![]() ![]() She will work along with Mary's twelve year old niece, Mai-Lin. Many say that China Mary is the one who really controls Tombstone. China Mary admires Carissa's brave spirit, and uses her influence to get her a job at the new Grand Hotel, which will free Carissa from her many duties at Miss Lucille's. Carissa has no choice but to go to the powerful woman for help. She and the kind doctor make a plan to try to save Lisette by dosing her down on the drug. Doctor Henderson tells Carissa that the only source for the drug is a Chinese immigrant named China Mary, who lives in Hoptown, at the other end of Tombstone. ![]() What is a twelve year old girl to do when she finds herself in the silver boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1880, and her only home is a brothel and her only parent is a drug-addicted mother? If she is Carissa Beaumont, she outsmarts the evil madam and figures a way out. After tricking the madam, Miss Lucille, into summoning a doctor for her mother, Lisette, she discovers that Miss Lucille has been drugging her. ![]()
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![]() The study uses hyperreality theory formulated by French sociologist, Jean Baudrillard, to find out the identity problems in the play that related to the hyperreal identity. ![]() The main data were analysed together with supporting data taken from books, literary criticism, articles and related articles. The main data is taken from data resources which implies the hyperreal identity and it’s impact to the main character, Case. The data source of this study was the novel by William Ford Gibson entitled Neuromancer. This study focuses on the case of hyperreal identity issue about what is real and not according to the character’s identity that appeared and depicted in the main character, Case, perceive reality and thus he become confused in distinguish between realities and also beliefs of his own identity which affect by technology. ![]() ![]() The one thing about her (and this book as a whole) that stood out was her depression. Kalyn Josephson does not shy away from depicting the reality of living with depression. The characters are really where this book shines. “I knew what I needed to do, but working up the will to do it felt like trying to fight my way above water in a depthless ocean. There’s a lot of world-building and character set up in the first few chapters, but it’s so worth pushing past that! ![]() I have to admit, the beginning of this book is a little slow. It took me a good hundred pages to really be immersed in the story, but once I got to that point, I just wanted to keep reading. It’s easy to jump in to, and accessible for anyone new to fantasy. I also am really excited to learn more about the magic in this world (and, of course, the Crows)( I really want my own Crow now). ![]() I really hope the sequel continues to shine a lot on each fascinating kingdom. They all have such unique cultures and politics, some of which is only ever hinted at. ![]() Kalyn Josephson clearly spent a lot of time developing each kingdom mentioned in The Storm Crow. ![]() ![]() ![]() This way of thinking is flawed for several reasons (one of the most obvious being that if gender is performative, then the act of writing gender is exponentially so), and I object to it because it unthinking dismisses the work of several of my favorite authors as unworthy of attention. I suppose I have been reacting, in part, to a school of thought that seems to hold that anything written by a man is inherently sexist, whereas anything written by a woman must be feminist. Upon re-reading my reviews of Lala Pipo and Audition, I realized that sexism in narratives penned by male authors has been one of my major preoccupations during the past few months. Publication Year: 1993 (America) 1985 (Japan) ![]() Title: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ![]() ![]() ![]() A woman who won't suspect his own aching needs-or his true motive for accepting her terms. Driven by vengeance, ravaged by tragedy, Michael seeks to lose himself in a woman who will demand only physical pleasure. All it will cost Anne is ten thousand pounds . . . Michel des Anges is renowned for his ability to bring women pleasure. Yet her plain looks mask a passionate woman who yearns to know a man's intimate caresses. ![]() ![]() Living in Victorian London, thirty-six-year-old spinster Anne Aimes has only attraction: her wealth. Summary A wealthy spinster hires an expert in pleasure in this erotic historical by a USA Today–bestselling author who “tests the boundaries of romance fiction” (The Literary Times). But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! The Lover Robin Schone We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() * Lindy Booth ( The Librarians) has joined the cast of Sam Esmail’s Metropolis series adaptation for Apple TV+, our sister site Variety reports. * The feature film Babylon, starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ beginning Tuesday, Feb. Kristin Hannah’s tale of female friendship, set in and around Seattle, is the first to be adapted for a screen and begins streaming Feb. Praise for Kristin Hannah: Powerful and compelling - Delia Owens, bestselling author. Starring:Katherine Heigl, Sarah Chalke, Ben Lawson Creators:Maggie Friedman Watch all you want. * Daniel Sunjata ( Graceland) will star opposite Kaitlin Olson in ABC’s untitled detective drama pilot from executive producer Drew Goddard, our sister site Deadline reports. Continue Firefly Lanes emotional journey with the sequel Fly Away. * On what is apparently “the 100th day until the start of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race,” The CW Network announced that its new motorsports documentary series, 100 Days to Indy, will premiere Thursday, April 27 at 9/8c. ![]() Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets? Well… The ensemble also includes Ben Lawson, Beau Garrett, Ali Skovbye, Roan Curtis and Yael Yurman, while India de Beaufort ( Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist), Greg Germann ( Grey’s Anatomy), Jolene Purdy ( Orange Is the New Black) and Ignacio Serricchio ( Lost in Space) are among the Season 2 additions. ![]() Based on the novel of the same name by bestselling author Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane charts Tully (Heigl) and Kate’s (Sarah Chalke) friendship over a 30-year period. ![]() ![]() ![]() He covers a lot of ground, touching on geology and evolution as well as astronomy. Ferris does an excellent job both of capturing the personalities involved (especially of figures like Galileo, Kepler, and Newton) and of describing the science in a succinct and understandable way. The first two sections, which are a history of pre-20th century physics, are the most interesting to me personally. ![]() I first read it as a teen, and it helped to encourage my love for astronomy and physics (and later, to major in physics at university). Given that this book was originally published in 1988, I'm sure that some of the data in the later chapters has since been disproven by more recent research however, since it is primarily a history, it is not nearly as dated as most 1980's books on astrophysics probably are, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to modern readers with an interest in the history of astronomy and physics.Ĭoming of Age in the Milky Way is in many ways a formative book for me. ![]() ![]() This ambitious work chronicles the history of how humans have come to understand the size, age, and origin of the universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mars is the real hero of “The Strange,” and it is not easily forgotten. Anabelle is less satisfying as a protagonist her lack of experience, cockiness and bad decision-making inexplicably inspire loyalty from the novel’s far more interesting secondary cast of desperate frontier men and women. The eerie Martian setting and its feral frontier communities play to all of Ballingrud’s strengths and will evoke feelings of genuine awe and terror. There, 14-year-old Anabelle Crisp embarks on a dangerous journey to retrieve a voice recording of her mother, who left Mars on the last transport ship to Earth. Set in an alternate historical timeline in which Mars was colonized in the late 19th century, “The Strange” transports readers to a Martian settlement in 1931 that had contact with Earth several years earlier. ![]() Nathan Ballingrud has gifted us with two of the finest collections of short horror fiction in the last 10 years - “North American Lake Monsters” and “Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell” - so expectations are perhaps preternaturally high for “The Strange,” his first novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the devil likes to play dirty, and she learns that playing for souls is playing for keeps. A series of games start, each one more devious than the last. It all sounds like fun to a girl like Tate, and she is ready to play, determined to prove that she isn't the same girl he conquered once before. Jameson has evolved into Satan - sharp teeth, sharper claws, and a tongue that can cut her in half. She doesn't have a naive bone left in her body, and she can't even remember what shy feels like. ![]() This time, she thinks she's ready for him. Seven years later, life is going pretty good for Tate, when she runs into Jameson again. They come together for one night, one explosion, one mistake, and Tate is hurled into space - no family, no money, and no Jameson. Twenty-three year old Jameson Kane is smart, seductive, and richer. Eighteen year old Tatum O'Shea is a naive, shy, little rich girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is only when the soul descends into the body, Whitman suggests, that it gains its power to operate in the world similarly, the body gains a reason to operate in the world only when it is energized by the soul. ![]() Where poets before Whitman imagined the soul as the enduring part of the self, the part that transcended the body at the body’s death, Whitman imagines a descendence (instead of a transcendence). Whitman here evokes the ancient tradition of poets imagining a conversation between the body and the soul: the difference is that instead of having the soul win the debate (as happens in virtually all the poetry before Whitman’s), the body and soul in this poem join in an ecstatic embrace and give each other identity. Continuing his insistence on equality, he affirms that neither the soul nor the body must be judged inferior to the other. And, in one of the most audacious poetic acts of the nineteenth century, he imagines his body and his soul having sex. ![]() Now, having safely placed himself apart from the mockers and arguers and talkers and trippers and askers, the poet accesses his soul. ![]() |