![]() ![]() And the possibilities have all her neurons firing. Perhaps it’s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes. Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. ![]() But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school-archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. ![]() Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project-a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia-Marie would accept without hesitation. ![]()
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![]() The narrative of the book goes in between the current day and the past. This is a perfect combination for a decades-long mystery to finally be solved. ![]() Candice and Brandon have a lot in common – their love of books, their desire to solve puzzles, and their inquisitive, critical-thinking minds. Part mystery, part history lesson, The Parker Inheritance is as satisfying as placing down the last piece in a 500 piece puzzle. Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure–but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they have not imagined. As they gather at a small Montana town, old alliances will be renewed and tested, from within and without, for the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. ![]() ![]() They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. It is up to five people to prove him wrong. With a powerful, enigmatic backer and a secret location where the enemies of progress can’t find him, Victor is certain that this time nothing can stop him. Using stem cells, “organic” silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans - the perfect melding of flesh and machine. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has seen the future - and he’s ready to populate it. It is a story of revenge, redemption, and the thin line that separates human from inhuman. In Frankenstein: Lost Souls, Dean Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong, to forge a new legend uniquely suited to our times. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although this novel is not his most immeasurable work to date, it is still entertaining and fun. A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two FBI agents in hot pursuit-and somehow, Sarah Dewhurst herself.īefore we commence this review, I would like to state that Patrick Ness is one of my favourite authors of all time. He has arrived at the farm with a prophecy on his mind. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul, but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.īecause the dragon knows something she doesn’t. The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. ![]() Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to. On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There she finds a community of women willing to help her, most of them victims themselves. She takes his bank card, withdraws some cash and buys a bus ticket to a town she’s never been where she doesn’t know a soul. One morning she decides she’s had enough and decides on a whim to leave him. The Rose of Rose Madder is a 30-something woman in a horrifically abusive marriage to a psychotically violent police detective. As it is, Rose Madder is 550 pages of greatness stuck in a 650-page book.Ĭontent Warning: To discuss the plot of this book in any meaningful way necessitates touching on the subject of domestic violence. I have no doubt that had anyone not named Stephen King submitted this book as a manuscript, any editor worth his or her salt would have cut about 100 pages (they all would choose the same 100 pages to cut, I bet) and made this a much better book. I’ve become quite a fan of Stephen King in recent years, but a frequent complaint from the less enamored rings true about Rose Madder: the man could stand an editor. ![]() ![]() ![]() On sunny days I'd teach him how / To dive and how to swim. On stormy evenings I would play / My favorite games with him ![]() So if there's a book that is going to cause more of these cute moments to happen, I'm buying it! I find THAT equally adorable, makes me want to freeze time some more. Both boys grinned wildly as Ben "read" the book to him, trying to balance a boy almost equal his size and remember to turn the pages of the book. Just today he sat in Ben's lap for the first time. I find it altogether adorable, makes me want to freeze time.īut what does Kiefer like even more than the laps of his parents? The laps of his siblings, of course. He walks up to me, book in hand, sees me sitting "criss-cross-applesauce" and turns around a full two feet in front of me, backs up, and then plops down happily when his feet hit my legs. ![]() He's nearly 19 months and definitely into books. The number of words on each page, nice, rollicking rhyme, and hilarious pictures make it a fantastic choice for Kiefer right now. I only bought it (read: let me justify my purchase to you) because I was really happy to find the board book version. We read this library book-another of Lorelei's quality check-outs-and bought it a few hours later. Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner, illustrated by Mark Buehner ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the last of the great medieval rulers and the first of the ardent nation builders, Henry V is seen from several perspectives: his queen his beautiful Welsh mistress, Morgan his court jester, the fool a comrade-in-arms and his own point of view as both boy and man. The story brings to life not only the man, but one of the most fantastic periods in the fifteenth century. ![]() This is an entertaining and skillful recreation of the life and times of a man whose charm and military genius - and concern for his subjects - made him one of the most popular kings in English history. The book brings Henry magically to life in a multifaceted novel filled with turmoil, violence and romance, and it marks the debut of a major new talent in the arena of historical fiction. Fortune made his sword is spellbinding reading, and the picture Martha Rofheart paints of the hero-king, Henry V, is totally hypnotic in it's appeal. ![]() ![]() ![]() A high fantasy trilogy taking place in The Twelve Kingdoms world is forthcoming from Rebel Base books in 2018. The next in the series, The Shift of the Tide, will be out in August, 2017. The second book, The Edge of the Blade, released December 27, 2016, and is a PRISM finalist, along with The Pages of the Mind. ![]() Book one in that series, The Pages of the Mind, has also been nominated for the RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2016 and won RWA’s 2017 RITA® Award. Two more books followed in this world, beginning the spin-off series The Uncharted Realms. The third book, The Talon of the Hawk, won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2015. Book 1, The Mark of the Tala, received a starred Library Journal review and was nominated for the RT Book of the Year while the sequel, The Tears of the Rose received a Top Pick Gold and was nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2014. ![]() Her award-winning fantasy romance trilogy The Twelve Kingdoms hit the shelves starting in May 2014. She has been a Ucross Foundation Fellow, received the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, and was awarded a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning author whose works include novels, non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s called productive failure.įailure and mistakes can also force us to use our problem-solving skills and imaginations to find another way, just as our Kindergarten artists did. It also increases our confidence in our abilities to accomplish a difficult task. When we pause to consider how and where we went wrong, it increases our ability to reflect on our thinking (metacognition). ![]() Research shows that mistakes have real value – they help us learn. More importantly, our art teachers have been reminding the students that the same lesson holds true in other endeavors as well. After listening to the book Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg, our Dragons learned that an “oops” can become an opportunity to make something new and impressive as they created beautiful art out of a paint splat, a torn paper, and a smudge. These are just a few of the valuable lessons our Kindergarten students have been contemplating in art class this week. It can turn into the mouth of a roaring alligator. An accidental tear in the paper? No worries. ![]() Does a spill ruin a drawing? Not when it can become the shape of a goofy animal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Javascript is not enabled in your browser. ![]() ![]() For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.įor a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary. Morgan, Paperback Barnes & Noble® NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW AN EXCITING SERIES FROM NETFLIX The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn¿t be surprised. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.īut some things never change. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. ![]() This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.įour hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. ![]() |