The grisha books5/28/2023 Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and part of the overall GrishaverseĪ mapmaker, a tracker, and an ageless power-wielder walk onto the field of battle, and nothing will ever be the same.Īlina Starkov–the mapmaker–has lived her entire life by keeping her head down. Shadow and Bone is the first installment in Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha Trilogy. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life-a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.Īlina Starkov has never been good at anything. Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh.
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Solomon northup descendants5/28/2023 They were visiting Oak Hall Plantation, where her father had business with the owner, Sam Haas. One summer day in 1931, her father, a planter, drove her in a flatbed truck to the nearby town of Bunkie, not far from the property once owned by Edwin Epps (the Michael Fassbender character). “There was never a time when he was not part of the conversation.” Eakin grew up near Cheneyville, Louisiana, the eldest of nine children, and discovered Northup when she was twelve. “There were five of us, and Solomon was the sixth,” Eakin’s son Frank said the other day, from his home in Texas. But it’s safe to say that without Eakin, who died in 2009, at the age of ninety, none of us would be talking about Solomon Northup, or Patsey, or the other once-forgotten souls portrayed in this year’s Best Picture.Įakin, who taught at Louisiana State University at Alexandria for twenty-five years, spent her career rescuing Northup’s memoir from obscurity. Accepting the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday-technically, it might have been Monday at that point-Steve McQueen took a moment to thank “this amazing historian Sue Eakin,” who “gave her life’s work to preserving Solomon’s book.” It was an unusual shout-out: we’re used to seeing Harvey Weinstein or God get thanked, not historians from Louisiana. The bicycle spy by yona zeldis mcdonough5/28/2023 An engaging story." - Booklist, Advance Praise for The Bicycle Spy : "A fine story of war, friendship, and taking a stand against injustice." - Kirkus Reviews "History seamlessly meets fiction as readers learn about a snippet of life in World War II Europe. Students will become engrossed in Marcel's exploits." - School Library Journal "Clearly written, suspenseful, and accessible to a younger audience. Praise for The Bicycle Spy : "A fine story of war, friendship, and taking a stand against injustice." - Kirkus Reviews "History seamlessly meets fiction as readers learn about a snippet of life in World War II Europe. When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird5/28/2023 From the heady days of trading championships to the darker days of injury and illness, we come to understand Larry’s obsessive devotion to winning and how his demons drove him on the court. With intimate detail, When the Game Was Ours reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players dead set on besting each other. At the start they were bitter rivals, but along the way they became lifelong friends. Each pushed the other to greatness, and together Bird and Johnson collected eight NBA Championships and six MVP awards, helping to save a floundering NBA. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most thrilling rivalry in the NBA-East vs. Young, indomitable, he was a pied piper in purple and gold. Showtime, a magnetic personality with all the right moves. In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jump shot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone around him. Two NBA legends offer a definitive account of their decades-long rivalry and friendship, exploring Bird's struggles with chronic pain and Johnson's discovery that he had contracted HIV.įrom the moment these two legendary players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. El james the mister second book5/28/2023 Selina Walker of Century said: 'It is such a pleasure and a privilege to be working with Erika again. Speaking about The Mister in 2019, James said: 'This (book) is about two people finding each other and trying to maintain a relationship when there's so many things against them.' In the plot of The Mister, piano prodigy Alessia fights to protect herself from sex traffickers who smuggled her out of Albania and into the UK.Īs she becomes entangled with Maxim, who becomes increasingly more protective of her, the novel ends on a cliffhanger with readers left waiting to find out if the aristocrat will pop the question. James' Fifty Shades trilogy - Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed - were the top three best selling books of the past decade, and were all turned into films by Universal Pictures. James will serve as a producer on the adaptation, as she did with her three Fifty Shades movies, though there is no one attached to write and direct yet. However, the novel was panned by many literary critics, with The Guardian remarking that James, 'swaps BDSM for dispiritingly creepy power games.' E L James, the bestselling author of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, has written the second instalment in her 'modern-day Cinderella' story Across the nightingale floor5/28/2023 Shigeru spirits the traumatized boy back to Otori lands and adopts him after noting a strong resemblance between Takeo and his own late brother. When Iida shows up to destroy the village, 16-year-old Takeo is wandering in the hills, though even then he would have been killed by Iida’s soldiers if it hadn’t been for the fortunate appearance of Shigeru, a lord of the Dairyo’s rival clan, the Otori, who was doing some wandering of his own and demonstrated his handy way with a sword. The village in question is in Dairyo country, ruled by Iida Sadamu, a devil in warrior’s garb, and many of the villagers belong to a secretive, Christian-like cult called The Hidden, which has aroused Iida’s wrath with its subversive talk of kindness. In a preface, he admits using “echoes of Japanese customs and traditions” as he sets his action in a resolutely imaginary country where warring clans battle for supremacy. The village is doomed, but British-born newcomer Hearn still makes you care about it and its inhabitants. Mythical medieval Japan never seemed so attractive as in this breezy epic, the first in a trilogy, about a boy with strange powers who gets caught up in a long-simmering inter-clan conflict. The mystery of edmund drood5/28/2023 The epic story Pullman tells is not only a spellbinding adventure featuring armoured polar bears, magical devices, witches and daemons, it is also an audacious and profound re-imagining of Milton’s Paradise Lost.Īn utterly entrancing blend of metaphysical speculation and bravura storytelling, HIS DARK MATERIALS is a monumental and enduring achievement. It follows the story of an orphan, Edwin Drood who worked as an engineer for his adoptive father’s firm, and his betrothal to fellow orphan Rosa Bud. As Lyra learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds and leads to a thrilling conclusion in The Amber Spyglass. The Mystery of Edwin Drood marked the last of Charles Dickens novels, and was left unfinished in its publication. In The Subtle Knife she is joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. Lyra’s search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. Northern Lights introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. In his award-winning fantasy trilogy, HIS DARK MATERIALS, Philip Pullman invents a richly detailed and marvellously imagined world that is complex and thought-provoking enough to enthral readers of all ages. A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books. Apple and knife intan paramaditha5/28/2023 The places they explore willingly open up for them, the inhabitants merely there to prop up a grand tale of self-discovery. In these stories, the flâneur’s prerogative trumps all. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, to name two examples, see their protagonists grappling with a crisis of identity and lack of purpose. Many travel-themed books engage with daydreams of adventure, a journey that centres the self in a way that rarely considers how that same self is regarded in relation to the people it encounters. At what point does one stop being a “tourist” to become a “digital nomad”? Who is deemed an “expat” while others are regarded as “immigrants”? And why is there often a distinction between “migrant” and “refugee”? The stark delineations between terms such as “tourist”, “expat”, “refugee” and “migrant” drive this home. Some nationalities are allowed entry past certain borders others are not – pointing to larger questions around the privilege and luxury of travel.Ĭonversely, within the context of travel lie internment, exile, unbelonging, rootlessness – the many borders and boundaries that demarcate not only territories on a map, but also the axes of power that define global centres and freedom of movement. But depending on who you are and the passport you hold, the prospect of holidaying overseas is still an option. While borders were already closed for some, they have been further tightened in the wake of a global pandemic. In these uncertain times, the concept of travel is increasingly fraught. Victoria scott fire and flood book 35/27/2023 Tella teams up with a group of couldn't-be-more-different competitors and they battle their way through the first element of the Brimstone Bleed, and into the second. As the race begins, the other competitors scatter, some forming groups to travel together until the last moment, when it's every man and woman for themselves. Desperate to help her brother, Tella follows the instructions she's given and finds herself at the edge of jungle, carrying an egg that will supposedly help her during the race. As she picks it, places the ear piece in, she hears a woman's voice, telling her that she has an invitation to be a part of the Brimstone Bleed, a race-like competition in which the prize for winning is a cure that will heal any sickness. Nothing, that is, until a strange blue box with an ear piece mysteriously appears on her bed one day. Tella's brother is dying of cancer, and there's nothing she can do about. Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner5/27/2023 The perfect blend of funny and steamy, Meryl Wilsner’s Cleat Cute is about being brave enough to win on and off the field. With every tackle the tension between them grows, and both players soon have to decide what's more important-being together or making the roster. But they’re on the same page on the field, realizing they can play together instead of vying for the same position. But when Grace ends up making the first move, they can’t keep their hands off of each other.Īs the World Cup approaches and Grace works her way back from injury, a miscommunication leaves the women with hilariously different perspectives on their relationship. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Phoebe Matthews is too focused on her first season as a professional soccer player to think about seducing her longtime idol. By: Meryl Wilsner Narrated by: Quinn Riley, Stephanie Németh-Parker Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins 4.7 (705 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. The last thing Grace expects is to become teammates with benefits with this class clown she sees as her rival. 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn’t-a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. |