![]() Is there an East Asian Model of Governance?Ĭommentators of African affairs cannot be considered insightful for observing a general political and economic malaise wherever it persists. The nuts and bolts of governance structure also attracts serious investigation. For those with a general interest in governance, the search for a mysterious elixir of leadership bacons. ![]() For those with an economic inclination, there is a desire to replicate the transformation of the economic structures of these nations. For many poorer countries, China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan to name a few are perfect role model. The success of China and that of South Korea and a number of East Asian nations has intriuged many observers of economics and development. By 2020, China had lifted an excess of 400 million people from poverty. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You can find mafia romance books featuring Irish, Italian, Russian, or Polish families where loyalty and family are above all else. This is honestly my favorite aspect of mafia romance books! Family Preservation has taught them to play things close to the vest whether it be in life or love. ![]() Romance heroes in these books are especially possessive, domineering, and aces at hiding their true emotions. What’s a mafia romance book without an alpha male at its helm? Whether the hero of the story is the head boss, son of the crime leader, or an enforcer for a family, given his life choices you better believe he’s going to be one strong alpha male. So if one or all of these themes get your motor running, you’ll undoubtedly become a fan of mafia romance novels. Not all of these themes will be included in every mafia romance book, but there’s a good chance several will be. ![]() While all mafia romance books deal with some aspect of organized crime, there are several other common themes that readers will find within a mafia romance novel. Think The Sopranos only with a love story and happily-ever-after. Typically these books revolve around a hero or family involved with organized crime. Mafia romance books include any romance stories featuring Made Men, mafia families, or anyone tied to the mafia world. Check out this book list of the best mafia romance books worth reading. ![]() ![]() Hemming the Water received the Kate Tuffs Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. Harvey now lives not far from where Mary Lou Williams grew up and is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Rather than imitating Williams’ style, Harvey emulates her restless innovation and constant need to discover new idioms in which to compose. Born in 1910, Williams spent her career innovating, constantly expanding her style from the bebop of the 1940s into the dissonance of avant-garde jazz in the 1960s and beyond. She shares this freedom with her muse, Mary Lou Williams, a pioneering pianist from Pittsburgh. In the words of Carol Muske-Dukes writing for The Huffington Post, Harvey “has come up with her own jazz rhythms, something ecstatically freed from itself.” While she cites as influences the rhythms and repetitions she heard growing up in a Pentecostal church, Harvey has found her own idiosyncratic cadence that makes her work impossible to categorize into known movements or schools. Harvey’s poetry arises from carefully listening to the sound of language. This image could be a portrait of the author. ![]() She “stands apart from the others.” The girl understands that “sound is God.” Harvey writes, “What does a girl with a red scarf hear? Only she knows, approaching the world from the inside in.” ![]() Yona Harvey opens her debut collection Hemming the Water with a girl in a red scarf. By Elizabeth Hoover | Photo by University Marketing ![]() ![]() ![]() The major stumbling block for everyone who has tried hasn’t been a matter of how to bring it to the screen, but how much of its almost 500 pages (not including the appendixes) they can and should include. Many of its most iconic scenes-Paul Atreides’ shield practice, his visions of a mysterious woman he feels he knows, the Reverend Mother’s test, Lady Jessica using the voice, the appearance of Baron Harkonnen-have successfully made the leap from the page multiple times now, with each variation offering its own effective mix of faithfulness to the text and artistic license.ĭune isn’t so much unfilmable as it is uncontainable. Its landscapes, its technology, its people and its fantastical creatures, from the sandworms to the guild navigator, are all primed for visual realization. ![]() There’s a great deal about Dune that is inherently cinematic, though. ![]() ![]() ![]() Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi's The Children of Blood and Bone, Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and Sarah Crossan's One. A stunning New York Times bestseller with a powerful and unforgettable YA voice. THE POET X - THE WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL. I felt very emotional, not just because the story and the words themselves were so beautiful but because I knew it was going to make so many teens who felt like no one cares about them or listens to them feel seen.' - Tomi Adeyemi, bestselling author of The Children of Blood and Bone 'This was the type of book where "I'll just do 50 pages" turned into finishing it in 2 reads. This one will stay with you a long time.' - Angie Thomas, bestselling author of The Hate U Give THE WINNER OF THE BOSTON GLOBE-HORNBOOK AWARD THE WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ![]() ![]() SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 ![]() ![]() As children grow up, they watch cartoons and movies with flying cars, talking animals, and characters who defy every possible law of nature. The world is magic to a newborn baby, before it even knows what the word means. ![]() Read aloud video by AHEV Library Guidelines for Philosophical DiscussionĬhildren often believe in magic. At night, the archduke steals the box of yarn, but when he opens the box, he finds it empty. One day an archduke offers to buy her box of colorful yarn for ten million dollars, but Annabelle refuses to sell it. She has so much that she moves on to knit sweaters for trees and buildings and cars. ![]() ![]() Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary Extra Yarn invites the reader to ask questions about the nature of magic and the relationship between money to happiness.Īnnabelle finds a box of colorful yarn and knits sweaters for everyone in her town. ![]() ![]() As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her personal demons. Reunited with her loyal sergeant Alastair Miles, she enters the closed world of the school, and as Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish’s tragic death, events are soon to take another troubling turn.Ĭharlie is exposed as an arrogant bully, and those around him had both motive and opportunity to switch the drugs he took daily to control his epilepsy.Īs staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly Classics master provide Jazz with important leads, but are destined to complicate the investigation further. ![]() Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, but reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss. The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen’s – a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk – is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident.īut the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine ‘Jazz’ Hunter to the force. The Murders at Fleat House is a suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the multi-million copy global bestseller, Lucinda Riley. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Christian seems to have spent his entire young life trying to “better” and “more”. The story is centered on Christian, the youngest in a family that really doesn’t care much about him. I’ve read another of Eli Easton’s books and loved it (Puzzle Me) so I was pretty sure that I was going to enjoy this one. Just the facts: M/M period romance/intrigue, chivalryĪn intense ride through the Medieval World as the unwanted and underestimated son of a King combines forces with an honourable knight trying to save his sister. ![]() It’s a partnership that will test every strand of his moral fiber, and, eventually, his understanding of the meaning of duty, honor, and love. When he takes up a quest to rescue his sister from her abusive lord of a husband, he’s forced to enlist the help of Sir Christian. He’s determined to live up to his own ideal of a gallant knight. Sir William Corbett, a large and fierce warrior known as the Lion, has pushed his unnatural desires down all his life. ![]() Being smaller than his six brutish half-brothers, he learned to survive by using his wits and his gift for strategy, earning him the nickname the Crow. Sir Christian Brandon was raised in a household where he was hated for his unusual beauty and for his parentage. The Official Description: In medieval England, duty is everything, personal honor is more valued than life itself, and homosexuality is not tolerated by the church or society. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fittingly named, Jake Hyde is closeted in several ways-in fact he is an unknown even to himself-but the story represents his coming out and coming into his own, folding together hero-origin tropes with high school and romance conventions. (Jake is basically a new take on the Young Justice version of Aqualad, for those keeping track.) Kenny opens new doors in Jake’s life, just as Jake has to contemplate leaving home for college and a complex shift in his relationship with Maria. There’s something about Aquaman in it, and Superman does a distant fly-by, but, really, this story belongs to young Jake Hyde, his lifelong friend and neighbor Maria Mendez, and the young swimmer Jake falls in love with, Kenny Liu. Despite being set in a desert town, it’s about water, about the ocean, and about learning to live as an “amphibian” in a mostly dry world. You Brought Me the Ocean is a smart, beautifully rendered queer YA romance in the guise of a superhero origin story, and a whole, rounded novel to boot. ![]() ![]() When Vieno’s freedom is endangered, he needs Lidon to save him. But how can he betray his soulmate and lover Palani like this? It was supposed to be sex, but his attraction to the alpha goes much deeper. Vieno, the omega who suffers from a medical condition that requires an alpha’s help. ![]() Palani, the sassy beta reporter who will do anything to save his omega lover and childhood friend, even if it means watching another man claim him. ![]() He works himself to the bone, anything to drown out his inner voices that scream at him he’s not a real alpha. ![]() Lidon, the powerful alpha-cop, determined to never trust another partner-until he helps a vulnerable omega through his heat and connects with him in a way that leaves him reeling.Įnar, the alpha-doctor who dedicates his life to serving omegas who need his help. Four men, brought together by fate, connected in more powerful ways than they’d ever imagined. ![]() |