![]() ![]() it's like every time there's a physical conflict, Mike barely survies it. in book 7, Mike picks up BT in his arms and jumps over a fence, and in this book, both he "and" Tommy can barely pick him up? My point is - where's the consistency? why can't Mike just embrace his vampireness? Or at least the parts that would help him, like super human strength. In one scene, it's cold and rainy and they're fine, and in another, there's a real danger of dying from frost bite. one thing that keeps sort of tweaking me is how Mark continues to fluctuate the power of the vampires. ![]() But okay, I feel like I need to vent a smidge. We've got intelligent zombies, talking zombie apes, vampires, magic men from other places. I swear that when I read ZF1 I never saw the series goign in this direction. As usual, Mark writes a great story and Sean brings the characters to life masterfully. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Company, an unfeeling and monstrously inclined biotech giant, once held sway there, but now what’s left is a whole bunch of one-time experiments gone awry. This latest is much the same: supremely literary, distinctly unusual, its title character a blob of something or another that earns its name, in part, because it’s carried from place to place-when we meet it, in fact, it's tangled up in the fur of a giant bear that just now is busily marauding through the ruins of a once-thriving city in what would seem to be the very near future. ![]() VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy ( Acceptance, 2014, etc.) set high standards for dystopian fantasy, and the wizardry was as much in the writing as in the storyline. “Once upon a time there was a piece of biotech that grew and grew until it had its own apartment”: an odd, atmospheric, and decidedly dark fable for our time. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Runaway, the dramatic conclusion to the bestselling and acclaimed Airhead novels by Meg Cabot, Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself. ![]() We are super excited to be hosting the fantastic Meg Cabot blog tour today and extra chuffed that we get the chance to show you an exclusive preview of chapters 1 & 2 of Meg’s third book in the Airhead series – Runaway (Out on April 20th). 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Her young narrator takes readers through a typical day, describing a quiet, unchanging life. Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz (Author), Sydney Smith. In an author’s note, Schwartz ( Pinny in Summer) explains that until the 1950s, boys who grew up in Canadian coal towns knew that their futures lay at the bottom of their local mine. The ever-present ocean and inevitable pattern of life in a mining town will enthral. ![]() ![]() ![]() Uris' persistently researched and reconstituted history goes even further back with 18th century insets and the potato famine and Parnell and, and, and. ![]() With his usual partisan magnanimity, Uris devotes himself to another popular/unpopular lost cause, the Irish, and in particular the Fenian struggle which extended from the mid 19th century to the Easter Monday Uprising of 1916 in all its "Terrible Beauty." 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Lewis published the children's book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950. This edition is complete with full-color cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.įour adventurous siblings-Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie-step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. While exploring, Lucy steps into a large wardrobe full of fur coats and. ![]() Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, fantasy novel for children by C.S. A full-color paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. Wyatt North Publishing, LLC, Fiction - 101 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() They soon realize they're not just fighting for their jobs: They're fighting for their lives. People who defy the consultant get fired… or worse. 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CompWare is in serious trouble after a promised merger falls through, so they do what other businesses have done to bolster their public image: they hire a consulting firm to review and streamline their business practices.īut there's something strange about the firm they hire-more specifically, the quirky gentleman who arrives to supervise the project: Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Confucius and Opium contains surprises sure to both delight and annoy any potential reader….Cook’s audacity is shaming.”-John Grant Ross, author of Formosan Odyssey “An offbeat, erudite work of China-centered literary criticism….adeptly drawing out common themes or compelling threads that hint at larger trends in Chinese history.”- Kirkus Reviews In these book review essays by Isham Cook, foreign devils, old China Hands, eccentric expatriates, and a few Chinese tell an offbeat history of China’s last two centuries, with a backward glance at ancient China as told by Western mummies. Have foreigners shaped China’s history to a greater extent than has previously been acknowledged, reaching back possibly millennia? Was Confucius’ most famous book, the Analects, inspired by entheogenic medicines imported from abroad, possession of which in the 1930s brought one before the firing squad in the name of Confucius? ![]() ![]() ![]() See more items in: Jack Mitchell Photography of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Collection Jack Mitchell Photography of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Collection / Series 1: Black and White Prints / 1. Processing of the collection was funded by the Smithsonian Collection Information Systems IRM Funds. and Smithsonian Institution, All rights reserved. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Jack Mitchell (Photographer) 4.73 15 ratings2 reviews A creative union was forged in 1961 between dynamic choreographer Alvin Ailey and Jack Mitchell, who was already known as the preeminent photographer of dance. Photography by Jack Mitchell © Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. Permission for commercial use or publication of the digital images may be requested from the Smithsonian Institution. Jack Mitchell Photography of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Collection is jointly owned by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, and the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation. Access to collection materials requires an appointment. Mitchell, Jack, 1925-2013 Search this Container:Ĭollection is open for research. ![]() Ailey, Alvin Search this Collection Photographer: ![]() |