![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first is the central technology of the book, the illustrated primer. There are three technologies in The Diamond Age which I think merit mentioning here. In this future it is not only the political and cultural landscape which is interesting, but the technology as well, and perhaps most interesting of all is how humans interact with technology. The Diamond Age posits a future that isn’t quite dystopian or utopian, but similar to what we have now: a mix of good and bad. The ideas in it are representative of the creative and innovative writing of Neal Stephenson and the story’s flow and characters make it an absolute pleasure to read. Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age (1995) has had a significant impact on many people not only is it one of the precursors to the Center for Science and the Imagination, but it has also been used by the likes of Amazon for code words related to the development of the Kindle e-reader. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I absolutely adore the covers to this trilogy, but unfortunately I just didn't enjoy it enough to want to continue. So if you're into that, this would be a great book for you! The love triangle wasn't the worst I've read, and the writing was solid, cliches set aside. ![]() The whole inter dimensional time travel scifi thing was well done, and it added a cool element to the story. However, speaking entirely objectively, if you are into the classic style YA, which there is absolutely nothing wrong if you are you read whatever makes you happy, I think you'd really enjoy this. It was too predictable, insta-lovey, and just overall too haven't I read this story before? Younger me would have swooned over this story, but now that I'm more of a mature reader, it doesn't appeal to me. That's the kind of stuff that I'm just no into anymore. It's very classic Twilight era style YA, featuring a love triangle and basically every other YA trope you can think of, including the male characters protecting the female character always *major eye roll*. This is a case of this book just not being for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Everland "In an exemplary debut, Spinale uses Gwen and Hook's voices to offer glimpses into the psyche of a man desperate to please his cruel mother and a girl intent on saving the only family she has left. Except Gail.But is one girl enough to find a long-dead king, kill the wicked queen, and save the world? Yet before it's set in motion, the village is burned to the ground, all survivors taken prisoner to the castle. ![]() Desperate to end the war, a plan is hatched that could put everything right again. or is he? There's a rumor that the king has been hidden away in a secret land, where only the worthiest can find him. The world has been destroyed and its needs a ruler to set things right again. ![]() Doc has found an actual cure for the Horologia virus, while Gwen, Pete, and Alyssa begin plotting the assassination of the queen with the help of Gail, an excellent huntress. Because in Ozland, the only way home is to kill the wicked.With Everland and Umberland both annihilated, the survivors have taken refuge in a small village tucked within the shadows of the Bloodred Queen's castle. Forget the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz you know. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because the first groom was the son of a Wall-Street big shot, and the bride the daughter of affluent parents who are well-known in the community, Lindsay’s boss, Roth, and the Chief of Police Mercer, consider the murders high priority, and assign Lindsay a new partner, Chris Raleigh, who is from another department at city hall and specializes in “managing potentially sensitive cases.” Lindsay’s usual partner, Warren Jacobi, is reassigned, and Lindsay feels like she has been setup for political failure. Shortly thereafter, Lindsay is called to consult at a similar murder scene in Napa Valley, and then to another in Cleveland. Although she has never gotten used to murder scenes in her six years in the department, this one upsets and sickens her more than usual, and she is determined to find the killer. Lindsay Boxer, lead homicide inspector for the San Francisco Police Department is called to a grisly murder scene of a bride and groom in the first installment of the Women’s Murder Club series by James Patterson, 1st To Die. ![]() ![]() The first part Fairchild is free on kindle at the moment. I do admit skimming the last few pages, because I just didn't care about these people & I felt the author had become bored with them too. Although this part of the story is interesting when Anna reunites with him bringing her four year old son into a war zone the final third of the book becomes farcical & features some convenient tidying up of loose ends. This has the characters too much apart - although the love letter Alistair writes is very pretty. There has obviously been some solid research into the times.but unfortunately Alistair is sent off to war again. The middle section was pretty good, (other some lapses into modern speech). This is unfortunate as the plot of this book was quite original. & I found Anna, Alistair & Henry very unlikable at the start of the book. I had to go on Goodreads to read the blurb for Fairchild to make sense of the first third of the novel. I know reading the second in the series before reading the first isn't altogether fair - but most of my life I have read books out of series order & they should make more sense than this. ![]() It has been on my kindle for a while, but I decided to read it while on holiday. ![]() However, I picked up this book through Bookbub. ![]() Although she is still on my friend's list I haven't "spoken" to her in quite some time. I met (& liked very much) Jaima near the start of my time on GR. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on. You don’t choose your life, it chooses you. Decision which will hold her future either a bright one or ruined one…! She knows she soon has to make a decision. Linda finds herself in great dilemmas of right and wrong, responsibility and desires, truth and lies. Living is making decisions and dealing with the consequences. Linda’s life got out of control as the affair takes over and threaten her life. During this phase she runs into her former boyfriend Jacob who was also suffering from unhappiness. After the interview she realizes that her life is full of boredom and loneliness. She has a loving husband and children.Her fairy tale life comes to a difficult point after an interview with a famous writer. The Girl Linda – a journalist for a respectable Swiss Newspaper. As the name suggests, ” Adultery ” everyone think that there would be some love, passion and a lot of love lust in this book but also there was a lot of philosophy as it is Paulo Coelho book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() are described in our 2019 Annual Report on Form 10-K. You can easily find K Webster on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Goodreads!Ĭan’t find a certain book? Maybe it’s too hot for Amazon! Don’t worry because titles like Bad Bad Bad, This is War, Baby, The Wild, and Hale can all be found for sale on K’s website in both ebook and paperback format. Colors that combine beautifully with Pale Oak are the Hale Navy mentioned above, or try Chelsea Gray, Newburg Green, Smoky Green and. Amazon Future Engineer is a four-part childhood-to-career program in the U.S. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and researching aliens. She lives in “”Tornado Alley”” with her husband, two children, and her baby dog named Blue. Her titles have claimed many bestseller tags in numerous categories, are translated in multiple languages, and have been adapted into audiobooks. Irvin Bowen Hale-Smith, LLC is a law firm in Atlanta with lawyers & attorneys specializing in Labor Law, Employment Law & Affirmative Action Compliance. ![]() ![]() K Webster is a USA Today Bestselling author. ![]() ![]() Eden soon finds himself drawn so far into Ross City's dark side, even his legendary brother can't save him. All that matters to him now is keeping Eden safe-even if that also means giving up June, the great love of Daniel's life.Īs the two brothers struggle to accept who they've each become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance that's grown between them. ![]() These days he'd rather hide out from the world and leave his past behind. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. ![]() 2 Lu draws inspiration from events and experiences throughout her life and media she has consumed such as the movie Les Miserables. It is the first book in the Legend series followed by Prodigy, Champion, and Rebel. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing's little brother.Ī decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. Legend is a 2011 dystopian young adult novel written by American author Marie Lu. With unmatched suspense and her signature cinematic storytelling, #1 New York Times -bestselling author Marie Lu plunges readers back into the unforgettable world of Legend for a truly grand finale.Įden Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. With unmatched suspense and her signature cinematic storytelling, 1 New York Timesbestselling author Marie Lu plunges. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Images showing family characteristics help initiate the ID process. The book itself provides an identification key inspired by the popular Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, but unlike Newcomb’s it’s illustrated with color photos instead of drawings. ![]() It’s strange to learn Queen Anne’s lace, which takes over whole fields here inland, is uncommon on the islands. A look through the copiously illustrated guide reveals that many wildflowers seen abundantly on the Midcoast mainland are also common on the islands, but many, surprisingly, are not. ![]() “There is much difference in the coastal plants found southwest of Muscongus Bay,” Mittelhauser tells us in the introduction, due to the effects of the cold Labrador Current and the diversity of habitats among the islands of Knox, Waldo, Hancock, and Washington counties. But differently in different geographies, we gather from Glenn Mittelhauser’s new guide, Wildflowers of Maine Islands. Mittelhauser University of Maine Press, 2021Įvery April and May in Maine the world starts to turn color again. Wildflowers of Maine Islands: The Downeast and Acadia Coastsīy Glen H. ![]() ![]() The borrowing of artifacts and ideas does not mean that the outsider is superior to the native, or that indigenous cultures are insignificant. It is also the study of how two peoples and cultures can lead to cross-fertilization. They serve as a basis to examine anew the study of culture contacts between civilizations, and in so doing, offer a serious base to a multifaceted re-examination of earlier hypotheses of influences in both directions.Įarly America Revisited provides anthropological evidence about the physical presence of Africans in pre-Columbian America. The impact of these early discoveries is of far more than historical interest. He marshals literary and pictorial evidence and shows its authenticity to be beyond question. ![]() Van Sertima's critical cutting edge is that there is an anthropological and ethnographic dimension to the process of discovery, one in which black Africans of non-European origins played a central role. At the same time, the work in no way denies the importance of the Columbus voyages for opening up the New World to Europe, and hence changing the economic and political map of the world for all time. ![]() ![]() The book makes a carefully balanced case for an African presence in America before Columbus' voyages. Early America Revisited is a vigorous defense and amplification of Ivan Van Sertima's classic work, They Came Before Columbus. ![]() |