![]() ![]() ![]() Mord was influenced by Richard Adams's Shardik, and his never explained ability to fly was inspired by a character in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. From that image, the rest of the city assembled itself. One day the image of a sea anemone came to him, along with a hand which he knew belonged to Rachel, that reached out to grab the anemone from the fur of a giant bear. VanderMeer had for a long time considered writing about growing up in the South Pacific, where he lived as a child. ![]() One day, while searching in Mord's fur, Rachel discovers a sea anemone-like creature that she names "Borne". The perspective character, Rachel, is a scavenger in the city she collects various genetically-engineered organisms and experiments that were created by "the Company", a biotech firm. The novel takes place in the future, in the ruins of a nameless city dominated by a giant grizzly bear called "Mord". It concerns a post-apocalyptic city setting overrun by biotechnology. Borne is a 2017 novel by American writer Jeff VanderMeer. ![]()
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![]() Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the "roman noir." ![]() ![]() James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892–October 27, 1977) was an American journalist and novelist. ![]() Also included here are five masterful stories–“Pastorale,” “The Baby in the Icebox,” “Dead Man,” “Brush Fire,” “The Girl in the Storm”–that have been out of print for decades. All three novels were immortalized in classic Hollywood films. Mildred Pierce, a work of acute psychological observation and devastating emotional violence, is the tale of a woman with a taste for shiftless men and an unreasoned devotion to her monstrous daughter. 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PAULA VOGEL Paula Vogel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose plays are produced throughout the world. Co-Produced with Yiddish Theatre Ensemble. With a klezmer-infused score and filled with joyous songs and dances, this play charts the history of that incendiary work, the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it, and the evolving identity of the culturally rich community that inspired its creation. Indecent is based on the real-life events surrounding the scandalous Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s ‘God of Vengeance,’ considered to be a seminal work of Yiddish theatre by some, and a piece of traitorous libel by others. “Marvelously compelling … Indecent is the kind of play that sticks with you long after you leave the theater” The Mercury News PLAY DETAILS “ Indecent soars with poignant imagery, gut-wrenching emotion, and thrilling performances.” Broadway World “Remarkable! Brilliantly performed by seven actors playing 46 different roles.” East Bay Times ![]() ![]() “Prepare for one of the most theatrical, thrilling, joyous, heartbreaking, illuminating, important plays you are likely to see this - or any other - year. ![]() Top rating! “Director Susi Damilano shapes the whole shebang with sensitivity and savvy … Indecent gives so many gifts.” San Francisco Chronicle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Julie’s first contemporary novel, Isle of Hope, was voted on Family Fiction magazine’s “Best of 2015” list, and Surprised by Love appeared on Family Fiction magazine’s list of “Top Ten Novels of 2014.” Her independent novel A Light in the Window is an International Digital Awards winner, a 2013 Readers' Crown Award winner, and a 2013 Book Buyers Best Award winner. Voted #1 Romance Author of the year in Family Fiction magazine’s 20 Readers Choice Awards, Julie was also named on Booklist’s 2010 Top 10 Inspirational Fiction and Borders Best Fiction list. 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And weird kids suffer at the hands of their peers. What Author Ebensperger experienced, then, as a youth in a macho culture, wasn't external affirmation or even acceptance. But like everywhere else on Earth, at every time since there have been humans on Earth, people been usin' what they got to get their groove on since forever. The country legalized same-sex, um, relations in 1999. My Review: Chile isn't exactly famous for its history of QUILTBAG rights protections. I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. ![]() ![]() The author, along the way to becoming an adult, realizes that the scrutiny of the world never ends, and that true acceptance must come from within yourself. The vibrant bright pink pages of Gay Giant paint a picture of what it was like to grow up being gay in the ’90s. Gabriel Ebensperger shares with us his struggles with his own inadequacy, his feelings of guilt, and above all, his fear that his “difference” will be discovered. 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The economic system Sinclair portrayed took decent hard-working immigrants, stripped them of their savings, health, dignity and frequently their lives, in pursuit of shoddy, unsafe consumer products. The Jungle turned that way of thinking on its head. Many Americans saw slums, vice and squalor as signs of individual shortcomings – nothing more than new immigrants bringing bad habits and poor discipline with them from the old countries. ![]() Conventional thinking was that these events were transient phenomena and that hard work and clean living would deliver individual prosperity in time. Repeated economic crises punctuated rapidly growing industrial output, casting millions of people out of work and onto the streets. Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle shocked respectable Americans in 1906. A Gut-Wrenching Tale of Degradation and Disillusionment ![]() ![]() ![]() These were displayed at the dam for decades before they were brought here. When it became clear that the dam was going in, an effort was made to save as many as possible. I don't know, but there were a lot of them. Some people said that there were more petroglyphs on the canyon walls than any other location in the world. Some of the change was good, some of it not so good. "And it doesn't much matter whether it is change for good or ill." The young man looked at him. Some of the old ones still mourn the old river as if she were a living being who died." "Change is hard," said Adam. We have photos." The young man stared out at the river. ![]() "Before the Columbia was dammed in 1959, the river was narrow and deep here, not the wide and tamed thing she is now. Calvin didn't quite hide his grin when I told him so. The first petroglyph I saw at Horsethief Lake looked like a pineapple. ![]() Unlike the ones in the museum, these were fenced off-look but don't touch. 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