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![]() ![]() But her desire for revenge may cost her country its chance at freedom and Nina the chance to heal her grieving heart. ![]() Deep undercover, Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital. Now duty demands she embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to bury another friend. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king’s gift for the impossible. As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm-and even the monster within-to win this fight. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone - Season 2 streaming now!ĭiscover what comes next for the daring rogue Nikolai in the riveting sequel to King of Scars from #1 bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. 2021 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fantasy! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Laurens's sensational new Cynster historical romance, it's Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue when feisty Heather Cynster steps out of her safe, dull social circle in search of a dashing hero to wed.and ends up kidnapped, scandalized and whisked out of London, with her only hope for salvation-and love-resting with a notorious rogue lord.īook Synopsis The Cynsters are back in a brilliant new series from USA Today and New York Times bestseller Stephanie Laurens! Fans adore Laurens's irrepressible fictional family of sexy scoundrels and passionate ladies and their amorous Regency Era exploits. ![]() About the Book The Cynsters are back in a brilliant new series from USA Today and New York Times bestseller Stephanie Laurens! Fans adore Laurens's irrepressible fictional family of sexy scoundrels and passionate ladies and their amorous Regency Era exploits. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inside the house, maids pin up their skirts and try to make breakfast while wading red-legged through the water, laughing and screeching. ![]() Beginning mid-flood, with ducks swimming through Grandma Willoweed’s drawing room windows “quacking their approval,” Comyns’s narrator quickly moves on to “ passing pig squealing, its short legs madly beating the water and tearing at its throat, which was red and bleeding,” and then the sun comes “out bright and strong and everywhere became silver.” That last fact is a good thing if you side with one of the book’s several astonished children, but bad if you’re Old Ives the handyman, superstitiously convinced that the sun will draw the moisture back into the sky. In fact, the book turned out to be a great deal more than that: it was downright astonishing. I knew nothing about Comyns at the time: I picked up the novel exclusively because of the title, which struck me as promising and intriguing. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead was the first book I read by British novelist Barbara Comyns. ![]() ![]() ![]() CONTROL tells the story of attempts by the powerful throughout history to dictate reproduction and regulate the interface of breeding and society. Today, with new gene editing techniques, very real conversations are happening - including in the heart of British government - about tinkering with the DNA of our unborn children, to make them smarter, fitter, stronger. ![]() ![]() The legacy of eugenics persists in our language and literature, from the words 'moron' and 'imbecile' to the themes of some of our greatest works of culture. But the underlying ideas are not merely historical. It was also a cornerstone of Nazi ideology, and forged a path that led directly to the gates of Auschwitz. Eugenics was vigorously embraced in dozens of countries. It was enshrined in a political movement that bastardised science, and for sixty years enjoyed bipartisan and huge popular support. In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's ideas about evolution, a new full-blooded attempt to impose control over our unruly biology began to grow in the clubs, salons and offices of the powerful. But this wish goes hand in hand with the desire to impose control over who can marry, who can procreate and who is permitted to live. Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing desirable qualities in their children. ![]() ![]() ![]() They decimated their own planet so thoroughly that they could no longer survive as a species. Instead, Thompson’s novels put an important spin on traditional colonial narratives in science fiction: the Homians are never physically going to arrive to take over. So even though the so-called Homians have sent probes across space searching for resource-rich planets to colonize, they do not plan to board spaceships following the probes to the planet, expand their empire, or export the wealth of the colonies back to the metropole. ![]() ![]() In fact, their homeworld no longer exists in a liveable form. The aliens are not removing earth’s resources to take back to their homeworld. At first glance, Tade Thompson’s trilogy of novels chronicling an alien invasion in Nigeria may not appear to deal with extractivism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Education-M.A., University of Washington.Snow Falling on Cedars is a beautifully crafted courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, illuminating the psychology of a community, the ambiguities of justice, the racism that persists even between neighbors, and the necessity of individual moral action despite the indifference of nature and circumstance. The trial is haunted by memories of what happened to the Japanese residents during World War II when the entire community was sent into exile. In 1954 a fisherman from San Piedro Island in Puget Sound is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese-American is charged with his murder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even as the executive suite has been engulfed in turmoil, Disney has worked - and sometimes clashed - with a glittering array of Hollywood players, many of who tell their stories here for the first time. ![]() In riveting detail, Stewart also lays bare the creative process that lies at the heart of Disney. Stewart is the author of Heart of a Soldier, the bestselling Blind Eye and Blood Sport, and the blockbuster Den of Thieves.A former Page-One editor at The Wall Street Journal, Stewart won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his reporting on the stock market crash and insider trading. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years. Drawing on unprecedented access to both Eisner and Roy Disney, current and former Disney executives and board members, as well as hundreds of pages of never-before-seen letters and memos, James B. DISNEYWAR is the dramatic inside story of what drove this iconic entertainment company to civil war, told by one of America's most acclaimed journalists. ![]() So when Roy Disney, chairman of Disney animation, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock waves throughout the world. ![]() “When you wish upon a star', 'Whistle While You Work', 'The Happiest Place on Earth' - these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Georgia's own conflicts during the book begin when she stumbles upon her former best friend Cat Phillips, whom she hasn't seen in years and did not expect to meet again. Other characters of the series include the high-spirited widow Anita, who is in her seventies TV producer Lucie Darwin, a doctoral student struggling to pin down a topic for her thesis Peri, who works part-time at the yarn shop and KC, an editor with thoughts to change her career – and the trajectory of her life as a whole. ![]() ![]() The book follows the many members of the knitting club through their hectic and highly relatable day-to-day lives, with a particular focus on Georgia and her relationship with Dakota. Georgia runs a successful yarn store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan she and Dakota begin the Friday Night Knitting Club both to bring people into the shop and to serve as a kind of support group and place to unwind after a long week in the city. The book follows main character Georgia Walker and her biracial daughter Dakota. ![]() Kate Jacobs’a realistic fiction, The Friday Night Knitting Club, is the first novel in a series that follows the main characters as their lives – and their knitting projects – progress. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Cream vaults were mined for the Heavy Cream compilation and the Live Cream Volume II album. In the UK, the belated release of “Layla” as a single from Derek & the Dominos’ 1970 Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs album took it into the Top 10. The History of Eric Clapton compilation reached the US Top 10, and another American compilation, Eric Clapton At His Best, followed later in the year. The all-star event became known as his comeback concert, even though the guitar hero still had much more work ahead in the personal recovery that manifested itself in 1974.Īll that EC fans had to go on during 1972 was catalog and live material. ![]() So it was a huge moment when, at the encouragement of Pete Townshend, Clapton stepped back on stage at the Rainbow Theater in London on January 13, 1973. Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival is set to return for the first time in four years, taking place Sept. Brought low by heroin addiction, he entered a downward spiral after appearing at his friend George Harrison’s Concert For Bangla Deshin August 1971, and the following year was devoid of any new material. As his countless devotees remember, the early 1970s were a difficult time in the life of Eric Clapton. ![]() |