A bold debut novel reminiscent of Emma Cline's The Girls; a story of love lust & the spaces in between from a 'captivating' (New York Times) new voice in fiction It is 1950 & Willa's mother has a new beau The arrival of his blue-eyed sun-kissed sons at Willa's summer home signals the end of her safe childhood As her entrancing older sister Joan pairs off with Kenneth nine-year-old Willa is drawn to his strange & solitary younger brother Patrick Left to their own devices Willa is swept up in Patrick's wicked games As they grow up their encounters become increasingly charged with sexuality & degradation But when Willa finally tries to reverse the trajectory of their relationship an act of desperation has devastating results Unfolding between the wild freedoms of British Columbia & the glittering beaches of California Demi-Gods explores a girl's attempt to forge a path of her own choosing in a world where female independence is suspect Sensitive playful & entirely original Eliza Robertson is one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary literature ...

A bold debut novel reminiscent of Emma Cline&s The Girls; a story of love lust & the spaces in between from a &captivating& (New York Times) new voice in fiction It is 1950 & Willa&s mother has a new beau The arrival of his blue-eyed sun-kissed sons at Willa&s summer home signals the end of her safe childhood As her entrancing older sister Joan pairs off with Kenneth nine-year-old Willa is drawn to his strange & solitary younger brother Patrick Left to their own devices Willa is swept up in Patrick&s wicked games As they grow up their encounters become increasingly charged with sexuality & degradation But when Willa finally tries to reverse the trajectory of their relationship an act of desperation has devastating results Unfolding between the wild freedoms of British Columbia & the glittering beaches of California Demi-Gods explores a girl&s attempt to forge a path of her own choosing in a world where female independence is suspect Sensitive playful & entirely original Eliza Robertson is one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary literature ...

Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good & evil lightness & darkness & forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption & suffering that he sees all around him Crucial to this development are his relationships with a series of older mentors of who the titular Demian is the most charismatic otherworldly & ultimately influential Many have noted the influence of Jungian psychology upon this novel & it is fascinating to see Herman Hesse's interests in the self existence & free will play out through through the lens of early twentieth-century Europe; Christian imagery & themes are ever-present as is the shadow of the First World War ...

Join Percy Jackson Annabeth Chase & Carter & Sadie Kane as they do battle with an ancient Egyptian magician determined to become a god Against impossible odds the four demigods & magicians team up to prevent the apocalypse Contains the short stories The Son of Sobek The Staff of Serapis & The Crown of Ptolemy together in one volume for the first time Plus read an exciting extract from The Sword of Summer the first book in Rick Riordan's latest series Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard ...

The Demiguise is a peaceful herbivorous creature that can make itself invisible & tell the future which makes it very hard to catch It is found in the Far East but only wizards & witches trained in their capture can even see them Demiguises have precognitive sight which means the only way to catch them is to do something completely unpredictable licensed collector&s figure to Fantastic Beasts Fantastic Beasts Demiguise with Christmas giftswith elegant detachable displaydetailed work & hand painted Measures Display 11 x 11 x 175 cm ...

Written by BRIAN WOOD Art & cover by BECKY CLOONAN character-driven drama proves himself to be a master of done-in-one storytelling IGN The Eisner-nominated critically acclaimed project by writer Brian Wood & artist Becky Cloonan returns in this collection of the second six-issue miniseries Don miss these new stories of conflicted teens grappling with love loss & the joy of finding their way in life while dealing with their unexpected super-powers ...

Track Listings Disc 1 1 Liar in Your Head 2 Be Your Man 3 Loosen It 4 Fake Satan 5 Runnin& Around 6 I Wanna Leave (Alive) 7 Maker of Mine 8 Holy Doom 9 Spinning Out 10 Gods I&ve Seen 11 Fresh Outta Luck ...

Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK & the presidential election in the USA A C Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage & why crucially it matters First he considers moments in history
- Periclean Athens the English Civil War the American & French Revolutions among them
- in which the challenges we face today were first encountered & what solutions however imperfect were found Then he lays bare the specific problems of democracy in the twenty-first century & maps out a set of urgently needed reforms With the advent of authoritarian leaders & the simultaneous rise of populism representative democracy appears to be caught between a rock & a hard place yet it is this space that it must occupy says Grayling if a civilized society that looks after all its people is to flourish

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Democracy For The Few is a provocative interpretation of American Government It shows how democracy is repeatedly violated by corporate oligopolies & how popular forces have fought back & occasionally made gains in spite of the system By focusing on the relationship between economic power & political power discussing actual government practices & policies conspiracies propaganda fraud secrecy & other ploys of government & politics this book stands apart in its analysis of how US Government works ...

Abridged with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy Hailed by John Stuart Mill & Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe De Tocqueville examines the structures institutions & operation of democracy & shows how Europe can learn from American success & failures His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people but he also predicts that slavery will bring about the &most horrible of civil wars& foresees that the USA & Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century & is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position & importance of women ...