![]() When her older brothers, Mycroft and Sherlock, arrive on the scene, it’s clear that they have no faith in the ability of a woman to fend for herself or to think rationally. In The Case of the Missing Marquess, Enola wakes up on her 14th birthday to discover that her mother is missing. Amid all the mayhem, will Enola be able to decode the necessary clues and find her mother?Īfter watching the delightful Netflix adaptation of this book (more about this below), I just had to check out the source material! I’m glad I did - the first book in Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes series is clever, funny, and full of adventure. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers-all while attempting to piece together clues to her mother’s strange disappearance. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. ![]() When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. Meet Enola Holmes, teenaged girl turned detective and the younger sister to Sherlock Holmes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Even when she looked away, she heard them: laughing and squealing, gnashing teeth and beating wings. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Aislinn has a secret she sees fairies everywhere working their mischief and doggedly following her for reasons she does not understand. Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom, her best friend Seth, her life-everything.įirst-time novelist Marr gives the oft-tried modern faerie story a fresh infusion of glamour, thanks to a likable pair of protagonists, a page-turning plot and an ample dose of sexual tension. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost-regardless of her plans or desires. Keenan is the Summer King who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.īut it's too late. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer. ![]() Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries. Aislinn fears their cruelty-especially if they learn of her Sight-and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens. ![]() Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Īislinn has always seen faeries. Maas and Holly Black won’t be able to resist the world of Melissa Marr's #1 New York Times bestselling series, full of faerie intrigue, mortal love, and courtly betrayal. ![]() ![]() ![]() A resurgence is overdue.Īrgonauts of the Western Pacific. ![]() Businesses and governments are calling more often on anthropologists to help them understand the complexities of the societies in which they operate. In a time of polarisation and group-think anthropology’s insights, gained from close study of how people actually live, can be a corrective. Yet, as the anthropologist Eric Wolf declared in 1964, ”anthropology is both the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences.” As these books show, it still has much to tell us. ![]() As a result, the discipline’s cultural relevance has diminished in recent years, along with money for universities’ anthropology departments. Anthropologists spend years gathering their findings and their results are not replicable. Its central method of conducting fieldwork in communities is unlike those of other academic disciplines, including sociology, which draws on large data sets. The Greek roots of the word anthropology mean “human being” and “study”. I F YOU ASK 100 anthropologists what they do you could easily get 101 different answers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her designs integrate hidden details and reversible elements, the silhouettes are twisted from traditional shapes and changed with innovative pattern cutting. With her collection, she incorporates dimensional prints with heat and light sensitive pigments, and plays with texture and colors. Libo Zhou’s designs have a sense of playfulness with interactive elements explored in print and construction as well as colors. She has also worked as an embellishment freelancer for See+Quin embellishment studio. While studying, she interned for Proenza Schouler, Tibi, 3.1 Phillip Lim and Diane Von Furstenberg. She then went on to receive her B.F.A in Fibers and M.F.A in Fashion at Savannah College of Art and Design where she pursued womenswear with an emphasize on fabric manipulation and innovative prints. This is where her interest for fashion design and material exploration started. Born and raised in China, Libo Zhou was fascinated by watching her grandmother, who was a tailor and always recycled household objects for new purposes. ![]() ![]() I literally cannot watch a TV show or a movie where there are talking animals without going insane. The second thing you need to know is that I hate stories about talking animals. One gets near me and the good girl inside me is in risk of going far far away. I can't think about cats without flinching. They're are the living creatures I dread the most after roaches. The first thing you need to know about me is that I hate cats. I won't be replying to any comment in here, I don't care why you love this (write your own review for that) and I won't read the rest of this series. ![]() ![]() Of course, there are reviews with more trolls, but this is as much as I can endure.Īnd for you, ignorants who can't accept other people's opinions (better known as "trolls"), why don't you go read one of the many thousands of 5 star reviews instead of coming to criticize an opinion that's obviously different to yours? Don't you understand it's pointless? I'm not going to stop hating this book if you tell me "I'm wrong." In fact, if anything, your words only make me feel nauseas when I think of this piece of garbage.Īnd that's my final word. ![]() The level of trolls it has gotten has reached levels I cannot stand anymore. I'm disabling the notifications, so if someone comments in it, I'm not gonna now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s incredible debut Friday Black is a harrowing peak into the ways a lack of love and empathy have wormed their way into the heart of society. Racial injustice, class struggles, violence, profiling, war, misogyny, genocide, all theses and more feast on the absence of love and fear-monger love away in order to attain power. On the last page I should write ‘I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.’ It seems so simple: to love and to be loved, and one can look to the beauty and love in the world and feel hope but yet far too often we look about and see the absence of love creeping its way like a shadow at dusk through human interactions. ‘ If I had to write a book on morality,’ author and existentialist Albert Camus once wrote in his notebooks, ‘ it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. ‘ Every inch of my black skin painted the maroon of life.’ ![]() ![]() ![]() More complex storylines to stretch confident readersĪll Reading Ladder titles are developed with a leading literacy consultant, making them perfect for use in schools and for parents keen to support their children’s reading.Level 3 Reading Ladder titles are perfect for fluent readers who are beginning to read exciting, challenging stories independently. Blue banana: The Stepmonster Joanna Nadin Eglantine Ceulemans July 9781405275415 / pb £4.99 5yrs+ / 48pp / 145 x 212 mm W orld A ll languages. It’s the first step towards a lasting love of reading. It features well-loved authors, classic characters and favourite topics, so that children will find something to excite and engage them in every title they pick up. The Reading Ladder series helps children to enjoy learning to read. (She likes all of the same things that Tom does – manatees and moles and woodlice and playing Snap for hours.) But maybe that’s just a clever disguise… ![]() (Her hair looks like it’s been spun from gold.) And she might not act like a stepmonster. They are StepMONSTERS! So when his dad’s new friend Lulu comes to tea, Tom is convinced she will turn out to be a stepmonster. ![]() ![]() In fact, they aren’t really stepmothers at all. Tom knows all about stepmothers from the books he’s read. A funny, poignant family story by bestselling author Joanna Nadin, perfect for children learning to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The attendant mayhem includes drunken meals at ethnic restaurants, flamenco dancing accidents, blind dates gone wrong and many delicious confessions and revelations. The identity of the lucky man will come as no surprise, though Lucy remains oblivious until the very end, but there are many eligible bachelors on the scene, among them Gus, Lucy's sexy but unreliable new lover Daniel, her oldest friend Chuck, a handsome American and Adrian, the video shop man. When the fortune-teller's prophecies for the other three come true in peculiar ways, even disbelieving, boyfriendless Lucy begins to suspect that, somehow, wedding bells will ring for her. But when she visits a fortune-teller with a trio of mismatched friends, a marriage is predicted for the near future. A 26-year-old Londoner, Lucy is the kind of woman who thinks that any man who's decent to her must be Mr. (after Watermelon), fancies herself simultaneously miserable and happy. Lucy Sullivan, the eponymous heroine of Irish writer Keyes's second offbeat romantic comedy to be published in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Einar cares for Mitch daily, giving him morphine injections, food, and friendship. ![]() The bear escaped into the mountains.Ī year later, Mitch's wounds still cause him constant pain. The two friends attempted to save the calf, but the bear viciously attacked Mitch - and because Einar was drunk, he failed to save Mitch from serious injury. One year ago, a bear stole a calf from Mitch and Einar's ranch. It is the story of a gruff Wyoming rancher (Redford) who must reconcile his relationship with his struggling daughter-in-law (Lopez) and previously-unknown-to-him granddaughter, after they show up unexpectedly at his ranch and ask to stay with him and his disabled best friend and neighbor (Freeman). The film stars Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, and Morgan Freeman. An Unfinished Life is a 2005 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, and based on the Mark Spragg novel of the same name. ![]() ![]() While the Al-Qadim setting was ostensibly set within the Forgotten Realms, Chapter 3 of the Secrets of the Lamp Adventure Book at p.13 reproduces the above quote, linking the City of Brass as described in Secrets of the Lamp to the World of Greyhawk. In 1993, TSR released Secrets of the Lamp (authored by Wolfgang Baur) for the Al-Qadim setting in which the City of Brass was mapped and described in detail. Since this first introduction, three products have been released in which the City of Brass has been described in detail. ![]() The setting to which direct reference was made was, of course, The World of Greyhawk. 156 (entry for Codex of Infinite Planes). ![]() See Dungeon Masters Guide (1st Edition AD&D, 1979) at p. With these words from the 1st Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide, Dungeons and Dragons introduced the City of Brass into the game. Now was I, Tzunk, Master of the Plane of Molten Skies. “The Efreet howled in fear and fled when I caused the page to be read, and the Beast passed into the City of Brass. After reading through the product, I figured it deserved to be reviewed at the very least. Reviewers Note - I purchased City of Brass at Gencon 2007, having never before paid as much for an RPG product. ![]() Reviewer - Glenn Vincent Dammerung aka GVDammerung Publisher - Necromancer Games (2007) distributed by Sword & Sorcery Studiosįormat - Boxed Set w/ 3 books and one map booklet ![]() |