Miles Vorkosigan wants to woo Ekaterin Vorsoisson, recently widowed during the thwarting of a terrorist plot in Komarr, but fearing that openly courting her would drive her away, he takes an indirect approach: he hires her to design a garden beside Vorkosigan House so he can spend time with her. It is dedicated to "Jane, Charlotte, Georgette, and Dorothy", novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Georgette Heyer, and Dorothy L. The title is an homage to the Georgette Heyer novel A Civil Contract and, like Heyer's historical romances, the novel focuses on romance, comedy, and courtship. It is included in the 2008 omnibus Miles in Love. It is a part of the Vorkosigan Saga, and is the thirteenth full-length novel in publication order. A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, first published in September 1999.
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They present violence and torture as the ultimate reason for slavery’s great efficiency, examining the true scale and brutality of the new model of slavery and its relationship with the 19th century’s most important raw commodity: cotton. The third and fourth chapters focus on the ways in which slavers maintained power over their human property and developed increasing wealth and influence through buying and selling slaves and cotton. From here, the second chapter examines how violence was central to the expansion of the slave frontier into the Mississippi Valley, noting how the Haitian Revolution ironically allowed the United States to purchase New Orleans and the area around the city from the French, and how the violent displacement of vast numbers of Creek Nation American Indians created more territory for cotton plantations. It also begins to explore the growing significance of forced migration, both to slavery as an institution and to the development of the United States. In doing so, it examines both some early tensions between the North and South and the solid foundation of cooperation over slavery that benefited both regions. The study begins by exploring the early use of slavery in the Americas and the beginnings of a new model of slavery that would go on to profoundly shape the future of the nation. The world-building felt patched together. There's also the fact that Phaet prickly personality reminded me a lot of Katniss ( The Hunger Games) and it's not the first similarity I noted to other books. I'm not a huge fan of always being in someone's head, hearing about what things are happening and not feeling like we're participating in the scenes as they're happening. Then she randomly starts speaking, still sparsely, but it was already beyond irritating to me. Someone states something, she considers it. Someone asks a question, she thinks about it. Instead she just internally mused, endlessly. Even so, I'll buy the selective-mute aspect of her personality, especially in a society where the likelihood of someone listening is always high, but there could have been some sort of response. Instead, I spent the first 15% irritated that the main character, Phaet, hadn't said a single word or responded in any sort of way to anyone that spoke to her. I really should start re-reading the summary blurbs before starting the book - it might save me a lot of concerns and issues. Ultimately there were a few too many issues for me to enjoy this book. I was so excited and looking forward to reading this book, and was beyond excited when I was approved through the Penguin First to Read program. OL55597W Page_number_confidence 72.62 Pages 86 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:052525563X See all books authored by William Sleator, including House of Stairs, and Interstellar Pig, and more on. Urn:lcp:amongdolls00will:epub:f267961f-0599-4186-82c0-96122ca13d66 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier amongdolls00will Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t07w7g93v Isbn 0679803475ĩ780679803478 Lccn 75005944 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL7701530M Openlibrary_edition A Caldecott Honor recipient, science fiction author William Sleator presents 'a fast-paced, chilling fantasy' (Booklist) of one girl's unexpected adventure beyond her imagaination. Title, Among the Dolls Author, William Sleator Illustrated by, Trina Schart Hyman Publisher, Trumpet Club, 1989 ISBN, 0440841488, 9780440841487. Urn:lcp:amongdolls00will:lcpdf:646d5445-50f4-4f47-9cb6-9cd89657d2d3 Trina Schart Hyman William Sleator Among the dolls Paperback 49 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 21.98 6 Used from 16.30 2 Collectible from 100.00 Paperback 8.77 22 Used from 1.95 1 Collectible from 15. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:50:51 Boxid IA175201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Bullseye ed. This spoof is partly Gogol satirising the bureaucratic tardiness of the census, partly poking fun at the idea that social status can be based on ownership of dead names on paper, and partly having a go at the greed and stupidity of the landowners – because when Chichikov offers to buy up these souls, he is met with the suspicion that he is ripping them off or breaking the law, and there is hard bargaining to get a better deal for them. The dead souls are serfs who are registered in the census as part of a landowner’s property, but though the landowner still has to pay tax on them, are (obviously) no longer alive. It’s the story of Chichikov, who travels around provincial Russia on a quest to buy ‘dead souls’. Dead Souls is Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece, and it’s very droll indeed. They are not the only one searching, though, and the other party isn't above getting their hands dirty in the search. The two embark on a journey of clues that will hopefully culminate in finding the lost manuscripts. History, as it turns out, is not always straightforward, however. When Miranda discovers a possible link between the famous poet and the marquess Robert Hamilton's ancestor, she writes to him in the hope that he will be able to sell her something written in Shakespeare's own hand-even a signature would be enormously valuable. Her name would go down in history if she were successful. Having been crushed in love before, she is not worried about finding a husband for herself but in finding the lost manuscripts of William Shakespeare. Miranda Hatch, a Shakespearean scholar, is missing all but the gray hairs of spinsterhood at 26 years old. Robert has sold much to pay the debts, but another debt always seems to pop up in each one's place. Lord Robert Hamilton loved his father, but all the love in the world cannot erase the fact that his father left behind mountains of debt. There may be some spoilers in the Content section due to its nature. Join the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.For more information click here or talk to your local librarian. Friends groups raise money for improvements to their library through memberships, used book sales and other activities. There is a “Friends of the Library” group for most branch libraries and departments of the Central Library. You can support the Los Angeles Public Library in several ways: With more people than ever before using the library-a record 17 million last year alone-your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive. Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities. The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States. But I was reading Before the Devil Breaks You and I really needed something fluffy to ease the horror of that book so I went ahead.Īnd was completely hooked by chapter five. Add in the reviews that I was reading for this book and I wasn’t sure if I should have purchased this book months ago…although it was only $1.99. Considering my luck this month with books that I added onto my TBR list years ago with a little erotic edge them – hello knocking off The Black Dagger Brotherhood series off my list – I wasn’t feeling very good about this book. Okay, here was another book that I was very wary of. And then one night everything changes…and none of them will ever be the same. At first, he’s purely a friend that she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does their relationship. Then an unforeseen obligation forces the happy couple apart.įeeling lonely, confused, and in need of comfort, Kiera turns to an unexpected source – a local rock star named Kellan Kyle. When they head off to a new city to start their lives together, Denny at his dream job and Kiera at a top-notch university, everything seems perfect. For almost two years now, Kiera’s boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she’s ever wanted: loving, tender and endlessly devoted to her. Welch, however, argues that this rationale alone is insufficient but does not rule out the possibility of some historical foundation to the story. The incident is accepted as true by some modern scholars of Islamic studies under the criterion of embarrassment, citing the implausibility of early Muslim biographers fabricating a story so unflattering about their prophet. The first use of the expression in English is attributed to Sir William Muir in 1858. The verses praise the three pagan Meccan goddesses: al-Lāt, al-'Uzzá, and Manāt and can be read in early prophetic biographies of Muhammad by al-Wāqidī, Ibn Sa'd and the tafsir of al-Tabarī. The Satanic Verses are words of "satanic suggestion" which the Islamic prophet Muhammad is alleged to have mistaken for divine revelation. For other uses, see Satanic verses (disambiguation). For the novel by Salman Rushdie, see The Satanic Verses. This article is about the religious verses. The Great Game is both mysterious and deadly, but among the winner’s magical rewards is Quinton’s last hope-so how can Amari refuse?Īmari Peters is everything. This challenge sparks the start of the Great Game, a competition to decide who will become the Night Brothers’ successor and determine the future of magiciankind. She’s got enough to worry about!īut her refusal allows someone else to step forward, a magician with dangerous plans for the League. So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to stand up for magiciankind as its new leader, she declines. Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York Times and Indie bestselling Supernatural Investigations trilogy-perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor.Īfter finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Amari Peters is convinced her first full summer as a Junior Agent will be a breeze.īut between the fearsome new Head Minister’s strict anti-magician agenda, fierce Junior Agent rivalries, and her brother Quinton’s curse steadily worsening, Amari’s plate is full. |