Helen of Sparta wants to be more than a princess and a pretty faceâ?she wants to be a hero. "A must-read for fans of fantasy and mythology."- VOYA "Along the way, Friesner skillfully exposes larger issues of women's rights, human bondage, and individual destiny. Hand to readers who love Tamora Pierce and Leigh Bardugo, particularly if they just finished Wonder Woman: Warbringer and want to know more about Helen of Troy. The back of the book includes further facts about Helen of Troy and Ancient Greece. but what does destiny have in store for her? In Nobody's Princess, author Esther Friesner deftly weaves together history and myth as she takes a new look at the girl who will become Helen of Troy. If she is strong enough, if she is cunning enough, if she is brave enough, Helen will find her destiny. Her rebellious will makes Helen dangerous enemies-such as the self-proclaimed "son of Zeus" Theseus-but it also gains her true friends, from the famed huntress Atalanta to the young priestess who is the Oracle of Delphi. Not one to count on the gods to take care of her, she sets out to see the world and seek her own fate with steely determination. But Helen wants adventure, and she's not looking back. The traditions of ancient Sparta would have Helen know her place: a beautiful princess, a loyal daughter, a perfect bride. Helen of Sparta wants to be more than a princess and a pretty face-she wants to be a hero.
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With around a dozen protagonists, it’s inevitable that some characters are more interesting than others. That’s a mighty ambitious premise to be sure, and McCammon pulls it off with a great deal of macabre gusto and only a smidge of the type of clumsiness you might expect from a writer who back in 1981 was still finding his footing. THEY THIRST also deals with a vampire takeover, only here the setting is the entire city of Los Angeles. The subject of that novel, you’ll recall, was vampires taking over a small town. Just as SWAN SONG owed more than a little something to yet (in my opinion) still outdid Stephen King’s THE STAND, THEY THIRST borrows from (unintentionally, McCammon claims) yet betters King’s SALEM’S LOT. In this early novel Robert McCammon accomplished something he’d repeat six years later in SWAN SONG: he outdid Stephen King. Setting off on their trail, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun, they find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species. When he takes off with Kimberly, heading south, Jean feels the pull to follow her kin. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean's infected son, Lee. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue.Īs disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals - first mammals, then birds and insects, too. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. They then have to decide whether their love is strong enough to endure without the support of their respective communities.Īt the same time, rebellious Tahara struggles to find herself between the bullying of some Scottish schoolmates and her Pakistani relatives. Roisin books a short holiday break for them both on seeing an advert in a travel agent's shop window, and while on holiday Casim tells her about the arranged marriage his family are planning for him. He then meets and falls in love with Roisin, an Irish Catholic immigrant (who is a part-time music teacher in Tahara's Catholic school). Casim's parents, Tariq and Sadia, have arranged for him to marry his first cousin, Jasmine, and Casim is more or less happy with the arrangement. He has a younger sister, Tahara, and an older sister Rukshana. Casim is the only son of Pakistani Muslim immigrants to Scotland. Set in Glasgow, the film tells the story of the Khan family. The film explores the complications which ensue when second-generation Scottish Pakistani Casim (who is Muslim) and Roisin (a Catholic immigrant from Ireland) fall in love. The title is taken from a Scottish song by Robert Burns, the complete line being " Ae Fond Kiss, and then we sever." Ae Fond Kiss… (also known as Just a Kiss in some countries) is a 2004 romantic drama film directed by Ken Loach, and starring Atta Yaqub and Eva Birthistle. Raymie is living through a great tragedy. DiCamillo is a master storyteller who knows just how to get to the heart of everything that matters about being friends, and being human.Īvailable as an ebook and eaudiobook through Overdrive All three characters are deeply drawn with great skill and nuanced themes of friendship, loneliness, courage, and love are expertly woven throughout each of the books. Each face tough life challenges which highlight their vulnerability coupled with bravery, as they struggle to find their place in the world. This poignant and often humorous trilogy by Newbery award-winning author Kate DiCamillo introduces three girls who become the Three Rancheros, the best of friends. Check-out these books by one of our favorite authors, Kate DiCamillo, and recommended by one of our favorite librarians, Ms. Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. The classic novel about a young girl who stumbles upon a family's stunning secret Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games
In 1977 Carter married Mark Pearce, with whom she had one son.Īs well as being a prolific writer of fiction, Carter contributed many articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman, collected in Shaking a Leg. She spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities, including the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of East Anglia. She then explored the United States, Asia, and Europe, helped by her fluency in French and German. She was there at the same time as Roland Barthes, who published his experiences in Empire of Signs (1970). In 1969 Angela Carter used the proceeds of her Somerset Maugham Award to leave her husband and relocate for two years to Tokyo, Japan, where she claims in Nothing Sacred (1982) that she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised." She wrote about her experiences there in articles for New Society and a collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), and evidence of her experiences in Japan can also be seen in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972). She married twice, first in 1960 to Paul Carter. Carter attended the University of Bristol where she studied English literature. She began work as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser, following in the footsteps of her father. Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother. She’s built a life as a police detective, where she’s secretly used the mark’s powers to help her in her job. She doesn’t know the source of the mark or its powers, and she’s kept it hidden from those around her. DJ: What is Marked about?Īndrew: It’s about a woman, Dana Rohan, who has a tattoo-like mark on her back that allows her to go to various alternate pasts and futures. I’m married and share a small sort-of farm with my wife, a horse, three sheep, two Boxers and a pair of cats. I live in the Cleveland area, the setting for a number of my stories, including MARKED. Andrew! Thanks for agreeing to do this interview! For readers who aren’t familiar with you, could you tell us a little about yourself?Īndrew Swann: I’ve been writing SF and Fantasy for a little over 25 years now, averaging a book a year during that time. Andrew Swann, author of the new fantasy novel, Marked. However, Hastings is seeing a female student of architecture, so he can't have met Bella yet.Īfter much thought, I've decided that it is absolutely neccesary to ignore the year of this particular episode (1936). The episode has a very autumnal feel, which would suggest autumn 1936. He assumed office on 22 December 1935, so the episode will have to be set after that. The Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, is mentioned. Others, considering that these two episodes had the same script writer,Īnthony Horowitz, who for those who know his later work, the excellent Foyle's War, is known for historical accuracy). (I must admit this particular reference error annoys me more than the How can Hastings have a ranch in the Argentine in 1934 – before having met Bella in Murder on the Links? You when you were living in the Argentine? – Yes, two years ago, but Reason for Poirot being in the Argentine in the first place is said toīe Hastings: “You will recall, Hastings, that you once asked me to visit This day is probably in spring or earlyĪutumn, but for the sake of chronology, I place it in September. Main story takes place in 1934, during a General Strike in theĪrgentine (where did that come from?). There is in fact much debate over whether Dagon is a true Great Old One, or simply a Deep One grown to colossal proportions, as some Deep Ones continue to grow in size over the course of their life.ĭagon, along with his consort Mother Hydra and Great Cthulhu himself, is a member of the Deep Ones “holy trinity,” the trio of beings worshiped as gods by that oceanic species. Lovecraft-inspired Cthulhu Mythos.Ī grotesque humanoid over fifty feet tall, Dagon resembles an enormously oversized Deep One with a fish like face, flapping gills and a scaled, slimy hide. Dagon, also known as Father Dagon, is a creature which appears in the H.P. |