![]() ![]() ![]() Putnam's Sons, 2011 London: Macmillan, 2012Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:06:00 Boxid IA1910312 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier In this gripping narrative of passion, intrigue, battle and deceit, Penman reveals a true and complex Richard, a man remarkable for his power and intelligence, his keen grasp of warfare and his concern for the safety of his men, who followed him against all odds The result was mutual admiration: a profound acknowledgement of a worthy opponent. They quickly took the measure of each other in both war and diplomacy. Overshadowing the battlefields that stretched to Jerusalem and beyond were the personalities of two great adversaries: Richard and Saladin. ![]() John, the youngest son, was left behind, and with Richard gone, he was free to conspire with the French king to steal his brother's throne. Men and women found themselves facing new sorts of challenges and facing an uncertain future. This was a bloody campaign to regain the Holy Land, marked by warfare among the Christians and extraordinary campaigns against the Saracens. Richard I was crowned King in 1189 and set off almost immediately for the Third Crusade. ![]()
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![]() ![]() How our thinking about having finite willpower is wrong. The real reasons that people become distracted. In this conversation Nir and Steven discuss topics, such as: Nir is the author of 2 bestselling books, ‘Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products’ and ’Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.’ Since 2003, he has co-founded two technology companies, worked as a consultant in product design and taught as a lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. ![]() ![]() His work explores the intersection of psychology, technology, and business, and has earned him the label of “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology”. Nir’s career has focused on behavioural engineering and helping businesses to develop habit-forming products. In this new episode Steven sits down with the American behavioural design expert, Nir Eyal. ![]() ![]() ![]() These doorways charm and intrigue us as readers. A character who passes through a doorway into a world of adventure mirrors the adventure of the reader themselves. Opening a book is as simple as opening a door in the real world – but often much more rewarding! And magical doorways within books are something extra special. But more than anything else, doors are change.īooks are magical doorways. You see, doors are many things: fissures and cracks, ways between, mysteries and borders. ![]() Adventures ensue.”Īdventures most certainly ensue in this oh-so magical book! Harrow was asked to describe her book in five words, she said… “Girl finds door. Years later she receives a leather-bound book that reveals impossible secrets about magical doors, the forces working to close them and unexpected clues to her own past. When January is seven years old, she stumbles upon a door to another world, right before it is closed forever. ![]() ![]() Locke, a wealthy businessman and archaeologist. January is a mixed-race girl living in a vast estate filled with eccentric items from around the world. Set in the early 20th century, “The Ten Thousand Doors of January” features a book within a book, hidden doors that move between worlds, villains with evil plans, and a wise, bookish girl named January. ![]() ![]() ![]() "In the Nanotech Succession, Linda Nagata crafted one of the great sagas of galactic-scale science fiction. From Karl Schroeder, New York Times Notable author of Ventus, and of Stealing Worlds : Edges is a new entry point into the classic story world of Linda Nagata’s The Nanotech Succession. Their goal: to unravel the mystery of the Hallowed Vasties and to discover what monstrous life might have grown up among the ruins. They will be the first in centuries to confront the hazards of an inverted frontier as they venture back along the path of human migration. With a ship’s company of explorers and scientists, Urban is embarking on a voyage of re-discovery. He commands a captive alien starship fully capable of facing the dangers that lie beyond Deception Well. ![]() No one knows for sure what caused the Hallowed Vasties to fail, but a hardened adventurer named Urban intends to find out. ![]() Powerful telescopes can see only dust and debris where once there were orbital mega-structures so huge they eclipsed the light of their parent stars. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization-those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties-have all fallen to ruins. Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. ![]() ![]() Thus, we can expect that Bhattacharya’s protagonist is going to have an ethnographic eye and much of the novel is focused not only on the narrator’s exploits, but also on providing a layman’s history of the country. In my limited knowledge, the country of Guyana has not necessarily been the subject of much representation by English-language writers. ![]() ![]() Rahul Bhattacharya’s The Sly Company of People Who Care is a funky novel, without a really sustained plotting, but provides some very interesting takes on an Indian transnational who is enchanted by the beauty of the South American country of Guyana. Masih’s Where The Dog Star Never Glows (Press 53, 2011) Hari Kunzru’s Transmission (2005, Penguin) Amit Majmudar’s Partitions (Metropolitan Books, 2011) Nayana Currimbhoy’s Miss Timmins’ School for Girls (Harper, 2011) Tahmima Anam’s The Golden Age (Harper, 2007) Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim (Harper, 2011)Ī Review of The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011). ![]() In this post: Reviews of The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) Tara L. ![]() ![]() With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind. In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the listener a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way-bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before. In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. “A gorgeous and inviting overview of the fundamental facts of physical reality.”-Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now ![]() ![]() But when clan rivalries and dark deeds threaten the wife he has only begun to cherish, the Scottish warrior will move heaven and earth to save the woman who has awakened his heart to the beautiful song of a rare and magical love. As intimacy deepens, he learns her secret. ![]() Graeme is intrigued by the mysterious Eveline, whose silent lips are ripe with temptation and whose bright, intelligent eyes can see into his soul. Graeme is a rugged warrior with a voice so deep and powerful that his new bride can hear it, and hands and kisses so tender and skilled that he stirs her deepest passions. But when an arranged marriage into a rival clan makes Graeme Montgomery her husband, Eveline accepts her duty-unprepared for the delights to come. 1) By: Judith McNaught Published: 1989 Never Seduce a Scot (The. Content with her life of seclusion, Eveline has taught herself to read lips and allows the outside world to view her as daft. Books forced marriage read online for free on Booknet Story about: self discovery. ![]() ![]() No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot hear. Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her "touched." Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn't speak. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Niang’s two additional children, Yen Mah is now one of six and thus, considered bad luck in her culture at large as her mother passed shortly after birthing her.īeing a girl and the youngest of her original family subjects her to emotional – and at times, physical – abuse from her biological and step-family. While Yen Mah’s father has four children with his first wife – unlike the original tale in which Cinderella is an only child – he then marries Niang, the featured antagonist of the novel, following his first wife’s death. Running parallel to its namesake, the story is centered around Yen Mah’s family journey, evil stepmother and all. However, “Chinese Cinderella” proved me wrong through Yen Mah’s expert hand, I was pulled into an entire culture I was unaware of upon opening the book. Until then, I had viewed all autobiographies as incredibly dull, filled with facts, dates and events that I had no interest in learning about. ![]() “Chinese Cinderella” by Adeline Yen Mah was one of the first autobiographies I enjoyed reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() “What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Each of them named one of the four Houses: Chadwick created Thunderbird, Webster created Wampus, Isolt created Horned Serpent, and James created Pukwudgie. ![]() Thus, the school started with just the couple acting as teachers and their two adopted sons, Chadwick and Webster Boot, as students. Isolt then promised they would build their own school at their Mount Greylock home, with the objective of home-schooling them. It became a school when their adoptive children Chadwick and Webster Boot hoped they could return to Ireland so they could attend Hogwarts. Ilvermorny was originally a stone house constructed by Irish immigrant Isolt Sayre, and her No-Maj husband James Steward. ![]() Ilvermorny was founded in 1627, 637 years after Hogwarts, and the school was originally just a rough shack containing two teachers and two students. Ilvermorny's Humble Beginnings as a "shack" Two more magical boys from the Wampanoag tribe had been joined by a mother and two daughters from the Narragansett, all interested in learning the techniques of wand work in exchange for sharing their own magical learning." - The start of Ilvermorny transition into a larger school ![]() " By the time Webster turned eleven, the reputation of the family's little homeschool had spread. ![]() |