6/12/2023 0 Comments Consumed by Alycia Taylor![]() ![]() Novedad: Lord (Brotherhood Bachelors #2) - Kendra.Novedad: Cuffed (Everiday Heroes #2) - K.Novedad: Professor Feelgood (Masters of Love #2).Novedad: Guilty as Sin (Sin #2) - Meghan March.Novedad: The Storm (The Hurricane #3) - R.J. ![]() Novedad: Luca (Ruin & Revenge #2) - Sarah Castille.Novedad: Nuestros Proyectos: Turn me On (Man of th.Novedad: Naura (Enigma #2) - Ditter Kellen.The hitman's secret love child - Terry Towers & Na.What Her Dad Doesn't Know - Lila Younger.Novedad: Strong (Stage Dive 4.5) - Kylie Scott.Managing the Boss (La Asistente Personal) - Lexy T.Novedad: Sinful Empire (Mount #3) - Meghan March.Novedad: Vengeance Road (Torpedo Ink 2) - Christin.Novedad: Divided souls (Darke academy #3) - Gabrie. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments The boneless mercies![]() ![]() The fame and fortune of bringing down such a beast would ensure a new future for all the Mercies. ![]() When she hears of an unstoppable monster ravaging a nearby town, Frey decides this is the Mercies' one chance out. But Frey is weary of the death trade and, having been raised on the heroic sagas of her people, dreams of a bigger life. The book is a genderbent retelling of Beowulf, with young female warriors hunting down a mythic beast.įrey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Mercies-girls hired to kill quickly, quietly, and mercifully. ![]() The Boneless Mercies is a young adult fantasy novel written by April Genevieve Tucholke and published on OctoFarrar, Straus & Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Blindness jose![]() ![]() We do think there are lots of people who have some sort of visual problems after contracting Covid-19 ![]() More people with long Covid reported problems keeping track of characters in TV shows than people who had recovered from the virus, she says. We’ve heard from people who have trouble with navigation, recognising streets that are supposed to be familiar to them and losing their way when travelling.” One woman told Kieseler she has had a lot of visual distortions, including seeing shadows as trenches. Some people have reported colour vision changes. ![]() “We heard from another man who is not experiencing face blindness, but face distortions,” she says.īased on responses to a survey she did, “we do think there are lots of people who have some sort of visual problems after contracting Covid-19. ![]() However, there is another person who has claimed they have post-Covid prosopagnosia they want to work with, says Marie-Luise Kieseler, a doctoral student and lead author of the study, and two others who have been in touch. The researchers are still at an early stage. Stanley Chow finds it hard to remember new people’s faces. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The vanity fair book![]() Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, the story charts the girls' misadventures in love, marriage, and family. It trails the lives of Becky Sharp, a strong-willed, penniless young woman, and her friend Amelia 'Emmy' Sedley, a good-natured wealthy young woman. The story is told within a frame narrative of a puppet show at a play. Written by William Makepeace Thackeray, an Indian born English novelist, ‘Vanity Fair’ was first published as a nineteen volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. To get you started, here is a recommendation for a brilliant satire-‘ Vanity Fair’. When you are restricted to the four walls of your home, there is no better way to induce laughter than to read a funny, witty, and satirical book. ![]() ![]() It would not be wrong to say that a contagious disease could be dealt in a better way if there is contagious laughter all over. The fight against the contagious COVID-19 can be a bit easier if there are humor and laughter around us. In one of his works, Charles Dickens wrote: “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” At a time when the world is trying to cope up with a deadly pandemic that has claimed millions of lives worldwide, the quote stands true and relevant. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Changed into his image![]() ![]() The significance of that day is defined by the significance of the one before whom we will appear.Īll of our work on earth-every thought and action-will be tried by the fires of His omniscience, and the degree to which we lived to please ourselves or lived to please our Lord will be exposed. It will be the day when we all stand before Jesus Christ to give an account of our usefulness to Him during this earthly pilgrimage. ![]() And though my wife and I consider the day we were married a stellar day, it was not “the biggest day” of our lives. Why should we go to such effort to teach our children and disciples the principles, applications, and motivations of God-dependent self-denial? One day as I was thinking about my responsibilities to disciple my wife and daughters, I realized that “the biggest day” of my daughters’ lives will not be the day they get married or the day that one of them has our first grandchild. ![]() ![]() ![]() His research appeared in four books: The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents. ![]() He worked for 27 years at the British Museum and the New York Public Library gathering material on phenomena from the borderlands between science and fantasy. are the various objects seen in the sky evidences of their visits? What is the explanation of falls of frogs, falls of fishes, falls of seagulls, which have been recorded from time to time? How can we account for all the inexplicable astronomical observations that have been made in the past? How can we answer reports of strange animals, disappearances of men from open sight, curious structures in the snow, talents like teleportation and telekinesis? These are the damned, by which the late Charles Ford meant all the wide range of mysteries that are ignored by orthodox science or explained away improperly. Book Synopsis Did beings from outer space visit earth in the past. Greatest compilation of data: flying saucers, strange disappearances, inexplicable data not recognized by science. ![]() About the Book The Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, New Lands. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Heptapods story of your life![]() ![]() The reader is compelled to continue along to figure out how Louise appears to have knowledge of her personal future. The story alternates between Louise and her future husband working on understanding the aliens’ languages with Louise speaking to her future daughter. These beings, referred to as heptapods because of their seven limbs, have a different language for both written and spoken words. It is narrated by Louise, a linguistics expert, who is asked by the military to help as translator between humans and aliens who have landed on Earth. Beautifully written and highly thought-provoking, it explores the argument of free will vs. ![]() Many of you may be familiar with “Story of Your Life,” the short that is the basis for the sci-fi film Arrival. I’m definitely putting it on my list of movies to watch. All of them were intelligently written, and I’m still wrapping my head around the deep philosophical questions they asked. ![]() Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others was so brilliant, that I loved nearly every single story in this collection. Whenever I read a collection of short stories, I typically have one or two favorites. ![]() ![]() In the Aylward home it is said 'You only get one life, and no woman should spend any part of it being friends with men. The novel is constructed of short chapters that provide a series of vignettes of the dramas of life, a vibrant picture painted of family and community, the tragedies, comedy, birth, love, loss, judgementalism and murderous impulses. ![]() ![]() All the Aylward women have a deep abiding love for each other, but you could be forgiven for not seeing just how mad they are about each other, you would have to see beyond the abusive and loud foul mouthed rancour and conversations that might be overheard by neighbours and other outsiders. Donal Ryan exquisitely explores an Irish family, four generations of women living together through the years in a small house on an estate in rural Tipperary, outside the town of Nenagh. ![]() ![]() They approach history from various perspectives: through the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people through places, laws, and objects. The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, eighty of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span with ten lyrical interludes from poets. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history.įour Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. The story begins in 1619-a year before the Mayflower-when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. ![]() ![]() #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019Ī chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present-edited by Ibram X. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Siege and storm book![]() ![]() Just before the Darkling could kill Mal, Alina realized the power of the stag was hers since she had spared its life. The Darkling killed it instead and placed the necklace around Alina’s neck, then used her powers to expand The Fold and destroy the city of Novokribirsk. Alina ran away with Mal and tried to find the mythical Morozova’s stag so she could kill the beast and take the antler as her own amplifier, but she did not want to kill the stag. ![]() The Darkling tricked Alina into working with him under the guise that they would destroy The Fold together, but then his mother revealed to Alina that the Darkling was the Black Heretic and he intended to put an amplifier on Alina that would give him the ability to control her powers so that he could extend The Fold and use it as a weapon to rule the world. They had both been members of the king’s army, but when they had crossed The Fold, a sea of darkness created by the Black Heretic, Alina had discovered her hidden powers and the whole world realized she was the long-awaited sun-summoner. Alina grew up with Mal in an orphanage, but they had fallen in love during the last novel. In the first chapter, the narration switches and Alina begins to narrate in the first-person past. Alina and Mal, who had just escaped Ravka and the Darkling, took a ship to Novyi Zem, where they hoped they could be safe. The novel begins with a prologue that is narrated in the third-person past. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Bardugo, Leigh. ![]() |