![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ilvernath, a simplified iteration of the modern world with its enduring cobblestones, chic restaurants and modish department stores, is the setting of an age-old tournament. Seven young champions must make their final preparations for the approaching Blood Veil tournament-a three-month-long fight to the death in the wilderness armed with nothing but their wits and a deadly arsenal of powerful spells and curses.Īll of Us Villains, the first release of a young adult dark fantasy series by Christine Lynn Herman and Amanda Foody, wastes no time pulling the reader into a tantalizing drama seasoned with betrayal, murder and sacrifice and driven by a cast of strong and compelling characters. ![]()
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Toss in the quirky attraction of a book set at nearby Erie Municipal Airport, and you have easily the best end-of-the-world novel since Cormac McCarthy’s bleak 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner, “The Road.” ![]() Consider the doom boom since the 2008 financial collapse, a wave of literally dozens of books and movies tapping into a gloomy zeitgeist.Īt the top of the latest crop of apocalyptic fiction is Denver author Peter Heller’s “The Dog Stars.” The novel creates a delicate balance between post-civilization wish fulfillment and the deep human need for connection that will appeal to readers of accessible literary fiction. $24.95īut fear of the future can be the catalyst for great - and not-so - art and entertainment. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his fascinating 2008 book, “The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t - and Put Ourselves in Danger,” Canadian journalist Daniel Gardner notes that every generation fears the future and tends to idealize the past - a flawed equation on the face of it, since the past was once the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And it's Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen-a virtual drug that plugs right into a person's djinni and delivers a massive, nonchemical, completely safe high. ![]() She might spend her days in Mirador, but she lives on the net-going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen-and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. That connection is a djinni-a smart device implanted right in a person's head. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. ![]() ![]() ![]() He shares his cell with the charismatic and grandiose Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested on desertion charges. When a dead German paratrooper lands in his street, Lev is caught looting the body and dragged to jail, fearing for his life. Lev Beniov considers himself "built for deprivation." He's small, smart, and insecure, a Jewish virgin too young for the army, who spends his nights working as a volunteer firefighter with friends from his building. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds. ![]() His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. CITY OF THIEVES by David Benioff - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKĪs wise and funny as it is thrilling and originalÑthe story of two young men on an impossible adventureĪ writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Thank you for taking five hours to do something that could be accomplished in two.) (Where is it?) And I did tell you to take my Jaguar to the car wash and pick up my thousand-dollar watch. Yes, I did ask you to pick up my dry cleaning the second you arrived to work to day. No, you haven't already told me that you hate your boss today, but seeing as though you've sent me this email directly, I know now. PS-Please tell me your day is going better than mine. ASS.Īll those former fantasies about him kissing me with his "mouth of perfection" or bending me over my desk and filling me with his cock are long over. I honestly can't wait to see the look on his face two months from now when I tell him that I'm quitting his company and that he can kiss my ass. Then he told me that I needed to take his Jaguar to a car wash that was ten miles outside of the city, but only after I needed to stand in a never-ending line to buy some type of limited, hundred-dollar watch. Sexy as hell or not, this pompous, arrogant, ASSHOLE asked me to pick up his dry cleaning the second I walked through the door. ![]() Have I already told you that I hate my boss today? He definitely wasn't supposed to get that email. ![]() ![]() ![]() Foundation and Earth (1983) The seventh Foundation novel.Foundation's Edge (1982) The sixth Foundation novel.Second Foundation (1953) The fifth Foundation novel, comprised of 2 stories originally published in 19.Foundation and Empire (1952) The fourth Foundation novel, comprised of 2 stories originally published in 1945.Foundation (1951) The third Foundation novel, comprised of 5 stories originally published between 1942-1949.(Not in Asimov's list as it had not been written yet.) Forward the Foundation (1992) The second Foundation novel. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Book “Glass Bead Game” is a fascinating prophesy of modern life as well as a classic of Jungian influenced literature. The novel takes place in the distant the future, in a world that has passed beyond what is described as the feuilletonistic age (that is, of course the postmodern and post-metaphysical society) in which culture is trivialized and no difference exits between truth and lies anymore. ![]() Hesse describes the rules as such: „ These rules, the sign language and grammar of the game, represent a kind of highly developed secret language, in which several sciences and arts, in particular mathematics and music (or the science of music) participate which are able to express the contents and results of practically all of the sciences and relate them to each other.“ It occurred to me, that the purpose (or curiosity) of some my activities in the blogshhere is devoted to relate different topics too. It thus aims towards all those fields of the sciences and arts which are available as the inventory of human orientation. Its length is not prohibitive but the paragraphs are all dense and descriptive.This essay will mainly focus on the Glass Bead Game, which encompasses all intellectual and mental activity of humans within the worldly environment. The book, also published under the title ” Magister Ludi”, after its principal character, is a beautiful but not an easy read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her foray into the latter, Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner, is in development as a feature film with 1492 Pictures. Her current book, Release Me by J. ![]() She writes a range of stories including sexy and quirky romances, young adult novels, chick lit suspense and paranormal mommy lit. is also a two-time RITA finalist, the winner of Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best Contemporary Paranormal of 2001, the winner of the Reviewers International Organizations award for best romantic suspense of 2004 and best paranormal of 2005, and the winner of the National Readers Choice Award for best mainstream book of 2005. Praised byPublishers Weekly as an author with a flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations, J.K. Beck) has published over forty novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres. New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author Julie Kenner (aka J. ![]() |