![]() ![]() His means of controlling the world (and possibly reality itself) is creating two people who will embody the Doctrine of Ethos, an ill-defined alchemical theory that combines mathematics and language (hence Roger and Dodger’s specialties) to define reality. They’re the creations of arch-villain James Reed, an alchemist which, for our purposes, means a scientist/magician desperate for world domination. What Roger and Dodger don’t know is that they’re not human, at least not exactly. At around five years old, they discover that they can communicate telepathically. ![]() Roger is a gifted linguist, and Dodger a brilliant mathematician. It follows the lives of protagonists Roger and Dodger, two brilliant children who live on opposite sides of the country. ![]() Middlegame is McGuire’s latest novel, and it’s best described as urban science fantasy. I hadn’t read anything by Seanan McGuire before discovering Middlegame, but she’s an accomplished author who’s published a number of very well-received novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Simeon, noting Megaleen's excited voyeurism, soon returns and pulls her to his underwater lair, where he quickly and forcefully takes it to the next level. i suppose this must be that "love at first sight" thing that i hear about so often. how exactly they fall in love without having even the slightest clue about each other's personality, without even conversing, without any kind of anything really. Megaleen has fallen head over heels in love fortunately, Simeon feels likewise. from that point on, Megaleen moans and quivers and gushes just when thinking of Simeon - the girl literally can't keep her hands off of herself throughout the novel. ![]() her eyes remain rapt upon his gigantic, "savagely engorged" selkie-shaft during his various exertions. they are led by a selkie prince - Simeon, Lord of the Deep - who immediately captures Megaleen's heart, and more. Young Megaleen, future witch, gazes from her window and witnesses a magical midnight event: selkies coming from the sea, to strip off their sealskins and engage in an apparently typical selkie beachside orgy. Warning: Adult Situations and Language ahead: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The latter are the kind of books Ulises Lima and Belano wanted to write. And there are books for when you’re desperate. There are books for when you’re thirsty for knowledge. ![]() And there are books for when you’re happy. There are also books for when you’re sad. National Bestseller New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.” The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. “Of all the islands he’d visited, two stood out. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.” “There’s a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. “Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.” “There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.” ![]() A list of my favorite quotes from The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño: ![]() ![]() It feels like she actually tried a little harder on this one. As a hockey fan, I'm always up for a hockey romance, and Gibson does a *much* better job writing about hockey than she does in her first attempt, "Simply Irresistible". I don't regret reading it and it helped me pass a lazy afternoon. This was an easy read and not a bad romance novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. 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(Uncle Newt was convinced he could build an engine for a vacuum cleaner that ran on compost. Since the kids had come to stay with him a couple weeks earlier, his out-of-control creations had chewed up Julie’s flower beds, demolished one of her garden gnomes, set her lawn on fire, and splattered her car with thirty pounds of putrid bananas flambé. Unfortunately, he was also a forgetful, dreamy, not-particularly-safety-minded one. Nick and Tesla’s uncle was an inspired, ingenious, innovative inventor. Wouldn’t you if you lived next door to Uncle Newt?” Nick nodded, eyeing the woman suspiciously. ![]() She didn’t look much like a spy to Tesla. A sweat-soaked bandana was wrapped around her head. She was wearing jeans and a T-shirt and dirty gardening gloves. There was only one other person in sight: a fortyish woman crouched over a bed of begonias about forty feet away. She and her brother were in their uncle’s backyard, about to test-fly the hoop glider they’d been working on that morning. ![]() ![]() ![]() On a whirlwind tour through Europe, with both an unrelenting schedule and minimal supervision, Ruben and Zach come to rely on each other more and more, and their already close friendship evolves into a romance. But privately, cracks are starting to form: their once-easy rapport is straining under the pressures of fame, and Ruben confides in Zach that he's feeling smothered by management's pressure to stay in the closet. Along with their bandmates, Angel Phan and Jon Braxton, the four are teen heartbreakers in front of the cameras and best friends backstage. What happens if the world finds out? A queer YA boy band romance from Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich, perfect for fans of Only Mostly Devastated and What If It's Us.Įighteen-year-olds Ruben Montez and Zach Knight are two members of the boy-band Saturday, one of the biggest acts in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. * STRAVINSKY: The Fairy's Kiss, Theme * Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Fragment * TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker, Waltz of the Flowers * Swan Lake, Scene act 2 * Symphony No. * Vocalise * RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sheherazade, The young prince and the young princess * SHOSTAKOVICH: The Gadfly, Romance * Jazz suite No. * KHACHATURIAN: Sabre Dance * Masquerade, Waltz * Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia * MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition, Promenade * PROKOFIEV: Cinderella, Cinderella's waltz * Lieutenant Kije, Troika * Peter and the Wolf, Peter's theme The Cat Hunter's Theme * Romeo and Juliet, Montagues and Capulets * RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 2, Nocturne * GLINKA: Russlan and Ludmilla, Overture * KABALEVSKY: Piano Concerto No. ![]() ![]() Contents: BORODIN: Polovtsian dance * String Quartet No. Includes works by Borodin, Glinka, Kabalevsky, Khachaturian, Moussorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky. Also, there are inaccurate descriptions under my travel books (published before 2018), conveyed by CreateSpace that was closed in Sepember 2018. Matevosyan, Naira Roland Matevosyan, Naira R. Russian masterworks in arrangements by Hywel Davies, Nicholas Hare, and Christopher Norton. Further, I author under four extensions/reductions of my name: Naira Matevosyan, Naira R. ![]() ![]() Early in the book, Kolbert lists the startling facts of this new Anthropocene Earth: In this new book, Kolbert once again looks down the barrel of the Anthropocene, the new geologic epoch where human activity represents the most powerful force shaping the machinery of Earth's planetary evolution. Her reporting brought the ongoing mass-extinction event that we're inadvertently causing now from talk in scientific literature to common knowledge. Kolbert is well-known as the best-selling author of The Sixth Extinction. ![]() ![]() And, as she shows us, it's a project that's neither clear, clean or certain. That ongoing reconstruction is the focus of Elizabeth Kolbert's new book Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future. In our struggle to find a response, and hopefully save ourselves, the relationship between humans and nature is being reconstructed. Decades into what is appropriately called "the climate crisis," humans are now facing down a planet that has been profoundly changed by our collective activities. ![]() While this might have been an abstract question for philosophers at one point, it's not anymore. What is the difference between a city and a wetland? How about a factory and a forest? What separates the environments that "nature" builds and the ones we humans build? ![]() Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert ![]() ![]() ![]() Naturally, Burgess spends considerable time on Shakespeare’s relationships with the Dark Lady and Fair Youth of Shakespeare’s sonnets, rendered here as Fatimah, a woman of color from the East Indies, and Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton. Nothing Like the Sun’s subtitle is A story of Shakespeare’s Love-life, and so it is–it follows Shakespeare, rendered here as WS, from a young man struck by the image of a dark goddess to an man wasting away from syphilis. When I came back from fall break and realized I hadn’t even started it yet (it was either that or my economics textbook, people!), I picked it up without much ceremony or knowing much about it–I knew Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange, which I’ll probably never read, and that it, in some fashion, dealt with race and Shakespeare. ![]() Naturally, in my Race in Shakespeare class, we read a lot of plays, but there is one novel on the syllabus–Anthony Burgess’ Nothing Like the Sun. ![]() ![]() Fortunately for her, Robbie is attracted to her and finds her eccentricity amusing and endearing and suggests taking it slow. In an effort to appear more mature, Georgia tries to bleach a strip of her hair blonde, but it comes off in her hand. Robbie eventually dumps Lindsay, but tells Georgia that he should not date her because she is too young. The problem is that he is older and has a girlfriend, Lindsay, an older girl who wears a thong and bra padding and secretly claims to be engaged to him. Georgia bumps into the popular and attractive Robbie (the "Sex-God"), while helping her best friend, Jas, subtly stalk his brother at the grocery store where he works. Georgia, a teenager, lives with her mother, father, three-year-old sister Libby, and her wild cat, Angus, whom the family found on a holiday to Scotland. The book was adapted into a film, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, released in the United Kingdom and the United States in July 2008. ![]() The book is the first of ten books in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series. ![]() Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging is a 1999 young adult novel by English author Louise Rennison. ![]() |