![]() ![]() She is also hiding her magic from her family since it is not at all socially acceptable for a woman to use magic. Henny is a good friend of the Sorceress Royal. As Muna learns more about the conflict and more about the past she doesn't remember, she makes friends with Henrietta Stapleton who is teaching at the academy for young women learning magic. It seems that a magical ornament has been stolen and she is convinced that the culprit is in England. But faerie is closed from England and the queen of the fae has declared war on England. Muna needs to hide her lack of magic and find a way to rescue her sister. Only Muna and Sakti are separated and on Muna manages to arrive in England. ![]() She sends them on a path through faerie to save them the year-long sea voyage. ![]() She decides to send them to England and her friend the Sorceress Royal in hopes that she can break the curse. Muna is determined to break the curse on her sister but Mak Genggang can't do it. Sakti becomes an apprentice magician while Muna, having no magic, finds work in the kitchen. They are taken in by Mak Genggang, primary witch of the island. This entertaining fantasy tells the story of two sisters - Muna and Sakti - who washed up on the beach of Janda Baik without any memories of their past. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Towards that goal, much of the religious discussion that Ransom, Lewis’s main character, encounters on Malacandra loosely resembles the basics of the Christian faith. Away from the reverence of “stained-glass and Sunday school” that Lewis perceives as obstructing the true potency of Christian thought, Lewis hopes that Out of the Silent Planet can open the imaginations of his readers so that they are better able to accept the amazing truths he himself has found in Christian life. Indeed, Lewis sees this fantastic setting as absolutely critical to his goal of influencing his readers to think about and engage with Christian ideas and beliefs, disrupting the “stuffy” lectures and moralistic plays that Lewis assumes most people associate with Christian teaching. ![]() ![]() Elwin Ransom’s experiences on the new planet Malacandra (Lewis’s name for Mars). In Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis uses the creative and exciting framework of a science fiction adventure to offer a new way for readers to think of Christianity through his protagonist Dr. Lewis, a devout Christian for much of his adult life, includes his interpretation of the fundamentals of Christian belief in all his novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() During their journeys, they often encounter wise older women who sometimes serve as foils, sometimes as mother figures. Miyazaki's heroines tend to be plucky young women who combine guileless decency with tough-mindedness. ![]() For newcomers to his world, "Howl's Moving Castle" is a fitting introduction to one of modern cinema's great enchanters. ![]() "Howl's Moving Castle," freely adapted from a children's fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, is the latest animated tour de force from Hayao Miyazaki, the director of, among other masterpieces, "Princess Mononoke," "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away." Admirers of his work, which is wildly imaginative, emotionally intense and surpassingly gentle, will find much to appreciate in this film because it demonstrates, once again, his visual ingenuity and his sensitivity as a storyteller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, also known as "Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat," is a prolific Chinese author of danmei novels who has a passionate global fanbase and novels translated into multiple languages, including The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Remnants of Filth, and the newest series Case File Compendium. Why did the man he loved betray him? And what secrets hide behind Gu Mang's tortured eyes? ![]() Or so he thought-for faced once more with his bitterest enemy, Mo Xi is left with more questions than answers. The public clamors for his death, and no one yearns for vengeance more than Mo Xi. Now Gu Mang has been returned to the empire a ruined man, a shadow of the military genius he once was. His comrade, the lowborn Gu Mang, was Mo Xi's brother-in-arms, best friend, and-secretly-his lover, until the day Gu Mang turned traitor and joined the ranks of their nation's greatest enemy. ![]() Once he was one of two promising young commanders, twin stars of the empire. Dalla storia fuori, He Yu sembra avere tutto per lui: è bello, ricco e intelligente. Noble-born Mo Xi is the foremost general of Chonghua, known for his ruthless temper and ascetic air. 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Though Hades was only fourteen years old, just a year older than her, he ruled the realm of the Underworld. ![]() Like her, Hades was a student at Mount Olympus Academy, where Zeus, King of the Gods and Ruler of the Heavens, was principal. “Since we have a few hours to kill, I mean.” As the goddessgirl of spring and growing things, she was fascinated by plants of all kinds. “Maybe someplace with unusual plants?” she went on. She was seated behind him on the back of his black stallion. “Let’s go to a part of the Underworld I haven’t been to yet,” she suggested to the godboy Hades as they sailed down through a large crack in the Earth. She was in the mood for an adventure, even if there was only time enough for a small one. PERSEPHONE’S GREEN EYES SPARKLED WITH excitement, and her long red hair blew this way and that as breezes rushed past her. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book will be of interest not only to students of Old English and all those interested in the history of northern Europe and Anglo-Saxon England, but also admirers of The Lord of the Rings who will be fascinated to see how Tolkien handled a story which he did not invent. ![]() The story has the added attraction that it describes the events immediately preceding the first Germanic invasion of Britain which was led by Hengest himself. Tolkien’s original and persuasive solution of the many problems raised by the story ranged widely through the early history and legend of the Germanic peoples. Bringing his unique combination of philological erudition and poetic imagination to the task, however, Tolkien revealed a classic tragedy of divided loyalties, of vengeance, blood and death. The story is told in two Old English poems, Beowulf and The Fights at Finnesburg, but told so obscurely and allusively that its interpretation had been a matter of controversy for over 100 years. His most significant contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies is to be found in his lectures on Finn and Hengest (pronounced Hen-jist), two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe. Tolkien, Alan Bliss, Tolkiens famous translations and lectures on the story of two fih- century heroes in northern Europe. BRAND NEW, Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode, J. Professor J.R.R.Tolkien is most widely known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but he was also a distinguished scholar in the field of Mediaeval English language and literature. FINN AND HENGEST: THE FRAGMENT AND THE EPISODE HarperCollins Publishers. Tolkien’s famous translations and lectures on the story of two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe. ![]() ![]() Climb ladders at dead of night with a pot of paint to remove the redundant apostrophe in "Video's sold here". Why? Because people who can't punctuate don't read those books! Of course they don't! They laugh at books like those! Eats, Shoots and Leaves adopts a more militant approach and attempts to recruit an army of punctuation vigilantes: send letters back with the punctuation corrected. ![]() These books do their job but somehow punctuation abuse does not diminish. Competition rules remind us: "The judges decision is final." Now, many punctuation guides already exist explaining the principles of the apostrophe the comma the semi-colon. Eats, shoots and leaves.' We see signs in shops every day for "Banana's" and even "Gateaux's". 'Large black and white mammal native to China. ![]() 'Panda,' ran the entry for his assailant. And sure enough, when the waiter consulted the book, he found an explanation. The panda shrugged, tossed him a badly punctuated wildlife manual and walked out. He ordered a sandwich, ate it, then pulled out a gun and shot the waiter. ![]() ![]() Not a primer but a 'zero tolerance' manual for direct action. A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oliver knows the easiest way to help Christina and keep her from the scheming clutches of her parents is to marry her. And when her mother and father catch Christina seeking refuge at Oliver’s home, they insist she’s been comprised. ![]() But after meeting Christina, he slowly comes to realize there’s something magical in finding a friend.Īfter Christina returns from a harrowing experience with the man her parents have chosen for her to marry, Oliver knows he has to help her. Having lost his hearing as a young teen, Oliver has wrestled with the notion that he’ll never be fully welcomed by New York’s elite. ![]() He doesn’t like dealing with new people, and has surrounded himself with a close group of servants and friends. Oliver Hawkes is perfectly fine with his self-imposed exile. It’s rumored that he’s a recluse and Christina doubts he’ll even notice her. The only way she copes with her family stress and anxiety for social gatherings is taking walks in her neighbor’s garden. After her family flees England for New York to escape debtors, she quickly realizes her parents aim to pawn her off on the richest man willing to take her. ![]() The hits for Christina Barclay just keep coming. Both struggle to fit into society, but manage to find comfort and acceptance with each other. Joanna Shupe returns to her Four Hundred series with a sweet, heartwarming historical romance between a reclusive inventor and a shy Englishwoman. ![]() ![]() With the foundation of their relationship at risk, they must decide whether they are willing to fight for a future together, or to retreat back into solitude and heartache. Now, as Layken and Will’s emotion-packed story continues, a stunning and unforeseen revelation about Will’s past leaves them questioning everything that they thought they knew about each other. ![]() Colleen Hoover entranced readers everywhere with her bestselling novel Slammed, the book that introduced Layken and Will, a young couple whose love overcame devastating hardships to emerge stronger and more resilient than before. Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize just how much they belong together. Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance, Young Adult ![]() ![]() ![]() …įree verse is verse in lines of irregular length, rhyming (if at all) very irregularly. The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 with a mission to support and advocate for poets financially and artistically. This is “How I Discovered Poetry,” Clinton Sherman Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 1959. And then the rest of the book kind of grew around this poem – so there. And for some reason, it’s the only poem in this earlier book that’s written as an unrhymed sonnet. ![]() When was how I discovered poetry written? These poems were often of a rustic or pastoral subject matter and contained refrains. ![]() The villanelle originated as a simple ballad-like song-in imitation of peasant songs of an oral tradition-with no fixed poetic form. ![]() A strict rhyme scheme: The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet, for example, is ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG (note the four distinct sections in the rhyme scheme).
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