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![]() ![]() None of that was exactly clear to Beaton when she set off for Alberta in 2005. They’re also considered some of the most environmentally destructive oil fields in the world, and Indigenous populations say the mines have been ruinous to their way of life. The mines are large enough to be seen from space. ![]() When it’s over, she’ll go back to the real world.Īlberta’s oil sands are the third-largest oil reserve in the world. It will be a break from her life, a lark. ![]() Her plan is to work so much that she can pay off her student loans in two years. Saddled with an arts degree that leaves her feeling unemployable and a small mountain of student debt, Beaton leaves her beloved home of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, for the oil sands of Alberta, where work is plentiful and life is cheap. Take Vox’s survey here.ĭucks begins in 2005, with Beaton as a 21-year-old newly minted college graduate. We want to get to know you better - and learn what your needs are. ![]() ![]() A very good copy, very scarce thus inscribed. Contemporary news clippings tipped-in to front and rear endpapers.įront inner paper hinge expertly repaired, spine ends expertly restored. In the year of the inscription the work was adapted into a Broadway play. ![]() Lew Wallace long resided in Crawfordsville, and wrote most of Ben-Hur while there. “The romance Wallace is most famous for, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), is second only to Uncle Tom’s Cabin as the most popular American fiction of the 19th century and, indeed, in its various cinematic versions, is one of the most popular works of all time” (ANB). Allen, I write my name here, with good wishes for his prosperity and long life. Housed in a custom clamshell box.Įarly edition, inscribed by Wallace on the dedication page: “At the request of Mr. Octavo, original brown cloth, beveled edges. ![]() BEN-HUR, WITH LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY LEW WALLACE ![]() ![]() ![]() His novel “The Barbarian Nurseries” was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2011 and also won the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction his latest work is “The Last Great Road Bum.” He’s married, the father of three children and the son of Guatemalan immigrants. The Los Angeles-born writer is the author of five books, which have been translated into 15 languages. ![]() Tobar has an MFA in creative writing from UC Irvine and studied at UC Santa Cruz and at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. ![]() He has also worked as features editor at the LA Weekly and as editor of the bilingual San Francisco magazine El Tecolote. Tobar was The Times’ bureau chief in Mexico City and Buenos Aires and was part of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 L.A. The House on Mango Street is the coming-of-age classic by Sandra Cisneros. Free Shipping on Orders 30+ Code: MOMSDAY Free Shipping on Orders 30+ Code: MOMSDAY. Hector Tobar worked at the Los Angeles Times for two decades: as a city reporter, national and foreign correspondent, columnist and with the books and culture department. Adult tees featuring the book cover for The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. ![]() ![]() Many historians have been fascinated with Friedan's life and her, often uncomfortable, involvement in the rebirth of feminist activism in the 1970s. Cover of A Strange Stirring The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s ![]() Friedan had explained their own, as yet unnamed, frustrations. At the same time, a distinct group of white, educated, middle-class women were overcome with a sense of gratitude. On the one hand, American men were upset at Friedan's suggestion that their housewives could possibly want anything more than to see their children off safely to school, to take care of their husbands after a long day at work, and to keep their houses spotless. When Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was released in 1963, it split the allegedly tranquil lives of the "greatest generation" in two. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Justin, you aren’t strong enough to take another depression, just kill yourself now before it gets worse.Īs you come into contact with individuals with Bipolar disease, these writings will add invaluable insight into the trauma that this condition causes. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Kay Redfield Jamison 4.05 74,209 ratings4,244 reviews The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Justin Bullock’s account of being an intern with Bipolar disorder adds further colour to this picture.Īs I get sicker, depression’s seductive voice begins to sound rational. Equally, she documents her horrifying, suicidal depressions, as well as the distress and shame that accompany intervening periods of sanity. As a result, ‘An Unquiet Mind’ provides an unparalleled perspective into what it means to have this devastating diagnosis.ĭr Jamison describes how enigmatic mania can be providing energy, dynamism and creativity when mild, but resulting in career destroying actions, risky sexual behaviour, and crippling spending sprees when severe. She is also a clinical psychologist who has spent her life researching and treating patients with bipolar illness. Kay Redfield Jamison.ĭr Kay Redfield Jamison has bipolar disorder (manic depression). NATIONAL BESTSELLER A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved liveswith a new preface by the author. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story begins with the Phantom’s mother, goes on through his entire life and on past his death. My copy of the book doesn’t have a sub-title, but I’ve also seen this called Phantom: The Story of His Life, and that’s really what it is. You’ve been warned if you want to skip some of the gushing! This review is basically going to be structured as a summary, a lot of gushing, and then circle back to Paris to talk about visiting the Opera House. I reviewed Susan Kay’s Phantom once already, but I think it’s worth doing it again. And I think I was afraid that I couldn’t repeat the experience twice!īut I brought it along to Paris to read again–and it was amazing. I read it once seven years ago, it completely blew me away, and it made such an impression that I always felt like it was too soon to reread–it was still there in my mind. When I went to Paris in September, I decided it was a good opportunity to finally reread Susan Kay’s Phantom. ![]() ![]() ![]() But he's not "big enough" to solve a murder.or is he? Officially, he is off the case. There is a local constable, Hamish Macbeth. One of them fishing her body from the lake-she was strangled and wrapped in chains. Still, it is somewhat of a shock when Lady Jane ends up being the catch of the day. More than one person wishes Lady Jane was dead. It isn't too long before the others start talking about her. ![]() She deliberately sets out to annoy and aggravate everyone she encounters. When the novel opens, they are preparing to welcome this week's clients: Marvin and Amy Roth, Lady Jane Winters, Jeremy Blythe, Alice Wilson, Charlie Baxter, Major Peter Frame, and Daphne Gore. John and his wife, Heather, own a fishing school in Lochdubh. People who travel up here to the wilds of Scotland expect to be instructed by some great hairy Rob Roy, making jokes about saxpence and saying it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht and lang may your lum reek and ghastly things like that.' Then I always feel I have to apologize for being English. 'I hate the start of the week,' said John Cartwright fretfully. ![]() ![]() He marries his cousin, Celeste, and they subsequently have children and teach them valuable lessons. Because of his travels and civilization, Babar is chosen king of the elephant kingdom. Just as he returns to his community of elephants, their king dies from eating a bad mushroom. Babar escapes, and in the process leaves the jungle in exile, visits a big city, and returns to bring the benefits of civilization to his fellow elephants. ![]() It tells of a young African elephant, named Babar, whose mother is killed by a hunter. The book is based on a tale that Brunhoff's wife, Cécile, had invented for their children. Gavin Magrath (young 1989 TV series and movie)īabar, Doctor of Letters, King of the ElephantsĪrthur (brother-in-law), Badou (grandson), Lulu (granddaughter), Periwinkle (daughter-in-law), Cory (son-in-law)īabar the Elephant ( UK: / ˈ b æ b ɑːr/, US: / b ə ˈ b ɑːr/ French pronunciation: ) is an elephant character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff. Gordon Pinsent (1989–2015 2 TV series and movie)ĭan Lett (1999–2000 movie and TV series) ![]() ![]() ![]() Cover of the first Babar story, Histoire de Babar ( Story of Babar), published 1931. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So yes, I was so excited to dive back into this world for the last time and read about Ethan and Kenzie and all the others.īecause that’s how things in the Nevernever always worked. In the face of unprecedented evil and unfathomable power, Ethan’s enemies must become his allies, and the world of the fey will be changed forevermore.Īfter a very VERY long wait this book finally came out and I was very happy about that because if you read The Iron Traitor, you know it ended on a major cliffhanger and I might have thrown my book against a wall (I’m not confirming nor denying this). Leading the Lady’s Forgotten Army is Keirran himself: Ethan’s nephew, and the traitor son of the Iron Queen, Meghan Chase.To stop Keirran, Ethan must disobey his sister once again as he and his girlfriend, Kenzie, search for answers long forgotten. Now, she is at the forefront of an uprising against the courts of Summer and Winter-a reckoning that will have cataclysmic effects on the Nevernever. Although humankind’s glimpse of the world of Faery lasted just a brief moment, the human world has been cast into chaos, and the emotion and glamour produced by fear and wonder has renewed the tremendous power of the Forgotten Queen. Waking after a month on the brink of death, Ethan Chase is stunned to learn that the Veil that conceals the fey from human sight was temporarily torn away. The Iron Prince-my nephew-betrayed us all. WARNING: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE PREVIOUS BOOK(S) THIS SUMMARY AND REVIEW WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. ![]() |