![]() Hagen and Samantha work together to catalog the orchids. ![]() Her father committed suicide a few years later. Her mother, who loved orchids, died of pancreatic cancer. Samantha thinks back on her childhood she grew up knowing that Finis would come, that there would be no future for her on Earth. None of the scientists will survive long enough to reach the new planet, as it is many years away, and he does not want to die on a spaceship. ![]() He wants to stay behind on Earth as it is destroyed. ![]() The two develop a friendship and Hagen lets Samantha know that he will not be evacuating with the rest of the scientists. He also has no living relatives, just like every other scientist involved with the project. He is another horticulturist who is particularly obsessed with flowers. One day, Samantha is told to take lunch to Hagen, who lives an hour's walk away through the snow. ![]() Samantha and a few other scientists whose families have died have been hired to stay on Earth (in Svalbard) until a couple days before the asteroid's strike to finish cataloging and collecting plants that will be taken to Earth the Sequel. That deadline is approaching and the rest of humanity has left in spaceships to travel to another planet, called Earth the Sequel. Samantha, a young horticulturist, and the rest of humanity grew up knowing that an asteroid called Finis would come in twenty years and destroy Earth. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She lifts both her hands, the fingers are painted unnaturally prolonged and are drawn and painted in a very rough manner. Her smile could be interpreted as friendly, but not necessarily well-meaning. Helen is visualized as an east-asian woman with shoulder long, black, straight hair, wearing a dark teal balzer over a white shirt. He wears a grey turtle-neck pullover with a meandering pattern of shifting lines, which is repeated in the cyan rectangle of a background surrounding Michael’s figure. A point of cyan light is visible in his pupils. There are the beginnings of a blond sideburns on his cheeks and his grin is a bit on the manic side. ![]() [ image description: The portrait of the Distortion in the appearance of Michael Shelley shows the head and shoulders of a thin tall, caucasian man in with a high forehead and mane of blond ringlets falling around his face. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a rousing scene of poetic expression, in Edson Oda’s Nine Days, Winston Duke launches into Whitman’s final canto: “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love.” Duke unlocks the whole story of humanity and our borderless eternal connection, all with the ending of one poem. If we want to experience the world, we must first understand and embody it. We say what the grass is, hoping that it brings us back to this connection, unravelling endlessly in time and space. That we were born into it, same as the grass, and that every atom of our own being, and that of the grass, are produced from the same soil. “What is the grass?” How do you answer the child, who knows the metaphor and the meaning just as well as you? We cannot define the metaphor without understanding that the metaphor has always been our own mortal truth. The poem is the author himself, trying to explain the metaphor, but the metaphor is born the same as him and belongs to the Universe. ![]() In Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” a poetic biography of the author and the American’s search for inner self, Whitman conveys that the American may search endlessly for their meaning and place in the Universe, but they ultimately can only resemble the Universe, as we always have (“for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”). 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He teams up with Ignacio, a well-connected friend who promises to hook him up with the Diwata and their magical treatments-a quest that's not only risky but highly illegal To add to his troubles, there's something wrong with Conrad's heart and only magic can prolong his life. ![]() Lambana-the realm of supernatural fairies known as Diwata-has fallen, and the Magic Prohibition Act has been enacted. ![]() Immerse yourself in a fantasy world of Filipino myth, magic, and supernatural suspense **Included in the Top 50 Best New Comics for Adults in 2022 by The New York Public Library** ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s totally binge-worthy and full of secrets and lies that you just cannot make up! ![]() My thoughts: This is the first book I’ve read by Stacy Wise and it’s just a fun, smart domestic drama along the lines of Desperate Housewives and Melrose Place – remember those shows? – with a murder thrown in. For three neighbors with stakes so high, someone is headed for a downfall. Has something she’s desperate to keep hidden. She is his biggest fan.īut with his career not taking off and tensions high, even sweet Embry Is as devoted to her children as she is to her husband, who’s aīartender by night, an aspiring actor by day. Riki flirting with something so wrong, so…dangerous? If only she didn’t have feelings for her neighbor-who happens toīe her close friend’s husband. ![]() McFarlan has a good career and an amazing boyfriend who wants to settleĭown. But Sylvia’s not going to let that happen. The only thing unpredictable about him is his needyĮx-girlfriend, who is this close to shattering Sylvia’s dreams. He’s sweet, simple, and dependably clueless about Three women who live at 1054 Mockingbird Lane have secrets…and with aīody at the bottom of their apartment building’s staircase, those Source: Audio via Brilliance Publishing / Print via GetRed PRįor three women with so much to hide, there’s no such thing as a little white lie… Published: January 2021, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing ![]() ![]() ![]() Each new encounter leads him closer to confronting his own identity, as he revisits his childhood and probes the secrets that haunt his family. Ashamed to go home and face his grandmother, and reeling from the potential loss of the three most important people in his life, Rasa roams the city’s slums and prisons, the lavish weddings of the country’s elite, and the bars where outcasts and intellectuals drink to a long-lost revolution. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar, Guapa, who has been arrested by the police. One night Rasa's grandmother - the woman who raised him - catches them in bed together. ![]() Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East ![]() ![]() ![]() Clay, who took care of our narrow seventeenth-century town house on the Raamgracht, a canal in the heart of the old city. The latest of these housekeepers was Mrs. Instead, he took excellent care of me himself and provided me with a series of governesses and housekeepers-money was not an object with him where my upbringing was concerned, although we lived simply enough from day to day. My father never spoke of her and turned quietly away if I asked questions I understood very young that this was a topic too painful for him to discuss. My mother had died when I was a baby, before my father founded the Center for Peace and Democracy. ![]() To begin with, I was motherless, and the care that my father took of me had been deepened by a double sense of responsibility, so that he protected me more completely than he might have otherwise. It seems peculiar to me now that I should have been so obedient well into my teens, while the rest of my generation was experimenting with drugs and protesting the imperialist war in Vietnam, but I had been raised in a world so sheltered that it makes my adult life in academia look positively adventurous. He preferred to know that I was sitting attentively in class at the International School of Amsterdam in those days his foundation was based in Amsterdam, and it had been my home for so long that I had nearly forgotten our early life in the United States. In 1972 I was sixteen-young, my father said, to be traveling with him on his diplomatic missions. ![]() ![]() These are available from Beacon Press, as are her most recent books, A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories, which was supported by a fellowship from the Project on Death in America of the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute, and A Dynamic God. Since then, she has written a memoir, Remembering the Bone House, a spiritual autobiography, Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal, and three more books of essays, Carnal Acts, Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer, Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. Her first work of nonfiction, a collection of essays entitled Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman’s Life, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 1986. ![]() The Arizona Humanities Council gave her their 2008 Literary Treasure Award. She has taught writing and literature at Salpointe Catholic High School, the University of Arizona, and the University of California at Los Angeles.Ī poet and an essayist, she was awarded the 1984 Western States Book Award in poetry for In All the Rooms of the Yellow House (Confluence Press, 1984) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1991. in English literature (with a minor in English education) in 1984 from the University of Arizona. in creative writing (poetry) in 1975 and the Ph.D. ![]() cum laude from Wheaton College (Norton, Massachusetts), which made her a Doctor of Humane Letters thirty years later. Nancy Mairs, though born by accident of war in Long Beach, California, grew up north of Boston. ![]() ![]() The gap in talent with Federer existed, but it was not impossibly wide. The more bottled up they are, the greater your chances of winning, so long as you've trained as hard as you play and the gap in talent is not too wide between you and your rival. With candor and intelligence, Nadal brings readers on his dramatic and triumphant journey, never losing sight of the prize he values above all others: the unity and love of his family.įrom RAFA: "During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. Now he takes us behind the scenes, from winning the Wimbledon 2008 final-described by John McEnroe as "the greatest game of tennis" he had ever seen-to the family problems that brought him low in 2009 and the numerous injuries that have threatened his career. ![]() It begins in Mallorca, where the tight-knit Nadal family has lived for generations.Ĭoached by his uncle Toni from the age of four and taught humility and respect by his parents, Nadal has managed the uncommon feat of becoming an acclaimed global celebrity while remaining a gracious, hardworking role model for people in all walks of life. In his memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin, he reveals the secrets of his game and shares the inspiring personal story behind his success. What makes a champion? What does it take to be the best in the world at your sport? Rafael Nadal has the answers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her book was on the CBC Books Top 22 Canadian Nonfiction works for 2019 and was long listed for the RBC Taylor Prize. Her first book, In My Own Moccasins, was released in August 2019 through the University of Regina Press. In 2019 she was one of five selected to participate as an emerging nonfiction writer in the RBC Taylor Prize mentorship program. In 2017, she was a recipient of the Indigenous REVEAL art award through the Hnatyshyn Foundation for her literary work. ![]() Helen is a Dane Zaa, Cree, and mixed Euro-descent woman from Prophet River First Nation living in Fort St. Following the reading there will be a question period and a showcase of new material. We will then introduce author Helen Knott, and she will read from her new novel. Light refreshments will be given, and a Territorial Welcome will be done. We will gather in the AGP and begin with a pre-event smudging ceremony. ![]() Join us at Douglas College for a reading of In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott. ![]() |