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As an arts charity, we want as many people as possible to enjoy the festival, so alongside our free events we are offering a sliding scale of prices to suit your personal circumstances. This year we have introduced a flexible pricing model on our events. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like a promise you won’t fight some monster just to impress one of the solitary fey who, as far as I can tell, you don’t even like.” “Now that I agreed to travel your way,” he shouts over the wind, “you ought to give me something I want. ![]() He can’t believe his good fortune, can’t trace the path that got him here. They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever. He cuts his gaze toward his unpredictable, mortal High Queen, whose wild brown hair is blowing around her face, whose amber eyes are alight when she looks at him. It’s not as though he doesn’t enjoy a little danger, just that he doesn’t gorge himself on it, unlike some people. “I suppose I would have plummeted out of the air,” Jude tells him with troubling equanimity, her expression saying, Horrible risks are entirely normal to me.Ĭardan has to admit that the ragwort steeds are swift and that there is something thrilling about tangling his hand in a leafy mane and racing across the sky. ![]() “ This is how you traveled? What if the enchantment ended while Vivi wasn’t with you?” This?” he demands, looking down at the waves far beneath them. ![]() ![]() We are here to discuss her new one-woman show, which she tells me was born out of fear: whenever she is frightened of something, she makes a point of running towards it. Her hair is punky and platinum with black roots, her lips painted bright red, her long burgundy nails click-clacking against the glass table. Izzard, who is 61, arrives this morning clutching a pink mobile phone and a Harlan Coben hardback. In this world of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, that’s got to be better than all the hatred and lying of the right wing.” Izzard’s planning to go into politics in a year. ![]() “The new fascism tries to put a wedge between us but trans people exist and have done so since the dawn of time. Her jauntiness about the subject hides a serious point. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the '50s, selling contraception was still officially illegal in many states.īut Sanger and McCormick, a feminist who had been active in the suffrage movement, wanted women to enjoy sex - without fear of getting pregnant.Īfter McCormick's husband died, McCormick got in touch with Sanger.Īccording to Eig, McCormick said, "What's the most important thing we could possibly work on?" The four people who created this revolution were: Margaret Sanger, who believed that women could not enjoy sex or freedom until they could control when and whether they got pregnant scientist Gregory Pincus, who was fired from Harvard for experimenting with in-vitro fertilization and bragging about it to the mainstream press John Rock, who was a Catholic OB-GYN and worked with Pincus to conduct tests of the pill on women and Katharine McCormick, who funded much of the research. How?Įig tells the history in his new book The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Birth of the Pill Subtitle How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution Author Jonathan Eig ![]() ![]() " This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. These are selected examples of the forbidding array of persons and places that compose the fiction of Thomas Ligotti.As one critic has written, "Ligotti is wonderful and original has a dark vision of a new and special kind, a vision that no one had before him. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection, for instance, introduces readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives. ![]() The stories collected in Teatro Grottesco feature tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns for which Ligotti is noted as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. ![]() In his stories, Ligotti has followed a literary tradition that began with Edgar Allan Poe, portraying characters that are outside of anything that might be called normal life, depicting strange locales far off the beaten track, and rendering a grim vision of human existence as a perpetual nightmare. His work is noted by critics for its display of an exceptionally grotesque imagination and accomplished prose style. Thomas Ligotti is often cited as the most curious and remarkable figure in horror literature since H. ![]() ![]() ![]() #1 New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure-to live a lifetime in a single day. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. ![]() On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. ![]() ![]() This special collector’s edition will feature a never-before-seen short story, a letter from the author, and a gorgeous special effect on the cover. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. ![]() ![]() ![]() With that in mind, over the next several years, I would always come back to Anderson. While I was glad to be in a galaxy far, far away once more, it was Anderson and Moesta’s words that kept me focused on other things and reminded me to enjoy reading again. To say I was a huge Star Wars fan is an understatement, and I had always wondered what came next after Return of the Jedi, so to have a glimpse of this was incredibly exciting. To break things up, I went to the school library and found a book in the Young Jedi Knights series by Kevin J. The fact that I had to sit in the nurse’s office every day during lunch to take my inhaler compounded this tedium. For every To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men, there was a boring (at least to me at the time) book about Montana. However, as I moved through elementary school, I slowly began to fall out of love with reading. ![]() Growing up, I read a lot of books, particularly the Bailey School Kids. ![]() ![]() DeSantis promised to nullify those efforts. ![]() Prior to the takeover by DeSantis appointees, in February 2023, Disney pushed through changes to the special tax district agreement that limit the board’s action for decades. Florida legislators revisited the issue in February 2023, stripping Disney of its special self-governing status and giving DeSantis the authority to appoint a new tourist board with oversight of the area. In April 2022, DeSantis called on the Republican-controlled legislature to abolish the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which it did in a special session. Disney paid taxes to that district, which provided municipal services and exempted it from some regulations. The Florida Legislature created the Reedy Creek Improvement District in 1967 to promote the development of Walt Disney World on a 100sq km (38.5sq miles) of land. ![]() What was that special taxing district and why was it set up? ![]() ![]() ![]() One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big. ISBN: 9780803740822 Author: Meltzer, Brad / Eliopoulos, Christopher (ILT) Series Title: Ordinary People Change World Ser. This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. This biography follows her from childhood to her first flying lessons and onward to her multi-record-breaking career as a pilot. (Cover may vary)Īmelia Earhart refused to accept no for an answer she dared to do what no one had ever done before, and became the first woman to fly a plane all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. ![]() Groundbreaking American pilot Amelia Earhart is the 2nd hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. ![]() |