![]() ![]() But as she uncovers its unusual secrets, she begins to understand - and fear - the escalating dangers that await them all. Johannes’ gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world of the Brandt household. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a miniaturist - an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways. Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his warehouse office - leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin.īut Nella’s world changes when Johannes presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. On a brisk autumn day in 1686, 18-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. "There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed." Set in 17th-century Amsterdam - a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion - a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant. ![]()
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Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series.”- Midwest Book Review “Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”- Entertainment Weekly ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite Plato’s apparent ambivalence towards the arts, his legacy has profoundly impacted artistic theory. ![]() May 2012.Įrnst Gombrich lamented that Plato’s mirror analogy from Republic X (a metaphor that seemingly dismisses painting as mere imitation) had ‘haunted the philosophy of art ever since’ (p.182). The selection aims to address a representative range of issues including the moral status of music and visual art, the allure of artistic and sensual beauty, censorship, the relations between aesthetic and moral emotions, truth and deception in art, and the contest between philosophy and poetry. This collection of essays presents various aspects of Plato’s views on art and beauty, not only in the Republic but in the Ion, Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, he thought looking at the field, he was a proud Lewiston soccer player.”Īmy Bass does a magical job of weaving the nuanced and complicated local history into the narrative of the current group of Somali immigrants who make up the majority of the championship soccer team. He felt the stereotypes - terrorist, drug dealer, pirate - that had plagued him just a few years ago beginning to disappear. While his community wasn’t perfect, it was better. ‘When you love others,’ she said, ‘sincerely love them, you will eventually get it back.’ Looking at the crowd of Blue Devils fans - white, black, Muslim, Catholic, Somali, Franco - Shobow realized that his mother was right. ![]() ![]() His mother told him then to have a big heart, to have empathy. “He flashed back to when his family first arrived in Lewiston, the days when people told him to leave. ![]() ![]() Noah, Tom’s older brother, abandons the family at this border, choosing instead to subsist on his own. The Wilsons travel with the Joads until the California border, where Sairy becomes too ill to continue. ![]() Once on the road, the Joads befriend a migrant couple, Ivy and Sairy Wilson, and shortly thereafter, the cantankerous Grampa Joad dies of a stroke. Pa Joad reveals that the family saw fruit-picking jobs advertised on handbills, and they are heading west to take advantage of these opportunities. When Tom and Casy arrive at Uncle John’s, they find the Joads loading up a car in preparation to leave for California. Muley tells the men that they can find Tom’s family at the home of Uncle John, the brother of Tom’s father, Pa Joad. Muley Graves, a neighbor who has stayed behind, explains to the two men that the farming families have all been evicted by the landowners and the banks, who have repossessed their land and now use tractors to cultivate it. Together, Tom and Casy travel back to the Joad homestead, but discover that it has been abandoned. Casy no longer preaches of virtue and sin, and instead holds the unity and equality of human spirit as his highest ideal. As Tom returns home, he meets Jim Casy, an ex-preacher whom Tom knew as a child. ![]() Tom Joad is a young man from a farming family who has just been paroled from prison, after serving four years on a homicide charge. In Oklahoma during the Great Depression, drought and dust storms-the Dust Bowl-have ruined farmers’ crops and destroyed livelihoods already damaged by the failing economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() What will happen when an Oily Spoily spy gets aboard the Friendeshans’ ship? Meet the Friendeshans, a lovable race of beings who spread friendship and positive energy throughout the galaxy! In this book, the Friendeshans encounter the Oily Spoilies, creatures that thrive on meanness and negativity. With the Friendeshans around, every child has a friend! For any child who has ever been bullied or picked on, the Friendeshans are like loyal, invisible friends they can carry with them in their imaginations. What will happen when an Oily Spoily spy gets aboard the Friendeshans’ ship?Īs the series unfolds, the Friendeshans will travel to Earth, where they will work their pozzi-power on our planet, unseen by humans. The Friendeshans spread friendship and positive energy throughout the galaxy! 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I was a tom-boyish girl who loved skateboarding, climbing trees, playing baseball, and seeing everything there was to see on my bicycle. (I even have a Shark Conservatory license plate on my car in honor of one of my latest book characters - Ronan from Shouting at the Rain).īeing the youngest of five children, I can fend for myself pretty well. When I am not traveling visiting kids in schools or speaking at conferences, I am home with my husband and writing on my beloved Cape. ![]() For all of my travels these days, there is no place in the world I would rather be. ![]() He finally came through six years ago and I moved to Cape Cod. ![]() When I was five years old, I asked Santa for a house in Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() The success, of course, comes from readers, who contribute to the sales. ![]() The reason why the reader reviews of Fifty Shades of Grey are worth examining is because this book indisputably created change within the erotic romance and romance industries through its financial success. The main difference is that the distinctly negative reviews tend to extensively focus on the content of the book such as prose or plot, while the positive reviews tend to revolve around how the book made the reader feel.īackground: Readership of Fifty Shades of Grey This report draws on the reviews written by regular readers within the ensuing decade, primarily from the year directly following Fifty Shades of Grey’s publication, and presents the underlying difference between the negative reviews versus the positive ones. However, similarities between reviews within the two contrasting poles reveal the underlying differences between what the readers of Fifty Shades liked, and what they did not like. ![]() ![]() James has garnered an immensely wide yet extremely polarized array of reviews from her readers. Since its publication in May 2011, Fifty Shades of Grey by E. Fifty Shades of Grey: The Good, the Bad, and the Readers’ Reviews ![]() |