6/10/2023 0 Comments Claire coleman terra nullius![]() Terra Nullius disrupts the Aboriginal-Settler binary in the second half of the novel. Her deft depictions of the colonial archive – of atrocities so in keeping with their time and place – take the narrative into an apocalyptic future settlement that reminds us that the first invasion has yet to be resolved.Ĭoleman's clever collapsing of time into a swirling mish-mash of past, present and future reflects an Aboriginal realism that defies linear time and says clearly that for the Indigenous people all times are important on Country and no time has been properly resolved. ![]() The early chapters are dense as Coleman draws parallels with current affairs and real-life situations, but the pace picks up in the second half when she charts an unexpected social change. As Jacky runs, he sweeps a set of chaotic narratives together as he evades trackers, troopers and local militia. The story opens with Jacky, a slave, stolen from his parents at a young age, fleeing into a parched, unforgiving landscape from a mission run by a murderous nun. But as the temporal setting of the narrative shifts midway through, the reader is jolted into reading an impending future where the known history of colonial conquest is repeated by a second-wave of settlers – a terra nullius reoccurring. ![]()
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6/9/2023 0 Comments Burning sky by lori benton![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Cameron family thinks she and Gabriel should remain under their protection. In Boston, Seona has taken her first tentative steps as a free woman, while trying to banish Ian from her heart. Perhaps even the hope for a new life with those he still holds dear. An act of kindness on the journey provides Ian the chance to obtain land near the frontier settlement of Shiloh, New York. But when tragedy leaves him alone with his daughter, Mandy, and his three remaining slaves, he decides to return north. Determined to fully release them, Ian strives to make a life at Mountain Laurel, his inherited plantation, along with Judith, the wife he’s vowed to love and cherish. Lori’s new novel, Shiloh, is the second nook in her current Kindred Series.Ī year has passed since Ian Cameron reluctantly sent his uncle’s former slave Seona and their son, Gabriel, north to his kin in Boston. Lori’s debut novel, Burning Sky, earned the 2014 Christy Award for First Novel, Historical, and Book of the Year. Her novels transport readers to the 18th century, where she brings to life the Colonial and early Federal periods of American history, creating a melting pot of characters drawn from both sides of a turbulent and shifting frontier, brought together in the bonds of God’s transforming grace. Historical Romance author Lori Benton was born and raised east of the Appalachian Mountains, surrounded by early American and family history going back to the 1600s. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Enter System by Tom Larcombe![]() With monsters spawning throughout the town, everyday animals being mutated into dangerous creatures, and a System that desperately needs English language lessons, they'll do their best to save as many of the local residents as they can. ![]() Along the way they discover that the new System can award classes that resemble those of the games the group has played, as well as magic for those capable of grasping it. Once the change begins, the small group races to create a Safe Zone, an area where monsters will not spawn and where they can gather other survivors in an attempt to rescue as much of the town as possible. After sharing his discovery with a few friends, they all start to prepare together. ![]() Despite the atrocious lack of skill the System has with the English language, he manages to work his way through enough help files to get a clue of what's coming. The message warns that the world has been in a variant Natural Laws beta test for millennia and that it's about to revert to the norms.ĭeciding that even if he is insane, it's not going to hurt anything to try to prepare, he settles in to do so. ![]() ![]() When a message appears in his line of sight, blocking out absolutely everything else, he nearly freaks out. Marc's home from college on break, spending his time laughing about some of the crazy news stories he's found online, and gaming. ![]() ![]() And Harrison is not the man she thought he would be. There she finds that Eleanor's death was no accident. Using her family's long-forgotten English title, Olivia travels to Mercy Falls, California, as Lady Devonworth, hoping to learn more before committing to marriage. Now the pressure is on Olivia to take her place, despite her suspicions about Eleanor's fiancé. ![]() ![]() Olivia's sister, Eleanor, was engaged to Harrison Bennett, one of the nation's wealthiest men, but has since died. Unfortunately their wealth has nearly disappeared, and now their security rests upon the Stewart daughters marrying well. Her family numbers among the Four Hundred-those considered the wealthiest and most distinguished in America. It is the dawn of a new century and Olivia Stewart is heiress to an empire.
![]() ![]() “If you let down your guard on the job,” says Special Agent Bill G., canine program manager, “it can change the history of the world.” It’s a burden Secret Service dog handlers take extremely seriously, regardless of their specialty. They’ll be there regardless of the political climate, the danger level, the weather, or the hour. They’ll be there no matter what the country or state. ![]() Wherever the president goes, there will be dogs. Unprecedented access to these heroic dog teams has allowed a fascinating first-time-ever look at a very special breed of heroes. In an age fraught with terrorism, United States Secret Service canine teams risk their lives to safeguard the president, vice president, their families, visiting heads of state, and a host of others. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Les rhinoceros eugene ionesco![]() Two friends meet at a coffee shop: eloquent, intellectual and prideful Jean, and the simple, shy, kind-hearted drunkard Bérenger. The play starts in the town square of a small provincial French village. The play is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, fascism, responsibility, logic, mass movements, mob mentality, philosophy and morality. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. ![]() ![]() Rhinoceros ( French: Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It is my hope to create a similar bit of surprise and delight in the fabric of everything we make or do. “The Hidden Pigeon Company takes its name from how kids and former kids delight in finding The Pigeon hidden in every one of my books,” said Mo Willems. HPC will harness its relationship with Stampede and now RedBird to build on the historic reach of Willems’ franchises and further enhance the development of his intellectual property through premier entertainment offerings and products created for kids and family audiences on a global basis. ![]() NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Mo Willems, Stampede Ventures (“Stampede”) and RedBird Capital Partners (“RedBird”) today announced the formation of Hidden Pigeon Company (“HPC”), a multiplatform kids and family content company that will leverage Willems’ best-selling catalogue of children’s books and intellectual property across all entertainment platforms, including television, film, digital, gaming, live events, location-based experiences, publishing, consumer products and more. Kathy Franklin Appointed Chief Executive Officer Kids and Family Content Entity, Hidden Pigeon Company, to adapt and leverage entire Willems IP library across multiple entertainment platforms ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The cutting season book review![]() ![]() The uninvited guest certainly made for lively dinner conversation at the reception in the main hall. The bride and groom moved on to their vows, staying on schedule for a planned kiss at sunset, the mighty Mississippi blowing a breeze through the line of stately, hundred-year-old trees. Within minutes, an off-duty sheriff's deputy on the groom's side found a 12-gauge in the groundskeeper's shed and shot the thing dead, and after, one of the cater-waiters was kind enough to hose down the grass. It only briefly stopped the ceremony, this being Louisiana and all. It was during the Thompson-Delacroix wedding, Caren's first day on the job, that a cottonmouth, measuring the length of a Cadillac, fell some twenty feet from a live oak on the front lawn, landing like a coil of rope in the lap of the bride's future mother-in-law. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Lorna simpson collages![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was in San Diego that Lorna Simpson developed her signature conceptual style harmonising two passions: photography and poetry. Published by Chronicle Books, it features over 150 of the artist’s distinctive collages, created between 2011 2017. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and went on to receive her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Simpson’s exploration of Black hair as a source of power is the subject of her latest book, Lorna Simpson Collages. To Simpson, photography “opened up a dialogue with the world” and she went on to pursue her education in Photography (Vogue). She got her first Polaroid camera by cutting and mailing coupons from Kleenex boxes. Lorna Simpson was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. Lorna Simpson’s thought-provoking photographs, collages, paintings and films challenge and redefine malleable constructions of history and identity through the appropriation of figure and text. Her work encourages self and societal reflection. But Simpson has been a premier force for conceptual art - principally photography and collage - since 1985 when the artist graduated with her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. In 2018, Vogue nominated the enigmatic multidisciplinary artist Lorna Simpson as “America’s most defiant conceptual artist” anticipating her Hauser & Wirth exhibition “Unanswerable” in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. ![]() Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. NO changes have been made to the original text. ![]() |