5/30/2023 0 Comments The fever king victoria lee![]() ![]() But then he meets the minister’s son-cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful-and the way forward becomes less clear.Ĭaught between his purpose and his heart, Noam must decide who he can trust and how far he’s willing to go in pursuit of the greater good. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks-refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia. The Fever King Hardcover Victoria Lee 5.57 Free shipping EXTRA 10 OFF 3+ ITEMS See all eligible items and terms Image not available Hover to zoom Have one to sell Sell now Shop with confidence eBay Money Back Guarantee Get the item you ordered or get your money back. In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. Featured in Seventeen, The Verge, Hypable, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The Nerd Daily, Booklist, and SyFy Wire. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The ballad of gaol![]() ![]() Sometime Trooper of the Royal Horse Guards. The Ballad of the Reading Goal can be considered as being the ballad of a dying man, as it tells about the last days of a man executed for killing his family. The great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde wrote this poem while incarcerated for the crime of homosexuality, disguising his authorship under his prison number.įor more works by Oscar Wilde, see The IndexĬ.T.W. This long ballad, Wildes last published work, is an eloquent plea for reform of prison. ![]() ![]() The original, squashed down to read in about 10 minutes The Ballad of Reading Gaol, poem by Oscar Wilde, published in 1898. The Hundred Books - The Ballad of Reading Gaol ![]() ![]() ![]() I like the plot twist of an independently wealthy scientist who loses his entire family to a terrorist attack and then has "nothing to lose" when he sets out to reduce the number of terrorists in the world. The crew are techno-geeks, and not the typical testosterone-laden former SF soldier or Navy Seal veterans. This is a truly unique look at a possible future, involving drone technology, killing terrorists. ![]() WOW! What a great read by a great new author. We could all be targets and never see it coming. The idea that someone with far fewer scruples could have access to this technology is very very frightening. Thankfully, Marshall Hail, the protagonist, has a strong moral compass. It’s message is that anyone can be killed without direct physical contact. Arquette has described a new level of warfare that is incredibly scary and very possible. The characters are well fleshed out and the plot original. This is a well-written, original techno-thriller. I was skeptical about the approach but decided to give it a chance. I was sent this book by the author with a request to review it. An amazing look at the next level of warfare ![]() ![]() After inheriting a sizable estate from dear Aunt March, the couple use it as an opportunity to build a home and school for orphaned children. Little Men begins with the arrival of street musician Nat Blake to Plumfield, a school for runaways established by Jo March and her husband Fritz. While Little Men fails to reach the same epic status of its predecessor, I actually found it to be a quite charming and lovely little book. After I finished it, I was quite satisfied by the experience. ![]() I was determined to explore the reasons behind this oversight. While many of us have read and fallen in love with the March family, the continuations are largely overlooked. For this year’s Alcott challenge, I have decided to read Little Men, her 1871 sequel to Little Women. Both fun and informative, I have learned so much about this incredible author who left behind numerous works ranging from family dramas to Gothic thrillers. For the third year in a row, I am participating in the Louisa May Alcott Reading Challenge. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Land of lost borders kate harris![]() In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle down the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel. Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth there was nothing left to be discovered. As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved-to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician-had gone extinct. ![]() It's a modern classic."-Pico Iyer " Lands of Lost Borders is illuminating, heart-warming, and hopeful in its suggestion that we will explore not to conquer but to connect."- Booklist (starred review) A brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road-an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world. ![]() ![]() " Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The totem by david morrell![]() ![]() OL11334401W Page_number_confidence 97.31 Pages 486 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200829164026 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 687 Scandate 20200824164219 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9782253170600 Tts_version 4. ![]() 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Signed/Limited 1000 copies, Hardcover, 383 pages. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:05:18 Associated-names Cheval, Catherine Carn, Stéphane Marignac, Thierry Boxid IA1915318 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The Totem - Ebook written by David Morrell. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Junji ito's gyo![]() His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. ![]() ![]() if Anastasia, Ollie, Quentin, and Gus (aka the League of Beastly Dreadfuls) can decipher the clues and figure out how to open it. And that cabinet holds the key to Anastasia’s missing grandfather. The witches have long since been banished, but deep in the darkest, most forbidden back alleys of Nowhere Special lies Calixto’s mysterious, unbreakable glass cabinet. Long ago, the evil wizard Calixto Swift committed a terrible crime against twelve-year-old Anastasia’s family, a crime that began the Perpetual War between witches and the people of Nowhere Special. Take one part Roald Dahl, a pinch of the Mysterious Benedict Society, and a dash of Lemony Snicket, then add a league of adventurous children, a little magic, and a centuries-old feud with witches, and you get this quirky and darkly hilarious middle-grade series! ![]() ![]() A creepy Victorian house, secretive aunties, and a great escape combine in this debut that is part. ![]() 3 Author: Holly Grant Imprint: Random House Books for Young Readers Language: English. Lemoncello’s Library and coauthor with James Patterson of the House of Robots and Treasure Hunters series The League of Beastly Dreadfuls, Book 1 Publishers Summary. League of Beastly Dreadfuls 3: The Witch's Glass. ![]() “Wonderfully witty.” -Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The talon saga book 1![]() Though the prose is often repetitive, the insight into their respective experiences is welcome, and Ember’s and Garret’s outsider perspectives on teen social rituals are reliably amusing.įans of the genre will be happy to overlook this series opener’s occasional lapses of style.īlack is back with another dark tale of Faerie, this one set in Faerie and launching a new trilogy. Kagawa rotates the first-person, present-tense narration among the three leads. Ember and Garret’s star-crossed romance is par for the course for teen paranormal romances, as is Riley’s role as a jealous rival, but readers swooning over the kisses are unlikely to complain about the familiarity. George, and his mission is to identify and assassinate any dragons hiding in Crescent Beach. ![]() Little does Ember know that Garret is a veteran soldier from the dragon-slaying Order of St. ![]() Restless and rebellious, Ember has been anticipating this summer for years, but it proves to be anything but carefree when she meets Riley, a dangerously appealing rogue dragon, and develops very undraconic feelings for Garret, a human boy she meets on the beach. ![]() Raised in secrecy and isolation by the ruthless dragon organization Talon, they’ve come to Crescent Beach for a summer of relative freedom to learn how to assimilate into human society. Sixteen-year-old Ember and her twin brother, Dante, are dragon shape-shifters living in a world oblivious to their existence. Dragons dwell among us in this contemporary romantic fantasy. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Grand Slam by J.T. Cheyanne![]() ![]() So I will just share some of my favorite things about the book.įirst I just want to point out I love Ansleigh over all, he is so well written and such a well rounded character. ![]() I have said in other posts I don’t like to give every detail or basically rewrite every word from the synopsis ….because I really think you should read this for yourselves. I love their interaction with each other….or should I say their bickering! And Shae is so feisty and boosy she cracks me up. He long with the sprites Shae and Grail, who I happen to love. We also meet in the Grotto Ansleigh of the Fae he is the protector of the woods. His inheritance comes with the stipulation that he live there for one year. ![]() The home and surrounding land is called The Grotto, Dylan used to visit there when he was a small boy. Dylan is confused since he and his grandfather hadn’t spoken in years. JT has a gift of creating a world that is both fantasy and very believable.Īs the book begins we meet Dylan Matthews at his grandfather’s will reading, he and his family are stunned to find out he has inherited his grandfather’s home and property. I started reading her and her wife’s working by in their role play days. Let me start out by saying, I have been a fan of JT Cheyanne’s writing for a long time. ![]() |