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Cadwan of the Harp, narrator and harper to the chiefs of the Iceni, promises a sword song to Boudicca, the Royal Daughter and future Queen (1). ![]() ![]() It includes an extensive new afterword that examines how smartphones and social media are influencing our thoughts and emotions. The Shallows is, writes Slate, “a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”Īn expanded, tenth-anniversary edition of The Shallows was published in 2020. With The Shallows, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction and a New York Times bestseller, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the net’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. ![]() He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Is Google making us stupid? When Nicholas Carr posed that question in a celebrated Atlantic essay, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. “I have not only given this book to numerous friends, I actually changed my life in response to it.” -Jonathan Safran Foer “A book everyone should read.” - American Scientist “Essential reading about our Internet Age.” - New York Times Book Review ![]() “This is a book to shake up the world.” -Ann Patchett THE “MODERN CLASSIC,” NOW AVAILABLE IN AN EXPANDED EDITION ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Cyrus will stop at nothing until she's his again, and every moment she stays, she's putting herself and the people she's grown to care for in great danger. For the first time, Sera finds herself enjoying the life of the person she's inhabiting - and falling for the human boy who lives next door. Then sixteen-year-old Kailey Morgan gets into a horrific car accident right in front of her, and Sera accidentally takes over her body while trying to save her. No longer able to bear the guilt of what she's done, Sera escapes from Cyrus and vows to never kill again. Centuries ago her boyfriend, Cyrus, discovered a method of alchemy that allows them to take the bodies of other humans by jumping from one vessel to the next, ending the human's life in the process. ![]() Eternal life provides her with the world's riches, but at a very high price: innocent lives. After spending six hundred years of Earth, Seraphina Ames has seen it all. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of those things is to go to Portugal and get a law degree without much enthusiasm for the project, instead acting up as “a wastrel, a superficial, troublemaking, and petulant student, given to adventures, following romanticism in practice and liberalism in theory.” Back home, Brás Cubas takes up with a married woman while yearning for a lost love, finding himself in a condition that he calls “the solidarity of human disgruntlement.” Not even Aristotle could foresee the mess he’s in, he concludes. ![]() “I am not exactly an author recently deceased,” Brás Cubas declares at the opening, “but a deceased man recently an author.” In 160 mostly short episodes, all dedicated to the worm that took the first bite of his interred body, Brás Cubas outlines what he’s bothered to understand of the intellectual currents of his time given the choice between praying for glory in the here and now or glory in the afterlife, for instance, he finds something else to do. This novel, published in 1881, at once lampoons and celebrates the liberal ideals of the country’s intelligentsia, and it’s told from an odd viewpoint: that of the corpse of a generally useless minor aristocrat. Machado (1839-1908) never met a literary form he could not master his poems, plays, stories, newspaper articles, and other writings are all exemplary, and he is regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer more than a century after his death. ![]() Perhaps the greatest novel by the multifaced Brazilian writer receives a fresh, lively translation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics’ X-Force and Quasar (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). ![]() Prior to that, he was best known for his 80 issue run on Image Comics' Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane. Greg Capullo is a self-taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed Batman series for DC Comics. ![]() He teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence University and lives in New York with his wife, Jeanie, and his son, Jack Presley. He has also been published in Zoetrope, Tin House, One Story, Epoch, Small Spiral Notebook, and other journals, and has a short story collection, Voodoo Heart, which was published by Dial Press. His works include Batman, All-Star Batman, Batman: Eternal, Superman Unchained, American Vampire, and Swamp Thing. Scott Snyder is a #1 New York Times best-selling writer and one of the most critically acclaimed scribes in all of comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() The biggest increase in crime was drug use. During a roughly six-month period from September 2022 through February 2023, crime rose by 8%. In February of 2023, crimes on the county transit system rose 21% compared to February 2022, Metro reported. 22, 2023 totaled 3,267, about a 15% increase from the same period the year before. The number of crimes reported from Mato Feb. 27-A month ago, LA Metro extended contracts with three policing agencies and expanded the roster of its security officers in an effort to reduce rising crime on buses, trains and transit stations so that riders who had left the system, because they don't feel safe, would return.īut reports released on Thursday, April 27 by Metro indicate that police and sheriff deputies and Metro's Transit Security Officers were busy dealing with assaults and drug abuse as crimes spiked in the first quarter of this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kit your loadout in a way which suits your preferred style of battle and craft magic, weapons and armour which compliment your play style. Real-time Combat - Wield melee weapons, bows and forge new spells. ![]() As the wildlife around Paw Village becomes increasingly aggressive, The Empire has called upon you to investigate and defend its citizens. Welcome to the world of Kitaria - A peaceful land where nature lives in harmony - until now. Plunder dungeons in search of relics and resources, tend to your farm to grow your own provisions, and work with your village neighbours to craft new gear. Discover diverse regions in search of relics and resources, tend to your farm to grow your own provisions, and take on quests solo or with a friend in local co-op mode!Ī delightfully cute action adventure RPG with farming and crafting - Armed with sword, bow and spellbook, fight against a rising darkness threatening the world. Kitaria Fables is a delightfully cute action adventure RPG with farming and crafting! Armed with a sword, bow and spellbook, fight back against a rising darkness threatening the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dark Days Pact: A Lady Helen Novel (2017).The Dark Days Club: A Lady Helen Novel (2016) (a.k.a.Eon: Dragoneye Reborn and Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye) The Two Pearls of Wisdom (2008) ( a.k.a.She has a master's degree in creative writing from RMIT University, and has taught in creative writing at the University of Ballarat. Goodman has also written short stories for several anthologies. Award Honor Book and a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book. It has subsequently been translated into 12 languages, and won the 2009 Aurealis Award for the Best Fantasy Novel, is a 2008 James Tiptree, Jr. It was also released in the United States in late December 2008 under the title Eon: Dragoneye Reborn. ![]() The first book in her crossover fantasy duology The Two Pearls of Wisdom was published in Australia and the U.K in mid-2008. ![]() In July 2007, her adult crime thriller Killing the Rabbit was published in the United States and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award. Goodman's debut novel Singing the Dogstar Blues (published in Australia 1998, subsequently released in several foreign editions) won an Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. Singing the Dogstar Blues, Killing the Rabbit, Eona duologyĪlison Goodman (born 12 August 1966) is an Australian writer of books for young adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() French abandoned the poetry in favor of slower character studies and more empirical observations. The lead characters of Faithful Place and Broken Harbor are more hardboiled, experienced detectives and their voices reflect that. The lead characters were good at their jobs, but young. Although they were suspenseful procedurals, they also tapped into nostalgia and childhood wounds. The first two novels, In the Woods and The Likeness, were noteworthy for their memorably poetic style. In all her novels, French is interested in unraveling the mysteries of how the past makes us. Like her four other Dublin Murder Squad books, The Secret Place is brilliantly plotted with twists and turns, but also like the other books, the real reason to read it is its uncanny way of plumbing the darkest depths of the human soul. Following in the footsteps of ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars and Megan Abbott’s The Fever, Tana French mines the dangerous, beautiful territory of teenage girls-their secrets and their blind loyalty-in her latest novel, The Secret Place. ![]() |