![]() ![]() to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. Five thousand years later, their progeny-seven distinct races now three billion strong-embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown. ![]() But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain. ![]() In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb.
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![]() ![]() Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. ![]() While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.ĭalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I'm not writing novels, I'm a Shakespeare professor. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. ![]() Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar" later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() ![]() Susan’s fate helped spur friendly neighborhood atheist Philip Pullman to write his own anti-Narnia, the ramshackle Dark Materials trilogy with its sin-as-freedom metaphysics and straw-man take on Christian morality. ![]() She is, Aslan says, “no longer a friend of Narnia.” Susan, we remember, is excluded from heaven for growing up, for liking lipstick, nylons, and parties. Yet she is conspicuously absent from the roll call of Narnian heroes we encounter in Aslan’s heavenly country. These gifts signify her strength, femininity, and prudence. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, she is given the representative gifts of a bow, arrows, and a magic horn that summons help wherever you might be. ![]() She is the second-eldest of the Pevensie children, the pretty one in the family, dark-haired, tender-hearted, and occasionally cautious to the point of being a bit of a wet blanket. Lewis, Aslan, maybe God-do that to dear old Su? To Queen Susan the Gentle, Susan the sure-sighted archeress? The bad news comes, almost offhandedly, as the series ends amid the cheerfully eschatological curtain-calls of The Last Battle. Susan Pevensie is no longer a friend of Narnia. It’s one of childhood’s great narrative shocks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ole Miss also boasts a 43-2 all-time mark against current members of the Southland Conference. ![]() The Rebels lead the all-time series with the Cowboys 6-1, including a 4-0 mark in Oxford. 25 in the AP poll and is still receiving votes in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. Ole Miss entered the rankings this week at No. Prices are $100 for courtside seats and $16 for all other seats. Tickets can be purchased online at or by phone at 1-80 or at the DeSoto Civic Center box office. ![]() Tickets are on sale for the Wednesday's matchup with the UTEP Miners at the DeSoto Civic Center in Southaven, Miss. The Rebels look to extend their 30-1 home record against non-conference opponents under head coach Andy Kennedy. Chris Warren (17.5 ppg) and Terrico White (17.0 ppg) rank fourth and fifth in the SEC in scoring, respectively. The Rebels are riding a three-game winning streak, including this past Saturday's 81-79 comeback thriller over Southern Miss. The Rebel players had the week off of games due to final exams, as Saturday's tilt marks the first of the winter break contests. 25 Ole Miss puts its ranking to the test on Saturday against the McNeese State Cowboys. Live Radio: Ole Miss Radio Network (David Kellum, play-by-play Keith Carter, analyst).Īmong the nation's top 25 teams in the polls for the first time since January 2008, No. ![]() ![]() Larkyra ist eine von drei Schwestern mit magischen Fähigkeiten. ![]() Dare to listen?Įine langsame, entspannte Geschichte mit Magie, drei tollen Schwestern und einer erfrischenden Liebe. Welcome to the world of Aadilor, where lords and ladies can be murderers and thieves, and the most alluring notes are often the deadliest. Larkyra and Darius must learn to trust each other if there is to be any hope of saving the people of Lachlan-and themselves. Soon she suspects Darius has his own motivations for ridding Lachlan of the corrupt duke. But her plans grow complicated when she finds herself drawn to Lord Darius Mekenna, Lachlan’s rightful heir. ![]() Eager to prove herself, Larkyra accepts by posing as the duke’s potential bride. When it’s discovered the Duke of Lachlan is siphoning a poisonous drug from the Thief Kingdom and using it to abuse his tenants, Larkyra is offered her first solo mission to stop the duke. Larkyra Bassette may be the youngest of the Mousai, but when she sings her voice has the power to slay monsters. There, the mysterious Thief King reigns supreme with the help of the Mousai, a trio of revered and feared sorceresses. ![]() Many whisper of its existence, but few have found this place, where magic and pleasure abound. The Thief Kingdom is a place hidden within the world of Aadlior. ![]() From the award-winning author of the Dreamland series comes a new dark romantic fantasy about a young woman finding hope in her powers of destruction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s Make Comics! Learn to make your own comics with my book, Let’s Make Comics! An Activity Book to Create, Write, and Draw Your Own Cartoons. IndieBound / Macmillan / Amazon / Target / Barnes & Noble / Walmart Talent Show Troubles is available in hardcover, paperback, and digital everywhere books are sold, including: With over 25 different endings, What Happens Next: Talent Show Troubles is an interactive misadventure you’ll be coming back to over and over! Can YOU help Megan salvage this mess, or will you doom her to an eternity in the school’s basement?! Megan Hathaway is in charge of Sunbright Middle School’s talent show, and everything is going wrong.Īnimals are running wild backstage, vice-principal Fisher is out for blood, and Megan’s friend Olivia might be turning into a zombie. ![]() In this first graphic novel of the What Happens Next series, you can decide if Megan will run the Sunbright Middle School’s talent show smoothly or right into the ground. ![]() ![]() This Jeffersonian ideal, ultimately, morphed into rank rent-seeking by wealthy growers, big engineering and construction firms and urban water departments- all of whom were adept at “farming the government.” So much of the waste and destruction perpetrated by the federal Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers, which were engaged in a dysfunctional competition with each other for decades, were predicated on the “myth of the independent yeoman farmer,” according to Reisner. It was a finalist for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award and inspired an award-winning documentary by the same name which was first broadcast in 1997. The year before Reisner’s untimely death at age 51, Cadillac Desert was 61st on a list of the 100 best nonfiction books in English in the 20th century, as compiled by a panel from the Modern Library, a division of Random House. Recent scientific analysis has confirmed most of the book’s prognostications. It documented the transformation of John Wesley Powell’s vision of a federal irrigation program into a perverse reality of pork-barrel spending and environmental devastation. ![]() It was, clearly, advocacy journalism, but journalism of the highest order fortified with a tremendous amount of research, study, and numerous face-to-face interviews. Marc Reisner’s masterpiece Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water is as compelling today as it was on publication in 1986. ![]() ![]() ![]() And for the poor there simply is no justice at all. Torn from the author's own case files, Resumed Innocent offers a revealing and sometimes frightening inside look at just how our fractured justice system works to punish the innocent and reward the wicked. And then suddenly the system turns against her, and Sam and her daughter are left running for their lives. ![]() From court appointed clients who rarely show up for court to pro bono clients with seemingly unwinnable cases, every day is a new struggle to figure out the subtle intricacies and intrigues of the criminal justice system. Starting a career as a small town criminal attorney would be tough enough, but as a widowed mother with no income and very little in the bank, Sam never seems to catch a break. The Texas justice system has taken dead aim at getting her off the case - even if it means taking dead aim at the back of her head.Īnd Samantha Tulley is in way over her head. Samantha's client is facing the death penalty for the triple murder of his wife and two children, and even Sam believes he's stone cold guilty.īut as dawn breaks over tiny Blair County, a guilty verdict is the least of her concerns. A nail-biting legal thriller by an exciting new author. ![]() ![]() An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. ![]() ![]() Like most of Wilde's plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire.Īn Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards - providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. ![]() Although Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. ![]() |