![]() ![]() The relationships are heterosexual and homosexual, arranged and spontaneous, young and mature. They come from places as far-ranging as Yemen and New York. The narratives are as old as the Bible and as new as the twenty-first century. They tell of how people fall in love and how they grow in love. Folktales continue the tradition, and contemporary writers highlight the way their faith and love interweave and enrich each other.įrom Adam and Eve to the Song of Songs, from legends of Solomon to the letters of Alfred Dreyfus, these are stories that tell of heartbreak and devotion. Jewish tradition overflows with love stories from the Bible, Talmud, and Midrash. Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage offers a treasury of tales that speak to the tenderness and passion, difficulties and blessings of love. ![]() JEWISH STORIES OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE (2015) ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are very clear rules for what can and can’t happen, and how it affects the stories themselves – which made it easy to follow the stakes.Īll the books Tilly goes into or meets characters from are classic books – presumably because of copyright laws! The characters Tilly meets felt so true to the original representations of them, with their mannerisms and tones. ![]() It was so much fun to live out the dream of meeting characters through Tilly, to imagine the conversations you could have – and then to be shown the dangers. I watched the Inkheart movie and got all of ten pages into the book before giving up, but TILLY AND THE BOOKWANDERERS was a brilliant place to start reading this sort of book and I wish I’d tried books like this before! I have never read a book about real books coming to life and characters going into them (fictional books, yes, but not real ones). Tilly is determined to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago, so she bravely steps into the unknown, unsure of what adventure lies ahead and what dangers she may face. ![]() With the help of Anne of Green Gables and Alice in Wonderland. One day Tilly realises that classic children’s characters are appearing in the shop through the magic of `book wandering’ – crossing over from the page into real life. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more than to escape into the pages of her favourite stories. Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents’ bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. ![]() ![]() maternal mortality rate has more than doubled from 10.3 per 100,000 live births in 1991 to 23.8 in 2014.’ Compared to ‘The maternal mortality rate in Australia in 2017 was 6 deaths per 100,000 women giving birth.’ That’s *insane* that that’s the American maternal mortality rate, and it’s climbing every year. You Are NewBy: Lucy Knisley (Author)Read Aloud By: Shirley PerdomoTo Purchase a Copy please Visit. ![]() ![]() And it’s not much better in America now – without universal healthcare, and a system that largely undermines and lets black women die at a much higher rate and for entirely preventable reasons (as a snapshot ‘The U.S. : Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride (9781626722491) by Knisley, Lucy and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books. She delves into the fact that women’s bodies and childbirth in particular were for so long misunderstood, shamed, and abused by the health profession, and largely because it was entirely made up of men and with religious bents. Lucy Knisley is a favorite around these parts, a comics creator whose funny, insightful, acerbic and disarmingly frank memoirs in graphic novel form have won her accolades and admiration from. ![]() I cried a lot reading ‘Kid Gloves’ – for both Knisley’s personal story, but also for how she links her journey of motherhood (through two miscarriages, depression, and then a near-death birthing experience) to wider societal and medical realities for women. ![]() ![]() JOHN WILSON and WILLIAM ROWE were indicted for stealing 200 rafters, value 10 l. Alderman of the said City: John Mirehouse, Esq., Common Serjeant of the said City: and Edward Bullock, Esq., Judge of the Sheriffs' Court: Her Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City, and Judges of the Central Criminal Court.Ģ277. and M.P., Recorder of the said City: John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq. ![]() Sir Frederick Pollock, Knt., Lord Chief Baron of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer Sir William Henry Maule, Knt., one of the Justices of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Knt., one other of the Justices of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas Matthias Prime Lucas, Esq. SIR GEORGE CARROLL, Knt., LORD MAYOR of the City of London the Right Hon. ![]() Held on Monday, October 25th, 1847, and following Days.īefore the Right Hon. ![]() COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, AND THE PARTS OF THE COUNTIES OF ESSEX, KENT, AND SURREY, WITHIN THE JURISDICTION ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On his return from the Second World War, he finds his brother, Christopher, is also in thrall to the mysterious wood, wherein lies a realm where mythic archetypes grow flesh and blood, where love and beauty haunt your dreams, and in promises of freedom lies the sanctuary of insanity. Stephen Huxley has already lost his father to the mysteries of Ryhope Wood. In Mythago Wood these stories serve a more nationalistic purpose, stamping a claim on the British countryside. Title: Mythago Wood Title Record 1486 Author: Robert Holdstock Date: Type: NOVEL Series: Mythago Wood Series Number: 1 Webpages: Wikipedia-EN Language: English User Rating: 7.50 (4 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE Current Tags: 2-award-winner (1), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), fantasy (1), Horror: 100 Best. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, intricate labyrinth of trees, impossibly huge, unforgettable. MYTHAGO WOOD won the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL and is regarded as one of the finest fantasy novels of the 20th century.ĭeep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none remain unchanged. ![]() ![]() ![]() After time overseas experiencing English country life, I was married in a tiny, Virginia-creeper covered country church, near Uralla, NSW. I returned home and went to a country university. And while the accents might be different, everyone still knew each other’s names. Golden aspens shivered in the autumn air instead of evergreen gum trees. Elk grazed in my front yard instead of kangaroos. Here my attachment to rural areas and small towns grew. ![]() Post-school, I lived in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado as an exchange student. ![]() And small communities are the heart of the bush. Summer days were spent catching yabbies in dams and wet winter afternoons riding through temporary creeks. The eldest of seven children, I grew up chasing sheep on a family farm outside Tamworth. I feel the most at home when surrounded by isolation instead of neighbours. I feel the most serene when silence is interrupted by cicadas and not sirens. I feel the safest when a night sky is lit by stars not streetlamps. I’ve always lived far from the city fringe. Country life has a way of slipping into your psyche and holding you close so you never want to leave. ![]() ![]() ![]() He first intended to be an actor (his lead role in the Dragon's 1937 production of Richard II gained glowing reviews in The Draconian) and then a writer, but his father persuaded him against it, advising: "My dear boy, have some consideration for your unfortunate wife. John Mortimer was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and Harrow School, where he joined the Communist Party, forming a one-member cell. Clifford's loss of sight was not acknowledged openly by the family. Mortimer was born in Hampstead, London, the only child of Kathleen May ( née Smith) and (Herbert) Clifford Mortimer (1884–1961), a divorce and probate barrister who became blind in 1936 when he hit his head on the door frame of a London taxi but still pursued his career. He is best known for novels about a barrister named Horace Rumpole. Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC FRSL (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. Barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author ![]() ![]() ![]() If you need any further evidence of how much you’ll enjoy this book, Universal Studios picked up the film rights… I will absolutely be first in line. “ Crave is about to become fandom’s new favorite vampire romance obsession. But there are still a few new surprises waiting for Grace-along with a betrayal that could destroy them all.Īvailable November 7, 2023: Untitled Crave Spin-Off When mysterious warlock Remy Boudreaux enters a deadly academy for rogue paranormals, secrets are everywhere and nothing is as it seems in the thrilling new spin-off series to Tracy Wolff’s instant New York Times bestselling Crave series. Now she and her friends must travel to the Shadow Realm to rescue one of their own. What happened at Katmere definitely isn’t staying at Katmere… Grace has finally graduated from Katmere Academy, but the dangers from school aren’t quite done with her. The Crave series is best enjoyed in order: Crave (book 1), Crush (book 2), Covet (book 3), and Court (book 4).Īvailable November 8, 2022: Charm, the missing four months of time between Crave and Crush, can be enjoyed anytime after reading Crave.Īvailable May 30, 2023: Cherish. SWEET VENGEANCE by Tracy Wolff a book ISBN-1649371268 ISBN13-9781649371263 with cover, excerpt, author notes, review link, and availability. ![]() ![]() ![]() I studied Gothic literature at university, and heard about (but did not read) a book called Melmoth the Wanderer, written in 1820 by an Irish Anglican priest Charles Maturin. It’s just my kind of book, and so I was eager to read her latest offering. Sarah Perry is a British author who won many fans with her second novel, The Essex Serpent (including me!) An eerie magic realism novel set in Victorian times, The Essex Serpent had a forbidden love story at its heart, along with sightings of a monstrous human-devouring snake. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy.īut, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. ![]() As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts-or, at least, refuge. It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters-and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance. Blindness was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008.īlindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. Ī sequel titled Seeing was published in 2004. In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda. Blindness ( Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. ![]() |