6/9/2023 0 Comments Mistborn hardcover set![]() ![]() ![]() But no-one knows where it is or what it can do.īrandon Sanderson's epic fantasy trilogy overturns the expectations of readers and then goes on to tell the epic story of evil overturned in a richly imagined world. As the siege of Luthadel intensifies the ancient legend of the Well of Ascension offers the only glimmer of hope. More worryingly still the mists have become unpredictable since the Lord Ruler died and a strage vaprous entity is stalking Vin. Worryingly for her Vin has become the focus of a new religion a development that leaves her intensely uneasy. The awesome task of rebuilding the world has been left to his protege Vin a one-time street urchin now the most powerful Mistborn in the land. But so too is Kelsier the man who masterminded the triumph. The Lord Ruler is dead has been vanquished. ![]() ![]() This adventure brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy to a dramatic and surprising climax as Sanderson's saga offers complex characters and a compelling plot asking hard questions about loyalty faith Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension new emperor Elend Venture and his wife the assassin Vin are now hard-pressed to save the world. ![]()
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![]() On the first Friday of the month, a note arrived from an anonymous admirer, delicately sprinkled with rose-scented tears. But in April of 1890, they turned lucky for her. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.įridays were not Gwen’s favorite they too often rained. With Alex’s past and Gwen’s newly unleashed wildness on a collision course, Gwen must convince Alex that his wickedest intentions are exactly what she needs. ![]() But on a wild romp from Paris to the Riviera, their friendship gives way to something hotter, darker, and altogether more dangerous. He has no wish to see her change, nor to tempt himself with her presence when his own secrets make any future between them impossible. Unbeknownst to Gwen, Alex’s aloof demeanor veils his deepest unspoken desire. So why won’t a confirmed scoundrel let her be as bad as she wants to be? Happily, she knows the perfect tutor-Alexander Ramsey, her late brother’s best friend and a notorious rogue. If nice no longer works for her, then it’s time to learn to be naughty. ![]() When a cad jilts her at the altar-again-the scandal has her outraged friends calling for blood. But what she’s best known and loved for is being so very, very nice. ![]() Gwen Maudsley is pretty enough to be popular, and plenty wealthy, too. She’s been burned not once but twice by London’s so-call ed gentlemen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This view of clashing cultures may not be supported by current scholarship, but it was based on the theories and research available to Renault at the time of writing, and something about it still rings true. Yet even as he accepts this age-old role, Theseus wrestles with a decadent matriarchal culture to bring about a new individual consciousness, transforming it into something less primal and more forward-looking. A king, Theseus suggests, is one who is willing to sacrifice his personal destiny for the good of the people - “the king must die,” as ancient rituals demand, so that new life can arise. As the young hero grows up, from mysterious beginnings, through trials that test his strength both in body and mind, to an ultimately tragic end, he struggles to discern and accept his moira, his fate. What is a true king? That question runs throughout the two historical novels that Mary Renault wrote about Theseus, the legendary ruler of Athens. Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea (1962) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a fresh, virtuoso performance that will surely place Groff among the best young writers of today. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. She finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town's past, some sinister, all fascinating, rise up around her to tell their side of the story. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her twisted family tree. And Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother has kept secret for Willie's entire life. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake, bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town. In the wake of a disastrous affair with her older, married archeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, New York - a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Blindness vintage saramago![]() ![]() ![]() Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. ![]() Theme: Existence, Uncertainty, and Autonomy Good, Evil, and Moral Conscience Biological Needs and Human SocietyĪ city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one. Setting Place: An unnamed city, primarily in an abandoned mental hospital Major Characters: The doctor (Blindness), The doctor’s wife, The girl with the dark glasses, The first blind man, The first blind man’s wife, The boy with the squint, The old man with the black eye patch, The car thief First Publication: 1995 (English translation: 1997) ![]() ![]() ![]() What am I looking for on my #MSWL? My Pinterest page has a great selection of projects I’ve sold, projects I wish I had sold, and ideas that I’m looking for in books now. For graphic novels, please submit query and a link to your portfolio. To pitch me your project, please visit QueryManager with your query, synopsis, and first chapter for fiction or your query and full book proposal for nonfiction. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they comethe complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. Home decorating/interior design/landscape design Synopsis: After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down.Specifically looking for how-to books, antiques, thrifting, flea market finds/decorating, and craft books. Nonfiction - I’m looking for fun, quirky, fascinating topics with strong commercial appeal and a great platform. ![]() Welcome! I’m Stacey Graham, an agent with 3 Seas Literary representing talented authors and illustrators from around the globe in picture books, middle grade, romance, graphic novels, and nonfiction. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Grace Kelly by Robert Lacey![]() ![]() He liked the look of Kelly, all the more so because, in his view, the look was that of a plain Jane. It was a combination that appealed to the director of “Taxi,” Gregory Ratoff. There is both hesitancy and force in this woman you can picture her, faced with a decision, flitting back and forth, and yet, once decided, becoming quite fiery and sure. ![]() Her eyes keep moving across the man, as if he were a passage of verse. “It ain’t that I’m not fond of you,” she says, in words that have weighed like lead, throughout history, on the hearts of disappointed guys. We can also make out a mild Irish accent-not much of a stretch, for one of the Kelly clan. Kelly wears a soft sweater and, beneath it, a white blouse, whose demure collar is just discernible. In the barn, she did a screen test, for a movie called “Taxi,” opposite Robert Alda: the fair young maid and the darker, troubled fellow, each pleading with the other. ![]() One spring day in 1952, Miss Grace Kelly, of Philadelphia, now resident in New York, went across to “a barn-like studio on the far West Side of Manhattan.” That is how she later described it, as if recalling a foreign trip. Kelly in 1955, in the gown she wore when she won the Oscar for best actress. ![]() ![]() After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and set out the benchmarks for rationality itself. We actually think in ways that are sensible in the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we’ve discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update beliefs and commit to choices individually and with others. Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply irrational - cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. How can a species that developed vaccines for COVID-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? ![]() Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and also appears to be losing its mind. Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’ "new favorite book of all time”) answers all the questions here. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The red shoes fairy tale![]() ![]() She was so pleased to give you this gift that you acted pleased too. She was now sitting at the little white vanity table she bought you last Christmas, the one with the three-way mirror. You saw Mother had moved away from your bed. “Envied her?” you repeated, opening your eyes. “The one about the beautiful maiden,” you said. ![]() How you were staring at her like a little psychopath. Beginning to get impatient with you, your dreaminess. ![]() ![]() Two teetering steps and you were on the floor, weren’t you? You tried those on too, but it never went well. Satin, heeled, with puffs of red feathers on the toes-your favorites. She had a pair of red shoes that matched. Sometimes you tried it on when she wasn’t home, breathing in her violets and smoke. She was wearing the red silk robe, the one you loved best. “Well, Belle?” And she smiled at you just like the dolls, remember? Positioned them in every corner, every nook, so no matter where you looked, you saw their glossy hair, their fair skin, those lips of red that were always sort of smiling at you. It was Mother who’d bought you those dolls. Like the dolls that lined the walls of your room. She was fair, slim, and smooth, remember? Like something out of a fairy tale. French for “beautiful.” It’s what she called you, even though you were a beastly little thing. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Jason reynolds spiderman![]() ![]() ON THE VERSE USED IN MILES MORALES SUSPENDED: Recently, Jason Reynolds sat down with host Angélique Roché on an all-new episode of the This Week in Marvel podcast to talk about his origins as an author, what first drew him to write Miles Morales: Spider-Man, and the unique verse/prose/illustrated format featured in Miles Morales Suspended. ![]() From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds and acclaimed illustrator Zeke Peña comes the high-flying sequel to young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man! In Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel, follow the adventures of Miles Morales, and go inside the inner world and writings of the unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man. ![]() |