5/30/2023 0 Comments Bonds of brass by emily skrutskie![]() ![]() Does he save the man who’s won his heart and trust that Gal’s goodness could transform the empire? Or does he throw his lot in with the brewing rebellion and fight to take back what’s rightfully theirs? ![]() Ettian barely manages to save his best friend and flee the compromised academy unscathed, rattled that Gal stands to inherit the empire that broke him, and that there are still people willing to fight back against Umber rule.Īs they piece together a way to deliver Gal safely to his throne, Ettian finds himself torn in half by an impossible choice. Even better, he’s met Gal-his exasperating and infuriatingly enticing roommate who’s made the academy feel like a new home.īut when dozens of classmates spring an assassination plot on Gal, a devastating secret comes to light: Gal is the heir to the Umber Empire. He’s spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his class. ![]() “An exciting space opera full of action and adventure that explores the bonds of loyalty and love, and what happens when they are stretched to their limits.”-Rebecca Roanhorse, Nebula and Hugo award–winning author of Trail of LightningĮttian’s life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded his world. A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend-the man he trusts most and might even love-only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The friend zone book abby jimenez![]() ![]() The Friend Zone will have you laughing one moment and grabbing for tissues the next as it tackles the realities of infertility and loss with wit, heart, and a lot of sass. Kristen knows he’d be better off with someone else, but as their attraction grows, it’s harder and harder to keep him at arm’s length. The only catch: Josh wants a big family someday. He’s funny, sexy, never offended by her mile-wide streak of sarcasm, and always one chicken enchilada ahead of her hangry. Planning her best friend’s wedding is bittersweet for Kristen-especially when she meets the best man, Josh Copeland. ![]() She’s also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children. Kristen Petersen doesn’t do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don’t get her. ![]() Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Adult fiction ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Ruined book paula morris![]() ![]() But you could hear me, and then i realized you could see me as well."said Lisette.This quote shows that Lisette was so excited that someone could see and hear her and she wants to know why she can. I said something to you, but I talk to people all the time - they never hear me. That's the reason I was so suprised last week, when you fell over on the pathway. The ghosts name is Lisette and she wants to be Rebeccas friend, but why? Why would a ghost want to tell Rebecca something? Is there something we dont know about Lisette? "People have seen me before, and i've always understood why. ![]() ![]() That is the most important place because that is where Rebecca finds a ghost that knows everything about the town. I think the most important place in the book is the cemetery. The places are the airport, the school, Aunt Claudia's house, and the cemetery. The book takes place in many differrent places. If the setting changed the book would make no sense at all. The setting in this book plays a very important role. This book gives historical background from 1866 then finishes the story in the modern 21st century. All of the action in this book takes place in New Orleans. The city is New Orleans where Hurricane Kateria hit. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Crazy rich asians book 2![]() ![]() Offers refreshing nouveau voyeurism to readers who long ago burned out on American and English aspirational fantasies. On Nick's arm, Rachel may as well have a target on her back the second she steps off the plane, and soon, her relaxed vacation turns into an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers. ![]() ![]() One, that his childhood home looks like a palace two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars and three, that he just happens to be the country's most eligible bachelor. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. A Pride and Prejudice-like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-American girlfriend home to meet his ancestor-obsessed family." - People " There's rich, there's filthy rich, and then there's crazy rich. ![]() Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The international bestselling sensation that was the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture. ![]() ![]() The gene refuses to shy away from difficult topics. Threaded through the narrative are Mukherjee’s own memories and deeply personal accounts of how hereditary illnesses have affected his own family. ![]() As with the best detective stories, we identify with the protagonists and almost feel as if we are in the laboratory (or greenhouse) alongside them as they close in on landmark discoveries. Mukherjee promises an ‘intimate’ history and succeeds, narrating this tale with a poetic lucidity that leaves the reader completely absorbed. The book’s final chapters describe contemporary research on biotechnology, gene therapy and genomics, as well as future developments. Mukherjee goes on to describe the rapid evolution of genetics over the last two hundred years – a period defined by the monk Gregor Mendel’s work on heredity and the race to decipher DNA. ![]() The gene takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of genetics, which begins with the Ancient Greeks and their early theories of heredity. The gene: an intimate history is a staggeringly impressive piece of writing from geneticist and Pulitzer prize winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Pinkalicious message in a bottle![]() ![]() Any backordered components will ship separately as they become available. In-stock components will ship according to our normal shipping time. When you order a package, you are charged one price for all package items. Because most package items or components are also sold separately and may be components of multiple packages, these items may not have the same inventory availability at any point in time. Although packages are sets, items are not physically bundled together. Any item sold as a package on our website is identified by a unique alpha-numeric item number (such as "APH1AB"). ![]() A listing of individual items that make up a package is provided on the package item's product detail page along with real-time item availability of those items. A "package" is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of expressing worshipful love for an almost goddess-like yet unobtainable female love-object, as Petrarch, Dante, and Philip Sidney had done, Shakespeare introduces a young man. But Shakespeare's sonnets introduce such significant departures of content that they seem to be rebelling against well-worn 200-year-old traditions. ![]() With few exceptions, Shakespeare's sonnets observe the stylistic form of the English sonnet-the rhyme scheme, the 14 lines, and the metre. Shakespeare's sonnets are considered a continuation of the sonnet tradition that swept through the Renaissance from Petrarch in 14th-century Italy and was finally introduced in 16th-century England by Thomas Wyatt and was given its rhyming metre and division into quatrains by Henry Howard. There is also a partial sonnet found in the play Edward III. However, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost. ![]() When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 1609. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The grass crown colleen mccullough![]() ![]() ![]() At its center are two extraordinary leaders: Gaius Marius, the general who saved Rome from Barbarian invasions, desperately trying to extend his reign for a prophesied and unprecedented seventh term as Consul and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once Marius' most trusted right-hand man, now a dangerous rival hungry for his own taste of political success.Īs the two men battle for position, they are surrounded by a new generation of statesman, soldiers and lovers, from Senate intriguers and their ambitious wives to the child of destiny, Gaius Julius Caesar.Īn absorbing tale of a Republic fighting for its survival in a world of treachery, barbarism and never-ending war, The Grass Crown is a remarkable entry in Colleen McCullough's brilliant and unprecedented series on the rise and fall of the world's greatest civilization. She flourished at Catholic schools and earned a physiology degree from the University of New South Wales in 1963. ![]() Raised by her mother in Wellington and then Sydney, McCullough began writing stories at age 5. The magnificent glory of Republican Rome is threatened when a struggle for power erupts among the men who shaped its hard-won peace. Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and Tim. ![]() From the author of the captivating bestsellerĪnd conflict of Ancient Rome continues. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Bloody Sunday by Douglas Murray![]() The assault on those towers proved the first in a now long line of attacks leveled against the free world. On the last day I was here, I visited a friend at her office on the top-most floors of the World Trade Center and looked out in awe over this great city. I haven't been in New York since the fall of 2000, when I was visiting this city to promote my first book. Murray claims to have been profoundly influenced by the 9/11 attacks: Murray's early writing for the Spectator was mainly focused on his literary interests. He has since written for many other publications, including the Observer and the New York Sun. While still at Oxford, Murray began reviewing for the Spectator. Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, the book became a bestseller, and was reissued in paperback in 20. His first book, Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, was published in 2000 by Hodder and Stoughton (UK) and Miramax Books (USA). The book was reportedly completed before Murray progressed to reading English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was published while he was still a 21-year-old undergraduate there. Aged only 16, he persuaded the Home Office to grant him access to Douglas's papers which were embargoed until 2043. ![]() Murray began researching his biography of Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while still at Eton. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Peter guralnick elvis presley![]() ![]() Last Train to Memphis takes us deep inside Elvis' life, exploring his lifelong passion for music of every sort (from blues and gospel to Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza), his compelling affection for his family, and his intimate relationships with girlfriends, mentors, band members, professional associates, and friends. The book closes on that somber and poignant note. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army and his mother died shortly thereafter. These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right," "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel"). ![]() Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world. ![]() Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. From Book 1: From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. ![]() |