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In addition, the opening allusion to the American dream echoes the words of great speakers in American history, such as Martin Luther King. Obama’s use of the power word, America, rouses the attention of the audience since invoking the word demands absolute obedience (Balshaw, 18). Maintaining a direct eye contact with his audience, Obama was loud enough to be heard, but soft enough so that the poetic words could sink deep into the minds of his listeners. With those words, Obama started his keynote delivery with a clear message of hope to the people of America. “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time who still … tonight is your answer”(Obama, para.1). Obama employed different rhetorical strategies to deliver the speech and it was effective in giving the audience hope concerning the future. My evaluation of this acceptance speech will concentrate on the way Obama employed the approaches of narration, intonation, verbalization, silence, and telling of stories to draw the attention of the thousands of his audience who were enthusiastically listening to this historic speech. She feels betrayed by Ash, who must pretend not to care while they are in the court. The Iron Daughter opens with Meghan a prisoner of the Winter Court, where she dreams of the Iron King she killed at the end of The Iron King. The next part of the series is the novella "Winter's Passage", which follows Ash and Meghan as he takes her to the winter court per their agreement, but along the way they are attacked by a creature sent by Oberon to "rescue" Meghan. Along the way, she meets Ash, the son of the Winter queen, whom she agrees to accompany in exchange for his help dealing with the iron court. She ventures to faery lands to rescue her brother, but finds herself caught up in the politics of the world, and is forced to fight against the iron court, a brand new court formed as human dreams begin to shift toward technology. She also finds out that her best friend, Robbie Goodfell, is actually Robin Goodfellow, better known as Puck. Meghan finds out that her father was not the insurance salesman she thought he was, but was instead Oberon, king of the Summer Court of the Fey. The Iron King (not to be confused with the tokusatsu show) is where our story starts. The Iron Fey is a series of Young Adult novels by Julie Kagawa, dealing with the misadventures of young Meghan Chase in Faeryland. In this zone, communication is less than the speed of light, which is possible in the other more advanced zones. There is some intelligence in the Slow Zone, but not the most modern artificial intelligence that exists during the present-day time of the novel. Although Earth is not a part of the novel, it is understood that the Slow Zone is the old Earth. It is considered the innermost zone and is surrounded by the Slow Zone, the birthplace of humanity. The novel is set in a galaxy made up of four different “Zones of Thought.” The innermost zone is called the Unthinking Depths and is defined by its lack of intelligent life. Vinge published a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep called A Deepness in the Sky in 1999, and then a third book, The Children of the Sky, which ended the three-book series in 2011. Published in 1993, it was named the Hugo Award for best novel of the year because of its complex, detailed, and thought-provoking dramatic plot about a galactic war taking place thousands of years in the future. A Fire Upon the Deep is the first book in the Zone of Thought science fiction series by Vernor Vinge. Really.īeach Read seems to have been everywhere this spring, with it’s catchy yellow cover, arch rival author premise, and promise of a summer fantasy with a beach house setting. Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. Also by this author: People We Meet On VacationĪ romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Īugustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. The thing about stiletto heels is that they make a hell of a dent when you walk all over the people who try to hurt you. But being a bitch? Oh, you get slammed for every snarky comment, cynical eye roll, and foot you put in your adversaries’ way. I’m about to prove to her that she’s nothing but a spoiled princess.Įveryone loves a good old unapologetic punk. Daria Followhill thinks she is THE queen. There’s a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she’s about to shell out some serious tears. Yeah, baby girl, say it-I’m your foster brother. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much. Now, I’m her parents’ latest shiny project. The good thing about circumstances? They can change. I’d had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my heart was completely iced. They say revenge is a dish best served cold. Shen comes an intense, high school enemies-to-lovers romance with a twist. Narrator: Angela Goethals, Maxine Mitchell, Michael Crouchįrom USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author L.J. Pretty Reckless (All Saints High, #1) by L.J. So when Saturn Girl, Lightning Boy (later “Lad”) and Cosmic Boy showed up in late 1950s Smallville and announced they were from a teenage superhero club 1,000 years in the future, it’s unlikely anyone at the DC offices expected newspaper columnists to be writing about them 61 years later. “Throwaway story” isn’t as much of an insult as it sounds in those days, DC didn’t pay much attention to its on-page history - what today is called “continuity” - and every story was seen as disposable. The LSH first appeared in 1958, with a throwaway story in “Adventure Comics,” then headlined by Superboy. But that enthusiasm launched one of the earliest, pre-internet fan organizations, and it still smolders today. The Legion isn’t among DC’s best-known properties, and its existence is more a testament to fan enthusiasm than editorial planning. And judging by the reaction on the internet, it’s going to make a legion of readers pretty happy. DC Comics is reviving the Legion of Super-Heroes with some pretty big names. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing’s fallen Summer Palace. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. From bestselling authors Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles. In addition, this study reveals mineworkers’ active-often violent, though ultimately futile-resistance to tenancy. This book’s purpose is to trace the origins of the pernicious system of leasing and subcontracting-when the owners of mineral rights got out of the mining business-and to trace the intricate, if not endemic, “culture of corruption” that these forms of tenancy spawned. In many ways, Anthracite Labor Warstakes as its start this devastating “end” of mining in the northern field. 3 : 458–59) was that the leasing system encouraged illegal mining in the quest for profits and in corruption among company officials and union leaders. A compelling argument made in Robert Wolensky et al.’s earlier book, The Knox Mine Disaster, January 22, 1959(1999) (reviewed in Pennsylvania History69, no. The Knox Coal Company was the leaseholder of the River Slope mine from the Pennsylvania Coal Company and was but one of many lessees in an evolving corporate reorganization of access to mineral rights in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties. Readers familiar with history of Pennsylvania anthracite coal mining in the twentieth century know of the Knox Mine disaster in 1959, when managers directed workers to illegally mine coal under the Susquehanna River, resulting in the flooding many Wyoming Valley shafts and galleries, and killing twelve people. Kye has two weeks to prove to Chelsey that he isn’t the kind of man her father is. A long-distance relationship is the reason Chelsey’s parents divorced, and she’s sworn them off. The fact that he’s about to leave for L.A. The hard part is keeping hold of the girl who’s hotter than the Sahara one minute then so cold even Antarctica wouldn’t touch her the next…despite the fact that they can’t stay away from each other. The quietest of all his brothers, Kye’s style has never really been pumping and dumping, so pursuing Chelsey isn’t a hard choice for him. Which is exactly why she takes hot as hell guitarist Kye Burke to bed when he decides he wants her. The sexiest, most mysterious Burke brother of all peels back his stage persona to reveal the real man-and the rock-hard body-behind the rockstar in the banging fourth book from New York Times bestselling author Emma Hart’s hot new adult series that began with Dirty Past, Dirty Secret, and Dirty Lies.Īfter witnessing an endless string of late nights, long tours, and eager groupies her world-famous father could never resist, Chelsey Young knows the dirty truth behind the glamorous façade of the rockstar life. |