When Venetia and Lord Damerel fall in love, however, Damerel is convinced that marriage with him would cause Venetia's social ruin and insists that it would be wrong to inflict this upon her. At first, she sensibly keeps away from him, but when Lord Damerel finds an injured Aubrey and not only takes him into his home to recover but also treats him with great kindness and strikes up a friendship with the awkward young man, she revises her first opinion of him and they soon become the best of friends. Her peace and quiet is one day disturbed by the rakish Lord Damerel, who arrives to spend time at his ancestral home next to the Lanyons' house. The beautiful Venetia Lanyon, thanks to a reclusive and over-protective father, grew up in the country, away from the world with only her younger brother Aubrey, bookish and lame, for company. Venetia is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer set in England in 1818.
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Chapman’s releases include Amish romance, cozy mystery, novellas, romantic suspense, and dystopian/disaster fiction. She speaks around the country on writing, how to publish, and steps to finding an agent and landing a publishing contract. She has taught for numerous writing groups and colleges. The Amish Village Mystery Collection: Murder Simply Brewed, Murder Tightly Knit, Murder Freshly Baked. She's received numerous awards including the ACFW Carol Award for best mystery (Falling to Pieces), and she was a Christy Award finalist (Anna's Healing).Ĭhapman has a BA and MA in English literature from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has written for Abingdon Press and Harvest House Publishers, and she currently writes for Kensington Books and Harlequin/Love Inspired. With over 1 million copies sold, Vannetta Chapman is a USA Today and PW Bestselling author of over 40 books. These remarkable athletes found a passion for the game and a heartfelt loyalty to one another and their coach - and they began to win.Ĭombining exhilarating sports writing and exceptional storytelling, Dust Bowl Girls takes readers on the Cardinals’ intense, improbable journey all the way to an epic showdown with the prevailing national champions, helmed by the legendary Babe Didrikson. And as Babb coached the Cardinals, something extraordinary happened. Traveling from farm to farm near the tiny Oklahoma college where he coached, Babb recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education in exchange for playing on his basketball team, the Cardinals.ĭespite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices that their families would face, the women joined the team. Like so many others, this charismatic Midwestern basketball coach wanted a reason to have hope. In the early 1930s, during the worst drought and financial depression in American history, Sam Babb began to dream. The Boys in the Boat meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team. Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend. Sociology, Sports & Recreations, Women's Studies, NonfictionĪ thrilling, cinematic story. I had to reread this after just watching Predestination on which it was based. :) Thinking about doing a lot more Heinlein reads fairly soon. Lastly, in "â?And He Built a Crooked House," a clever architect designs a house in the shape of the shadow of a tesseract, but it collapses through the fourth dimension when an earthquake shakes it into a m … ( more) In Our Fair City, a parking attendant named Pappy, a sentient whirlwind named Kitten, and a crusading reporter named Pete aim to take down their corrupt city government. "Theyâ?" takes listeners inside a mental institution, where a man suffering from delusions has been confined. The man and his wife had once traveled with a host of imaginary animals searching for places to sell elephants. In The Man Who Traveled in Elephantsâ?one of both Heinlein and Spider Robinson's all-time favorite storiesâ?we join a former traveling salesman on a bus. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose originsâ?and relation to the young manâ?are more complex and stranger than the Ouroboros ring on the barkeep's finger. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. This collection from Grand Master Robert A. Featuring "All You Zombiesâ?," the basis for the movie Predestination Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. I was captivated by The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, despite the fact that I dont particularly like circuses (too mean to the animals) or magic. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love - a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.īut behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. In terms of plot and pacing, this book is slow as molasses. I just felt the need to share this here so that you won't have to go through the suffering that I did while reading this book. This book was so boring on so many levels. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but The Night Circus is a waste of time. Ironheart’s alter ego is Riri Williams, a genius inventor who creates what Marvel describes as “the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.” Played by Dominique Thorne ( If Beale Street Could Talk), young Riri takes on the mantle of Ironheart after she builds her own suit of souped-up armor - one that she’ll apparently upgrade with the advanced technology of Wakanda and its powerful extraterrestrial element, Vibranium. 11, 2022, we see the young hero soaring into battle for the first time. And in the new trailer for Wakanda Forever, which will release on Nov. Ironheart will appear in both this year’s Black Panther sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and in a standalone, self-titled series for Disney Plus in 2023. Marvel Studios brings a new armor-clad superhero to movie theaters (and eventually Disney Plus) with Ironheart, the heir apparent of the late Tony Stark. I even recognize that, for what it is, it's lovely writing. Why don't men with angel wings taped to their backs carry ME from the night ocean? Why don't *I* fuck rock stars and call great clouds of blackbirds to flock my house? Why am I so BORING? WHY IS LIFE SO BORING? I recognize the desire for escapist literature, and I recognize I might have been a little beyond crazy when I read this book. As an impressionable and frequently overly-sensitive person, it threw me into a three day funk. Its magical realism does not use its quirks to highlight truer-truths, but to obscure basic facts of living. Reading this, I LONGED to be those girls. It takes the most emotionally screwed up girls, the ones who cover themselves with make-up and cut themselves and stop eating and run away from home and screw everyone in their path, and turns them into objects of incredible romance. How do you know what love is? You’re still just a child”. Why do you insist on repeating my life? Is that what you want? To live as I did? There’s no sin in falling in love with your heart and with your body, but wait till you’re old enough to love yourself first. An example of this is when Lala is in the hospital visiting with her father and her Grandmother appears and as they are talking for awhile Lala asks her why she is haunting her and she says, ” Me? Haunting you? It’s you, Celaya, who’s haunting me. Also I feel she tries to become LaLa’s voice of reason and look out for her and not repeat the mistakes she made as a girl. It’s the one of the most big moments I feel the Grandmother shows any remorse for what she has done in the past and that she is truly a good person deep down. In chapter eighty three the Grandmother reveals herself by saying, “You’ll tell my story won’t you, Celaya? So that I’ll be understood? So that I’ll be forgiven?”. She brings her back as still the mean stubborn grandmother she is but the Awful Grandmother reveals herself more to LaLa. In part 3 of Caramelo, Cisneros has an interesting way of keeping the grandmother alive after she passes away in the story. We’ll be going through the novel’s major themes, and also looking at it a bit more critically within the historical context of civil rights and racial justice struggles.īefore we dive into To Kill A Mockingbird, I'd highly recommend checking out LSG's Ultimate Guide to VCE Text Response. The first part follows their childhood, and their interactions with characters such as Boo Radley, Walter Cunningham, Miss Caroline and Mrs Dubose, while the second part follows the Tom Robinson trial itself, testing the children on the moral lessons of their childhood and disillusioning them to the overwhelming racism of their community. The novel is narrated in two parts by his younger child, Scout, and along with her brother Jem and their friend Dill, she traces their upbringing as inspired by Atticus’ moral teachings of tolerance, courage and justice. Many lawyers today would cite this 60-year-old story as an inspiration-Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is, at its core, the tale of one attorney’s quest against racial injustice in his Deep South home, and of his children coming of age in the shadow of their father. The Summa is a more-structured and expanded version of Aquinas's earlier Summa contra Gentiles, though the two were written for different purposes. Throughout the Summa, Aquinas cites Christian, Muslim, Hebrew, and Pagan sources, including, but not limited to: Christian Sacred Scripture, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Boethius, John of Damascus, Paul the Apostle, Pseudo-Dionysius, Maimonides, Anselm of Canterbury, Plato, Cicero, and John Scotus Eriugena. Presenting the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, topics of the Summa follow the following cycle: God Creation, Man Man's purpose Christ the Sacraments and back to God.Īlthough unfinished, it is "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature." It remains Aquinas' "most perfect work, the fruit of his mature years, in which the thought of his whole life is condensed". It is a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church, intended to be an instructional guide for theology students, including seminarians and the literate laity. 'Summary of Theology'), often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church. The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica ( transl. |