5/21/2023 0 Comments Karamchand gandhiHe took a stand for human rights and inspired millions of Indians with his ideology of truth, non-violence, and social welfare. Soon, people across the country joined his peaceful civil disobedience movement.Īfter spending 21 years in South Africa, he returned to India in 1915.ĭuring the Indian freedom struggle, Gandhi decided to advocate peaceful protests which were conducted with the principle of non-violence (ahimsa). Through the path of non-violence, he decided to resist discrimination. As a response, in 1894, he formed the Natal Indian Congress. This introduced racism to Gandhi and the incident kind of shaped his life. When the train stopped, he was thrown out despite having a ticket. In 1893, when he went to South Africa, he witnessed discrimination against Indians while going to Pretoria by train and a white man ordered him to get out of the first-class. Between 18, Gandhi stayed in London to study law.
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5/21/2023 0 Comments The ruin of kings reviewPractically a prisoner, Kihrin discovers that being a long-lost prince is nothing like what the storybooks promised. Jenn Lyons begins the Chorus of Dragons series with The Ruin of Kings, an epic fantasy novel about a man who discovers his fate is tied to the future of an empire. Ruin of Kings encapsulates a lot of the problems I have with epic fantasy, and was an unpleasant and convoluted enough experience that I have little desire. When he is claimed against his will as the missing son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds himself at the mercy of his new family's ruthless power plays and political ambitions. 9/10 From beginning to end, the worldbuilding is excellent, layered and intricate, developed by an author who knows everything about the place she’s created. For Kihrin is not destined to save the world. The Ruin of Kings will be in many top-10 lists next year and I cannot wait to see what comes next because I'm 100 here for the whole ride. Then again, maybe he isn't the hero after all. The storybooks have lied about a lot of other things, too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, and how the hero always wins. When he is claimed against his will as the missing son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds himself at the mercy of his new family's ruthless power plays and political ambitions. Kihrin grew up in the slums of Quur, a thief and a minstrel's son raised on tales of long-lost princes and magnificent quests. I loved it."-Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians When destiny calls, there's no fighting back. "Everything epic fantasy should be: rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Zoc jade khooA magnificent one-shot inspired by the thwarted destiny of her grandmother, with subtle illustrations and a gentle narrative. In 2022, she published "Léo en petits morceaux" (Dargaud "Léo in Little Pieces" in English, Europe Comics). In 2016, she worked with Wilfrid Lupano and Paul Cauuet on the first volume of the series "Le Loup en slip," an engaged tale for children inspired by the successful series "Les Vieux Fourneaux" ("The Old Geezers" in English, Europe Comics).Īs a co-founding member of the association The Ink Link, she has carried out various missions for the World Heath Organization and collaborated on the album "Faire face," a tribute to French caregivers during the pandemic of COVID-19. She also dedicated her time to illustrating books, stationery, and school materials for various publishers: Éditions P'tits Bérets, P'tit GLÉNAT, Milan, Dargaud, Talents hauts, Auzou, Seuil Jeunesse, etc. Struggling to discover her purpose in life, Zoc finds a way of using her talents to help a flooded town. But somehow her extraordinary ability only ever seems to get her into trouble. Born in Bayonne in 1978, Mayana Itoïz studied at the Beaux-Arts of Toulouse before working as a teacher. Zoc has an unusual gift: her hair attracts water, allowing her to drag huge quantities of it along behind her. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Peter spier illustratorThere, Peter truly followed in his father's footsteps. He spent four years in the Royal Navy and was a reporter for Elseviers Weekblad.īy 1952 the Spier family had moved to the United States, where they eventually settled on Long Island, New York. Back in the Netherlands, Peter Spier got his artistic education at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. In 1942 the Spier family was first held in Villa Bouchina, the parsonage of the Doetinchem Christian Reformed Church, and then sent to Theresienstadt in occupied Czecho-Slovakia. But since the leader of the Dutch Nazi party NSB, Anton Mussert, was a fan of Jo Spier's work, they got a privileged treatment. The Jewish Spier family was imprisoned during the final years of World War II. Peter spent most of his childhood in Broek in Waterland. His father was Jo Spier, at the time one of the Netherlands' most prominent newspaper and advertising illustrators. Peter Spier was born in 1927 in Amsterdam. Several of his works, like 'Noah's Ark' (1977), have little or no text and sequential narratives, balancing on the thin line between pantomime comics and traditional picture books. Peter Spier was a Dutch-American illustrator and author of children's books. 5/20/2023 0 Comments The ritual shantel tessier seriesBut like all things, what started out as a game soon became a fight for survival. A way that the Lords manipulate you into doing what they want.Īfter 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. 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. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. They are above all-the most powerful men in the world. Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Roadside picnic novelThose who venture into these areas are known as stalkers ( Roadside Picnic served as the inspiration for the 1979 film Stalker, as well as the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. But these areas are also filled with bizarre traps and dangers that can be instantly and brutally fatal. What they leave behind are mysterious Zones, areas filled with invaluable technological wonders. Shortly before the story begins, aliens visit the earth, stay for a short time, then depart as suddenly as they’d arrived. It is a story about the aftermath of humanity’s first contact with alien life. The premise of Roadside Picnic is brilliantly simple. Roadside Picnic is their most well-known work and has been published in more than 20 countries. The brothers wrote the story in 1971, and while it was published in sections beginning in 1972, it took them 8 years to finally have the story published in book form after a lengthy battle with soviet censorship. Brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky came up with the idea of Roadside Picnic in Komorovo, a Russian town about an hour from St. 5/20/2023 0 Comments The enchanted aprilWhen I'm plotting my books, I think of Von Arnim, and try to balance the dark with some lighter characterisation. (Very different from the kind I write!).I remain in awe of a writer who can produce an enthralling story out of so little. Times Literary SupplementĪ genuine feeling for color and for beauty New York TimesĪ warm and uplifting book. With this bracing element there is additionally what can only be called a feast of flowers, hanging from every wall and pouring scent over the company. The Enchanted April sounds as if it would be an appallingly cloying cream puff of a fairy tale, but that would be to ignore that the author habitually kept a pot of lemon juice mixed with vinegar beside her ink-pot. This delicious confection will work its magic on all Daily Telegraph 5/20/2023 0 Comments Shadow of batgirl(I did mention the sheltered part of her personality, right?) Cass might not know much at the start of the book, quite literally, but she knows that the life she's been forced to live isn't the one she wants-and that the weapon her father forged her into can be used for more than evil. She learns a lot about herself while learning to live amongst "normal" society, including how to speak and read. Shadow of the Batgirl follows Cassandra on her journey of self-discovery and her realization of what family truly is. Shadow of the Batgirl, written by Sarah Kuhn and illustrated by Nicole Goux, introduces readers to the sheltered child assassin and daughter of a super-villain known as Cassandra Cain, who eventually dons the Batgirl cowl. The latest in DC's line of Young Adult graphic novels is out, and it's a return to original stories for this line (rather than the also excellent adaptations of the DC Icons prose novels). “Masterfully written…a first-class novel.” And how sometimes talking with the dead is easier than talking with the people around you. Based on a true story, We Hear the Dead reveals how secrets and lies can sometimes lead you to what’s real and what’s right. But living a lie is sometimes too much to handle, even if you have the best intentions. Soon Kate and Maggie Fox are swept into a dizzying flurry of national attention for their abilities to communicate with the dead. It starts as a harmless prank…then one lie quickly grows into another. Maggie has a different understanding of the events that have happened. I do not believe that I have ever intentionally deceived anyone. Only with the passing of time did I come to understand the consequences of my actions. I began the deception when I was too young to know right from wrong. Salerni has written a brilliant debut novel.” “Readers will be swept along with Maggie and Kate as they bamboozle an entire nation, and will feel for Maggie as she debates whether or not to leave the profession…Dianne K. 5/20/2023 0 Comments David moody autumn seriesIt’s down to chance, whether you succumb to the virus or not. “One of the differences between AUTUMN and most other zombie stories,” he continues, “is that you’re one of the living dead or you’re a survivor by the end of day one. It’s not just that it’s a superficial place, all offices and restaurants–no large supermarkets or hardware stores, not somewhere you’d choose in those circumstances–it’s also filled with so many people. “I got there in the middle of the morning rush hour–pre-pandemic–and it struck me that the center of the capital, one of the busiest and most heavily populated cities in the world, would be the absolute worst place to find yourself at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. “The story for the new series came to me when I was in London for a business meeting,” Moody tells us. In London, a small group of survivors attempt to escape to a rumored safe haven in northern England–but the odds are seriously stacked against them. He got in touch to give RUE MORGUE the scoop on these latest adventures in a dystopian world.ĪUTUMN: DAWN, available at and other on-line outlets as both a print and e-book, is set two months after a plague killed almost all human life on Earth, only for them to be revived as the walking dead. Two decades after first writing his popular, series-launching undead novel AUTUMN, British scribe David Moody has launched a new “London trilogy” with AUTUMN: DAWN. |