![]() ![]() ![]() But first she has to keep herself alive." First edition thus, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, Only Melantha Jhirl, a genetically enhanced outcast with greater strength, stamina, and intelligence than other humans, has a chance of solving the mystery - and stopping the malevolent being that's wiping out her shipmates. Captain Eris claims to know nothing about the elusive intruder, and when someone, or something, begins killing off the expeditions members, hes unable - or unwilling - to stem the bloody tide. ![]() The team's telepath, Thale Lasamer, senses another presence aboard the Nightflyer - something dangerous, volatile, and alien. Yet that's not the only reason the ship seems haunted. But Captain Royd Eris remains locked away, interacting with his passengers only as a disembodied voice - or a projected hologram no more substantial than a ghost. Cover artwork by: Larry Rostant "When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious alien race, the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a fully autonomous vessel manned by a single human. First edition thus, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, 193 pp. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: "age and experience".ĭuring her life Anne was particularly close to Emily. ![]() The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. However, her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature. Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters. She wrote in a realistic, rather than a romantic style. Anne's two novels, written in a sharp and ironic style, are completely different from the romanticism followed by her sisters, Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë. Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lovecraft-style tale, but for reasons I’ll have to explain in the Final Thoughts. This is one of the most bizarre books from the first 62, and looking back on it as an adult I’ve come to realize this is probably R.L. I’d already recapped “Ghost Camp” last year on my birthday, but I decided to go with one of the classic books since I reviewed a 2000 book earlier this summer. But I couldn’t decide which to choose from. Since it’s now summertime I wanted to surprise everyone with one of the legendary summer camp Goosebumps books. And why the ground is always rumbling late at night… Initial Thoughts ![]() Why they’re a little too obsessed with winning. Why the counselors seem a little too happy. But how excited can you get about softball? It’s just a game, right?īecause Camp Jellyjam is no ordinary sports camp. Too bad Wendy isn’t a sports freak like her brother, Elliot. Swimming, basketball, roller hockey, King Jellyjam’s Sports Camp has it all. Summary: Sometimes, Winning Is Everything! Tagline: Tennis… canoeing… monsters, anyone? Title: Goosebumps #33 – The Horror at Camp Jellyjam, a.k.a. ![]() ![]() ![]() A brilliant tale of desperation and identity." - Richmond Review "Lilia is more or less Newton's first law of motion personified. John Mandel is astonishing." -Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers "Stunning. ![]() Simply blew me away."-Nancy Pearl, NPR, "Morning Edition" "Emily St. John Mandel's bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility! But what he discovers is a deeper mystery, one that will set past and present spinning toward collision. When Lilia goes out for a paper and fails to return to their Brooklyn apartment, he follows her to Montreal, not knowing whether he wants to disappear, too, or help her find her way home. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind. About the Book "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Unbridled Books, Denver, Colorado, in 2009"-Title page verso.īook Synopsis From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility-when Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. ![]() ![]() Hardened by her tragic past, Kacey is determined to keep everyone at a distance, but their mutual attraction is undeniable and Trent is determined to find a way into Kacey’s guarded heart-even if it means that an explosive secret could shatter both their worlds. Trent Emerson has smoldering blue eyes, deep dimples, and he perfectly skates that irresistible line between nice guy and bad boy. She can handle anything-anything but her mysterious neighbor in apartment 1D. Struggling to make ends meet, Kacey needs to figure out how to get by. Armed with two bus tickets, twenty-year-old Kacey and her fifteen-year-old sister, Livie, escape Grand Rapids, Michigan, to start over in Miami. Still haunted by memories of being trapped inside, holding her boyfriend’s lifeless hand and listening to her mother take her last breath, Kacey wants to leave her past behind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Love them.įour years ago Kacey Cleary’s life imploded when her car was hit by a drunk driver, killing her parents, boyfriend, and best friend. Currently Reading: 329807825-Ten-Tiny-Breaths-01-Respire-K-a-Tucker.epub Titre Enjoying this preview Become a member to read the full title. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Near Witch is is an ancient story narrated to children to frighten them.In the town of Near, there are no strangers.In all her life, Lexi has heard that the wind is always lonely and looking for a company. The early books of this author include THE NEAR WITCH, THE ASH-BORN BOY, and THE ARCHIVED. Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions and Story Mining & Supply Company jointly bought the rights for a film adaptation of Vicious in late 2013.The darker shade of magic and the vicious also received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. She is not only famous for her young adult and children’s fiction published under the name Victoria Schwab, but also for her 2013 novel Vicious, which was awarded the top top fantasy book in The American Library Association’s Reference and User Services Association Reading List. ![]() Now she is an author of many books for adults and teens including the darker side of magic and the archived. Louis Communication Design after having changed course so many times.She was also a personal chef, an assistant caterer and a clerk in a department store. She was born of a British mother, a Beverly Hills father.She was brought up in west coast but studied in the south.She went to Washington University in St. ![]() E.) Schwab is an an American author born on July 7, 1987. ![]() ![]() Set against a glorious backdrop of celebrity and La Dolce Vita, Andrea Doria's last voyage comes vividly to life in a narrative tightly focused on her passengers – Cary Grant's wife Philadelphia's flamboyant mayor the heiress to the Marshall Field fortune and brave Italian emigrants – who found themselves plunged into a desperate struggle to survive. ![]() Andrea Doria represented the romance of travel, the possibility of new lives in the new world, and the glamour of 1950s art, culture, and life. Now, Greg King and Penny Wilson offer a fresh look at this glittering liner and her untimely end. Her loss signaled the end of the golden era of ocean liner travel. Audiences witnessed it all: the unthinkable collision of two modern vessels equipped with radar perilous hours of uncertainty the heroic rescue of passengers, and the final gasp as the pride of the Italian fleet slipped beneath the Atlantic, taking some fifty lives with her. Unlike the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster of the modern age. ![]() In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. ![]() In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are twice as strong as humans when they reach adulthood, but it takes up to a century for them to reach their full strength. By the time they reach puberty, a Mohiri lives in harmony with its demon. ![]() Despite the symbiotic relationship, Mori are sentient demons with the natural urge to be in command. Young Mohiri are taught to control their Mori, which would take control of their body if it’s not reined in. Thus, the Mohiri race was created and every Mohiri after was born with a Mori inside. The Mori made the human immortal and have them the strength and speed to fight other demons, and in return the human gave the Mori a host. He took a parasitic demon called a Mori and places it inside a human. The Mohiri were created by the archangel Michael after demons began to walk the earth and one demon in particular, the Vamhir demon, threatened the human race. A race of human/demon warriors that protects humans from vampires and other supernatural threats, mainly demons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike those peers born to privilege, Chekhov was raised in the peasantry and worked as a doctor. Universally recognized as one of the greatest short story writers of all time, he revolutionized the form and had a profound influence on his successors from Flannery O’Connor to Alice Munro.Īs the celebrated Russian-immigrant author Boris Fishman writes in his bold, incisive, and delightfully counterintuitive introduction to this Restless Classics collection, Chekhov is funny, optimistic, ceaselessly curious, and undogmatic-a significant break from the bleak and morally rigid tradition of his contemporaries Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Chekhov’s sensibility was radically human and thoroughly modern: write not how you think things should be, but rather as they are. The great 19th-century Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov wrote nearly one thousand stories, a body of work that is unmatched in its alchemy of sensitivity, wisdom, precision, verve, soulfulness, and economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() |