![]() If you've ever thought raccoons were cute (despite their garbage trolling, disease riddled ways), then the Tanuki is the kind of pet you need to try and get in your life. The Tanuki is probably the most adorable raccoon dog thing you'll ever see, being that it's shaped like a small dog, fluffy like a toy dog (kind of like a Pomeranian) with the face of a raccoon. Ever since, the Internet has sounded like a bunch of Minions in awe, typing collective "Oooooohsssss" and "Ahhhhhssss" across social media. The raccoon dog's name is, of course, "Tanu". Raccoon dogs took the internet by storm this week when a Japanese man posted photos of his domesticated Tanuki frolicking in the snow. ![]() ![]() The animal is something called a Tanuki, and indeed, is of the latter persuasion (a dog that looks like a raccoon, rather than the other way around). The cutest animals of the week are these raccoons that look like dogs, or maybe they're dogs that look like raccoons. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sybella, a trained assassin, escorts Brittany’s duchess to France to marry King Charles. 5, 2019 History, intrigue, and peril in 15th-century Brittany and France. ![]() Though Robin has never trained as an assassin or joined a convent, she has been on a search for answers to life’s mysteries for as long as she can remember. COURTING DARKNESS From the Courting Darkness series, Vol. LaFevers, she is also the author of the THEODOSIA and NATHANIEL FLUDD, BEASTOLOGIST series. No one can be trusted and the wolves are always waiting in this thrilling conclusion to the Courting Darkness duology, set in the world of Robin’s beloved His Fair Assassin trilogy. Sybella has always been the darkest of Death’s daughters, trained at the convent of Saint Mortain to serve as his justice. Her books have received multiple starred reviews, have been selected as best books of the year by Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and been nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature. COURTING DARKNESS By Robin LaFevers Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Hardcover: 978-0544991194 Death wasn’t the end, it was only the beginning. ![]() ROBIN LAFEVERS is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed His Fair Assassin trilogy-GRAVE MERCY, DARK TRIUMPH, and MORTAL HEART and the companion duology COURTING DARKNESS and IGNITING DARKNESS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 2020). ![]() ![]() ![]() He clarifies why two great civilizations-Western and Muslim-grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europe-a place it long perceived as primitive-had somehow hijacked destiny. He introduces the key people, events, ideas, legends, religious disputes, and turning points of world history, imparting not only what happened but how it is understood from the Muslim perspective. His story moves from the lifetime of Mohammed through a succession of far-flung empires, to the tangle of modern conflicts that culminated in the events of 9/11. ![]() In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim community at the center. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of view, and restores the centrality of the Muslim perspective, ignored for a thousand years. The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. ![]() ![]() I knew I had to read it when I heard that I love a good vampire story, even now, and boy was this an excellent reason why vampires have yet to fully fade from pop culture. This was compared to both Underworld and ACOTAR, and I was absolutely OBSESSED with both at different times of my life (ACOTAR is ongoing, obviously). But Oraya will be forced to ally with those intent on killing her, and what she learns about herself and her father along the way may just change her entire world. But all that is about to change Oraya is set to compete in the Kejari, a contest that promises any one wish to the victor. ![]() ![]() She’s grown up in the House of Night, separate from everyone, prey to the predators that surround her. Oraya was rescued from the wreckage of her family home as a baby by the vampire king, Vincent. There is nothing like the feeling of sinking into this kind of story for me, and I fucking loved this. I laughed, I swooned, I gasped, I obsessed over these characters. Those are the stains on one’s innocence that never fade.” The blood that spilled over that marble floor, though… Not the blood that spilled between her thighs that shaped her. ![]() It was not the sex that changed the girl forever. “Strange, that girls are so often told that the loss of their virginity marks a threshold between girlhood and womanhood, as if it fundamentally alters them in some way. ![]() Review: The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Carissa Broadbent) ![]() ![]() The most important historical era to which Ishmael reacts is the radical movement of the 1960s. Since 2000, he’s been involved in a great number of rallies, conferences, and forums regarding issues of anarchism, environmentalism, and pacifism. Following the success of Ishmael, Quinn wrote two other philosophical novels about anthropology and the environment: The Story of B (1996), and My Ishmael (1997). ![]() Ishmael won Quinn the prestigious Turner Award, organized by the media billionaire Ted Turner. Quinn’s breakthrough came in 1991, when he wrote his best-known novel, the philosophical dialogue Ishmael. He didn’t write a novel of his own until 1988-this novel, Dreamer, was a work of science fiction, and while it earned fairly positive reviews, it didn’t sell well. ![]() Following his departure from Kentucky, Quinn moved to New York and worked in publishing for many years. Quinn fell out with his mentors at the abbey-a falling out that contributed to his abandonment of Catholicism altogether in the mid-1960s. Afterwards, he studied at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Bardstown, Kentucky, in the hopes of becoming a monk. He later studied at a variety of universities, including Saint Louis University, where he earned a B.A. ![]() Daniel Quinn was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and was raised Catholic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suwa versus Kakeru for Naho’s affections could easily fall into shoujo tropes (rival hair colors aside), and in some ways it does, but it does so thoughtfully. The narrative switchover is a good one and keeps the extra volume from feeling tacked on for a couple of reasons: the story of how Naho and Suwa wind up together is fully never explored in the original series, leaving the reader with natural questions and it’s clear that Suwa had the most to lose if Kakeru survives, and yet he chooses to send the letters to his past self anyway. Billed as essentially “volume 6”, the story chooses to focuses on Suwa, who, in one version of the future, marries Naho after Kakeru’s untimely death. Orange is a popular series with an anime adaption, a live action movie adaption, an anime movie adaption, and the original manga, a follow-up makes complete sense here. ![]() Now, the future has changed in more ways than the original orange crew could have imagined - but how exactly did their future selves come to be before the letters? A group of high school friends receive letters from themselves ten years in the future, urging them to save their best friend from a terrible fate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, in A Thousand Ships Natalie Haynes puts the women, girls and goddesses at the centre of the story. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women embroiled in the legendary war. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. This was never the story of one woman, or two. ![]() In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker. One of the Guardian's and TLS's 'Best Books of 2019 ' Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Sing, O Muse of the story of A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, of the sorrow of Hecube, of the determination of Andromache, of the grief filled prophecies of Cassandra, of the patience of Penelope, of the tragedy of the Amazon Penthesilea, who sought death for the horrible accident she caused. ![]() ![]() ![]() By contrast, Acemoglu and Robinson have resolutely focused on only the largest of macro questions: how contemporary institutions were shaped by colonial ones, why it was that regions of the world that were the richest in the year 1500 were among the world’s poorest today, or how rich elites were ever persuaded to redistribute their wealth. 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