![]() ![]() Farmer’s disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. ![]() Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. ![]() Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other.įarmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world’s poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. ![]() I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. " Absolution Gap is a good as it gets, and should solidify Alastair Reynolds' reputation as one of the best hard SF writers in the field." - SF Site But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety - or draw down its darkest enemy.Īnd as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. ![]() ![]() The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence - and they've targeted Humanity. In the third book of the legendary Revelation Space trilogy, the last remnants of humanity realize that forging an alliance with a greater and even more mysterious alien force may be their only chance for survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tim and Vanessa begin a clandestine romance, but looming over them is the Tragedy Paper, Irving's version of a senior year thesis, assigned by the school's least forgiving teacher. ![]() To Tim's surprise, Vanessa is into him, too, but she can kiss her social status goodbye if anyone ever finds out. Yet, despite his efforts to blend into the background, he finds himself falling for the quintessential "It" girl, Vanessa Sheller, girlfriend of Irving's most popular boy. ![]() ![]() Perfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and Looking for Alaska, Jennifer Weiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author, calls Elizabeth LaBan's The Tragedy Paper "a beguiling and beautifully written tale of first love and heartbreak." It follows the story of Tim Macbeth, a seventeen-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious Irving School, where the motto is "Enter here to be and find a friend." A friend is the last thing Tim expects or wants-he just hopes to get through his senior year unnoticed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In reality, she heard about the satisfaction guaranteed policy much later when the damage was already done to her feet. In the film, Cheryl finds out that REI will ship her new boots for free at one of her first stops on the trail. Cheryl blames marrying too young and her own infidelity for their failed marriage.Ĭheryl’s boots did plague her throughout her hike, taking six of her toenails because they were too small. ![]() Their divorce (as reflected in the film) is largely amicable. To honor their connection to each other, the two got tattoos of horses on their arms. (Their biological father was abusive and Cheryl loses touch with him after her mother files for divorce.) Cheryl and Eddie grew particularly close during her mother’s sickness, but after she passed, Eddie remarried and grew distant.Ĭheryl and Paul got matching tattoos when they divorced Eddie is a father figure to Cheryl and her siblings when they are young. The movie also removes their mother’s second husband, Eddie. In reality, Cheryl also had an older sister, Karen. In the film, Cheryl has only one sibling, her younger brother Leif. The movie cuts out a few important people in Cheryl’s real life. Cheryl’s only family was her mother and brother ![]() ![]() ![]() She spends a great deal of time in the company of her imagination, and when she isn't, she's wide eyed and awed by this planet and the people running amok all over it.Ī perfect new tale for all New Yorkers! Believe me, you know have to be a book-nerd to find your way through this New York traveling map. She'd often wished she'd run away and joined the circus when she had the chance. car wrecks, hurricanes, plagues, and genocides on the one hand, small and stunning everyday miracles on the other. She is equally fascinated by disaster and grace. She's read millions of books, and has sat happily at the feat of a legion of storytellers. ![]() ![]() So they brought her in and kept her after all. ![]() The same well meaning adults decided she'd catch her death out there. Well meaning adults thought she was a changeling and so they wrapped her up and put her on the porch for the fairies to take back, please and thank you. When Carrie Mac was born, her right eye gawked off in one direction while her left eye looked the other way. Four-eyed bookworm, tattooed queer, storyteller nomad mama to two unschooled earthlings, based in East Van, overlooking the shipyard cranes and always ready for the next most amazing giant tiny little big wonderful something to capture my attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet, the story of the Canterville Ghost is largely a comedy. He was punished for it by his wife’s brothers, who locked him up in a room to starve to death. The Canterville Ghost in real life committed a terrible crime-he killed his wife because she was plain and a bad housekeeper. Lord Canterville himself told Mr Otis this when they were discussing the sale.” There was no doubt that the place was haunted, they said. Otis, the American Ambassador, bought Canterville Chase, people told him that he was doing a very dangerous thing. Themes: Ghost Story/ English Old World vs the American New World/ Duty/ Irony Genres: EnglishGradedReaders/ Fiction/ Adaptation/ Horror/ Comedy/ Gothic Fiction/ Parody/ Short Stories Collection The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories - John Davage (Retold by), Oscar Wilde (2015) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani's quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri's recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. ![]() Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, this tale (like Edgedancer before it) gives often-overshadowed characters their own chance to shine. From Brandon Sanderson-author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War-comes a new hefty novella, Dawnshard. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rendered in realistic, gloriously obsessive detail in dozens of drawings, the monsters seem to leap (or ooze) to life-sometimes so vividly that Twig seems to fade into the background. All will be escaped by the skin of his teeth and, as he's not particularly strong, brave, or clever, with the help of mysterious strangers. ![]() But he enters a different destiny when he strays off a marked path into the trackless Deepwoods, where challenges as diverse as the aptly named Halitoad, tribble/piranha hybrids dubbed Wigwigs, toothy Bloodoaks, and, most horrible of all, a cooing, preteen, makeover-happy Termagant Trog await. Young Twig has grown up as the foundling child of a peaceable, none-too-bright pair of wood trolls. Readers fond of nonstop adventures thickly stocked with variously clawed, tentacled, tusked, venomous, tattooed, insidious, blood-drinking, slime-vomiting plug-uglies will be in hog heaven over this imported series opener, trendily bound in a jacketless pictorial cover. ![]() ![]() When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. ![]() But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access-through nodes designed into smart clothes-and to see the digital context-through smart contact lenses. ![]() Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. ![]() Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The bossman from Hades meets the hellion he totally can't stand-until he can't live without her. What's the blueprint when the office grump brings me to my knees?įull-length enemies-to-lovers romance with the banter, intrigue, and slow-burn love worthy of a Happily Ever After. The plan was simple: punch the clock, get paid, and keep hating my boss. That's my mantra until we're sharing a sunset too beautiful for life.Īlone with wandering lips, whispered secrets, and disaster in the making. It's not even the pesky way he makes me blush every flipping time we're together. It's not the fact that he's snarly, demanding, horribly rich, and chiseled. It's not the impossibly long hours working under Grump-zilla. I picked the stallion on a one-way trip to hell. Then-for some unholy reason-Magnus Heron offered me a job.Įven his name sounds like a piece of work.īut when you're single, broke, and barely surviving in Chicago, you hop on the gift horse offering a six-figure salary and ride. ![]() I retaliated with a spray of cinnamon latte all over his Italian shoes. He picked the worst day ever to chase me off my favorite park bench. My “interview” with bosshole supreme was anything but normal. Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow returns with a fierce and hilarious office romance where two sworn enemies make undeniable lovers. ![]() |