![]() ![]() Here is an epic tale of magic in an interesting historic setting: Regency England. By signing up you agree to our terms of use Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. The final book in this series came out December 10, 2019. Meanwhile, a young man wakes up in the forest covered in blood with no memory of who he is. Davian is a Gifted who was born after the war and is only beginning to understand his abilities in this first book. Now, those who once served the Augurs (called “The Gifted”) only live by accepting the rebellion’s Four Tenets, which great limits their powers. Twenty years ago, they were overthrown and killed. This is the first book in the Licanius trilogy, and yes, this has been called “the next Wheel of Time.” The Augurs are godlike people who are able to use magic called “kan” to read and control minds and see the future. ![]() The Shadow of what Was Lost by James Islington A definite must-read for people who love Wheel of Time. ![]() This epic first novel is over 1,000 pages, featuring many characters and weapons and all that fun stuff. In the world of Roshar, the landscape is unforgiving and emotions take on a physical form. The Way of Kings is the first book in the Stormlight Archive series. With that in mind, it makes sense that after completing the Wheel of Time series, you would want to turn to Brandon Sanderson’s newest series next. ![]() Author Brandon Sanderson completed the Wheel of Time series after the unfortunate death of original author Robert Jordan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Suleika finally walked out of the hospital-after three and a half years of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant-she was, according to the doctors, “cured.” But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends it’s where it begins. She would spend much of the next four years confined to a hospital bed, fighting for her life. ![]() By time she boarded a plane home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. ![]() Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself was engulfed in flames. Then came a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Then came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only seemed to deepen her fatigue. ![]() It started with an itch-first on her feet, then migrating up her legs-like a thousand mosquito bites. The “real world” she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. In the summer of 2010, Suleika Jaouad had just graduated from college, preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life-from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times ![]() ![]() She continues to serve as executive editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and as co-editor of the Duke University Press book series ASTERISK: gender, trans-, and all that comes after. Since retiring from UofA, she has been Presidential Fellow and Visiting Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University (2019-2020), Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership, Mills College (2020-2022), and Marta Sutton Weeks External Faculty Fellow, Stanford University Humanities Institute, 2022-23. Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies. ![]() ![]() Kant is often described as an ethical rationalist, and the description is not wholly inappropriate. A hypothetical imperative demands a course of action to achieve a specified result for example, “ If I want to stay dry in the rain, then I should take my umbrella with me.” A categorical imperative demands a course of action under all possible circumstances for example, “ Thou shalt not commit murder.”Īccording to Kant, hypothetical imperatives respond to desires, while categorical imperatives constitute rationality. ![]() Imperatives are either hypothetical or categorical. ![]() ![]() In "The Critique of Practical Reason" (1788), Immanuel Kant argues that principles are subjective (and therefore maxims) if one person considers them they are objective (and therefore imperatives) if every rational being considers them. ![]() ![]() ![]() But surviving as a lone child-werewolf was more than he could manage-until Jeremy came along and taught him how to straddle the human-werewolf worlds, gave him a home…and introduced him to the Pack. Kelley Armstrong has made a huge name for herself with her trademark portrayals of the strong, unusually gifted women who populate her Otherworld.īut her fans have always wanted to know more about the men who love these women, and revealed in the pages of this collection are the life stories – and secrets – of Clay and Jeremy, two of the sexiest and most mysterious men of the Otherworld.Īs a curious six-year-old, Clayton didn’t resist the bite-he asked for it. Now she is back with a true gift for her fans: an exclusive glimpse into the minds and hearts of the men of the Pack. ![]() In this collection of four tales, she gives equal time to the men who love these sexy, supernatural women-men who live on the wild side. New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong has captivated readers with her spellbinding Women of the Otherworld series. ![]() ![]() Gale rated the collection four+ stars out of five, writing that "few other authors can claim consistently high level of excellence" and mentioning "Profession" and "The Ugly Little Boy" as especially good. " The Last Question", loosely part of the Multivac seriesįloyd C." All the Troubles of the World", part of the Multivac series. ![]() IDC MS, Subtitulos de Yify subdivx, Siln prezidenty: Teorie. ‘Profissão’, é um conto inserido na obra de ficção cientifica do livro ‘Nove Amanhãs’ de Isaac Asimov. Resenha do conto: Profissão, Nove Amanhãs.
![]() Wisecracker sweeps from gay pool parties to the excitement of early talkies to Haines's infamous encounter with gay-bashing white supremacists in 1936. Here is Haines's virtually unknown story-rich with detail, revelations, and scandal-about silent movies and talkies his lover Jimmie Shields, and their fifty-year relationship (Joan Crawford, their best friend, called them "The happiest married couple in Hollywood") and the enforcement of the Production Code and establishment of the Hollywood closet, which led to the blacklisting that ultimately doomed Haimes's film career. Off screen, however, protected by a careful collaboration between studio and press, he was openly gay with reporters and studio chiefs alike. ![]() In 1930 William Haines was Hollywood's #1 box-office draw-a talented, handsome, and wisecracking romantic lead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Break the cycle of mindless consumption and get light with your life. Do what scares you and embrace discomfort daily. En route, she leads us through a series of 'wildly awake' and joyful practices for reconnecting again that include: Drawing on science, literature, philosophy, the wisdom of some of the world's leading experts, and her personal journey, Wilson weaves a one-of-a-kind narrative that lights the way back to the life we love. this one wild and precious life opens our eyes to how we got here and offers a radically hopeful path forward. Sarah Wilson argues that this sense of despair and disconnection is ironically what unites us - that deep down, we are all feeling that same itch for a new way of living. ![]() We have retreated, morally and psychologically we are experiencing a crisis of disconnection - from one another, from our true values, from joy, and from life as we feel we are meant to be living it. The climate crisis, political polarisation, racial injustice and coronavirus have left many of us in a state of spiritual PTSD. Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one wild and precious life? A hopeful path forward in fractured world. ![]() ![]() Befuddled by gossiping ladies, Amara determines perhaps it is time to finally put a stop to the rumors and once and for all, answer the question, ‘Is it true?’ Did Elizabeth Bathory, a descendant of Vlad Tepes really commit the horrible acts of torture, bathe in the blood of slaughtered virgins, and dabble in the dark magic that she was accused of during her trial? Now it is years later, 1628, and Amara is aging, alone, and reduced to eavesdropping at her favorite café around the corner from her townhouse in Vienna. In 1573, after the death of her mother, Amara is sent by her cousin to serve as a lady-in-waiting at the castles of Sarvar, Varanno, and Cachtice. ![]() After all, she was Elizabeth’s companion and confidant since her eleventh year. ![]() ![]() Amara Borbala is certain she is the only living person in the sane world with intimate knowledge concerning the life and exploits of the Countess Elizabeth Bathory. ![]() ![]() Camus says that each one of us can come to the shearing realization of the meaninglessness of existence. He begins the essay with his trademark term of ‘The Absurd.’ He states that this is to describe the fundamental contradiction between people’s innate desire to find meaning, clarity and purpose in everything, while living in a world of indifference. Judging whether life is or is not worth living, that is the fundamental question of philosophy.” This can be clearly seen in the first sentences of the essay: “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. It is an interesting essay, not because it discusses the purpose of our existence, but because it follows a unique perspective and set of arguments that haven’t been encountered before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Albert Camus, an Algerian philosopher from the 1940s, was only twenty-nine when he published his first philosophical essay, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus,’ about absurdism. ![]() |