![]() ![]() Maria Tereza Zanola, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italia président de REALITER Secretariat de redacţie: Constantin-Georgel Stoica Angela Stănescu Tehnoredactare şi design: Constantin-Georgel Stoica Mihai Cuciureanu Adresa redacţiei: Bucureşti, Sector 1, Piaţa Presei Libere nr. ![]() Emmanuelle Danblon, Université Libre de Bruxelles Université d Europe Prof. Cécile Vilvandre de Sousa, Universidad Castilla- La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spania Prof. Alice Toma, Universitatea din Bucureşti, Université Libre de Bruxelles Université d Europe Prof. ![]() Roxana-Magdalena Bârlea, Academia de Studii Economice, Bucureşti Conf. Lucian Chişu, Institutul George Călinescu al Academiei Române Conf. Libuše Valentová, Universitatea Carol al IV-lea Praga, Republica Cehă Prof. Baudouin Decharneux, membre de l`académie Royale de Belgique Prof. Marius Sala, membru al Academiei Române Acad. 1 DIVERSITÉ ET IDENTITÉ CULTURELLE EN EUROPE TOME 12/2 Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române Bucureşti, 2015Ģ Publicaţie semestrială editată de: Muzeul Naţional al Literaturii Române (MNLR) Director fondator: Prof. ![]()
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![]() She intends to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. ![]() She has won a full scholarship to a University in New York but needs to raise enough money for books and the train fare. Mattie’s story is split between her recent past with her family and her present working at a hotel. The author had a grandmother who worked as a waitress at this hotel which lends the fictional half of the narrative a ring of truth.The book was received well by critics and won The Carnegie Medal in 2003 for outstanding young adult fiction. While historical fiction, the book uses the real case of ‘Grace Brown’ who was murdered in the early 1900’s while she was staying at a hotel with her boyfriend. Book: A Gathering Light (also known as A Northern Light in the US)Ī Gathering Light (or A Northern Light in the US) is a coming of age story and murder mystery by Jennifer Donnelly that tells the story of Mattie Gokey. ![]() ![]() It is already suspect, we might say, because it has the effect of making the domestic reality of Mel’s kitchen into an enchanted space: somewhere unreal and fantastical, in other words. ![]() The light transforms the room into somewhere that seems enchanted or magical.Īnd yet, if this is a moment of potential epiphany – that moment of revelation or enlightenment characters experience in modern fiction, and especially in short stories – the light, and the enlightenment, will be short-lived. ![]() It is significant that, in contrast to the final paragraph of the story when the kitchen is plunged into darkness, an earlier moment saw the afternoon sun flooding the room with a light which Nick describes as easy and generous. But is this ‘love’ either? Or is it lust and passion, which in the heady first days (and months) of romance we mistake for love? This is a question Carver’s narrative invites us to ask ourselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1943 her family finally settled in Thaxted, Essex, where her parents worked running an educational conference centre. When war was announced, shortly after her fifth birthday, she was evacuated to Wales, and thereafter moved several times, including periods in Coniston Water, in York, and back in London. Can Wizard Howl and Calcifer be far behind?ĭiana was born in London, the daughter of Marjorie (née Jackson) and Richard Aneurin Jones, both of whom were teachers. In no time at all, Charmain becomes involved with a magical stray dog, a muddled apprentice wizard and a box of the King's most treasured documents, as well as irritating a clan of small blue creatures.Ĭaught up in an intense royal search, she meets a sorceress named Sophie. Its single door leads to any number of places: the bedrooms, the kitchen, the eaves under the mountains - even the past! Looking after Great Uncle William's tiny cottage should have been easy, but he is the Royal Wizard Norland whose house bends space and time. This will bring you back beside the bathroom."Ĭharmain Baker is in over her head. Then take two long steps sideways to your left. ![]() Go through and let the door shut behind you. Then, still turning, open the door with your left hand only. ![]() ![]() As we follow the loves and adventures of Cristo and experience the colorful splendor and barbarism of the era, a vanished culture is brought to life in all its magnificence. This novel was fast paced, fun, certainly unbelievable in most parts, but very good. Gary Jennings didnt write the book and therefore, I did not expect an exact copy of his writing style. I liked Aztec Blood, what is lacked in writing style is what I expected when I bought the book. ![]() The remaining four novels (Aztec Blood, 2002 Aztec Rage, 2006 Aztec Fire. In this colourful and exciting era of swords and cloaks, upheaval and revolution, a young beggar boy, in whose blood runs that of both Spanish and Aztec royalty, must claim his birthright.įrom the torrid streets of the City of the Dead along the Veracruz Coast to the ageless glory of Seville in Old Spain, Cristo the Bastard connives, fights, and loves as he seeks the truthwithout knowing that he will be the founder of a proud new people. I am a major Gary Jennings fan, having read all of his novels. Aztec is a 1980 historical fiction novel by American author Gary Jennings. The Spanish lords rule as kings, treating Indian men as work animals and Indian women as their personal property. ![]() ![]() The former Aztec Empire is now a colony called New Spain in which the Indians are enslaved to great estates that are actually feudal domains. The Aztec people have been conquered and a bloody revolt of the Indians put down. The third volume in Gary Jennings' historical epic that began with the Aztec and Aztec Autumn. ![]() ![]() She puts them to good use over two evenings with Drew, managing the social environment of the wedding skillfully. Pretend GirlfriendĪlexa works as the chief of staff in the mayor’s office and has excellent public relations skills. Given how well they hit it off, he invites her to be his date at a wedding that weekend, and she (uncharacteristically) says yes. While she won’t share her celebratory champagne, she does share the fancy crackers and cheese with Drew. Olivia is staying in the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco, while Drew is in town from LA for a wedding. ![]() It’s a handy setup for charming banter, and Drew Nichols and Alexa Monroe are up to the challenge.Īlexa is on her way to celebrate with her sister Olivia who just made partner in New York. This is certainly not the first time that a man and woman have met in a stalled elevator and went on to fall in love and get married. ![]() I recently checked it out of the library, forgetting that I’d read it. ![]() The Wedding Date is a contemporary romance by Jasmine Guillory. ![]() ![]() ![]() New Guidance for Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (Lisa Marchiano) Guidance for Parents of Teens with Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, Part 1 (Lisa Marchiano) Advice from therapistsīrief Guidance for Parents (Stella O’Malley, Genspect) Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) is a space for parents that have been impacted by gender ideology to share their uncensored stories, experiences, and thoughts.ĤthWaveNow is a supportive place for those concerned about medical transition of minors and young adults (US website). Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. Read its Top Ten Tips for when your child says they are trans, and its Safeguarding considerations for trans-identified pupils in schools. Part 3: How parents can support their children (by Matilda Gosling) Support for parentsīayswater Support Group offers parents whose children have a transgender identity somewhere to talk, share and be understood. Use School Check to find out if a school has been captured by gender-identity ideology.Call out bad reporting on sex and gender with Bad Media Watch.Talk to medical schools about ‘Time to Think’.DfE guidance must be clear: schools cannot facilitate “social transition”.Practical ideas for parents of gender-questioning teenagers.Answers to questions on sex, gender, biology and identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Adapted to the 1983 Disney produced, Ray Bradbury scripted, Jack Clayton directed film starring Jason Robards, Diane Ladd and others. ![]() Originally published in 1962 by Simon & Schuster, this first movie edition bears the same jacket art by Gray Foy. 1983 date printed to the title page, photo of Ray Bradbury on the outdoor movie set to the jacket's rear panel, no subsequent printings to the copyright page, 4/83 date to the jacket's rear flap, and $13.95 price to the jacket's front flap. ![]() First Film Tie-In edition, first printing. ![]() ![]() And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. ![]() ![]() When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Viscount’s Tempting Minx” is the first novel in the “Dukes of War” series and was released in the year 2014. When she isn’t busy writing or reading romances, she can be found zip-lining through rainforests in Costa Rica, riding camels in Africa, or getting horribly lost in the middle of Budapest. She loves being and author and cannot imagine doing anything else by this point. Like anything that is worth it, this took real time and effort, however she is incredibly glad she never gave up. She never believed it was right for her, and made up her mind around 2005 to give her childhood dream a real chance. Her family encouraged her to get a “real” job, and she did follow this advice for a number of years. She was writing “stories” (albeit rather horrible ones) by the time she began going to elementary school. She owned about every historical romance that these ladies ever wrote, and she read quite a few of them more than once.Įrica can’t remember a time in her life when she didn’t want to be an author. Erica then devoured the rest of Johanna’s backlist, before moving on to some other great J’s of this period: Julie Garwood, Judith McNaught, and Jude Deveraux. And from then on, she was addicted to historical romance. She was enthralled with the novel from start to finish. ![]() The first romance that she ever read was “Once a Princess” by Johanna Lindsey. Erica Ridley is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling of feel-good and witty historical romance novels. ![]() |