![]() When KA Knight went to college, she decided to pursue a career in film and design even though she would still write from time to time. She now has more than thirty five novels in the Lost Coven, Forbidden Reads, Their Champion, Fallen Gods, DawnBreaker, Forsaken Her Freaks, Her Monsters, Wild Boys, and Their Champion Companion. ![]() Knight published “Aurora’s Coven,” the debut novel of the “Lost Coven” series of novels in 2014 and has never looked back since. These two would become a passion and when she finally went to college, that is what she studied.īut it was not until she experienced a tragedy in the family that she started writing as a way of escape. Rather she was more interested in other things and when she was older she got into film and design. Unlike many authors, Knight did not grow up dreaming of becoming an author. For the longest time she has dreamed of characters that have the ability to love several people in crazy creative stories. KA Knight is a bestselling paranormal romance author that was born and bred in a small little town in England. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On the tenth day of the plague, Achilles can wait no longer for King Agamemnon to act to end the plague. Consequently, Chryses prays to Apollo who brings a plague on the Achaian camp. The troops awarded these girls to Agamemnon, the commander-in-chief of the army, and to Achilles, the Achaians' greatest warrior.Ĭhryses, the father of Chryseis, pleads for her return but Agamemnon denies the plea. The reader is then carried to the point where the trouble originally arose, which is where the story of the Iliad actually begins: in the middle of war.ĭuring one of the Achaian (Greek) army's many raids on the cities located near Troy, the Achaians captured two beautiful enemy maidens, Chryseis and Briseis. In this invocation, Homer states his theme - the wrath, or the anger, of Achilles and its effects - and requests the aid of the muse so that he can properly recount the story. As was the tradition in epic poetry, the Iliad opens in medias res, meaning "in the middle of things," although the action is always preceded by the poet's invocation to the muse (the goddess) of poetry. ![]() As such the epic stands as a bridge between history and literature. ![]() Chronicling the deeds of great heroes from the past who helped form a society, the Iliad is an epic poem. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also provides readers with a picture of the community of those afflicted with CFS, and some details on the most recent research being done to study the illness. In her new book, Through the Shadowlands, science journalist Julie Rehmeyer chronicles her history with CFS, including her own attempts to find a probable cause and her mental and physical struggles with the condition. ![]() Although as many as 2.5 million Americans could be afflicted with the illness, there is no cure for CFS, and scientists still don’t understand its cause. While exhaustion is indeed part of it, the worst symptoms are often debilitating: loss of motor functions for periods of time, feeling ill after even mild exercise, drops in blood pressure, and quickening heart rate. Who among us isn’t tired all the time? And yet chronic fatigue is a condition with a name that belies the very serious malady it’s meant to convey. If someone told you she had something called chronic fatigue syndrome, you might not take her very seriously. Photo: ©SuperStock/Getty Images/SuperStock RM ![]() ![]() John and a post-college life cushioned by a fat, endless trust fund. The product of Donna’s first marriage to a dashing Frenchman, Eloise has spent her school years at the best private boarding schools, her winter holidays in St. Her brother Paul lives in Philadelphia with his older, handsomer, tenured track professor boyfriend who’s recently been saying things like “monogamy is an oppressive heteronormative construct,” while eyeing undergrads. ![]() Alice is in her thirties, single, smart, beautiful, stuck in a dead-end job where she is mired in a rather predictable, though enjoyable, affair with her married boss. ![]() Donna, the clan’s mother, is now a widow living in the Chicago suburbs with a penchant for the occasional joint and more than one glass of wine with her best friend while watching House Hunters International. The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family. Paul and Alice’s half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at “it” restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. They couldn’t hate it more. Parnassus Books is thrilled to welcome Grant Ginder as he reads from and signs The People We Hate at the Wedding. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Master said, 'A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. In the centuries following his death, Confucius came to be regarded as an almost mythic figure, a "sage-king" whose name remains readily identifiable with practical wisdom, or wisdom that can be applied to life. ![]() This slim, twenty-chapter book is thought to have been written by Confucius (551–479 bce), a philosopher, educator, politician, and public servant. It has been said that all later Chinese philosophy (thought or study on the arts and sciences) is in some way rooted in the Analects. An analect is any collection of assorted writings. The Lun Yu, also known as the Analects, is one of the most influential books that survives from the ancient Chinese world. Books 1 and 2 of the The Analects of Confucius, available online from Exploring Ancient World Cultures Anthology at ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quickly it flowed into her body, driving away his hurt. When “adolescence came and stirred her body and tugged at her mind, Lola knew she was lonely.” She meets Brownie, weeping after a fight with his father, “and then her mouth found his. In fact, this magical novel-a true find-is simply a story about two people struggling to survive. Unfortunately, when it first appeared in 1962, this book was dismissed as yet another example of the (Marxist) social realist tradition: Brownie and Lola’s harmonious inner world, critics scoffed, existed only to underscore the grimness of the world outside. “You be the caveman,” Lola suggests, “and sleep across the mouth of the cave to keep away the evil spirits and the sabre toothed tigers.” Lola was joking, but the union between these two young Australians is so fundamental and mysterious that the mythic image applies. “I’ll make sure the Westerlies don’t blow cold on you,” Brownie tells Lola. The Delinquents, Criena Rohan (Penguin: $5.95). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the story of what happened to Eden and Daniel once they left the Republic and how they are managing their lives after the horrible things they went through during the war. I should warn you that I won’t spoil this book, but there may be some minor ones from the first three books. ![]() It made me nostalgic for the original series too, so I am planning to read that again later this year. I am happy to report that it wasn’t and that I really enjoyed this book. So I was quite surprised when I saw this book come out and even though I knew it was going to be more about Daniel and his brother Eden, I was a little nervous that the ending I had conjured for Daniel and June would be shattered. And I was okay with that, and I could let my imagination take over. The Legend series is my favorite one by Marie Lu, and I was very happy with how it ended, even though it was open ended as to what really happened to June and Daniel later on in life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned animated shorts and theatrical musical productions, and his illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation. The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's." In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91. ![]() #1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale. ![]() ![]() If eaten as a primary staple, can cause severe niacin deficiency. ![]() Some foods that humans consume have parts that are poisonous or poisonous if not prepared correctly. Italian women made mild tinctures of it to dilate pupils because they thought it made them more attractive. The plant can cause rapid heart rate, confusion, hallucinations, seizures. ![]() However, we also use it for several medicines – atropine, scopolamine, donnatol, and hyoscyamine. Even rubbing against it can blister skin. However, all parts of the plant cause weakness, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting, and harm the heart.ĭeadly nightshade, also known as atropa belladonna ("beautiful woman").Īll parts of the plant are poisonous. The houseplant, Jerusalem cherry is beautiful. This plant is found in Texas and causes paralysis and death, but symptoms don't start until days or weeks later. Castor oil has the ricin removed and is often used for its laxative effect.Ĭoyotillo shrub berries are quite sinister. ![]() ![]() Victims get fever, trouble speaking, and vomit blood. The seeds are poisonous and indigenous to Asia and Africa. The Castor Bean plant with its infamous ingredient ricin is what was used in the famous KGB umbrella poisoning. Interesting read, but I really would have preferred color photos in lieu of the illustrations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He tried to write honkaku stories, but they brought him no success.” “Ranpo thought he wanted to write honkaku mysteries, but really only his early stories like “The Two-Sen Copper Coin” and “Shinri shiken” can be said to fit into the genre. “These detective stories are structured to basically preserve a fair relationship between the reader and writer,” explains Ishikawa Takumi, a literature professor at Rikkyō University. In the honkaku genre, key information is meticulously revealed to readers and there is a logical explanation for who the culprit is. A Guardian article suggested the first story in the genre was Edogawa Ranpo’s debut, a code-cracking tale called “Nisen dōka” (trans. Over the past few years, there has been growing overseas interest in Japan’s classic honkaku mysteries, including works like Yokomizo Seishi’s Honjin satsujin jiken (published in Japanese in 1947 and in an English translation by Louise Heal Kawai as The Honjin Murders in 2019). ![]() |