5/13/2023 0 Comments Shadow frost by coco ma![]() When their paths entwine, Asterin realizes that Eoin possesses exactly what-and who-she seeks most. Another realm coexists with the mortal world-the beautiful, nightmarish Immortal Realm ruled by the wicked God of Shadow, King Eoin. Yet it soon becomes clear that the shadows plaguing her kingdom are just the beginning. ![]() But the shadows in Axaria have begun to stir once again, and no one is more starved for vengeance than Asterin… Except Asterin’s triumph has come at a devastating cost-forced to choose between a lifelong friend and true love, she’s lost both. Her kingdom is safe, forbidden magic eradicated, and her friends are alive. After defeating the evil mother who summoned an immortal demon to kill her, newly coronated Queen Asterin Faelenhart should have every reason to celebrate. ![]() ![]() In the kingdom of Axaria, a darkness has fallen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Here he identifies six fundamental song functions or types-friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love-then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history. ![]() Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that “will leave you awestruck” ( The New York Times).ĭaniel J. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Barbara tuchman practicing history![]() ![]() ![]() This is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent “practicing history.” Spanning more than four decades of writing in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Harper’s, The Nation, and The Saturday Evening Post, Tuchman weighs in on a range of eclectic topics, from Israel and Mao Tse-tung to a Freudian reading of Woodrow Wilson. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Tuchman reflects on world events and the historian’s craft in these perceptive, essential essays.įrom thoughtful pieces on the historian’s role to striking insights into America’s past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Celebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize–winning epic The Guns of August and other classic books, Barbara W. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The woman in black by susan hill![]() ![]() ![]() His teen stepsons begin, in high spirits, on the informing of ghost tales. So I’m not rather specific what this discloses – the literary course of youngsters? Certain, submit a movie starring Daniel Harry Potter Radcliffe, perhaps brand-new target audience are involving the book, however it is instead a gradually paced, literary item of developing (therefore its standing the examination of time on a re- check out for this customers) It’s a properly paced, slow-moving- shed, climatic item of developing, with an amazing feeling of lonesome location – established on the North- East shoreline, a great deal of the scary takes place from Hill’s capability to establish a spooky, appealing, magical as well as likewise separated tidal tidewater landscape, complete with the suckings in addition to soughings, the twinkles, glistens as well as likewise moisture of wind, water in addition to sea- worries.Īrthur Kipps, currently a facility aged man on his 2nd marital relationship, is immured in a home Xmas. I do not think it went to very first made up, or launched for that market. Though I’m – amazed/amused/shocked to uncover that it is currently kept in mind as an ideal vendor on in the YOUNG PEOPLE’S book category. ![]() ![]() Susan Hill’s transmogrified right into numerous media The Girl In Black continues to be a remarkable, weather ghost tale, still holding its very own after its 30 plus years in print. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Louis riel a comic strip biography![]() His ambivalence about Riel's status in Canadian history is revealed in the novel's very large appendix, which serves in part as a running commentary on the novel's action. Brown eschews defining exactly what Riel, the most debated figure in Canadian history, should mean to a contemporary audience. ![]() ![]() The novel, drawn entirely using a six-panel grid, gives a somewhat sympathetic chronicling of Riel's resistance to the Canadian government's mistreatment of the Métis community, in both 1869-, which resulted in the Métis' military defeat, and Riel's trial and execution. Time Magazine included it in its annual Best Comix list in 2003. Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography is a highly acclaimed comic book biography of the Métis rebel leader, Louis Riel, by Chester Brown and published by Drawn and Quarterly. Now here's the comic-book version, which I recently read: In Happy Louis Riel Day! I noted the Métis rebel's life and legacy. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Sandeep jauhar heart a history![]() Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family's history of heart ailments and the patients he's treated over many years. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker-by accident. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient's circulatory system to a healthy donor's, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world's first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live. ![]() The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. ![]() Jauhar deftly braids tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family's history of heart ailments and the patients he's treated over many years. About the Book The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Mustakeem slavery at sea![]() Although acknowledging, as they must, that the Atlantic slave trade was an enormous crime, they tend to stress that in purely business and economic terms it was a highly advanced and complex form of international commerce that was rational in its operations and very modern in its management techniques. Modern historians have tended to follow these eighteenth-century arguments closely. They seldom interrogated, however, the claims of proslavery advocates that the business of the slave trade was a major advance in developing the kinds of managerial and organizational skills that could be transferred to all sorts of other business activities. Opponents, of course, emphasized the immorality and inhumanity of the trade. That complexity meant that slave traders had to master many skills, had to become skilled accountants, and needed to take what was in the eighteenth century a remarkably modern view as to future consequences of present actions. ![]() ![]() Defenders of the Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century celebrated it as a sophisticated global system, which was characterized by rational decision making and not only provided the Americas with the labor they needed to make plantations work but also improved business efficiency in Europe due to the complexity of trade relationships on three continents. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Wintersweet by E. Davies![]() ![]() Life's a party, and the fleet’s youngest airline captain Roman White is all-or-nothing: a playboy who over-commits when he tries to settle down. But will their growing feelings undermine everything they’re building? ![]() When he tells the vet about his secret ex who’ll be at his sister’s wedding, the solution is obvious: Blane can be Falcon's plus-one. But incessantly cheerful Falcon Harper won’t stop studying him as he paints meerkats at his zoo. Zoo vet Blane Winters's grumpy attitude and muscles hide a romantic heart. After a taste of being together, how can they face a future apart? ![]() Yet Deen can't just drop everything to go live in the mountains, and Nico can't abandon them. Behind their personas, they’re startlingly similar. Until he ends up babysitting rock star Deen Jayse, sent to the Smoky Mountains by his manager for image rehab. Here are the six novels included in this collection, plus the novella ( Wintersweet ) that catches up with the guys while they plan a wedding:Īfter zero-gravity heroics left astronaut Nicolas Rogers injured, his new job as a hermit - er, park ranger - seems perfect. If you’ve never met the Significant Brothers, dive in - the series has 400+ five-star reviews on Amazon, and the last book won a Rainbow Award for Best Bi Contemporary Romance! ![]() For the first time, enjoy the whole Significant Brothers series in one collection. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Brown sisters talia hibbert![]() ![]() ![]() Eve’s journey to understanding her fears is sweet, and Jacob’s belief in her as a caring, capable adult is the stuff romance heroes are made of. ![]() Jacob, who has autism, helps Eve realize her own place on the spectrum. There isn’t much of a plot instead, it’s all situational: How will these two people coexist despite their differences? Eve is caring but plagued by insecurities while Jacob is taciturn and methodical. When an unexpected accident leaves Jacob with no choice but to hire her, though, they're forced to work together to keep the bed-and-breakfast running. On a lark, she applies for a job as a cook at a bed-and-breakfast, but owner Jacob Wayne can just tell that Eve is too inexperienced and undisciplined for the job. ![]() Furious and embarrassed at disappointing herself and her family again, Eve takes off in her car and ends up a few hours away in the Lake District. After her latest job-related disaster, her parents give her an ultimatum: They're cutting off their financial support until she can hold down a job. A British woman takes a job as a chef at a bed-and-breakfast owned by a handsome, grumpy man.Įve Brown has always struggled to finish what she starts-university, jobs, relationships. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Charlotte gray novel![]() ![]() But Faulks falters when he asks us to believe that pragmatic young Scotswoman Charlotte Gray is so transformed by her love for RAF airman Peter Gregory that she determines to parachute into France to find him after he disappears on a mission somewhere in the Free Zone. Although this novel does not, sadly, equal its predecessor in terms of seductive readability, its setting in occupied France during WWII and its depiction of the sentiments that motivated many Frenchmen to identify emotionally with the Germans rather than their longtime foe, Britain, grants the story intrinsic interest. ![]() Readers of the bestseller Birdsong may hope that Faulks's third novel will furnish another mesmerizing narrative with a piercing love story and the kinds of details that vitalized his descriptions of life in the trenches during WWII. ![]() |