![]() ![]() And envy and pride like ill weeds grew in her heart higher every day, until she had no peace day or night. This gave the queen a great shock, and she became yellow and green with envy, and from that hour her heart turned against Snow-white, and she hated her. So one day when the queen went to her mirror and said, Now, Snow-white was growing prettier and prettier, and when she was seven years old she was as beautiful as day, far more so than the queen herself. She had a magic looking-glass, and she used to stand before it, and look in it, and say,Īnd she was contented, for she knew that the looking-glass spoke the truth. After a year had gone by the king took another wife, a beautiful woman, but proud and overbearing, and she could not bear to be surpassed in beauty by any one. And when she saw how bright and red it looked, she said to herself, "Oh that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the embroidery frame!" Not very long after she had a daughter, with a skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony, and she was named Snow-white. ![]() ![]() And as she worked, gazing at times out on the snow, she pricked her finger, and there fell from it three drops of blood on the snow. ![]() It was the middle of winter, and the snow-flakes were falling like feathers from the sky, and a queen sat at her window working, and her embroidery-frame was of ebony. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, islands are suddenly, inexplicably sinking, citizens fear that their island will be next, and Lin hides dangerous secrets of her own. Lin Sukai must show her subjects-and, most importantly, the governors of each of her empire’s islands-that she’s a better emperor than her megalomaniacal late father and gain support in battling myriad foes, among them the Shardless Few, a rebel group working to dethrone her an army of the undead and the Alanga, a godlike enemy from centuries ago now rumored to have returned. Stewart’s heart-pounding second Drowning Empire epic fantasy expertly picks up the pace from The Bone Shard Daughter, immediately putting the new leader of the Phoenix Empire to the test with multiple enemies gunning for her and the clock ticking for her to prove herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can the duo overcome their ideological differences and find love?Īlso included is the fascinating programme In Our Time: North and South, in which Melvyn Bragg and guests examine how Margaret Hale's experiences echo the author's own life, and discuss Gaskell's insights into social conflicts and the changing world in which she lived. North and South (Worlds Classics) Gaskell, Elizabeth Published by Oxford Paperbacks, 1982 ISBN 10: 0192815954 ISBN 13: 9780192815958 Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom Contact seller Seller Rating: Book Used - Softcover Condition: Used Acceptable £ 1.16 Convert currency £ 1. ![]() But when a strike turns into a violent riot, and Thornton is put in danger, Margaret is forced to face up to her conflicted feelings. ![]() Witnessing the conditions at his mill, her social conscience is awakened, and she clashes fiercely with him over his ruthless treatment of the workers. ![]() Smoky, grimy and ugly, Milton seems like a different country - one run by men with very different beliefs to her own, like charismatic mill owner John Thornton.Ī self-made entrepreneur and pragmatic capitalist, Thornton represents everything the idealistic Margaret hates. When 19-year-old Margaret Hale is uprooted from her home in the rural South of England and transplanted to the industrial North, she struggles to adapt. A major BBC Radio dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's famous Victorian novel of pride, prejudice, politics and passion ![]() ![]() ![]() “Weather” isn’t a comfort or a little packet of wishes for a healthy planet - it’s a meticulously constructed (often hilarious, sometimes disconsolate) lament for our old modes of thinking. She won Narrative 's Ninth Annual Poetry Contest and the Matt Clark Editor's Choice Prize, as well as short fiction prizes from and Blue Earth Review. Slipping into what Offill calls “a kind of twilight knowing,” she confronts the fact that flooded New York streets and barren apple trees aren’t a possibility but a certainty. Raven Leilani's work has been published in Granta, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Narrative, Yale Review, Conjunctions, The Cut, and New England Review, among other publications. ![]() In “Weather,” a librarian named Lizzie is weighed down by the torrent of information she keeps encountering about our doomed planet. ![]() Offill’s fragmentary novels are like stepping-stones: You jump from one isolated phrase or anecdote to the next, sometimes sure-footed but occasionally thrown off balance. “Want” brilliantly exposes the daily exhaustion of generational decline. They’d expected life to be … better than this, and therein lies the cruel slap so masterfully delivered in this novel. ![]() Elizabeth lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two small children they’re filing for bankruptcy and constantly on the brink of financial collapse. Reading Steger Strong’s swirling, incisive “Want” is like being caught in a windstorm of American familial crises: overpriced childcare, overlapping jobs, overreaching men. Things weren’t so great in America before the pandemic, either. ![]() ![]() It didn't make sense that he parked his nice car on the street. Judging from the size of the door, he could fit two cars in there. "Why do you park on the street when you have that?" She pointed to his garage. He looked at her like he thought she was crazy, and she mentally kicked herself. It gave her hope.īesides, she was odd, too. He didn't look her in the eyes when he spoke, he wore all black, he liked his wasteland of a yard, and he said the oddest things. ![]() She didn't know him well yet, but she'd picked up on his strangeness right away. He was easily the strangest person she'd ever met. He'd been wrong earlier when he said Esme was the stranger of the two of them. She glanced over her shoulder at the yard again to make sure she hadn't imagined everything, and nope, it was still a jungle of thorns, tangled vines, and dried-up bushes. He fished his keys out of his pocket and unlocked the door. ![]() Skipping after him, she said, "I can clean the yard for you. An excerpt from The Bride Test by Helen Hoang ![]() ![]() ![]() I never cared for Slumber Party years ago, and I still do not like it. ![]() The same group of friends was present when a terrible event happened years before. In Slumber Party, a group of friends spends the weekend in a house near a resort. Slumber Party was Christopher Pike's first teen horror book. He also describes a short girl as looking like a hobbit. That sounds like something Pike would write. In her mind's eye, she could see rows and rows of bored faces. "Hi, my name's Mary Ellen and these are my good friends: Nancy, Angie, Olivia, Walt, and Pres! We're here to share with you the excitement we have for our fantastic football team!" On page 1, Mary Ellen worries about her speech. However, little bits of Pike come through at times. The book is unlike all of Pike's other books, since Pike had to follow the formula for the Cheerleaders series. The story follows Mary Ellen and the other cheerleaders as they experience romance, jealousy, and backstabbing. Mary Ellen has just made the cheer squad. In Cheerleaders #2, Getting Even, the school year has just started. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think my problem is the characters, I did not know what they were doing half of the time, I didn’t know what was their relation to each other and then everything felt scattered to me after that. □ The chapters are very short and are like snapshots in the 2 MC life and that made it hard for me to relate to any of the characters. This did not have slow-pacing, on the contrary the pacing is fast which should have been great for me but my problem is that this fast pacing along with the format of the story did not just work for me! ![]() □ I am always complaining in my reviews about books with slow pacing. □ I also should say that I added this as a recommendation and then kind of lost interest in it but then was in the mood to read it again which I did! □ I have been thinking how to review and rate this since I have finished it and I decided that writing my thoughts might help me in the final say about this book. You can build yourself back up out of the pieces.” “If you drop the weight you are carrying, it is okay. ![]() ![]() ![]() But to do so, they have to leave law school, pretend they are qualified and go into battle with a billionaire and the FBI. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specialising in student loans, the three realise they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. They all borrowed heavily to attend a law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. As third-year students, they realise they have been duped. But these days these three disillusioned friends spend a lot of time hanging out in The Rooster Bar, the place where Todd serves drinks. Law students Mark, Todd and Zola wanted to change the world – to make it a better place. John Grisham’s legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that shouldn’t exist. ‘The Best Thriller Writer Alive’ Ken Follett ![]() ![]() ![]() 2.103–8, like the poet, saw something by accident and was (unjustly?) punished the diction used is reminiscent of the modes of expression employed by Ovid to speak of the charges laid against him in his exilic œuvre. We may consider the possible addition of 3.141–2 ( at bene si quaeras, Fortunae crimen in illo, | non scelus inuenies quod enim scelus error habebat?) to the Actaeon-episode: the huntsman, to whom Ovid explicitly compares himself at Tr. It has been suggested that a number of other episodes in the Metamorphoses were revised, if not written, after the poet's relegation. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s perhaps one of the weirdest mixes of space, magic, murder mystery, and dystopian society in a book ever. Gideon the Ninth is honestly unlike anything I’ve ever read. ![]() Of course, some things are better left dead. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. ![]() If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. ![]() The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.īrought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) by Tamsyn Muirīuy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book Depository ![]() |