![]() ![]() Evocative of a past time, and told in a style that's reminiscent of Hammet and Chandler, yet uniquely his own, Mosley's depiction of an inherently decent man in a violent world of intrigue and corruption rang up big sales when it was published in 1990 (although the movie version, with Denzel Washington as Easy, never found the audience it deserved). few writers have shown us before-the mean streets of South Central, the after-hours joints in dirty basement clubs, the cheap hotels and furnished rooms, the places people go when they don't want to be found. Easy's search takes the reader to an L.A. That's a good enough reason to accept a white man's offer to pay him for finding a beautiful, mysterious Frenchwoman named Daphne Monet, last seen in the company of a well-known gangster. Fired from his job on the line at an aircraft plant, he's in danger of losing his home, symbol of his tenuous hold on middle class status. "I thought there might be some justice for a black man if he had money to grease it," Easy says. His stint in the Army didn't do anything to dissuade him from his belief that justice doesn't come cheap, especially for men like him. Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has few illusions about the world-at least not about the world of a young black veteran in the late 1940s in Southern California. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Gimbutas's theories are sprinkled liberally throughout a growing literature about goddess-based religion. It is a thesis that has made the 68-year-old professor of archeology at the University of California at Los Angeles a heroine among many feminist social critics and religious thinkers and a controversial figure, to say the least, among her colleagues. Then, about 6,000 years ago, this Old European culture, in which the two sexes lived in harmony with one another and with nature, was shattered by patriarchal invaders who installed their warlike gods in place of the life-generating Great Goddess. It was during the Stone Age, she says, when goddesses were worshiped and societies were centered on women. MARIJA Gimbutas is an eminent archeologist who says she believes the world once lived in peace. ![]() ![]() ![]() the final race in Mexico's Copper Canyon will have you turning pages faster than a fascinating peek into the lives of the publicity-shy Tarahumara and the collection of misfits To this blistering endurance tester - but this ranks among the strongest.» «Good books about running are rare - Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is a meditative jog compared « major voice of a new movement.» Bernard Goldberg, HBO «If you're a runner, you probably won't reach the end of the first chapter without bolting for the door to get some miles behind «Part how-to manual, part scientific treatise but throughout a ripping yarn, this book will inspire everyone who reads it to a rollicking tale well told» Rick Broadbent, The Times «Fascinating stuff, particularly for anyone who's ever been frustrated by the apparently shoddy mechanics of their own running ![]() ![]() «Reaches the state of bliss that runners very occasionally experience in the midst of an endless run.» Simon Kuper, FT in ultrarunners McDougall uncovers a tribe worthy of the pioneering drifters that fired the American spirit,Īnd in McDougall ultrarunners have found their own Kerouac or Krakauer.» «Quite simply the best book you'll ever read about running - it's brilliant, and brilliantly life-affirming.» Lloyd Bradley, author of The Rough Guide to Running ![]() «Amazing, really incredibly inspiring book» Joe Wicks ![]() ![]() ![]() Graphic Gore Attempted Rape/Sexual Assault Genocide Death Rating:Ĭontent Tags: Young Adult Fantasy High Fantasy Mythology Sloane rises through the ranks and gains strength but, in doing so, risks something greater: losing herself entirely, and becoming the very monster that she ahbors.įollowing one girl’s journey of magic, injustice, power, and revenge, this deeply felt and emotionally charged debut from Deborah Falaye, inspired by Yoruba-Nigerian mythology, is a magnetic combination of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin and Daughter of Smoke and Bone that will utterly thrill and capture readers. But when she is forcibly conscripted into the Lucis army on her fifteenth birthday, Sloane sees a new opportunity: to overcome the bloody challenges of Lucis training, and destroy them from within. ![]() ![]() Under the Lucis’ brutal rule, her identity means her death if her powers are discovered. I will be the worst monster they ever created.įifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will-she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. Published by: HarperTeen on March 8, 2022 Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1) by Deborah Falaye ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the remote nineteenth-century Russian countryside, Sister Pelagia uses methodical investigations to unravel tightly knotted mysteries. Lady Emily Ashton’s status in upper-crust Victorian London gives her access to the murmurings of society gossip and high-powered connections-both handy for this amateur detective. Herb lore and a portrait of a modern small town being reshaped by big city refugees are important features of this series. This is not an exhaustive list of women sleuths, but a collection of notable series owned by Madison Public Library.Ī | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U| V | W | X | Y | ZĬhina Bayles is a Pecan Springs, Texas herb store owner and former attorney. Titles are listed in the order in which they were published, through November 2019. See also Retired Women Sleuths for series that have ended. She may occasionally use her physical strength or a weapon in the course of her crime-solving more often, she uses her intelligence, her expertise in a specific area, and her understanding of human nature to reach a solution. She may be a police officer, a private detective, an office worker, a professor, an attorney, a nun, or even a librarian, but she is always tenacious and self-reliant. The past few years have shown an increase in the number of mysteries featuring a woman sleuth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He shows that people who are from middle class don't have a happy ending as Dickens, Austen and Bronte had shown. The contradicitons of society: while society promotes to be a good person and follow God's word, at the same time society doesn't follow it.Īlso some of its rules can oppose to the Natural and Divine ones. A reason of why his novels were a controversy and a danger to society.Īs you could see, his stories show hopelessness, depression and sorrow, but at the same time they show how society can totally crush an individual even though he/she tries to follow the society rules. However, Hardy's novels and stories challenge the society rules and mores of the Victorian era. Some examples, which are very very popular nowadays, are Dickens (Great Expectations, A christmas Carol, The Curiosity Shop, etc), Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility), Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre). If the characters accepted they were wrong for not following the mores, then there was still hope for them to be in the path of happiness. ![]() In that era, the novels and stories which were acceptable to society and also passed to posterity without any problems were those which emphasize the good values and morals people should take, the rules society wanted to promote, that those things can lead us to the real path of happiness. Are you studying English literature?, if that's so then I hope my next explanation can be useful. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It would be interesting, for instance, to view a statistic comparing novels-bought to novels-read in our era. The question then seems to be not whether the novel is going the same way as the public telephone box but whether or not it has any significant role to play in our ordinary, everyday lives, rather than just on our rainy day wish lists. ![]() In a world where meaning often feels ghost-like, or at the very least as fleeting as fashion, it seems that what everyone wants is to de-loop, to switch off the alerts in favour of the kind of deep time experience a good novel can provide. Who, after all, once they've checked their text messages, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts, and thumb-danced through their favourite shopping and blog sites, has time for the decidedly immersive and analogue prose of a novel?Īnd yet the obverse of this is, of course, also true. With increasing discussion about the dawning of our new digitally augmented attention spans, the viability and relevance of the novel as a "slow" artform is constantly being called into question. ![]() ![]() But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers - or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny. In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches 'God Is Change'. ![]() There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM - In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. ![]() 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. ![]() ![]() The stunning sequel to Parable of the Sower, the NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() You don't have to keep all the fun to this book makes a perfect gift for men and women alike. ![]() you can brush up on your botany as you unleash your creativity and bring them all to life! passion flowers, gladiolus, and even the exotic pitcher plant, there’s something in here that everyone will love! Perfect for gardeners and coloring fans of all ages, this book also promotes the benefits of mindfulness meditation, helping you relax and reduce stress levels. 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Hearn writes in his introduction, written only months before his death, that the majority of the stories were translated from old Japanese texts (some of which themselves were based on earlier Chinese tales), although one of the stories, "Riki-Baka", he declares to be of his own making, based on a personal experience. ![]() ![]() Deriving its title from the word for "ghost story" in Japanese Kwaidan is a book by scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn in which are compiled an array of ghost stories hailing from Japan. ![]() |