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6/7/2023 0 Comments Momo neverending story![]() ![]() Is this Sadie’s final journey? Is this where her road comes to an end? Or is there something more to discover, something hidden within the living walls that now contain her?This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing content that may cause the reader to delve into his or her own land of fantasy…just like Sadie. This ebook contains the twenty-second and twenty-third novellas in Nicole Arlyn’s epic dark fantasy series, The Sugarspear Chronicles. She travels through Serpythia’s belly and finds an entire world inside, containing all those who were swallowed over the years and were never able to leave. Before it perishes, though, it swallows her. In one final act of resistance, Stadie stabs the serpent. With unexpected help from a trusted friend, Sadie manages to escape, but soon finds herself in front of yet another enemy: Serpythia. That is, she finds refuge until the angry Queen of Ashthoreth, determined to destroy Sadie, drags her down through the Valley of Mud. ![]() ![]() Safety is not meant for Sadie: After the Forgotten Waters wash her away, she finds her way to shore, travels through a burnt forest, and finds refuge in a small cabin. ![]() ![]() These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the deipherment and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code. ![]() For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery.Īward-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean - the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen - to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. Fox, who has degrees in linguistics, relied on access to Kober's collected letters and papers. ![]() ![]() When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records. The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code is a 2013 nonfiction book by Margalit Fox, about the process of deciphering the Linear B script, and particularly the contributions of classicist Alice Kober. ![]() In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Pemberton serena![]() Like them, he opposes the creation of a national park. Harris arrives at the camp and discusses the national park movement with the Pembertons. When Serena wins, the workers begin to attribute all sorts of mythical qualities to the unconventionally beautiful Serena. Serena proves her knowledge of the timber industry by challenging Bilded, a foreman, to out-guess her on the board feet of a large tree. When Serena arrives at the lumber camp, Pemberton introduces her to the workers and instructs them to follow her orders as they would his own. Serena then hands Rachel Harmon's pearl-handled knife and advises her to sell it since she'll be getting nothing more from Pemberton. Harmon threatens Pemberton with a knife and Serena encourages Pemberton to kill the man. When the two arrive at the train station, they are met by Abe Harmon and his pregnant daughter, Rachel. ![]() Serena's obsession with Pemberton and her desire for power lead her to threaten the lives of Pemberton's one-time lover and her illegitimate son.Īs the novel begins, Serena arrives in North Carolina for the first time shortly after meeting and marrying George Pemberton. ![]() Serena and her husband, George Pemberton, take on the government in an attempt to stall the national park movement in order to continue logging the land. It is the story of Serena, a greedy timber baroness who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals. Serena by Ron Rash is set in North Carolina during the Depression. ![]() ![]() ![]() I tell Tori I come out here to get homework done, because I don’t want to admit that the guitar is the only reason I’m outside every night at eight, like clockwork.įor weeks now, the guy in the apartment across the courtyard has sat on his balcony and played for at least an hour.Īlmost on cue, the sound of his guitar floats across the courtyard as I take a seat and lean back into the patio lounger. ![]() I’ve noticed a few other neighbors come out to their balconies when he’s playing, but no one is as loyal as I am. I don’t understand how someone could hear these songs and not crave them day after day. Then again, music has always been a passion of mine, so maybe I’m just a little more infatuated with his sound than other people are. I’ve played the piano for as long as I can remember, and although I’ve never shared it with anyone, I love writing music. I even switched my major to music education two years ago. My plan is to be an elementary music teacher, although if my father had his way, I’d still be prelaw. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Tamora pierce the immortals![]() His voice built pictures in my head every time his character spoke. In particular, I need to note Daniel Bostick who played Numair the Mage. “Full Cast Audio does a fantastic job of bringing Ms. ![]() “Tamora Pierce leads in narrating this exciting tale, which is lovingly detailed and populated by a cast of almost thirty people.” - AudioFile, Feb 2006 “This reading bewitches, as if a magical wand is reaching out to touch listeners and pull them in.” - KLIATT Starred Review “This full-cast performance of the book is a joy to listen to.” - School Library Journal, Oct 2005″This full-cast performance of the book is a joy to listen to.” - School Library Journal, Oct 2005 ![]() Now Daine must master her own magic, and face her own dark memories, if she is to save her new home from destruction. Wild Magic (The Immortals, Book 1) Kindle Edition by Tamora Pierce (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,292 ratings Book 1 of 4: The Immortals Quartet See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £3.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0. It’s almost as if she can speak to them….ĭaine and Onua travel to Pirate’s Swoop, where Daine finds herself swept into a war that threatens all of Tortall, a war where magic is one of the main weapons. Soon Daine has a job working for Onua, the queen’s horsemistress, who is astonished at the girl’s way with animals. ![]() When Daine comes down from the mountains, she carries with her two things: a dark secret about her own past, and a strangely powerful magic that even she doesn’t understand. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Cheshire crossing![]() ![]() For those of you who were ever terribly curious what would happen if Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy all converged in a looney bin to swap worlds and sharp words, enter Cheshire Crossing. What we have here is a crossover of characters from three famous Victorian-era works of literature: Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Peter Pan (four, if you count the Mary Poppins books). ![]() Crossovers of characters from print fiction in webcomics usually don't go over as badly as character crossovers from webcomic to webcomic, but, as with anything, quality always varies on a case-by-case basis. As a result, this trend has made its way to the user-created webcomic world, and has been met with mixed results. Everybody loves to see characters from different worlds interact with one another (or in superheroes' cases, they're often in the same world, so they don't necessarily have to break the laws of physics to meet up). Wonder Woman stars with Batman who's playing hopscotch with Superman and blah, blah, blah. Crossover stories have been done in comics since the dawn of time. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Redemption road book![]() ![]() “People in publishing have always known that John Hart can flat-out write. Now, Hart delivers his most powerful story yet.Ī boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother.Ī troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting.Īfter thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen…īrimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller. ![]() Each novel has taken Hart higher on the New York Times Bestseller list as his masterful writing and assured evocation of place have won readers around the world and earned history's only consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel with Down River and The Last Child. Since his debut bestseller, The King of Lies, reviewers across the country have heaped praise on John Hart. The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Over 2 million copies of his books in print. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments The inheritance cycle book 5![]() ![]() The series follows the exploits of Eragon, a teenage fosterling who becomes the first of a new order of Dragon Riders. The audio editions of the series are narrated by Gerard Doyle, who also performs all character voices. Fox 2000, a division of 20th Century Fox, purchased film rights to the first three books, and a film version of Eragon, directed by Stefen Fangmeier, was released on December 15, 2006. Originally planned as a trilogy of books, the story evolved into a four-book series. The third book in the series, Brisingr, was released in 2008 and the final title in the series, Inheritance, was released on November 8, 2011. Knopf, and went on to become a New York Times bestseller, as did its sequel, Eldest. The first book in the series, Eragon, was originally self-published by Paolini International LLC, the Paolini family's publishing business later it was picked up by Alfred A. The Inheritance Cycle (previously known as the Inheritance Trilogy) is a four-book series of high-fantasy novels by homeschooled author Christopher Paolini. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary![]() ![]() See what everyone is saying about THE FLATSHARE, 2019's hottest debut! Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.īut with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window. Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. 'The last book to completely emotionally absorb me in this way was ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE, and I think fans of that will adore this' a Richard Curtis rom-com that also has its feet firmly planted in real life. This has all the ingredients of ME BEFORE YOU' 'Set to become the romcom of the year - a SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE for the 21st century' ![]() |