5/28/2023 0 Comments The path between the seas book![]() ![]() ![]() It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. ![]() The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.įrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Shadowhunters chain of gold![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cordelia Carstairs is desperate to become a hero, save her family from ruin, and keep her secret love for James hidden. James Herondale longs for a great love, and thinks he has found it in the beautiful, mysterious Grace Blackthorn. But everything changes when the Blackthorn and Carstairs families come to London…and so does a remorseless and inescapable plague. James and Lucie Herondale, children of the famous Will and Tessa, have grown up in an idyll with their loving friends and family, listening to stories of good defeating evil and love conquering all. For years there has been peace in the Shadowhunter world. Welcome to Edwardian London, a time of electric lights and long shadows, the celebration of artistic beauty and the wild pursuit of pleasure, with demons waiting in the dark. ![]() I am so so in love with Cassandra Clare’s writing and the fact that it can ignite all of these emotions and passions within me at the thought of her work is just testament to how brilliant she is at her craft. This book equal parts invokes a stress response within my body and brings me great joy whenever I think about it. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Offill![]() ![]() Offill has co-edited the anthologies Money Changes Everything and The Friend Who Got Away, and has also written the children’s books Sparky!, While You Were Napping, 11 Experiments That Failed, and 17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore. Offill is also a writer of Childrens books including 17 Things Im Not Allowed to Do Anymore, 11 Experiments That Failed, While You Were Napping, and Sparky. ![]() ![]() Reviewing Weather for The New York Times, Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams, noted how “Offill’s whittled narrative bursts are apt vessels for the daily experience of scale-shifting they document – the vertigo of moving between the claustrophobia of domestic discontent and the impossibly vast horizon of global catastrophe.” Her third novel, Weather, was published by Knopf in 2020. Offill’s second novel was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and BuzzFeed, and short-listed for The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the DUBLIN Literary Award, and the Folio Prize. The novel’s layered evocation of childhood prompted writer Rick Moody to observe, “Jenny Offill’s complicated and arresting farewell to this dangerous time is compelling as few recent novels on the subject have been.” Last Things was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Jenny Offill’s debut novel, Last Things, was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s just a down-on-his-luck lawyer who needed a break from the city and agreed to help his brother work on a few homes in the Hamptons. Pierce Whitfield doesn’t normally demo kitchens, install dry wall, or tear apart a beautiful woman’s dreams. But when she catches the attention of a sexy stranger who snaps up every house from under her, all bets are off… Not only do they buy and sell houses to the rich and famous but they finally have the capital to flip their very own beachfront property. ![]() Now Rian and her sister are getting their life, and finances, back on track through real estate. ![]() Spending summers in the Hamptons was a normal occurrence for her until her parents lost everything years ago. Rian Sutter grew up with the finer things in life. I Flipping Love You is a sexy, spirited audiobook that will have listeners begging for more! HE’S A FIXER UPPER.įrom New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting comes a new kind of love story about flipping houses, taking risks, and landing that special someone who’s move-in ready. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Breathe like a bear![]() ![]() ![]() Originally from Illinois, she now lives in Durham, England, with her archaeologist husband, Kamal, new son, Emmett, and adorable dog, Logan. Learn more at !Īnni Betts is a professional illustrator who creates vibrant, cheerful drawings for books, magazines, advertisements, greeting cards, and more. Kira created and hosts several yoga-for-kids programs which air on PBS TV affiliates nationwide and her TEDx talk, "Bite-Sized Mindfulness," can be viewed online. Her hits include "Colors," which was featured in a worldwide Dell ad campaign. She has released five albums of kids' yoga and mindfulness songs her work has won Parents' Choice Gold, four Independent Music Awards, and the ASCAP Foundation Children's Songwriting Award. Kira Willey, author of Breathe Like a Bear and the Mindfulness Moments for Kids series, is a children's music artist, kids' yoga and mindfulness expert, and creator of Rockin' Yoga school programs. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Bone Key by Keith R.A. DeCandido![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the sacred island was one of the few refuges left. The water also gave them food and transportation. Like their homes and their tools, the island was built from the shells that the water gave them. The Calusa had constructed the island themselves, amidst the many natural islands that trailed off the home peninsula. The chief priest sat in the canoe as the boy rowed to the sacred island. ![]() before the beautiful island is reduced to nothing more than a pile of bones. It's up to Sam and Dean to save the citizens of Key West. Soon they'll be face-to-face with the ghosts of the island's most infamous residents, demons with a hidden agenda, and a mysterious ancient power looking for revenge. No one knows what horrors he saw, but the Winchester brothers are about to find out. But the tours are no more, not since one of the guides was found dead of an apparent heart attack. The tropical town has so many ghouls on the loose that one of its main moneymakers has long been a series of ghost tours. Sam and Dean are headed for Key West, Florida, home to Hemingway, hurricanes, and a whole lot of demons. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America. Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Roughneck graphic novel![]() ![]() ![]() What allows him to successfully bridge this gap is his characterization and insight as well as his artwork. He is a prolific comic artist with a wide interest in different genres of comics Lemire appeals to fans of superhero comics and graphic novels. ![]() Lemire has an impressive range of accomplishments and awards besides publishing graphic novels, Lemire has worked for Marvel, DC, and Image Comics, and he has works that have been selected to be adapted for television. Jeff Lemire, in his first graphic novel in five years, offers a story published by a big name: Simon & Schuster the publisher has introduced a new line of graphic novels to be published in 2017 imprinted under Gallery 13, which will offer “readers the highest quality of visual storytelling, championing the graphic novel format as a mainstream medium of art, literature, and commercial entertainment.” Lemire is one of three authors chosen to headline this new imprint of Gallery 13, so an original graphic novel by an established name is a safe bet. ![]() The cover art of Roughneck and the heft of the book draw a reader in before the book is even opened. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Brzrkr vol 1 review![]() Matt Kindt is (usually) spot-on with his story telling whilst Ron Garney is always perfect in what he does and stands as one of my all time favourite comic book artists, but there was something about the first issue of BRZRKR that did not hit the right notes for me. ![]() ![]() I will say in regards to this though that when I initially picked up issue one that I really, really wanted to like it. I will be the first to admit that hearing the announcement of this series with it’s high-profile celebrity attachment caused me to have low expectations so forgive me if my thoughts come off as biased. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The road mc![]() ![]() Whereas novels such as The Stand(1978) by Stephen King and The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham focus on what comes after the fall of society, and how one could possibly reconstitute a society, McCarthy’s work has no interest in that at all. ![]() The Road also explodes the notion of post-apocalyptic literature. It is unrelentingly violent and barbaric, and there is no notion of a battle of good and evil. Blood Meridian is a western novel, but in many ways is the antithesis of the classic western as seen in novels like Owen Wister’s The Virginian(1902). But all of his works established in firm genre boundaries continue to explode notions readers may have of those genres. Suttree (1979) is a southern gothic novel. Child of God (1973) is a serial killer novel. He is a writer who firmly grounds most of his works in genre fiction. ![]() I think that can be considered true of the rest of author Cormac McCarthy’s works. T he Road(2006), in many ways, bucks many expectations one might have about post-apocalyptic literature. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments A castle of sand by bella forrest![]() Prepare to be lost in its pages.When Sofia Claremont was kidnapped to a sunless island, uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet, she believed she'd forever be a captive of its dark ruler, Derek Novak.Now, after months of surviving an endless night, the morning sun may soon rise again for Sofia. In A Shade of Blood, Bella Forrest transports you deeper into a unique, enthralling and beautifully sensitive story. ![]() #1 Bestseller in Vampire Romance, Paranormal & Fantasy.***FULL LENGTH NOVEL (more than twice as long as Book 1).Having been delighted by the bestselling debut, A Shade of Vampire, readers are begging for more. THE SERIES WITH OVER A MILLION BOOKS SOLD*** Amazon Overall Top 40 Bestseller. ![]() |