![]() ![]() When they stay in Spirit Vale Maude opens a business where she "contacts" the spirits and practices the movement known as Spiritualism. The inn is already fully booked, but, Maude "contacts" the husband of the inn's owner, Aunty Lily, and she lets them stay. Maude moves them to Spirit Vale, where they are going to stay at the inn for a bit. Tesla becomes Jane's ultimate role model and collects newspaper clippings about him over the years. ![]() He believes that everything vibrates and at different frequencies, you can travel between time and different worlds. He explains that he has been destroying things and this earthquake machine is one of his ideas. ![]() But a man named Nikola Tesla rescues them, and they watch him smash a small device. An earthquake starts, buildings start shaking and Mimi gets a bad headache. They soon take a train to New York city when, suddenly, the ground starts splitting apart and shaking. Their mother decides to go to a little place named Spirit Vale. One day, they go to a park to meditate, and Mimi & Jane go for a walk. Jane's father has recently died of Smallpox, and her mother is in grief. They live in America in the late 19th century. A girl named Jane Taylor lives with her mother and four other sisters (Mimi, Amelie, Emma, and Blythe). ![]()
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![]() I found it gorgeously written conveying complex ideas in accessible ways. This is the second book I’ve read on Shinto. As far as that, this book met and exceeded by expectations. Elements of Shinto tie into entertainment I enjoy from Japan and I wanted to learn more from a religious perspective. My reasons for reading this book were purely secular. And, although the introductory chapters may read as preachy the later ones strongly advise caution in worship (separating one's desire to be communicating with spirits from the innate creative elements of the human mind) and also returns to the notion that although aspects of Shinto may have universal truth, the application of them should have context to the culture practicing them. He provides insight into prayer and meditation techniques. Within that structure he dissects words to get to the core of their meaning. In that sense it is heavy on the religion and philosophy, making statements of belief as truth. I think it is written by a true believer who wants to translate for the public the core elements of his belief system. However, I disagree that the entire book is preachy. ![]() This is absolutely a book written by a religious practitioner rather than a secular scholar. ![]() ![]() Not so much because any of the low star reviews are incorrect about some tonal elements but because I would have missed out on some very interesting translations (language and cultural). Well, first of all, I am glad I didn't read the goodreads reviews prior to picking up this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets. It’s all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole fizzy lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling, which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir! I buried the truth. I would lose the crown and kingdom I had sacrificed so much for. ![]() I feared that one movie would undermine all the good I had done on my mission and in my life. But still I was paranoid that the mission president would somehow find out and send me home. I waited for my new companion to arrive, shadowed with shame about what I had just done. No prior feeling in France compared to the tranquility I had while cloaked in the sanctity of the theater watching the iceberg sink the ship.Īfter the movie, I snuck out and didn’t put on my name tag until I was a safe distance from the theater and in my own neighborhood. I felt more like myself and closer to God in that theater than I had felt over the past sixteen months of prayer-filled, scripture-filled missionary service. I didn’t fully catch every word, but I did not care. Heather is one of the most recognizable Bravolebrity. The movie was in French with no subtitles. Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay recently arrived on Below Deck Adventure’s motor yacht, Mercury, and her net worth shows that she can afford many more trips like this one. ![]() ![]() However, the sins of Theo’s past have come back to haunt her.Ĭress is a young Kalovaxian noblewoman who claimed Theo as her best friend during Theo’s imprisonment, despite being the daughter of the man who killed Theo’s mother. Hoping to free her people, Theo and her friends believe that they finally have the advantage over the Kalovaxians. ![]() Now Theo has returned to Astrea, leading an army made up of freed Astreans, pirates, refugees and forces from the other nations the Kalovaxians have ruined. However, this imprisonment didn’t break Theo instead, with the help of her friends, she was able to escape to forge her own destiny. Princess Theodosia, heir the Astrean throne, was imprisoned and spent over 10 years as a captive of the Kalovaxian Kaiser, belittled by the mocking title of “Ash Princess”. Years ago, when the vicious Kalovaxians invaded the island of Astrea, they killed their queen, enslaved the Astrean people and stole their sacred magical gems. Young adult fantasy fiction author Laura Sebastian brings her debut series to a close in a big way with Ember Queen, the excellent and exciting conclusion to the Ash Princess trilogy. Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia (Trade Paperback – 11 February 2020) ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in 1975 Northern Ireland, Trespasses by Louise Kennedy revolves around Twenty-four-year-old Catholic schoolteacher Cushla Lavery, a resident of a garrison town near Belfast. The vocabulary of a 7-year-old child now.” ![]() *Shortlisted for The 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction* ![]() With our own society seeing alarming levels of polarization, this is at times a sobering read. What might in another time and place be decisions that have only personal consequences, we see that in 1975 Northern Ireland Cushla’s choices have ramifications that impact her family and community. We follow Cushla Lavery, a young RC schoolteacher, who doesn’t always follow the route prescribed for her, trespassing (as the title suggests) into a married relationship and, separately but perhaps relatedly, into the family life of one of her students. At its heart, this is a personal, character driven work. Kennedy shows the situation with nuance, including a class element that adds another layer to the dynamic. Many of us viewing the Troubles from the outside, at a remove of time and distance, might see both sides as rather unsympathetic. ![]() Set in a small town outside Belfast at the height of the Troubles, we see a mixed community coming to terms with increasing sectarianism. That this is Louise Kennedy’s debut novel is all the more impressive. 1975 - just about as well as any historical work out there. Trespasses captures a time and place - Northern Ireland ca. ![]() ![]() His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, and French. Salvatore’s original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drake's books come with a trigger warning. Drake keeps her website up to date find her next book and what city she'll be in next for a signing! Her books can be found in different languages around the world. It brought me out of my shell and taught me to look at scenes from many different angles, which has proven to be a major asset to my writing." Nothing major, but Nova Scotia was just starting to get into the movie business at that point. When I was younger, I did a lot of acting in theater, TV, and movies. Being dyslexic was a hurdle, but I was always interested in storytelling. I hated English class and couldn’t write a paper to save my life. Drake, and this is my story…” (Like how I did that there? You’re welcome, Broken fans). When she’s not writing, you can often find her sitting somewhere along the coast of Huntington Beach, reading, or at home curled up on a couch with her two children and husband, binge-watching Marvel movies. Jodi’s love of the seasons back home in Canada definitely put an appearance in her books. Though she loves the weather in Cali, she would sell her left kidney for a good rainstorm. She was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, and later moved to southern California. The Broken Trilogy is her bestseller, and her next series, Dark Water runs deep into the Broken and Blackstone world. Drake is a bestselling author with multiple series published in several countries. ![]() ![]() This book explores the science behind Shelley’s book. Making the monster: the science behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. In search of Mary Shelley : the girl who wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson The author herself was just 19 when she wrote Frankenstein, making her story perhaps particularly of interest to young women and girls just as her iconoclastic lifestyle and feminist beliefs make her story all too relevant for adult readers today. ![]() ![]() In fact, all of these books have been published since our previous list of books about Shelley. ![]() This milestone anniversary has brought renewed interest in the woman herself, including the beautiful film Mary Shelleyby Haifaa Al Mansour, as well five new biographies (and one related work!). The year 2018 marks 200 years from the initial publication of Mary Shelley’s debut work, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus. ![]() ![]() ![]() They've made a lot of enemies in the pantheon-enemies who, like the Goddess of Death, will keep coming. But Gem – or at least who Gem used to be - hasn't always been the most benevolent deity. She and Gem are reincarnated gods who've known and loved each other across lifetimes. When Gem is attacked by a stranger claiming to be the Goddess of Death, Willa Mae saves their life and finally offers some answers. So how the hell does Willa Mae Hardy? The strange new girl in town acts like she and Gem are old companions, and seems to know things about them they've never told anyone else. ![]() The only person privy to their authentic self is another trans kid, Enzo, who's a thousand long, painful miles away in Brooklyn.īut even Enzo doesn't know about Gem's dreams, haunting visions of magic and violence that have always felt too real. Known for being their peers' queer awakening, Gem leans hard on charm to disguise the anxious mess they are beneath. Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, Georgia. Maybe I have always just been bad at being human because I'm not one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes all seven volumes, plus an exclusive, double-sided 10-by-15-inch poster and a replica of Shoko's communication notebook. The acclaimed, bestselling manga about a girl who can't hear and the boy who bullied her, from start to finish, in a premium, collectible box set. ![]() Years ago, Shoya Ishida led his peers in tormenting a hearing-impaired. This emotional drama is one of the most critically-acclaimed manga of the decade, earning an Eisner nomination and accolades from teachers and the American Library Association. ![]() |