![]() ![]() Target audience adult Transposition and arrangement not applicable ![]() Brimming with celestial intrigue, this sparkling YA debut is perfect for fans of Roshani Chokshi and Laini Taylor Accompanying matter technical information on music Cataloging source Midwest Thakrar, Shveta Dewey number Form of composition not applicable Format of music not applicable Literary text for sound recordings fiction PerformerNote Read by Soneela Nankani Sheetal's quest to save her father will take her to a celestial court of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must take the stage as her family's champion in a competition to decide the next ruling house of the heavens-and win, or risk never returning to Earth at all. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long ago. Pretending to be "normal." But when an accidental flare of her starfire puts her human father in the hospital, Sheetal needs a full star's help to heal him. The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Language eng Summary This gorgeously imagined YA debut blends shades of Neil Gaiman's Stardust and a breathtaking landscape of Hindu mythology into a radiant contemporary fantasy. ![]() Label Star daughter Title Star daughter Statement of responsibility Shveta Thakrar Creator ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Roman Mysteries combine Caroline's love of art history, ancient languages and travel. In 2000 she wrote The Thieves of Ostia, the first in a series of children's adventure stories set in Ancient Rome, the book was published in 2001. She then taught Latin, French and art at a small London primary school. There, at Newnham College, she studied Classical Art and Archaeology.Īfter Cambridge, Caroline remained in England, and later took an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. She afterwards studied Classics at Berkeley, where she won a Marshall Scholarship to Cambridge. ![]() ![]() When she was twelve, Caroline's family moved to Stanford University in northern California so that her father could study Linguistics. Her father taught English and drama in a local high school and her mother was an artist. Her American parents returned to the United States shortly afterwards and she grew up in Bakersfield, California with her younger brother and sister.
![]() ![]() Their father, like the playwright herself, named them Lincoln and Booth as a joke. ![]() His younger brother is named Booth, after the man who actually shot President Abraham Lincoln. To me, it's funny." She ran with it, making the character of Lincoln a Black man who works as a Lincoln impersonator at an arcade, where he has to pretend to die every time a customer "shoots" Lincoln with a gun filled with a blank. "I thought, 'Oh, man, I should just - that'd be cool, two brothers, Lincoln and Booth,'" she told The New York Times in 2001. Topdog/Underdog started out as a joke of a thought that came to Parks one day. Learn more about this acclaimed play's plot, characters, celebrity stars and more below. Their story is at once intimate and epic, showing how their troubled past shaped their present and asking whether they can pick themselves back up with each other's support - or else will be each other's downfall. Topdog/Underdog stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins as brothers: one named Lincoln, the other Booth. ![]() Now, the play is back for its 20th anniversary, with performances running through Januat the Golden Theatre. ![]() That conceit earned Parks a Pulitzer Prize and Tony nominations for its premiere Broadway production in 2002. A Black man working as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator may seem like a strange topic for a play, but Suzan-Lori Parks’s explosive Topdog/Underdog made a success of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() “And a good thriller can be as comforting as a romance novel in that, no matter how high the body count is or how big the stakes are, you still go in knowing what you’re going to get. ![]() “Readers are always looking for escape,” he says. “The same kind of person who is obsessed with true crime documentaries, murder shows, and/or podcasts is going to love A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series.”Īccording to Steve Geck, editor-at-large for Sourcebooks, thrillers often provide a pleasantly predictable reading experience that keeps the genre’s fans coming back for more. ![]() “People can’t get enough of those ripped-from-the-headlines type of stories,” she says. Kelsey Horton, senior editor at Delacorte Press, believes that YA thrillers are booming because they fit right in with a general pop culture shift toward similar fare. “YA readers are gravitating toward the fast-paced nature of mysteries, and #BookTok has absolutely been a contributing factor to the sustained success in the category.” Shannon DeVito, director of books for Barnes & Noble, says, “If you look any given week at our top books, thrillers make up at least one-third of the list-a large swing considering the dominance of fantasy and science fiction categories over the last decade.” The thriller genre has been performing “extremely well” for B&N, “specifically over the last two years,” DeVito adds. YA readers have a voracious appetite for murder and suspense these days, and this trend shows no signs of abating. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book has a lot of change, freedom and justice, it has leadership, love, and coming of age. So what is the merit of the book? Well, The Call of the Wild paints a picture clearer than a photograph from a canon camera, it makes you feel very close to the characters, you can understand their feelings, and relate to experiences there going through. But many teachers and kids think that the book is one of the best classic books of all time and should be taught in schools. ![]() It was also banned in Yugoslavia and Italy for being "too radical" and was burned by the Nazis because of the author's well-known socialist leanings. The Call Of The Wild, is argued to be one of the most banned books worldwide, in America due to animal violence. ![]() The teacher closes her book, and looks at all of the horrified faces. “Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good”. ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1947 to 1950, he was Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1947, he went to Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director on Romeo and Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He directed Dr Faustus, his first production, in 1943 at the Torch Theatre in London, followed at the Chanticleer Theatre in 1945 with a revival of The Infernal Machine. ![]() Brook was educated at Westminster School, Gresham’s School, and Magdalen College, Oxford. His first cousin was Valentin Pluchek, chief director of the Moscow Satire Theatre. ![]() His elder brother was the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Alexis Brook (1920-2007). The family home was at 27 Fairfax Road, Turnham Green. It transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director.īrook was born in the Turnham Green area of Chiswick, London, the second son of Simon Brook and his wife Ida (Jansen), both Jewish immigrants from Latvia. With the Royal Shakespeare Company, Brook directed the first English language production of Marat/Sade in 1964. He has been called „our greatest living theatre director”. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this collection, Kirschner gives voice to the disturbed and hopeful in her characters' psyches-penetrating the repressed, thrust into the sublime. Brimming with a hallucinatory spirit, these are less stories and more poetic and metaphysical voyages. "BECAUSE THE SKY IS A THOUSAND SOFT HURTS is a master stroke. There is nothing easy about the magic Kirschner casts rather, its complexity serves to illuminate the indomitability of the human spirit in those deep, dark places where it would seem no spirit could survive. I literally found myself taking a deep breath at the beginning and the end of each story, to both steel and re-orient myself. "In her brilliant collection BECAUSE THE SKY IS A THOUSAND SOFT HURTS, Elizabeth Kirschner fearlessly blends poetry, prose, memoir, and master storytelling into an amalgam that lands like a gut-punch to the soul. ![]() ![]() ![]() This latter point signals the first of the tensions inherent in Antichrist’s biography, between the Antichrist of the future yet to come and the many Antichrists already present. Timewise, as 1 John 2 testifies, he has both come into the world, and will yet come again. He could be a tyrant threatening the Church from without, such as an emperor, or, more troubling, Jews or he might be a deceiver corrupting the Church from within - the popes feature often. Insofar as there is any degree of consensus, he is not the devil, but they are definitely working in tandem to thwart Christ and Christianity. The three questions are these: who is the Antichrist? where is he to be found (and it is invariably a “he”)? and when was he, or when will he be, active - or is he now? It takes many twists and turns, but essentially it boils down to three questions, three tensions, three wrong turnings - and one conclusion. The story so far lasts 2000 years, from New Testament times to the secular speculations of The Omen and Left Behind. ![]() He does so with characteristic clarity and lightly worn learning. AFTER biographies of God and the Devil, Philip Almond now turns his attention to the Antichrist. ![]() ![]() In his essay, “The Coming of Nationalism and Its Interpretations: The Myths of Nation and Class,” Gellner creates a model for micro-units evolving into “nations.” There are five stages in the transition: ![]() Gellner, Hroch and Hobsbawm propose general models for the rise of nations, while Renan and Anderson define nationalism and examine its ideological and conceptual mechanisms. The following are the most influential theorists of nationalism: Ernest Gellner, Miroslav Hroch, Eric Hobsbawm, Ernest Renan and Benedict Anderson. As the modern era approached, people began to question the Divine Right of Kings and the dynastic apportioning of their land. ![]() During medieval and renaissance times, royal dynasties and religious organizations formed the foundations of political and geographical divisions. The methods of partitioning land have undergone tremendous change since the thirteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. ![]() Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared fictional universe that features a pantheon of grotesque and malevolent deities, as well as their cultists and hapless victims. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. ![]() |