![]() ![]() Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter-from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life-with sections in the form of Lauren's journal. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. ![]() "Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. The story is told by a woman at the receiving end of their zeal, the founder of a religion which they consider heathen. A Christian fundamentalist group kidnaps children to raise them in Christian homes in this tale of religious intolerance in a future America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (Summary be DebraLynn)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox. He does this quite successfully until, nearly 20 years later, his past comes back to haunt him. Eventually he is forced to give up the search and move on with his life. When he awakens, sober, the next day he regrets his rash act and vows to give up drink and find his family and bring them home. The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England.(Summary from Wikipedia)Ī poor, disgruntled, drunken young man sells his wife and child to the highest bidder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hardys powerful and sympathetic study of. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". LibriVox recording of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, read by Debra Lynn. Author: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928: Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Psychological fiction Subject: Fathers and daughters - Fiction Subject: Men - England - Fiction Subject: Wessex (England) - Fiction Subject: Runaway husbands - Fiction Subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “On election night we may now see the Maori Party being the party which decides who is the Government which is always the position they want to be or should be in, that we are an independent Maori force, that we are there to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi and we come with our own mana and our own mandate,” he says. Ms Whaitiri yesterday quit Labour and announced she would contest Ikaroa Rawhiti for the fourth time as a Te Pati Maori candidate.įormer Labour Party chief of staff Matt McCarten says it’s not a seat the Maori Party expected to win, and with it now polling over 4 percent the party could have five or six MPs in the next parliament. A Māori political commentator says Meka Whaitiri's defection could give the Māori Party the impetus it needs to become a real political force.Ī Māori political commentator says Meka Whaitiri’s defection could give the Māori Party the impetus it needs to become a real political force. ![]() ![]() ![]() But what was truly interesting was the mix of people-teenagers, aging hippies, moms and dads, blue-haired old ladies-all proud to call themselves “Parrotheads.” Buffett’s new book A Pirate Looks at Fifty is currently a bestseller proving that Jimmy Buffett’s appeal is as timeless as he is. ![]() Interested in org charts, contact info and more for Jimmy Buffett. The day of the book-signing, hundreds and hundreds of people showed up and the line snaked around several blocks. University of Southern Mississippi (Mississippi, US). ![]() But what I found most interesting was a story I heard during one of his first bookstore signings (in Virginia or Georgia, I think). It seemed to me that Jimmy Buffett was truly living-and chronicling-the American Dream. Not surprisingly, it had the same wonderful style and spirit of his songs-funny, original, free-spirited. By Jimmy Buffett Harvest Books (Paperback, $14.00, ISBN: 0156026988, 6/2002) Having grown up on Jimmy Buffett’s songs in the ’70s, especially “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” I read with interest his first book Tales from Margaritaville. ![]() ![]() Alongside tales of grueling endurance, gross incompetence, cannibalism, jealousy and dirty politics, the explorers themselves are wonderfully reconstructed through quotes from journals and correspondence. ![]() With the air of a dictator, Barrow dispatched officers and crews to the extremes of the world in order to prove the notions he thought to be true, becoming more irritated if the explorers reported evidence contrary to his liking than if they died in his service. Barrow was certain that the Northwest Passage existed and that the Niger eventually joined the Nile if so, their mappings would have profound commercial ramifications. When he suggested the conversion of idle naval ships into vessels for exploration, Barrow had two driving obsessions: to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean and to chart the course of Africa's Niger River. Though Barrow never achieved the historical fame of subordinates William Parry and James Ross, he was one of the most influential organizers behind the massive program of globe-trotting that allowed these men to make their names. ![]() A sure bet for fans of Caroline Alexander's The Endurance, this captivating survey of England's exploration during the 19th century illuminates a host of forgotten personalities, principal among them John Barrow, Britain's Second Secretary of the Admiralty from 1816 to 1848. ![]() ![]() The stories he read about the indie writers that attained financial freedom through self-publishing inspired Ryk.įor the first time, the author was forced to contemplate the possibility of a future in publishing. But he would occasionally stumble upon gems that cemented his confidence in the indie publishing scheme. The kindle blew his mind, introducing the author to a deluge of self-published writers. The woman wanted Ryk’s daughter to use her old kindle. When the author’s mother bought a new kindle, he did not expect the decision to change his life. ![]() Ryk’s debt kept mounting, and he couldn’t find a job. ![]() ![]() But when the economy took a turn for the worst, Ryk relocated the business to his home. The author abandoned his paramedic gig to operate a computer repair shop. Ryk would have ignored his calling if it wasn’t for the economic downturn. The fact that he had no interest in writing fiction professionally did not help matters.įor Ryk, writing was just a fun activity he occasionally explored, which is why he did not hesitate to shelve the science fiction manuscript. He was convinced that his friends and family were too polite to tell him the truth. The book was so good they couldn’t put it down. His friends and family gave the author the best feedback a writer could ask for. During his time as a paramedic, things were slow enough at Ryk’s ambulance station that he found the time to write a science fiction novel. But at no point was he tempted to pursue publishing as a career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How is your daughter sleeping these days? But be forewarned: Mansbach really, really likes to cuss. He opens up about helicopter parents, the sometimes rage-filled response to his book, and how he stays sane. So in time for Father’s Day, we sought out Mansbach in search of a little succor for newly minted, sleep-deprived parents, especially dads. Jackson has given voice to the audio book version. It’s a public admission that raising small children can be a horrible slog, and that the usual remedies-the watery bromides (“it won’t last forever”), the bad jokes (“you’ll know its toddler time when you’re ready to get a separate apartment”), the asinine suggestions like “go for a walk when it all gets too much”-are paltry compared to the problem of bending children to your will.īut who wants to admit that their own tots are little vampires too? Apparently, everyone: Go the F**k to Sleep debuted this week atop The New York Times advice book bestseller list, as well as atop Amazon’s sales ranking. ![]() Since going viral last month, the sweetly expletive-strewn narrative-“The cats nestle close to their kittens now / The lambs have laid down with the sheep / You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear/ Please go the f**k to sleep”-has turned novelist Adam Mansbach into a reluctant ringleader for Bad Dads everywhere. Among the many ways for Moms and Dads to feel guilty, there is now Go the F**k to Sleep, a potty-mouthed picture book, complete with cherubic toddlers, slumbering animals, and generously dropped F-bombs. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Illearth War (1978 Gilden-Fire-first published 1981).The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever In ten novels, published between 19, he struggles against Lord Foul, "the Despiser", who intends to escape the bondage of the physical universe and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy, "the Creator". The main character of the stories is Thomas Covenant, an embittered and cynical writer, afflicted with leprosy and shunned by society, and fated to become the heroic savior of the Land, an alternate world. ![]() This was followed by another trilogy, The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and finally a tetralogy, The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. The series began as a trilogy, entitled The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. ![]() The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cast includes a number of Britain's leading actors and comic actors of the time, including Sir John Mills, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, Irene Handl, Nanette Newman, Wilfrid Lawson, and Tony Hancock. It was made into a 1966 British comedy film produced and directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. A hole and tear at front enpaper, with ink markings. Worn along edges, rubbed, corners bumped. The ad, torn from a newspaper placed on the cover is missing. bound in original publisher's brownish cover with gilt lettering on the spine and a light yellow label on the cover with lettering in black. ![]() ![]() ![]() Students were segregated by gender lines, women's rights receded faster than the polar ice caps, and family members were executed simply because they were suspected to be spies. ![]() Marjane Satrapi grew up in Iran just as things started getting bad. Many of them don't want to wear head-to-toe religious garments any more than you'd want to wear jean shorts in December. (Who knows, maybe the Death Star is just misunderstood, too… ) Iran's citizens are people of the world just like us and, just like us, they want to listen to music, hang out with friends, and party. ![]() Unlike the Death Star, Iran isn't actually evil-the people who run the country are. Unfortunately, we live in a world (especially post-9/11) that considers Iran and Iranians in general to be "the bad guys." Reading what it's like to grow up in Iran is like reading what it's like to grow up as a young stormtrooper on the Death Star. It tells a first-hand account of what it was like to be raised in Iran. And we're still waiting for a book on Gargamel to tell us why the guy hates Smurfs so much. Grendel tells us Beowulf's nemesis's side of things. Wickedtells us the story of the Wicked Witch of the West. ![]() Books often explore stories from the other side. ![]() |