![]() Winner of the 2014 Red House Children's Book Award Now Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. ![]() Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope. To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors. On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs. After 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. ![]() And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze Runner.Īfter the 1st wave, only darkness remains. The 5th Wave is the first book in the best-selling series from award-winning Rick Yancey. Now a major film by Sony Pictures, starring Chloe Grace Moretz. ![]() Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The 5th Wave: The Last Star by Rick Yancey, read by Phoebe Strole and Ben Yannette. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She is keeping a diary she calls a "Journal of the Movement of the World". ![]() Paloma, like Renée, is a philosopher manqué. One half of The Elegance of the Hedgehog is narrated by Renée, the other by Paloma Josse, a precocious 12-year-old who lives in one of the apartments at Rue de Grenelle. But when one of the apartments is bought by a wealthy Japanese businessman named Kakuro Ozu, Renée and Kakuro form an unlikely friendship. Renée has only one real friend - Manuela, a Portuguese cleaner, who spends her time in the apartments polishing toilets with a Q-tip. She is, in other words, too good to be true, and either utterly beguiling or completely infuriating, according to taste. She also admires and is knowledgeable about 17th-century Dutch painting. She is a passionate aesthete and intellectual who likes to read Kant, watch Japanese art-house films, and listen to Purcell. ![]() eyes filling with tears, in the miraculous presence of Art". She pretends to cook stinky concierge-type food and watch rubbish TV when in fact she is hiding "in the back room, perfectly euphoric. Underneath her prickly and bunioned exterior Renée is indeed extraordinarily refined. ![]() ![]() ![]() His first novel, The Unlikely Spy, is set in England, near the close of World War II. SIDELIGHTS:įormer television journalist and producer Daniel Silva has established himself as a major voice in the espionage fiction genre. The Secret Servant, Putnam (New York, NY), 2007. The Messenger, Putnam (New York, NY), 2006. ![]() Prince of Fire, Putnam (New York, NY), 2005. The Confessor, Putnam (New York, NY), 2003.Ī Death in Vienna, Putnam (New York, NY), 2004. The English Assassin, Putnam (New York, NY), 2002. The Kill Artist, Random House (New York, NY), 2000. The Marching Season, Random House (New York, NY), 1999. The Mark of the Assassin, Random House (New York, NY), 1998. The Unlikely Spy, Villard ( New York, NY), 1996. Has appeared on television programs, including The Today Show. United Press International, staff member, 1984-88 Cable News Network (CNN), Atlanta, GA, executive producer of political news programs, including International Hour, World Today, Prime News, Crossfire, The Capital Gang, Late Edition, Evans & Novak, and Inside Politics Weekend, 1988-97. Newspaper and television journalist, writer. ![]() Agent-Esther Newberg, International Creative Management, 40 W. Education: San Francisco State University, graduate study. Born 1960, in MI married Jamie Gangel (a broadcast journalist), 1987 children: Lily, Nicholas (twins). ![]() ![]() In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. ![]() When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. ![]() Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. *COMING IN NOVEMBER AS A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES - from producerand director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starringMark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() About 30 expeditions searched for Franklin by land and sea, and only four found any evidence. And so, we ended up learning more about the Arctic from the search parties looking for Franklin, than he would explore himself.įranklin’s disappearance would set in motion one of the most massive search efforts in history. Interestingly though, the search parties looking for the missing expedition would be pressed to explore the blank spots on the Arctic maps for clues into the whereabouts of the sailors. (We have now learned most of what happened to the sailors in a tragic push for the mainland. ![]() Led by a retired hero of the Napoleonic Wars, that had risen from the merchant class to earn a knighthood after two earlier Arctic journeys. Two ships, the Erebus and the Terror would depart on an expedition of herculean scale, to once and for all, find the route through the icy labyrinth of the Northwest Passage. One of the most enduring mysteries of the Age of Discovery, when sailors and explorers from across Europe went forth in search of new lands to discover or blank spaces on the map to chart, is the story of Sir John Franklin’s fateful expedition. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A kaleidoscope of charming, discursive essays. ![]() will leave you bathed in the gorgeous optics of light.” “If you adore color, you’ll love The Secret Lives of Color. Nina Martyris, NPR ’s Best Books of 2017 Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” “Beautifully written and thoughtfully produced. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. “This passionate and majestic compedium will leave you bathed in the gorgeous optics of light.” - Elle Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh’s chrome yellow sunflowers or punk’s fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. ![]() ![]() From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” -NPR, Best Books of 2017 The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume which is a perfect stocking stuffer this holiday season. ![]() ![]() This last point leads the authors to discuss Bezos’s approach for programs such as the Kindle e-reader and e-book store and Prime Video: the company used a “Working Backwards” process that began with the desired customer experience and then designed products to achieve it. The authors then outline the 14 “Leadership Principles” crafted to achieve those four goals these include frugality (“constraints breed resourcefulness”), earning trust (by “being vocally self-critical”), and focusing more on customers than competitors. Bryar and Carr, both former Amazon executives, take a detailed informative firsthand look at the company’s “unique principles and processes.” The authors reveal founder the four core pillars established by founder Jeff Bezos to make up Amazon’s culture: customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence. ![]() ![]() I am sharing below some tried-and-tested strategies of parenting children playfully. He establishes beyond doubt that engaging in play with your children is the easiest way to bond with them and help them learn. In his best-selling book, 'Playful Parenting', Lawrence Cohen explains how play is every child's natural way of communicating and interacting with the world. Remember, bringing up children is an opportunity to relive your childhood all over again. I can almost hear them thinking, "Are you insane?" Believe it or not, parenting is not meant to be stressful and burdensome! You should enjoy playing this role and cherish the time you spend with your children. When I use the phrase 'playful parenting', the standard response I get from parents is a frown and a stare. ![]() ![]() ![]() The same effect occurs for the almost poster-size display showing how large the imposing moon is, when the father acknowledges it’s now too big to bring home to his daughter. When the girl’s father takes a high ladder to climb up to the moon, the upward-extended flap shows how high the thin, desolate row of steps extends into the limitless sky. But the simple story of a girl whose father brings her the moon is also boosted by a slight gimmick: several of the pages fold up or down or open out to display extensive spreads of the happenings. ![]() Bold colors and collage like compositions mark this as distinctively Carle. Monica’s father fulfills her request by bringing the moon down from the sky after it’s small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size. Beautiful illustrations are enhanced by dramatic fold-out pages in this moving and imaginative tale of a father’s love for his daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() HIV AND AIDS IS A VERY VITAL PART OF THE BOOK? i can sort of see why but like then everyone brushes it off but also like, idk, the author frames ppl with HIV and AIDS as monsters… even going so far that the 3 horrible abusive murderous main characters have AIDS and the ‘pure and innocent’ POC character doesn’t <- he is almost given AIDS several times in the book in sexual ways and it comes off as borderline fetishy at times ?! guess which one is framed as ‘innocent’ and ‘exotic’ and is the only one that is violently raped and murdered □ yeah…… the Vietnamese characterĪLSO. the main cast is 3 white men and 1 vietnamese man. 60% explanation 40% execution… and that’s being generous The book is paced reallt weird like we get introduced to all the characters and their lives and then 60% into the book the actual plot plot starts to yaknow, be written. ![]() ![]() it was just a splatterpunk’s wet dream with slurs sprinkled in that the author CANNOT SAY BTW……… ![]() Spoiler i can see why ppl enjoy it (to an extent but not really), but someone who’s favorite book is tender is flesh i understand how it feels to have a book with sexual assault and cannibalism in it and trying to be like ITS GOOD GUYS I SWEARīut exquisite corpse, wasn’t that. I know it was written in the 90s but it is painfully 90s especially when it comes to HIV and AIDS, it really stigmatizes the diseases and paints everyone who has the diseases as ‘evil’ ![]() |