![]() ![]() During deliberations on how to deal with the declining need for artillery, club president Impey Barbicane puts forward his idea to build a giant cannon and launch a projectile to the moon. The story unfolds at the Baltimore Gun Club, a society of American Civil War veterans and weapon enthusiasts, who are in the midst of adjusting to a post-war environment and left feeling superfluous. ![]() A remarkable blend of action, humor, science, and audacious schemes, the timeless classic is sure to fascinate with its unique vision of lunar exploration. Written more than a century before the Apollo mission, Verne’s classic is somewhat a prophetic novel of man’s travel to the moon with its thorough and descriptive detail. ![]() One of the earliest examples of literature written in the science fiction genre, From the Earth to the Moon is a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series by French novelist Jules Verne. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A final act pulls us across time and space in the search for clues to the origins of the Puramus. In this hilarious and epic graphic novel, short interlocking stories follow the purple pals as they explore their new home, form a mini-monarchy, and develop a modern society on par with 21st-century humans. It’s the most adorable apocalypse ever! The human race has vanished replaced by innocent, playful, creatures called the Puramus. Will you see what I see? You definitely need to check this one out.īased on the popular webcomic, this all-new stand-alone comics collection artfully blends post-apocalyptic sci fi, dry humor, and utter adorability. I say mostly because that much cute had me looking for shadows and darkness. ![]() Broken up into tiny stories based on Gish’s webcomic, this is a mostly feel-good take on the end of the world. In We Are Here Forever, riter and artist Michelle Gish has given us a 224-page full-color graphic novel with a lighthearted look at the apocalypse. With names such as Box and Roomba, these adorable little guys (or girls or unisex) use the humans leftover stuff to adapt and evolve. Now that they are the dominant species, jump through time and join them on an adventure as they navigate towards civilization. The Puramus are cute as buttons and one of the few creatures left on the planet after the humans have disappeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() The British parliament initially banned the publication of the pamphlet. In Europe, his pamphlet was severely criticized. The simplicity and ordinateness of his writing (uncharacteristic of Enlightenment writers) enabled the masses to understand the complexity of the issues at hand. ![]() His mass references to the Bible in the pamphlet appealed to the common sentiment of the American people. Thomas Paine intended this pamphlet as a means to incite the population of the colonies to support the Revolution. The pamphlet was, in general, a challenge both to the authority of the British monarch and the parliament – entities seen as enemies of freedom and integrity. In January 1776, Thomas Pained published a pamphlet entitled ‘Common Sense’ which became an instant bestseller both in the Thirteen Colonies and in Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps she’ll be able to find forgiveness for the little girl that was her.įor the young woman she had been. ![]() ![]() Perhaps if she can create order from the chaos, her memories will be easier to carry. Seized by a sudden urgency to make sense of her past, she examines each image one-by-one: her grandfather, her mother, her brother, her lover. But a chance meeting with a young boy, Ika, and her desire to help him force Marion to open the Pandora’s box of her memory. Marion Flint, in her early fifties, has spent fifteen years living a quiet life on the rugged coast of New Zealand, a life that allows the door to her past to remain firmly shut. Here is Olsson doing what she does best: illuminating the terrain of friendship and examining the many forms that love can take. From the beloved author of Astrid & Veronika, a moving tale of friendship and redemptionFans of Astrid & Veronika and Chris Cleave's Little Bee will be thrilled to read Linda Olsson's third novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She looks for excuses to fire him.Īyesha is a poet, working as a substitute teacher but unhappy with teaching. But a new boss arrives who is prejudiced against him for his religion and appearance. He works hard and does well in his company. He doesn’t shake women’s hands (sign of a strict Muslim), and tends to judge others, though he treats them with respect. (“Observant” here means that he strictly observes the practices of his faith.) Khalid finds his identity in wearing a long white robe, a white skullcap, and a bushy beard. Uzma told us that she wanted to show an “observant” Muslim as a character we could understand and relate to, so she introduced Khalid. Their Muslim community faces challenges, and they try to help, though their ideas don’t always match. Both are from Indian-background Muslim families in Canada, and both have experienced loss and tragedy. In Ayesha at Last, Ayesha is a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet, while Khalid is her Mr. Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin gives a modern Canadian Muslim twist to Pride and Prejudice. ![]() ![]() ![]() They twisted my emotions around in the best possible way. Whether Kaidan was trying to seduce or push Anna away, or Anna was trying to discover his feelings, I was enraptured. Until then, Anna and Kaidan must put aside the issues between them, overcome the steamiest of temptations yet, and face the ultimate question: is loving someone worth risking their life? Review: ![]() It soon becomes clear that whatever freedoms Anna and the rest of the Neph are hoping to win will not be gained without a fight. When an unexpected lost message from the angels surfaces, Anna finds herself traveling the globe with Kopano, son of Wrath, in an attempt to gain support of fellow Nephilim and give them hope for the first time. And all the while there's Kaidan Rowe, son of the Duke of Lust, plaguing her heart and mind. ![]() Haunted by demon whisperers, Anna does whatever she can to survive, even if it means embracing her dark side and earning an unwanted reputation as her school's party girl. Anna Whitt, daughter of a guardian angel and a demon, promised herself she'd never do the work of her father-polluting souls. ![]() ![]() She is donating money to Monash Children’s Hospital. She is an Ambassador for Bullyzero : an organisation which is trying to establish a zero-tolerance culture of bullying and is working to empower, educate and prevent all forms of bullying on a National scale.Īnother charity in which she is involved is The Dandelion Foundation. ![]() She is involved with all Alzheimer’s charities, explaining that the reason for that is only for her to know. Kids Under Cover is a non profit organisation dedicated to preventing youth homelessness in Melbourne and the region. She supports charities including Kids Under Cover, which builds shelters for kids in the streets who are not still 18. They are good in business together so when she set up a group of apartments in Melbourne’s Malvern East in 2014., nobody was surprised to find out that the land the properties sit on was purchased by Frank’s company, BY FJP Pty Ltd, in 2008. The couple live in the Westin, in an apartment in the heart of the city of Melbourne. ![]() They are together for nine years and they keep their private life to themselves. She is in a relationship with a businessman Frank Palazzo and they invested together in a stable of horses for racing. ![]() The oldest one, Nathan Willis Berenger, can oftenly be found in pictures on her Instagram and Facebook. She was married twice and has three sons she adores. /rebates/2fSwitch-the-Bitch-My-Formula-to-Being-the-Champion-of-Your-Life-Not-the-Victim-Pettifleur-Berenger2fbook2f31515256&. ![]() ![]() ![]() People start fleeing London when the Martians start using black smoke – a form of chemical warfare – against the city’s inhabitants. His brother lives in central London and his letter outlines the shift in the capital as people realise their weapons are useless against the Martians. Interspersed within the narrator’s own story is a second narrative, detailed within a letter the narrator’s brother sends to him and which the narrator relates to us. Man-made guns prove useless against the Martians’ superior weapons. Civilisation soon starts to fall apart as panic spreads among the English populace. ![]() The Martians attack a group of men who approach them, destroying them with a heat ray. The novel’s narrator is nearby, writing a paper on morality, and gets to see a Martian emerging from the cylinder, about the size of a bear and possessing a ‘tentacular appendage’. They arrive in cylinders on a common in Surrey. The Martians invade England, seeking to colonise Earth, as Mars has become inhospitable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many examples are offered in the book, such as the 2017 case of a woman in Guangxi region being denied a divorce after her husband graduated from beating her to putting a knife to her neck in front of their child. That, in practice, means that domestic abuse victims are overwhelmingly denied their rights-from the right to divorce a violent man to the ability to even report a violent crime by a partner. ![]() Divorced men, or single ones, are seen as a destabilizing element. In contrast, by taking an ethnographic approach to China’s domestic violence problem in Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China, anthropologist Tiantian Zheng shows how the government’s paranoia over any potential political instability means an emphasis on so-called family harmony. Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China, Tiantian Zheng, Bloomsbury, 224 pp, $29.95, July 2022. ![]() The book cover for Tiantian Zheng's Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is up for parole in 2024, when she'll be 53 Locked up: Smith was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison for killing 14-month-old Alex and 3-year-old Michael. Smith was sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole until 2024.She has also been caught with marijuana and narcotics in 20.It was discovered she had engaged in sexual relations with Cagle after Smith tested positive for an STD. ![]() Smith had sex with guards, including Houston Cagle - who was later jailed for three months for the affair - and prison captain Alfred Rowe who got probation.Since then, she has found her time behind bars in Leath Correctional Institution in Greenwood, S.C., married by infractions for drugs, sex and self-mutilation.She was sentenced to life in jail after she admitted strapping them into her car and letting it roll into a lake.Smith, 46, has spent more than 20 years in a South Carolina jail for murdering 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex in 1994.Child killer Susan Smith's secret life of sex and drugs behind bars while she serves life for drowning her two sons ![]() |