The stories and illustrations in How Far You Have Come are organized around a familiar path Morgan has traveled all her life, along the southern border of the United States. Morgan weaves together personal reflections with her signature poems to share her journey to reclaim moments of brokenness, division, and pain and re-envision them as experiences of reconciliation, unity, and hope. MHN weaves together personal reflections with. In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, we can forget just how far we have come. In the midst of the hurt & the mundane, the questions & the not yets, we can forget just how far we have come. How Far You Have Come is an exquisitely illustrated collection of poetry and essays from bestselling artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols. How Far You Have Come: Musings on Beauty and Courage Hardcover Illustrated, Apby Morgan Harper Nichols (Author) 514 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 23.75 10 Used from 20.44 20 New from 16.
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5/24/2023 0 Comments A deadly education book seriesReaders will delight in the push-and-pull of El and Orion’s relationship, the fantastically detailed world, the clever magic system, and the matter-of-fact diversity of the student body. El and Orion must strike up an alliance to save themselves and their schoolmates from monstrous destruction. He keeps saving El before she can display her talents, and has killed so many lesser mals that the ones left are huge-and hungry. Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman will produce. But monster-slayer Orion Lake throws a wrench in the works. A Deadly Education is the first book in author Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, which Universal optioned in 2020 ahead of its publication. Dark sorceress El (short for Galadriel) has a plan for how she’ll make it through the gates alive next year: she’ll learn to control her affinity for destruction, make allies by impressing other students with her abilities, and stockpile magical energy. Graduation is the greatest challenge of all, and requires the students to fight their way through the sea of mals clustered outside the building. A Deadly Education is a nightmare from which I never wished to wake. The students of Scholomance, a boarding school for sorcerers, must weather survival-of-the-fittest trials, fighting off the Lovecraftian monsters known as maleficaria (or “mals”) that routinely break in to eat students. Novik ( Spinning Silver) puts a refreshingly dark, adult spin on the magical boarding school setting of the spellbinding first fantasy in her Scholomance trilogy. A Deadly Education Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered.There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic. When Benedict came along, she knew who she was and what she wanted (or didn't want) in life and stuck to it. Sophie was a strong heroine even when she was being beaten down by her circumstances. That kind of dedication is exactly what I look for. I loved the Cinderella feel of this story but I especially loved the way Benedict was totally taken by his lady in silver through the years. She also does a great job of distinguishing between the various characters both male and female. Her accent is such that I don’t need to adjust the speed or struggle to understand it. I’m officially a fan of this narrator! She does an exceptional job of bringing the characters to life in a way that pulls me completely into the book to the point I don’t want to pause or stop the story. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Rowan by Anne McCaffreyYet I loved the pace, and I loved watching The Rowan grow up. Perhaps a bit slower than some readers might wish McCaffrey to go, even. It is slow paced, taking the reader through the life of The Rowan. It was like this book was specifically created to hit all of my “Oh my god, I love it!” buttons. Yegrani’s ‘long and lonely road’ had been before her a long and lonely time. Instead, she had gone from one lonely tower to another. Her growing relationship with Jeff gives her the courage to break her status-imposed isolation, and choose the more rewarding world of love and family. She convinces the other Primes to merge their powers with hers to help fight off an attack by invading aliens. After years of self-sacrificing dedication to her position, The Rowan intercepts an urgent mental call from Jeff Raven, a young Prime Talent on distant Deneb. Using mental powers alone, these few Prime Talents transport ships, cargo and people between Earth’s Moon, Mars’ Demos and Jupiter’s Callisto.Īn orphaned young girl, simply called The Rowan, is discovered to have superior telepathic potential and is trained to become Prime Talent on Callisto. The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League. 5/24/2023 0 Comments A passage to india novelistIf the message of Howard's End was that private relationships are all, that men must only learn to connect, the message of A Passage to India is that an unjust social order can be a stronger barrier to understanding than even sex that even lover between friends will drown in a sea of racial suspicion and hatred. There is less creation, less imagining in it than you would expect from Forster, and more careful, studied understanding of what a people ruled by aliens is really like. It is a political and a social work, both the least personal and the most dramatically constructed of his novels. Part of the reason why A Passage to India is such a great success as a play is that the novel is quite a different sort of achievement from anything else that Forster has written. She has taken only the hard, tight plot of the book and fashioned of it a play crackling with enormous, concentrated tension, an exciting drama which yet retains much of the novelist's insight and generous wisdom. Santha Rama Rau's stage adaptation of A Passage to India is-not to put too fine a point on matters-superb. Given the possibilities in the book, it was perhaps inevitable that some one would write a play based upon it, and some one has, with astonishing results. Forster's A Passage to India has come to be recognized as one of the finest novels of the century. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The field guide by tony diterlizziUse features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. "Appealing characters, well-measured suspense and an inviting package will lure readers.younsgters may well find themselves glancing over their shoulders." - Publishers Weekly, starred review, "With their evocative gothic-style pencil drawings and color illustrations, rhyming riddles, supernatural lore, and well-drawn characters, these books read like old-fashioned ripping yarns." - New York Times Book Review, "Appealing characters, well-measured suspense and an inviting package will lure readers.younsgters may well find themselves glancing over their shoulders." -Publishers Weekly, starred review, "The books wallow in their dusty Olde Worlde charm: Faeries! Dumbwaiters! Attics! But then, reading has an old-fashioned charm too." -Timemagazine, "With their evocative gothic-style pencil drawings and color illustrations, rhyming riddles, supernatural lore, and well-drawn characters, these books read like old-fashioned ripping yarns." - "New York Times Book Review", "The books wallow in their dusty Olde Worlde charm: Faeries! Dumbwaiters! Attics! But then, reading has an old-fashioned charm too. The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1) - Kindle edition by DiTerlizzi, Tony, Black, Holly, DiTerlizzi, Tony. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Dave mustaine 90sFrom 1989 to 1998, the group was formed by Mustaine, bassist David Ellefson, guitarist Marty Friedman and drummer Nick Menza. It was during the 90s that Megadeth kept their line-up the same for the longest time. And so, there were several situations where we would make decisions were presented to us in a way kind of, like, ‘You got to do this,’ or ‘That’s just how it is.’ I can’t tell you how much we would laugh about the bands that we were forced to take out on tour with us, especially during the nu metal period that we went through… You know, all these bands that wouldn’t play solos and stuff.,” Dave Mustaine said. “For us, we went through a period where, admittedly, we were trying to do what we were told. “All these glam bands, and then you think about all the alternative bands – well, what happened to the metal bands that were on the radio at the time? Well, they kind of got swept up into the dark, and only the strong survived.” Remember Warrant, Poison, Def Leppard, all these bands. You either had to be an alternative band, or you needed to be a glam kind of event. You know, in 1992, when Nirvana, Def Leppard, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden all happened to radio in America. “I wanted to make a record that satisfied me. Dave Mustaine recalls how difficult was the 90s for Megadeth: a man named Attila-the most dangerous enemy Rome has ever known. Now, he faces a man who once saved his life, a man he fears, loves and admires. Once Flavius lived among the wild Huns, rode their stout warhorses and became like a son to their king. At this pivotal moment, General Flavius Aetius is forced into a battle he does not want but cannot afford to lose. In his extraordinary new work, he brings to life the buckling Roman empire in 400 A.D., a jagged, sprawling realm of foreign fighters, unstable rulers, and battle lines stretched too far. In his novels of ancient warfare, Michael Curtis Ford captures the roar, clamor and horror of battle as well as the intimate moments of human choice upon which history turns. Now, from across a broad plain of waving grass, a new enemy had poured out of the East-to be led by a man whose goal was not just victory in battle, but the end of an empire. ONE MOMENT OF DESTINY.įor centuries, Rome had ruled from Africa to the wilds of Britain. Now, from across a broad plain of waving grass, a new enemy had poured out of the East-to be led by a man whose goal was not just victory. ONE MOMENT OF DESTINY.For centuries, Rome had ruled from Africa to the wilds of Britain. In his riveting novel The Sword of Attila, Michael Curtis Ford thrilled readers with his recounting of a cataclysmic clash of ancient civilizations. 5/23/2023 0 Comments The Interestings by Meg WolitzerBut the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. Shes every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. The Interestings secures Wolitzers place among the best novelists of her generation. With this book has surpassed herself.-The New York Times Book Review A victory. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents be and the shapes their lives take. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts be inseparable. About the Book The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. 5/22/2023 0 Comments The infernal devices trilogyThe Infernal Devices finds it difficult to correct by being historical when illegitimacy, deleted records or unrecorded lives, and other forms of erasure and fantasy constitute both a mixed-race archive and cultural memory. The Infernal Devices' investment in an interracial romance draws our attention away from Tessa's development as a heroine and towards the romance of race. This chapter explores the relationship between whiteness, Eurasian identity, and masculinity by showing how the deployment of the Victorian can reinforce, rather than critique, discourses of whiteness and racism that bleed from the past into present and, it seems, beyond the books themselves. The Infernal Devices trilogy-Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess-form a prequel to Clare's wildly popular The Mortal Instruments series. |