![]() ![]() ![]() īarbie dreamed that night, for the first time in years, as a result of the Porpentine. Martin tried to warn Barbie of the Cuckoo but was gunned down by the police. Martin had traveled from the Dreaming to give Barbie the Porpentine. Martin was one of the fantasy denizens of The Land Barbie had once dreamed about. Unexpectedly, while she was out with Wanda, she encountered Martin Tenbones in the middle of Manhattan. Other residents included Thessaly, Mad Hettie, Hazel, Foxglove, and a quiet man called George. She became very close with her transgender neighbor, Wanda, who lived in her building. ![]() The relationship with Ken broke down, and she moved to New York to try to redefine herself. However, as soon as Barbie and her friends were able to retrieve the Porpentine, a quartz amulet of great power, Rose Walker's Dream vortex abilities left Barbie unable to dream. She was protected and loved by a band of courageous anthropomorphic animals, including Wilkinson, Prinado, a dodo named Luz, and Martin Tenbones. The Land was a magical, fantasy kingdom in which she was a princess deposed by the evil Cuckoo. Barbie used to dream of being in a world called The Land. Barbie was a resident of the same apartment building as Rose Walker, and she was happily involved with a man called Ken they made a very yuppie couple. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Summary/Abstract: How to Be Both by Ali Smith, which centres around the concept of art and reality to a great extent, is an experimental novel that invites. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Ali Smith’s highly original literary double-take is a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. Borrowing from paintings fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, its a fast-moving. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to Be Both is a novel all about arts versatility. ![]() ![]() ![]() Review for the Hugo award-winning “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang, first posted on Fantasy Literature:Īn alien scientist describes the life of its people, who are robots that depend on regular refills of the gas argon for their brains to function. The Seventh Expression of the Robot General You can see that in Eclipse Two, which features more extraordinary tales of the fantastic and astounding. ![]() Set to become a major event on the science fiction and fantasy calendar, Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy gathers together new science fiction and fantasy stories by the best writers working today. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the second volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. ![]() ![]() Praise for The Romeo and Juliet Code:"Phoebe Stone’s The Romeo and Juliet Code is quite simply the best novel for young readers I’ve read since “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.’. On top of all that, Flissy is a kick, her ever-so-proper manners and stuffy Briticisms belied by her abundant curiosity and consequent meddling." - The Horn Book, starred review Stone's accomplished tale provides a romantic yet realistic perspective on family, perseverance, and adaptation." - Publishers Weekly, starred review"The story’s strands satisfyingly come together in a plot full of intrigue, with well-integrated historical and literary references. ![]() The Boston Globe"Stone's intricate and lyrical novel, set during WWII, resembles The Secret Garden in all the best ways. The Romeo and Juliet Code shows that truth will win out - and that Stone has written a masterpiece for young readers everywhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The repetitive text makes this book fantastic for targeting grammar goals, such as the male pronouns ‘he’ and ‘his’, as well as speech sound goals, such as /t/ word-final position (e.g. These are great for helping children to practice describing the types of things we might see at a park. ducks in the pond, a girl on rollerskates, children playing soccer). The illustrations are colourful and bold depicting exciting double-page scenes at the park (e.g. Shark in the Park is a humorous and engaging story that is great fun to read aloud due to the rhythmic and repetitive rhyming text. “There’s a shark in the park!” But is it really a shark? Or could it be something else? Children will love peeping through the round holes in the centre of every page and guessing what Timothy has spotted. He looks up at the sky, he looks down at the ground, he looks left, and he looks right. Timothy Pope is exploring the park with his brand new telescope. ![]() ![]() Eagleman also devotes a good amount of time to explaining how our brains work and why they evolved to work that way. ![]() From alien hand syndrome and split-brain studies to synaesthesia and Anton’s syndrome, the examples are presented in a fascinating and easy to understand manner. The first half of Incognito is an enjoyable exploration of multiple experiments and case studies that demonstrate this theory. Eagleman argues that it is instead the unconscious processes of the brain that exert the most influence and control. ![]() One of the most common misconceptions about our minds is that the conscious mind is the one in control of our thoughts, perceptions, and actions. ![]() Eagleman deftly challenges some of the more intuitive ways we think about ourselves and our minds, and goes on to explore what a shift in our perception of consciousness might mean for our society, culture and laws. ![]() David Eagleman’s Incognito (ebook verion)is a lucid, thoughtful examination of the relationship between the biological processes of the brain and the mental processes of the mind. The mind-body problem has been a subject of philosophical conversation since the time of Descartes, but modern neuroscience offers new techniques to bring the topic into the realm of the sciences. ![]() ![]() ![]() Walter Kaufmann's vastly influential translations and interpretations have led generations of translators and readers to suppose that Nietzsche's new use of this term referred merely to his admiration for extraordinary human individuals such as Napoleon and Goethe. This particular use did not exist in the German language at all, not even in Nietzsche’s own published texts, prior to its introduction in 1883 with the publication of the first part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. But he invented the third use in response to Darwin’s theory of the origin of the human species. ![]() ![]() He inherited the first two uses from earlier traditions in German writing, one having to do with philological investigations of validating mythological narratives, and the other having to do with the Romantic valorization of heroic individuals. Throughout his career, he used this term in three different ways: we call these the supernatural use, the superior-individual use, and the superior species use. In pages 730-732 and 748-797 of this excerpt from Volume 14 of CWFN, we discuss Nietzsche's invention in his 1882-1884 notebooks of a new use for the German term Übermensch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I will never forget this audiobook! Get it, set aside some time when you will be alone to savor every word, and try to get to a spot of wilderness to listen to the ending. I have recommended it to friends and they also said that it was an unforgettable journey for them also. I was just in awe of the book, the journey, the greatness of Lewis, and the beauty of wild nature. From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive. I went out on my deck as the sun was setting and listened to Jefferson's tribute and the beautiful music and sobbed as hard as I have ever sobbed in my life. Buy a cheap copy of Undaunted Courage book by Stephen E. Behind Ambrose's aging but poignant voice, you'll hear Dvorak's "New World Symphony." It is a tour de force! I live in Alaska on a hill overlooking the great sweep of the Tanana River, with miles of wilderness stretching before me. Ambrose himself reads the very ending of the book, and he sounds like Jefferson himself listing the amazing traits that Lewis possessed and that made the great expedition possible. It took almost 200 years, but we finally see him as the hero and genius that he was. At long last, Ambrose gave Lewis his due. The listener has been through all sorts of travails with Lewis, from planning the trip and reaching the Pacific and the long return. ![]() Four hours later I was listening to the ending, still spellbound. I bought this for my son, but thought I would listen to "a bit" of it while I cleaned house. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore Americas Wild Frontier by Stephen E. ![]() ![]() Silent spaces silent prayer waiting for the news ![]() Lead vocal is me and harmonies are Cheryl and some BIABettes RT1856:Cello, Background PopCountry Ev 085 RT2334:String Quartet, Rhythm PopChamber Ev 085 RT887:Piano, Acoustic, Solo-Accompaniment FolkPopPrairie Ev RealDrums in Song: NashvilleEven8^1-a:Sidestick, HiHat, b:Snare, Ride RealTracks in song: ~684:Bass, Electric, PopHalfNotesSync Ev 120 And each of us are made up of millions of beautiful scars. The song is about growing up in Zimbabwe in that war and how in that war and how everything that happens in your life adds to what ends up as YOU. ![]() I sent them to Cheryl and she came up with the music. I had a set of lyrics that I wrote in about May this year that I just couldn't seem to put music to. Here is a song that was written with Cheryl Teal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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