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Kingsbane series6/27/2023 ![]() But fear of corruption-fear of becoming another Rielle-keeps Eliana's power dangerous and unpredictable. Centuries later, Eliana Ferracora grapples with her new reality: She is the Sun Queen, humanity's long-awaited savior. Meanwhile, to help her prince and love Audric protect Celdaria, Rielle must spy on the angel Corien-but his promises of freedom and power may prove too tempting to resist. To repair it, Rielle must collect the seven hidden castings of the saints. The Gate keeping the angels at bay is falling. ![]() Rielle Dardenne has been anointed Sun Queen, but her trials are far from over. Book two in the New York Times bestselling dark fantasy series, the Empirium Trilogy! Two queens, separated by thousands of years, connected by secrets and lies, must continue their fight amid deadly plots and unthinkable betrayals that will test their strength-and their hearts. ![]()
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Rewilding knepp book6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’ and what it reveals of the ways in which we might regain that wilder, richer country. We are living in a desert, compared with our gloriously wild past. According to the 2016 ‘State of Nature’ report, the UK is ranked 29th in the world for biodiversity loss: 56% of species in the UK are in decline and 15% are threatened with extinction. This recovery has taken place against a backdrop of catastrophic loss elsewhere. The Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life – all by itself. Once-common species, including turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, lesser spotted woodpeckers and purple emperor butterflies, are now breeding at Knepp, and populations of other species are rocketing. Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer – proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain – the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade. ![]() Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. ![]()
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Elise kova vortex visions6/26/2023 ![]() Powers that might well cost her the throne.Īs Vi fights to get her magic under control, a mysterious stranger appears from across the world. Suspicion becomes reality when she unleashes powers she's not supposed to have. Yet, Vi can't help but wonder if her inability to control her magic is the true reason her parents haven't brought her home. The Empire is faltering beneath the burden of political infighting and a deadly plague. Now, three years past when her wardship should've ended, Vi will do anything to be reunited with her family. Her parents sacrificed a life with her to quell a rebellion and secure peace with a political alliance. Vi Solaris is the heir to an Empire she's barely seen. ![]() A desperate princess, a magical traveler, and a watch that binds them together with the fate of a dying world. ![]()
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Ten tiny breaths book 26/26/2023 ![]() ![]() As the months go by and the shame and loneliness festers, Cole begins to lose his grip on what once was important-college, his girlfriend, his future. Nor can he shake the all-consuming guilt he feels every time he thinks of that girl who won’t so much as allow him near her hospital room to apologize. Worse, there’s the shattered body of a sixteen-year-old girl lying somewhere in a hospital bed, her entire life ripped from her because of a case of beer and a set of keys.Įveryone assures him that they know it wasn’t intentional, and yet he can’t ignore the weight of their gazes, the whispers behind his back. Normally, he’d be able to lean on his best friends-the ones who have been in his life since he could barely walk. When a drunken night out at a Michigan State college party results in the death of six people, Cole must come to terms with his part in the tragedy. Discover his side of the story in this novella from the beloved nationally bestselling author, K.A. Until one night when he makes a fatal, wrong decision…and loses everything. ![]() ![]() Before you knew him as Trent in Ten Tiny Breaths, he was Cole Reynolds-and he had it all. ![]()
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The woman in cabin 10 about6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() On the first night of the cruise, they’re both. The two of them dated in their twenties, and Ben has lingering feelings for Lo. ![]() Others relied on modern-day tech for a running commentary outside Lo's viewpoint, with emails, news reports, and excerpts from online blogs to fill in things from the view of other main characters. Ben is a fellow passenger on the Aurora, a travel journalist with a hipster beard who used to work at Velocity with Lo and now does investigative journalism at the Times. Some aspects of the story reminded me of a famous Hitchcock film won't say which one as it'd be quite a spoiler. ![]() (She's not that great at dealing with interpersonal relationships, and I really wanted to point her to the Captain Awkward column at times, but advice columns might not be that helpful once you've actually been kidnapped. Her tendency to drink to blackout point bothered me - there are mitigating factors, but she's certainly old enough to know better than to let herself get into that situation - and some of her other decisions were a bit iffy (even allowing for her increasing stress and PTSD), but she's gutsy and resourceful, good things when trying to escape a very intricate and diabolical web. It started out in very suspenseful fashion, with an all-too-believable - and terrifying - home-invasion, which narrator Lo experiences just as she's due to leave on a high-end assignment on a cruise ship. I found this softcover in this new-to-me Little Free Library in Townsend MA while dropping off some books of my own, and nabbed it for another release copy. ![]()
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The Shadow Reader by Sandy Williams6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It's sort of like humans and phone numbers: they can remember dozens upon dozens of locations, but if they don't think about them often or dial in on occasion, they tend to forget them completely." (pp. Without an anchor-stone or a shadow-reader naming the location on his or her map, fae can only fissure to places they've memorized. "My shadow-readings always look like they're drawn by a schizophrenic.To a normal human, the final sketch probably looks like a kindergartner's drawing, but to a fae who hears me name a city or a region, it's as good as having an imprinted anchor-stone. Here is McKenzie describing the shadow reading experience: McKenzie was born with the ability to track a fae's movements by reading the shadows as he or she fissures - that is, teleports, or moves between dimensions. One of his best weapons against the rebels is his human shadow reader (aka nalkin-shom), McKenzie Lewis, the 26-year-old virginal heroine of the series. As the story opens, the fae king, Atroth, is attempting to put down a rebellion. ![]() The few mortals who are aware of them are vigilantes, who are dedicated to the destruction of all fae as well as the humans who work with them. The primary supernaturals in this world are the fae, who move between their Realm and mortal earth, but are unknown to most mortals. This is a series with incredibly intricate world building and a well-devised story arc. ![]()
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![]() ![]() From the British invasion of Richmond to the malaria and smallpox-infested encampment at Yorktown and to the storming of the Bastille, several of Elizabeth Hemings’s children had an ironic presence at galvanizing struggles for social transformation. ![]() The end of the 1780s and the beginning of the 1790s saw the denouement of one, in America, and the beginnings of two others, in France and in one of its colonies, Saint Domingue. ExcerptĮlizabeth Hemings and her children lived through the Age of Revolution. These people lived in a world that the Revolution was only just beginning to transform. In this excerpt, Gordon-Reed considers what the American Revolution meant to Elizabeth, Sally, and Sally’s children, some of whom travelled with Jefferson to Paris, Philadelphia, and New York. ![]() A key figure in this story is Elizabeth Hemings, Sally Hemings’s mother. In The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Gordon-Reed expands her work into a biography of an entire family in the era of the American Revolution. ![]()
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Foreign Exchange by Denise Jaden6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() In the 2012–13 season he played 32 games for Phantoms Braunschweig, averaging 12 points, 3.2 assists and 2.5 rebounds in 25 minutes per game. In the same season, he also played 30 games for Phantoms Braunschweig of the German League, averaging 2.3 points, 0.7 assists and 0.8 rebounds in about 8 minutes per game. His team went in the playoffs where he averaged 18.8 points and 5.1 assists over 4 games. In the 2011–12 season he made a breakthrough, averaging 17.8 points and 6.7 assists over 23 regular season games. In his first season with SUM Baskets Braunschweig, he averaged 7.8 points, 2.1 assists and 1.6 rebounds per game in a 2nd-tier German League. Schröder started playing professional basketball in 2010 for SG Braunschweig, farm team of Phantoms Braunschweig. Professional career Phantoms Braunschweig (2010–2013) He is the sole owner of his German hometown team, Braunschweig of the Easycredit BBL, and has been the majority shareholder of the team since 2018. ![]() ![]() He previously played for SG Braunschweig and Phantoms Braunschweig in Germany, before spending his first five seasons in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks and two years with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Dennis Schröder ( German pronunciation: born September 15, 1993) is a German professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). ![]()
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Follett century trilogy6/25/2023 ![]() Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution – and rock and roll.East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives.…George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families – American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh – as they make their way through the twentieth century. Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy. ![]()
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A woman is no man author6/25/2023 ![]() So risking backlash from not only members of her community, but her own family, too, Rum chose the latter.įrom 1947-1949, more than 700,000 Palestinians from a 1.9 million population were forced from their homes in order to form the state of Israel, a manifestation of the political ideology known as Zionism, which is the belief that Jewish people are a race deserving of their own state. She felt she needed to be honest about the complex systems of transgenerational trauma and patriarchy, and how these systems lead to cycles of abuse. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Etaf Rum was writing her debut novel, A Woman is No Man, she had a choice to make: would she tell a story that carried on what she refers to as her community’s “code of silence” regarding issues of misogyny and domestic violence, or would she challenge her people to evaluate their blind spots, hoping it might move them forward toward true liberation? Rum wanted to be careful her book would not be used to perpetuate racist, anti-Arab - specifically anti-Palestinian - attitudes. ![]() |