![]() ![]() The story is set in an Eastern school of witches in the United States, and it features an alternate reality where the witches born on the solstices and equinoxes control the weather. In her debut novel, Rachel Griffin crafted a riveting young adult fantasy tale that will have you hooked on the right from the first page to the last. She lives with her husband and their dog. When Rachel isn’t writing, you can find her reading by the fire, wandering the PNW, or with a mug of coffee and tea. She’s been a mentor in the Pitch Wars since 2017 and a full-time writer working from her home in the Seattle area. She worked in the healthcare industry for half a decade and taught ultrasound before quitting to start a small startup. Rachel graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Seattle University. She’s had a deep connection with nature, from the ocean to the mountains. Rachel was born and spent her childhood in Pacific Northwest. Her second novel Wild is the Witch, was released in the summer of 2022 by Sourcebooks Fire. Her book The Nature of Witches is a New York Times Bestseller. ![]() Rachel Griffin is an American author of young adult books best known for Wild Is the Witch and The Nature of Witches. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Carter wrote The Bloody Chamber, she had been reading the work of Bruno Bettelheim, who inspired her to seek out the psychological aspects to fairy tales. ![]() She said, "I was taking the latent image - the latent content of those traditional stories and using that and the latent content is violently sexual, and because I am a woman I read it that way." She also said that despite their female focus, her stories might "affect men much more than women," because in her opinion, women already recognize the falseness in literature that "mythologizes" them. In her view, she was simply exposing the previously obscured core content of fairy tales. Many consider The Bloody Chamber to be a feminist reworking of the patriarchal fairy tale form, yet Carter expressly said otherwise. ![]() It was first published in 1979, at which time it won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature prize. The Bloody Chamber is a collection of short stories by legendary British writer Angela Carter, whose untimely death in 1992 brought her work extensive critical attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() I give the Ember Quartet recognition for being one of the first series to truly get me interested in fantasy as a genre. ![]() He must take on a mission that could save-or destroy-all that he knows. To uphold his oath and protect the human world from the supernatural, the Soul Catcher must look beyond the borders of his own land. Yet doing so means ignoring the trail of murder left by the Nightbringer and his jinn. In the process, she awakens an ancient power that could lead her to victory-or to an unimaginable doom.Īnd deep in the Waiting Place, the Soul Catcher seeks only to forget the life-and love-he left behind. Determined to stop the approaching apocalypse, she throws herself into the destruction of the Nightbringer. Laia of Serra, now allied with the Blood Shrike, struggles to recover from the loss of the two people most important to her. ![]() At the top of the list? The Blood Shrike and her remaining family. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning.īy his side, Commandant Keris Veturia declares herself Empress and calls for the heads of any and all who defy her rule. The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. Prepare for the jaw-dropping finale to the beloved New York Times bestselling series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The American first edition is the true first edition because it preceded the London edition by three days ![]() This book was released in 1886 and at first none of the bookshop wanted to carry the book because of the subject matter, but a positive review had people flocking to the stores to read this sinister tale of hubris overcoming reason. He has unleashed a power from within that is turning out to be too formidable to be properly contained. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant man who in the course of trying to understand the human psyche has turned himself, with tragic results, into a guinea pig for his experiments. The stage adaptation opened in London in 1887, a year after the publication of the novella. Richard Mansfield was mostly known for his dual role depicted in this double exposure. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance rather of a leap of welcome. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. ”It came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This new edition includes both an introduction by the renowned cultural critic and writer Christopher Hitchens as well as Peter Gay’s classic biographical note on Freud. Of the various English translations of Freud’s major works to appear in his lifetime, only Norton’s Standard Edition, under the general editorship of James Strachey, was authorized by Freud himself. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer several questions fundamental to human society and its organization: What influences led to the creation of civilization? Why and how did it come to be? What determines civilization’s trajectory? Freud’s theories on the effect of the knowledge of death on human existence and the birth of art are central to his work. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. ![]() ![]() Written in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. In Civilization and its Discontents he considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness. Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. ![]() ![]() ![]() He had his moments, but then he would do or say something that just got to me. Jax was a character I’d loved from the start, but the more I read the more I couldn’t connect with him. The more I felt I understood her, the more I liked her. What shocked me most about Falling Away is that K.C. I was super nervous to start this story because of the heroine. is home for the summer and Jax isn’t that highschool kid anymore… They are insanely attracted to one another, but they butt heads. ![]() The moment passed, but neither of them forgot it. There were some parts I enjoyed, but way too much I had mixed feelings on… For me, this book just didn’t work like the others. I fell in love with Bully, I really enjoyed Until You and Rival. I think she is an amazing story teller and she writes some of the hottest sex scenes. ‘These violent delights have violent ends.’ ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet creates a growth mentality, positive expectations, and high hope. Below are some of the impacts of “yet.” 1. The power of “yet” is based on the idea that individuals are on a journey to knowledge, where learning should never stop, and self-improvement is better than staying in comfort zones. And one does not need to have a high IQ or be the smartest in the room, but only dedication and discipline as the primary tools. She argues that people can achieve success if they believe in their most basic abilities. It is rooted in how you approach failure to say that you can’t do something “yet” instead.Ĭarol Dweck is a Standford University professor and the mind behind the “power of yet.” In her book “Mindset,” she discusses the effect of a positive growth mindset. The “power of yet” is about having a growth mindset. This puts us in a fixed mindset situation, limiting us to what we can achieve. Many believe that basic qualities like talent and intelligence are fixed traits. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Morgan Murray, Drawn & Quarterly)ĭucks by Kate Beaton is the #1 Canadian nonfiction book this week.ĭucks is an autobiographical graphic novel that recounts author Kate Beaton's time spent working in the Alberta oil sands. The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayrĭucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is a book by Kate Beaton.Old Babes in the Woods by Margaret Atwood.See the full Canadian fiction list below. Miriam Toews on the war she didn't know she was winning.Women Talking was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and was a finalist for the 2019 Trillium Book Award. Women Talking is inspired by the real-life case in the 2000s, when women in a Bolivian Mennonite community began whispering that they were waking up groggy, in pain, feeling like they had been sexually molested. Why? They have 48 hours to make a decision that will impact every woman and child in their community. In Miriam Toews's powerful novel, eight Mennonite women come together to talk. Women Talking by Miriam Toews is the #1 Canadian fiction book this week. ![]() Miriam Toews is the author of Women Talking. ![]() ![]() He is sophisticated and highly intelligent, and he usually appears in an amazingly beautiful form, usually with blond hair. He is the patron of Melniboné and has a personal relationship with Elric, who was the first emperor to summon him to the plane of Earth in a long time. Arioch, Lord of the Seven Darks, Knight of the Swords, Lord of the Higher Hell, et cetera, one of the most powerful Dukes of Hell.These beings are referred to as Chaos Engineers, and include the famed Corsair of the Second Ether, Captain Billy-Bob Begg. Like Law, Chaos is beyond good or evil, and as such there are examples of Chaos Lords who fight for good, and rally against the forces of Singularity represented by Law's negative aspect. ![]() Many of them behave as if they are insane. Their tempers are as fickle as their physical forms, and they are very prone to violent mood swings. They are prone to shapeshifting, taking on horrific forms as eldritch abominations or hulking demons, or luminous forms of youths possessing unearthly beauty. The Chaos Lords represent Chaos in all of its aspects, and they actively oppose Law and the White Lords who serve it. They are worshipped as gods in many worlds, and reviled as devils in others. The Chaos Lords are essentially living embodiments of Chaos. Chief among these are the Chaos Lords, also known as the Lords of Entropy and the Dukes of Hell. The lords of Entropy and Freedom, and servants of Chaos.Ĭhaos manifests itself in an infinite number of forms and guises. ![]() ![]() 18 (Hardcover):īorn in Hokkaido, Japan, Hiromu Arakawa first attracted attention in 1999 with her award-winning manga Stray Dog. 17 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 16 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 15 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 14 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 13 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 12 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 11 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. ![]() 10 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. ![]() 9 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 8 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 7 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 5 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 4 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 3 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. ![]() 2 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 1 (Hardcover):įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. This is book number 6 in the Fullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition series.įullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. ![]() |