![]() Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse-unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon his daughters Sansa and Arya and his bastard son, Jon Snow. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. Now this bundle collects the entire monumental cycle in the most convenient format available: Martin-dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine-international acclaim and millions of loyal readers. ![]() An immersive entertainment experience unlike any other, A Song of Ice and Fire has earned George R. ![]() For the first time, all five novels in the epic fantasy series that inspired HBO’s Game of Thrones are together in one eBook bundle. ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments Shadow riders series![]() Tekla is pursued by Beast drones and crash-lands on Planet Ice, where she is rescued by Graveheart. ![]() She and her robotic companion, Voxx, escape to the Cluster through a Beast jump portal to warn them of the impending danger. The story begins as Tekla's homeworld of Planet Tek is consumed by the Beast Planet. Now Graveheart, a humble miner of Planet Rock, must convince the leaders of Fire, Rock, Bone, and Ice to put aside their differences and stand together against the Beast, their new common enemy. However, when an alien named Tekla comes from another solar system, she brings a warning: the Beast Planet is coming. The four inhabited planets are in a constant state of war, always raiding one another for resources unique to each planet. Shadow Raiders is set in a five-planet star system known as the Cluster. The series focused on the four warring planets of a solar system called the Cluster as they were forced to set aside their differences and form a coalition against the menace of the Beast Planet. The original character designs were created by ReBoot designer, Brendan McCarthy. ![]() The show was loosely based on the Trendmasters toy line, War Planets. Shadow Raiders is a Canadian animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment and syndicated by The Summit Media Group, that aired from September 16, 1998, to June 23, 1999. Canadian TV series or program Shadow Raiders ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Cogheart author![]() ![]() Don’t think you know what’s going to happen as twists in the story may completely change your opinion of some of the characters! So, this story is definitely not predictable! It is a very descriptive and enjoyable book that once you start reading is hard to stop.” ( Ella, aged 9) Cogheart has been nominated for the Dudley Teen Book Award, St Helens and Sefton Super Reads, the Haringey Children’s Book Award, the Hillingdon Primary Book of the Year, the Leeds Book Award, Waterstones’ Book of the Year, and the Branford Boase Award.īookwagon is delighted to stock the entire Cogheart chronicles, including Skycircus. In just one chapter the reader can feel happy and sad, angry and scared, excited and shocked, surprised and more. “While reading Cogheart you can’t help but feel that every sentence brings a new emotion. Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and her mechanical fox, Malkin, help her uncover many secrets while searching for her father and the mysterious Cogheart. ![]() She is in fear of her life with silver-eyed people watching her every move. Lily’s father is missing after an unexplained airship crash. Cogheart is a great adventure book about a girl who leaves boarding school in search of her father, who is missing after an accident. ( Usborne) Cogheart is the first of a super series of fantasy adventure novels for middle grade readers by Peter Bunzl. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Mist bound daryl kho![]() The strokes took away his dad’s mobility and independence, whilst dementia robbed him of many of his memories and much of his personality.ĭeeply affected by his dad’s illness, Daryl was equally moved by his mother’s otherworldly love, superhuman strength and unswerving devotion to her husband, as his primary (and often only) caregiver. ![]() ![]() Then in 2009 - shortly before the birth of Daryl’s only child, Alexis - Daryl’s father was felled by two strokes, which also caused vascular dementia. ![]() Malaysia-born and Singapore-based, Daryl Kho was a prolific creator during his student days: composing songs, poems, plays and even a kung-fu musical! However, after Daryl joined the rat race, corporate emails became his sole literary output. ![]() ![]() ![]() He knows that most people are brilliant at finding ways to filter out the things they don't want to look at, at using distractions or defenses to keep threatening feelings at bay. Did it change your perspective on therapy (or a bad breakup)? He knows what all therapists know: That the presenting problem, the issue someone comes in with, is often just one aspect of a larger problem, if not a red herring entirely. Is this a memoir or a self-help book? What did you make of the format?Ĥ. ![]() ![]() :) I mean, this is book club, right? Not therapy? Then again, maybe there are aspects of book club that dovetail therapy - see questions #3 and #17.ĭrop us a line and let us know if we can hope to see you!Ģ. The second reason is this: As I was reading, I found much to chew on.but I thought if I highlighted what really jumped out to me, I may reveal my issue. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Homecoming yaa gyasi![]() ![]() ![]() This primary purpose of a title becomes essential for the Africans in slavery where they had to remember people they meet. To him, they were a label for his son, and he concentrated on finding him a powerful one regardless of the social balance he was expected to adapt. James Richard Collins’s father said “Will he not still be a prince to our people and to the whites too? I have given him a powerful name” when he was asked why he gave his son three British names (Gyasi 90). In the basic form, names describe an individual among many people. For this African woman, she could have chosen not to accept this, but since it was a white man, she had to do this. To him, it meant he had to sacrifice to maintain the legacy while living without it would make him free to follow his heart. He wanted to be a man without a name” by James is proof of the family importance attached to the title (Gyasi 104). The statement “His father had seven other sons who could carry on the Otcher-Collins legacy. The British replaced the maiden name of the woman with the surname of the husband she marries to associate her with the new family. ![]() An example is Millicent the half cast born to an African mother and a white man, “Millicent’s mother had been given a new name by her white husband” (Gyasi 9). Usually when we discuss racial repression, discrimination, priority may be the issue we are discussing, but the name can also reflect the issue of racial suppression. Racial oppression is very important and obvious in this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Raised by her indomitable, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. Despite their conflicting loyalties, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love, but betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz- the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with unexpected consequences.įrance, 1942. She and the dashing young officer first met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. ![]() When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotelįrance, 1914. The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The eyes of the dragon book review![]() The Stole Dragon of Quanx was an extremely creative story that obviously the author Becca Mann put a lot of time into. The Stolen Dragon of Quanx is the first novel in The Eyes Trilogy, a compelling new series that will pull you into a fascinating world.and leave you breathlessly waiting for the sequel! Review With the help of three uncooperative companions, Kale must steal a dragon egg or die trying. Kale takes up a challenge of following a path forbidden to her in a race to save Quanx from a tribe of conniving dragons. And that discovery may very well lead to the destruction of her entire world. Then Kale, a fisherman's daughter, is trapped in a tunnel where she makes a shocking discovery. What he doesn't know is that his plan may not end how he thinks. With peace barely hanging by a thread, the King of Vitchreonyo makes a risky decision. In a land of tribes where people are defined by the color of their eyes, disaster is ready to strike. ![]() In Quanx, there is no hiding who you are. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Friendship by lydia denworth![]() For there is more than enough in the life sciences and adjacent fields to keep us busy in a single volume indeed, the author’s parade of scientists and findings, though carefully presented, inevitably blurs in places as it goes by, trying our patience as even our best friends can sometimes do. sensibly resists trying to wrap her arms around research on (to cite a few examples) the effect of our sprawling built environment, our increased tendency to sort ourselves by our politics and preferences, or our growing ethnic diversity-all of which have ramifications for friendship and could fill additional books. ![]() not just a biological account of friendship but a quick and painless tutorial in the history of evolutionary science, which is revealed to us through the prism of a subject all of us can relate to.Given how much there is to be said about friendship, maintaining this sharp focus must have required discipline. She has a solid command of the complex material before her and a seemingly effortless ability to make it not just digestible but engaging. Denworth does an admirable job of outlining the sources of our yearning for it. ![]() deft exploration of the biology of a 'fundamental bond'. ![]() ![]() Margaret Macmillan’s The War that Ended Peace and Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers are, it appears, the most celebrated of the new books thus far. The centenary of the conflict’s outbreak this year has ushered in a torrent of new books about its origins, as well new editions of contemporary memoirs and classic histories. ![]() ![]() Historians have never stopped debating the Great War’s causes and consequences, and they never will. Shock and disillusionment over such vast, seemingly senseless destruction led the writers and artists dubbed a “lost generation” to toss out most of the old assumptions about the meaning and purpose of human experience, and gave birth to what scholars in the humanities generally refer to these days as “modernity.” The historian Fritz Stern memorably called World War I “the first calamity of the twentieth century, the calamity from which all other calamities sprang.” No one in late June 1914 anticipated that the assassination by a Serbian nationalist of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, would draw in all five major European powers and their various allies into a cataclysm that would snuff out the lives of 20 million soldiers and civilians, destroy three empires, and lay the groundwork for an even bloodier World War II. ![]() |