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![]() ![]() The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out together - not without dangerous consequences. ![]() Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Both books are part of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Across the Barricades is part of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie series, the sequel to T he Twelfth Day of July. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the shadows of Forn Forest, Riv and the surviving Ben-Elim desperately search for a way to unite those who remain against Asroth's vast army.įar in the west, Drem is with the Order of the Bright Star, besieged by a demon horde. Now, alongside his dark bride Fritha, he plans to conquer the whole of the Banished Lands. The demon king Asroth has been freed from his iron prison. Heroes shall rise and fall, the earth shall be stained red, and the fate of the Banished Lands will be decided once and for all in A Time of Courage, the final book in acclaimed fantasy author John Gwynne's Of Blood and Bone trilogy. A Time of Courage (Blood and Bone, #3) by John GwynneĪlso by this author: A Time of Dread (Of Blood and Bone, #1), A Time of Blood (Of Blood and Bone, #2) ![]() ![]() My job as Executive Producer on #GoodOmens is primarily to remind the world the book had TWO FECKING AUTHORS Terry Pratchett August 14, 2017 Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens,” wrote Gaiman, while Wilkins made the same point: “My job as executive producer on #GoodOmens is primarily to remind the world the book had TWO FECKING AUTHORS.” The novelist, who only agreed to adapt Good Omens after reading a letter sent posthumously to him by Pratchett giving him his blessing to do so, also reminded Variety that the book had two authors after the magazine’s headline referred to the book as “Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens”. Gaiman, who scripted all six episodes of the forthcoming series, which is co-produced with BBC Studios, wrote on Twitter after learning of the casting: “You go down to the bottom of the garden to write, and leave your phone behind, and then something like this happens.” ![]() And Terry would groan, as he would never use magic in the same way.” “Terry didn’t use magic as a get out of jail free card in his writing, and he felt that after David, Doctor Who used the sonic screwdriver as a way to get himself out of trouble. Pratchett had particularly enjoyed Tennant’s role as Doctor Who, Wilkins added. “I can’t begin to tell you what a fan he was of David and Michael … He’d be looking down now and would be so incredibly pleased.” ![]() ![]() ![]() We’d already talked about our dream Aziraphale and Crowley, and David Tennant was there,” Wilkins told the Guardian. “I swear to god, Terry would be absolutely over the moon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pragmatic Spirituality incorporates some of the most engaging of Wilmore's voluminous writings to reinstate a persistent theme: that black or Africentric faith transposes itself from basically numinous and ecstatic elements in African and African diasporic religions to the immediate and practical work of healing and empowering the poor and marginalized. This book presents a view of the Christian faith and life at variance with the quest for personal sanctity by emphasizing communal empowerment for humanization and justice. Each chapter has been thoroughly reviewed and where appropriate reworked for this volume in order to create a coherent work which reveals a consistent "pragmatic spirituality" in African and African American religious practice. The volume makes available for the first time several of Wilmore's previously unpublished essays, including a new chapter on womanist theology written for this book. ![]() Pragmatic Spirituality brings together some of his most compelling writings to speak to continuing issues in African American Christianity and black theology. Wilmore, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of the African American church, is one of the founders of black theology and author of Black Religion and Black Radicalism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eighty of the early houses remained, updated for modern living but proudly displaying ornamented brown-shingle facades, artist-studio windows and other period features. More than 50 years after Lawrence Park ceased to exist as an art colony, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in recognition of its historic and architectural significance. Bates designed the Park's single-family "cottages" in a pleasing variety of turn-of-the-century styles. Edmund Clarence Stedman was called the Poet of Wall Street. Alice Wellington Rollins was a regular contributor to the day's literary magazines. Anna Winegar's Impressionist garden scenes illustrated horticultural books by Louise Beebe Wilder. ![]() Will Low designed murals for government buildings and private mansions. William Smedley painted distinguished society portraits. In the years between 18, Lawrence Park was the home of two dozen nationally prominent painters, writers and architects. Lawrence Park is the story of Bronxville's turn-of-the-century art colony: the artists and their art, the houses they lived in and how the village of Bronxville grew up around them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though they’ve known each other for years, they don’t really know each other-so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first. ![]() Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid’s stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all. When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. ![]() ![]() Summary: A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love-with all its complications-by debut author Ashley Herring Blake.ĭelilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls-nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Rep: lesbian protagonist, bisexual protagonist, bisexual side character Book: Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (Bright Falls #1) by Ashley Herring Blake ![]() ![]() ![]() He was on a fast track to getting killed-or killing someone else-or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.20 lbs)Īndre Dubus III, author of the National Book Award-nominated House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days, reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him-until he was saved by writing. Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks Contributor(s): III, Andre Dubus (Read by), Dubus, Andre, III (Read by)īinding Type: MP3 CD - See All Available Formats & Editions ![]() ![]() ![]() The slender political treatise is one of the most influential and controversial books published in Western literature. His explanation was that while Machiavelli “is frequently dismissed today as an amoral cynic who supposedly considered the end to justify the means,” he is, in fact, “a crystal-clear realist who understands the limits and uses of power.” Diamond, whose books include Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, said that what continues to make The Prince compelling reading for today’s political leaders is Machiavelli’s insistence “that we are not helpless at the hands of bad luck.” His answer? Niccoló Machiavelli’s The Prince, written 500 years ago. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond was asked which book he would require President Obama to read if he could. This portrait of the author, by Santi di Tito, hangs in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. ![]() Twitter Facebook Niccoló Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513, but it wasn’t published until 1532, five years after his death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Local-area networks or LANs allow thousands of machines within a building or campus to be connected in such a way that small amounts of information can be transferred in a few microseconds or so. The second development was the invention of high-speed computer networks. In any case, the current generation of machines have the computing power of the mainframes deployed 30 or 40 years ago, but for 1/1000th of the price or less. With multicore CPUs, we now are refacing the challenge of adapting and developing programs to exploit parallelism. Initially, these were 8-bit machines, but soon 16-, 32-, and 64-bit CPUs became common. The first was the development of powerful microprocessors. Starting in the mid-1980s, however, two advances in technology began to change that situation. Moreover, for lack of a way to connect them, these computers operated independently from one another. From 1945, when the modern computer era began, until about 1985, computers were large and expensive. ![]() The pace at which computer systems change was, is, and continues to be overwhelming. ![]() |