![]() “Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() “What advantages do we hope to gain (from climbing mountains)? Naturally, there is the pleasure we get from the climbing process itself and from our victories, but as well as the delights of exercise in a mountain environment, there is also the process, coming every time as a surprise, of self-discovery deepening a little further with every climb: who we are, how far we can go, what is our potential, where are the limits of our technique, our strength, our skill, our mountaineering sense: discoveries whose acceptance means that, if necessary, we may turn back and return another time, several times if need be-‘Tomorrow is a new day.’” – Gaston Rebuffat (from The Mont Blanc Massif: The Hundred Finest Routes) “Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory.” – Ed Viesturs (from No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks) “Never did I explore life as intensively in its beautiness, as while hanging on two fingertips freely over the deep hollow.” – Wolfgang Güllich ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() By the time the three children of her marriage were comfortably in school most of the day, she had already achieved enough success with short stories to devote full time to writing. 1952, Todd, b.1956, and Georgeanne, b.1959.Īnne McCaffrey’s first story was published by Sam Moskowitz in Science Fiction + Magazine and her first novel was published by Ballantine Books in 1967. She married in 1950 and had three children: Alec Anthony, b. Her working career included Liberty Music Shops and Helena Rubinstein (1947-1952). She had two brothers: Hugh McCaffrey (deceased 1988), Major US Army, and Kevin Richard McCaffrey, still living.Īnne was educated at Stuart Hall in Staunton Virginia, Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent. Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() She hangs out with Colby, who has never made a big deal out of her sexuality and treats her with a measure of acceptance, but their relationship begins to fray as Colby continues to use Pen as his ‘scout’ for girls that he likes – making Pen vouch for him and lead those girls to Colby so he can use them and discard them. She’s used to being mistaken for a boy and has learned to put up with crap from her less understanding peers (read: most of them). She likes to wear her brother’s old clothes. ![]() Pen has always just wanted to be the kind of girl that she is – not a girly girl, not a guy, but a girl who likes girls, and who presents as what is sometimes called ‘butch,’ though this isn’t a term Pen herself uses. Peter’s Catholic School, she’s got a lot more on her mind than just grades. Pen (don’t call her Penelope) Oliveira lives in a small Ontario town with her Old-World Portuguese parents and her big brother Johnny. ![]() YA contemporary fiction, own voices queer rep. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has no memory of what happened on the preceding night, only that he had taken a fascinating young woman to bed… and that she has disappeared. ![]() At the age of eighteen, the heir to a wealthy and highly respected dukedom, William Harrow, Marquess of Chapin had it all – until he awoke one morning covered in blood not his own. The third book in Ms Maclean’s Rules of Scoundrels series, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished tells the story of the disgraced Duke of Lamont, who, along with his business partners, Bourne, Cross, and Chase, is co-owner of The Fallen Angel, the most successful gaming club in London.Īs with the two previous books, this one opens with the story of the hero’s fall from grace. ![]() In Temple, Ms MacLean has created possibly her most engaging, heart-breakingly gorgeous hero so far, which is really saying something given how much I adored Cross in the previous book! But there’s something about Temple that’s so intensely loveable a joie de vivre which – amazingly, given the ills that have befallen him – still shines forth, that is immediately and devastatingly captivating. This was a truly wonderful story of revenge and redemption, the darkest of the three books that have as yet appeared in this series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka (2019), winner of the 2020 Diana Forsythe Prize. Her research interests include plantations, tea, work, gender, human rights, and minority politics. She has published in Dialectical Anthropology, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and HimalSouthasian, and is co-founder of Lanka Solidarity, a scholarly activist collective that educateS and informS policy, state, international, and community leaders and actors about the sociopolitical and economic issues of post-war Sri Lanka. Mythri Jegathesan is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Santa Clara University. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, American Association for University Women, and American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. ![]() She is currently researching the first women's trade union in Sri Lanka, the dynamics of transnational organizing across formal and informal employment sectors, plantation sustainability practices, and the changing development practices of local plantation NGOs in postwar Sri Lanka. Her research has focused on the social and economic experiences of Tamil tea plantation residents and workers in Sri Lanka, where she has conducted field research since 2005. Jegathesan is a cultural anthropologist with a research focus on gender, labor, minority politics, and development in the Global South and specifically Sri Lanka and South Asia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brain maps distort and shape our experience of the world, support complex thought, and make technology-enabled mind reading a modern-day reality, which raises important questions about what is real, what is fair, and what is private. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets-and comprehend their profound impact on our lives. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain’s surfaces are actual maps of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Sunstein, author of Too Much InformationĪ path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter-and how technology can use them to read your mind Rebecca Schwarzlose is a neuroscientist with a novelist's literary flair.” -Cass R. “A profoundly illuminating account of how the brain works. University of Toronto Schools Technology Supplies.University of Toronto Schools Stationery.Toronto Prep School Technology Supplies.Toronto Prep School Merch & Gym Uniforms.Ontario Institute - Studies in Education.Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a culture of endless questions, you need solid answers. until God rescued her, helping her to rebuild her faith, one solid brick at a time. After everything she had ever believed about God, Jesus, and the Bible had been picked apart, she found herself at the brink of despair. All that was deeply challenged when she met a progressive pastor, who called himself a hopeful agnostic.Īnother Gospel? describes the intellectual journey Alisa took over several years as she wrestled with a series of questions that struck at the core of the Christian faith. She had witnessed God at work and then had dedicated her own life to leading worship, as part of the popular Christian band ZOEgirl. She was raised in a Christian home, where she had seen her mom and dad feed the hungry, clothe the homeless, and love the outcast. Others Believe that It Is an Attack on Historic Christianity.Alisa Childers never thought she would question her Christian faith. Some Think that It Is a Much-Needed Progressive Reformation. Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity by Alisa ChildersĪ Movement Seeks to Redefine Christianity. ![]() ![]() On the book records, where a list of "Genres" is supplied, the Goodreads program apparently lists every customized shelf name (like "Gothic," "Fiction," "Horror," etc.) that a certain number of people have all shelved the book as. ![]() Some very simple, generic shelf names, like Gothic, are used by a LOT of people, even though they don't coordinate with each other. But many people go on to create customized shelves of their own, sometimes by genre (including "Gothic"). When you join Goodreads, the program automatically sets your bookshelves up with three basic shelves (read, currently reading, and to read). Jon, good question! There is but one person can't do it alone. ![]() ![]() Jon wrote: "If the main consideration for a book's inclusion is it having the genre listing of Gothic on its book page, is there a way to make such a thing happen?" ![]() ![]() There he discovers that though the old enemy remains as murderous as ever, it is not anywhere near as perfidious or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some closer to him than he would like. In the years following the war he signs up with Earth Central Security, and is sent out to help either restore or maintain order on worlds devastated by Prador bombardment. ![]() Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember. I chose Agent Cormac and told the story of his early years in the military, linked into childhood events, and set it (where it falls in the chronology) just after the Prador war. The general idea was that I produce another Polity book and I took this as an opportunity, as with Prador Moon, to fill in a bit of the back-story. I was a bit dubious about this, since I had plenty of other work on, but I agreed. Neal Asher: After I produced Prador Moon for at Night Shade Books (original title On the Edge of the Sand) and after it did very well, Jason Williams and Jeremy Lassen immediately wanted another book and pushed for it being a bit longer. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Markley: What can you tell us about your new book Shadow of the Scorpion? ![]() ![]() ![]() Paige Toon is another of my favourite author’s and her books do not disappoint, especially this one. Suddenly, Lucy finds herself caught between two distant continents and two very different men. Nathan is a happy-go-lucky surfer boy with no prospects, no place to live, and an almost-girlfriend in tow. James is gorgeous and successful and Lucy adores him, yet at her best friend Molly’s wedding in Sydney, she finds herself having doubts and is keeping an eye on Molly’s brother-in-law Nathan. ![]() ![]() Trapped above the Pacific, she questions everything about their relationship, but when she finally calls him, James reassures her that it was only his friend playing a joke. Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone from a woman claiming to have slept with her boyfriend, James, four times in the past month. ![]() |