![]() ![]() For this tragedy is more than a case of arson - someone has stolen the priceless treasure stored in the cathedrals golden reliquary: the bones of the biblical Three Kings.Commander Gray Pierce leads a team on the hunt for the Royal Dragon Court, a clandestine aristocratic fraternity of alchemists that dates back to the Middle Ages and seeks to establish a new world order using the mystical bones. For this tragedy is more than a case of arson - someone has stolen the priceless treasure stored in the cathedrals golden reliquary: the bones of the biblical Three Kings.Commander Gray Pierce leads a team on the hunt for the Royal Dragon Court, a clandestine aristocratic f When a group of parishioners is burned to death in a German cathedral, the US sends in Sigma force. When a group of parishioners is burned to death in a German cathedral, the US sends in Sigma force. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+).BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem here was in assuming that what most readers think of as the subject of a story has any role in a Moody project beyond giving his tangled prose something to wrap itself around, the way a vine will wrap itself around the nearest thing to hand, be it trellis, tree, or trash. Another attempt: “In his breakthrough novel The Ice Storm, Rick Moody evinces a troubling fascination with adolescent sexual organs that is partially explained in his latest book, The Black Veil, a so-called ‘memoir with digressions.’” Again, the observation strikes me as correct. One of those starting points was this: “Rick Moody is a lot of things, but he is not actually dumb.” This was an attempt at charity, and though I still think that it’s true enough, I don’t think that it matters at any rate, his intelligence does not make up for the badness of his books. Or, more accurately, every other starting point that I tried felt disingenuous, nothing more than a way of setting Moody up in order to knock him down. ![]() I apologize for the abruptness of this declaration, its lack of nuance, of any meaning besides the intuitive but as I made my way through Moody’s oeuvre during the past few months I was unable to come up with any other starting point for a consideration of his accomplishment. Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The series has also been released in audiobook format, narrated by James Marsters. Īs of 2021, Butcher has written 17 novels set in the Dresden Files universe, as well as a number of short stories (some of which are collected in the anthologies Side Jobs and Brief Cases Others remain on his website). Butcher's original proposed title for the first novel was Semiautomagic, which sums up the series' balance of fantasy and hard-boiled detective fiction. The books are written as a first-person narrative from the perspective of private investigator and wizard Harry Dresden as he recounts investigations into supernatural disturbances in modern-day Chicago. The first novel, Storm Front-which was also Butcher's writing debut-was published in 2000 by Roc Books. The Dresden Files is a series of contemporary fantasy/ mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher. ![]() ![]() He’s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren’s help. Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. ![]() DescriptionĮight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Innocence is another theme tied to the color blue. The color can also be associated with intelligence, signifying Pecola's desperation to overcome her social situation to such an extent that she ignores logic and embraces the impossible instead, that she should magically be given blue eyes. I always thought it was also significant that blue is a color typically associated with depression and unhappiness, something Pecola is closely acquainted with. "The Bluest Eye", with its superlative of "blue", indicates her deep-rooted desire to change, to become the most different version of herself possible, since she hates her current self. She doesn't actually want the blue eyes for the sake of having blue eyes, she wants them for the positive treatment she sees people with blue eyes getting (rather than her brown ones), so, in a manner of speaking, it's herself that she wants to become blue. ![]() I always thought that it was "eye" instead of "eyes" because it is a homonym to "I", as in a person - in this case Pecola Breedlove. Her first novel depicts what Jan Furman terms 'black girlhood'and what Agnes Surányi calls 'black female experience from childhood to womanhood'(12, 11). (view spoiler) [Note: this answer isn't official in any way, just what I thought when reading it. This article examines in particular Morrisons first and last (to date) novels: The Bluest Eye (1970) and A Mercy (2008). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers who enjoyed The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop will not be disappointed." - Booklist "Clearly, Saunders has honed her deft and breezy comic style while affectionately channeling mild echoes of Harry Potter and The Hobbit. Praise for The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix " Saunders weaves the supernatural with the ordinary with ease. This might be their toughest adventure yet. With the help of an army of rats and an unreliable talking cat, the children must pursue her not only across London but through time itself. Alba the witch has gotten her hands on a magical chocolate phoenix and is plotting to use it for some serious evil. In the wrong hands, chocolate can be very dangerous indeed. For fans of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,Oz and Lily's magical chocolate-filled adventure continues in the sequel to The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was sprawling and disorganized, and I despaired of ever publishing it. I was trying to tie up all the threads created in the first three books in the series and leave my characters in a good place. I expected CreateSpace, the publishing platform I have used for my past three books, would be the same. Sabina, the owner and a Zen practitioner, is all about impermanence after the many losses she has experienced. ![]() Zen Flowers, also the title of my upcoming book, is a florist shop. “Impermanence.” I shrug, like it’s not important. ![]() The cat hasn’t destroyed it yet if she does, it will merely reflect the transitory nature of all things.ĭoug frowns. I cleared everything off the table for maximum effect and moved the completed arrangement from the kitchen into the living room. From Zen Flowers: Doug circles the flower arrangement on my coffee table, contemplating the broken horsetail stalks and red petals scattered over the ebony wood surface. ![]() ![]() ![]() With exquisitely controlled pacing, Taylor Adams diabolically ratchets up the tension with every page. Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. ![]() There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her? In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate. ![]() Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.ĭesperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.Ī kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice. There, she begins to read and to write - initially in her journal - solely in Italian. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world. English was a hairy, smelly teenager menacing her nascent Italian, she wrote. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Jhumpa Lahiri opted for a more visceral description in In Other Words, the first book she wrote in Italian. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. It is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut - an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words" ( Kirkus Reviews). ![]() |