![]() ![]() There is no line he won't cross to protect his squad. When the search for the Hatchery shines a light on Kaytu's insurgent past, he faces a terrible truth. While the squad is winning battles, Earth is losing the war. Kaytu's battle-tested squad tracks the enemy from remote bases to elegant cities to subterranean caverns, but the lampreys start hitting harder and faster. The updated mission is simple: pinpoint the Hatchery, the “spawn point” of the lampreys, and blast it into a fine powder. ![]() In this incendiary new military science fiction novel, an infantry squad crisscrosses the globe on a search-and-destroy mission against a relentless foe.Īfter cry pilot Maseo Kaytu's white-knuckled victory over the mysterious lampreys at Ayko Base, military command develops new weapons and a new strategy. ![]()
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![]() An outstanding binding, extremely well-preserved. Faint evidence of owner stamp on verso of front free endpaper, tiny chip to top of the spine. Small octavo (4 1/8" x 6 1/8"), full morocco gilt by Romage, all edges gilt. Ramage later opened his own shop in London where his bindings were celebrated for their remarkably delicate, careful, and elaborate gilt work. It is a universal belief that the pupils of the Imam Mowaffak will attain. Spine compartments with similar inlaid pale yellow lozenges tooled in gilt and title in gilt, pastedowns framed by dark green morocco inlaid with pale yellow circles at the corners and with gilt floral tooling cream-colored watered silk endleaves.īorn in London in the mid 19th century, John Ramage worked with the distinguished Marcellin Lortic after serving an apprenticeship with John Wright. The elaborate contemporary binding by Ramage features dark green morocco inlaid in a Padeloup-style mosaic pattern, covers bordered with thin decorative and plain gilt rules, the rest of the boards entirely covered with inlaid diapering featuring rows of pale yellow lozenges tooled with gilt fleurons, these flanked on all four sides with inlaid navy circles, the green morocco tooled with curving gilt lines attached to the dots. I first read Edward Fitzgerald's celebrated, if controversial, version of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat when I happened upon it in my father's extensive library. was a kind of Bible for freethinkers, materialists and sensualists" - Robert Irwin.ġ905 edition of The Rubaiyat MAGNIFICENTLY BOUND BY RAMAGE. was more of an imaginative resurrection than a translation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tree-ear drops one of the small boxes, shattering it on the ground. Min begins to beat Tree-ear, accusing him of spying. Tree-ear sneaks over to have a look, so fascinated with a box that contains multiple smaller boxes that he does not hear Min come into the yard. One day, Min has left several pieces of his work in the yard. ![]() As Tree-ear watches, he imagines what it would be like to learn to throw a pot. Tree-ear will often stop at the home of Min, a potter in town who throws his clay in the backyard where Tree-ear can watch without being seen. A Single Shard is a story of self-discovery and hope that will inspire readers of all ages. Nine days turns into eighteen months, changing both Tree-ear and Min's life forever. To pay for his mistake, Tree-ear offers to work for Min for nine days. When Min comes out and startles Tree-ear, he drops and breaks a box. One day Tree-ear goes into Min's yard and investigates the work that he has drying in the sun. Tree-ear is fascinated with the potters in his village, especially Min, and often watches them work. In this novel, Tree-ear is an orphan who lives under a bridge with Crane-man, a physically disabled man who took him in when Tree-ear was only a small child. ![]() A Single Shard is the Newberry Award winning novel by Linda Sue Park. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm not sure what happens when a scrappy wizard is taught how to fight by a hall of deadly vampires, but I'm about to find out. And if I can convince him to train me, I might get strong enough to free my family and get my house back. And he's definitely using me as his personal magic detector in his feud against the local fae.īut Killian is also the first person to believe I might have more than just a scrap of magic. He's also so powerful that my flight or fight instincts kick in every time our eyes meet. Is Killian sexy and charismatic? Heck yeah. I barely manage to flee, but the only supernatural willing to help me is Killian Drake - the most feared vampire in the region, and a far more deadly villain than the jerk threatening my family. The situation veers from bad to catastrophic when my backstabbing cousin stages a coup and takes my family hostage. ![]() But when my parents die in an accident, and I find myself responsible for our whole wizard house and family, I know my usual tactics aren't going to cut it. ![]() As someone with barely a flicker of magic, I've spent my life being mocked and surviving fights with bullies. ![]() ![]() All That’s Left in the Worldby Erik J.Nothing Sung and Nothing Spokenby Nita Tyndall.Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Datingby Adiba Jaigirdar.Never Ever Getting Back Togetherby Sophie Gonzales.Bad Things Happen Hereby Rebecca Barrow.The Grimoire of Grave Fatesby Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen.Venom & Vowby Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemore.Ander & Santi Were Hereby Jonny Garza Villa.Godless Heathensand Merciless Saviorsby H.E.The Spirit Bares its Teethby Andrew Joseph White – T.This Day Changes Everythingby Edward Underhill – T.Teach the Torches to Burnby Caleb Roehrig.Only This Beautiful Momentby Abdi Nazemian.Venom & Vowby Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemore – T.The Forest Demands its Dueby Kosoko Jackson.Time Outby Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner, and Carlyn Greenwald. ![]() The Alchemy of Moonlightby David Ferraro.Wren Martin Ruins it Allby Amanda DeWitt – A.Daughter of the Bone Forestby Jasmine Skye.Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girlby Brianna R.Everyone’s Thinking Itby Aleema Omotoni.Something Like Possibleby Miel Moreland.Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburghby Rachael Lippincott.Just Happy to Be Hereby Naomi Kanakia – T.The Dos and Donuts of Loveby Adiba Jaigirdar.The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Existby Sophie Gonzales. ![]() ![]() ![]() Published in 1977, Majesty-his pioneering biography of Queen Elizabeth II-remains acknowledged as the definitive study of British monarchy. Robert Lacey is a British historian and the author of numerous international bestsellers. We selected five such conversations-with illustrator Ella Paton, author and science communicator Kat Arney, filmmaker Rob Petit, historian (and consultant to the Netflix series The Crown) Robert Lacey, and toy designer Luc Hudson-to enlighten us as to what they do, why, and how they found their creative voice within the cultural crossroads that is London, England. Interviewer and author Lily Hansen takes conversation with others from chore to professional vocation, and as oral historian Studs Terkel put it, talks with creative people “about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.” ![]() In this limited series, Design Observer features conversations with creatives that have gained a foothold within the bustling London design community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ī native of New York City, Gleick attended Harvard College, where he was an editor of the Harvard Crimson, graduating in 1976 with an A.B. ![]() His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012 and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012. Three of his books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists and The Information was awarded the PEN/E. Gleick's books include the international bestsellers Chaos: Making a New Science (1987) and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011). He is part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park character Ian Malcolm. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called "one of the great science writers of all time". James Gleick ( / ɡ l ɪ k/ born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. ![]() ![]() ![]() The offending tooth, a rear molar, had spread its poison widely, a kind of guerrilla warfare.He had never been to Methuen, a town that sounded like a sneeze.Married life was like walking around in shoes that almost fit.It hung halfway down his chest like a coarse woollen bib. Grant and the Smith Brothers, makers of cough drops. His most distinctive feature was a burly old-fashioned beard, the style favored by Ulysses S. ![]() On Mondays, the line rang nonstop - fallout from the weekend, it’s psychic detritus scattered like confetti after a parade.The book also contains some fine figurative language. The book, Mercy Street, has interesting and rewarding characters, a gripping plot and, perhaps unbelievably, a great deal of humour. And as the New York Times puts it, ” it would be a terrible mistake to give it a miss because of its hot-button topic.” The most recent novel by Jennifer Haigh takes on the topic of abortion. I write today about similes from Jennifer Haigh…. I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. ![]() ![]() In Shock is Rana Awdish's searing account of her extraordinary journey from doctor to patient, during which she sees for the first time the dysfunction of her profession’s disconnection from patients and the flaws in her own past practice as a doctor. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring a series of organ failures and multiple major surgeries.Įvery step of the way, Awdish was faced with something even more unexpected and shocking than her battle to survive: her fellow doctors’ inability to see and acknowledge the pain of loss and human suffering, the result of a self-protective barrier hard-wired in medical training. her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.' Adam Kay, ObserverĪt seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. ![]() 'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times ![]() A compelling call to arms for a more empathetic practice of medicine, from the intensive care doctor who nearly died as a patient in her own hospital. ![]() ![]() ![]() What made the experience of listening to Her Mad Baron the most enjoyable? This version includes the first chapter of The Powder of Love. Originally published as The Mad Baron by Summer Devon. Together they must break his addiction and expose the villain who would destroy his life. But Nathaniel's offer of employment intrigues her. Florrie, now a shopgirl, has foresworn her life of adventure. ![]() Addicted to his captor's drugs and bent on revenge, Nathaniel seeks out the feisty thief who freed him. When she discovers they're trapped together, she devises a clever escape. ![]() The dashing, drugged man in the locked room soon sweeps her into his story - and his bed. But, barricaded in a small room, he can't outwit his mysterious jailer.ĭetermined to steal back one of her father's swords, Florrie Cadero gets more than she bargained for when she breaks into the baron's mansion. At first, certain he's gone insane, Nathaniel learns potent opiates are the cause of his strange vision. Nathaniel, the new Baron Felston, awakes from a fever to discover he's a prisoner on his own estate. ![]() |