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![]() ![]() For her own mental health, she says she had to distance herself from him. He is blocked from contacting his only child - at her request. (Andrea Demeter Scratch)ĭemeter Scratch, 47, who now lives in London, Ont., hasn't visited or exchanged any correspondence with her father in a dozen years. Despite maintaining his innocence, he was sentenced to life in prison.Ĭhristine Demeter was a fashion model from Austria. His trial in 1974, one of the longest in Canadian history, ended with the jury finding him guilty of capital murder. Publicly, Demeter offered a $10,000 reward to help find the killer, but privately, he left his wife's grave without a tombstone.Ī month after the slaying, Demeter was arrested and charged with plotting his wife's murder. ![]() The person who carried out the murder has never been found. ![]() The jury that found Demeter guilty of arranging the hit on his spouse heard that the wealthy Hungarian immigrant, who had a mistress, wanted his wife dead in order to collect a $1-million insurance policy. The couple had been married almost six years when the bloody murder took place in the garage at the family's upscale home in Mississauga, Ont., on July 18, 1973. The man who arranged to have her beautiful mother killed is her biological father, Toronto-area land developer Peter Demeter, now 84, who has spent most of his adult life behind bars. Corrections Canada knows Andrea Demeter Scratch only wants to hear one last thing about the man responsible for her mother Christine's murder decades ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The final breathtaking scene, a sharp exemplification of just how far Ava has come in making choices that sustain rather than oppress her, is an effective finale to her long physical and emotional journeys. Ava’s sometimes overwhelming innocence is tempered by her innate fierce grit-she quickly adapts to the idea that she can be an active participant in her own destiny. In spite of the almost constantly dire circumstances, the novel has a meandering tone that perfectly highlights the weariness and numbness that can accompany a life lived constantly on the edge of disaster. ![]() Thankfully, there are plenty of places where, once she gets used to gravity and catches up on the seemingly endless number of things she was never taught, Ava can thrive, especially when she’s helped by local women, who, unlike her, were not raised to consider themselves useful only as procreative stock. The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best English language first novel of the year in the field of science fiction. Ava has only ever known life inside of the intensely patriarchal society on a deepspace merchant ship, so when she’s caught in a transgression and must undertake a risky escape, she’s hopelessly unprepared for her new life on Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet, in its particularity, its informality, Chasing Utopia continually reminds us of what's important: the connections we develop with those we love. This is not major Giovanni only occasionally (as in a poem written to commemorate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln) does she invoke a world more expansive than the one we make at home. I used to watch / my mother cook, she writes, she would invariably sigh / a little sigh then light / a cigarette // since no one smokes / anymore Beans / have not tasted as good // I have her sigh / and stack of spices. At its center is the notion of family - Giovanni's parents, her aunts, her son - an ideal of domesticity. Chasing Utopia is intimate, personal, what we might call a commonplace book, blending memories, reflections, even recipes. ![]() ![]() Her latest book, "Babel" will be published Aug. ‘Babel’ is my love letter and breakup letter with Oxford and academia.”Īuthor R.F. “I started writing it while I was at Oxford and it is deeply influenced by the beauty of the place and the dark beauty that underwrites it. I think it is the perfect novel for people who enjoyed ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt or ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr. ![]() “‘Babel’ is a novel about the magic of translation, the illusion and allure of the academy and the violence of anticolonial resistance. After years of diligent study, Robin is enrolled in Babel where he and his three classmates become quick friends, but Robin is forced to face some harsh truths about Babel and his life at Oxford. Once in England, Robin is trained in Latin, Ancient Greek and Chinese so he can enroll in Oxford’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, known as Babel. ![]() Kuang’s latest novel tells the story of Robin Swift, who was orphaned by a cholera outbreak in 1828 China before being taken in by a mysterious Oxford professor. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Seeds can be sown outdoors in fall or early spring.These codes indicate specific sowing instructions. what if they stopped using all the machines, and all the chemicals, and instead they went wild?Ī beautiful, sustainably printed book to nurture creativity in your child, and foster a deep connection with the living world. Winner of the Sustainability Award at the Independent Publishers Awards 2022, Ivy Kids books are planet-friendly, printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, locally to where they will be sold.Įach seed package carries a specific germination code along with the plant description. Even the trees look sad! One day, Nancy has an idea. ![]() That’s what all good farmers do, isn’t it?Īnd yet, there is no wildlife living on their farm. They use a lot of big machines to help them, and spray a lot of chemicals to get rid of the weeds and the pests. They raise their cows and pigs, and grow their crops. From the bestselling author Isabella Tree, When We Went Wild is a heartwarming, sustainably printed picture book about the benefits of letting nature take the lead, inspired by real-life ecological enhancement projects. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wall) and two philosophical essays, one on the emotions and one on imagination, and after some further After all, we care more for our ‘ego’ thanĪ few years later, after publishing an (in)famous novel ( Nausea), short stories ( The The ‘I’ thusīecomes an object, just like any other, only slightly more personal. Something that would only form an ‘I’ through its encounter with the world. ![]() No longer personal, consciousness was presented as Of consciousness and its encounter with the world. Things themselves by kicking the ego out of consciousness and carefully delineating the various modes Its author cleverly re-appropriated Husserl’s goal of going back to the Phenomenology from 1936-1937, ‘The Transcendence of the Ego’, had made quite an impression This wasn’t the first of Sartre’s writings to make some waves. ![]() The presentation wrapper on theĮarly reprint of 1945: “What counts in a vase is the void in the middle”! The original French edition), published in the midst of World War II. A writer named Jean-Paul Sartre sees his latest philosophical manuscript, BeingĪnd Nothingness, a “phenomenological essay on ontology”, 722 pages of fine print (in SUBSCRIBE NOW Jean-Paul Sartre at 100 Sartre’s Being & Nothingness: The Bible of Existentialism? Christine Daigle discusses some of the key concepts and ideas in Sartre’s most important philosophical book. ![]() ![]() ![]() This also applies to you posting on behalf of your friend/family member/neighbor. Personal benefit includes, but is not limited to: financial gain from sales or referral links, traffic to your own website/blog/channel, karma farming, critiques or feedback of your work from the community, etc. Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. ![]() Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. ![]() ![]() For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() P comes to visit him and tells Junior he forgives him, but advises him that he must leave the reservation. As a result, Junior is suspended from school. Suddenly furious that the reservation school is so poorly funded that it must use old and outdated books, Junior throws the textbook across the room-accidentally hitting Mr. P, passes out textbooks, Junior realizes that the books are at least thirty years old. ![]() On his first day of high school at Wellpinit (the school on the reservation), Junior is particularly excited for geometry class. Rowdy always protects Junior, though, and the two boys share a special bond, telling each other their secrets and dreams. He also loves spending time with his best friend, Rowdy, whose violent temper makes the other kids afraid of him. ![]() He loves to draw, and thinks his cartoons pose his best chance of getting off the reservation and out of the poverty that has held his family and his tribe back for generations. ![]() As a result, Junior has spent a lot of his time alone, reading or drawing cartoons. This condition gave him a stutter, seizures, and a number of physical differences, such as a large head, that make him a frequent target for bullies on the reservation where he lives. Fourteen-year-old Junior, a Spokane Indian boy, was “born with water on the brain” or hydrocephalus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Great Eastern, the biggest ship of its day and the first double hull ship built was used to place the cable at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The book is set in 1865 when the Trans Atlantic Cable was run from Valentia, Ireland to Hearts Content, Newfoundland. ![]() Ghost Messages is about the factual revolution of worldwide communication via a submarine cable and a young, fictional Irish girl, Ailish, who’s trapped aboard a ship, disguised as a boy and looking for treasure stolen from her. Many of her young adult books contain Métis history, as well as other portions of Canada’s history, along with mystery and adventure. Guest has been writing for the last 20 years. Jacqueline Guest visited Diamond Willow Middle School to talk about two of her newest novels, Ghost Messages and Outcasts of River Falls. From the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, from ghosts to Canadian Robin Hood, Ponoka students were given the chance to explore them all using only their imaginations. ![]() |