![]() ![]() The first few pages of the novel deal with a sourcerer's father who cheats death by making a prophecy that Death must honour the alternative is to risk destroying the Discworld. To prevent the creation of sourcerers, therefore, wizards are not allowed to marry or have children. Since sourcerers are born the eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son, they are wizards squared. As eight is a powerful magical number on Discworld, men born as the eighth son of an eighth son are commonly wizards. On the Discworld, sourcerers – wizards who are sources of magic, and thus immensely more powerful than normal wizards – were the main cause of the great mage wars that left areas of the disc uninhabitable. ![]() Sourcery is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the fifth book in his Discworld series, published in 1988. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you’re looking to learn more about these issues, then look no further than Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. But is it always justified? And how bad is this problem really? You might not worry about being evicted, but for many Americans, this fear is real and too common. It’s certainly fair for people that don’t pay for their space to be thrown out. ![]() Why would someone do such a thing? In this case, the tenants got angry simply because the landlord told them they had to pay rent or get out. ![]() There were broken windows, cupboards, and appliances. It was a landlord walking through a house they owned which the previous tenants trashed. The other day I was browsing through Reddit when I came across a crazy video that made me stop and watch it all the way through. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]() ![]() Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of Arithmetic?Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Chico Marx 4 How Big Floating Point Works ? Don?t be a hero, young man.There?s no percentage in it.Harlan Potter 5 How Big Rationals Work ? I only took the regular course. ![]() John Lennon and Paul McCartney 3 How Big Integers Work ? He say five, I say six. John Lennon and Paul McCartney 2 How Numbers Work ? Look up the number. George Marsaglia 1 How Names Work ? You know my name. Not Maria Augusta von Trapp 0 Read Me First! ? Few images invoke the mysteries and ultimate certainties of a sequence of random events as well as that of the proverbial monkey at a typewriter. ![]() MC Double Def DP Chapter List Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Table of contents : Front Cover Front Matter Did I hear you right, did I hear you sayin? that you?re gonna make a copy of a game without payin? Come on, guys, I thought you knew better. ![]() ![]() ![]() Namin’s parents run a tented food cart from dawn to curfew her sister works in a shoe factory. Jisun, the daughter of a powerful business mogul, grew up on a mountainside estate with lush gardens and a dedicated chauffeur. Success could lead to a life of rarefied privilege and wealth failure means being left irrevocably behind.įor childhood friends Jisun and Namin, the stakes couldn’t be more different. At South Korea’s top university, the nation’s best and brightest compete to join the professional elite of an authoritarian regime. Two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s “economic miracle” in a striking debut novel for readers of Anthony Marra and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Giant Science-Fiction Six-Pack (2014) (with Samuel R Delany, Harry Harrison, H Beam Piper, Winston P Sanders ( Poul Anderson) and Harl Vincent) ![]() Science Fiction Gems, Volume Two (2011) (with James Blish, Roger Dee, Philip K Dick, Philip José Farmer, C M Kornbluth, Alan E Nourse, Rog Phillips, Robert Silverberg and Manly Wade Wellman) The Early Works of Marion Zimmer Bradley (2009) The Laran Gambit (2022) (with Deborah J Ross) The Children of Kings (2013) (with Deborah J Ross) The Alton Gift (2007) (with Deborah J Ross)Ģ8. Traitor's Sun (1999) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)Ģ7. ![]() The Shadow Matrix (1997) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)Ģ6. Exile's Song (1996) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)Ģ5. Hastur Lord (2010) (with Deborah J Ross)Ģ4. Thunderlord (2016) (with Deborah J Ross)Ģ3. Rediscovery (1993) (with Mercedes Lackey)ġ7. A Flame in Hali (2004) (with Deborah J Ross)ġ1. Zandru's Forge (2003) (with Deborah J Ross)ĥ. The Fall of Neskaya (2001) (with Deborah J Ross)Ĥ. Stormqueen! (1978) (with Paul Edwin Zimmer)ģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel focuses on a young mother’s desire to pursue more in life than motherhood, thereby giving readers an alternative look at the complexities of raising children. Of course, it’s also worth mentioning that the general area that Woodson focuses on is now undergoing yet another change in its population as many neighborhoods in New York City are experiencing gentrification.īecause Another Brooklyn examines what it means to grow up without a mother, it is similar to Jacqueline Woodson’s only other novel for adults, Red At The Bone. Although Woodson doesn’t spend much time in Another Brooklyn dwelling on this shift in Brooklyn’s population, the change serves as a backdrop for the novel, as August watches the last of her white neighbors packing up their cars and driving away to live elsewhere. One especially illustrative figure is that the Flatbush neighborhood was 89 percent white in 1970 and then only 30 percent white by the end of the decade, with African Americans making up as much as 50 percent of the population. For many years, Brooklyn was largely populated by white Irish and Italian immigrants, but this began to change in the 1960s and, even more notably, in the 1970s, as censuses began to show an increase in African American residents. ![]() During the 1970s, Brooklyn-and especially neighborhoods to the east of Prospect Park-underwent a significant population change. ![]() ![]() His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is beloved by both families and scholars―for it was Gardner who first decoded many of the mathematical riddles and wordplay that lay ingeniously embedded in Carroll’s two classic stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.įorty years after this groundbreaking publication, Norton is proud to publish the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice, a work that combines the notes of Gardner’s 1959 edition with his 1990 volume, More Annotated Alice, as well as additional discoveries drawn from Gardner’s encyclopedic knowledge of the texts. Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz (8)įor over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world’s leading authorities on Lewis Carroll.Analysts from the Los Angeles Institute (38). ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() What Greta doesn’t know is that she’s about to bump into Big Swiss in the local dog park. ![]() Greta is miles away, sitting at a desk in her own house, wearing only headphones, fingerless gloves, a kimono, and legwarmers, transcribing this disembodied voice. Greta and Big Swiss are not in the same room, or even the same building. Nor has Greta actually ever been to Switzerland. Well that’s how Greta imagines seeing her they haven’t actually ever met in person. She’s a head-turner: including the heads of infants and dogs. Greta can see her now: dressed top to toe in white, that adorable gap between her two front teeth, her penetrating blue eyes. That’s Greta’s nickname for her – she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Hand Signed by Jen Beagin to a Signature Page Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest.Politics & Government: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]() ![]() ![]() For over a decade, she has been retracing her grandmother’s Holocaust survival story and documenting the echoes of WWII. Rachael Cerrotti is an award-winning author, photographer, educator and audio producer as well as the inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation. Her 2018 memoir, The Pendulum A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) reveals her 6-year journey through Europe and Latin America to discover the role her grandparents played in the Third Reich. Julie Lindahl is a multi-national author, activist and educator living in Sweden. Rachael Cerrotti is the author of We Share The Same Sky (2021). Two storytellers turn to their own family’s history to explore how their grandparents survived the Nazi Regime. ![]() ![]() If the first installment was a hair-raising road-trip/hardscrabble survival tale, this one is a proper court intrigue laced with looming social revolution, cryptic religious prophecies, and a fair amount of gore. In a world where the dead gods may be reincarnated and every caste has witches and Birthrights, inequality and prejudices nevertheless fester, albeit along caste and class lines (rather than explicitly racial ones). ![]() Familiar with death, decay, and discrimination, Fie is a refreshingly earthy and grimly determined protagonist with borrowed powers but innate pugnaciousness romance clashes with her self-reliance. When Rhusana interrupts Fie’s too-brief reunion with Jasimir and Tavin (his half brother, a royal bastard, and Fie’s love interest) via gruesome zombielike skin-ghasts and new mind-control magic, Fie goes solo. ![]() ![]() Fierce young Fie, now a chieftain, and her Crows already delivered Prince Jasimir to safety once, but their promised protection-from daily abuse and nighttime Oleander Gentry raids-is threatened again by Queen Rhusana’s ruthless rise to power. Unlike the 11 other bird-named castes of Sabor, only the Crows can handle the Sinner’s Plague victims, dispatching fatal “mercy,” handling corpses, and taking teeth as payment, yet they are reviled. ![]() Plague and power struggles continue to ravage a kingdom in this sequel to 2019’s The Merciful Crow. ![]() |