6/23/2023 0 Comments Brandon sanderson reckoners series![]() Sanderson does a great job of creating characters with strong voices and individual personalities. These powerful people are called Epics and they reign over mankind with fear and horror. ![]() Though all super hero stories contain villains, many of whom have super powers themselves, in this story pretty much all of the supers/mutants are not heroes. Sanderson takes the superhero trope and flops it on its head in Steelheart. ![]() He believes that with a little help from the Reckoners, they can kill the powerful, yet elusive Steelheart. All Epics have some sort of weakness, but Epics go to great lengths to conceal them.ĭavid hopes to join with a band of assassins who kill Epics, called the Reckoners. But through this experience, he may be the only person with a clue as to what Steelheart’s weakness is. As a boy, David had a terrible experience with the most powerful Epic of all: Steelheart. ![]()
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6/23/2023 0 Comments Dogman by Dav Pilkey![]() ![]() As of 2014, the series has been translated into more than 20 languages, with more than 80 million books sold worldwide, including over 50 million in the United States. Krupp also possesses superhuman strength, durability and flight as a result of drinking alien "Extra-Strength Super Power Juice".Ĭurrently, the series includes 12 books, two activity books, 15 spin-offs, and won a Kids' Choice Award on April 4, 2006. ![]() The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys' homemade comic books, who accidentally becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their cruel, bossy, and ill-tempered principal, Mr. Captain Underpants is an illustrated children's novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the eighteenth century, European settlers further improved the trail, widening the foot path enough for horses and wagons to pass, and used it as a trade route and an easy passage between the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Mississippi rivers. ![]() Early French explorers undoubtedly used the trail on their forays into the fertile hunting grounds along the Mississippi River. ![]() Native American hunting parties took advantage of the well-worn trail and followed the “traces” of the herds. This ancient trail meandered between high ridges and deep valleys, avoiding steep terrain and providing a relatively level and easy northeast-southwest route for herds migrating through the region. It was used for untold years by herds of bison and other grazing animals to move between salt licks located near Nashville and the verdant southern grasslands along the Mississippi River. The trail became commonly known as the Natchez Trace in the late eighteenth century, but it has a long history dating back thousands of years. The Trace ran for about 30 miles through the northwestern part of Alabama in Lauderdale and Colbert Counties, passing through the state west of Sheffield near the town of Cherokee. The Natchez Trace is a prehistoric route that extended 440 miles from Nashville, Tennessee, through Alabama to Natchez, Mississippi, and provided a link between the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments The firebird by susanna kearsley![]() ![]() After having cared for her aunts and mother until their deaths, Margaret has known little of her own life. But when Margaret Ross turns up, everything changes. ![]() Nicola would much prefer to keep her gift hidden, particularly from her boss, Sebastian, who would probably fire her from the art gallery. At her best, she receives a sudden, uncontrolled, sharp image or scene, which is fine with her. Able to see ghosts and to sift carefully through the years of memories attached to objects, Rob’s power of sight has always been much stronger than Nicola’s. Kearsley gives Robbie McMorran from Shadowy Horses his own story. Nicola Marter’s Russian grandfather was tortured for his gift of psychometry, so she’s hidden her own talent for years, but she may have to risk sharing it to help another. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments If we were villains characters![]() ![]() I had mixed feelings about the writing because I liked the author’s writing but I did not like the author quoting Shakespeare whether it felt appropriate or not. “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.” It felt like an Agatha Christie meets Shakespeare kind of novel. ![]() Obviously one of the students dies and they are suspected with much drama ensuing between them. The story starts with one of the characters recalling the events of the story and how the events lead to this current day. The story in short follows seven forth-year acting students. Since last year, I have had a strange urge to read Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and then I found out about this one and I heard it is kind of similar except that it is shorter and newer so I decided to finish this one first! The cov’r with the death’s-head, the synopsis t hast, and the glowing reviews t hath taken madeth t an obligat’ry readeth f’r me. Let’s do this in the author’s style: I has’t been at each moment intrigu’d by this novel since the moment i did see t. “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.” ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Attached by Amir Levine![]() According to attachment theory, every person behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways: In Attached, Levine and Heller trace how these evolutionary influences continue to shape who we are in our relationships today. ![]() Also central to attachment theory is the discovery that our need to be in a close relationship with one or more individuals is embedded in our genes. ![]() Attachment theory forms the basis for many bestselling books on the parent/child relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us about adult romantic relationships-until now.Īttachment theory owes its inception to British psychologist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, who in the 1950s examined the tremendous impact that our early relationships with our parents or caregivers has on the people we become. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory-the most advanced relationship science in existence today-can help us find and sustain love. ![]() In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Binti home by nnedi okorafor![]() ![]() I could smell the earthy aroma of the otjize I’d rubbed on my skin and the blood in my veins. It hurt sweetly, like a knuckle cracking or a muscle stretching. I was already treeing, numbers whipping around me like grains of sand in a sandstorm, and now I felt a deep click as something yielded in my mind. “Five, five, five, five, five, five,” I whispered. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author's copyright, please notify the publisher at. You may not copy, reproduce or upload this e-book, other than to read it on one of your personal devices.Ĭopyright infringement is against the law. ![]() You may not print or post this e-book, or make this e-book publicly available in any way. ![]() This e-book is for your personal use only. The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied so that you can enjoy reading it on your personal devices. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sekiguchi is further drawn to the case when he meets the pregnant woman's beautiful sister, Ryoko Kuonji, and she asks for his help in solving her brother-in-law's disappearance from a locked, sealed room. He seeks advice and help from his close friend Akihiko Chuzenji, whom Sekiguchi refers to by the name of his bookstore ("Kyōgokudō"). The Summer of the Ubume is told from the perspective of freelance writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi, who is investigating rumors of a woman at the Kuonji Clinic who has remained pregnant for twenty months after the disappearance of her husband. It has been turned into a live-action feature film. It is Kyogoku’s first novel, and the first entry in his Kyōgōkudō series about atheist onmyōji Akihiko "Kyōgokudō" Chūzenji. The Summer of the Ubume (姑獲鳥の夏, Ubume no natsu) is a Japanese novel by Natsuhiko Kyogoku. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL1931485W Page_number_confidence 75.00 Pages 58 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 References Wilson's Children, November 1996 Elem. ![]() Urn:lcp:willyousignherej0000frit:epub:fdbc44f5-2944-468f-a758-b84bd4522c15 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier willyousignherej0000frit Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t04z4xz0x Invoice 1652 Isbn 069811440XĠ808544861 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.6 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19749 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:02:41 Associated-names Hyman, Trina Schart, illustrator Boxid IA1995514 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf![]() ![]() ![]() Peter reintroduces these conflicts by paying a visit that morning. The nice day reminds her of her youth spent in the countryside in Bourton and makes her wonder about her choice of husband she had married the reliable Richard Dalloway instead of the enigmatic and demanding Peter Walsh, and she "had not the option" to be with a female romantic interest, Sally Seton. Plot summary Ĭlarissa Dalloway goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening. Dalloway was included on TIME Magazine 's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since its first issue in 1923. The novel addresses the nature of time in personal experience through multiple interwoven stories. With an interior perspective, the story travels forwards and backwards in time, to construct an image of Clarissa's life and the inter-war social structure. The book describes Clarissa's preparations for a party she will host in the evening and the ensuing party. ![]() Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister". The novel began with two short stories, "Mrs. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on. ![]() |