You have been here a kind of watershed of civilization, pouring your blood and thought and art and religion eastward and westward into the world. From that new blood came the noble Sanskrit language, so nearly kin to your own melodious speech from that fusion came the Vedas, the Upanishads, and Buddha. Sixteen centuries before Christ there went from these regions or near it-from Aryana Vaieho, or Old Iran-the migration that poured new blood into northern India. Listening to the patient and erudite exposition given by Mehdi Bahrami while he guided us through the collections in Iran’s beautiful Archaeological Museum, I felt more deeply than before the antiquity of this culture, and its success in stamping its own exquisite quality upon every alien force that has entered this land.įor thousands of years Persians have been creating beauty. Asked to comment briefly on Persia in The History of Civilization, I have very reluctantly consented, for it is incredible that I should be able to reveal to so learned an audience any new aspect of Iran’s fascinating culture and career.
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I did a lot of hands-on research for the Immortals. What inspired The Soul Seekers’ Native American mythology premise? Bookshelf caught up with Noël as she traveled to Chicago from her home in Orange County, Calif., to attend the RT Booklovers Convention, where she’ll take part in the second annual Teen Day. Set in New Mexico, the book draws from Native American mythology and introduces Daire, a teen who belongs to an ancestral line of shamans and can’t navigate the worlds between the living and the dead. Martin’s Griffin), the debut novel in her new series, The Soul Seekers, with a combined first printing of 250,000 hardcover and e-book copies. Noël further expands her reach into the YA market with Fated ( St. The author’s first foray into middle grade fiction, the Riley Bloom paperback series (which stars the younger sister of The Immortals heroine, Ever) has more than 800,000 copies in print, and Square Fish will release the fourth installment, Whisper, on April 24 with a 200,000-copy print run. Martin’s Griffin has more than eight million copies in print worldwide-3.5 million in the U.S. In the former, the six-book The Immortals series from St. Alyson Noel has hit her stride in both the YA and middle grade arenas. Ranging from the raucous to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing, this highly entertaining and universally appealing collection is the literary equivalent of a night out with your best friend - an unforgettable and fun adventure that you wish could last forever. Down to earth and relatable, frank and unapologetic, Amy Schumer is one of us: She relies on her sister for advice, still hangs out with her high school pals, and continues to navigate the ever-changing boundaries in love, work, and life. In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationships, and sex and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is - a woman with the courage to bare her soul to stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh. Now Amy Schumer has written a refreshingly candid and uproariously funny collection of (extremely) personal and observational essays. The Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and star of Inside Amy Schumer and the acclaimed film Trainwreck has taken the entertainment world by storm with her winning blend of smart, satirical humor. And she's coming for you." (Actress Tilda Swinton, Trainwreck costar)Ģ017 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year and Narration by the Author "When a new Sarah MacLean novel comes out, I drop everything to read." - Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read "Sarah MacLean's books are fierce." - Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series But now Caleb is the one in trouble, because he’s fast realizing that Sesily isn’t for forgetting…she’s forever. If you ask him, he’s been a saint about it, considering the way she looks at him…and the way she talks to him…and the way she’d felt in his arms during their one ill-advised kiss.Įxcept someone has to keep Sesily from tumbling into trouble during her dangerous late-night escapades, and maybe close proximity is exactly what Caleb needs to get this infuriating, outrageous woman out of his system. No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend’s beautiful, brash, brilliant sister. No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom…and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem. New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with a blazingly sexy, unapologetically feminist new series, Hell’s Belles, beginning with a bold, bombshell of a heroine, able to dispose of a scoundrel-or seduce one-in a single night.Īfter years of living as London’s brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this. The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Discworld series and was published in 1983. You can listen to the Discworld novels in any order, but The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Wizards series. Unfortunately, their journey across the Disc includes facing robbers, monsters, mercenaries, and Death himself.Īnd the whole thing's just a game of the gods that might send them over the edge. Rincewind is the world's worst wizard who has just been handed a very important job: to look after the world's first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. Except for the fact that it travels through space on the shoulders of four giant elephants who in turn stand on the shell of an astronomically huge star turtle, of course. Somewhere between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a magical world not totally unlike our own. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination.' Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. A tale from the first two books of Terry Pratchett's fantasy series 'Discworld'. The audiobook of The Colour of Magic is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin Testament of Youth Belfast). Original title: The Colour of Magic TV Mini Series 2008 Not Rated 2h 17m IMDb RATING 6.9 /10 10K YOUR RATING Rate POPULARITY 4,646 524 Play trailer 1:40 1 Video 12 Photos Adventure Comedy Fantasy A cowardly wizard is roped into a life of adventure. Add Stay With Me to your Goodreads TBR ➻ With green eyes, tattoos, and the voice of a poet, she is quickly drawn to him.īut because of her sociopath tendencies, she knows it could only end in one of two ways.Įither he will be the one to free her from her past, or she will be the one to destroy him. Though Mia never anticipated Ollie Masters. She’d keep her head down, ignore everyone, and make it through the next two years effortlessly. In a desperate final attempt to save nineteen-year-old Mia from herself, she gets transferred to Dolor University, a reformatory college in the UK that housed deranged and dangerous young adults who viewed the private institution as their own personal playground. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. Designed for on-the-go inspiration,this is a perfect guide to Buddhist principles and the foundations of meditation and mindfulness. Here she presents teachings on breaking free of destructive patterns developing patience, kindness, and joy amid our everyday struggles becoming fearless and unlocking our natural warmth, intelligence, and goodness. Pema Chödrön, beloved Buddhist nun and best-selling author, offers this treasury of 108 short selections from her more than four decades of study and writings. A portable collection of short inspirational readings by “one of the world's wisest women”-the American Buddhist teacher and author of When Things Fall Apart ( O, the Oprah Magazine) Unknown to her, Rush has a secret that could destroy Blaire’s entire world. But as the summer goes by, Blaire begins to see a side of Rush she never expected, and the chemistry between them becomes impossible to ignore. The cynical, condescending, and unapologetic son of an infamous rock star, Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous-and he immediately gets under Blaire’s skin. She’s even more disappointed to discover that her father has left for Paris, leaving her with her new stepbrother, Rush Finlay. Driving into the wealthy resort town in a pickup truck with a pistol under her seat, Blaire knows she'll never fit in. Blaire’s mother has passed away after a long illness, leaving behind a mountain of medical debts and no way for Blaire to keep their small Alabama farmhouse. The last thing Blaire Wynn wants is to move in with her father’s new family in Rosemary Beach, Florida. The New York Times bestselling novel that launched the beloved world of Rosemary Beach and introduced the world to Rush and Blaire.The wealthy son of a rocker. Throughout this decades-long journey to becoming a multibillion-dollar enterprise, Marvel's identity has continually shifted, careening between scrappy underdog and corporate behemoth. Over the course of a half century, Marvel's epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers. Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, Daredevil-these superheroes quickly won children's hearts and sparked the imaginations of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. An unvarnished, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes account of one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America Related: Every MCU Theory WandaVision Debunked Wanda, who spends much of the series in the background enjoying a new idyllic life with her beloved children, is eventually confronted and is forced to shatter her Wonderland, leaving her even more broken than before. Once Scarlet Witch reshapes the main Marvel timeline, heroes including the Avengers and the X-Men find themselves brainwashed and relatively happy, living in a new world in which mutants are the dominant race and Magneto rules as a benevolent overlord. In the comics, the loss of Wanda's children Billy and Tommy (and other traumatic upheavals) led to her dangerous abilities spiraling out of control, despite Doctor Strange and Charles Xavier's efforts to gain control of the situation. As in WandaVision, "House of M"'s Scarlet Witch manages to use her incredible reality-bending powers to create a utopia in order to escape her overwhelming grief. |