Try finding great adventures based on Western African gods and heroes like Nyame or Anansi. Greek myths are great! But you can’t swing a gorgon’s head in any bookstore without hitting at least a dozen Greek-myth-inspired books. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?ĭon’t get me wrong. But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding and seal the hole in the sky. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American gods John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In a last attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature’s hands, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. Tristan chases after it - is that a doll? - and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie’s journal. Tristan is dreading the month he’s going to spend on his grandparents’ farm in Alabama, where he’s being sent to heal from the tragedy. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together.
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"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." - From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses The Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Heyer was a popular writer of romance, mystery, and historical fiction in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, a fact I didn't discover until I saw her novel, The Convenient Marriage (1934), recommended by friend and fellow-Victorianist, Martha Stoddard Holmes. The variety of covers here gives some idea of the range of possible understanding about where this book fits in the scheme of popular reading values Heyer's work is at the threshold, it would seem, of respectability, evoking Jane Austen (to whom she is frequently compared), or, on the mass-market side, someone like Nora Roberts or Stephanie Meyers. It was 13 days later, back home in the Netherlands, when the woman felt the first flush of illness soon, her fever climbed, her organs failed, she went into a coma. For several minutes, she and her party peered into the darkness and breathed the hot, pungent air, as they gingerly stepped across rocks slick with bat guano. In 2008, a Dutch woman on a guided trek through Uganda climbed gamely down into a remote, sunken cave - a cave better known for the few indolent pythons underfoot than for the tens of thousands of bats that teemed overhead. 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But her Summer is stretching out in front of her, dreary and uneventful, as she is taken to stay with her cold and strict Aunt Lilian in the less-than-exciting town of Malmouth. Ghosts are everywhere, so Aveline always keeps an eye out, just in case, her morbid fascination bordering on obsession. Aveline Jones loves stories of ghouls and ghosts fascinated by the idea of the dead returning to life. He is a veteran of the Korean War and served in the U.S. John, whose last name is never revealed, is a wandering singer who carries a guitar strung with strings of pure silver. The historical period is never explicitly indicated, but appears to be mid 20th century. The stories are set in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. Though fans refer to him as Silver John or as John the Balladeer, the stories simply call him John. Silver John is a fictional character from a series of fantasy stories (1963–84) by American author Manly Wade Wellman (1903–1986). 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