This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Books constitute a 12 book series of fairy tale collections. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Blue Fairy BookĪndrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. The Langs Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 18 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne.
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When a publicist for Chicago Review Press queried me to review their new translation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s classic Hard to Be a God, I ditched my usual policy of not doing solicited reviews and accepted the challenge.Īdmittedly, part of my decision was influenced by the release of a new film adaptation of the novel by the recently deceased director Aleksei German. The Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko is a fantastic modern fantasy thriller. Stanislaw Lem was one of my earliest favorites. Personally, I’ve always enjoyed the tone and flavor of eastern European genre work. We’re seeing fantastic translated work such as The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu from China, fine work out of Viz Media, and a rise in the number of translated stories appearing in the short fiction zines. I can speak to this personally, as I’ve had much success with The Apex Book of World SF anthology series. The last five years has seen a resurgence of interest in non-Western European (for the sake of keeping things simple I’ll include the United States, Canada, and Australia in this group) genre fiction. First off, everyone knows (and anyone who did not, does now, as the back cover of Songs of Innocence discloses) that Aleas is a pen name for Charles Ardai. “Richard Aleas” follows up his well-received first novel, Little Girl Lost, with a second novel that is similarly worthy of acclaim. It wasn't something she did deliberately, but she did it, nonetheless, and the rest of turned to watch as she made her way to the empty chair, and slid her shoulder-slung messenger bag to the floor and sat down." "Dorrie Burke was taller than I was, not quite six feet in flats but pretty damn close, and she entered a classroom as if there was a curtain on one end and a row of photographers popping flashbulbs at the other. Down to read a review of Little Girl Lost) Educated at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University (PhD, 1966), she worked ceaselessly to establish women's history as a legitimate field of scholarship. Gerda Lerner, the second woman to serve as president of the Organization of American Historians, died on January 2, 2013, in Madison, Wisconsin, at age ninety two. The following remembrance of Gerda Lerner was prepared by Mari Jo Buhle, and appeared in the February 2013 issue of OAH Outlook. Gerda Lerner, past president of the Organization of American Historians (1981-1982), and pioneer in women's and gender history, passed away on Januat the age of 92. Intended for professionals that aim to pass the BIAN Foundation Exam. This is the official courseware for accredited BIAN Foundation training.
Veterans who had fought in it-appeared in 1923. Where his first published work on the Civil War-a series on local In 1920 Catton got a job with the old Cleveland News, and worked briefly for the Boston American before landing a position with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Out the more down-to-earth world of journalism. War I, along with his own talent for storytelling, that led him to seek But it may have been his own stint in the Navy during World Those desperate battles he was later to read as a student at OberlinĬollege near Cleveland were pallid in comparison with those grippingĪccounts. Memories of a simpler and-more heroic-time still lived lightly on theĮvening air in an unbroken continuity with the past.) The accounts of (His engaging 1972 autobiography, Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood,Ĭaptures both the wonder and nostalgia of those years, when vivid Turned historian, Bruce Catton produced some of the most readable andĬompelling books about the American Civil War ever written.Ĭombining “a scholar’s appreciation of the Grand Design with a newsman’s keenness for meaningful vignette,” wrote Newsweek on the author’s death in 1978, “Catton created an ‘enlisted man’s-eye view’ of the war that treated humanely the errors on both sides.”Ī boy growing up in Petoskey, Michigan, in the first decade of the 20thĬentury, Catton had listened to the stories of old men who had actuallyįought in that bitter conflict. Together these plants––corn, beans, and squash––feed the people, feed the land, and feed our imaginations, telling us how we might live. “I hold in my hand the genius of indigenous agriculture, the Three Sisters. I hope the lessons and wisdom of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) within the stories will be incorporated into all of our lives, while avoiding cultural appropriation. This is a hugely important book for our times. She beautifully integrates mind, body, emotion, and spirit as she shares “healing stories that allow us to imagine a different relationship, in which people and land are good medicine for each other”. Kimmerer speaks from multiple perspectives as an Anishinabekwe, Potawatomi woman, a mother, a gardener, a philosopher, a botanist and professor of plant ecology, and from so many other aspects of herself. Both make this book, a gift to the co-inhabitants of Mother Earth, even more accessible.ĭr. It’s also available in an audio version read by the author, and as a beautifully illustrated adaptation, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults. And I believe other gardeners would especially appreciate this book, as I do. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants has so much to offer.
Realize that God means for you to be where you are.In The Red Sea Rules, readers will learn strategies to: Just as Moses and the Israelites became trapped between Pharaoh's rushing armies and the uncrossable Red Sea, so are we sometimes overwhelmed by life's problems. Using the Israelites' story in Exodus 14 as an example, Robert Morgan offers ten sound strategies for moving from fear to faith. As The Red Sea Rules makes comfortingly clear, He is in control. But just as certain is the fact that the same God who led us in will lead us out. It is certain that we will face difficulties and that God will allow them. Red Sea Rules has been updated with new study questions. Bestselling author Robert Morgan offers ten strategies for dealing with hard times and discouragements in order to move from fear to faitha divine protocol for handling life. This changed when an eighth grade teacher gave him Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly.īrandon was working on his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested to him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This collection features The Emperor’s Soul, Mistborn: Secret History, and a brand-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer.Įarlier this year he released Calamity, the finale of the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners trilogy that began with Steelheart.īrandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Brandon’s major books for the second half of 2016 are The Dark Talent, the final volume in Alcatraz Smedry’s autobiographical account of his battle against the Evil Librarians who secretly rule our world, and Arcanum Unbounded, the collection of short fiction in the Cosmere universe that includes the Mistborn series and the StormlightĪrchive, among others. |