![]() “A very good read, a sparkling choice!” SFWA Grandmaster Harlan Ellison Callie Woodland, the narrator, deserves a series and I’m sure she’ll get one!” Dean Koontz ![]() “Starters is a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story. But there’s no time to enjoy her fairy-tale new life, because she must solve the mystery of her renter’s deadly plan. But when her neurochip malfunctions, she wakes up in the mansion of her rich renter and finds she is going out with a senator’s grandson. Sixteen-year-old Callie discovers the Body Bank where teens, called Starters, rent their bodies to seniors, called Enders, who want to be young again. In a near-future Los Angeles, becoming someone else is now possible.
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![]() ![]() McLean, Jr., The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 24, Issue 4, 1 June 1966, Pages 5 We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website.By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Saisselin American Vaudeville as Ritual by Albert F. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. ![]() ![]() American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. Includes bibliographical references and index. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1965. Saved in: Bibliographic Details Author / Creator: ![]() ![]() ![]() Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history. ![]() #WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() Gus Makes A Fuss is the story of Cassie and Lina, best friends who are desperate for a pet of their own so they can enter the Pet Parade. I wished I had friends to set up a Babysitters Club of my own… ![]() The idea of kids being able to set up their own enterprise was awesome to me. Review: When I was a kid, I loved reading the Babysitters Club books. Gus Makes A Fuss is the first book in the Pet Sitters series by Ella Shine, illustrated by Lisa Flanagan. The girls might be ‘ready for anything’ but Gus isn’t quite the cat they were expecting! Blurb: Need a pet sitter? Cassie and Lina are the girls for the task, as long as Gus the talking cat can keep out of trouble!īest friends Cassie and Lina would love to take a pet to the Pet Parade but it’s not possible… until they’re asked to pet sit Gus the cat next door. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sola Morte, former cat burglar and safecracker, has given up her old life on the wrong side of the law. And when Assail's truth comes out, will she run from the horror. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New enemies rise and desire burns in the latest thrilling novel of the paranormal romance series the Black Dagger Brotherhood. The last thing she wants is a return to her past, but how can she leave him to die?Īs a lethal new enemy of the vampires shows its face, and the Brotherhood needs Assail back on his feet, Sola finds herself not only a target, but a mission-critical force in a war she doesn't understand. ![]() When Assail falls into a coma and lingers on the verge of death, his cousins seek out Sola and beg her to give him a reason to live. But they have no future, and not just because she doesn't know he is a vampire, but because he is not about to stop dealing arms to the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Her heart, though, is back up north, with the only man who has ever gotten through her defenses: Assail, son of Assail, who never meant to fall in love-and certainly not with a human woman. On the run from a drug lord's family, she is lying low far from Caldwell, keeping her nose clean and her beloved grandmother safe. ![]() New enemies rise and desire burns in the next thrilling novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling paranormal romance series the Black Dagger Brotherhood. ![]() ![]() There’s a dark truth to Logain’s points about the weakness of the Aes Sedai and how even captured and gentled, he may continue to prove an inspiration to those who would rise up against them. It’s a conflict that’s really played up in Amazon’s series, which draws parallels in the ways that both Siuan and the Red Ajah Liandrin have hardened themselves. leader of the Aes Sedai, that demonstrates the difficult choices women who can channel must make to avoid White Cloaks and others who would kill them because they fear their power. ![]() The episode begins with a flashback introduction of Siuan Sanche (Sophie Okonedo), the Amyrlin Seat i.e. ![]() The Emond’s Field Five are finally reunited and learn what Moiraine has in store for them in this week’s episode of The Wheel of Time, “The Flames of Tar Valon.” It’s another excellent outing that pushes the first season into the endgame while laying out the stakes for the characters and the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters of Roadside Picnic are pretty sure there wasn’t one. ![]() No one knows the purpose of the alien’s visit. We only see the remnants of their visit, abandoned gadgets cast-off like so much trash. We don’t meet the aliens in Roadside Picnic nor know anything about them. Red’s a stalker, private citizens who illicitly enter “The Zone,” the area surrounding the location of an inexplicable alien visitation. Roadside Picnic tells the story of Redrick “Red” Schuhart. ![]() While the ennui of Roadside Picnic is more in keeping with Pink Floy’d “quiet desperation” than the diabolical malevolence of Azathoth and Nyarlthotep, that’s actually what makes it even more impactful and unsettling. Lovecraft‘s imagination into paroxysms, with his Great Old Ones acting as allegories of cosmic forces beyond our comprehension. The weight of whirling electrons, the endless expanses of the infinite void, was enough to send H. ![]() The reality of humanity’s insignificance lies at the heart of so much 20th Century science fiction. Suggesting that the heavens did not whirl around the Earth was enough to see Galileo imprisoned for the remainder of his lifetime. Humanity loves to center itself as the center of the universe. Nothing Matters: The Cosmic Indifference of Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky It’s also one of the finest works of Science Fiction of the 20th Century. Roadside Picnic is like a Russian novel’s magic realist take on H. ![]() ![]() Or that would be the case if Geoff Johns wasn’t such a big deal now and The Flash wasn’t suddenly the lynch pin in the DCU. Sadly, they have been exiled to my long boxes never to be read again. ![]() Those Waid and Johns Flash comics are some of my favorites in the modern era and I look back on them with great fondness. When you combine Waid and Johns’ time on the book you get a virtually unbroken 11 year run of fantastic Flash comics on a book that crashed and burned almost immediately once Johns left and which did not recover until Johns came back in The Flash: Rebirth. (After a one issue fill-in by Pat McGreal.) Johns then proceeded to embark on his own celebrated run, guiding Wally West and the gang for three years. With everyone’s attention currently focused on DC’s future, let’s take a trip back to DC’s illustrious recent past.ġ1 years ago, after revitalizing the character and bringing him to previously unseen levels of prominence, writers Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn handed the reins of The Flash to a relative newcomer named Geoff Johns. Art by ANGEL UNZUETA, SCOTT KOLINS, ETHAN VAN SCIVER,DOUG HAZLEWOOD and others ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Olympus, the gods reside in a luxurious Manhattan hotel room in the 1940s during WWII.īack in France, WWI, Hazel watches Colette and Aubrey fall in love. The story is narrated by Olympian goddess of love, Aphrodite-a story she tells her husband Hephaestus who has just caught his wife cheating with Ares, god of war. Need I say, the book is about war, love, and racial divide. All three are breaking rules by meeting around the piano late at night. They befriend the African American Aubrey and are both smitten with his piano playing-Hazel as a fellow pianist, Colette as a chanteuse. There, she meets Colette Fournier, a Belgian singer, who has lost her entire family to the Germans. Hazel, wanting to help the war effort and perhaps visit James when he’s granted a leave, travels to Saint-Nazaire, France to serve at a YMCA relief hut at an American training base. The 15 th regiment is employed to both play jazz and dig trenches, rather than the “glorious” job of fighting. James is unexpectedly called up and shipped out to France to fight in “Lovely War” (Viking 2019), by acclaimed author Julie Berry.Īubrey Edwards, a Harlem ragtime musician, enlists and becomes a member of the United States 15 th New York Infantry, an all-black regiment of soldier-musicians under the direction of the great jazz composer/band leader James Reese Europe. But this is 1917 London and WWI is raging. A shy talented pianist, Hazel, falls in love with James, a gentle man who aspires to be an architect. ![]() ![]() Friedan then stayed home to care for her family. She returned to work after her first child was born, but lost her job when she was pregnant with her second, according to The Christian Science Monitor. Friedan got married in 1947 and had three children. Although she received a fellowship to study at the University of California, she chose instead to go to New York to work as a reporter. She advocated for an increased role for women in the political process and is remembered as a pioneer of feminism and the women’s rights movements.Ī bright student, Betty Friedan excelled at Smith College, graduating in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree. ![]() She also helped advance the women’s rights movement as one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW). With her book The Feminine Mystique (1963), Betty Friedan (1921-2006) broke new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles. ![]() |