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![]() ![]() Hitchens touches on his own ideological development, the nature of debate and humour, the ways in which language is slyly manipulated in apology for offensive and ridiculous positions, and how to see through this and recognise it whenever it arises in oneself. ![]() Inspired by his students at The New School in New York City and "a challenge that was made to me in the early months of the year 2000," the book is addressed directly to the reader-"My Dear X" -as a series of missives exploring a range of "contrarian," radical, independent or "dissident" positions, and advocating the attitudes best suited to cultivating and to holding them. Letters to a Young Contrarian is Christopher Hitchens' contribution, released in 2001, to the Art of Mentoring series published by Basic Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Countess Báthory describes her upbringing in one of the most powerful noble houses in Hungary, recounting in loving detail her devotion to her parents and siblings as well as the heartbreak of losing her father at a young age. In this riveting dramatization of Erzsébet Báthory’s life, the countess tells her story in her own words, writing to her only son-a final reckoning from his mother in an attempt to reveal the truth behind her downfall. ![]() ![]() Her opponents painted her as a bloodthirsty škrata-a witch-a portrayal that would expand to grotesque proportions through the centuries. Her crime-the gruesome murders of dozens of female servants, mostly young girls tortured to death for displeasing their ruthless mistress. In 1611, Countess Erzsébet Báthory, a powerful Hungarian noblewoman, stood helpless as masons walled her inside her castle tower, dooming her to spend her final years in solitary confinement. ![]() ![]() ![]() What is God’s plan for her? As the knights compete to win her heart, someone is sabotaging the competition. ![]() After being on her own, Rosemarie is torn between the possibility of marriage and entering the convent. Her late father’s close friend, the Duke of Rivenshire, arrives with three handsome knights to tell her that she has another choice–to marry before midnight on her birthday, releasing her from the vow. Rosemarie thinks she will still be able to rule her people from behind the convent walls. ![]() She found out about the vow when her parents died from the Plague four years earlier, so she has had time to prepare for life in the convent. In An Uncertain Choice, Lady Rosemarie is one month short of her eighteenth birthday–the day she goes into the convent to fulfill her parents’ vow. Jody Hedlund, historical fiction author, pens her first young adult novel by telling the story of a fourteenth-century young woman faced with a life-altering decision. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the matrimonial site, he meets the love of his life, Khushi. The story is then diverted to Ravinders’ when he creates a profile on a Matrimonial Site. The reunion builds up the plot of Marriage. The Story starts with the reunion of four friends Amardeep, Manpreet, Happy, and Ravinder. It is because of this book that he found his life partner who met him after she read this novel and fell in love with him. But unlike the other love stories, this love story is very special to him. ‘I too had a Love Story’ is an autobiography by Ravinder Singh. The Novel consists of 9 chapters marking the different stages of the relationship between the hero, Ravinder, and the heroine, Khushi. This book ‘I too had a Love Story’ is also a Romantic Tragedy but unlike those mentioned previously, it does not deal with the death of both the hero and the heroine instead tells us how difficult it becomes when a person in love is left alone. We admire their passion for love because they chose death over the separation. When we think of Romantic Tragedy the stories that strike our minds are Laila and Majnu, Romeo and Juliet, Heer and Ranjha, etc. ‘I too had a Love Story’, Ravinder Singh. ![]() ![]() Some are born just to experience the abbreviation of it. Not everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'I want to report a crime,' he says to the desk sergeant. "Man walks into a police station in South London early last year. One of the panelists had an anecdote from a police station blotter. Then in 2004 I was in the audience at a panel at an SF convention discussing crime and the internet. But, here in the real world, the progress of VR into everyday life has been slow and tenuous. ![]() Well-read ones.) VR seems to exemplify the modern SF paradigm of information space in much the way that the idea of interplanetary exploration exemplified the old paradigm of real space. (Yes, I have first edition copies of both books. I've been really interested in Virtual Reality as a key indicator that we're living in the future ever since William Gibson published Neuromancer back in 1984, and especially since Neal Stephenson published Snow Crash in 1992, and rang the curtain down on cyberpunk in the process. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fighting every step of her perilous quest, Aluna enlists help from creatures of the air, land and sea. ![]() Along the way, Aluna and Hoku encounter deadly Dragonfliers, aquatic Deepfell demons, winged female Aviars, half-horse Equians and brutal Upgraders. When their breathing necklaces mysteriously fail, causing Kampii to die, Aluna opts to leave before receiving her tail and journeys with Hoku to the Above World to try to find some answers. ![]() Living in the hidden City of Shifting Tides, 13-year-old Aluna heroically strives to save the ocean-dwelling Coral Kampii when their lives are threatened by destructive forces in the Above World.įeisty Aluna and her techie pal Hoku have the Kampii’s “thick bones and tough skin, adaptable vision, breathing necklaces.” Even though Aluna will soon trade her legs for a swimming tail, she doesn’t fit with the isolated Kampii and defies them by secretly training to be a hunter. In a future world in which habitable space has been exhausted, Humans have physically modified to survive in the skies, oceans and deserts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An amusing, poignant film has been made by Alan J. NOT since the film "Blackboard Jungle," released in 1955, have we had such a telling motion picture of life and drama in a large city school as the screen version of Bel Kaufman's "Up the Down Staircase," which came to the Music Hall yesterday.Indeed, I would courteously question whether "Blackboard Jungle" itself was quite as true, quite as accurate and comprehensive as this film in revealing the complex character and the commonplace personality outcroppings of a huge problem-area school in a city such as New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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But Aliza and Alastair Daired, along with their dragon Akarra, are far from home, trapped in the icy northern wastes by Wydrick’s treachery.įighting their way through blizzards, haunted forests, and their own growing fears, the Daireds find a new battle awaiting them in the capital, for the Tekari and ghastradi are not the only forces converging on the heart of the kingdom. As their enemies begin amassing, desperate Arleans look to their greatest defenders. Possessed by a ghast and sharing its shadowy unlife, he commands not only the soul-sucked ghastradi but also the monstrous Tekari forces bent on Arle’s destruction. Tristan Wydrick, sworn enemy of House Daired, is back from the dead. “The summons comes for the House of Edan Daired. Monsters, manners, and magic combine in this exciting final volume in the Heartstone trilogy – an exhilarating blend of epic fantasy and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – in which a fearless healer and her dragon-riding husband must stop a reawakened evil from destroying their world. ![]() |