6/10/2023 0 Comments Underground by Haruki Murakami![]() ![]() This is acclaimed Japanese novelist Murakami's (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, etc.) nonfiction account of this episode. On March 20, 1995, followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo unleashed lethal sarin gas into cars of the Tokyo subway system. This is an enthralling and unique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and as wonderfully executed as Murakami’s brilliant novels. Concerned with the fundamental issues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts, Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as a warning of what could happen anywhere. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground is their story in their own voices. ![]() ![]() In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound. ![]()
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![]() ![]() OL2435493W Page_number_confidence 89.77 Pages 266 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210719163934 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 225 Scandate 20210716090223 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780316727822 Tts_version 4. ![]() Series: Isabel Dalhousie (4) Members: Reviews: Popularity: Average rating: Mentions. ![]() Other authors: See the other authors section. The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith. ![]() LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. 0 Ratings 0 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Borrow Listen. Urn:lcp:carefuluseofcomp0000mcca_r2w1:lcpdf:2a9741e5-e19c-48af-9759-fe52899d70e6 Click to read more about The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith. The careful use of compliments Bookreader Item Preview. An edition of The Careful Use of Compliments (2007) The careful use of compliments. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:01:24 Boxid IA40175117 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Books like the daevabad trilogy![]() Some of the conflicts in this book are over questions of historical accuracy (what happened) and of historical interpretation (how we should feel about it). And while I was grateful for the opportunity to dive back into the world, it was very difficult to adjust to the crunch. I was writing to a deadline! My first book began as this personal, private project that meandered all over the place and took nearly a decade to write-the second book I turned around in eighteen months. ![]() How was writing your second book in this series different from writing the first? We talked to Chakraborty about the mythology that inspired her novels, why she added a new point-of-view character and more. An emotionally devastating, character-driven novel that also succeeds in building out its complex world, The Kingdom of Copper is further proof that the Daevabad trilogy is on its way to becoming a modern fantasy classic. ![]() The Kingdom of Copper begins five years later, with former Cairo grifter Nahri ensconced in the dangerous court of Daevabad, her once-friend Prince Ali on the run from his father and an unknown new threat growing stronger on the horizon. ![]() ![]() Chakraborty’s The City of Brass was a superb introduction to both the author and her intricately detailed, vividly realistic world inspired by Middle Eastern legends and fairy tales. And the most difficult incarnation of it may be the second novel in a super-hyped, highly acclaimed fantasy series. The dreaded sophomore novel is always a telling test for a new writer. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Black fortunes shomari wills![]() ![]() ![]() “Black Fortunes” is a good idea in bad need of an editor. Even now, more than a century after his death, his legacy can still be seen in his adopted hometown. It’s about Robert Reed Church, former slave, favorite son of Memphis, and the richest Black man of his time. It’s about Annie Turnbo Malone who, after emancipation made it her mission to create hair and beauty products that worked specifically for Black women. Gurley who bought land in Oklahoma and built a predominantly Black town that was exceptionally prosperous. It’s also about Mary Ellen Pleasant, who received an inheritance from her late first husband and parlayed that “small fortune” into a much larger one that she used as an activist. Strictly speaking, he says, the first Black millionaire in America was William Alexander Leidesdorff, real-estate mogul, philanthropist and friend to the powerful, who lived in San Francisco well before the Civil War.īut this book isn’t about Leidesdorff. Such a tale, says Wills, is an “overlooked subject” in American history. Growing up, Wills heard many stories about his uncle, “the millionaire” son of a slave who became a rich man. ![]() ![]() A dollar used to stretch further, last longer, buy more, and, in the new book “Black Fortunes” by Shomari Wills, it took fewer dollars to make someone rich. ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither can I sufficiently express how highly she rewards those who work to preach the devotion, to establish it and spread it, nor on the other hand how firmly she punishes those who work against it.” (3) “It would hardly be possible for me to put into words how much Our Lady thinks of the Holy Rosary and of how she vastly prefers it to all other devotions. ![]() Now, since Mary is of all creatures the one most conformed to Jesus Christ, it follows that among all devotions that which most consecrates and conforms a soul to our Lord is devotion to Mary, his Holy Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to her the more will it be consecrated to Jesus Christ.” Hence the most perfect of all devotions is undoubtedly that which conforms, unites and consecrates us most perfectly to Jesus Christ. (2) “Our entire perfection consists in being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus Christ. ![]() ![]() (1) “It is through the most Blessed Virgin Mary that Jesus Christ came into the world, and it is also through her that he will reign in the world.” ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Betraying big brother![]() ![]() ![]() Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China’s authoritarian regime today. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s educated, urban women. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. A feminist movement clashing with China’s authoritarian government ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dewey number Index no index present Intended audience but still worth fighting for Cataloging source TEFOD 1970- King, A. but her response doesn't take them seriously.So many adults want Mac to keep his words to himself.Mac's about to see the power of letting them out.In Attack of the Black Rectangles, acclaimed author Amy Sarig King shows all the ways truth can be hard. He and his friends head to the principal's office to protest the censorship. ![]() But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged.Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story.But who?Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong. Language eng Summary Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write.When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. Youth protest movements - Juvenile fiction.Eccentrics and eccentricities - Juvenile fiction.Label Attack of the black rectangles Title Attack of the black rectangles Statement of responsibility Amy Sarig King Creator ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Stormlight archive book 4![]() ![]() Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin’s scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. ![]() Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar’s crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from an epic fantasy writer at the top of his game.Īfter forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. ![]() An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller and a USA Today and Indie Bestseller! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To be clear, it doesn’t always work like this. Not only that, but I’ve had around a dozen messages from friends and social media followers saying things like “I bought two copies for my nieces.” Friends from across the country are now reading Goddard after a few simple recommendations. Many members of my own congregation have purchased and are already reading The Hands of the Emperor, the “anchor” novel in her Lays of the Hearthfire series. ![]() I’m often pleased at how many people buy the book while the author is with us, and many readers do get around (in their own time) to reading books they purchase, but so far the phenomenon with Victoria Goddard has been of an entirely different sort. ![]() I say from long experience hosting authors in churches that it is frequently an uphill battle getting people to read a recommended book prior to the author visit. worship, followed by a lecture and discussion and community lunch at 11:30 a.m. She’ll be flying in May 5th from Maritime Canada, spending the weekend with us, and will be offering the homily during May 7th 10 a.m. About a month ago literary fantasy novelist Victoria Goddard agreed to an invitation to join us at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church for what we are calling “Speculative Sunday.” ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Nyght and of Strange Noyse... by Lewes Lavater![]() There be some men, of whose stocke none doth dye, but that they obserue and Sometimes we thinke the house will fall on our heads, or that some massie and waightie thing falleth downe throughout all the house, rendring and making a disordered noise: and shortlie within fewe monthes after, we vnderstande that those things happened, the very same houre that our friends departed in. And diuers times it commeth to passe, that whē some of our acquaintaunce or friends lye a dying, albeit they are many miles off, yet there are some great stirrings or noises heard. Oftentimes a litle before they yeld vp the ghost, and some time a little after their death, or a good while after, either their owne shapes, or some other shaddowes of men, are apparantly séene. IT happeneth many times, that when men lye sicke of some deadly disease, there is some thing heard going in y e chamber, like as the sicke men were wonte, when they were in good health: yea & the sicke parties them selues, do many times hear the same, and by and by gesse what wil come to passe. That there happen straunge vvonders and prognostica∣tions, and that sodeyn noises and cracks and such like, are hearde before the death of men, before battaile, and before some notable alterations and chaunges. ![]() |