![]() Praise for the Amulet series: A New York Times bestselling series"Five - no, three pages into Amulet and you'll be hooked." - Jeff Smith, creator of BONE" Stellar artwork, imaginative character design, moody color and consistent pacing." - Publishers Weekly "A must for all fantasy fans." - Kirkus ReviewsĪbout the Author Kazu Kibuishi is the creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling Amulet series, which is available in 21 languages. Emily learns that she is a Stonekeeper and essential to the survival of this world, and that her incredible story is only just beginning. Determined to rescue her, Emily and Navin are led into a world of robots, talking animals, flying ships, new friends. On their first night in the strange house, Emily and Navin's mom is kidnapped by a tentacled creature. ![]() ![]() ![]() About the Book Hardcover editions of the first eight books in Kibuishi's #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series are collected in this boxed set.īook Synopsis A collection of the first eight books in Kazu Kibuishi's #1 New York Times bestselling series!Īfter tragedy strikes their family, Emily and Navin move with their mother into the old, mysterious home of their great-grandfather. ![]()
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After years of incarceration in an underground hell, only one thought occupies his mind: revenge on the man who wronged him. The first two books in USA Today bestselling author Tillie Cole's Scarred Souls series, in one volumeĬonditioned in captivity to maim and slaughter, Prisoner 818 becomes an unstoppable fighter in the ring. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s very poetic, dreamy and beautiful, though often fragmented and edging towards stream-of-consciousness in parts. It took me a while to settle into the rhythm of Mailhot's writing in Heart Berries. You should have thought before you made a crazy Indian woman your lover. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. ![]() Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners a story of reconciliation with her father―an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist―who was murdered under mysterious circumstances and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. ![]() ![]() Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. ![]() ![]() But when Ash swings back into town armed with his monster ego and an arsenal of stupid nicknames, everyone is in awe of him. I’m a firefighter, and I coach my brother’s football team for those with developmental disabilities. Why do I like that so much? BEAU I might’ve spent years watching Ash live out my dream-without the off-field antics and orgies with women, at least-but I’ve made a good life for myself. ![]() And I always get what I want…well, except with Beau, who constantly calls me on my crap. Whatever magic he held over me then is still there. ![]() And right back face-to-face with Cranky Campbell, who hates me even more than he did when we were kids. Football is the one thing I use to distract myself from the truth, and when I screw-up and lose the game I love, I find myself right back in Fever Falls. ![]() If it hadn’t been for that one teenage slipup where I kissed Beau Campbell, I’d be able to keep fooling myself. ASHTON If there’s one thing I know, it’s how to play the game…both on and off the field. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then there is the reclusive Miranda Kline, the late-blooming anthropologist whose research on “affinity and trust”, based on her study of a Brazilian tribe, is appropriated to drive Mandala’s social media revolution, in a way that is the perverse opposite of her intention. ![]() Mandala’s flagship products include Own Your Unconscious and The Collective Unconscious, programs that allow people to upload the content of their minds, which can then be shared on a global online platform that allows subscribers to relive memories and experiences. 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![]() ![]() Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but. And he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job. ![]() Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favourite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig - until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. ![]() By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. ![]() The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. PRE-ORDER THE NEW ALI HAZELWOOD NOVEL NOW!From the author of tiktok sensations and global bestsellers The Love Hypothesis and Love on the BrainRival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book twelve discusses the development of the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings, followed by some assorted essays from Tolkien's last years of life. Book ten and eleven discuss the Annals of Beleriand and Annals of Aman, works which were developed together with the Silmarillion tradition and which also served as source material for the published Silmarillion. Books six through nine discuss the development of The Lord of the Rings, book nine's second half discussing the story of Númenor (the first versions of which were covered in Book Five). The discussion of the published book is deferred until book ten. The next three books follow the history of the emerging early mythology usually known as The Silmarillion. The first two books introduce readers to The Book of Lost Tales, a mythology for England from which Tolkien drew ideas that eventually became the 'Silmarillion' mythology. Christopher Tolkien thoroughly documents the history of the writing of the Middle-earth stories, with as much detail as his father documented the fictional history of Middle-earth itself. Tolkien's) that had been erased multiple times with many footnotes. These books are exceedingly detailed, to the point of documenting scraps of paper (of J.R.R. ![]() Most of the content consists of earlier versions of already published works by Tolkien, while other portions are completely new material. ![]() ![]() So let's just say that I deduct a symbolic star, OK?Īs said in my review for the first part, Cornelia Funke is a master of the German language. ![]() The story is so fast-paced, thrilling, fantastical and the writing stlye pure magic itself that it would be a sin. However, after finishing the book, I simply can't. I actually wanted to deduct a star for that. I was so mad, I sent them an e-mail, scolding them. When asking Cornelia Funke here on Goodreads, she told me that she had wanted to include more but the publisher was against it. It felt lifeless in comparison to the first volume. When I opened the book, I was very disappointed because where the first book was filled with the author's illustrations, this only had little ones at the beginning of each chapter. ![]() The second volume about Jacob Reckless, the boy who found another world behind a black mirror and fox, his shape shifting friend (well, more than just a friend if both are honest). ![]() |