![]() ![]() So I encourage myself, my children, and my friends to tell our stories with intention,” says the author, adding, “and I suggest we start now. “The stories we tell-in our minds or to our friends or in social media updates-create the world we live in. This book grows up and takes you with it. ![]() "It is seldom that a woman can live through so many intense experiences and somehow remain a person with a sunshine attitude. Tsara was born with a typical brain and typical tendencies that were consistently and beautifully challenged by a not so typical family and lifestyle. Having grown up in a home overflowing with out of the box characters and a ferocious love for family, she was in a unique position to observe culture and society. Tsara Shelton is the oldest daughter of international mental health expert Lynette Louise, aka The Brain Broad. With depth, candor, and a positive passion she explores issues such as poverty, prejudice, autism, and sexual abuse, searching for answers in the ways they’ve touched her life. In this book the author has collected mostly true stories that she’s written and published over the past ten years. Storytellers are powerful and we are all storytellers,” suggests Tsara Shelton, author of the new book Spinning in Circles And Learning From Myself: A Collection of Stories that Slowly Grow Up. ![]()
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![]() Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. HUGO AWARD FOR BEST SERIES Humanity has colonized the solar system-Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond-but the stars are still out of our reach. ![]() Corey comes the first book in the genre-defining space opera series, The Expanse, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. This 10th anniversary edition hardcover includes: A striking new coverStained edges and illustrated endpapersA black and magenta foil caseA reversible cover that features the full, uncropped artwork of the original cover artA new introduction from the authorsFrom New York Times-bestselling and Hugo award-winning author James S. Corey's modern masterwork of science fiction. Martin on Leviathan Wakes A special edition hardcover that celebrates the 10th anniversary of James S. Jimmy Corey writes with the energy of a brash newcomer and the polish of a seasoned pro. LEVIATHAN WAKES is interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written, the kind of SF that made me fall in love with the genre way back when, seasoned with a dollop of horror and a dash of noir. ![]() Hamilton.-Charles Stross on Leviathan WakesIt's been too long since we've had a really kickass space opera. ![]() PRODUCTO: Nombre: Leviathan Wakes (10th Anniversary Edition) - (Libro en Inglés) Marca: Corey, James S A DESCRIPCIÓN: Críticas An excellent space operatic debut in the grand tradition of Peter F. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The villagers of St Sidwell, a hamlet just outside Exeter's city walls, had helped Gwyn of Polruan to save what he could of the family's possessions, few that they were, but most of what was in the single-room had gone up in flames. They had carried leather buckets of turbid water from the well, but there was nothing they could do to save the little building, made of wood-framed wattle plastered with cob - a mixture of clay, straw and dung. The big Cornishman stood impotently in the road outside, watching the destruction in company with his neighbours, who although sympathetic to his loss, were more concerned over the threat to their own roofs by the flying sparks. With a crackling roar, Gwyn's home of twelve years was destroyed in as many minutes. The air became filled with specks of black ash and fragments of burning straw floated from the flaming thatch of the cottage. There was a thunderous crash as the roof fell in and a fountain of sparks erupted into the night sky. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Death troopers by joe schreiber![]() ![]() ![]() For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.Library JournalImperial prison ship Purge breaks down in space near an apparently abandoned Star Destroyer that might hold the necessary parts to repair the ship. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer. ![]() But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back-bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.And death is only the beginning.The Purge’s half-dozen survivors will do whatever it takes to stay alive. When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves-breaks down in a distant part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting and seemingly abandoned. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Heinlein mars![]() ![]() ![]() But the idea was to drop a hydrogen bomb at the terminator line on the moon, presumably to scare the Soviets and prevent them from planning military bases on the lunar surface. The official title was “A Study of Lunar Research Flights, Volume 1” which sounds benign enough. Oh, did we forget to mention that A119 and E4 were plans to detonate a nuclear device on the moon? Fortunately, both sides eventually realized these plans weren’t a good idea. In all fairness, the Soviets had an almost identical plan, code-named E4. The Air Force wanted ideas about how to respond to Sputnik, and one of the most disturbing ones was project A119, a project we were reminded of recently by a BBC post. They launched Sputnik on a modified ICBM, while American attempts to do the same failed spectacularly. The Soviet Union was ahead in the ability to deliver bombs using planes and missiles. While America won the race to the moon, that wasn’t clear in the 1950s. Part of it was simply fear generated by propaganda. Part of it was a fear of what a rival nation could do if they could fly over your country with impunity. In today’s world, it is hard to realize how frightened Americans were at the news of Sputnik orbiting the Earth. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Ann m martin the doll people![]() ![]() She's arrived in a mysterious package.but she looks so familiar. In The Runaway Dolls, "Best friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft have stumbled upon an unexpected visitor, a new doll named Tilly May. In The Meanest Doll in the World, Annabelle and Tiffany sneak off to school with Kate, hiding in her backpack, but when school's out, they climb into the wrong one and end up at another girl's house, where the meet Princess Mimi, a.k.a. In the first book, they form the Society for Exploration and Location of Missing Persons to search for Annabelle's Auntie Sarah, who's been missing for 45 years. Eight year-old Kate Palmer owns a hundred year-old china doll named Annabelle and a more recent plastic doll named Tiffany, and they're best friends. Welcome to The Doll People and the world of dolls come to life when we're not looking. Martin and Laura Godwin, illustrated by Brian Selznick. ![]() ![]() First edition of The Runaway Dolls by Ann M. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not the king's dashing and enigmatic illegitimate son. The nobles don't respect her, her councillors want to control her, and with the mystery of who killed the king still unsolved, she knows that a single mistake could cost her the kingdom-and her life.įreya is determined to survive, and that means uncovering the murderers herself. She may have escaped the massacre, but she is far from safe. However, when an extravagant banquet turns deadly and the king and those closest to him are poisoned, Freya suddenly finds herself on the throne. Twenty-third in line to the throne, she never dreamed of a life in the palace, and would much rather research in her laboratory than participate in the intrigues of the court. ![]() The Girl of Fire and Thorns meets The Queen of the Tearling in this thrilling fantasy standalone about one girl's unexpected rise to power.įreya was never meant to be queen. ![]() ![]() Thompson at once criticizes the conventional notion of the American Dream, and its manifestation in Las Vegas and modern American culture, even in the foreign policy of the United States, while at the same time offering an alternative interpretation of what constitutes the American Dream, by looking back fondly to the hope of the 1960s. ![]() It is as though being completely high is the only way to make sense of this bizarre world – Las Vegas. Gonzo turn themselves into beasts in order to cope with the sordid materialistic betrayal of the American Dream that Las Vegas represents. It is a quotation from the English man of letters Samuel Johnson: “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” In the context of the book, this implies that Duke and Dr. The epigraph to the book is important too. ![]() Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is “A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream” – and the word “savage” suggests Thompson’s overall feelings about the American Dream: he disapproves of it. ![]() Dreaming of America: the Destruction of the American Dream ![]() ![]() Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. ![]() These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. ![]() In this exhilarating novel, two friends-often in love, but never lovers-come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The Claw by Norah Lofts![]() Their very long night in the city is driven by two searches: one for a secret concert by their favorite band, Where's Fluffy and a second for Norah's irresponsible and drunk friend Caroline (Ari Graynor, in what should be a star-making performance). NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST centers on two New Jersey teens, newly single Nick (Michael Cera, JUNO) and his fellow music lover Norah (Kat Dennings, CHARLIE BARTLETT), who meet at Nick's band's show in New York City. This studio-produced comedy is a bit shinier and more polished, but it still has hints of the authenticity that made his first film so well loved. But the film is actually directed by Peter Sollett, who earned praise for his debut feature, RAISING VICTOR VARGAS. "item_description" : "With its sweet teen coupling and ardent devotion to music, NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST feels like the cinematic equivalent of a mixtape made by John Hughes and Cameron Crowe. "item_title" : "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist", ![]() |