5/28/2023 0 Comments Gabriel's Ghost by Linnea SinclairWe were unable to find any books matching your exact criteria. The mission means putting their lives on the line-but the tensions that heat up between them may be the riskiest part of all.From the Paperback edition. I think Ill look into reading Gabriels Ghost sometime, since its your. Gabriel needs Chaz to help him stop the practice before it decimates Imperial space. I saw on Linnea Sinclairs website that shes working on a sequel to Gabriels Ghost. Someone in the Empire is secretly breeding jukors: vicious and uncontrollable killing machines that have long been outlawed. Yet now this seductive ghost from Chaz's past is offering her a ticket to freedom-for a price. But when she kills a brutal guard in an act of self-defense, someone even more dangerous emerges from the shadows.Gabriel Sullivan-alpha mercenary, smuggler, and rogue-is supposed to be dead. Award-winning author Linnea Sinclair brings her special sizzle to science fiction with this action-packed blend of otherworldly adventure and sexy stellar romance.After a decade of piloting interstellar patrol ships, former captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself court-martialed for a crime she didn't commit-and shipped off to a remote prison planet from which no one ever escapes.
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Assessing the impact of religion, global trade, slavery and resistance, and the challenges of modernity, this edition further connects the experiences of Africans and their descendants over time and space, attending to both convergences and divergences, while explaining how the deep past informs subsequent developments. It also widens the geographical span to include Latin America, while incorporating more on African experiences in Europe, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf. Continuing to pay particular attention to the lives of the working classes, the second edition expands its temporal boundaries to include developments into the twenty-first century, as well as integrating women and feminist perspectives more thoroughly. Nevertheless, Gomez manages to outline the. The book has a total length of 236 pages, including text, bibliography, and index. Gomez updates the text to include the most recent research on the African Diaspora. What first meets the eye about Reversing Sail is its small size. Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. 5/28/2023 0 Comments The three pigs wiesnerIn time, the young Wiesner began exploring the history of art, delving into the Renaissance at first - Michelangelo, Dürer, and da Vinci - then moving on to such surrealists as Magritte, de Chirico, and Dalí. The images before him generated a love of detail, an admiration for the creative process, and a curiosity about the hand behind the drawings. When the everyday play stopped, he would follow his imaginary playmates into the pages of books, wandering among dinosaurs in the World Book Encyclopedia. His home and his neighborhood became anything from a faraway planet to a prehistoric jungle. Perhaps it was this decor which awakened his creativity and gave it the dreamlike, imaginative quality so often found in his work.Īs a child growing up in suburban New Jersey, Wiesner re-created his world daily in his imagination. During David Wiesner's formative years, the last images he saw before closing his eyes at night were the books, rockets, elephant heads, clocks, and magnifying glasses that decorated the wallpaper of his room. From the beginning a pattern is set whereby the small vexations of the Pooters' daily lives are recounted, many of them arising from Pooter's unconscious self-importance and pomposity. The first entries describe the Pooters' daily lives, and introduce their particular friends these include the neighbour Gowing, the enthusiastic bicyclist Cummings, and the Jameses from Sutton. The couple have a 20-year-old son, Willie, who works as a bank clerk in Oldham. Mr Pooter is a City of London clerk with Perkupps, possibly an accountancy or private banking firm (though their business is not explicitly stated). In a short prologue, readers are informed that Charles Pooter and his wife Caroline (Carrie) have just moved to a new home at "The Laurels", Brickfield Terrace, Holloway. The Diary of a Nobody (1892) by George Grossmith (1847-1912) and Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919) is an English comic novel and “begins on 3 April of an unstated year, presumably 1888, and runs for approximately 15 months. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Dresden files book 3“What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden, wizard, tough guy and star of. Longtime series fans as well as newcomers drawn by the SciFi Channel’s TV series based on the novels should find this supernatural mystery a real winner.”- Library Journal Book 3 of 17 Dresden Files Print length 378 pages Language English Publisher ROC Publication date SeptemDimensions 4.25 x 1 x 7.5 inches ISBN-10 9780451458445 ISBN-13 978-0451458445 Lexile measure 730L See all details Books with Buzz Discover the latest buzz-worthy books, from mysteries and romance to humor and nonfiction. “A tricky plot complete with against-the-clock pacing, firefights, explosions, and plenty of magic. “What’s not to like about this series?.It takes the best elements of urban fantasy, mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery, tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action, shakes, stirs, and serves.”- SF Site Wizard for hire Harry Dresden gets mixed-up with the dead in this haunting, fantastical novel(. The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry’s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.”- Booklist (starred review) Grave Peril (Dresden Files 3) (Paperback) Description. “Butcher.spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally-charged setting. “One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.”- Cinescape “Superlative.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series.”- Midwest Book Review “Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”- Entertainment Weekly Gladwell's 10,000 hours isn't a magic threshold it's a memorable average computed across a diverse set of people (and in Gladwell's case, across a small sample as well). What takes a talented person 2,000 hours might take a someone less talented 20,000. They said Gladwell understated the importance of innate skill or intelligence. The claim provided a simple, quantifiable path to success.Ĭritics argued that this was misleading. In his book Outliers, Malcolm Galdwell famously claimed that becoming an expert in a task requires 10,000 hours of practice. "7 Friends in 10 Days"-Simplicity, not Science Like so many startups, we set out in search of our own “aha moment.” What we found was that “aha moments” are less about advanced analytics and more about simple math and strong messaging. Twitter, Dropbox, and Zynga have all emphasized the importance of similar simple metrics and Slack, the current poster child for rapid growth, recently shared theirs. Most notably, Chamath Palihapitiya declared Facebook's “aha moment”-getting to 7 friends in 10 days-as Facebook's North Star on the path to 1 billion users. Many leading tech companies have promoted “aha moments”-the instant a user understands the value of their product-as a key to growth. Hiroharu is a homophone of ''large spring''. His new given name is a play on word on his original one. Kōshun Takami was born Hiroharu Takami ( 高見宏治, Takami Hiroharu). From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the news company Shikoku Shimbun, reporting on various fields including politics, police reports, and economics. After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature, he dropped out of Nihon University's liberal arts correspondence course program. Takami was born on 10 January 1969 in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka and grew up in the Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku. He is best known for his 1999 novel Battle Royale, which was later adapted into two live-action films, directed by Kinji Fukasaku, and three manga series. Kōshun Takami ( 高見 広春, Takami Kōshun, born 10 January 1969) is a Japanese author and journalist. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Dr faustus thomas mannLee establishes what is actually happening in the novel in its historicalsetting, showing Mann's view of how the acceptance of fascism occurred and the determining role he attributed to the academic community in bringing about the disaster. This approach resolves many of the features that have been seen by critics as flaws or contradictions in the novel. Frances Lee provides a radically new interpretation by relating in a detailed manner to the text of Doktor Faustus the arguments expressed by Mann in his Observations of a Non-Political Man - a bookof political essays published in 1918. Unfortunately, the novel has always been interpreted as saying the opposite of what it does in fact say. Mann has always been considered an exemplary and authoritative portrayer of German culture, and his opinion on the rise of fascism carries considerable weight. Thomas Mann's last major novel, Doktor Faustus, revolves around the transformation of traditional German culture into Hitler's fascist Germany, a process that intrigues and confounds thinking people still today. A radically new view of Mann's last major novel. But the point that I am thinking about is that wonder and curiosity is or should be the essence of our lives. Hughes stole the title of my proposed next book. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. Foremost among the list of books is “ I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey: by Langston Hughes. Wow, now I have found a list of some interesting books. I will try again: “Novels beginning with the words ‘I wonder’.” “Google, how many great novels have started with the words: ‘I wonder’?” Well, I found “ Wonder” a great book about children who are different and Natalie Merchant’s beautiful song “ Wonder” about the same subject, but no list of great novels. I wonder how many great novels have started out with these two words: “I Wonder?” Ok, I am curious, so I will find out. Her 2012 book, “THE WILLPOWER INSTINCT” is based on the insights of students, and on the scientific findings presented in the course itself. It is the result of self-control which, according to Kelly McGonigal, the health psychologist who created “The Science of Willpower”, the most popular course in Stanford’s Continuing Studies program, is the protection of you by you. Willpower is the ability to do what really matters, even when it’s difficult. Whether it’s the double espresso shots in the already jitter-inducing coffee, the incessant iPhone check or play, the carcinogenic cigarette, or a habitual way of treating others, we all understand willpower – or more specifically, the sad-sack lack of it. |
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