5/30/2023 0 Comments Ac the secret crusade![]() ![]() Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist. Ordered 3 books & they came to me promptlyin very good condtion Read full. So far this book has been very interesting and I am enjoying the story so. To demonstrate his commitment, Altair must defeat nine deadly enemies, including Templar leader, Robert de Sable.Īltair's life story is told here for the first time: a journey that will change the course of history his ongoing battle with the Templar conspiracy a family life that is as tragic as it is shocking and the ultimate betrayal of an old friend.Īssassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Assassins Creed: The Secret Crusade by Oliver Bowden and published by Penguin Books. Niccolo Polo, father of Marco, will finally reveal the story he has kept secret all his life - the story of Altair, one of the brotherhood's most extraordinary Assassins.Īltair embarks on a formidable mission - one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin's Creed. ![]() Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. Altars eyes flicked to the deck of the main ship where Sibrand had heard the splash too, and was already beginning to panic. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Chopsticks book jessica anthony![]() ![]() Teetering on the edge of madness, Gloria must finally face the fact she hasn’t been entirely truthful to herself about the role Frank has played in her life and his fate in her uncertain future. But Gloria’s homecoming isn’t at all what she imagined. ![]() Finally Gloria’s frustrated father is forced to bring her home, and the star crossed pair can’t wait to be reunited. Gloria and Frank correspond throughout the disastarous tour with IM and postcards, while Gloria’s performances continue to deteriorate. When Gloria’s father forces her to go on a European concert tour, the two are devastated, and Gloria rebels the only one she knows how–by turning each classic composition into a version of Chopsticks. ![]() ![]() Frank Mendoza is the impetuous young artist who moves in next door and sweeps Gloria off her feet with his sensuous drawings, paintings of flowers and romantic mix discs. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Fleming is a beautiful young piano prodigy who’s still mourning the death of her mother when she was ten and chafes under her widowed father’s strict rules. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar![]() I had never heard of Nell Gwyn since I had not read books from that time period of British history. When I first came across Exit the Actress, it was the blurb on the cover by Philippa Gregory that attracted me to the book. ![]() Telling the story through a collection of vibrant seventeenth-century voices ranging from Ellen's diary to playbills, letters, gossip columns, and home remedies, Priya Parmar brings to life the story of an endearing and delightful heroine.īeing a historical fiction fan, I am always on the look out for new books or new authors in this genre. Despite his reputation as a libertine, Ellen wholly captures his heart-and he hers-but even the most powerful love isn't enough to stave off the gossip and bitter court politics that accompany a royal romance. Ellen grows up on the stage, experiencing first love and heartbreak and eventually becoming the mistress of Charles II. ![]() Soon Ellen is dressed in the finest fashions, charming the theatrical, literary, and royal luminaries of Restoration England. ![]() As her roles evolve from supporting to starring, the scope of her life broadens as well. She quickly earns a place in the company, narrowly avoiding the life of prostitution to which her sister has already succumbed. While selling oranges in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, sweet and sprightly Ellen "Nell" Gwyn impresses the theater's proprietors with a wit and sparkle that belie her youth and poverty. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Half the World by Joe Abercrombie![]() ![]() ![]() But when she kills a boy in the training square she finds herself named a murderer.Fate places her life in the hands of the deep-cunning Father Yarvi as he sets out to cross half the world in search of allies against the ruthless High King.Beside her is Brand, a young warrior who hates to kill. Grabbed me and refused to let go George R.R. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge.Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, he finds they can do more to help him become the man he needs to be than any court of nobles could.But even with loyal friends at his side, Yarvis path may end as it began in twists, and traps and tragedy And he must do it all with only one good hand.Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea itself. MARTINPrince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. A classic coming-of-age tale set in a vivid and richly-imagined world from Sunday Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie.Grabbed me from page one and refused to let go GEORGE R.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first story, “Freedom of the Race” in science fiction plus was published in 1953. She also began her writing career in that same year. She married Wright Johnson in 1950 whom she had met in 1949. She graduated with a BA in 1947 from Radcliffe College. In 1944, she joined Radcliffe College where she studied cartography, Celtic Folldore, Chinese philosophers, English literature, Russian and Slavonic languages. She was a student at Stuart Hall Girls’ Boarding school I Virginia from 1942 to 1943. She is a complex figure who creates and recreates her fiction by drawing from life experiences. She was an author who depicted alien creatures and new worlds. She is best known for her science fiction series known as the Dragonriders of Pern. ![]() She was born on the 1st April 1926 and passed on on 21st November 2011. 33Īnne Inez McCaffrey was an American born Irish writer. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton The New Hugo Winners, 1983-1985 (By:Isaac Asimov,Martin H. The Hugo Winners: The Best of the Best Science Fiction, 1973 (By:Isaac Asimov) 2 (With: Isaac Asimov,Harlan Ellison,Larry Niven,Robert Silverberg,Poul Anderson,Jack Vance,Fritz Leiber) The Hugo Winners, 1968-1970 (By:Isaac Asimov) Stories from The Hugo Winners, 1962-1967 (By:Isaac Asimov) The Hugo Winners, 1955-1961 (By:Isaac Asimov,Robert Bloch) ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Airborn book series![]() ![]() ![]() Why did I read this book: I’ve heard nothing but praise for the works of Kenneth Oppel, and when looking for a new YA novel to read for Steampunk Week, Airborn was the clear choice. Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Matt Cruse trilogy In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist’s granddaughter that he realizes that the man’s ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is the life Matt’s always wanted convinced he’s lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there’d been no weather to speak of so far. Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow’s nest, being the ship’s eyes. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Cape may chip cheek![]() But after several days, the sad, lonely feel of the town starts to get to them. Sadly, the "old clerk at the grocer’s seemed as happy to see them as they were to see him." At least they have the delicious problem of losing their virginities, and then their inhibitions, with the help of Uncle George's well-stocked liquor cabinet. Unfortunately, Effie "had not understood what 'off-season' meant,” and Henry's no help-he's never been north of Atlanta. Henry and Effie got married a few months after high school graduation in their 1950s Georgia hometown and have come to while away two weeks in Effie's uncle's house, the site of fondly remembered summer visits all through her childhood. This young couple's September honeymoon in Cape May got so boring they almost went home early. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Casanegra by Blair Underwood![]() ![]() ![]() Harris in The New Adventures of Old Christine. ![]() In 2008, Underwood was seen in three high-profile television projects: he was a Golden Globe nominee for his performance as a Navy fighter pilot in HBO's critically acclaimed In Treatment he starred in the hit drama Dirty Sexy Money and he reprised his recurring role of Mr. Underwood has distinguished himself as an award-winning actor/director/producer, who continues to showcase his multitude of talents in the world of film, television, theater and literature. As he tries to do right by the public, he soon finds himself in the midst of a huge cover-up, and the target of a spectacular assassination attempt. Blair Underwood stars as President Elias Martinez, the recently elected President of the United States, who's stunned to learn that his own government is keeping secrets from him in NBC's new high-octane conspiracy thriller The Event. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. In a fierce introduction to “The Left Hand of Darkness,” Le Guin charmingly remarks, “A novelist’s business is lying.” She adumbrates: The protagonist, Shevek, in “The Dispossessed,” is far more interesting than anyone in the earlier book, and yet he and his story manifest something of the ambivalence of Le Guin’s subtitle: “An Ambiguous Utopia.” In one of her letters, Ursula remarked that writing “ The Dispossessed” was liberating for her, and she seemed to prefer it to “The Left Hand of Darkness.” Rereading both, I find myself torn between the two. ![]() Though I have written about “ The Left Hand of Darkness” before, in 1987 and again in 2000, I have forgotten what I said and do not want to consult it now, but, rather, make a fresh start on this marvellous romance. I hope, in tribute to her, that I live to edit her poems for the Library of America, thinking that she might have wanted me to do that. I replied after an interval, during which I was very ill, on January 23, 2018, not yet knowing that Ursula had died the day before. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The Way We Work by David Macaulay![]() ![]() Renowned for his ability to explain complex ideas with simple genius, Macaulay captures the oddball humor of his subject matter, making Mammoth Math the perfect introduction to math for the young and the young-at-heart.ĭavid Macaulay, co-creator of the international bestseller The Way Things Work, brings his signature curiosity and detailing to the story of the steamship in this meticulously researched and stunningly illustrated book. Following on from Mammoth Science is best-selling illustrator David Macaulay, whose How Machines Work won the Royal Society Young People''s Book Prize in 2016. From start to finish, let the mammoths be your guide as they seek to understand the math! These intrepid demonstrators will go to incredible lengths to educate and entertain, as they wrestle with adding or subtracting large numbers, measuring angles, reading 24-hour time, creating a pie chart, solving equations, and much more. In Mammoth Math, not only will you learn the essential principles of math, you''ll enjoy learning about them. ![]() From computer games to bridges, shopping malls to game shows, math is all around you if you look closely enough. David Macaulay''s troupe of curious mammoths lead you through the basics of numbers, geometry, measurement, and much more in this unconventional and highly original guide to math. An offbeat e-guide to math from award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay. ![]() |