![]() ![]() It is fashionable – or such people as Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics and Gary Zukav in The Dancing Wu Li Masters say it is so – to see deep and meaningful significance in similarities not always as convincing as the above. Or, wait a minute, could the Thomson quote be predicting the action of plate tectonics ("Heaven's command")? Food for thought there. There's some corner of a quantum field that is forever England. " Thus James Thomson, and taking Britain to be a particle-antiparticle pair, the azure main as the quantum field and Heaven as that omnipresent unifying principle we hear so much about these days, it's patently obvious that the formlessness at the roots of the new physics was foreseen by our wise Western ancestors. ![]() The eighteenth, also: "When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main. "In the wide womb of uncreated night", it says in Paradise Lost, and what better description could there be of the formless potentiality of the quantum field? Ah, those masters of the seventeenth century knew a thing or two. ![]()
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![]() Sworn enemies, these two witches enter a precarious alliance to take down a mutual threat. Jazmyne is the Queen’s daughter, but unlike her sister before her, she has no intention of dying to strengthen her mother’s power. ![]() Iraya has spent her life in a cell, but every day brings her closer to freedom - and vengeance. In an interview Smart stated that she was compelled to continue with the novel without fear after she heard the announcement of Children of Blood and Bone because it gave her hope about writing something different from the ones she had seen. In writing the book she made several research about Obeah and Jamaican culture. When she was on the trip to Jamaica, she visited Rose Hall and became obsessed with the idea of Black witches. Smart first had the early inspiration for novel when she went on her second family trip to Jamaica when she was twelve years old and she did not start writing until she read An Ember in the Ashes. It will be followed by a sequel, Empress Crowned in Red scheduled for release on May 10, 2022. ![]() Smart's debut novel inspired by Jamaican mythology was published on 20 April 2021 by HarperCollins and follows two enemy witches who must enter an alliance to fight a common enemy. ![]() ![]() Witches Steeped in Gold is a 2021 young adult dark fantasy novel by British Jamaican writer Ciannon Smart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her next books, The Castle Keepers (in collaboration with J'nell Ciesielski and Rachel McMillan) and A Bakery in Paris will release in 2023 from Harper Collins. Aimie is active as an educator and speaker in the writing community and beyond. She has been honored as a Historical Novel Society Editors’ Choice selection, as a three-time finalist for the Colorado Book Awards, and as a nominee for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year. ![]() Runyan writes to celebrate history’s unsung heroines. She lives in Colorado with her amazing husband, two (usually) adorable children, two (always) adorable kitties, an Aimie K. ![]() Also from Harper Collins, Aimie's contemporary Women's Fiction debut, The Memory of Lavender and Sage, will release in early 2024. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pale aqua cloth boards with black blocked titles front and spine top edge pale pink and other edges rough cut. Published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1947. The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy translated from the French by Hannah Josephson. The spine is worn and faded but remains undamaged. ![]() There is a little writing in pencil but for the most part the interior is clean. Without a dust jacket, this copy has darkened a great deal and the cover is somewhat faded and soiled. Nevertheless the picture she paints clearly struck a chord with readers in both languages and around the world. Gabrielle Roy was actually from St-Boniface, the French quarter of Winnipeg, and went to live in Europe from there, but was forced to return to Canada in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II and it was then that she went to Montreal and devoted her time to writing and sketching. This is a copy of the first English language publication of three time Governor General award winner Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute/Bonheur d'Occasion, which is credited with reflecting a life of such overwhelming and endless poverty in the face of huge families and low wages that it provided an impetus for change in Quebec. ![]() |