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![]() ![]() ![]() The tighter your smile, the tougher you become.” Nezhukumatathil’s investigations, enhanced by Nakamura’s vividly rendered full-color illustrations, range across the world, from a rapturous rendering of monsoon season in her father’s native India to her formative years in Iowa, Kansas, and Arizona, where she learned from the native flora and fauna that it was common to be different. The best thing to do in that moment is to just smile and smile, even if your smile is thin. Take the axolotl, from whom the author learned the “salamander smile”: “If a white girl tries to tell you what your brown skin can and cannot wear for makeup, just remember the smile of an axolotl. She shares those lessons throughout these frequently enchanting essays. The daughter of an Indian father and Filipino mother, Nezhukumatathil was often the only brown face in her classrooms, and she sought lessons from nature on how to adapt, protect herself, and conform or fit in but still be able to stand strong on her own. A poet celebrates the wonders of nature in a collection of essays that could almost serve as a coming-of-age memoir. ![]() ![]() ![]() | Fantasy.Ĭlassification: LCC PZ7.1.O44 So 2017 | DDC -dc23 ![]() English | So I am a spider, so what?ĭescription: First Yen On edition. Title: So I’m a spider, so what? / Okina Baba illustration by Tsukasa Kiryu translation by Jenny McKeon. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. The Yen On name and logo are trademarks of Yen Press, LLC. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. 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Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.įirst published in Japan in 2016 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.Įnglish translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo, through TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY, INC., Tokyo.Įnglish translation © 2018 by Yen Press, LLC Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. 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Arborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia. ![]() ![]() Along the way, she’ll encounter allies, enemies, lovers and would-be assassins, each of questionable loyalty, and be forced to confront an impossible choice as whispers of war emerge.Yelena will have but one chance to prove herself-and save the lands she holds dear.Previously published.The Chronicles of Ixia Series by Maria V SnyderBook One: Poison StudyBook Two: Magic StudyBook Three: Fire StudyBook Four: Storm GlassBook Five: Sea GlassBook Six: Spy GlassBook Seven: Shadow StudyBook Eight: Night StudyBook Nine: Dawn Studyīeyond Ixia, the roots of magic run deep…After the discovery of her magical abilities leads to an execution order, Yelena has no choice but to flee to Sitia, her long-lost birthplace. But the hope of reuniting with her beloved spurs her onward. 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The story of The Vampire Chronicles is about Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century. But first… What are The Vampire Chronicles? ![]() So I did some research to build a reading order and this is what I found, if you have some modifications to suggest, you are welcome to do so in the commentary section, of course. Nevertheless, I thought that it may be the right time to read more than the first book of the series (I never got the courage to do so sooner). Now, we are talking about television, there’s a long way to go before the project become something real. Since the first Interview with the Vampire adaptation, there are talks about doing more movies and some novels did get bad big-screen versions. I’ve read that there will be a TV Show based on Anne Rice’s novels, The Vampire Chronicles series. 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In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. ![]() ![]() 'A powerful, important, unforgettable book' - Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild ![]() ![]() But like all things, what started out as a game soon became a fight for survival. After being sucked into the dark, twisted world of the Lords, I embraced my new role and allowed Ryat to parade me around like the trophy I was to him. A way that the Lords manipulate you into doing what they want. He made me believe that anyway, but it was just another lie. ![]() He offered me what no one else ever had-freedom. I never got the chance to do what I wanted until Ryat Alexander Archer came along and gave me an option for a better life. My entire life has been planned out for me. People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you, it’s not. 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The novel's hero is Rady Cromwell, a man with dangerous ways that make men admire him and women love him. This special edition marks the first time the book has ever been available in hardback. Now one of the most sought-after novels in the Giles canon, Hill Man is desired as much for its rarity as for its compelling and unromanticized portrayal of poor, rural Kentuckians. Her usual publisher declined to issue the novel, arguing that it was too sexual and violent for a writer whose other books were popular family book club selections. Giles originally published the book in paperback in 1954 under the pseudonym John Garth. ![]() It is the most realistic ridge book we have written, completely honest and presenting the truest picture of most of the ridge men." 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