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Our dark duet series order5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Happily, the many ardent fans waiting for this volume. “The breakneck packing of the climactic latter half eventually resolves into a poignant ending.Schwab’s style is on point, as always. ![]() “If This Savage Song was a tense exploration of human nature, this sequel is a reckoning.Schwab folds questions of identity, morality, and judgment into her stunningly crafted narrative.readers will be hard-pressed to put this action-driven finale down.” - Booklist (starred review) She’ll face a monster she thought she killed, a boy she thought she knew, and a demon all her own.Ī gorgeously written dark fantasy from New York Times–bestselling author Victoria Schwab, and one to hand to fans of Holly Black, Laini Taylor, and Maggie Stiefvater. When a new monster emerges from the shadows-one who feeds on chaos and brings out its victim’s inner demons-it lures Kate home, where she finds more than she bargained for. In Verity, August has become the leader he never wished to be, and in Prosperity, Kate has become the ruthless hunter she knew she could be. Nearly six months after Kate and August were first thrown together, the war between the monsters and the humans is a terrifying reality. No matter how much he once yearned for it. August Flynn is a monster who can never be human. ![]() Kate Harker is a girl who isn’t afraid of the dark. The bestselling sequel-and conclusion-to Victoria Schwab’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller This Savage Song. ![]()
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The blacktongue thief review5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Kinch finds himself assigned to accompany Galva as she goes on A Quest™, and so the two of them roam across the land, getting into and out of trouble along the way.Īnd there is a lot of trouble. Kinch is a desperate man– he’s basically got magical student loans to pay to the kingdom spanning Thieves Guild, which gives the book a depressingly relatable hook right off the bat. And, of course, Kinch soon finds himself partnering with Galva, a wandering swordswoman who’s not quite as direct a mirror of Fahfrd. ![]() He’s a hood-wearing, dagger-toting, magic-tinkering thief in the vein of Lieber’s Grey Mouser (just without the problematic sex bits). ![]() The book is snarkily narrated in first person by Kinch Na Shannack, the titular black-tongued thief. That pulpy influence pervades The Blacktongue Thief, most notably in the central characters. It’s actually not a very common combination nowadays (not that I’ve seen, anyway), despite the pulpy foundations of both genres in old magazines like Weird Tales. I started reading Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief back in October, as it actually came up under the ‘horror’ tag as I was browsing through my library app, though it also had the ‘fantasy’ tag listed as well. ![]()
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Yang boxers and saints5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.īoxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.īut in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. One of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The readers bring their own points of view and concerns to the text and so may end up with different meanings. ![]() The third category which is the newest is oriented towards the reader(s) or reading community and the part they play in the communication process. First, there are those that locate the meaning of the text in the world behind the text second, those that locate the meaning of the text in the world within the text and third, those that locate the meaning of the given text in world in front of the text. Over the past few centuries have been categorised into three broad areas. Biblical Studies is an academic discipline in the sense that it involves a rigorous scientific study of the Bible that leads to a systematic evolution of new knowledge criticized by academic departments or faculties in universities and colleges, and in academic journals where such researches are published. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built Navigate the trade-offs around consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn how to use and operate them more effectively With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. ![]()
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Friday barnes book 15/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Friday is dealing with a lot of stuff in this book and it gets pretty intense. ‘It’s about being overwhelmed by life and nature and the scream of existence. ![]() ![]() ‘In The Scream, he is standing on a bridge and it is as if he emotionally heard the scream of nature at sunset,’ she says. Spratt says The Scream was the ultimate inspiration for the latest book cover, as it captured the same themes she wanted to express in the latest story. Spratt had her daughter imitate the pose to create a first sketch of the cover, turning to another iconic recreation of the pose - the film poster for Home Alone. ‘I thought, the book is set in Norway and The Scream is from Oslo.’ ![]() ‘I needed a cover that was a close-up of Friday’s face,’ Spratt says. Spratt wanted Friday to mimic the iconic pose in Edvard Munch’s The Scream, to illustrate her overwhelming feelings of being amongst nature in Norway and, of course, having to solve another mystery. The cover of the new book encapsulates the intense journey Friday embarks on in the latest story, according to author R.A Spratt, who has revealed the process behind creating the concept. The highly-anticipated tenth book in the Friday Barnes series is coming, with our favourite young detective on her latest mystery-solving adventure to Norway and beyond. ![]()
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Rot & ruin book series5/20/2023 ![]() Everything…and not everyone in Benny’s small band of travelers will make it out alive. ![]() In the great Rot & Ruin everything wants to kill you. Worst of all… could the evil Charlie Pink-eye still be alive? But as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead, wild animals, insane murderers and the horrors of Gameland –where teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in the zombie pits. Before they can even leave there is a shocking zombie attack in town. Except that everything that can go wrong does. Lilah the Lost Girl and Benny’s best friend Lou Chong are going with them. Now, after months of rigorous training with Benny’s zombie-hunter brother Tom, Benny and Nix are ready to leave their home forever and search for a better future. It’s also six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives. ![]() Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. ![]()
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Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery5/20/2023 ![]() They trace Anne Shirley/Blythe's life from the time we encounter Anne Shirley, a young 11 year old orphan who is sent to live with an elderly couple on a farm on Prince Edward Island. The Green Gables series consists of eight books published between 1908-21. However, the rules of the club prove too severe for some of the younger children. A cheeky, runaway orphan girl called Mary Vance joins them in Rainbow Valley. They form a Good Conduct Club headed by Jem Blythe, the eldest. The entire group plays in a quiet maple grove which they have named Rainbow Valley because of its beauty and atmosphere. However, they are at heart good and kind and they soon become friends with Anne's children. He is a widower with four wild, mischievous and unruly children who are always embroiled in one scrape or the other. They find a new minister ensconced in the old mansion. The book opens with the return of Anne and Gilbert (who is now a brilliant doctor) from a sojourn in London, where they had gone to attend a big medical congress. ![]() At Ingleside, Anne is now happily married to her childhood friend the devoted Gilbert Blythe and have now been together blissfully for fifteen years. ![]() ![]() Published in 1919, it is the seventh book in the series and follows the further life and adventures of Anne Shirley. If you've read and loved Anne of Green Gables, you'd definitely like to add Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery to your collection. ![]()
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Extra yarn book5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() The stitches of the sweaters add a subdued rainbow. Klassen, who worked on the film Coraline, uses inks, gouache and colorized scans of a sweater to create a stylized, linear design of dark geometric shapes against a white background. It wends its way back to Annabelle, who ends up happily sitting in a knit-covered tree. The greedy archduke gets his just deserts when he opens the box to find it empty. Annabelle refuses his monetary offers, whereupon the box is stolen. All and everything are warm, cozy and colorful until a clotheshorse of an archduke arrives. ![]() A little girl in a town of white snow and soot-blackened chimneys opens a small box and discovers a never-ending gift of colorful yarn.Īnnabelle knits herself a sweater, and with the leftover yarn, she knits one for her dog, and with the yarn left over from that, she knits one for a neighbor and for her classmates and for her teacher and for her family and for the birdhouse and for the buildings in town. ![]()
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Virgin river by robyn carr5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() But if there's one thing the marines has taught him, it's that some things are worth fighting for. ![]() When Paige's ex-husband turns up in Virgin River and secrets are revealed, Preacher knows his own future hangs in the balance. But Preacher's instinct to protect is more than an engrained sense of duty, for Paige Lassiter has stirred up emotions in him - emotions that he has never before allowed himself to feel. An ex-marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a crisis when he sees one and this woman is certainly frightened and in need of help. John 'Preacher' Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of the wet October night. Helped by local barman, and former marine, Jack Sheridan, Mel must face her past, and finds that there may be a future in Virgin River after all.įor the second time in a year, a woman arrives in the small town of Virgin River trying to escape the past. But when a tiny baby is abandoned on a front porch, Mel must decide whether to stay and help or cut her losses and leave. ![]() However, her hopes are dashed within an hour of arriving: the cabin is uninhabitable, the roads are treacherous and the local doctor wants nothing to do with her. ![]() When the recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees an advert for a midwife in the remote town of Virgin River, she decides this is the perfect place to escape her heartache, and to revitalise the nursing career she loves. ![]() |