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![]() ![]() They don’t even have time for time, most of the time. They don’t have time to be generous or attentive or gracious, but nor do they have time for greed or selfishness or laziness. ![]() ![]() Citizens of Perpetua know this, and they hoard time. Time! You lose time, gain time, look for time, make time, kill time (a violent and wasteful act punishable by up to ten years of clock tower maintenance work), save time, measure time, and otherwise treat time as your most precious commodity. Or so the inhabitants of Perpetua would tell you. Nor time as a relative factor to be stretched and masticated, organized and sculpted, for time is not chewing gum and ought not be treated as such. Not time as we know it, with the swing of pendulums, the ring of alarms, the tick of clocks, the passage of then to now and back to then again and again and again and again. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the latter is his observation that grasses are only 70 million years old, meaning that grassland animals are younger than that. He takes pains, therefore, to write with clarity about what is “directly observable from the fossil record,” allowing for a few alternate theories and surprises. The author recognizes that geologic time is mind-boggling given a record of life that stretches back 4 billion years and a planet another half-billion years older than that. He begins along the banks of the Thames, which “now enters the sea more than 100 miles south of where it used to flow” thanks to changing sea levels in times of glaciation and glacial melt: Britain was once a tropical swamp. A tour of the past worlds that the geological history of Earth reveals.īritish paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Halliday roams the globe to examine the geological maxim that Earth’s past is its present and future-that the processes that once placed the continents into a single supermass will do so again. ![]() ![]() ![]() A fast but fiery group of kids from wildly different backgrounds, chosen to compete on an elite track team. Race through Jason Reynolds’s New York Times bestselling Track series, now in a complete boxed set. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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A future with Faedrah or dying before his time. But when an old enemy reappears, detailing the results of his actions, Rhys is forced to make a choice. Rhys had one job to do it should have been easy, what with the nature of his powers. “From there, we shall scour the cliff side, until the entrance to Gaelleod’s tomb is revealed.” AJ Nuest, manages to bring two different worlds, with two different types of dialect together, and make them sound like the sweetest music you’ll ever hear. I loved it and adore not only this series but also The Golden Key Chronicles, the series that started it all off. ![]() ![]() This book is all about choices and becoming who you are destined to be. It is a wonderful book that shows the strength and loyalty of Rhys and Feadrah not just to each other, but everyone else too. This is the fourth and final part in the phenomenal, The Golden Key Legacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bible of the Reformation, so to speak, will be the revised edition of Peter Brown’s The Rise of Western Christendom of 2003. Wolfgang Liebeschuetz has been a leader of the Counters, most recently with the impressive The Decline and Fall of the Roman City, but the manual of the neocon approach is to be found in the splendid thirteenth and fourteenth volumes of the Cambridge Ancient History, for all that many of the old Reformers were among the authors and editors. ![]() A memorable conference at Smith College in 1999 brought together the now senior worthies of the last generation in a confrontation that surprised many by the sharpness with which Reformers and Counter-Reformers spoke up for their views. If the Reformation began when Peter Brown pounded twice ninety-five pages of The World of Late Antiquity on the basilica door in 1971 and flourished through at least the 1980s, the 1990s have seen the rise of the resistance. The Counter-Reformation in late antique studies is well under way. ![]() ![]() Yet Kate’s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate’s there again. Soon she’s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack.īut then Kate dies. When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling-hard. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and John Green. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make, the people we choose, and the moments that make a life worth reliving. the Homo Sapiens Agendaĭebut author Justin A. ![]() “Read this one, reread it, and then hug it to your chest.” -Becky Albertalli, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. “One of the best love stories I’ve ever read.” -Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give ![]() ![]() ![]() The Last Emperox (The Interdependency #3) John Scalzi, 336p: I thought it was a satisfying end to the trilogy. It ends in a cliffhanger so I had to jump to the third book right away. There are cool AIs, conspirators, palace intrigues, plot twists, and people getting arrested. We learn lots of secrets about how The Interdependency was created and the Memory Room. The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency #2) by John Scalzi, 320p: The second book of the series and very enjoyable, like all Scalzi’s books. But I felt it got a little repetitive towards the end. ![]() ![]() There are some good plot twists that caught me totally by surprise.ġ00 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul, 288p: I listened to the audiobook and it’s basically a journey through things we used to do before the Internet. I like it when magic has rules, restrictions, and costs to the user. The high point of this book was the Magic System based on colors and Breaths. ![]() Nice world-building: the author really takes time to develop the world and bring it to life, without making it boring. It felt a little YA to me, which is not a bad thing, but sometimes it seemed like the book didn't know if it was going to be an adult or a YA story. Warbreaker (Warbreaker #1) by Brandon Sanderson, 656p: This was my first time reading Sanderson and it’s clear he is a great storyteller. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Wall Street Journal called it "truly extraordinary. Tim Weiner's past work on the CIA and American intelligence was hailed as "impressively reported" and "immensely entertaining" in The New York Times. It takes the CIA from its creation after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after 9/ll. ![]() LEGACY OF ASHES is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, "a legacy of ashes." Now Pulitzer Prizewinning author Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA-and everything is on the record. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Reza-Quli Khan’s pen-name, Hidayat or “guide,” was the origin of the family name.) Technocrats and advisors to the government were numerous in the Hidayat family. His great-grandfather, Reza-Quli Khan (1800–72), was a tutor at the Qajar court and the author of a memoir describing Persian poets. ![]() Hidayat grew up in a prominent family that had been at the center of intellectual life since the nineteenth century. Sadiq Hidayat (1903–51 also spelled Sadegh Hedayat) spent most of his career at the periphery, exerting only an indirect influence on Iranian culture, but he ended up the most powerful literary voice of his generation. Narrated sometimes in realistic terms, sometimes in dreamlike fantasy, the two-part novella centers on two accounts of a woman’s death, in one account the narrator is a painter in the other, an invalid with an estranged wife.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novella A novella set in Iran in the city of Rayy (south of today’s Tehran) at an undefined historical moment published in Persian (as Buf-i kur) in 1936–37, in English in 1957. ![]() |