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5/13/2023 0 Comments The unspoken name book 2And the worldbuilding itself! The writing! Literally everything about it! So gorgeous. It’s something like a cross between a fantasy and a space opera and I honestly have never loved a world more. But Sethennai is also looking for something more, something powerful. We follow Csorwe, who is to be the next sacrifice to a god, but decides instead to follow Sethennai, a mysterious magician, on his quest to return to his homeland. By which I mean, each part is kind of a story in itself but also progresses the narrative of the book as a whole. The Unspoken Name is sort of a story in three parts. You know when you finish a book and you have a lot of feelings and not a whole lot of words and so you think, I’ll just leave this review til I find the words, but then you never find them and you end up having to write a rambling review that’s basically just READ THIS BOOK a million times over? Yeah. Nothing in this world or any other deserves your fear. You have looked your foretold death in the face and turned from it in defiance. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Hooray for hat by brian wonOther books in the series include the recently published Hooray for Today! He lives with his family near Los Angeles. Hooray for Hat!, his picture book debut, was named a Huffington Post Best Picture Book and an NPR Best Book. "A lighthearted celebration of friendship and sharing." -School Library Journal "This lighthearted story revels in the small acts that make life better-cheers all around." -Kirkus "Won explores the way a simple gift and a little attention from friends can have nearly magical healing properties." -Publishers Weekly "A tip of the hat to this buoyant debut." -Booklist -īrian Won is an illustrator, author, and former animation artist. An irresistible celebration of friendship, sharing, and fabulous hats. Off they march to show Turtle! The parade continues as every animal brightens the day of a grumpy friend. Hooray! This "new" classic is now available in an affordable paperback edition.Įlephant wakes up grumpy-until ding, dong! What's in the surprise box at the front door? A hat! HOORAY FOR HAT! Elephant marches off to show Zebra, but Zebra is having a grumpy day, too-until Elephant shares his new hat and cheers up his friend. But after an amazing hat arrives on his doorstep, he discovers that the best cheer-up of all comes from sharing with friends. HOORAY FOR HAT by Brian Won illustrated by Brian Won Age Range: 3 - 7 BUY NOW FROM AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE LOCAL BOOKSELLER GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: KIRKUS REVIEW All the animals are grumpy until a surprise brightens their day in this tale about the joy of sharing. About the Book Harumph! Elephant is GRUMPY. “Let me make it categorically clear … Pakistan’s armed forces are ever ready, not only to defend every inch of our motherland, but to take the fight back to the enemy, if ever war is imposed on us,” said General Munir. “We have noticed highly irresponsible statements from the Indian leadership on Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir recently,” the ISPR quoted him as saying. This was the new army chief’s first official activity, which was shared by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) along with the usual television footage and a photograph. On December 1, just two days after assuming the command of the Pakistan Army, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir visited the frontline troops in the Rakhchikri Sector of the Line of Control in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. Then again, if that dragon turns out to be a sexy alpha male maybe her adventure into the wilderness might not be that bad.īook Three of the Captured by a Dragon-Shifter series, a dragon shapeshifter fantasy/sci fi romance from NY Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Michelle M. Lori Johnston's not sure which is scarier-being stranded on the Louisiana bayou at night surrounded by alligators or being rescued by a dragon. After sneaking through the royal portal, he knows he can never go home, but Earth women are not as easy to find as he expected. On his home planet, there is a shortage of females, and travel to Earth to look for brides has been reserved for the dragon princes. The bayou is about to get a whole lot hotter for Drake.Īlpha male dragon shifter, Drake, had all but given up on finding a mate until one practically falls into his lap. Welcome to the dangerous world of Qurilixen where dragon-shifters and cat-shifters rule as fiercely as they love. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Anna jarzab tandem book 3As time runs out, Sasha finds herself torn between two worlds, two lives, and two young men vying for her love – one who knows her secret, and one who thinks she's someone she's not. If Sasha succeeds in fooling everyone, she will be returned home if she fails, she'll be trapped in another girl's life forever. To prevent imminent war, Sasha must slip into the life of an alternate version of herself, a princess who has vanished on the eve of her arranged marriage. Sasha never believed such worlds were real – until now, when she finds herself thrust into one against her will. When she was young, she loved her grandfather's stories of parallel worlds inhabited by girls who looked like her but led totally different lives. Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. Fans of Matched, Across the Universe, and The Hunger Games will love this captivating tale of rebellion and romance that spans parallel worlds. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Mad for the Plaid by Karen HawkinsWhen Nikolai Romanovin, Royal Prince of Oxenburg, receives the news that his grandmother has disappeared, he wastes no time in travelling into the deepest wilds of Scotland to find her. However, it is the attraction he stirs within her that affects her more. But there is something not quite right about the groom who accompanies the prince’s men. So she is surprised when his men arrive, informing her that the prince is at home in his sickbed, and they have come to assist in finding the prince’s grandmother. She has a plan in place and though she sent a note to the duchess’ grandson, the Prince of Oxenburg, she expects no help from that quarter. Alisa will do whatever it takes to get them back. Finding their abandoned coach and a bit of blood makes her fear for their safety. Her grandmother’s guest, the Grand Duchess of Oxenburg, along with their neighbor, Lord Hamilton, disappeared after leaving Castle Leod for his home, Caskill House, and never arrived there. She has worked hard to gain the respect of her people, but now she faces a huge challenge. In her father’s absence, Alisa MacKenzie is left in charge of the family estate. The next day Don and I set out for the Mori Art Museum in the Roppongi neighbourhood. There were beautiful store fronts and a l-o-n-g line at the Apple store!! (As always, if there’s a photo you want to see in closer detail, just click on it for full screen viewing.) Our hotel, the Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza, was about a 20-minute walk to that of Warren and Maureen so, after breakfast, we started out to walk to their hotel along the main shopping street, Chuo Dori, of Ginza’s high-end shops. Don and I settled in, had dinner in our hotel restaurant, and slept for over 12 hours!! We were ready to explore the city of Tokyo! A group shuttle took us to our different hotels. We flew to Tokyo, along with the whole Spitz family, arriving on Thursday, September 26th. To that end, a traditional Ryokan was booked in Shuzenji, for the group of 34, for the 3 nights of October 1st to 3rd.īecause it’s rather a long way to go for just 3 days, most of the group extended their stays before and/or after the wedding celebration days. Mathew and Jen love Japan, and wanted to share that love with those close to them, culminating in their wedding ceremony and reception. We were honoured to be invited by our very good friends, Warren and Maureen Spitz, to join a small group of family and friends in Japan, for the 3-day wedding celebration of their son and his fiance. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Shelter in place by nora robertsIts such a tragedy and to see how it affects the survivors over a number of years is stunning. You see how it affects so many people-the young teen who makes the first 911 call, the college boy home for the summer who saves a little boy, the first cop on the scene who takes down one of the shooters, the families, and so many others. In this book, she starts off with a mass casualty event. Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts is the type of story that I just adore. And as the survivors slowly heal, find shelter, and rebuild, they will discover that another conspirator is lying in wait - and this time, there might be nowhere safe to hide. Another would close herself off, trying to bury the memory of huddling in a ladies' room, hopelessly clutching her cell phone - until she finally found a way to pour her emotions into her art.īut one person wasn't satisfied with the shockingly high death toll at the DownEast Mall. In the years that followed, one would dedicate himself to a law enforcement career. But for those who lived through it, the effects would last forever. The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers were taken down. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tending to customers. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes Shelter in Place - a powerful tale of heart, heroism. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Madhouse at the end of earthOnly Cook spoke English so the journey did not generate many first-person English-language accounts. There are several reasons it has been overlooked, Sancton says. It has all now been gloriously recounted in Julian Sancton’s “Madhouse at the End of the Earth.” The ship even featured Amundsen as a young first mate and Cook as the ship’s doctor becoming fast friends and frequently staving off disaster. The ship, under the command of Belgian explorer Adrien De Gerlache, got stuck in the ice, leading to madness, death and the narrowest of great escapes. Yet there’s a story that has been largely neglected about a ship called The Belgica that predated all the most famous journeys. Stories have been told and re-told about these famed explorers: Robert Falcon Scott’s fatally flawed decision-making, Roald Amundsen’s savvy planning and endless fortitude, Ernest Shackleton’s steadfast, heroic leadership, and Frederick Cook’s scandalous frauds. The early years of the 20 th century were the glory days of polar exploration as adventurers sought to create their own legends by racing across the Arctic and Antarctica while striving to reach the North and South Pole. |