![]() The two embark on a wild and dangerous journey with a bag of books and their favorite albums, all the while creating a story and a song of their own that just might save them both. 'The Sound of Stars is a marvelous genre-bending debut.' -The Nerd Daily 'The Sound of Stars is a stunning exploration of the comforts that make us human and the horrors that challenge our humanity.'-K. Humanity’s fate rests in the hands of an alien Ellie should fear, but M0Rr1S has a potential solution-thousands of miles away. The trouble is, he finds himself drawn to human music and in desperate need of more. When young Ilori commander M0Rr1S finds Ellie’s library, he’s duty-bound to deliver her for execution. Music, art and books are illegal, but Ellie still keeps a secret library. With humans deemed dangerously volatile because of their initial reaction to the invasion, emotional expression can be grounds for execution. ![]() ![]() Today, seventeen-year-old Ellie Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City. Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world’s population. Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves pop music work together to save humanity? A beautiful and thrilling debut novel for fans of Marie Lu and Veronica Roth. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() At the age of 27 she realized that she still loved well-written children’s books of all kinds, from picture books to young adult novels. Karma never considered writing as a profession because her mother was a professional writer which made it seem like mundane work. Lewis, Terry Brooks, etc…) and historical fiction (L.M. Her reading preferences were fantasy (C.S. She was even known to try to read while riding her bike down dirt roads, which she does not recommend as it is hazardous to the general well being of the bike, the rider, and more importantly the book. Playing outdoors was fun, but reading was Karma’s “first love” and, by the age 11, she was devouring about a novel a day. ![]() Karma did the only sensible thing a lonely little girl could do…she read or played outdoors. TV reception was limited to 3 channels, of which one came in with some clarity. Way back then (just past the stone age and somewhat before the era of computers) there was no cable TV and if there had been Karma could not have recieved it. Karma Wilson grew up an only child of a single mother in the wilds of North Idaho. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, what I love most about this book is the way that all of the characters completely enjoy themselves, no matter what they are doing. Enright's book won the Newbery Honor in 1958 and, while there are a few dated aspects to the book, really just the slangy dialogue that the two main characters use with each other and a continual reference to the love women have for curtains, Gone Away Lake is so completely charming and utterly engrossing that it seems timeless. I had heard of Enright and her award winning books before, but Heather's mention of them (and the great new covers by Mary Grand Pré) inspired me to buy them and read them this summer and they now rank among my favorites. Before I begin my review, I need to thank long-time reader of my blog, Heather aka Proud Mama for mentioning Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright in a comment on my article How to Choose Age Appropriate Books for Advanced Readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Incredible Hulk by Peter David Omnibus Volume 2 (last available in 2020) continues with The Incredible Hulk #369-400, Incredible Hulk Annual #16-18, X-Factor #76, and the Hulk story from Marvel Holiday Special 1993. The second Omnibus collection of Peter David’s “Incredible” 12 year run on Marvel’s monthly Hulk comic returns to stores this January. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In assessing a deficiency in her estate tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service argued (successfully) that Virginia Andrews's name was a valuable commercial asset, the value of which should be included in her gross estate. Her novels were successful enough that following Andrews's death, her estate hired a ghost writer, Andrew Neiderman, to continue to write novels to be published under her name. Her best-known novel is the bestseller Flowers in the Attic (1979), a tale of four children smuggled into the attic of their wealthy estranged pious grandmother, and held prisoner there by their mother. Andrews, was an American novelist.Īndrews's novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love (frequently involving themes of horrific events, and sometimes including a rags-to-riches story). Cleo Virginia Andrews (J– December 19, 1986), better known as V. ![]() ![]() ![]() Traditionally, the press has published substantial trade books, but the line of publications is not limited to that genre. Where regions abroad are treated, either for comparison or because of ties to those North American regions of primary concern to the Institute, the linkages should be made plain. In some, fewer instances the regional connection is one of service to a regional organization. Such works contribute to scholarly knowledge of region (that is, discovery of new knowledge) or to public consciousness of region (that is, dissemination of information, or interpretation of regional experience). ![]() Generally, works published by the press address regional life directly, as the subject of study. The scope is defined, however, by a regional focus in accord with the press's mission. ![]() The press considers manuscripts in any field of learning. The scope of NDSU Press publications is not limited by topic or discipline. Good regional scholarship is shaped by national and international events, and by comparative studies. These regions include the Red River Valley, the State of North Dakota, the plains of North America (comprising both the Great Plains of the United States and Prairies of Canada), and comparable regions of other continents. ![]() We publish works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.įounded at North Dakota State University in 1950, NDSU Press exists to stimulate, coordinate, and publish interdisciplinary regional scholarship. NDSU Press gives voice to the prairies and plains. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Crockford finally digs through the steaming pile of good intentions and blunders to give you a detailed look at all the genuinely elegant parts of JavaScript, including:SyntaxObjectsFunctionsInheritanceArraysRegular expressionsMethodsStyleBeautiful featuresThe real beauty? As you move ahead with the subset of JavaScript that this book presents, you'll also sidestep the need to unlearn all the bad parts. Unfortunately, these good ideas are mixed in with bad and downright awful ideas, like a programming model based on global variables.When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of the Web by default, making its popularity almost completely independent of its qualities as a programming language. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code.Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. ![]() ![]() I prefer to embrace the evidence indicating that dreams help us solve problems from our waking lives. Leftover Freudians still see them as messages from the unconscious while some pragmatists dismiss them as the waste product of REM sleep. Its passage on the possible links between exposure to artificial light and the higher rates of diseases among night-shift workers proves “as stimulating as a double shot of espresso.” Also fascinating is his tour through the debate over dreams. Still, Dreamland offers an eye-opening fact on nearly every page. Randall’s style “sometimes veers toward the glib,” said Maureen Corrigan in NPR.org. ![]() ![]() “We don’t know as much about it as we should, or could.” Always, Randall reminds us that science hasn’t unraveled many of sleep’s mysteries. Turning to sleepwalking, he details how it could be possible that a Toronto man killed his mother-in-law while somnambulating. Writing about circadian rhythms, he notes that the NFL has found that East Coast teams lose a disproportionate share of night games to West Coast teams, most likely because the bodies of the first group are winding down while their counterparts’ are experiencing a second wind. Contemplating sleep deprivation, he cites Army studies showing that soldiers in Iraq were five times more likely to clash with civilians when they got less than four hours of shut-eye. The “inventive angles” he dreams up greatly enliven the journey, said Laura Miller in. ![]() ![]() ![]() The portrayal of Mary, Bysshe, and Jane are all extremely unlikeable. It often felt like I had whiplash trying to keep up with the rapid-fire PoV changes. ![]() I thought a novel about Mary Shelley and the creation of Frankenstein would be told from Mary's point of view strictly, however, the book is third-person omniscient, leaving no thought by any character untold. It felt extremely clunky to read and had no real flow. This is something I can overlook, but even flashbacks were written in the present tense which made things so confusing that I often had to turn back and reread what I had just read in order to make sense of what was going on in the novel. The whole book is written in the present tense. Unfortunately Monsters: The passion and loss that created Frankenstein fell completely flat in its retelling. Frankenstein is one of my favorite classic novels and a chance to learn about Mary Shelley's life, even if a fictional retelling appealed to me. This retelling recounts their journies across Europe and back, children being born, loss, love, and Mary's writing of Frankenstein. Mary, backed by the feminist ideas by her late mother, found Bysshe's way of thinking fascinating and she and Jane decide to join him in creating a community for those who want to follow the ideas of free love. Monsters by Sharon Dogar is a retelling of the life shared by Mary Shelley, Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Jane Godwin. ![]() ![]() ![]() These are the stories of the famous wolves such as 21M, 302M, '06 Female, the Canyon Alpha Female and many more. For each wolf that has been radio-collared in Yellowstone, there is a written story describing what is known about its life. Annual charts and intra-annual charts were produced each year as a scorecard for visitors arriving in Yellowstone so that they could perhaps see and enjoy knowing the wolves in the wild. The charts show wolf families including their members and pictures of many individual wolves. ![]() Contained within the book are all the colour annual charts from the beginning. The book is a genealogical record with written narratives for each wolf. This book honours the wolves by their individual stories and documenting their family trees starting in Canada. January 12, 2020, marked the 25th anniversary of the first wolf arriving in Yellowstone National Park. The successful reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone was the greatest wildlife experiment of the 20th century. ![]() |