![]() ![]() ![]() In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. Airborn (Matt Cruse, 1) Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers. ![]() ![]() One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is the life Matt's always wanted convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. (20.52) But then comes disappointment, and a major turning point for Matt: I could not fly. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Airborn Matt Cruse: Book 1 9.99 Buy Now by Kenneth Oppel Imagine a world where great airships ply the skies, strange creatures wait to be discovered, and adventure lurks around every corner. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Setting pen to paper, Queenie makes a journey of her own, a journey that is even bigger than Harold’s one word after another, she promises to confess long-buried truths-about her modest childhood, her studies at Oxford, the heartbreak that brought her to Kingsbridge and to loving Harold, her friendship with his son, the solace she has found in a garden by the sea. In this poignant parallel story to Harold’s saga, acclaimed author Rachel Joyce brings Queenie Hennessy’s voice into sharp focus. How could she wait? What would she say? Forced to confront the past, Queenie realizes she must write again. What he didn’t know was that his decision to walk had caused her both alarm and fear. ![]() Harold believed that as long as he kept walking, Queenie would live. Please see Disclosures for more information.įrom the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold’s cross-country journey.Ī runaway international bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry followed its unassuming hero on an incredible journey as he traveled the length of England on foot-a journey spurred by a simple letter from his old friend Queenie Hennessy, writing from a hospice to say goodbye. ![]() ![]() That means if you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account." - The New Yorker "Fascinatingly and convincingly drawn. ![]() ![]() Zealot yields a fresh perspective on one of the greatest stories ever told even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of Jesus' life and mission. And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself, the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity. He explores the reasons the early Christian church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary. Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against the historical sources, Aslan describes a man full of conviction and passion, yet rife with contradiction. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most enigmatic figures by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived. Within decades after his death, his followers would call him God. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A lucid, intelligent page-turner" ( Los Angeles Times ) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the "Kingdom of God." The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was executed as a state criminal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "This really is the big event you've been waiting for. The writing is sumptuous, the language lovely, even when the action itself is dark and violent." -The Huffington Post Thrilling in every way it has to be, but poetry just the same. ![]() "Compulsively readable." -The New York Times Book Review THE PASSAGE THE TWELVE THE CITY OF MIRRORS One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy-humanity's only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew-and daring to dream of a hopeful future.īut far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. As the bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale, Justin Cronin's band of hardened survivors await the second coming of unspeakable darkness. Now enter The City of Mirrors for the final reckoning. Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction."-Stephen King ![]() ![]() ![]() The gods, still suffering from multiple personality disorder, are useless. The Athena Parthenos will go west the Argo II will go east. Though it is tempting to take the Athena Parthenos to Athens to use as a secret weapon, the friends know that the huge statue belongs back on Long Island, where it might be able to stop a war between the two camps. The Roman legion from Camp Jupiter, led by Octavian, is almost within striking distance. The demigods are having more frequent visions of a terrible battle at Camp Half-Blood. She needs their blood -the blood of Olympus - in order to wake. They must be stopped before the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to have two demigods sacrificed in Athens. Her giants have risen - all of them - and they're stronger than ever. Though the Greek and Roman crew members of the Argo II have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. The Blood of Olympus is the fifth book in the bestselling Heroes of Olympus series - set in the high-octane world of Percy Jackson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Book 1 of 2 Political Order Print length 608 pages Language English Publisher Profile Books Ltd Publication date 5 April 2012 Dimensions 15.24 x 3.45 x 22. The first of a major two-volume work, The Origins of Political Order begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of the rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.ĭrawing on a vast body of knowledge-history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics-Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics and its discontents. The Origins of Political Order is the first part of Francis Fukuyama’s story of political history and theory. It starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries-with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.įrancis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man and one of our most important political thinkers, provides a sweeping account of how today’s basic political institutions developed. ![]() Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tamaya Dhilwaddi’s fifth-grade classroom on the fourth floor had been the youngest daughter’s bedroom. Nearly three hundred students now attended school in the four-story, black-and-brown stone building where William Heath had lived from 1891 to 1917, with only his wife and three daughters. Woodridge Academy, a private school in Heath Cliff, Pennsylvania, had once been the home of William Heath, after whom the town had been named. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. “Holds as much suspense as fuel for discussion.” - Booklist, Starred ![]() the very fate of the world is at stake.” - The New York Times “The children are well-realized characters and agents within their immediate social worlds. What they uncover might affect the future of the world.įUZZY MUD is an imaginative and suspenseful story of the great lengths we’ll go to for friendship and family, the mishaps and breakthroughs that are made in the name of science, and the wonders of mud. Bigger trouble than anyone could ever have imagined. Tamaya, unaware of the reason for the detour, reluctantly follows. To avoid the conflict, Marshall takes a shortcut home through the off-limits woods. But their routine is disrupted when bully Chad Hilligas challenges Marshall to a fight. From Louis Sachar, the multi-award-winning author of Holes, comes the New York Times bestseller that's been nominated for 13 state awards and counting!įifth grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from Woodridge Academy together since elementary school. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was extremely mature, and I really liked him as a character. This was very nice because it destroyed the instalove trope. I enjoyed that Sabrina mentioned that it was not love at first sight for her. With a story like this, I feel progression is an important main aspect to the plot. It was hard to see how much time has passed, and it felt kind of jumpy. Time moved extremely fast in some places and slow in others. And like mentioned earlier, I kept waiting for it to happen, which made the beginning of the book drag on.Īnother issue I encountered was that there was no concept of time. ![]() If it had not been spoiled, I would have been okay with that because it would have been unexpected. Since the main plot is spoiled in the summary, I kept waiting for it to happen. One issue I had with this story is that the pacing was extremely slow in the beginning. I understood their motives and reasoning for doing what they did. ![]() ![]() Also, we got to see the individual character’s grow. Sometimes unnecessary added drama is involved or I feel distanced as a reader and do not really connect to the story. I usually try to stay away from books with a plotline like this, because I always feel like the book does not do it justice. ![]() ![]() Not until her 1993 collection, Mean Time, and 1994's Selected Poems, does she begin to write about homosexual love.ĭuffy's poetry has always had a strong feminist edge, however. Joseph's convent school, her early love poems give no indication of her homosexuality the object of love in her verses is someone whose gender is not specified. Her verses, as an Economist reviewer described them, are typically "spoken in the voices of the urban disaffected, people on the margins of society who harbour resentments and grudges against the world." Although she knew she was a lesbian since her days at St. Head of English Woman Seated in the Underground, 1941Ĭarol Ann Duffy is an award-winning Scottish poet who, according to Danette DiMarco in Mosaic, is the poet of "post-post war England: Thatcher's England." Duffy is best known for writing love poems that often take the form of monologues. ![]() Standing Female Nude Anne Hathaway Premonitions The Light Gatherer Havisham In Mrs Tilscher's Class ![]() ![]() ![]() This one’s a multi-generational story spanning from early 19th century Brittany (a cultural region in the north-west of France–I looked it up) to London during WWII. This discovery sets in motion a series of events that will shape each sibling’s future, and end in midnight margaritas (kidding!).Ī Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan (September 5) ![]() When the Owens kids visit their Aunt Isabelle in the small Massachusetts town where the family has a reputation, the skeletons come out of the closet and they begin to understand who or what they really are. Rebellious Franny, shy Jet, and charismatic Vincent don’t know why their mother is so strict about such unconventional things, but they know they’re different. In the 1960s, three Owens children live in New York under an odd set of rules: no walking in the moonlight, no wearing black, no cats, and absolutely no books about magic. In this prequel, we get to revisit the Owens family (the Practical Magic aunts!) and the enduring consequences of the curse that began in 1620. Practical Magic was everything I wanted in a witchy book about sisterhood. I didn’t see this one coming, but I’m delighted by its existence. Okay, so we had a sequel, now let’s talk prequel. ![]() The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (October 10) If you haven’t read the first book in the series, pick up Akata Witch today. ![]() |