![]() ![]() She was a member of Satyashodhak Samaj.īorn in Maratha Family in the year 1850 to Bapuji Hari Shinde in Buldhana, Berar Province, in present-day Maharashtra, she was a founding member of the Satyashodhak Samaj, Pune. It was very controversial for its time in challenging the Hindu religious scriptures themselves as a source of women's oppression, a view that continues to be controversial and debated today. ![]() The pamphlet is a critique of caste and patriarchy, and is often considered the first modern Indian feminist text. She is known for her published work, Stri Purush Tulana ("A Comparison Between Women and Men"), originally published in Marathi in 1882. ![]() Tarabai Shinde (1850–1910) was a feminist activist who protested patriarchy and caste in 19th century India. Stri Purush Tulana (A Comparison Between Women and Men) (1882) Feminist, women's rights activist, writer ![]()
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![]() ![]() And it wasn’t because he was an “important” writer, though lord knows what that even means anymore. I didn’t love the work of John Jakes because he was a good writer. ![]() When I was done, I thought I knew a lot about American history. Within a month, I savaged the entire eight volumes of “The Kent Family Chronicles,” which told the story of the inheritors of The Bastard and also some people who ended up working for the family. I tore through it quickly and easily while dipping the contents of a box of Triscuits one by one into a tasty container of port-wine cheddar cheese spread. ![]() There it sat on my family’s middlebrow bookshelf, alongside ‘The Eye of the Needle,’ ‘The Bourne Identity,’ ‘The Mirror Crack’d,’ ‘The Thorn Birds,’ and many other books that I also soon read once The Bastard broke the seal. It was an absurd pre-Revolutionary War melodrama, but was, nonetheless, the first book “for adults” that I ever read. I read his novel ‘The Bastard’ at age 10, in 1980. I try not to let the deaths of people I didn’t know personally affect me, but news of John Jakes’s death filled me with a bit of nostalgia. The author John Jakes died last week at age 90. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mclean decides to leave her mom's house to go to the Poseidon, an old, worn out motel where she and Katherine stayed on one of their spontaneous beach trips. While she is in Colby, Mclean overhears Katherine telling a friend that she thinks that it was a mistake inviting Mclean to come to the beach. ![]() Mclean goes to the small beach town of Colby with her mother Katherine. While she is trying to cope with the ideas of moving for a fifth time, Mclean's new friends find the various social media profiles she has created for her different personas. Mclean and her new friends help Opal construct a model of the town and develops an attraction to her neighbor Dave Wade.Īfter living in Lakeview for a few months, Mclean discovers that Gus has another job offer in Hawaii. In Lakeview, despite her best efforts, Mclean finds herself revealing her true personality, opening up to new people and new experiences. Gus is there to turn around a struggling Italian restaurant, Luna Blu, managed by the headstrong Opal, who has worked there since she was a teenager.Īs a way of preventing herself from forming attachments, Mclean takes on a different name and persona with each move. Seventeen-year-old Mclean Sweet and her father, restaurant consultant Gus Sweet, have just moved to Lakeview, their fourth move in two years. It received mainly positive critical reception. The book was released on May 10, 2011, by Viking. ![]() The book chronicles the life of a teenage girl, Mclean, and her journey of self-discovery. What Happened to Goodbye is a young adult novel by Sarah Dessen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The set includes not only the three main Hannibal Lecter books, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal but it also includes the prequel, Hannibal Rising, where you can discover what caused Hannibal to turn against humanity. This gripping collection is aimed at readers who like horror and thriller novels, also perfect for fans of the popular movie and TV adaptations. Follow the story of Hannibal Lecter, a sinister cannibal serial killer who committed unspeakable crimes. ![]() Graphic from the start you will be following the protagonist as they try to solve the crimes with Hannibal Lecter waiting in the wings.īestselling author Thomas Harris presents the spine-tingling Hannibal Lecter series in this 4 book collection. These books are dark and are not for the faint of heart. ![]() The character Hannibal Lecter has become a household name with a cult following alongside many other horror villains. Red Dragon was first published in 1981 then followed by Silence of the Lambs in 1988, Hannibal in 1999 and Hannibal Rising in 2006. Since the publication of the first book in the series, Red Dragon, Hannibal Lecter has become a well-known figure in horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the longer he keeps that from Thomasina, the more painful it will be when the truth comes out. Add to that her worry about where her wayward sister has gone and it’s a recipe for both passion…and disaster.Īs the two slowly grow closer, Jasper realizes his former fiancée’s disappearance may have more to do with his own past than he originally realized. Suddenly she’s going to marry this stern, fascinating man who is not particularly pleased at her perfidy. Once she’s caught, everything escalates so quickly. ![]() Thomasina’s feelings for Jasper have never been appropriate and she doubted the prudence of pretending to be his even for just one night. And when it becomes clear her sister has run away with another, an opportunity arises for a marriage with a much deeper connection. But when he realizes it is Thomasina Shelley masquerading as his fiancée at their final engagement ball, not his true intended, a desire for her that he has been ignoring sparks. ![]() When the Jasper Kincaid, the Earl of Harcourt, offered to marry one of the infamous Shelley triplets, he was doing it for the dowry to refill his depleted coffers, not for anything so silly as love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many people helped us create this story, the world, the characters, and the words that convey it all. Who are just beginning all the journeys of a great adventure The mind-bending story is complemented with rich paintings by the five-time Juno Award winner for Best Album Design, Hugh Syme. He travels across a lavish and colorful world of steampunk and alchemy with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life. In a young man's quest to follow his dreams, he is caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos. The newest album by Rush, Clockwork Angels, sets forth a story in Neil Peart's lyrics that has been expanded by him and Anderson into this epic novel. ![]() Anderson and the multiplatinum rock band Rush. Click Any of the Following Images to EnlargeĪ remarkable collaboration that is unprecedented in its scope and realization, this exquisitely wrought novel represents an artistic project between the bestselling science fiction author Kevin J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Often I don't like feeling like I have to read more books than the one currently in my hands, but here it felt natural and right. ![]() It made it feel like I was part of an ongoing world instead of just reading a one and done novel. You could also tell that it was a series because there are several moments where you go "I bet that comes back later". Someone may get introduced in chapter twelve in another series book, but here it is like "these are the big names for at least a few books", which was nice. We are introduced to the main characters relatively quickly in the book, which is always nice since sometimes it can feel like an author takes their sweet time to make you aware of the big names. This made for a rather fun first read of the multiple book series. She makes the vampires in charge of this singular town and creates a mystery as to why others cannot remember aspects of the town upon their exit. I devoured this book in one sitting while I was on the greyhound bus going from Indiana to California (the bus trip was multiple days the book however was finished in one day of that trip).Ĭaine, whose real name is Roxanne Longstreet Conrad, creates a new world of vampires that is engaging in a way that I haven't seen from the genre in awhile. I haven't been much for Young Adult novels of this particular type for awhile now, but I thought what the heck it has to be better than the other mainstream vampire series that will go unnamed here. ![]() ![]() Except Gail.īut is one girl enough to find a long-dead king, kill the wicked queen, and save the world? Desperate to end the war, a plan is hatched that could put everything right again, only before it’s set in motion, the village is burned to the ground, all survivors taken prisoner to the castle. There’s a rumor that the king has been hidden away in a secret land, where only the worthiest can find him. The world has been destroyed and its needs a ruler to set things right again. Doc has found an actual cure for the Horologia virus, while Gwen, Pete, and Alyssa begin plotting the assassination of the queen with the help of Gail, an excellent huntress. ![]() With Everland and Umberland both destroyed, the survivors have taken refuge in a small village tucked within the shadows of the Bloodred Queen’s castle. ![]() Published on ApAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, a Saudi divorce ultimately means a mother’s loss of her children.Īnd then there’s the teenage son Faisal, who has his own set of problems, less captivating than Rosalie’s, but still compelling. ![]() Rosalie has so entangled herself into Saudi life that returning to the US presents its own challenges: she has no professional skills and she has even forgotten how to drive. She has transformed herself to fit into life in Saudi Arabia-“The Kingdom,” as it’s called. The solution to Rosalie’s problem is not simple. ![]() At one point Rosalie says, “I’m disintegrating in that house.” The home may look impressive, but inside is a family collapsing. ![]() If he wanted a Saudi wife, he would have married one.Īt the center of the story is the Al-Baylani villa, grand and garish, located in a neighborhood called The Diamond Mile, where Rosalie and Abdullah host vast family meals on Friday. Abdullah explains to a friend why he’s grown apart from his wife Rosalie: she has become “too Saudi” for him. ![]() Later, we meet Rosalie’s husband Abdullah, a man who keeps secrets, the biggest of all: his second wife of two years lives in a villa down the street. In these first pages, Rosalie discovers that her Saudi husband of 28 years has taken a second wife. In the opening scene of Keija Parssinen’s novel, The Ruins of Us, we meet Rosalie, a red-headed Texan who has been living in Saudi Arabia for more than two decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yep, ten pages in and we already have forbidden love and death on our plates. ![]() And an adopted brother named Atlas with whom, in the grand tradition of gothic-leaning YA novels past, she is secretly in love. Avery is a country music loving fashionista with a greenhouse and an obsession with hanging out on the roof of the building. She lives on the highest floor in The Tower, a thousand story apartment complex and playground for the rich that has turned much of the five boroughs and lower Manhattan into a ghost town as its elephantine size has literally put most of the surrounding area in shadow. This is Avery Fuller, our main character, genetically engineered to be perfect by her hopelessly average yet filthy rich parents (that she is revealed to be thin and blonde is to side-eye the book and sigh once again at the young adult genre’s lack of diversity). The book opens with the apparent suicide of a teenage girl and immediately and incongruously shifts back in time to 2118 and to another teenager returning from a party in the same building. The setting initially carries far more weight than the soapy GG world. Already optioned for an ABC television series on word of its tonal resemblance to the Gossip Girl franchise, HarperCollins is working mightily to make this the next big YA series on the block. ![]() ![]() This is one book with a reputation that precedes itself. ![]() |