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Scepter of Faith by Chris Smith6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Meta community topics, politics, real-life content, and drama posts are not allowed.ģ.) No low-effort content or spamming of posts."Mildly" or "Elden Ring IRL" content is not allowed. All content should directly pertain to the game Elden Ring, not just in title. ![]() Do not submit private information on anyone.Ģ.) Keep posts and discussion Elden Ring related.
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I Spy Under the Sea by Edward Gibbs6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() What if you were a Minecraft zombie? What would you do? ![]() Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See (Slide and Find) By Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr. Any young child will be delighted to read them! 1. Now, let’s get started! Interactive Books For Toddlers & Babiesįirst these interactive children’s books are great for toddlers, for preschoolers, and for kindergarten too. Plus, you’ll find age ranges with the book titles so that you can see which books go well with the age of your child. Choose your own ending books (great for older kids!).The kids interactive books featured in this article include: Interactive books can come in many forms, but they all draw in the reader through action. To Consider With Kids Interactive Books Examples.Choose Your Own Ending Interactive Books For Kids. ![]()
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![]() ![]() *A copy of this book was provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*ģ stars. ![]() ‘These vintage Regency romances hover somewhere between Jane Austen and the genre as we know it today. Or is he one of those in league with the European conqueror who plans to invade England at dark of the moon?ĪT DARK OF THE MOON is a classic Regency Romance by Alice Chetwynd Ley: a traditional British, historical adventure story with a twist of suspense and mystery, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Has her mysterious employer, Rupert Wynford, really just come to Weymouth like King George III for the benefit of sea air? She becomes an actress posing as the wife of Rupert Wynford, a perfect stranger.Īnd as Napoleon prepares to invade the English coast, she takes her place among society's elite, where she has to match wits with the most dangerous men of her time.įate has chosen her to play a part in England's destiny and to gamble recklessly with her only chance for happiness and love… Regency romantic adventure during the Napoleonic Wars! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Jane Aiken Hodge and Jane Austen.Įmma will prove more than a match for the most daring men in all England…įrom her drab, unpromising post as governess, Emma Harcourt is catapulted into a daring scheme of espionage. ![]()
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Lords of wrath angel lawson pdf6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The way Tristian cares, Killian’s vigilant eyes, and worst of all, my contented moments in Rath’s bed, were all part of a game.Ī game they’ve been playing since day one. Despite the awful things they’ve done to me, they actually made me feel special. I hadn’t realized how much they’ve worn me down and made me feel complacent, but it turns out they’ve messed with my head just as much as they abused my body. He thinks I dont know that he watches me when I sleep. Even having been subjected to his barbed tongue, he’s the first man to ever make me feel safe. Killian is two-hundred-and-twenty pounds of muscle, brutal physicality, and pure spite. Rath is the dark-eyed tempest who took me into his bed. To me, he’s the man who seeks to control me, with his cold eyes and possessiveness. Tristan is fair-haired and charming to anyone who doesn’t know better. He thinks I don’t know that he watches me when I sleep. ![]() Killian is two-hundred-and-twenty pounds of muscle, brutal physicality, and pure spite. I just wasn’t expecting punishment like this. Lords of Wrath, the second book in the Royals of Forsyth University series, is coming soon ©2021 Angel Lawson (P)2021 Anna M Benefield. I agreed to be in their beds, on my knees, and punished should I disobey. I agreed to the contract that made me the Lords’ Lady, a position that requires me to do whatever they want, but only as protection from someone worse. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Beginning with how a mysterious letter could turn up after being lost in the system for 60 years. Leaving his only hope at understanding it in the hands of the victim's sole remaining relative. Why would a person receive an age-old letter and suddenly disappear into the thick of night.paying to be flown out of a closed airport in the worst possible weather conditions by a pilot who hadn't had his hand on the stick in years? With the only surviving relative insisting her grandfather would never have climbed into a small airplane in the first place, even in perfect weather.Ī bizarre string of events culminating in a horrible accident unlike anything Rickards has experienced. Each new piece of information only makes the accident more mysterious, and more baffling. Unlike every other investigation of Joe's career, the facts make no sense. The details behind this tragedy don't add up. He's an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. ![]() ![]() Outside Denver, Colorado, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow. One small handwritten letter, sent from a dark, remote corner of the planet and lost in the system for 60 years, is about to change the entire human race. ![]()
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The storied life of a6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() It had been an ever-present in the Premiership and had some of England’s top players like Lawrence Dallaglio and Simon Shaw.īefore falling into administration, its squad contained a number of England internationals, including Jack Willis, Joe Launchbury and Jacob Umaga. Wasps won the European Cup in 2004 and ’07, and is a six-time English champion. Sweeney said the RFU was working “at pace to ensure the game emerges from this challenging time on a strong and sound financial footing.” But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, its unexpected arrival gives Fikry the chance to make his life overand see everything anew. Meanwhile, Leicester and Exeter - two of England’s top teams - have needed additional financing this season to stay afloat. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Otherwise, the club will lose its place in the top league. The RFU has imposed a deadline of May 30 for either a takeover of the Exiles to be completed and approved or for the club to show it will continue to be funded to operate throughout next season. This week, London Irish became the latest Premiership club under threat as uncertainty swirls about its future amid a proposed takeover by an American consortium. Worcester Warriors were also expelled from the Premiership around the same time as Wasps after being placed in compulsory liquidation while being pursued for unpaid tax. Wasps’ demotion is another depressing episode in the English club game’s battle with its shaky financial foundations. Fikry, there is never a lull in the plot action It’s compelling and page-turning (while also being character-driven). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ferguson disagrees, preferring Tolstoy’s view that human calamities are natural phenomena comparable to a hurricane. Thus, they explain that the shocking 1914 outbreak of World War I was caused by decades of competition between Europe’s great powers. Historians follow every disaster with an explanation. Major catastrophes occur so rarely that few of us take the risk personally and continue to invest in risky stocks, settle in flood plains, and thrill at the beginning of the latest war. ![]() There is no average forest fire, stock market drop, or measles outbreak. Perhaps most important of all, Ferguson emphasizes, these phenomena tend to follow “power laws” rather than the familiar normal distribution such as human heights. “Yet they seldom reflect very deeply on their common properties.” With all disasters, the social context is crucial: A hurricane or earthquake is of no consequence unless there are people around. “Historians tend to gravitate toward the study of…extreme disasters, with a preference for the man-made varieties,” writes the author. The result is this assertive, intensely researched, sometimes unconvincing, but always entertaining account. The bestselling British historian offers his thoughts on major disasters, including the current pandemic, with an emphasis on why humans handle them so badly.Īfter seeing his warnings about the severity of Covid-19 ignored in early 2020, Ferguson revived his interest in the role of disasters in world history. ![]()
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Aru shah last book6/28/2023 ![]() I had to comb through the list of popular middle-grade books on Goodreads in order to pick out the few that featured diverse characters. ![]() Stories about minorities are often understood to be less commercially successful. Maybe this is prompting a big ‘duh’ from some readers, but honestly, it is not so obvious a conclusion. ![]() More stories should be written with Indian-Americans at their center. Storylines as their American counterparts, such as a commentary about the torture chamber known as middle school, or a magical adventure full of fantastical beings. In fact, the past few months have been reallyĮxciting for me, because I’ve been discovering ways that Indian-American characters can be naturally fused into fictional formats that American readers are used to.Īs the main characters, even! There are Indians in America who are receptive to the same kinds of Roshani Chokshi, who is half-Gujarati and half-Filipina, has said that she wrote a lot of herself into Aru, and into the supporting character, Mini, who shares her mixed heritage. ![]() ![]() In which an Indian-American is the protagonist. ANISHA YAGNIK shares her excitement of discovering and reading a story Georgia-based Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah and the End of Time (Rick Riordan Presents), the first book in her Pandava series, is about a seventh-grade girl who lives in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, Atlanta-and who,īecause of a questionable decision, is thrust into the world of Hindu mythology. ![]()
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The lords of discipline6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Both Poteete and Pearce become targets of the Ten, a traditional clandestine group of seniors dedicated to ridding the school of "unfit" cadets. Bentley Durrell, who warns him not to be soft. This draws the attention of the school's commanding officer, Lt. Croix, the last of whom offers him a key to his parents' house.Īs the term begins, McLean's roommates participate in breaking in the new cadets, while McLean remains aloof. McLean's roommates at the Institute are Dante "Pig" Pignetti, Mark Santoro and Tradd St. "Bear" Berrineau, asks him to protect Pearce. Among these are the overweight Poteete and the Institute's first black cadet, Tom Pearce. Will McLean is a senior cadet at the Carolina Military Institute, a school that outwardly promises to produce men of honor but practices brutal hazing against the plebes (freshman cadets). ![]() ![]() ![]() The college scenes were filmed primarily at Wellington College in England, as none of the American military academies would allow filming on their grounds because of the book's less-than-positive portrayal of life at a military academy. The film stars David Keith, Robert Prosky, Judge Reinhold, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Michael Biehn, and Olympic boxer Mark Breland. The Lords of Discipline is a 1983 American film based on the novel by Pat Conroy and directed by Franc Roddam. ![]()
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A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Hardinge’s characteristically lush and sophisticated language will entrance readers, and she makes wonderful use of her singular setting and wildly eccentric cast to pose haunting questions about reality, artifice, and the things we attempt to conceal. Collinss style is affecting as he delivers this engaging novel, which is rich with backstories. Hardinge ( The Lie Tree) has created a world of great affectation and pretense, as well as visceral danger poisonings and blithely ordered executions are persistent threats. Check out this great listen on Audible.ca. ![]() ![]() perfumes that ensnared the mind, and balms that slowed ageing to a crawl.” Additionally, no one born in Caverna has the ability to show natural facial expressions, so Facesmiths teach citizens artificial ones with names like “In Contemplation of Verdigris” or “An Ode to Peppermint.” Neverfell’s face, however, reveals true, unguarded emotion-something terrifyingly alien in Caverna. A FACE LIKE GLASS by Frances Hardinge RELEASE DATE: A new-old book from Hardinge (published in the U.K. The citizens of the mazelike underground city of Caverna have turned the production of food and other goods into decadent art, with “wines that rewrote the subtle book of memory, cheeses that brought visions. An amnesiac girl named Neverfell is thrust into court politics she can’t begin to understand in this complex, claustrophobic, and deeply compelling novel, originally published in the U.K. Editions for A Face Like Glass: 0230763502 (Paperback published in 2012), 1419724843 (Hardcover published in 2017), (Kindle Edition published in 2017), (. ![]() |