![]() ![]() The Swedish Prince is a standalone romance inspired by Roman Holiday. Or do happily-ever-afters only exist in fairy-tales? When you’re from two different worlds, can your hearts meet somewhere in the middle? I didn’t expect to have my whole life turned upside down. I didn’t expect to fall in love with him. Yet uncovering Viktor’s secret was only the first step. He is Viktor of House Nordin, His Royal Highness, The Crown Prince of Sweden. Then a fateful encounter literally brought Prince Charming to my doorstep.Īt first I thought Viktor was just your average businessman passing through, albeit obscenely handsome, six-foot-five, blue-eyed, and mysteriously rich.īut soon I discovered the truth behind Viktor’s façade.īeneath his quiet, enigmatic gaze and cocky charm, is a man who is running away from who he really is. ![]() That was even more apparent when a senseless tragedy took the lives of my parents, forcing me to become the sole guardian of our dysfunctional household at the mere age of twenty-three. Growing up poor in small-town California as the oldest of six siblings, I knew I would never ride off into the sunset with anyone. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After making a horrible mistake, Lia will risk everything to stop Clay from falling in love with the wrong girl. Lia's parents would totally flip if they found out she was falling for a human boy, but the more time she spends with him, the harder it is for her to deny her feelings. If Lia hopes to save him, she'll have to get closer to Clay. And this new girl? Her eyes are dead set on Clay, who doesn't realize the danger he's in. Tobie Easton is a private writing instructor and a host for tween and teen book clubs. So it's for the best that he's dating that new girl, right? That is, until Lia finds out she isn't the only one at school keeping a potentially deadly secret. Sure, he's gorgeous in that cocky, leather jacket sort of way and makes her feel like there's a school of fish swimming in her stomach, but getting involved with a human could put Lia's entire community at risk. and keeping her feelings for Clay Ericson in check. ![]() Lia has grown up in a secret community of land-dwelling Mer hidden among Malibu's seaside mansions. War has ravaged the seven seas ever since the infamous Little Mermaid unleashed a curse that stripped Mer of their immortality. Lia Nautilus may be a Mermaid but she's never lived in the ocean. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His portrait of a secretive, vain, vitriolic genius lusting for power, wealth and status is unsettling. White cogently argues that alchemy, far from being a diversion, helped inspire Newton's discovery of universal gravitation as well as his belief that microcosmic processes mirror the macrocosm. White (coauthor, Stephen Hawking-A Life in Science) reveals a multifaceted Newton-the fatherless recluse emotionally scarred by a mother who abandoned him to unloving grandparents at age three the hustling money lender at Cambridge the closeted follower of Arianism, a heretical Christian sect that led him to loathe Roman Catholicism and to see all of creation as a code to be cracked. White effectively sets the details of Newtons career against the larger canvas of the history of ideas, and this may be the first. Neither sensationalizing nor overplaying Newton's interest in mysticism, this superb, demythologizing biography shatters the conventional portrait of the man of pure intellect, giving us instead an obsessive mystic, a supreme egoist who saw himself as a Christ-like interpreter of divine knowledge. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (British Commonwealth, United States, United Nations, 1993) by Michael White and a great selection of related books. The father of modern empirical science, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was also a practicing alchemist who spent more of his time involved in arcane investigations of magic, prophecy and hermetic secrets than in rationalist pursuits. ![]() ![]() ![]() It recently won the Costa Book Award, a prestigious annual prize for writers in Ireland and the United Kingdom.īarry’s fiction often re-examines crucial moments in the history of his native Ireland. ![]() ![]() Thomas is eager to share intimate details about “this man most dear to me.” Before page 30, he and John, a fellow enlistee, have made love for the first time.Īs is surely clear by now, this is a busy novel: a bloody war saga that also happens to be a tale of forbidden love a lament for those who perished during the Great Famine, and a paean to the vigor of the natural world. As he explains it in his punctuation-optional style, “Thank God John Cole was my first friend in America and so in the army too and the last friend for that matter.” The book starts in the early 1850s, as Thomas, just 17, has stumbled into what will become the most important relationship of his life. ![]() Later, during the Civil War, he re-enlists and takes the fight to secessionist troops. Armed with a musket and a bayonet, he’s part of a unit that slaughters American Indians. At its heart is Thomas McNulty, an Irishman who has fled his famine-stricken country and joined up with the U.S. “Days Without End” is a story with some tremendously brutal scenes. In turn, the young soldier inflicts his own set of terrors on the world. These and other miseries befall the narrator of Sebastian Barry’s new historical novel. Hunger and heat waves, fever and floods, frostbite and freezing rain. ![]() ![]() Macfarquhar, and sold by Colin Macfarquhar at his printing office in Nicolson-street, ” as the First Edition ’s title page informed its readers. The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published between 17 “by a society of gentlemen in Scotland, printed in Edinburgh for A. ![]() ![]() Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., is owned in turn by the William Benton Foundation of Illinois, a charitable foundation supporting programs in journalism and the media at the University of Chicago. and Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, which markets audio-visual and electronic learning aids as well as books to schools and libraries. Today, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., markets the Britannica in more than 100 countries around the world and is also the parent company of Merriam-Webster, Inc., publishers of the famed dictionaries Compton ’s MultiMedia Publishing Group, Inc. The Britannica is respected throughout the world for its combination of breadth and thoroughness in its treatment of everything from the Punic Wars to quantum mechanics, and many of its articles, written by outstanding scholars in their respective fields, are masterpieces of compact erudition unlike anything else in the field of learning. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., has published one of the world ’s finest encyclopedias for more than two centuries. ![]() ![]() Their constant terror of provoking his wrath is tempered by their feeble hopes of gaining his approval. Behind closed doors, he beats his wife and children if they fail to live up to his exacting standards. Yet, Kambili, Jaja, and their mother Beatrice see a side to him that no-one else does. He is also a successful businessman and the proprietor of The Standard newspaper, which he uses to champion free speech, condemn injustices, and to challenge the Nigerian government. ![]() Kambili’s father Eugene is a highly devout Catholic who gives generously to the church, charitable organisations, and to members of the local community. ![]() Purple Hibiscus is narrated throughout by Kambili Achike, a reserved fifteen-year-old who lives with her mother, father, and younger brother in Enugu, Nigeria. ![]() ![]() Men (most men) like war, or at least they find “some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting” that women (most women) do not seek or find. For though they belong to the same class, “the educated class,” a vast gulf separates them: the lawyer is a man and she is a woman. Written during the preceding two years, while she and most of her intimates and fellow-writers were rapt by the advancing Fascist insurrection in Spain, the book was couched as a tardy reply to a letter from an eminent lawyer in London who had asked, “How in your opinion are we to prevent war?” Woolf begins by observing tartly that a truthful dialogue between them may not be possible. In June, 1938, Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, her brave, unwelcomed reflections on the roots of war. Photograph by Robert Capa / International Center of Photography / Magnum ![]() Robert Capa’s famous “The Falling Soldier” was taken in 1936, a few weeks after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maruo has largely become a figure more established by visual aesthetics over storytelling here in the West, with most of his work not being published. Many of the panel transitions capture kinetic transitions that are seldom conveyed with such bravado, as in the pages of “The Laughing Vampire”. ![]() In particular, the way he catches the motion of character through layering facial features is an intriguing way to capture rapid movement. The artwork of Maruo is undeniably stunning, and the manga is one of the finer showcase of his work. The two work together to keep a steady flow of victims, and eventually have to face off against other vampires. Centuries later, she comes across a young man she decides to make her apprentice. However, the earth rejects her body and she is reborn as a vampire. A woman with twisted facial features scours the wasteland to rob corpses of valuables, but eventually she is found and murdered and buried. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like the other books in the series, I could vividly picture every detail! He is usually the one that is the most energetic and keeps everyone optimistic, but this is the book where we see the other sides of him. ![]() In this book, Keefe was focused on, and he went through a lot of internal conflict. ![]() There were a lot of conflicts, and an even mix of internal and external conflicts. It was taken in a whole new direction, and a lot of the questions that were in my head were answered in ways that I couldn't predict, and I love when authors do that. I loved reading Neverseen, and I couldn't put it down! Unlike the past three books, Neverseen does not take place in the Lost Cities, and is in a completely different environment that I was pleasantly surprised by. This book started at the moment Everblaze ended, which was unusual and helpful. On top of it all, Sophie finds out that not everybody is who they say they are, and saying the three words "I trust you" could drastically change your life. Sophie and her friends must find a cure before the gnomes die. In the mist of creating new relationships and strengthening abilities, the Neverseen started a plague that will infect all the gnomes. ![]() In their new home, The Black Swan requests them to only train on their abilities. Sophie and her friends are running away to join the Black Swan. I have been eagerly awaiting Neverseen, the fourth book in the incredible, middle grade fantasy series Keeper of the Lost Cities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() None of that was exactly clear to Beaton when she set off for Alberta in 2005. They’re also considered some of the most environmentally destructive oil fields in the world, and Indigenous populations say the mines have been ruinous to their way of life. The mines are large enough to be seen from space. When it’s over, she’ll go back to the real world.Īlberta’s oil sands are the third-largest oil reserve in the world. It will be a break from her life, a lark. ![]() Her plan is to work so much that she can pay off her student loans in two years. Saddled with an arts degree that leaves her feeling unemployable and a small mountain of student debt, Beaton leaves her beloved home of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, for the oil sands of Alberta, where work is plentiful and life is cheap. Take Vox’s survey here.ĭucks begins in 2005, with Beaton as a 21-year-old newly minted college graduate. We want to get to know you better - and learn what your needs are. ![]() |