![]() With only Dorothea, her sole companion and confidant, to aid her, Miranda must cut through the mystery and find the truth about her father, her mother, and herself. And though he promised to give away his power, Milan is once again contorting around Prospero's dark arts. Whispers cling to her like spiderwebs, whispers that carry her dead mother's name. ![]() ![]() Instead she finds herself in Milan, in her father's castle, surrounded by hostile servants who treat her like a ghost. They didnt want an omnipotent being who can. ![]() ![]() Naples awaited her, and Ferdinand, and a throne. We found out what people wanted from the angels in the beta testing stage. With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare's The Tempest, casting Miranda into a Milanese pit of vipers and building a queer love story that lifts off the page in whirlwinds of feeling.Īfter the tempest, after the reunion, after her father drowned his books, Miranda was meant to enter a brave new world. Dont miss Katharine Ducketts Tor. Dont miss Katharine Ducketts Tor.com Original cyberpunk short story The Ones Who LookEthical Empire built the gate to heaven, and their employees hold. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But the fourth kitten is getting excited. Picture booksEdit Time Flies (1994) The Cinder-Eyed Cats (2001) My Friend Rabbit (2002) Pumpkinhead (2003) Clara and Asha (2005) A Kitten Tale (2008). The first three kittens are wary-snow is cold. As the seasons pass and winter begins to loom, the three skittish kittens worry. Read A Kitten Tale by Eric Rohmann available from Rakuten Kobo. The first three kittens are wary-snow is cold, it’s wet, it covers everything. Once there were four kittens who had never seen snow. His books for children include Time Flies, recipient of a Caldecott Honor Award, The Cinder-Eyed Cats, Pumpkinhead, Clara and Asha, and My Friend Rabbit, recipient of the Caldecott Medal. “This playful look at living life to the fullest is a natural for young children.” Eric Rohmann is a painter, printmaker, and fine bookmaker. Starred review, School Library Journal, February 2008: 'A winner for a winter storytime, this is as amusing as watching real kittens romp.' ![]() ![]() Starred review, Kirkus Reviews, December 1, 2007: CN Starred review, Publishers Weekly, November 26, 2007:'While this title has broad appeal, it is an especially apt choice for children who approach the unknown with fear rather than pleasure.' ![]() ![]() Now as he finishes exploiting a mother lode of silver, a young woman claiming to be his late partner’s daughter turns up wanting to be taken to her father’s mine. Meanwhile, Montana rancher Morgan Callahan rode away from his family’s cattle farm to make his own fortune. With the family’s home and social standing at risk, Violet makes a drastic decision. ![]() ![]() The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Tempest and Make Me Love You brings her “mastery of historical romance” (Entertainment Weekly) to 1880s Montana where passions and gold fever run high as an American heiress turns to a rugged mountain man to help her locate her father’s fortune.Īfter a social whirlwind in London, Violet Mitchell is summoned back to Philadelphia only to discover her family living on the edge of financial ruin while their father seeks new wealth in Montana’s gold fields. ![]() ![]() The men do not, however, object to Sophie and Amy and will not turn down any opportunities to get to know the women better.Īs the documentary quickly turns into a potential porn film, Clea's husband Zane is murdered, the race for mayor of Temptation becomes dicey, and though Sophie tries, she can't seem to completely ignore Phin or his obvious charms. With a delightful if not crazy cast of characters, Temptation spirals out of control when hunky mayor Phin Tucker and the police chief, Wes Mazur, object to filming in the town. Sophie knew it would, even before the Garveys drove into her '86 Civic, broke her sister's sunglasses, and in short order, proved true all her suspicions about small towns and the folks who live in them. With Amy, her slightly twisted sister in tow, trouble finds them before they even enter Temptation's city limits. Sophie Dempsey leads a nice quiet life filming wedding videos until she's hired to produce a documentary about Clea, an aging film star's return to her home town of Temptation, Ohio. And Welcome to Temptation is no exception. I enjoy the way she always carries her readers along with her for a wonderful, if not tumultuous, ride through love in modern-day America. She has an interesting, if not down right unusual way of looking at life and love. ![]() ![]() But no one makes me laugh out loud like Jennifer Crusie. ![]() ![]() ![]() The heir’s death results in a “who gets to rule” game and any game for a throne is a game played out in blood, and death, and battles, and treachery, and loyalty. The fatal flaw in that plan is when the crew of your ship parties with you, crashing the ship before it leaves the harbor, and the heir, his family and friends, and the ships crew, all drown. The heir to the English throne is on his way home, along with friends and relations, and of course when you’re seventeen and the world is yours what do you do? You party like a rock star. We can’t forget him.įor those who aren’t captivated at The Plantagenets, I give you this: It starts with a mega disaster of epic proportions. ![]() The Good: Didn’t you see the title? THE PLANTAGENETS! Henry and Eleanor and Richard, and, well, another Henry and some Edwards tossed in, also. Starting with Henry II, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Empress Matilda, wife of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and father of Richard the Lionheart and King John, and ending over two hundred years later with his many times great grandson Richard II, The Plantagenets tells of the men, the women, the battles, the politics, the murders, the laws and even the finances that created and shaped both England and its relationship with its kings. ![]() ![]() Maybe this desire was inspired by the actual horrors of WWII or the dreaded fears of Doomsday felt during the Cold War. I say that because many science fiction stories from the 1940s and 1950s were about breaking on through to the next stage of human existence. could be considered the Ralph Waldo Emerson of a 20th century transcendentalism, but we call it science fiction. “Desertion” is the perfect story to make my case that 1940s science fiction was often about the next evolutionary step for our species. If you haven’t read the stories please go read them now because I need to write about the details of each to make my point and that will give away major spoilers. “ Desertion” was published in the November 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, and “ Paradise” in the June 1946 issue. They are also the middle stories from the classic science fiction fix-up novel City. ![]() “Desertion” and its sequel “Paradise” are from the 1940s, the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction. ![]() Story #16 of 107: “Desertion” by Clifford D. ![]() Group Read 27: The Big Book of Science Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While you're writing code alone in front of your computer, future users are a distant thought, an abstract notion. So why does API UX design so often feel like an afterthought, compared to even furniture design? Why is there a profound lack of design culture among developers? ![]() A well-designed API, making complicated tasks feel easy, will probably prevent a lot more pain in this world than a brilliant new design for a bedside lamp ever would. User experience (UX) should be central in application programming interface (API) design. Our tools have great potential to cause us pain, especially in a field as complex as software engineering. Developers who unfortunately are often being let down by their tools, and left cursing at obscure error messages, wondering why that stupid library doesn't do what they thought it would. Developers who produce better code, in greater quantity, when they are kept happy and productive, working with tools they love. It is meant to be read by people, used by other developers, maintained and built upon. Code is not just meant for machines it has human users. ![]() Writing code is rarely just a private affair between you and your computer. Keras is a Deep Learning library for Python, that is simple, modular, and extensible. The Keras Blog - Francois Chollet The Keras Blog ![]() ![]() Not only are they exceedingly helpful, but they are also, luckily, far far too clever for the tailor's sly cat, Simpkin. ![]() He has a terribly important commission to complete for the Mayor of Gloucester's wedding on Christmas Day but is ill and tired, and before long is running out of food and thread, as well as time! How will he possibly complete the beautiful coat and embroidered waistcoat? Luckily, there lives in the dresser, some very kind and very resourceful mice who set about helping the poor tailor with his work. Worldwide delivery and 15 OFF your first. Others feature a woodpecker knocking at the side of Bird Life and Bird Lore or a tiny mouse curling up for a nap with Beatrix Potter. ![]() ![]() The Tailor of Gloucester was first published in 1903 and tells the story of a poor tailor trying to survive in his freezing workshop over a hard winter. Do you have an interest in vintage books Shop Beatrix Potters The Tailor of Gloucester at our online book store. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in contemporary America, the novel seizes hold of dark separatist ideas and drags them to their ultimate conclusion. with crosshairs fixed on the absurdity of both sides of the political divide. ![]() This is one of those books that is best enjoyed in a bad mood, when you're thinking that a good cull is really what the human race needs, although even when feeling quite sunny, I found the glee Palahniuk takes in his Book of Revelation-esque scenario rather infectious.' - Jake Kerridge, The Daily Telegraph his humour expresses a genuine anger, and that gives his book a crackling energy. ' The Fight Club author is on a mission to offend everyone with his new satire about America. Adjustment Day, the author’s first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. 'There is more than a mere whiff of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Purge in Palahniuk's latest novel, and it could be read as a treatise on contemporary America.' - The Irish Times Think Will Self, George Orwell, Stephen King and William Burroughs mixed up in a Molotov cocktail.' - attitude 'An heir to Chuck Palahniuk's most famous novel, Fight Club, Adjustment Day is one of the most ingeniously fucked-up and enticingly original novels to be published this year. ![]() Welcome back, Chuck.' - Ian O'Doherty, The Irish Independent skewers every tribe in the identity politics rainbow. Mashing up the current febrile mood in America and the destructive impulses of Fight Club, Adjustment Day. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Alex discovers more of Furnace’s secrets, he struggles with the darkness in his own mind. ![]() The main story consists of Alex’s struggle to break out of and shut down Furnace and everything it embodies. Lockdown: Escape from Furnace 1 Alexander Gordon Smith Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), Young Adult Fiction - 288 pages 67 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for. The series tells about the life of a thief-turned-inmate, Alex Sawyer, and his friends, who are all inmates of Furnace Penitentiary. As of 2019, it has been officially announced an Escape From Furnace movie is currently in development. Welcome to the Escape From Furnace Wiki Įscape From Furnace (also known as EFF or commonly just called by the name of the first book, Lockdown) is a YA horror/sci-fi series by Alexander Gordon Smith, consisting of five novels, Lockdown, Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives, Execution, and two novellas, The Night Children (a prequel that builds on Warden Cross' past), and Silent Night (a pre-Lockdown prequel about Donovan). SPOILER WARNING: Please read all of the books before entering the Wikia, or be prepared to have some things spoiled for you. ![]() |