![]() ![]() ![]() But this time, the new enemy has yet to reveal themselves…or their dangerous endgame. He’s been on the wrong side of war before. Now, on the cusp of an explosive and wide-reaching insurrection, Aden plunges once again into the brutal life he longed to forget. And a young woman, thrust into responsibility as vice president of her family’s raw materials empire, faces a threat she never anticipated. A sergeant with the occupation forces is treading increasingly hostile ground. He’s not the only one.Ī naval officer has borne witness to inconceivable attacks on a salvaged fleet. After devoting twelve years of his life to the reviled losing side, with the blood of half a million casualties on his hands, Aden is looking for a way to move on. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources, and populations, Aden Robertson reemerges. MartinĪcross the six-planet expanse of the Gaia system, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. ![]() Born in Germany and raised in and around the city of Münster, Marko was previously a soldier, bookseller, freight dockworker, and corporate IT administrator before deciding that he wasn’t cut out. I gulped down the first book in a day, and I am already eager for the next one.” -George R. Marko Kloos is the author of the Frontlines series of military science fiction and is a member of George R. “A new series that promises to be just as engrossing …the action just as exciting, the science just as solid, the tension just as high. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She hung up and kicked off her shoes, then flung herself onto the amazingly plush bed again. ![]() She picked up a receiver, just for the fun of it, and instead of a dial tone heard a cheerful female voice say, "Yes, Miss Krabbe?" Big windows-bigger than her!-that looked out to an emerald green lawn roughly the size of New York's Central Park. A bathroom, a room just for hanging out in, a bedroom. ![]() He left, moving like a tall, tanned ghost, and she climbed out of the downy bed-took a while!- and prowled the suite.Ĭream walls with gold trim. ![]() It's the dry air in here." He hack-hacked into a closed fist. "Would you like to meet Prince David before then?" "Gotta sing for my supper, huh? Well, fair's fair." "If you have need of anything," he told her, "just pick up the phone. This was slightly less startling than the first time. What's-his-name's face appeared above her. She flung herself toward the bed, twisted in midair, and disappeared in a billow of down comforters. And it's Christina, not ma'am."Īfter six hallways, an elevator ride, and four doors, she was standing in a small suite of rooms. "Is every guy in this country over six feet tall?" It was like shaking hands with a plank of wood. She put a hand on her chest to slow her now-galloping pulse. ![]() ![]() ![]() After completing a top secret mission to the island of Tinian to deliver parts of the atom bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. ![]() This glorious printing boasts a beautiful new jacket embossed with gold, and a free, limited edition print of the book s cover, showing Big and Little Bear, the bright, yellow moon, and all the twinkly stars perfect for framing! ![]() Now, in honor of that tenth anniversary, the book that became the first of a best selling series about a Little Bear who doesn t like the dark and a sage Big Bear who brings him the moon gets a well earned deluxe treatment. ‘Bound to become a beloved bedtime ritual,’ said SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL. ‘Perfect for bedtime, or anytime,’ echoed KIRKUS REVIEWS. ‘Move over GOODNIGHT MOON,’ raved PUBLISHERS WEEKLY in a boxed review Candlewick s first review ever. ![]() Ten years ago, when a new Candlewick Press first published Martin Waddell’s and Barbara Firth s Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear?, the quiet, classic picture book met with resounding reviews.
![]() ![]() Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far-plus an eighth story written especially for this volume. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. ![]() Ted Chiang's first published story, " Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. ![]() ![]() ![]() Billy had lost a leg playing football in a Brooklyn park he did various factory jobs when he could find them, while Anne did the same while raising the family.Īt 14 Hamill was admitted to the private Regis high school in Manhattan, founded to provide Jesuit education to poorer Catholic boys. His father, Billy, and mother, Anne (nee Devlin), were immigrants from Belfast who had met in the US. Hamill was born the eldest of seven children in the then-working class Park Slope neighbourhood of Brooklyn. ![]() As he wrote in A Drinking Life, “Maybe words, like potions, were also capable of magic.” His later novels included Forever (2003), about a man granted eternal life provided he never leaves Manhattan, and Tabloid City (2011), a newspaper-thriller set in New York. ![]() A collection of short stories, The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook, was published in 1980, and in 1994 came his most celebrated book, A Drinking Life, which he claimed inspired Frank McCourt to write Angela’s Ashes. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, wow, does it ever." - The New York Times I anticipated that at some point a shocking twist would come. "A perfect beach read." - The Boston Globe ![]() ![]() "I anticipated that at some point a shocking twist would come. The addictive prequel to the TikTok phenomenon We Were Liars: the story of another summer, another generation-and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.Twenty-seven years before the events of We Were Liars comes another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades-a story that is scandalous, tragic, and layered with mystery. An irresistible, unpredictable boy.Ī summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. The thrilling prequel to the TikTok phenomenon We Were Liars takes readers back to the summer that the Sinclair family’s lives changed forever.Ī windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.Ī hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow.Ī fiery, addicted heiress. ![]() ![]() Naumoff told Shafer he believes she should go to prison but he can't because she has no prior history of a criminal record as an adult or a child. ![]() ![]() She currently resides with the man who benefited from her crime, Naumoff said. She also was ordered to submit to drug and alcohol testing, have no contact with JFS, seek and maintain employment, and not reside with the person with whom she is having sexual relations unless it is her spouse she is separated from. ![]() Naumoff sentenced her to 30 days in the Richland County Jail to begin July 1. If Rebecca Ann Shafer violates her terms of probation including failing to make restitution for $47,974 to the state of Ohio, she will serve a 42-month prison sentence, Richland County Common Pleas Judge Phil Naumoff told her. Rebecca Ann Shafer, with attorney Wesley Freeman, listens to prosecutor during her sentencing in Richland County Common Pleas Court on Monday.Ī former Richland County Job and Family Services public assistance specialist, who pleaded guilty to using her position to secure nearly $50,000 for her boyfriend and his children, received 60 months of probation Monday in Richland County Common Pleas Court. ![]() ![]() He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamn William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Scholars believe that he died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. ![]() ![]() ![]() William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marian cannot confide in either Ainsley, Clara, Peter or even Duncan and is faced with a perennial disappointment. Here, the title is a clear pun on how the mass mind tends to 'feed on' women both literally and metaphorically, by their pathetic sexism and misogynic mind-frames. ![]() The antagonistic rendezvous of Clara's fate, in a parallel connection makes Marian feel constantly frustrated and underwhelmed. One defining preoccupation of her schedule revolves around visiting her perpetually pregnant friend, Clara Bates, who got married to Joe and therefore, had to drop out of high school. In addition, Marian is portrayed as a jobholder at a food sampling company who gets engaged to her boyfriend, Peter Wollander, a young businessperson. ![]() She has a ridiculous excuse-the teenager who is under her care will be influenced wrongly through her tenants' 'immoral' activities. Their landlady, here, happens to be a prying woman who keeps on attempting to confine the concerned lodgers within boundaries. Through her predicaments, the novel captures the true essence of psychological deterioration, sexual dissatisfaction and also identity crisis. In the novel, Marian lives with Ainsley Tewce, her roommate and a sort of "intellectual" woman who has interests in learning about the human mind and its developmental progress. ![]() ![]() Largely self-educated, Roosevelt later graduated with honors from Harvard University. ![]() A sickly child who suffered from asthma, he took on a regimen of exercise, weightlifting, and boxing to improve his health and his competitive edge. Roosevelt's personal life was every bit as interesting and varied as his public life. Through the creation of national forests, federal bird reservations, and national game preserves, Roosevelt protected more than 200 million acres of land through the federal government. Perhaps his greatest and most lasting contribution was in the area of conservation. ![]() In foreign affairs, Roosevelt reversed the previous policy of isolationism and ensured the country its place as a world leader. The 26th president, known as a "trust buster," broke up some of the nation's largest corporations, helped secure the passage of the Meat Inspection Act for consumer protection, and greatly expanded the powers and responsibilities of the presidency. Theodore Roosevelt was, in many ways, one of the most influential and accomplished leaders in American history. Check out some great Web sites for teaching about Theodore Roosevelt. On October 27, his birthday, give your students the opportunity to learn about the 26th president of the United States. ![]() Few individuals have lived as eclectic, as active, or as productive a life as Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) did. ![]() |