To survive, Baru will need to untangle this land’s intricate web of treachery – and conceal her attraction to the dangerously fascinating Duchess Tain Hu.īut Baru is a savant in games of power, as ruthless in her tactics as she is fixated on her goals. Aurdwynn kills everyone who tries to rule it. In a final test of her loyalty, the Masquerade will send Baru to bring order to distant Aurdwynn, a snakepit of rebels, informants, and seditious dukes. And she’ll claw her way high enough up the rungs of power to set her people free. She’ll swallow her hate, prove her talent, and join the Masquerade. They’ll conquer Baru’s island, rewrite her culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose of one of her fathers. The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home and see red sails on the horizon. The Traitor Baru Cormorant is an epic geopolitical fantasy about one woman’s mission to tear down an empire by learning how to rule it.
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Bren is now an atevi lord, with his own estate on the mainland, his own household, and his own Assassin's Guild bodyguards. In the decades Bren has served Tabini, he has become enmeshed in the atevi world in a way no human ever has before. For the Alpha Station refugees represent a political faction that the people of Mospheira broke from two centuries ago, and these Mospheirans are not enthusiastic about welcoming these immigrants from space. Tabini-aiji, the powerful political head of the atevi, tasks his brilliant human diplomat, Bren Cameron, to negotiate with the Mospheiran government. But not to the atevi mainland: rather to the territory reserved for human, the island of Mospheira. With supplies and housing stretched to the breaking point, it is clear that the refugees must be relocated down to the planet, and soon. The eighteenth novel in Cherryh's Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard five thousand human refugees from a destroyed station in a distant sector of space. Wilson compares the “humanities” to “science.” The humanities tell us “what,” “the particularities of human nature back and forth in endless permutations, albeit laced with genius and in exquisite detail,” while science increasingly is needed to tell us “why.” We have the “capacity to imagine possible futures, and to plan and choose among them,” the “ability to invent and inwardly rehearse competing scenarios of future interactions.”ĭr. “Our species is almost unconscious of most stimuli.” His is a daunting title but the contents live up to expectations.įirst, far less: homo sapiens have existed through a modest six millennia, a mere blip in the 13-plus billion years of our universe, the 4.5 billion years of this earth and the 400 million years of other “species on earth.” And this earth is but a “mote of stardust near the edge of our galaxy (an estimated hundred billion star systems make up the Milky Way galaxy) among a hundred billion or more galaxies in the universe.”Īnd even among the other species here on this planet, “how bizarre we are as a species … we are chemosensory idiots” when compared to most of them. In 15 brief, succinct and challenging chapters, each less than 10 pages, he suggests that, at once, we are far more and far less than we imagine. Wilson, the eminent Harvard biologist and noted student of ants, describes our strange species in a remarkable and memorable book. Profoundly intertwined with human civilization, milk has a compelling and a surprisingly global story to tell, and historian Mark Kurlansky is the perfect person to tell it. And today, milk is a test case in the most pressing issues in food politics, from industrial farming and animal rights to GMOs, the locavore movement, and advocates for raw milk, who controversially reject pasteurization. Pasteurization slowly became a legislative matter. But during the nineteenth century, mass production and urbanization made milk safety a leading issue of the day, with milk-borne illnesses a common cause of death. Before the industrial revolution, it was common for families to keep dairy cows and produce their own milk. But while mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is the milk of other mammals that humans have cultivated ever since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago, originally as a source of cheese, yogurt, kefir, and all manner of edible innovations that rendered lactose digestible, and then, when genetic mutation made some of us lactose-tolerant, milk itself. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy-with recipes throughout. He continued his education and received his Ph.D. He graduated with Distinction in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1965. He grew up on the campus of Stanford University, where his father was a professor, and he attended the International School of Geneva in 1958–1959. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.Ĭontents Early life and education Hofstadter was born in New York City, the son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter. It won both the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979. Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of "I", consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. 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Lucy Liu to Narrate Audiobook of Celeste Ng's 'Our Missing Hearts' Novelīelow, The Hollywood Reporter shares an excerpt. Zanuck and his son, studio head of production Richard Zanuck. Though her book was prone to judgment from critics, aspiring film producer and former actor Robert Evans knew it would be the “next big picture.” After Evans brought the book to David Brown, 20th Century Fox’s Manhattan-based vp story operations, Brown sent pages to 20th Century Fox boss Darryl F. Through extensive research and interviews, Rebello details the journey of Susann’s soapy saga from the bookshelves to the big screen. In Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, The Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time (Penguin), out Tuesday, author Stephen Rebello takes readers on a deep dive into the creation of the cult 1967 film. The novel, which centers on women finding success in New York City, grew more popular after the story was adapted for the big screen - but its journey to the screen was not all an easy path. Jacqueline Susann’s novel Valley of the Dolls, published in 1966, is still one of the best-selling books of all time - more than 31 million copies to date. Elefante is tasked with finding something that his father kept for a friend from prison - “a real treasure … will fit in the palm of your hand.” His searching leads him to unexpected places and people. Deems Clemens and Frank Elefante are two characters that the others are afraid of. Which character struck you as one you’d like to know more about? What behavior or trait drew you to him/her?Ħ. Deacon King Kong explores the lives of the residents of the Cause Houses beyond just Sportcoat. How important do you think the church is to its members? To the neighborhood? To the characters in the novel who don’t belong?ĥ. Five Ends Baptist Church is one of the cornerstones of the neighborhood. How do Sportcoat’s flaws affect you? Do they make him more annoying than interesting?Ĥ. Cuffy “Sportcoat” Lambkin is at the center of Deacon King Kong, yet he’s not a completely likable character. What parts of these characters’ lives struck you as memorable or surprising?ģ. Deacon King Kong is full of overlapping stories of a Brooklyn neighborhood in 1969. The first line of the Deacon King Kong is: “Deacon Cuffy Lambkin of Five Ends Baptist Church became a walking dead man on a cloudy September afternoon in 1969.” How did that opening strike you when you began reading? What do you think of it now that you’ve finished the novel?Ģ. |