For seven years, Amaya has known nothing but shame, cruelty, and unfair treatment, and thus has vowed that as soon as she is finally free from her parents’ debt, her first act will be to seek revenge against the man who ruined her family. Scavenge the Stars follows a young woman named Amaya, who has spent much of her life imprisoned aboard a debtor’s ship, forced to work off her parents’ debt. It’s a gender-bent retelling of the classic novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, which is also a tale of revenge. If you’re in the mood for a good revenge story, then Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim is the book you’re looking for. Scavenge the Stars (Scavenge the Stars, #1) GoodreadsįTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Netgalley. It’s time for a new batch of mini reviews and this time it’s January ARCs! There are a ton of great new books coming out in early January so if you have Christmas money to spend, here are some titles you should consider.
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Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. Lisa Genova 21,324 337 offers from 1.16 Every Note Played Lisa Genova 5,183 Best Literature & Fiction 136 offers from 1.30 Left Neglected Lisa Genova 5,780 213 offers from 1. When the young woman, who they call Simplicity recovers, Dodger and his allies discover that her fairy tale wedding to a German prince was frown upon by his family, and his family want all traces of the wedding erased, and unfortunately her husband is not standing in their way. In his pursuit of answers, he stops a robbery attempt and causes the capture of a murderous barber Sweeny Todd. Knowing that she is in an unknown danger, he, with the assistance of two witnesses, takes on the task of searching for information on her past and the men who pursued her. Dodger quickly comes to her assistance and rescues her from her attackers. One night in the streets of 17th century London, Dodger see a young woman being pursued and assaulted by two men. This is one question that you will never have to ask about seventeen year old Dodger, the main character in the 2013 Printz Honor book Dodger by Terry Pratchett. When you witness someone in trouble, are you someone who just stands by and watches or are you willing to step up and try to put stop to the injustice? This week's recommended read is Dodger, by Terry Pratchett, a 2013 Printz Honor recipient for young adults that The New York Times describes as "a masterwork from a treasure and hero of a writer. We continue our occasional series previewing good reads for young adults from Katherine Farmer, Coordinator of the Racers Children's Preview Collection at Murray State University. Not just racist in a "Well, it was written in 1936 so what do you expect?" kind of way, but offensively, horribly racist even by the standards of the time in which it was written. Let's get this out of the way first: Gone With the Wind is a racist, revisionist Southern apologetic. As the lives and affairs of these absorbing characters play out against the tumult of the Civil War, Gone With the Wind reaches dramatic heights that have swept generations of fans off their feet. Behind them stand their gentler counterparts: Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton. Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire: darkly handsome Rhett Butler and flirtatious Scarlett O'Hara. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. He had often said to me: “I am not long for this world,” and I had thought his words idle. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. The basic premise of the book is that you are, at once, the leader, inventor, teacher and user of your brain. The pioneering authors take you into a fascinating journey inside this awesome ‘three-pound universe’ called your brain, which they say is nature’s greatest gift to us. Rudolph Tanzi, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and one of the foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer’s joins the prolific Deepak Chopra to bring you, by far, one of the most compelling books of the year. In a world with roaming wildlife that has her constantly watching over her shoulder and harsh conditions that stretch far beyond the cold, dark, winter months, just stepping outside her front door can be daunting. With Jonah gone more than he's home, one neighbor who insists on transforming her into a true Alaskan, and another who seems more likely to shoot her than come to her aid, Calla grapples with forging her own path. When Jonah arrives on her doorstep with a proposition she can't dismiss, she takes the leap and rushes back to Alaska to begin their exciting future together.īut Calla soon learns that even the best intentions can lead to broken promises, and that compromise comes with a hefty price-a log cabin in interior rural Alaska that feels as isolating as the western tundra. From the internationally best-selling author of The Simple Wild comes the continuation of a woman's journey to Alaska and a life she never imagined for herself.Ĭalla Fletcher returns to Toronto a different person, struggling to find direction and still very much in love with the rugged bush pilot she left behind. Knowing that her political future hangs in the balance, Eve Bowen refuses to let Luxford damage her career by printing the story or calling the police. For she is Undersecretary of State for the Home Office, one of the most high-profile Junior Ministers and quite possibly the next Margaret Thatcher. Yet it's not only Luxford's reputation that's on the line: it's also the reputation-and career-of Charlotte Bowen's mother. Luxford knows that the story of Charlotte's paternity could make him a laughingstock and reveal to his beautiful wife and son the lie he's lived for a decade. But Charlotte's existence is Luxford's most fiercely guarded secret, and acknowledging her as his child will throw more than one life and career into chaos. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered her, she will die. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. Abolitionists, Douglass included, wanted to distinguish their kind of Christianity from that of the slave owners. The abolitionists were, for the most part, religious people, and many of their arguments were based on what should be the conduct of Christians. He pledges to fight for his "sacred cause" with the power of "truth, love, and justice."Ī religious context frames the entire Narrative. Finally, Douglass states that he hopes his little book will shed light on the institution of slavery and hasten its end. And he exposes the "man-thief" (the slave trader) who lives very well from the profits of his trade. He makes it clear that he is only against the religion of slaveholders for Douglass, their religion is far removed from the "Christianity of Christ." In fact, to embrace the latter as "good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked." To be a Christian requires one to reject slavery.ĭouglass ends by presenting a parody of a Southern church hymn called "Heavenly Union." In it, he pokes fun at Southerners who profess religion while "stinting negroes backs and maws." He jibes at the preacher who gives his slaves only meager allowances of food and clothing, all the while urging them to "love not the world" (that is, indulge in worldly pleasures). Douglass feels he may be misunderstood and wants to explain to the reader that he is not anti-religion. Certain editions of Douglass' Narrative conclude with an appendix. Working in association with West Performing Arts, the company chose a small gem for its inaugural show - but one that requires an unusually dramatic dedication by a cast of only two performers. A new theater company in Santa Cruz - with the piquant name Someone Else”s Clothes - pulled off that trick last weekend with an engaging and absorbing drama that captivated a small crowd at the Broadway Playhouse at the Santa Cruz Art League. One of the nicest things about reviewing theater is the occasional surprise - the show that suddenly appears out of nowhere and knocks your socks off. |