Nevernight by jay kristoff5/24/2023 If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic-the Red Church. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.ĭaughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. The first in a new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author.
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Primal waters5/24/2023 But behind the scenes, someone else is pulling the strings. Jonas needs the money, and the job seems easy enough-doing color commentary. For the next six weeks, two teams of crazy daredevils on a South Pacific Ocean voyage on-board a replica of a Spanish Galleon will try to outperform one another in front of the cameras. But life is about to change.Ī Hollywood television producer wants Jonah to join his new survival series: Daredevils. Meanwhile, Jonas Taylor-adventurer, has become Jonas Taylor, middle-aged father of two, overwhelmed by mountains of bills and the daily strife of raising a family. New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten's Meg: Primal Waters continues his thrilling action adventure series-the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor.Įighteen years have passed since Angel, the Megalodon shark broke free of the Tanaka Lagoon and returned to the Mariana Trench. Sowell economics5/24/2023 Sowell, who uses inter group comparisons whenever possible throughout the book to test out theories, challenges these conclusions with two questions. It is widely thought, for example, that the position of the American black community results from slavery, and that weak family structure is a particularly important inheritance from slavery because strong family structure correlates with economic advancement. His conclusions, which defy the conventional wisdom, are fascinating. What Sowell does in this extremely useful book is to apply logic and economic analysis to group history. He scorns “the view in some quarters that the economic advancement of minorities is the result of tolerance, which is the result of ideas promoted in missionary fashion.” Instead, he argues in Race and Economics that the failure or success of racial and ethnic minorities in America is to be explained by solid economic and historical analysis. Thomas Sowell has a more pragmatic notion. Racial and ethnic relations in the United States have long been seen as a great morality play in which injustice is caused by, and will be ended by attacking prejudice. Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake5/24/2023 In order to make this happen she goes back to the capital under a banner of truce to be with Katherine. She is the strongest of the sisters and the most level headed, she truly wants the three of them to reunite. After the battle in the previous book, Katharine continues to maintain her rule over Fennbrin, but the dead Queens inside her are getting stronger and more confident, will she be able to control them or will they cause her even more personal loss? Mirabella cannot stay with her sister Arsinoe as she doesn't agree with the rebellion and the Legion Queen, Jules. a good plot, I hear you say, well you will not be disappointed. It's Game Of Thrones for YA!! What more can you want from a book. Like all the previous books, this final episode does not disappoint as it's full of drama, magic, death, violence, gore (for those that like a little more!), politics, trust and, to wrap it all up, romance. Five Dark Fates is the concluding episode to the amazing fantasy series, Three Dark Crowns. Sarah maclean heartbreaker5/24/2023 Adelaide soon realizes that this perfect duke kisses like a proper scoundrel, and is turning out to be a thief in his own right…one who won’t stop until he’s stolen her well-guarded heart. When the two find themselves on a breakneck journey across Britain to stop a wedding, the duke has no choice but to follow her across Britain on a trip filled with bad weather, bad luck, and a surprising lack of beds. Henry Carrington, Duke of Clayborn, has spent a lifetime living in perfection and has no time for the scandals that arise every time Adelaide ends another groom. His own reputation is impeccable-and the last thing he needs is a frustrating, fascinating woman discovering the truth of his past, or the secrets he holds close. In the north part of London, she’s Adelaide Frampton, unassuming wallflower and distant cousin to a duchess. 23, 2022 A thief and a duke fall in love in MacLean’s second Hell's Belles romance. Raised among London’s most notorious criminals, a twist of fate landed Adelaide Frampton in the bright ballrooms of Mayfair, where she masquerades as a quiet wallflower-so plain and unassuming that no one realizes she’s the Matchbreaker…using her superior skills as a thief to help unwilling brides avoid the altar, all while hiding her own scandalous past. HEARTBREAKER From the Hell's Belles series, Vol. New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean follows her highly acclaimed Bombshell with Heartbreaker, featuring a fierce, fearless heroine on a mission to steal a duke’s secrets…and his heart. Moon crusted snow5/24/2023 The most memorable elements of the novel are Rice’s honest depictions of human reactions and their interactions with one another through a colorful cast of characters, he reveals the complex and multifaceted nature of humanity. With straightforward and spare writing, Rice brings to life a scenario that is frighteningly plausible. Despite their efforts to maintain order, a rumbling panic begins to ensue as food becomes scarce and an unwelcome guest from a disintegrating society from the south stirs up controversy. As the hazards slowly mount, the leaders of the Anishinaabe community struggle with deciding how to proceed. At first annoyed when the reservation suddenly experiences a blackout, it eventually becomes clear that they must fight for their lives through the long winter without electricity or communication with outside groups. The people of an isolated First Nations community in northern Canada are preparing for a cold winter. In his sophomore novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, Indigenous author Waubgeshig Rice supplies a thoughtful analysis of life on the rez in a real-world dystopia. But now he has a rude awakening, as he is dragged up through the ranks of a military school in which his peaceful inclinations are viewed as weaknesses to be ruthlessly exploited. All his early life, Landen has been taught that true strength lies in doing no harm. as long as it is wielded for peace, not conquest. The Sword has magic in it, such that no one can defeat the one who wields it. The Sword is the symbol of Bellandra, the land of which Landen was destined to be king - a kingdom that no longer exists. But he is restrained from avenging his father's death by two things - one being his devotion to the cause of peace, and the other his growing love for Torina. Raised as a member of the king's household, Landen learns the arts of combat and becomes a fearsome warrior. The other is Landen, son of a defeated king, who is given to Torina as a slave and instantly set free. One gift is a crystal ball in which she learns to see the future. The Seer is the Princess Torina, whose warrior-king father brings her two gifts as spoils of a war in which he conquered a peaceful, magical country. The 10x rule by grant cardone5/24/2023 Success is not an option but is an absolute MUST if you have to live out your full potential in service to yourself, family, company and community. He further underscores this by saying “You must never reduce success in your mind or in a conversation to something that doesn’t matter on the contrary, it is vital.” Without it, you your group, company, goals and dreams and even the entire civilization would cease to survive and thrive.” “Success provides confidence, security, a sense of self, the ability to contribute at a greater level, and hope and leadership for others in terms of what is possible. Success is your Duty, Obligation and Responsibility The following are some of my key take-away(s): This book is really a call to elevate your thinking and action to 10x levels. One of the key tenets of the 10x rule is that the target is never the problem, rather any target attacked with the right actions in the right amounts with persistence is attainable. He then follows that up by explaining why it’s vital to operate according to the 10x rule.Īfter much reflection and consultation, Grant came to the conclusion that many a times we don’t achieve our goals because we don’t correctly estimate the required effort, time and energy.Īnd here he offers his first advise which is, you should NEVER reduce your target rather you should increase your activity. The 10x Rule, in a nutshell, is massive thinking + massive action, to put in a mathematical format. The author, Grant Cardone, begins by first defining what he means by the 10x Rule. Color Me Dark by Patricia C. McKissack5/24/2023 She graduated with an English degree in 1964 while Fredrick obtained a civil engineering degree. While attending Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University now known as the Tennessee State University, McKissack met up with a childhood friend, Fredrick McKissack, who would later become her husband. She also published under the names L'Ann Carwell, Pat McKissack, and Patricia C. Patricia McKissack was also a board member of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance, a national not-for-profit that actively advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries. Fredrick died in April 2013 at the age of 73. In addition to her solo work, McKissack co-wrote many books with her husband, Fredrick, with whom she also co-won the Regina Medal in 1998. What is Given from the Heart was published posthumously in 2019. Notable standalone works include Flossie & the Fox (1986), The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (1992), and Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? (1992). She also wrote a novel for The Royal Diaries series: Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba. She was the author of over 100 books, including Dear America books A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North and Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl. "Pat" McKissack ( née Carwell, Aug– April 7, 2017) was a prolific African American children's writer. Children's literature, Biography, Historical fiction, Folktale The Lion in Winter by James Goldman5/24/2023 But the movie, which opened last night at the Lincoln Art Theater is, for the most part, outdoorsy and fun, full of the kind of plotting and action people used to go to just plain movies for.The film is almost too faithful to the play. At moments, the parents, sons and visiting royalty at Chinon in 1183 talk so nastily that they seem like a whole household full of men who came to dinner. The dialogue of "The Lion in Winter," taken from James Goldman's Broadway play, is witty and dated in a twenties way-as all wit from drawing room and insult comedy seems dated now. Not a contest for the psychological upper hand, or whether the baby shall have a pacifier and which restaurant to go to tonight, but a contest transposed into 12th-century terms - which son shall inherit the kingdom, who will marry the king's mistress and what will become of the provinces of Vexin and Aquitaine. IT is a lovely idea to cast Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine, with and against a very heavy and robust Peter O'Toole as Henry II, in a contest of will. |