![]() ![]() ![]() So I loved reading about characters who feel the same way I do about cons. Cons are a big part of my life – something that makes me happy, makes me feel accepted without judgement, and they’re just fun. I was at one of those about two weeks ago, and I go to roughly three of them a year. One of the things I liked most about Queens of Geek was the fact that it was set at a pop culture convention. If you’re looking for a light, fun, and quick contemporary YA novel with diverse characters then Queens of Geek is definitely for you. But when she hears about the Queen Firestone SupaFan Contest, she starts to rethink her rules on playing it safe. And there’s one thing in her life she knows will never change: her friendship with Jamie-no matter how much she may secretly want it to. Her brain is wired differently, making her fear change. ![]() While Charlie dodges questions about her personal life, Taylor starts asking questions about her own. When Alyssa Huntington arrives as a surprise guest, it seems Charlie’s long-time crush on her isn’t as one-sided as she thought. SupaCon is her chance to show fans she’s over her public breakup with co-star, Reese Ryan. What they don’t expect is for it to change their lives forever.Ĭharlie likes to stand out. ![]() When BFFs Charlie, Taylor and Jamie go to SupaCon, they know it’s going to be a blast. How: A copy of this novel was provided by Pan Macmillan Australia for review. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Morgan convalesces in the Turret Room, a room that Rebecca has previously been forbidden to visit. Gwilym is deeply grateful and he vows to repay Geoffrey one day. A traumatised Morgan turns up at Tredelerch and Geoffrey and Rebecca take him in. Talk turns to the cholera epidemic and Gwilym discusses his brother Morgan Llewellyn, a doctor working with patients overseas. Geoffrey belittles Rebecca during a luncheon and Reece Lyons (20), a poor meteorological student, comes to her rescue. ![]() ![]() Geoffrey, who has a passion for the railways, invests further in the American railroads despite warnings from Gwilym Llewellyn, his friend and business advisor. Rebecca then gives birth to their son, John. However the death of friend Janey Stone in childbirth brings the couple closer together. She becomes pregnant then angers him by telling him she will withdraw from sexual relations until after the birth. Naïve, shy Rebecca was eager to marry but soon discovers she lacks desire for her new husband. They live in Tredelerch, his beautiful home in Cardiff which is also a local weather station. Rebecca (21) has just married meteorologist and businessman Geoffrey de Roussier (40). It is narrated in the first-person by the main protagonist Rebecca de Roussier. Further themes are meteorology, railways, poverty and childbearing. Set in South Wales in the late Victorian era, it focuses on a young woman’s struggles with love and passion. ![]() This novel is in the genre of romantic historical fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He will exist through the pragmatism of satisfying immediate needs. ![]() This type will be the true brute, not the Nietzschean like Larsen, who is conscious of his brutality as much as of the morality it is designed to supersede. He must be a villain totally lacking knowledge of his villainy a man so consistently wronged by the ways of the world, so consistently remote from access to decent civilisation, as to defy the existence of morality altogether. The true Underman in London’s Dantesque scheme must issue from some hideous and blighted background. Education and culture preserve Van Weyden from the abyss. In the perfect ‘X’ the novel forms, Van Weyden grows to physical as well as moral strength at the same time as Larsen’s physical dominance is sapped by his moral brutality. Only temporarily, however, can Larsen reduce Van Weyden to the status of an Underman. Its narrator, the poet and critic Humphrey Van Weyden, whom Larsen has shanghaied from his pleasant dilettantish life in the San Francisco Bay Area, seems Larsen’s natural opposite in his over-civilisation and timidity. Its hero, Wolf Larsen, captain of the sealing-ship Ghost, is the classic literary embodiment of the Nietzschean Übermensch. ![]() London’s first great novel was The Sea Wolf (1903). ![]() ![]() ![]() But something is seriously wrong in his world, and they are attacked from every side. ![]() She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes-a weakness that could cost him his life.įurious, Rook spirits her away to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime. But when she receives her first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible mistake. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. Isobel is an artistic prodigy with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. ![]() “A funny, action-packed, and sweet romance.” - School Library Journal (starred review)Ī skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts-even as she falls in love with a faerie prince-in this gorgeous bestseller that’s “an ideal pick for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). ![]() ![]() ![]() But how do we interpret these images? In his introduction, Thomas Banchoff points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena than reading this classic novel of the Victorian era. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. We can now manipulate objects in four dimensions and observe their three-dimensional slices tumbling on the computer screen. Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction - charmingly illustrated by the author - describes the adventures of A. ![]() ![]() This field, which literally makes higher dimensions seeable, has aroused a new interest in visualization. A romance in many dimensions that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory A Penguin Classic A work that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadthits inhabitants unable even to imagine a third. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters.Ī first-rate fictional guide to the concept of multiple dimensions of space, the book will also appeal to those who are interested in computer graphics. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. ![]() ![]() Capturing the strange silence of bereavement ("Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me"), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life's passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in "Crowning," he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing "her face / full of fire, then groaning your face / out like a flower, blood-bloom, / crocused into air." Ending this book of both birth and grief, the gorgeous title sequence brings acceptance, asking "What good/are wishes if they aren't / used up?" while understanding "How to listen / to what's gone." Young's frank music speaks directly to the reader in these elemental poems, reminding us that the right words can both comfort us and enlarge our understanding of life's mysteries. "In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor," he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. ![]() ![]() ![]() The brief's recommendations build on the work of the Foundation’s Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative®. It is vital that advocates and policymakers align foster care policy with healthy adolescent and young adult development and partner with youth to make strategic investments in their futures. The data show that government systems must do more. "Fostering Youth Transitions 2023" examines how young people ages 14 to 21 were faring before and after they left foster care between 20 and how child welfare systems supported their transition to adulthood. ![]() The brief includes an analysis of comprehensive data spanning 15 years and is accompanied by data tables and source notes. Casey Foundation brief examines the experiences of teenagers and young adults in foster care as reported by all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Can you remember what we used to say about secrets?" Thomas Tryon?s bestselling novel about a homegrown monster is an eerie examination of the darkness that dwells within everyone. The Otheris a landmark of psychological horror, part of a lineage that includes the works of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shirley Jackson, and Peter Straub. As the summer goes on, though, and Holland?s pranks become increasingly sinister, Niles finds he can no longer make excuses for his brother?s actions. Perry never quite recovered from the shock and stays sequestered her room, leaving her sons to roam free. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled in centuries ago, and indeed, the extended family has gathered at their farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins? father in an unfortunate accident. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes his parents proud. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other?s thoughts, but they couldn?t be more different. Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Witty and imaginative, enriched by brilliant imagery, and making sportive use of both mythological and historical personages (including even Confucius), this timeless classic is sure to appeal to anyone interested in Chinese religion and culture. This is the central tenet of the philosophy espoused by Zhuangzi (369-286BC) in the book that bears his name. Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings includes the seven "inner chapters," which form the heart of the book, three of the "outer chapters," and one of the "miscellaneous chapters." Watson also provides an introduction, placing the philosopher in relation to Chinese history and thought. Authors: Zhuangzi, Burton Watson Summary: Only by understanding Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. ![]() Central to these is the belief that only by understanding Tao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can man achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. Using parable and anecdote, allegory and paradox, he set forth, in the book that bears his name, the early ideas of what was to become the Taoist school. Chuang Tzu (369?-286? B.C.) was a leading philosopher representing the Taoist strain in Chinese thought. And Burton Watsons lucid and beautiful translation has been. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful translation has been loved by generations of readers. The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. ![]() ![]() “No one knows how the chimp got the revolver,” Mr. Winslow dedicates “The San Diego Zoo,” to Elmore Leonard. The crook is pursued by an old school San Diego detective in this clever and interesting story. The crook admires Steve McQueen, the definition of California cool, and adheres to a set of principals he calls Crime 101 (“Crime 101: There’s a word for a man who believes in coincidences: the defendant”). Winslow dedicates to the late actor Steve McQueen, a clever jewel thief travels California Highway 101 in San Diego, robbing jewel couriers and merchants with a minimum of force and maximum speed. ![]() The murder sets off a tale of revenge and murder. The sensitive cop is murdered by a drug trafficker who sought to punish the narcotics officer who busted his drug shipment. One is a sensitive patrol officer and the other is a brutal narcotics officer. 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