![]() ![]() She is the author of a book of fiction, The Girl (Viking, 2006) and a contributor to numerous anthologies including AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (Random House, 2008). ![]() ![]() Sonia Faleiro was born in Goa, studied in Edinburgh, worked in Bombay, and lives in San Francisco. Following its US release last month, the New York Times hailed Beautiful Thing as "an intimate and valuable piece of reportage that will break your heart many times over." It was a 2011 Guardian, Economist, and Observer Book of the Year Time Out Subcontinental Book of the Year, and The Sunday Times UK Travel Book of the Year. Beautiful Thing is based on five years of research in the secretive world of Bombay's dance bars, and offers a rare firsthand glimpse into the city's notorious sex industry. Come meet award-winning journalist and writer Sonia Faleiro as she presents her first work of nonfiction. ![]()
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![]() At the foot of each is a beautiful specimen of the flower for which that Fairy is named. ![]() The Fairy figurines on base are molded onto a round pedestal and are slightly taller than the ornaments. Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London in 1895 and died in 1973. These fairies range in height from 3" to 4". Each comes with a fine gold cord for hanging as well as a detachable 6" metal floral pick for use in a plant or basket. The 'free-flying' Fairy ornaments come in a pictorial window gift box. Her plants and flowers were observed with complete botanical accuracy and the Fairies themselves capture the unselfconscious grace of young children.įor anyone who loves fairies or who loves flowers or who loves children, these are the perfect collection. 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Powers describes this as a “religious conversation”, and you can truly feel this in the book. The Overstory is a 2018 novel by established American novelist, Richard Powers, who says that he wrote it because of a powerful encounter he had with a giant redwood tree. This year, instead, I read a book about trees which felt like it was hugging me. I picked a different tree each day – some old favourites, some I’d been blindly passing for years – and then took photos and wrote a blog post about it. The year before last, I spent the month of January hugging trees. (Photographs are from a photo essay on kauri dieback by Michelle Hyslop captions by Andrea Ewing). ![]() The Overstory, the winnner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an engulfing, worldview-shifting novel about climate catastrophe and hope, writes Susan Wardell. ![]() ![]() With hundreds of new vampires on the rise, she must clear her best friend and true love, the hybrid werewolf Kieren, of murder charges. Morris, teen restaurateuse and neophyte vampire, is in the fight of her life - or undeath. It's the discovery of the Madrigals' most dangerous secret and, even more shockingly, the true identity of the mysterious man in black. However, the real prize isn’t hidden in a chest. But are they ready for the truth? In this thrilling ninth installment, Amy and Dan hit the high seas as they follow the trail of some infamous ancestors to track down a long lost treasure. and had to deal with the role their family played. Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan have encountered some of the darkest aspects of history. Email: Due to the volume of submissions (and needing time to work for her current clients!), Ginger responds to emailed queries only if interested.Snail Mail: query with SASE if you want a guaranteed response. ![]() This agent specializes in fiction for young adult, middle grade, and children's books ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that Gregor cannot provide for his family, he feels a sense of dissociation not only from society but from his family. With concern about his job, Gregor stresses over the fact that his boss and father will be angry with him and about what will happen to his family. The grim beginning, followed by a struggle to perform daily duties, and a change in appetite shown later on in the story, insinuates that Gregor had depression due to this drastic change he went through. Both of these quotes give insight into Gregor’s mental health described by Kafka. “He tried at least a hundred times, shutting his eyes to keep from seeing his struggling legs, and only desisted when he began to feel in his side a faint dull ache he had never experienced before.” (Kafka,1914) this quote, describes Gregor’s struggle in his new physical state. ![]() The phraseology utilized by Kafka in this line implies that tragic events are foreshadowed within the story. ![]() In the beginning of this story, Kafka introduces the setting of the story by painting a grim picture, “Gregor’s eyes turned next to the window, and the overcast sky-one could hear rain drops beating on the window gutter-made him quite melancholy.” (Kafka, 1914). Through his use of symbolism, Kafka paints a very vivid depiction of Gregor’s mental health. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every eye went to Aleksandra as they entered. ![]() It meant they had to get dressed all over again and go out in the rain, joining the early workers in the cafe on the corner. He is a master at creating mood - mood so bewitching that for a moment, you feel as if you're there in Paris, in the dim bistro, way back in the corner booth, sipping your Chateau Margaux. His stories tend to be set in Paris on the eve of World War II. Furst's novels have been likened to works of Graham Green and John le Carre. The scent just whisked me away.įor me, the books of Alan Furst conjure a similar magic. I didn't just recall being in Nice with Nicole for a moment, I was there - I felt viscerally like that 15-year-old kid who was in love for the first time. ![]() Years later - I must have been in my early 20s - I stepped into a perfume shop in Boston and smelled that particular scent. I remember what she wore, even the way her hair smelled - like lavender. We spent one full day together, just the two of us, lying on the beach in Nice. When I was 15 years old, I spent part of the summer in France, and I fell in love with girl named Nicole. Jake Halpern is the author, most recently, of the novel Dormia. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I look back at this movie, I recall watching it thrilled with the dreamy quality and the romance of the story. Probably what colors my perception the most is that this Northanger Abbey is probably my first ever Austen adaptation. RELATED Classic Romantic Moment: Northanger Abbey’s Mr. It’s one of my favorite adaptations, and here’s why. I actually understand or even agree with some of the criticisms for this movie, yet despite it all, I love it. ![]() Discussions of it among Jane Austen fans often involves wincing and complaints about the actors and many of the director’s choices. From my own informal wanderings as a Jane Austen fan around the internet, this might be one of the more maligned of the Jane Austen adaptations. Northanger Abbey was the last of the Jane Austen movies the BBC released in the ’80s. No harm in that, right? NORTHANGER ABBEY (1986) REVIEW Catherine daydreams about her Gothic novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Properties (including mass, age and metallicity) of broad-line host galaxies Properties and the host galaxies' dynamical properties. Understand the AGN-galaxy coevolution through the stellar population ofīroad-line region host galaxies and the relation between broad lines' Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from their line ratios. Most of the broad line galaxies are classified as Active $\lambda$5007 lines, (2) 101 galaxies with broad $H\alpha$ lines but noīroad $\lambda$5007 lines, and (3) 49 galaxies with double-peaked narrowĮmission lines. These galaxies can be classified into (1) 38 galaxies with broad $H\alpha$ and We identify 188 galaxiesįor which the emission lines cannot be described by single Gaussian components. Galaxies in final data release of the MaNGA survey. ![]() Download a PDF of the paper titled A complete catalogue of broad-line AGNs and double-peaked emission lines from MaNGA integral-field spectroscopy of 10K galaxies: stellar population of AGNs, supermassive black holes, and dual AGNs, by Youquan Fu and 5 other authors Download PDF Abstract: We analyse the integral-field spectroscopy data for the $\approx10,000$ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Erg is a tough-talking wooden doll with sticky fingers, a bottomless stomach, and a ferocious cunning. So when Vassa’s stepsister sends her out for light bulbs in the middle of night, she knows it could easily become a suicide mission.īut Vassa has a bit of luck hidden in her pocket, a gift from her dead mother. Babs Yagg, the owner of the local convenience store, has a policy of beheading shoplifters-and sometimes innocent shoppers as well. ![]() In Vassa’s neighborhood, where she lives with her stepmother and bickering stepsisters, one might stumble onto magic, but stumbling away again could become an issue. A whole lot of Brooklyn is like that now-but not Vassa’s working-class neighborhood. “In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, the fashionable people put on cute shoes, go to parties in warehouses, drink on rooftops at sunset, and tell themselves they’ve arrived. ![]() |