6/30/2023 0 Comments The ardent swarm![]() ![]() ![]() In this brilliantly accessible modern-day parable, Yamen Manai uses a masterful blend of humor and drama to reveal what happens in a country shaken by revolutionary change after the world stops watching. ![]() To succeed in his quest, and find a glimmer of hope to protect all that he holds dear, Sidi will have to look further than he ever imagined. Along the way, he discovers a country and a people turned upside down by their new post-Arab Spring reality as Islamic fundamentalists seek to influence votes any way they can on the eve of the country's first democratic elections. Heartbroken, he soon learns that a mysterious swarm of vicious hornets committed the mass murder-but where did they come from, and how can he stop them? If he is going to unravel this mystery and save his bees from annihilation, Sidi must venture out into the village and then brave the big city and beyond in search of answers. He wakes one morning to find that something has attacked one of his beehives, brutally killing every inhabitant. Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to his beloved "girls" on the outskirts of the desolate North African village of Nawa. ![]() From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why I Wrote It As I started writing Princess of Glass, I found myself longing to get back to a story where Galen and Rose might have larger roles again. Urn:lcp:princessofglass00geor:epub:d2448772-a141-411c-989f-428155c55b65 Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier princessofglass00geor Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t42r7xq29 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9781599904788ġ599904780 Lccn 2009046895 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL23988661M Openlibrary_edition Jessica Day George's romantic and adventurous new tale is part Little Red Riding Hood, part Twelve Dancing Princesses, and wholly enchanting. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:57:07.949692 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1147621 Boxid_2 CH132718 City New York Donor Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Princess of Glass (Twelve Dancing Princesses) by Day George, Jessica Book The at the best. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Amy snow book![]() ![]() From the grave she sends Amy on a treasure hunt from one end of England to the other: a treasure hunt that only Amy can follow. Amy soon receives a packet that contains a rich inheritance and a letter from Aurelia revealing she had kept secrets from Amy, secrets that she wants Amy to know. When Aurelia dies at the age of twenty-three, she leaves Amy ten pounds, and the Vennaways immediately banish Amy from their home.īut Aurelia left her much more. Amy is brought up as a second-class citizen, despised by Vennaways, but she and Aurelia are as close as sisters. Her parents are horrified that she has brought a bastard foundling into the house, but Aurelia convinces them to keep the baby, whom she names Amy Snow. ![]() It is 1831 when eight-year-old Aurelia Vennaway finds a naked baby girl abandoned in the snow on the grounds of her aristocratic family's magnificent mansion. Winner of the UK's Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition, this page-turning debut novel follows an orphan whose late, beloved best friend bequeaths her a treasure hunt that leads her all over Victorian England and finally to the one secret her friend never shared. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Pale blue dot poem![]() ![]() The second annual Universe in Verse - a celebration of science through poetry, and a voice of resistance against the assault on nature - opened with the poem “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928–May 28, 2014), which flew to space on the Orion spacecraft and which Angelou dedicated to “the hope for peace, which lies, sometimes hidden, in every heart.” I chose this poem to set the tone for the show in part because it is absolutely stunning and acutely relevant to our cultural moment, and in part because the first time I read it, it sparked in me a sudden insight into the often invisible ways in which science and poetry influence and inspire one another - into how the golden threads of thought and feeling stretch and cross-hatch across disciplines to weave what we call culture.Īngelou composed the poem for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in 1995. Photo by Scott Eells / Stringer / Getty Images. ![]() |