![]() ![]() This volume considers what the expectations of people at different status levels were for the use of the law, what perceptions of justice and authority existed among different groups, and what their knowledge was of law and legal procedure. ![]() The contributions are concerned with understanding late medieval and early modern legal experts as well as the users of courts and legal services, the languages and records of law, and legal activities occurring inside and outside of official legal fora. In these essays, the contributors seek to understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by focusing specifically on the urban experience and, to a great extent, on urban records. ![]() Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c. ![]()
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In doing so, the novel explores complex problems relating to identity, allegiances, and politics. 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winner The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen has been widely acclaimed for introducing American and Western readers to the other side of the story-or history-by retelling the well-known narrative of the Vietnam War from another perspective, namely that of the Vietnamese in the aftermath of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. ![]() ![]() I dropped it on my distressingly unstable To Read pile and read The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm by Christopher Paolini. Truth be told, however, that when I first opened the cover of The Raven Tower, I quickly slammed it shut, frustrated at yet another attempt to subvert expectations by changing the way in which authors tell stories. ![]() So, it should be of little surprise that, when I found out Leckie was writing a fantasy novel, I jumped at the opportunity to read it. ![]() Jemisin for a comparison, but I would argue that neither has achieved the meteoric rise and success so quickly out of the gate that Ann Leckie has achieved. We would probably need to look at the debuts of authors such as Brandon Sanderson and N.K. There has probably been no author to have such a dramatic impact on the world of Science Fiction & Fantasy in the last decade as that made by Ann Leckie, whose debut novel Ancillary Justice walked away with every major genre award available to her. ![]() ![]() ![]() To thwart a curse, a fake king enters a fake marriagebut his sacrificial death will be all too real. 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Two, his marriage to the sharp-tongued priestess Nirah is already in trouble–and they aren't even really married. One, the palace oracle foretells of a threat that could leave the king dead and the city in ruins. It's the life he's always dreamed of, except for three small problems. To thwart a curse, a fake king enters a fake marriage-but his sacrificial death will be all too real.Īs the king of Sippar, Ahsan is surrounded by unparalleled luxury, fawning attendants, and a gorgeous wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Told from the tender point of view of an enslaved child on a plantation, this book gently helps its readers step into the shoes of what life under slavery was like. ![]() Listening in on the masters helped the children know who was in danger of being sold away from their family. Books about the Underground Railroad and the Enslaved Experience Please read my full disclosure policy HERE. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. 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But I have really enjoyed L. This is not a book I’d normally pick up, because it’s speculative fiction, inspired by history, and light on romance. If you like creepy or horror, you would like this! Xe Sands does a wonderful monotone in places that makes sense to the story and gives it an even more ominous tone. ![]() ![]() I listened to this book and it was creepy and haunting, which is exactly the tone needed for this book. Which is a whole third character looming in the background, feeling alive and threatening at almost every turn. Or maybe the creepiest was the family home. To be honest, I don’t know who was creepier – Vera’s dying mother who despises Vera and constantly says creepy things, or Vera’s father in her memories who fills her head with what seemed close to bizarre religious beliefs. Her mother is hostile towards her, there’s something living under her bed, and her father was a serial killer who may be haunting the house, so things are complicated! We get bits and pieces of their backstory revealed, combined with pieces of what’s currently going on but there are still so many questions as the story continues. ![]() This book begins with Vera coming home to take care of her dying mother. ![]() ![]() One thing I do have in common with Kabi is that I have some depression and anxiety, something which can be remarkably hard to figure out! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is the best “this is how depression and anxiety can make you feel” story I’ve ever seen. ![]() Rather, it was coming to understand her sexuality that helped Kabi sort out other pieces of her life, things and mindsets that felt perfectly normal and fine but in hindsight were not, and this ties her autobiographical story into the rare, natural-feeling character arc. ![]() Nagata Kabi’s life is many things and while her lesbian identity is an important aspect of that, it is not the only aspect of her life and I hope that people don’t see this title and walk away because they aren’t lesbians. ![]() Helen: I am neither a lesbian nor afraid of my loneliness, but My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness still described me better than many others have tried. ![]() ![]() ![]() The town is a mix of dilapidated military structures and new, shiny buildings, all overseen by the town’s gleaming treatment center high on a plateau. There are no cars, no cemeteries, no churches. So when a mysterious letter in her mother’s handwriting arrives in the mail with the words Come and find me, pointing to a town called Backravel, Beck hopes that it may hold the answers.īut when Beck and her sister Riley arrive in Backravel, Arizona it’s clear that there’s something off about the town. She finds herself unable to stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, clamoring for a time when things were normal. She finds herself unable to stop hersel Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. ![]() |