Are you an independent language learner? Yes? Me too! But sometimes, you'd love to use your newly acquired German skills more actively, wouldn't you?

Black science fiction books, Afrofuturistic stories, or short stories by Black authors were once unfortunately uncommon, but as of late there have been a lot more fantastic novels to introduce some diversity into this historically homogeneous genre/classification. There’s certainly been more books with wide-spread marketing efforts, which is critical, too. This list contains 50+ of ...

Earlier in the summer, we asked you to vote for your favorite science fiction and fantasy reads of the past decade — so here are 50 fabulous reads, curated by our expert judges and you, the readers.

More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners are an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles.

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These were the best books of 2023 according to a survey of Book Girls' Guide readers. With 700 books submitted, these 30 books were the best!

Students will use the Google Slides file to complete comprehension questions, word work (context clues and figurative language) and engaging digital activities for Chapters 12-22 of Pax. The Slide file is compatible with Google Classroom, making assigning and grading easy.

The million-copy, New York Times bestselling Murderbot series is back in another full-length novel adventure! We’re thrilled to share the cover of System Collapse, a new Murderbot Diaries novel from Martha Wells—available November 14, 2023 from Tordotcom Publishing. Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse. Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back. […]

“In this vulnerable and courageous memoir, Prachi Gupta takes the myth of the exceptional Indian American family to task. . . . [Her] resilience and her hope to be fully seen are an inspiration in both personal and political terms.”—The Washington Post “I read it in one sitting. Wow. It aims right at the tender spot where racism, sexism, and family dynamics collide, and somehow manages to be both searingly honest and deeply compassionate.”—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SEASON: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Bustle “In examining with boundless love the secrets and sorrows of one family, Gupta shows us the life-altering power of telling one’s truth.”—Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do we stand to gain—and lose—by taking control of our narrative? These questions propel Prachi Gupta’s heartfelt memoir and can feel particularly fraught for immigrants and their children who live under immense pressure to belong in America. Prachi Gupta’s family embodied the American Dream: a doctor father and a nurturing mother who raised two high-achieving children with one foot in the Indian American community, the other in Pennsylvania’s white suburbia. But their belonging was predicated on a powerful myth: that Asian Americans have perfected the alchemy of middle-class life, raising tight-knit, ambitious families that are immune to hardship. Molding oneself to fit this perfect image often comes at a steep but hidden cost. In They Called Us Exceptional, Gupta articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately navigating traumas invisible to the outside world. Gupta addresses her mother throughout the book, weaving a deeply vulnerable personal narrative with history, postcolonial theory, and research on mental health, to show how she slowly made sense of her reality and freed herself emotionally and physically from the pervasive, reductive myth that had once defined her. But, tragically, the act that liberated Gupta was also the act that distanced her from those she loved most. By charting her family’s slow unraveling and her determination to break the cycle, Gupta shows how traditional notions of success keep us disconnected from ourselves and one another—and passionately argues why we must orient ourselves toward compassion over belonging.

Pour honorer cette superbe édition collector, quoi de mieux qu'une petite relecture ? Une relecture accompagnée du format audio, lu par Shirley Coquaire pour audiolib. Double bonheur assuré. Quel bonheur, mais quel bonheur ! Je crois d'ailleurs avoir...

We get it, sci-fi can be a little complicated, maybe even a bit overwhelming at times. But they are also imaginative, adventurous, and out of this world!

When George Orwell died at the age of forty-six on January 21st 1950, he was considered by some of London’s fashionable literary critics as a marginal figure—“no good as a novelist”—who was best known for his essays rather than his fiction. This quickly changed in the years after his death when his reputation and popularity as a writer grew exponentially. Over the past seven decades he has come to be considered one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. This massive change in opinion was largely down to Orwell’s last two books Animal Farm first published in 1945, and Nineteen Eighty-Four published the year before he died. The importance of these two novels has enshrined Orwell’s surname, like Dickens, Kafka and more recently J. G. Ballard, into the English language as a descriptive term—“Orwellian”—for nightmarish political oppression, while many of his fictional ideas or terms contained within Nineteen Eighty-Four have become part of our everyday language—“Big Brother,” “Room 101,” “newspeak,” “doublethink,” “thoughtcrime” and so on. Both of these books have become essential texts for radicals and conservatives in their individual campaigns against perceived invasive and totalitarian governments. After the Second World...

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If you love books that stomp on your heart and unapologetically destroy you, check out this list of books to make you ugly cry.

As dawn breaks and ends the night of the witch hunt, the Nebulis Sovereignty finds that it's sustained nearly insurmountable damage. Its citizens are pointing fingers at the royal family, demanding they take responsibility for the chaos and accelerate the Conclave to select a new queen. Meanwhile, Alice entrusts Iska with the task of rescuing Sisbell, the only one capable of revealing who is responsible for orchestrating the Imperial raid. Iska's next destination? The research facility run by the House of Hydra!

Stolen by an Alien (Stolen by an Alien #1) by Amanda Milo Format: ebook Source: purchased Date read: March 27, 2019 Stolen by an Alien 1. Stolen by an Alien - Kindle 2. Rescued by an Alien 3.Won by an

Discovering a book that resonates across the years is a unique literary journey, and for me, “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” by Kurt…

Am Ende ihres Abenteuers auf dem Planeten Ythaq wurden Narvarth und Granit nach Nehorf gebracht. Narvarth befindet sich im Besitz der drei Leuchtkugeln, der Schlüssel, mit deren Hilfe sie in die Paralleluniversen zurückkehren können. Doch die drei Kugeln stacheln die Gier der Regierung der Föderation und einer geheimen Organisation an.

Earlier in the summer, we asked you to vote for your favorite science fiction and fantasy reads of the past decade — so here are 50 fabulous reads, curated by our expert judges and you, the readers.

Diáspora Al borde del año 3000, la Humanidad se ha dividido ampliamente en varias trayectorias evolutivas. Los Carnosos son los que residen principalmente en un cuerpo humano, aunque las diferencias genéticas han creado problemas de comunicación entres las diversas formas. En las Polis, en cambio, los humanos son incorpóreos, inteligencias artificiales con consciencia propia que procrean, interactúan, crean arte e intentan desentrañar los misterios de la vida. Y finalmente los Gleisner, robots orgánicos que usan un «software» de autoconsciencia. La novela se inicia con la aparición de Yatima, un huérfano generado espontáneamente por el «software» de la Polis Konishi, con plena autoconsciencia. Pero cuando una enorme tragedia sacude a las diversas especies humanas, Yatima se embarca en una gran búsqueda de especies supervivientes a través de la galaxia para resolver el misterio. Consíguelo en : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora @nib@l 2024