![]() ![]() She lives in Thunder Bay, Ont., and recently retired as a professor in the Indigenous Learning Department at Lakehead University. She has written seven novels for middle grade and teen readers. Ruby Slipperjack is a member of the Eabametoong First Nation. These Are My Words is for readers ages 9–12. A fear of forgetting who she was.ĭrawing from her own experiences at residential school, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave yet heartbreaking heroine in Violet, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too-important chapter in our nation's history. ( From Scholastic Canada) But worst of all, she is afraid of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language, the names of those she knew before and her traditional customs. ![]() She misses her Grandma she has run-ins with Cree girls at her "white" school, everyone just stares and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name - she is now just a number. Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential school. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaking of the Joker, I had a friend mention that Sejic's take on the Joker was ridiculous. Sejic also establishes a pretty basic and relatable reason for why Harley may have been drawn to a destructive personality like the Joker's in the first place. ![]() Harleen was a grown-ass woman prior to her journey into madness. This isn't a wide-eyed girl being groomed by the Joker. It may be a throwaway line to most but it stuck out to me because setting the character at thirty works to give her a bit more agency in her decisions. I don't know why but I always saw the character as early to mid-twenties. What surprised me as I was reading was the reveal that Harleen became a villain at the age of thirty. The book is entirely from Harleen's POV and the impression I gathered was that the book is generally being honest about her past and origins which is a big contrast to deep dives to Jokers origins We get a look at Harleen's early life before we finally get into her first enc ounters with the Joker. Harleen: Book 1 provides a definitive look at Harleen Quinzel and is the most mature and thoughtful take I've seen on the character. Her background as a brilliant psychotherapist was generally played for laughs or during brief moments of clarity. I'm not the biggest fan of Harley Quinn to start and never got the appeal of the character beyond simply being Jokers sidekick. The only selling point I had for this series was the art by St Jepan Sejic. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s how good it is.” -Evan Winter, author of The Rage of Dragons Read it, and there'll forever be a divide: life before The Warded Man and life after it. Books like this are why we read fiction, and most of us spend an entire lifetime searching for a story as good as this one. ![]() “As a genre, fantasy promises so much, and in The Warded Man, Peter V. There’s action and suspense all the way, plus he made me care about his characters and want to know what’s going to happen next.” -Terry Brooks There is much to admire in Peter Brett’s writing, and his concept is brilliant. “ The Warded Man works not only as a great adventure novel but also as a reflection on the nature of heroism.” -Charlaine Harris “Brett’s custom blend of action and suspense, stirred into a unique magic system, has been justifiably a fan favorite for fifteen years.” -Robin Hobb, New York Times bestselling author of The Farseer Trilogy ![]() The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The lectures addressed the meanings, histories and experience of nationalism and its unresolved dilemmas, in India and beyond. As a creative response, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association organized a teach-in for a month between 17 February and 17 March 2016. ![]() The proliferating ‘charges’ produced great political and intellectual disquiet in the JNU community of students and teachers. It will conclude on January 25 with release of book What the Nation Really Needs to Know: JNU Nationalism Lectures, which is compilation of the first. Over the next few months, sections of the television, print and social media turned the country into a choric chamber of hate, riveting national attention. What the nation really needs to know: the JNU nationalism lectures By: JNU Teachers' Association Publication details: Noida HarperCollins India 2016 Description: xxv, 339 p ISBN: 9789352640256 Subject(s): Anti-national | Jawaharlal Nehru University | Nationalism | Public policy issues in education - India DDC classification: 379.54 Summary: Who or what is ‘anti-national’? The question was foregrounded in a series of unprecedented events that unfolded in Jawaharlal Nehru University from February 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The article was widely criticized by people who quickly wrote her off as being lazy. I was trying to learn behavior that should have been instinctive, behavior that I had been conditioned to see as outside of the norm. I did not know where to start, or who could teach me. I did not know how to live in a black space. She eagerly writes an article for the Guardian about her experience in Harlem: Raised in a New Jersey suburb and a recent transplant to Harlem, she describes the awkwardness she feels to being a black gentrifier in a historic black neighborhood in New York. This Will Be My Undoing makes room for Jerkins to address the personal anxieties often read as “awkwardness” that black women feel while moving through different spaces.Įarly on, we see that Jerkins comes from a place of privilege. Jerkins makes the personal political as she covers topics concerning the complexity of black womanhood. ![]() In This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female and Feminist in (White) America (2018), Morgan Jerkins shares her most vulnerable moments as a black girl and woman through a collection of personal essays. ![]() ![]() Rest assured, however, that I’ll gin something up for Vol. I had grand visions of giving this volume of X-Men the "Doctor, Doctor" treatment, but I fear spare time has been about as abundant in my life as unicorn hamburgers (sadly). ![]() ![]() Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman. ![]() Chris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.Ĭlaremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first, Regency Buck, became a best-seller when it was published in 1935, and featured a wealthy heiress from the English countryside, whose sense of independence causes her to clash with London's social norms, but eventually conform to them – qualities seen in many other Heyer heroines. Heyer's fame stemmed mainly from her Regency novels, which made her a household name. The Black Moth was popular with readers and Heyer continued to publish more Georgian novels until the release of Faro's Daughter in 1941. The Georgian novel, which featured an earl who turns to outlawry in the 18th century, set the template for many of her future stories – romance, a historical setting, characters from the nobility, and a "saturnine" male lead. ![]() īorn in Wimbledon, London, the nineteen-year-old Heyer published her first novel, The Black Moth, in 1921 from a story she had written for her hemophiliac younger brother Boris. ![]() A best-selling author, Heyer's writing career saw her produce works from a variety of genres in total she published 32 novels in the romance genre, 6 historical novels, 4 contemporary novels, and 12 in the detective fiction genre. Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) was an English author particularly known for her historical romance novels set in the Regency and Georgian eras. ![]() ![]() ![]() He lives in Southern California with his wife and three cats. Koman received his BS in Information Systems from University of Redlands in 2001, his MBA in 2004 from Pepperdine University, and his doctorate in Information Assurance and Security in 2016 from Capella University. The Hunting Season - John Coyne, in The Ottawa Citizen, July 23 The Jehovah Contract - Victor Koman, in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1988. Three-time Prometheus Award-winning novelist Victor Koman, who tracked down God in The Jehovah Contract and solved the abortion dilemma in Solomons Knife. ![]() ![]() Koman has also appeared as an extra in several films, including Star Trek - The Motion Picture, CyberZone, Billy Frankenstein, Rapid Assault, Fugitive Rage, KidWitch (in which his daughter, Vanessa, played the title role), Red Dragon, The Hot Chick, and A-List.ĭr. His long-suppressed first novel, Death’s Dimensions, is also available from KoPubCo.ĭr. His most recent novel is Captain Anger #1: The Microbotic Menace. Kings of the High Frontier was the first book published exclusively on the Internet to win a major literary award. All three books won the Prometheus Award. Victor Koman, PhD, is the author of the RocketPunk epic Kings of the High Frontier, the underground classic millennial- noir novel The Jehovah Contract, and the medical thriller Solomon’s Knife. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pubblicato nel 1948, The Servant deve la sua fama soprattutto al film omonimo del 1963, che rientra nella categoria “classico”, oltre che in quella “i cento film da vedere”, e nell’altra “i cento film da salvare”. ![]() Nomi che da soli si portano dietro ricordi, immagini, flash, emozioni.īen più di Robin Maugham che al di là di questo breve romanzo, suo maggior successo, al quale sono seguiti una trentina di titoli pubblicati, per me è più noto come nipote del ben più celebre zio William Somerset Maugham, del quale ha scritto una biografia che credo prima o poi leggerò, nonostante io e le biografie non si vada molto d’accordo. Un racconto, un romanzo.Ĭredo che probabilmente ho letto questa novella solo perché a suo tempo ho visto quel magnifico film di quel magnifico mai abbastanza rimpianto regista di nome Joeseph Losey, magnificamente interpretato da Dirk Bogarde (il servo) e James Fox (il padrone). Quanti film visti senza sapere che nascono da un libro. Celebre immagine dal film che credo riassuma l’essenza della storia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Valerie Leftman has elected to return to her high school five months after her boyfriend, Nick Levil, took a gun and began shooting inside the school cafeteria, known as the Commons. In Hate List, Valerie and everyone around her must pick up the pieces after tragedy, creating a story that is both universal and so unique that it will leave the reader changed on a fundamental level. Even the police thought Valerie responsible until an unnamed girl went to the police and insisted that Valerie never shot anyone. Many of the kids and most of the adults think Valerie knew of Nick's plot to kill the kids on the list despite the fact that Valerie saved the life of one girl and was shot herself. In this novel, Valerie Leftman must return to school five months after her boyfriend, Nick, took a gun and shot their classmates, many of whom Valerie placed on a list she dubbed the hate list. Hate List is the debut novel by award-winning writer Jennifer Brown. ![]() |