![]() ![]() Thursday, July 13th, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Alle C. Thursday, June 22nd, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Allyson McCabe, author of Why Siné ad O'Connor Matters, in Conversation with Sadie Dupuis Tuesday, June 13th, at 1:00 PM, in partnership with The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Eli Merritt, Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution ![]() Thursday, June 8th 6:30-8:00 PM, RSVP to attend an evening with Emily Hund and Sara Petersen, in conversation with Jo Piazza Tuesday, June 6th, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Jane Roper, author of The Society of Shame Tuesday, June 2nd, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Mark Paul, in Conversation with Nikil Saval. ![]()
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Arizona, witches, monsters and demons have spread after the return of magic, and are fought and opposed by special monster and witch hunters. Further, some Navajo populations have developed magical and supernatural powers, the Clan Powers, based on their ancestral tribes. Following the disaster, the indigenous reserve of the Dinetahs becomes an independent state, declaring independence from the United States of America. ![]() ![]() Trail of Lightning is the first novel in The Sixth World series, a post-apocalyptic Urban Fantasy by Rebecca Roanhorse.ĭuring the 21st century, the world is devastated by the Flood, a world flood of supernatural origins, which devastates the world and causes the collapse and disintegration of civilization and society. ![]() ![]() With the Ravkan capital separated from its major port and trade cities - and Ravkans unable to go around it, due to poor relations with their neighboring nations - the Fold leaves Ravka with no choice but to build strong armies to defend itself from hostile forces and escort goods and people across the darkness.Įnter Alina: a 17-year-old orphan from a border village, now working as a cartographer in Ravka’s First Army (non-magical folk serve in the First Army, while Grisha make up the Second Army forces). ![]() Four hundred years ago, the Black Heretic opened the Shadow Fold: a wide scar, full of nothing but monsters and darkness, that stretches from one side of Ravka to the other. Major spoilers for Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone trilogy follow. ![]() The first season of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone follows the events of Leigh Bardugo’s 2012 novel of the same name, leaving many to wonder: What happens at the end of Shadow and Bone? Alina’s adventures have just begun at the end of the first Grishaverse novel, and will continue in Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. ![]() The Grishaverse has finally made its way to the screen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chronicling the reality of 1950s lesbian life through Ann Bannon's dreamy butch, Beebo Brinker is an astounding and engaging read. Sexy, dangerous, and often touching, Beebo Brinker's search for love takes her from password-protected 1950s lesbian bars to the glamour and ritz of Hollywood and back. Overwhelmed with her discovery, Beebo is infatuated in turn with the vixen Mona Petry, the sweet femme Paula Ash, and the famous actress Venus Bogardus. She never knew what she wanted-until she came to Greenwich Village and found the love that smolders in the shadows of the twilight world. Befriended by the gay Jack Mann, a father-figure with a weakness for runaways, Beebo sets out to find love. Beebo Brinker Chronicles in publication order (English, Unclassified) Tags Numbers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon I Am a Woman by Ann Bannon. With Beebo Brinker, Bannon introduces the title character, a butch 17-year-old farm girl newly arrived in New York after she is driven from her Wisconsin home town for wearing drag to the State Fair. SeriesBeebo Brinker Chronicles Series author: Ann Bannon. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embrace their sexuality against great odds. Designated the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction" for authoring five landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has been busy elsewhere in the meantime, launching Virgin America airlines, V Australia airlines, Virgin Atlantic Little Red airlines, and investing heavily in Virgin Galactic, perhaps because – as he has started saying – he has a plan to move to Mars. How much, Naomi Klein asked Branson, will he have put into his pledge by then? "I suspect it will be less than $1bn right now," he confessed. "We have to make it a win-win for all concerned." "Gaia capitalism", Branson has called his vision. Some pays for the snazzy Carbon War Room, a sort of green-tech Dragons' Den. Some goes into developing low-carbon fuels. A $25m investment went into the Virgin Earth Challenge, a prize for inventing something to suck up all the planet-wrecking carbon emitted by gas-guzzling industries like his own. ![]() E ight years ago, Richard Branson, the tie-loathing adventurer (as his Twitter feed has it) and figurehead of Virgin Atlantic airlines, Virgin Galactic space travel and so on, pledged to invest around $3bn (£1.85bn) in green technologies by 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Dress Codes, law professor and cultural critic Richard Thompson Ford presents an insightful and entertaining history of the laws of fashion from the middle ages to the present day, a walk down history's red carpet to uncover and examine the canons, mores, and customs of clothing-rules that we often take for granted. ![]() ![]() Even in today's more informal world, dress codes still determine what we wear, when we wear it-and what our clothing means. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change and dress codes, a way to maintain political control.ĭress codes evolved along with the social and political ideals of the day, but they always reflected struggles for power and status. Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. Join us Tuesday, Februat 6:00PM Central Time.Īfter the live talk has ended, the video will be archived on the Parnassus Books Facebook page under Videos.ĭress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History is a revelatory exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society. This is a virtual event which will take place on the Parnassus Books Facebook page. Parnassus Books is happy to welcome Richard Thompson Ford, author of Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History, in conversation with Dan Sharfstein. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I hope this helps, and it's lovely to 'talk' to you. If you look on my Goodreads book list, you'll see some of my recent reads, many of them really good and often a bit spooky or disturbing. I still love Moominland Midwinter - a deceptively simple little book but with so many layers and depths of meaning - magical. I read the Moomintroll books years ago and they really had a deep effect on me. As for books that I love - where to start! There are so many! I tend to read things with a fantasy/supernatural or otherwise just 'odd' flavour. I've always loved ghost stories, mythology, legends, and using these to add details to historical fiction really appealed to me. It wouldn't have been pleasant - cold, not enough food, hard work, and a lonely life for a young servant boy. When Brother Walter the hob returns to the abbey, he finds. Crowfield Abbey lies in ruins and a ghostly crawling man haunts the long abandoned rooms and cloisters. As an archaeologist,I worked on several abbeys and priories over the years and often thought about what life must have been like in one of the smaller, poorer religious houses. In a place where the everyday world and the Otherworld meet, anything can happen. Archaeology can only tell you so much, so writing was a way of putting the flesh on the bones, so to speak. I've always wondered what the lives of the people we dig up were like. As for what inspired me to write the series, it wasn't so much any fiction I read, but just a deep interest in archaeology. Hello Ankur, thank you so much for the lovely things you say about Crowfield! Very kind of you. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is true that the Petit Albert has turned up in discussions of the New Orleans occult scene, but the book provides little proof of any connection to Marie Laveau or New Orleans Voudou. ![]() Having read it now, I can say that was completely justified. When the Spellbook was announced, I was skeptical of the claims that this book had any real ties to Marie Laveau. ![]() That reminded me that I hadn’t finished reading The Spellbook of Marie Laveau: The Petit Albert recently released by Hadean Press, so I finished up both. At the latter, I picked up a copy of Carolyn Long’s biography A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau. I got back last week from a trip to the grimoires conference that also took me through Austin and New Orleans. ![]() ![]() Little does Roselie realize that she has underestimated Brody's resolve to keep her safe-for he has hopelessly fallen in love with her and is determined to do the impossible by stealing her heart in return. Kissing Brody is hardly the most ruinous thing Roselie has ever done as a secret agent for the Home Office.nor will she let a marriage of convenience stop her from continuing her work. Miss Roselie Stratton is the very definition of impossible-headstrong, outspoken, and carrying a reticule of secrets that could ruin more than her reputation. ![]() If only he had not given in to the irresistible temptation to kiss her. Yet his life of right and wrong is turned upside down when he finds himself in a compromising situation with the most unyielding, yet maddeningly beautiful, woman in London. ![]() If he says something is impossible, it is. Lord Rimswell is a man of honor and absolutes. In the sixth novel of the enchanting Rhymes With Love series from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle, a nobleman falls in love with a beautiful spy he must protect. Lord Rimswell is a man of honor and absolutes. ![]() |