Halldorr finds himself in the renowned Norse city of Dyflin, defending a king long past his prime. Jason Born's ill-fated hero, Halldorr, returns in this fifth stunning installment of The Norseman Chronicles. Oath sworn men, golden Valkyries, and a grinding siege all have roles to play in deciding the fate of a kingdom. And just when Halldorr begins to curse it all, a dirty sea king arrives on the scene and inspires him and a city to greatness.Norseman's Oath is a magnificent tale, immersing the reader in a world of thrilling battle, vivid characters, Viking wit, and grand adventure. Ireland's High King Sechnaill gambles for power. The half-brother princes, Iron Knee and Silkbeard, each have something to prove. Everyone, Norse and Irish alike, desires to have a hand in running their own kingdom and the crumbling House of Kvaran. The truth hidden beneath the politics of Ireland is more sinister. The timber walls of King Kvaran's prosperous city appear promising at first. They remain banished from the icy fjords of home and so must serve wherever a sword is needed. Chaos mounts.The year is 989 A.D., two years after Halldorr and his fellow Greenlanders limped away from the massacre at Dunadd.
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With spot-on characterizations of deeply involved extended families and realistic depictions of how money can change everything, Peace Adzo Medie conjures a Cinderella story just right for 2020. But Afi, who ultimately falls in love with her often-absent husband despite what she knows, is driven to question her limits as a woman and a wife as she finds the freedom to consider for the first time what she truly wants in life. For some, an arrangement guaranteeing a bit of heartache in exchange for financial security is enough. And Afi knows she’s being used: Elikem, who doesn’t even show up for their wedding ceremony, has a Liberian lover detested by his family, and it is up to Afi to convince him to forget her. Set in Medie’s native Ghana, His Only Wife begins with a familiar premise: A sweet but poor young woman marries a prince well, in this case, he’s a handsome, wealthy businessman. Her new home is just one of her new husband’s many luxury properties, and not the place where he actually lives. She and her widowed mother live essentially at the mercy of Elikem’s mother, known in town as Aunty, who provides them with housing and employment. At the beginning of His Only Wife, Afi leaves her village in Ghana, and moves to an upscale apartment in the capital after an arranged marriage and a wedding by proxy. There is no room for objection when Afi Tekple-a poor, young seamstress living in rural Ghana-is asked to marry the wealthy Elikem Ganyo. Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot by Dav Pilkey Like The Bad Guys, this series of seven is a great early graphic novel. We’re big fans of this dynamic duo, and we think your kids will be equally charmed by their love of waffles, parties, and adventures. This delightful graphic novel series follows the antics of scaredy-cat Squirrel and carefree Bird as they try to escape Cat, crash land at the South Pole, cross the Great Mountains, and more. Why not use that to your advantage and encourage more reading, especially if they’ve already worked their way through the series? We rounded up books for kids who like The Bad Guys, so without further ado, here are our “read-alikes”: 1. (And they’re probably losing their tiny minds over the movie). If you teach first, second, or third grade, we’re willing to bet you have students obsessed with The Bad Guys. The rising body count and growing paranoia make for a ripping tale of deep-space terror. Strangely, the ship’s sole crewmember, Royd Eris, hides behind the bulkheads, limiting his contact with the passengers to his intercom and a holographic image.Īfter some deadly and suspicious accidents, the team begins to suspect Royd is an artificial intelligence who’s covering up for a menacing inhuman presence stalking them on the ship. His motley collection of academics travels on a starcraft called the Nightflyer to reach the enigmatic aliens. We learn that a man named Karoly d’Branin has assembled an underfunded research mission to seek contact with the volcryn. “When Jesus of Nazareth hung dying on his cross, the volcryn passed within a light-year of his agony, headed outward,” the story’s unnamed narrator explains. “Nightflyers ,” available in Martin’s Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective, opens by describing an ancient alien race, the volcryn, who have been traveling the universe for millennia without direct human contact. Some, including the 1980 novella “Nightflyers,” was dark enough to drift in that chilling stretch of space between sf and horror. Martin penned science fiction that was every bit as dark and rewarding as his epic fantasy. The cover of the 1985 TOR edition of Nightflyersīefore the HBO series, the best seller list and the late night talk show appearances, Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. The novel's themes of morality, guilt, and redemption make it a timeless masterpiece of literature, and its examination of the human condition has made it a classic that is beloved by readers all over the world. Looking for a literary masterpiece that will keep leave you thinking long after you turn the last page? Look no further than Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Ĭrime and Punishment is a must-read for fans of crime fiction, historical fiction, and psychological thrillers. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.” “Existence alone had never been enough for him he had always wanted more. This edition has been annotated with the following unique In this work, the first of the series and the image that was to greet visitors as they entered the room, a nude showgirl dancer does a sad burlesque, her shadow duplicated in silhouette in a Coney Island funhouse style. We are offering the complete series of ten original concept paintings, each illustrating a nude underworld goddess in sordid intimate engagement with manifestations of modernism, industry and the machine age. By the following year Blaine was under extensive psychiatric care and dropped completely out of the public eye for the better part of a decade. It’s unlikely Blaine or MacAlister ever truly expected the murals to be completed, but perhaps he did. Blaine treated each individual painting in the series as its own completed stand alone artwork, with painstaking detail. Offering a dark and pessimistically erotic commentary on the skyscraper landscape that was taking over Manhattan, it’s unclear if Blaine and MacAlister believed these murals would ever be approved, or if the preliminary artworks were exclusively created as an oblique social satire. Christopher Hudson created a series of illustrations which were intended to become murals for the studio or showroom of noted New York City interior designer Paul MacAlister. In the late 1930s, avant-garde illustrator Mahlon Blaine, working under the pseudonym G. Full view of gouache painting The artist’s initial lower left for “G. It was love at first sight, and MJ never made it to Denver. On a brief stop home to visit her parents before transferring to a new job in Denver, she met Herm Auch, a graphic artist and editorial cartoonist for the Rochester newspaper. She enrolled in the Occupational Therapy program at Columbia University, which led to some wonderful years of working in a children's hospital near Hartford, Connecticut. After graduation, MJ headed for New York City to seek fame and fortune, but after a year of designing prints for men's pajamas, she decided she wanted to do something more meaningful with her life. Her interest in drawing continued through high school, and she went on to become an art major at Skidmore College. She wrote stories, drawn in comic book style with speech balloons for the dialog. MJ learned that a flock of chickens had almost the same range of personalities that could be found in a classroom, from the quiet, shy chicken to the big bully. One grandmother had a small backyard flock and the other grandmother and two bachelor uncles had a large farm that supplied eggs to half of Long Island. Summer visits to both of MJ’s grandmothers led to her fascination with chickens. They produced these extravaganzas in Noreen’s garage and organized the neighborhood boys into a sales force to sell tickets and refreshments. Her only literary efforts in those days were the plays which she and her girlfriend, Noreen, wrote for their marionettes. The thought of becoming a writer never occurred to MJ Auch as a child. The plumber sees his value finally recognized, as he’s placed as one of those responsible for repairing and maintaining the foundations of a city on the bottom of the sea, to where he sets off immediately with his family. Mcdonagh has always dreamed of becoming an engineer and, one day, is indeed offered the chance to make his dream come true by an eccentric tycoon. The story initially follows two main characters: the plumber Bill Mcdonagh and the scammer Frank Gorland. It puts its focus on the game’s setting – the underwater city of Rapture –, and the philosophy behind it, but fails to add anything new to the game’s story, failing to develop it properly. Written by John Shirley based on the two first Bioshock games, Bioshock: Rapture is a science fiction novel that intends to tell a story that complements the great original material. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the heart of Coldtown itself.Ī wholly original story of rage and revenge, love and loathing from bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Folk of the Air series, Holly Black. The only other survivors of the massacre are her ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. When Tana wakes up one morning after a perfectly ordinary party, she finds herself surrounded by corpses. It's an eternal party, shown on TV 24 hours a day-gorgeous, glamorous and deadly! The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. The plot contains profanity and graphic violence Accelerated Reader UG 6. A prison for the damned and those who party with them.įrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Cruel Prince comes a deliciously dark YA audiobook for fans of Twilight and The Vampire Diaries. When 17-year-old Tana wakes up in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined city full of vampires, with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious vampire boy in tow. These ‘systems of power’ are constructed in terms of rigid binaries which necessitate the location of subjectivity within the boundaries of these constructed categories or ‘truths’. In a postmodernist conceptualisation, Foucault’s ‘systems of power’ can be defined as ‘grand narratives’ which produce and assert hegemonic transcendental ‘truths’ that are seemingly self-reflexive and incompatible with the notion of legitimacy of multiple opposing and alternative discourses or ‘truths’. It’s not a matter of emancipating the truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the form of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time (Foucault, 1976, p. “The problem is not changing people’s consciousness – or what’s in their heads – but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth. In “Truth and Power”, an excerpt of a translated transcription of an interview with Michel Foucault by Alesandro Fontana and Pasquale Pasquino in June 1976 – published as “Intervista a Michel Foucault” in Microfiseca del Poetere in 1977 – Foucault argues, in relation to ‘systems of power’ and their consequent transcendental ‘truths’, that: |