![]() ![]() ![]() Forstchen’s novel One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Will John and his people accept the new, autocratic regime? Or will revolution rip the fledgling nation apart at the seams? General Bob Scales, John’s old commanding officer and closest friend from prewar days, is sent to bring John into line. John fears he and his town will be targets. Army has been deployed to suppress rebellion in the remaining states. The Constitution is no longer in effect, and what’s left of the U.S. ![]() A new, aggressive government announces that it’s taking over and ceding large portions of the country to China and Mexico. This period of relative stability doesn’t last long. Now, after defeating a new, tyrannical federal government, John Matherson and his community intend to restore their world to what it was before the EMP apocalypse. Since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States more than two years ago, the small town of Black Mountain, North Carolina has suffered famine, civil war, and countless deaths. A major release in the New York Times bestselling One Second After series, set in an alternate America rebuilding after an electromagnetic pulse, this is William R. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Your reaction to the script for the TV show is my exact same reaction □ I have no idea what the writers were thinking lmao!! Also, I have a complicated relationship with this book, and I have so many memories attached to it. For example, Marlee is the bubbly best friend, and Celeste is the bitchy mean competitor. The crux of this story focuses on the budding romance between Prince Maxon and America so unfortunately, all the other characters do come off as fairly one dimensional (though I will acknowledge they show more depth in Books 2 & 3). Like many other YA novels published between 20, The Selection is filled with all your classic tropes: the “she’s not like other girls”, “the mean popular girl who wears too much makeup and shows too much cleavage”, “the love triangle”, and more! □ Depending on what you’re hoping to get out of this book, these cliches may or may not be for you. “True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.” ![]() (AKA it’s The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor) After entering the competition unwillingly after insistence from her mother and long-time secret boyfriend, Aspen Leger, America is uprooted from her happy mundane life and thrust into the royal spotlight. Our protagonist, America Singer is a 17-year-old Five who is chosen to join 34 other girls to participate in the Selection, a competition to win the heart of Prince Maxon Schreave and become the princess of Illéa. ![]() ![]() Morrie doesn't watch much television himself, but when he is asked to appear on Ted Koppel's Nightline show, he agrees (after grilling Koppel about his own personal culture) and later agrees to two more interviews. One way to understand Morrie's culture is through the way he interacts with television. It is focused on interpersonal relationships rather than things and achievements. Throughout his life, Morrie created a culture based on discussion groups, long walks, and spending time with friends. Throughout the Tuesday visits, he counsels Mitch to create his own personal culture so he too can live his life to the fullest. He instead advocates for the creation of personal cultures, or a system of living life that allows someone to be fulfilled through careful questioning of modern culture and religion. ![]() He takes issue with modern culture's overvaluing of materiality, achievement, and superficial things, which he believes is not conducive to living a happy, fulfilled, and successful life. ![]() Morrie's guiding philosophy of life is that each person must not simply accept the larger modern (mid 1990s) culture, which he consistently critiques. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At this time, the conflict in Europe between the official teaching of the Catholic Church and the Copernican Revolution were raging. It probably was written in the two decades preceding 1609 but this is not certain. While it was dated 1609, it was never published before Kepler's death in 1630. The form of the tale may confuse modern readers. Certainly it was Kepler and not any mythical Durocotus who was Tycho's disciple. It is told in the voices of a dreamer (certainly Kepler himself) and a young man called Durocotus who is a thinly veiled Kepler. It is a odd mixture of state of the art (circa 1609) mathematics and astronomy, picaresque adventure, and lays claim to being the very first science fiction story - beating Jules Verne by more than two centuries. What follows is one of the most extraordinary fantasies I have ever encountered. Somnium - A Dream by Johannes Kepler Forward ![]() ![]() ![]() With her incredible string of lyrical, imaginative, and adventurous modern classics Toni Morrison lays claim to being one of America's best novelists. Currently-lives in Princeton, NJ and New York, NY.Awards-Nobel Prize, 1993, National Book Critics' Circle.Education-B.A., Howard University M.A., Cornell,.But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal-or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. ![]() ![]() Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. ![]() ![]() Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelope them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. Law 2 - Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemiesīe wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. ![]() Laws of exponents The Laws Law 1 - Never Outshine the MasterĪlways make those above you feel comfortably superior. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before they know it, the mismatched pair are all tangled up in a reckless desire and headed for trouble-trouble in the name of love. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Though her three children are grown and starting their own adventures, she still has a houseful of demanding pets. ![]() In the midst of convincing the hesitant blue blood to take a chance on her dream, Aurora awakes his hidden streak of red-hot passion. By: Karen Michelle Nutt Narrated by: Mil Nicholson Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins 4.0 (32 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. Karen Michelle Nutt resides in California with her husband. ![]() Propelled by a lifelong dream to buy the island home reportedly haunted by her colorful ancestors, Aurora desperately needs Chance’s help in securing a business loan and she won’t take no for an answer. ![]() Claire crosses his path, Chance recklessly plunges into uncharted territory with nothing but his heart to guide him-and a beautiful woman to tempt him. Destined to take his place in his family’s bank, Chance is content with the future that’s been mapped out for him, right down to his upcoming engagement to a prim debutante. Full-Speed-Ahead? The forecast is smooth sailing for Oliver Chancellor, one of Galveston’s premier financier. The GRYPHON & His THIEFKaren Michelle Nutt, International nuclear. Slow and Steady finds himself on a collision course with Ms. Prostitution, Drugs, Homosexuality, Abortion (The Roxbury Series in Crime, Justice. ![]() ![]() The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness is the Sword of Shannara, which can be used only by a true heir of Shannara. But the supposedly dead Warlock Lord is plotting to destroy everything in his wake. In peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knows little of such troubles. Now, for the first time in one elegant collector’s edition hardcover, and featuring an introduction by the author, here are the first three novels of that classic series: "The Sword of Shannara," "The Elfstones of Shannara," and "The Wishsong of Shannara"-the beginning of a phenomenal epic of good and evil.The Sword of ShannaraLong ago, the wars of the ancient Evil ruined the world. ![]() Twenty-five years ago, "New York Times" bestselling author Terry Brooks wrote a novel that brought to life a dazzling world that would become one of the most popular fantasy epics of all time, beloved by millions of fans around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() She displays the characteristic force of will that made her so formidable in Code Name Verity but applies it this time to unravelling the mystery. On the surface, The Pearl Thief is a YA mystery with Julia as the detective. It’s difficult for her to clear the air, however, because at about the same time, Julia herself had been attacked and knocked unconscious near the river! What’s happening, who’s responsible, and can Julia overcome generations of prejudice to make sure innocent people don’t take the blame? Suspicions fall on the Traveller encampment whom Julia has befriended. ![]() The summer festivities are immediately overshadowed by the disappearance and death of a professor who had been cataloguing some of the Stuart artifacts in the house. It’s been retrofitted into a school following the death of her grandfather, so this will be Julia’s last summer there. ![]() Julia Beaufort-Stuart arrives at her family's ancestral home. Yet there are still so many good stories happening here! Elizabeth Wein in general seems like an author I should watch, and I finally tackled The Pearl Thief with no small amount of trepidation: how could this possibly measure up to Code Name Verity? Indeed, if that’s your metric, you will necessarily be disappointed. So I’ve had this prequel on my to-read list for a while. Code Name Verity was some of the best WWII fiction I’ve ever read. ![]() ![]() the most extraordinary hero in the history of the heroic epic." - The Washington Post About the Author: ![]() ![]() The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will alter forever the realm known as Urth. The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home. THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Gene Wolfe has been called the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced by the Washington Post. "A major work of twentieth-century American literature.Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within.once into it, there is no stopping." - The New York Times on The Book of the New Sun This new Tor Essentials edition of Sword & Citadel contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning. ![]() |