![]() In the wake of the October 2019 protest movement, he wrote his second book, Octobre Liban (Inculte, 2020). Ougarit was awarded the Prix Écrire la Ville in 2020 and the Prix France-Liban of the Association des Écrivains de Langue Française (ADELF) in 2019.īack in Lebanon in 2018, he get involved in the fight against corruption and for a genuine democratic reform. His first novel Ougarit (Inculte, 2019) mixes a political plot with an urban reflection on Dubai and, through it, on the city of the 21st century. As a writer, Camille is interested in psychogeography as a literary device to address contemporary urban issues through literature. ![]() As a policy advisor addresses issues related to climate change, environment, political economy, and sustainable urban development. After studying economics and political science in Beirut, Paris and Bologna, Camille Ammoun worked for ten years in Dubai on policies related to urban sustainability and resilience. ![]()
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![]() Pitched as a haunted retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, Gilded was one of my most anticipated releases of 2021. Soon Serilda realizes that there is more than one secret hidden in the castle walls, including an ancient curse that must be broken if she hopes to end the tyranny of the king and his wild hunt forever. Gilded is the latest release from the ultimate Queen of Retellings, Marissa Meyer. Love isn’t meant to be part of the bargain. In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. ![]() When one of Serilda’s outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. ![]() Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller’s daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. In Gilded, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairytale world with this haunting tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or, you can opt for this hardcover that collects all 18 issues of the first series. Runaways volume 1: Pride and Joy, Runaways volume 2: Teenage Wasteland is not listed on Amazon for some reason, but its ISBN is 0785114157, and Runaways volume 3: The Good Die Young. ![]() It’s also the best book you aren’t reading. Add colors by Christina Strain and you’ve got one brilliant ride. It’s by Brian Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, with guest spots by Takeshi Miyazawa. It isn’t tied into some obscure facet of Marvel continuity and doesn’t feature an X-Man. It’s funny, action-packed, dramatic, and most of all, it’s new. ![]() Runaways is one of those books that should be doing Ultimates numbers. Let me tell you a little bit about Runaways. How many books in the top 100 are not spin-offs, revamps, or the continuing saga of an ancient property? We have The Sentry #7 coming in at #64, Cyberforce #1 at #83, Spawn #154 at #86, and Y the Last Man #43 at #93 Most of your famous comics are what, at least thirty years old now? Here are some sales figures for March 2006. ![]() ![]() In ‘Sirius’ (1944) Olaf Stapledon envisages a dog raised to levels of human intelligence by scientific interventions, with poignantly tragic consequences. There’s the wise ‘Blood’, who forms a supportively telepathic partnership with Vic in Harlan Ellison’s post-apocalypse “A Boy And His Dog” ( ‘New Worlds’ no.189, April 1969). There are movies, and re-imagined remakes of movies exploring that possibility.īut dogs? Dogs feature in SF with some frequency. ![]() Otherwise, the most obvious world-inheritors are other hominid species. Those bets that have not gone to machines or artificial-intelligences have gone to insects who, although individually incapable of all that opposable-thumbs stuff, use a kind of hive-mind specialisation that enables them to achieve things collectively. Science Fiction has frequently ruminated on who or what will inherit the world once the human race has shuffled off to extinction. ![]() When it comes to a species replacing human beings in some conjectural future-history, this puts them at a distinct disadvantage. Which means they can’t grasp, handle or shape objects. ![]() Dogs, like cats, do not have opposable thumbs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Flora is off to theatre school in Scotland. The siblings have a new pink-haired, fairy-wing-wearing nanny. ![]() The winds of change are whooshing through the Gadsby household. In a Nutshell: Sibling shenanigans | Family frenzies | Everyday miracles Humorous, generous-hearted fourth and final novel in a heavenly series that just keeps on giving. 20+ Brilliant Books Featuring Unforgettable Deaf or Hard of Hearing Characters for Deaf Awareness Week.Celebrate King Charles III and his Coronation with these Majestic Children's Books.New imprint, Pineapple Lane, launches with seven Ukrainian picture books.Sally Anne Garland and The Art of the Every Day.Fit for a King and May Day Madness! Topical themes to inspire aspiring young writers.The year’s outstanding debut authors for children: shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award announced.Celebrate Grandparents Day with 50 great kids books about grandparents.Anxiety & Wellbeing - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health. ![]() Jacqueline Wilson - our Guest Editor of the Month.Branford Boase 2023 – what the judges had to say about the shortlist.Read Hour returns for its third year in the UK with Moomin Characters.In its 20th year, the shortlist for CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) reflects the wealth of talent in children’s poetry.13 Children's Books Featuring Poverty and Homelessness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of choosing intellectuals or upper-class Chinese as her subjects, Buck chose normal, everyday people who did normal, everyday things. The United States would be allied with Chinese forces against the Japanese, and the novel helped to humanize Chinese people for American audiences. The novel also appeared shortly before the beginning of World War II. America was in the middle of the Great Depression, so Americans saw themselves reflected in Wang Lung's suffering. Timing was everything for the book's popularity. Plus, it was made into a $2.8 million movie, which was a huge deal at the time. It also won the Pulitzer Prize (and nearly every other prize that it could win), and helped Buck become the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize. It was the best-selling novel in 19, and it was translated into more than 30 languages. ![]() He is tempted over and over again by the vices of wealth, but he always comes back to his roots and to the land. Wang Lung is a farmer who tries hard, even through bad times, and eventually makes it rich. Buck's best-selling novel, has a pretty simple story. And sure, he makes it to the city and gets rich, but this is no happy ending. Except, you know, that Wang Lung is Chinese. The poor, small-town boy makes it to the big city and comes back rich. ![]() ![]() Titled for Rushdie’s alias during his years in hiding (an amalgam of the first names of two of his favourite writers, Conrad and Chekhov), Joseph Anton has a varied, ambitious agenda. Twelve years later, of course, the “Rushdie Affair” would come to seem like a dress rehearsal for what Rushdie himself calls “the main event.” In the years to come it would become a household word, one inextricably linked to the writer previously famous for his 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children. The day took a drastic turn for the worse, however, when a BBC reporter called to inform Rushdie that, as a result of perceived insults to Islam in his book The Satanic Verses, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini had sentenced him to death.īefore that call, Rushdie, like most people in the West, had never heard the term fatwa. ![]() His second wife, the American novelist Marianne Wiggins, had recently declared she was unhappy in their marriage. Valentine’s Day 1989 started inauspiciously for Salman Rushdie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zdarsky gives us a perfect Peter Parker who has so much doubt in what he does, playing off the time period perfectly as so many were wondering about America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Bagley is the ideal artist for this story as he has been around and worked on some significant milestones in Spider-Man’s life. It is very similar to what we are used to, and that is perfect by way of Bagley’s art. Here are some rundowns of each issue: Book 1: 1960sĬhip Zdarsky and Mark Bagley perfectly draw you into this web spinner’s world. Zdarsky and Mark Bagley work together to make this “ What If†genuinely amazing. I highly recommend this series as it is a beautiful exploration of Spider-Man in a real-life, real-time setting. Marvel has released a new version of Spider-Man: Life Story called Spider-Man: Life Story Extra, as this includes both the six-issue mini-series and the annual. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum. Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations. We become more successful when we are happier and more positive. Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart. ![]() No one ever succeeds without the help of others. ![]() But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. ![]() If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Link joined his best friend, Ethan Wate, on a quest through. Also by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl The Beautiful CreaturesNovels Beautiful Creatures Beautiful Darkness Beautiful Chaos CHAPTER 1 The Story No One Ever. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Catch up with Ethan, Lena, and Link as they finally graduate from high school and get ready to leave the small Southern town of Gatlin. Read Dream Dark: A Beautiful Creatures Story by Kami Garcia available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() But it's almost like an art movie, the first science-fiction art film It's a futuristic film beautifully put together It's really impeccably made by one of the great visionary directors And you really saw a future that looked very different from the future you had seen before A future that looked very believable like the visual-effects shots of the flying car going over a futuristic city The fight sequence doesn't prepare you for the traumatic emotional side that there is in the film, it leaves you sort of broken There is a beautiful, delicate emotional great scene that I remember when I first saw the movie I'm in the theater and I'm so drawn in what Rutger Hauer's doing I'm so drawn in by what the theme of the movie has brought us to The magnificent moment where he is letting go of life And in those last moments of letting go of life he's really learned to appreciate life to the point where he spares Deckard's life, and where he's even holding a white dove because he just wants to have something that's alive in his hands It's an amazing sort of crescendo that's going and there's Rutger saying: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. ![]() |