6/29/2023 0 Comments The mortal instruments book 6![]() ![]() With two of the Mortal Instruments now in Valentine's hands, the world of the Shadowhunters teeters on the brink of civil war. This title is the third and final instalment in the bestselling urban gothic fantasy sequence, "The Mortal Instruments". As the battle begins, Clary must face her darkest fears and come to terms with her feelings for a boy she wishes wasnt her brother. With two of the Mortal Instruments at his command, Valentine is assembling an army of demons to wage war on the council of Shadowhunters and destroy them once and for all. Discovering the truth about her past was only the beginning, now Clary must save the world from her own father the rogue Shadowhunter Valentine. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New Yorks terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and the mysterious Shadowhunters. Drawn inexorably into a terrifying world, Clary slowly begins to learn the truth about her family - and the battle for the fate of the world. The murderous group are Shadowhunters, secret warriors dedicated to driving demons out of this dimension and back into their own. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry. Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. ![]()
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![]() They ended up in a refugee camp in Kenya, where Ilhan says she came to understand the deep meaning of hunger and death. She was being raised by her father and grandfather when armed gunmen attacked their compound and the family decided to flee Mogadishu. The youngest of seven children, her mother had died while Ilhan was still a little girl. ![]() Ilhan Omar was only eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. It's an honor to serve alongside her in the fight for a more just world." (Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)Īn intimate and rousing memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar-the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to Congress. ![]() This book will give you insight into the person and sister that I see-passionate, caring, witty, and above all committed to positive change. "Ilhan has been an inspiring figure well before her time in Congress. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Tea container box set - Lisa's Little Things painted Chrynsbon plates and cake on table, unBEEWeevable. I also have a couple samples on the miniature projects page. The tea cup planters by the door are from a string of teapots and cupts (Christmas decorations) from Hobby Lobby. I usually am hesitant about painting wood furniture, but I've found it can make a dramatic change in how the room looks when everything matches.Īccessories: You can make a similar Bunka rug like the one at the front door in my book, IN MINIATURE STYLE II. I used scrapbook papers and sparkly trim sticker edges to decorate the shelves and furnishings. I decided to coordiate everything in shades of ivory, pink and raspberry touched with gold. ![]() When I finally got the Houseworks' "Street of Shops," I thought one would make a perfect Teapot Shoppe. Lucky for me, my friend, Kitty, loves working with clay and does a fantastic job of it! So she made most of the teapots here for me. ![]() This was one of my favorite projects and probably one I had the most fun designing. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Am I Insane by Dan Ashwander![]() ![]() The court defined handguns as arms within the meaning of the Second Amendment and held that the Amendment extends to rights beyond participating in the militia. ![]() Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal, finding that Heller had standing. While their case was dismissed by the federal district court, the D.C. The six plaintiffs sought an injunction against the enforcement of this provision, as well as another provision of the law that required any guns to be kept unloaded and disassembled. The District of Columbia had enacted the Firearms Control Regulations Act in 1975, which prohibited individual ownership of handguns in most cases except those possessed by current or former law enforcement officers. They dropped out of the case in the early stages. This meant that he had standing to sue, whereas the others did not. The critical difference between Heller and the other plaintiffs was that he had applied for a handgun permit and been refused. Like the other plaintiffs, he lived in an area with high drug use and crime activity. ![]() The named plaintiff, Dick Heller, was a licensed special police officer for the District of Columbia who was not allowed to have a gun at home despite being able to use it at work. The group included a range of age groups, an even balance in genders, and two African-Americans. ![]() In a rather artificially generated lawsuit, Robert Levy at the Cato Institute selected six plaintiffs for a claim that would test the individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think just about everyone I knew at the time watched the show. Anyway, that's why the people I grew up around were cautious about the show. But when those things get turned into the sum total of a fictional character, then you end up with a caricature instead of a representation of life. It's true that things like feuds, moonshining, superstitions, and hardscrabble farming were parts of life in the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains for some people, generations ago. The hillbilly caricature is awfully prevalent in movies and TV shows in particular, and naturally, people who actually live in the Appalachians are sensitive about this. You see, a lot of times, pop culture portrays the mountain folk of Appalachia as being half-witted and ornery and generally useless. And if you think that Appalachian mountainfolk weren't simultaneously excited for a big TV series to be all about people like their forebears, and also terribly apprehensive of how those forebears would be portrayed. It was such a BIG deal when that show aired, to the people where I lived right then! You see, I lived in western North Carolina, only a couple of hours from the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee where this book is set, and where the series was partially filmed. Which is why I have a TV-tie-in cover, of course. I'd read this once before, back in the mid-'90s when the TV series based on this book first aired. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heather starts his story with Constantine’s conversion to Christianity in the first years and decades of the fourth century. This seemingly ancient history remains relevant to anyone thinking about ways politics, societies, and people work today in the 21st century. It’s a panoramic view that has much to tell us today about the nature of politics, power, and ideas, how and why some ideas win out while others fall through the cracks of history, and the ways ordinary people and elites alike respond to the ideological and philosophical changes swirling around them. ![]() He skewers some traditional narratives that purport to explain Christianity’s rise, offering a compelling argument of his own that the religion’s intimate relationship with the political powers of the day that ultimately determined its destiny. That’s the question British historian Peter Heather hopes to answer in his magisterial and fascinating new history Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300 -and answer it he does in convincing fashion. How did the small Jewish splinter sect emerge from the backwater Roman province of Palestine and then become the dominant religion of Europe over the course of roughly a millennium? ![]() The head of the colossus of Constantine at the Musei Capitolini in Rome. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman![]() The world created by Gaiman to distinguish between the two Londons is both amazing and frightening, for London Below is the darker scarier version that is usually kept a secret from the world. In this one, Neverwhere tells the tale of Richard Mayhew, a common guy working in London Above (the London we know to exist) who gets thrown into London Below against his will after helping out a girl, Door, who belonged in that world. Neverwhere is my third Gaiman book and I believe with each book of his I read, I fall more in love in the worlds he constructs beautifully. ![]() ![]() And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. ![]() A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. Under the streets of London there’s a place most people could never even dream of. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Rundell super infinite![]() ![]() ![]() He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament-and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. ![]() Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hubįrom the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeĪ Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022Ī New York Times Notable Book of the Year ![]() Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The Bound Heart by Dawn Crandall![]() ![]() ![]() He encouraged me to stay home and write, so I finally did. It ultimately took my husband finding out about it to get me to actually do it. I'd never written much, but I knew I would someday write a novel. I started writing The Hesitant Heiress in January of 2010. ![]() How did you get started as an author? What or whom inspired you? Dawn's debut novel, The Hesitant Heiress, is the winner of the 2015 Birmingham RWA Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence for the inspirational category, the winner of the 2015 Wisconsin RWA Write Touch Readers' Award for the Inspirational category and is currently a finalist in the 2015 Carol Awards-ACFW's recognition for the best Christian fiction published by traditional publishing houses in the previous calendar year. Dawn's second novel, The Bound Heart is the winner of the 2015 Clash of the Titles Laurel Award.Īll three books composing the series were semifinalists in ACFW's Genesis Writing Contest for unpublished manuscripts, the third book going on to become a finalist in 2013.ġ. They were originally released as eBooks, but will all be released in paperback Fall 2015. The Everstone Chronicles is Dawn's first series with Whitaker House. She is represented by Joyce Hart of Hartline Literary and is a member of Romance Writers of America, American Christian Fiction Writers, secretary for the Indiana ACFW Chapter (Hoosier Ink), and associate member of the Great Lakes ACFW Chapter. Dawn Crandall is a graduate of Taylor University with a degree in Christian Education, and a former bookseller at Barnes & Noble. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments New xkcd book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Games have gotten more sophisticated about that over the years. You of course run into an invisible wall almost immediately. Munroe: I was always the kid who, when I played a car racing game, and I’d see cool mountains on the horizon, I’d want to go off the track to get closer to them. Spectrum: Boundaries seem important to your humor-finding them, exploring them, defying them. (This interview transcript has been edited.) IEEE Spectrum spoke with Munroe in his fortress of solitude somewhere in Massachusetts. Munroe, who is the author of two best-selling books What If? and Thing Explainer and has gained Internet celebrity for his incisive XKCD comic strip, has a new book out this month called How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. In it, he offers hard-won advice in such essential matters as “How to build a lava moat” and “How to catch a drone with sports equipment.” (In the latter chapter, he enlists tennis star Serena Williams to knock a quadcopter out of the air using her powerhouse serves. These are some of the contradictions one grows accustomed to in Randall Munroe’s world. It only takes the 1,000 most common words to sell a million books. Physics equations are the surefire road to absurdist humor. The guy who draws those comic strips with stick figures is actually a very capable and talented artist. ![]() |