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![]() ![]() ![]() And while he found himself lost and frightened by three wild beasts, the Poet met Virgil, the great Latin poet and author who helps Dante to go through Hell. According to tradition, in fact, the First Canto in the first Canticle (The Hell) is set in the night between 24 and 25 March 1300, "in the middle of the road of our life" in which Dante, at the age of thirty-five, found himself "in a dark forest, because I'd lost the straight path". ![]() It's not an accidental date - it was officially established last year by the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini - it has always been linked to the great poet Dante Alighieri, whose 700th death anniversary falls between the 13 and 14 September this year.īut why has March 25 become such an important day for the Italian poet? According to various scholars and Dante's experts, this date is precisely when the big author begins his journey into the afterlife, narrated in his most famous work: la Divina Commedia. The recently passed March 25th has become a symbolic date for Italian culture and literature through the years and centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This revelation comes with profound consequences, for as the ancientīooks travel across China, they awaken immortals and guardian spirits Accompanied by Shao and his enigmatic maidservant, Sparrow, Lian makes her way to Shanghai in the hopes of reuniting with her mother.ĭuring the journey, Lian learns of the connection between her two companions and a tale from the Library of Legends, The Willow Star and the Prince. ![]() But after one classmate is arrested and another one is murdered, Lian realizes she must escape before a family secret puts her in danger too. Lian becomes friends and forms a cautious romance with the handsome and wealthy Liu Shaoming. And it is not just the refugees who are at risk Lian and her classmates have been entrusted with a priceless treasure: a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends.ĭuty to safeguard the Library of Legends creates unexpected bonds. Lian and a convoy of students, faculty and staff must walk 1,000 miles to the safety of China’s western provinces, a journey marred by the constant threat of aerial attack. Nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, “Myths are the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are. 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It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy-a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between. With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, I didn’t expect to like this book at all. 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Persephone is a senior journalism student who convinced her overbearing mother, Demeter, the goddess of spring to let her take an internship at the New Athens News. A Touch of Darkness is a modern version of the Hades and Persephone myth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up in post-war Boston, seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride is determined to become a photographer. But a shared secret could derail their mission unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it. To find her, the fierce, disciplined investigator joins forces with the only witness to escape the Huntress alive: the brazen, cocksure Nina. ![]() Yet one target eludes him: a vicious predator known as the Huntress. Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina’s bravery and cunning will keep her alive. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted…īold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. ![]() ![]() A quick tour of Netflix and Amazon Video will also reveal a plethora of documentaries. There are lots of books available on healthy eating. In addition to treating patients with his diet and fasting guidelines, he’s also co-founded a program called The Fasting Method to help people learn more about the process and how to properly adopt the practice. He’s also become one of the leading experts on treating type 2 diabetes through intermittent fasting and low carb diets. Fung is a nephrologist, or a kidney specialist (yes, I had to look that up). To help me understand more about it, how to prepare, and what to do during a fast, I decided to read The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day and Extended Fasting by Dr. I want to continue fasting and to incorporate longer periods of fasting into my routine. I even did a 48-hour fast a little over a year ago, which was a great learning experience. I’ve been practicing intermittent fasting for the past couple of years and have occasionally mixed in a full 24-hour fast. ![]() ![]() One area that I’ve been particularly intrigued by is fasting. It’s helped me to control my appetite, maintain a healthy weight, and generally feel better all around. ![]() ![]() I’ve learned a lot over the last few years that have led to adjustments in my personal eating habits and exercise routines. I have an interest in understanding how diet and exercise affect our physiology. 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It also makes her invisible pain tangible for an audience,” she says. “That menagerie is a way of giving the inner world of Laura – and by extension Rose – a physical manifestation. “I view it as an active kind of atonement and expiation for Williams as a writer.” In his notes to the play, the playwright described Laura as “like a piece of her own glass collection, too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf”. ![]() “Rose was effectively silenced when that happened to her, and this play gives her her voice back,” Annis says. She is equally as passionate about Laura, discussing how the role was written as a tribute to Williams’ sister Rose, whose mental illness was tragically mistreated, and whose lobotomy occurred in 1943, against Williams’ wishes, just two years before The Glass Menagerie. Annis as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie Johan Persson ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But will the choice of which side to fight on be hers? ![]() The day of reckoning for the Reestablishment is coming. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong - between Ella and Juliette - blur. Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. Maas, Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen, Stranger Things and Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows. The finale of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times best-selling young-adult fantasy series perfect for fans of Sarah J. The book that all Shatter Me fans have been waiting for is finally here. ![]() |