![]() The Leap has been endorsed by over 200 organizations, tens of thousands of individuals, and has inspired similar climate justice initiatives around the world. She is one of the organizers and authors of Canada’s Leap Manifesto, a blueprint for a rapid and justice-based transition off fossil fuels. Since This Changes Everything was published, Klein’s primary focus has been on putting its ideas into action. The documentary inspired by the book, and directed by Avi Lewis, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015. Nominated for multiple awards, it won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. ![]() This Changes Everything was an instant New York Times bestseller and is being translated into over 25 languages. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). In her most provocative talk yet, Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon - it’s about capitalism. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Recommendation: If you’re in the mood for lighter SF fare, check it out. If you’re in the mood for hard SF, this is not your jam. Joining us today is Becky Chambers, who thinks fans of her delightful space-faring jaunts The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit will love the late, lamented Sci-Fi Channel series Farscape. This was so off-putting that I stopping reading the book a couple times before picking it up again. Few of the aliens in the book feel actually alien, but rather like humans in costumes. Several of the chapters feel unnecessary, and the book’s ending was a little lackluster. There are some issues that keep me from giving The Long Way a full-throated recommendation. Most of the story is the adventures the crew has as they travel to the planet (hence the book’s title). The characters are bright and quirky, so if you’re in the mood for a story about goofy people getting along in a sci-fi setting, you should pick this up.Ī ragtag crew in a rickety spaceship are tasked with creating a wormhole near a planet populated by an exceptionally warlike race. ![]() The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is a fun, breezy book that feels like an eccentric Star Trek episode. ![]() ![]() ![]() We haven't discovered the full extent of our Legacies. ![]() The six of us are powerful-but we're not yet strong enough to take on their entire army. And now we're in hiding, trying to figure out our next move. Even though we have come together, we barely escaped from the Mogadorians with our lives. I thought things would change when I found the others. But could it be a trap? Time is running out, and the only thing they know for certain is that they have to get to Five before it's too late. More important, they'll have to discover the truth about the Elders and their plan for the Loric survivors.Īnd when the Garde receive a sign from Number Five-a crop circle in the shape of a Lorien symbol-they know they are close to being reunited. To defeat their enemy, the Garde must master their Legacies and learn to work together as a team. The six of them are powerful, but they're not strong enough yet to take on an entire army-even with the return of an old ally. Now they're hiding out in Nine's Chicago penthouse, trying to figure out their next move. After facing off with the Mogadorian ruler and almost being annihilated, the Garde know they are drastically unprepared. ![]() John Smith-Number Four-thought that things would change once the Garde found one another. The Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadorians? The Fall of Five is the fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series by Pittacus Lore. ![]() ![]() ![]() Second – it’ll just make sense to keep a local wino handy for late-night snacks (you need to keep an eye on those blood sugar levels). And now, Tommy is too.įollowing his unexpected initiation into San Francisco’s most alternative lifestyle, Tommy sees that an undead existence requires some speedy adaptation.įirst, his new improved vampire senses make him quickly realize how bad most people smell. ![]() ![]() ![]() He slept with his incredibly hot girlfriend, Jody. Thomas Flood – Tommy, to his friends – has a problem. ![]() ![]() After a few years, Braley went back to school and received his high school diploma. At 16, Braley quit high school and got a job working as a factory hand at a plow plant. ![]() now.) 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Barnes, George Bronson-Howard, Mayn Clew Garnett, Berton Braley, George Randolph Chester, George Pattullo, Charles E. ![]() Stories, serials and poems by Frank L Packard, Roy Norton, Anna Katherine Green, W.B.M. Complete issue (lacking back cover) of this long-running pulp magazine, published by Street & Smith. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the planet Rada, Meli Galdes' family is of minor rank, and were relying on her marriage to Celino, the razor-smart, ruthless leader of the powerful Carvanna empire. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield.and sometimes in the bedroom. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. In a distant, future world Kinsmen-small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families-control vast financial empires. ![]() ![]() I eagerly devoured each of the stories included and look forward to the next adventure in this unique world.įamily is everything. The Kinsmen Universe by Ilona Andrews is an anthology featuring the first two books from the Kinsmen series as well as a new short story. ![]() ![]() Behold, even in the terrible deafening silence of their abandonment, the gods had never been more clear. Either the prophecy is fulfilled and both Egypt & Hatti find salvation or Mursili and his allies fail - plunging both kingdoms into indescribable darkness. Hell hath no fury like a spider caught in its own web. Yet, with those closest to him being sacrificed in the process and the tide continuing to rise against them, how far is King Mursili prepared to go to see the prophecy fulfilled? King Mursili II’s only hope to restore his own Hittite Kingdom to greatness is to restore the Amarna line to power in Egypt, to atone for the sins of his father. Queen Ankhe has but one hope to maintain her hold on the throne - an alliance with the Hittites. The ambitious vipers Ay and Horemheb are nipping at her heels in their bid to seize power. ![]() His wife, Queen Ankhesenamen, is left without a male heir. ![]() The last living male descendant of the Amarna line, Pharaoh Tutankhamun, has died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. This compilation edition includes all three books in the Amarna Series: Ida, Hawara & Raia. ![]() "An impressively ingenious reframing of the chaotic domino effect caused by King Tut's death & the tantalizing possibility of his line's survival." ![]() ![]() Reviewers of Jeffrey Eugenides's first novel, The Virgin Suicides, were quick to single out its unusual first-person plural narrative voice as one of the book's most distinctive features.1 Eugenides has repeatedly identified his fascination with "impossible narrative voices"-a reference to both The Virgin Suicides and the more recent Middlesex, narrated by the protagonist, a hermaphrodite who not only is unstable as to gender but also bears witness to events that occur before his/her birth ("Sex, Fate").2 The collective voice in The Virgin Suicides, "impossible" in its counterintuitive proposition of a group speaking as one, offers Eugenides a rich resource to probe cultural conditions, psychological effects, and the reading process. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 5Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? 8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. 4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s interning with the author of her favorite book: Harlowe Brisbane, the ultimate authority on feminism, women’s bodies, and other gay-sounding stuff. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, one that’s going to help her figure out this whole “Puerto Rican lesbian” thing. She just came out to her family and isn’t sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. ![]() Best of books with Latinx characters.Ĭheck out this book and more on our best of list for books with Latinx characters. We journey with Juliet as she engages with feminism and comes into herself as a queer woman of color surrounded by vibrant, loving queer community and family. This is the coming of age of Juliet, a 19-year-old Puerto Rican lesbian from the Bronx who interns in Portland for a white hippy feminist who writes about pussy power. ![]() |