus mariana![]() ![]() Tristan text Kat that he got fired from one of his jobs. Kat is going to a wedding with Zoey's brother and Tristan is a bit Jealous as Kat can tell. Every time Tristan leaves to do a video Kat feels sad and sick cause she really likes him but he said he won't have a girlfriend while doing porn. Her friend Nikki is to busy getting busy with Tristan's friend Callum who is also a porn star. Even though he's a porn star they do become fast friends Kat is very attracted to him and nurses him back to health when he got sick. ![]() Review : I loved this book it was so funny and cute Kat is dragged to a porn convention by her friend Nikki and there she meets Tristan and they get along right away and then she finds out he's a porn star. This is a story about acceptance and friendship, and a love born out of the most unexpected of places The last thing she ever expected was to meet someone who makes her laugh like no other. When twenty-five-year-old Kat is dragged to a porn convention by her best friend, she's both embarrassed and nervous. "My name is Kat Berger, and I love porn." There was something about her that most people didn't know. ![]() Most people would describe Katherine Berger as a responsible girl with a big heart, a loyal friend who takes care of those close to her, and the possessor of a wicked sense of humor. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Christy jordan fenton books![]() ![]() Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton as a young child (photo courtesy of Christy Jordan-Fenton) Her early years were spent with her family learning to dog-sled, hunt, and gather supplies. Pokiak-Fenton was born on Jon Ballie Island. Peek: “Fatty Legs, its sequel A Stranger at Home, and young reader editions When I Was Eight and Not My Girl, have sold more than a quarter of a million copies and collected over 20 awards and distinctions.” ![]() ![]() Obituary Note: Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton from Shelf Awareness. Peek: “Born on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her experiences with countless school children.” Remembering Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, children’s book author and residential school survivor from Quill and Quire. Award-winning children’s book author Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton (Inuvialuit) died on April 21, 2021. ![]() ![]() They examine the intersections of race, Afro-Latinidad, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty, and power in Díaz's work. Interested in conceptualizing Díaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significant shift in American letters toward a hemispheric and planetary culture. The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Díaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. ![]() Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Sinner sierra![]() ![]() ![]() Unable to refuse, Sean finds himself falling for her, body and soul, and questioning not just the morals he's dodged for years, but his relationship with the God Zenny has pledged herself to. She wants to make sure choosing God is the right path, and to do that, she propositions Sean to show her every carnal temptation she's leaving behind. Zenny, though, isn't looking to play it safe during her final month of freedom. Worse than that…she's also about to become a nun. When he meets a gorgeous college girl at a fundraiser, he has no problem telling her exactly what filthy things he wants to do to her-until he realizes she's his best friend's little sister, Zenobia "Zenny" Iverson, all grown up. There are words for men like him: playboy. Her notable works include Priest, American Queen, and Misadventures of a Curvy Girl, and her books have been featured in Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, and Buzzfeed. ![]() ![]() He doesn't believe in goodness, God, or any happy ending that isn't paid for in advance. Sierra Simone is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling former librarian (who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk). Sean Bell is not a good man, and he's never pretended to be. He leads a life of sin, and she's committed to a life of virtue. From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sierra Simone comes her steamy, TikTok-famous Priest series, in which sinners and saints alike test the bonds of religion, love, and lust. ![]() |