![]() ![]() ![]() Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. In 1988, Sloan Hadfield’s brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power, and suggests that we all are culpable. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn't he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, even evil. Summary Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! Innocents Cathy Coote We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() the Evil Librarians seriesĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Sanderson fans old and new will be excited to discover it. Our Productions Series Elantris Elantris By Brandon Sanderson Listen to a sample: In The Series Sort By All prices are in USD. 8.86 (58 used & new offers) Other formats: Paperback, Mass Market Paperback, Audio CD. ![]() It deserves this special treatment, something Tor has done only once before, with Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. FREE Shipping on orders over 25 shipped by Amazon. This new edition begins with a preface by author Dan Wells, the first person to read the completed novel, and a new afterword by Sanderson explaining how he came to write the book and its place in the Cosmere, the unified universe of all his Tor novels.Īlso included is an expanded version of the "Ars Arcanum" appendix, with more of the technical details of the book's magic that fans can never get enough of.Įlantris was truly a milestone both for Sanderson and for the genre of epic fantasy. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Tor is reissuing Elantris in a special edition, a fresh chance to introduce it to the myriad readers who have since become Sanderson fans. I decided to read Elantris, mostly because it wasnt part of a series. ![]() In 2005, Brandon Sanderson debuted with Elantris, an epic fantasy unlike any other then on the market. Elantris is the first book I read by Brandon Sanderson, an author I kept hearing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not many people have sympathy for second wives due to the fact that they often begin an affair with a married man, as was the case with Alison, Julia and Fiona (Julia's being the most egregious of the three affairs.) Arguably, Susan is the least culpable as she was friends with her husband's deceased wife and began the relationship while her friend's husband was grieving over his wife's death. ![]() She's not married but lives with a widower and mothers his young daughter. Julia is a self-proclaimed trophy wife who snared a wealthy married man at a charity event. ![]() Fiona has to deal with a difficult and surly teenage stepson who holds her responsible for the breakup of his parents' marriage. They meet regularly to vent about their lives with their husbands, as well as dealing with spurned first wives and testy stepchildren.Īlison's marriage to Luca starts off tumultuously when the first wife shows up at the wedding, snatches her two children from the reception, and pronounces to everyone that Alison is a whore. She tells the tale of four second wives who are friends and have created a ' Second Wives Club'. ![]() Jane Moore, author of Fourplay and The Ex Files, delves into the lives of second wives. ![]() ![]() ![]() So he invades her land, slaughtering her people and most of the were beasts, and claims it for himself.Īs King Albrecht builds his iron rule and an army to defend his reign, Ursula is gathering the survivors and making plans to seize back the kingdom. And even though his sister, Ursula, is the first born, he decides that, as a girl and were bear, she is unfit to rule. However, his son, Albrecht, is not satisfied with half a kingdom. On his deathbed, King Tyran divides his land, leaving half to each of his two children - so they'll rule together. In a faraway land, populated by were beasts and surrounded by a powerful forest, lies a kingdom about to be sent into chaos. ![]() There's no such thing as once upon a time. Once upon a time there was a kingdom, and a forest that liked to eat men, and a girl who would change everything, but not alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1998, he published “Story of Your Life,” in a science-fiction anthology series called Starlight. For five years, when he wasn’t working as a technical writer in the software industry, Chiang read books about linguistics. A linguist, Chiang thought, might learn such acceptance by deciphering the language of an alien race with a different conception of time. The idea for a story emerged, about accepting the arrival of the inevitable. Chiang thought back to certain physical principles he had learned about in high school, in Port Jefferson, New York, having to do with the nature of time. A little later, a friend had a baby and told Chiang about recognizing her son from his movements in the womb. He attended a one-man show in Seattle, where he lives, about a woman’s death from cancer. In the early nineteen-nineties, a few occurrences sparked something in Ted Chiang’s mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has spoken at the Guggenheim, the Library of Congress, and the Arthur C. VanderMeer served as the 2016-2017 Trias Writer in Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Other titles include Wonderbook, the world’s first fully illustrated creative writing guide. He has coedited several iconic anthologies with his wife, the Hugo Award winning editor. His nonfiction has appeared in New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and the Washington Post. Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, has been translated into 35 languages, and was made into a film from Paramount Pictures directed by Alex Garland. His most recent novel, the national bestseller Borne, received wide-spread critical acclaim and his prior novels include the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance). NYT bestselling writer Jeff VanderMeer has been called “the weird Thoreau” by the New Yorker for his engagement with ecological issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, to answer the gentleman’s question, Woolf had to delve into the root of this ‘misunderstanding’ and find what unique and effective solutions could arise from it. ![]() The differences in the psyche of the educated man and his sister had created a seemingly unbridgeable chasm that made immediate understanding of the reasonings of each sex near impossible. Woolf clarifies that this is because none of these answers could be left without ample explanation. Though many answers have suggested themselves to Woolf, the gentleman’s letter went unanswered for over three years. The essay is drafted as a response to the letter of an educated gentleman seeking Woolf’s opinions on how war could be prevented. “Three years is a long time to leave a letter unanswered…” And thus begins Three Guineas–Virginia Woolf’s powerful essay on how the practices of the Victorian patriarchal system could be likened to the unarguable evils of tyranny and fascism. My tattered copy of Virginia Woolf’s essays ![]() |