![]() ![]() ![]() Thing - stand ready to guard the Earth.for the four minutes the Fantastic Four will be gone. When Reed and Sue decide the family needs to relax, they take Ben, Johnny and the kids on a year-long vacation - through all of infinite time and space! And in the absence of Marvel's First Family, a handpicked substitute FF - Ant-Man, Medusa, She-Hulk and the new Ms. We have seen the future, and it will be fantastic! "New Departure, New Arrivals!" Collects Fantastic Four (2012 4th Series) #1-3, FF (2012 2nd Series) #1-2, and material from Marvel Now Point One #1. 'New Departure, New Arrivals' Collects Fantastic Four (2012 4th Series) 1-3, FF (2012 2nd Series) 1-2, and material from Marvel Now Point One 1. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It has merfolk, sirens, selkies (first time reading about them) and gorgons, which means mythology! In the world of Tangled Tides, there has been a curse which blocked the way for these sea creatures into their realm and until the curse is fulfilled, they are surviving but long for returning. So, when I choose a mermaid story, I like the darker aspects too and Hooper really brought it out in this story. There is something about being beautiful monsters and mermaids, sirens etc have always had this seductive draw. I am always up for any mermaid stories – they are a blend of myth and fantasy, and let me confess – I do love the story of the Little Mermaid (the original one, not the Disney version). She could lose her soul in the process-or she might open the gateway to a love that’s deeper than the oceans. The tides turn as Yara fights to save herself, hundreds of sea creatures, and the merman who has her heart. ![]() Treygan, the stormy-eyed merman who turned Yara mer, will stop at nothing and sacrifice everything to protect his people-until he falls for Yara. The merfolk want something far more precious. Both sides believe Yara can save them by fulfilling a broken promise and opening the sealed gateway to their realm, but they are battling over how it should be done. When a hurricane hits her island home and she wakes up with fins, Yara finds herself tangled up in an underwater world of mysterious merfolk and secretive selkies. Yara Jones doesn’t believe in sea monsters-until she becomes one. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the merciless, muscled warrior is not the companion she remembers. When the English capture her younger brother, she turns to the quiet, steady former protector who can climb anything. ![]() She never meant to hurt Thom, but her only hope for security is to marry for the betterment of her clan. Despite their differences in rank, they become inseparable-until Thom confesses his love, and the humiliation of realizing that Elizabeth has never considered him a potential suitor drives him to battle.Įlizabeth is devastated. The greatest climber in Scotland fights to win a place among the legendary warriors of the Highland Guardand the heart of the woman he dares to lovein New York Timesbestselling author Monica McCarty's steamy new adventure. To the son of the castle blacksmith, the daughter of the powerful Lord of Douglas might as well be. The first time Thomas MacGowan saw Elizabeth Douglas, he thought that she was a princess. The greatest climber in Scotland fights to win a place among the legendary warriors of the Highland Guard-and the heart of the woman he dares to love-in New York Times bestselling author Monica McCarty's steamy new adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() The vocabulary section is exhaustive, making the text suitable for those just coming to grips with the language. This edition includes an introduction and notes which help to set the novel in its historical and political context, both in Italy and the rest of Europe in the decade before the Second World War. The form of the narrative itself is an experiment in getting across a vital message in a fraught time. See the three volumes exclusively on Fontamara edited by Francesco Di. They raise such Italian problems as regionalism, the clash of ideologies and the ways of portraying them in literary form. For Ragaz, see Emilio Leoni, 'La narrativa di Ignazio Silone dalla tradizione. The themes embrace politics and religion, revolution and mysticism. The story itself is a good read, told with humour and suspense. He describes the sufferings of the peasants, the cafoni, still living under feudalism and further burdened under the new fascist regime of Mussolini. He wrote Fontamara first and foremost as an antifascist, setting it in his own region of Abruzzo, east of Rome. He was a communist until 1931, later referring to himself as a 'Socialist without a party and a Christian without a church.' Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. ![]() ![]() In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have no idea how that happened.Īpparently the aliens are keeping the humans as pets, or something, and they've created domed (maybe) cities where they have fake skies, have bred T-Rex, and have decided they like watching humans fight. Then there's the poisoned water, poisoned earth, poisoned air, meat, food. But then she talks about wearing a "winter coat," which threw me. ![]() ![]() ![]() At one point she mentions that it's warming the whole world over - that the Nirreth (the aliens that invaded several (how many? Not sure) years ago) ruined our world because they like it warmer so they're making it warmer. I'm still not sure what's happening in the world. I honestly can't say much more about her than that, because even though I've just finished I don't remember anything else about her. Thrust into circumstances beyond her control, she's trained with a sword - why I'm not entirely sure - and suddenly she's likely going to end up as the spark of the rebellion against their alien overlords. Jet is a carbon copy of every other prickly heroine in the YA world. I spent so much time in Jet's head, with her musings, about the world at large that you'd think I would have a clear idea of what's happening.wrong again. I spent so much time in Jet's head, with her musings, that you'd think I had a good idea of who she is, as a person you'd be wrong. It felt like one long set-up and everything took F.O.R.E.V.E.R. This was the longest short book I've read in a long, long time. ![]() ![]() His work has been translated and published in fifteen countries and, in all, more than 10,000,000 copies are in print. McCullough’s other books include 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, The Path between the Seas, and Truman. history to be savored,” while John Adams, published in 2001, remains one of the most praised and widely read American biographies of all time. McCullough’s The Wright Brothers, a number one New York Times best seller, has been called “a concise, exciting and fact-packed book.” His previous work, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, has been called “dazzling” and “an epic of ideas. David McCullough (1933–2022) was widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history” and “a matchless writer.” He was twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the National Book Award, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has a younger brother named Albert Jr. Then from her adoptive father, Albert, she learned a lot of values especially the value of honesty and a strong work ethic-which pretty much comes out in her writing. Thus, from her adoptive mom she learned to love language. ![]() Valeria, read to her children’s stories each night and by the time she was in pre-school, she was already reading chapter books. And she also believes that this talent was nurtured further by her adoptive parents. Of course, as a natural daughter of a writer and a poet, she believes that this talent and gift runs through her too. When asked if her talent for writing was inherent or nurtured, she directly answers that it’s both. It was reported that by the year 2000, Ellen Hopkins finally found her biological mother, Toni Chandler who was also a poet and a writer, just like herself. She conceded that it was definitely a challenge living with older parents along, of course, with lots of wonderful benefits. ![]() She is born on Maand her adoptive parents were already old, with her mom 42 years old and her dad at 72 years old. Early LifeĮllen Hopkins is a self-confessed adopted child of Valeria and Albert Wagner. ![]() She is a favorite author for both young adult and the teenage readers. She is well known for her books entitled Crank, Burned, Impulse and several others. Ellen Louise Hopkins is a New York Times Bestselling author. ![]() ![]() ![]() For years, adults have extended the promise of total knowledge to students who apply themselves to understanding physical technologies like the steam engine, or the airplane. As the complexity scientist Samuel Arbesman writes in his recent book Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension, the intricacy of modern technologies-the code behind the guidance system used to land planes-has made them opaque, even to people whose job it is to work with them. ![]() How does the Macaulay approach translate to the unseeable? The Way Things Work Now is longer than its predecessors it has a whole new section on all things digital. Now Macaulay has updated The Way Things Work, which was first published in 1988 and revised in 1998. ![]() In addition to co-writing The Way Things Work with Neil Ardley, Macaulay has also published a primer on the human body ( The Way We Work) as well as shorter books on individual masterworks of human engineering ( books about cathedrals, pyramids, toilets). ![]() Macaulay’s school-age readers have fewer and fewer everyday chances to witness the technologies of their world in motion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The books she illustrated that were written by others include an edition of Trumpeter of Kraków, the Newbery award winning children’s novel by Eric P. ![]() Her book King Krakus and the Dragon received a starred Kirkus review highlighting the "rich color, sumptuous design, and a splendid peacock of a dragon adorn this old Polish tale of King Krakus who founded Krakow." Her own titles include The Tortoise and the Tree, Din Dan Don It's Christmas, Spring is, and The Best of the Bargain. She also illustrated 23 books by other authors. ![]() ĭomańska wrote, adapted and translated 22 books with her own illustrations. She won a Caldecott Honor for her book If All the Seas Were One Sea in 1972. Janina Domańska (28 July 1913 – 2 February 1995) was a Polish-born American artist, author and illustrator.She is best known for her self-illustrated children's books. ![]() ![]() This edition include a biographical afterword. A masterpiece of children’s literature and a touching story of courage and loyalty, “The Princess and the Goblin” is a timeless treasure. ![]() When Curdie is captured by the goblins and overhears a plot to kidnap the Princess and flood the King’s mine he is challenged to foil the nefarious plan of the goblins and save the Princess. He and Princess Irene quickly become friends and have more adventures discovering magic and avoiding the violent goblins. Princess Irene begins to explore her world outside of the castle, discovers the existence of goblins, whom she was unaware lived nearby, and is rescued from danger by a young miner named Curdie. One day while exploring her castle home, Princess Irene finds a secret stairway in the castle, discovers her great-great-grandmother living in a secret chamber, and is introduced to a new magical world. It is the story of the young and lonely Princess Irene who lives in a large castle in a desolate land with only her nursemaid for company. First published in 1872 by the famed and beloved Scottish author George MacDonald, “The Princess and the Goblin” is a classic and widely influential children’s fantasy novel. ![]() |