![]() He isn't supposed to crave his husband-their marriage is just a political arrangement, nothing more.īut when disaster strikes and loyalties are tested, which bond will be the strongest: their marriage, or their allegiances? Everyone knows a marriage between two alphas is a recipe for disaster. He isn't supposed to bare his throat to an enemy alpha-and it isn't supposed to feel so good. Prince Haydn has always tried to be the perfect alpha his father wants him to be. Royce likes omegas he isn't into alphas, no matter how pretty their eyes are. More than anything, Royce hates what Haydn makes him become: a primitive alpha cliché who'll do anything to mark his territory, even if that territory is his alpha husband. Peace isn't popular, but the planet can't survive without it.įorced to marry an enemy prince for the sake of peace, Senator Royce Cleghorn doesn't like his husband, his alpha scent, or his damned pretty blue eyes. ![]() The Kingdom of Pelugia and the Republic of Kadar have been at war for decades. ![]() Attraction that defies all reason and logic. ![]() Two alphas forced into a political marriage. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Have students select a sonnet from Nelson's collection to examine, and create a video poem (using tools such as Animoto or Slidely ) incorporating images and sounds that support the text. Nelson's collection of non-rhyming sonnets are full of figurative language and text that evoke powerful mental images. (c) Describe how word choice and imagery contribute to the meaning of a text (VDOE, 2010a, p.9). New York, NY: Dial Books.Įnglish SOL 6.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fictional texts, narrative nonfiction and poetry. The everyday setting of the poems will inspire young writers to craft their own memoir based on life events. This collection offers an artistic view of the 1950s for a young girl, and would be an excellent companion text when studying this time period. The short personal sonnets are approachable for teen readers, and the content is relatable even with the passage of time. Poems are featured one per page, with simple drawings and black and white photographs highlighting the content. Her father's job as a military officer in the Air Force drives the numerous settings throughout the collection, and is also the focus of several poems. ![]() The poems span her childhood from age 4-14, and each poem indicates a specific time and place in her life story. ![]() The autobiographically rooted poems include her youthful perspective on the Red Scare, Cold War, feminism, and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. In fifty non-rhyming sonnets, American poet, Marilyn Nelson, paints a picture of her childhood in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() ![]() This also extends South African writers, of course. However, the work of writers such as the late Binyavanga Wainaina and even a contemporary such as Romeo Origun, have endeavored to go further and reconcile what it means to be African and queer against the backdrop where so many having portrayed the two as mutually exclusive identities. ![]() The works of writers such as Chinua Achebe, Es'kia Mphahlele, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Buchi Emecheta have undoubtedly produced seminal works which have cast African Literature into the spotlight.ĥ Books by African Writers You Need To Read This Summer In the same way that the voices of Black and African writers have been necessary in revolutionizing the world of literature and pushing back against dominant Eurocentric narratives, it has been equally important to witness the rise in stories that speak to the lives and experiences of queer people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, one night, the ghost horse looks eerily out of the fog.When the Hollisters realize that someone is trying to scare them off the island, they are determined to find out why.Ī man with a beard and a foreign accent saves them from drowning but then disappears into the night. Later, their belongings are ransacked, and they receive a fake telegram, supposedly from Mrs. The Franklins warn them not to go near the barn! A prowler is seen near the abandoned inn where the Hollisters are staying. ![]() ![]() The Franklins, who live on the island, seem to be hiding something in their barn. Not long after the Hollisters, Indy, and Emmy Roades arrive on Wicket-ee-nock Island, they discover that something is very much amiss. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How can she, plain Jane, ever measure up? And can she win Eddie’s heart before her past––or his––catches up to her? Yet as Jane and Eddie fall for each other, Jane is increasingly haunted by the legend of Bea, an ambitious beauty with a rags-to-riches origin story, who launched a wildly successful southern lifestyle brand. Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddie––not only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she’s always yearned for. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. ![]() Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.īut her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later he was self exiled to continental Europe, living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a college text. John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. Winner of the 1972 Booker Prize for his novel, G., John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and author of many novels including A Painter of Our Time, From A to X and Bento’s Sketchbook. ![]() It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" -Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling "The influence of the series and the book. ![]() He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" -Peter Fuller, Arts Review "Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics. he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings. ![]() John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. ![]() ![]() In 2013, only twenty-four hours after Edward Snowden released information on the NSA, sales of 1984 on rose by 6,021%. This research is timely, given the recent surge in the novel's popularity. This milestone articulates the major influences behind three of the themes found in George Orwell's novel, 1984: The error of hierarchical class systems The horror of politically-induced warfare And the need for a free, unbiased media. This background is then used as inspiration for a piece of creative writing that draws on the major themes of Orwell's masterpiece. In doing so, this milestone details several major events in George Orwell's life that contributed in substantial ways to the political beliefs and worldviews behind Nineteen Eighty-Four. ![]() This milestone explores the experiences and historical events that inspired George Orwell to compose his most famous work, Nineteen Eighty-Four. ![]() ![]() ![]() Table of contents : Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures Appendices Acknowledgements Editors’ introduction: Writing and reading the body politic O’Neill’s ‘other’ sociology O’Neill’s two Bodies Reading/writing the body politic Biobodies: the infant gaze after phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and medical science Productive bodies: alienation and discipline in the media age Libidinal bodies: inscriptions of desire in the utopian imagination Civic bodies: reciprocity and generosity against the capitalist rule of exchange References Part 1: The biobody Chapter 1: Foucault’s optics: The (in)vision of mortality and modernity References Chapter 2: The specular body: Merleau-Ponty and Lacan on infant self and other 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() We all have those moments in life where everything seems so mundane and uneventful, and then you bump into that friend from high school whose life seems so thrilling, and it just makes you want to do something drastic. It was easy to get drawn into to Elena's life because she was so relatable. I am STILL wrapping my head around this book. She's been living on autopilot, a slave to the 9-5 routine - until a chance meeting with an old school friend serves as the catalyst that changes Elena's life in a way she could never have imagined.ĭazzled by her friends self assured confidence, Elena makes an innocent attempt to break from the monotony, and the repercussions send her on a roller coaster of emotions, smashing predictability to pieces, leaving her life anything but predictable. ![]() ![]() Life is a rat race, and Elena White is stuck on the treadmill. ![]() ![]() ![]() The man has Alzheimer’s, and he was only visited by his social worker, Derek Ross, once a week. The girl and the boy are taken to hospital, and Quinn and Gislingham interview the man, William Harper, a former professor at Birmingham University. Then in the cellar they find a young girl, dirty and lying on a bare mattress, and next to her there is a two-year-old boy. When they break into the next-door house, they find an old man in the toilet, and he clearly has dementia. The police are called, and DS Gareth Quinn and DC Chris Gislingham get there. There is a crack that opens up in the next-door house, and when Mark Sexton, the owner, touches the wall, it gives way and a hole appears, and then he sees a face. The architect tells him that there is a problem in the cellar. This time the book starts with a rich man who has bought a big Victorian house in North Oxford and has workers on the property. This is the second book in the series featuring DI Fawley and his unit. ![]() |