![]() Most people believe the remnants of present-day building and technology were left by "the Elves" (actually present-day humans). After a cataclysm of some kind, society has regressed to a medieval-equivalent. SPOILER The trilogy is set in what is at first glance a Viking like epic fantasy world, but is slowly revealed to be a post-apocalyptic Scandinavia in the far future. Will the usurped become the usurper? But even with loyal friends at his side, Yarvi finds his path may end as it began-in twists, and traps, and tragedy. 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. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge. The deceived will become the deceiver. Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. And he must do it all with only one good hand. But first he must survive cruelty, chains, and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea. Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. ![]() ![]() The story deals with the coming of age of Yarvi, a not-so-well-loved prince of Gettland with a crippled hand. Half a King is the first book of the Shattered Sea series, a trilogy written by British author Joe Abercrombie. I may be half a man, but I swore a whole oath. I swore an oath to avenge the death of my father. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Of course, love bargains are a tricky thing, and these two have a long, perilous journey ahead of them-that is, if they don’t kill each other first. To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch the dark witch responsible for creating the plague, then Wren will give Tamsin her love for her father. Adrienne is represented by Jim McCarthy of Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret. In addition to writing novels, she is a singer/songwriter who has released four indie-folk EPs. When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren’s father falls victim. She’s the author of The Third Daughter the Kids’ Indie Next Pick Sofi and the Bone Song and Sweet & Bitter Magic. Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren-the only caretaker to her ailing father-has spent her life hiding her secret. Wren is a source-a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself. The only way she can get those feelings back-even for just a little while-is to steal love from others. A única maneira de ela ter esses sentimentos de volta - mesmo que por pouco tempo - é roubando o amor dos outros. ![]() ![]() Mas depois de cometer o pior pecado mágico, ela é exilada pelo Coven governante e amaldiçoada com a incapacidade de amar. But after committing the worst magical sin, she’s exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. Tamsin é a bruxa mais poderosa de sua geração. Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. In this charming debut fantasy perfect for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Girls of Paper and Fire, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, and the two strike a dangerous bargain to save their queendom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Three of Le Guin's titles have been finalists for The American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are a National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, and The Margaret A. We'll help you figure out where to start. She is the author of the bestselling and award winning CATWINGS series. If you want to celebrate this legend's birthday, pick up a copy of one of her books at your library. ![]() You don’t have to be a hardcore fantasy fan to appreciate the beauty of Le Guin's writing, her wonderful storytelling, or the vivid fictional worlds she creates. If you've never read Le Guin before, you're missing out on some great literature. Her masterful storytelling, which weaves together anthropology, issues of gender identity and sexuality, high fantasy, and sci-fi, has made her an American legend in literary fiction. Over the course of her 40-year career, she published dozens of novels, collections of short stories, essays, and volumes of poetry to critical acclaim won the Hugo, Nebula, PEN-Malamud, and National Book Award and pushed the boundaries of science fiction. Le Guin (1929-2018), one of the most well-known and popular science fiction and fantasy authors of all time, was born on October 21, 1929, in Berkeley, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein was a fascinating read, and one that is significantly adding to my TBR pile-with nonfiction, for a change! (Lots of great suggestions in the author's note at the end-thanks, Ms. Maric a great tribute by telling the story of her inspiring accomplishments instead of creating a work that is total fiction. Benedict did not need to "make up ideas" about what happened (the idea for which the book is based has been proven untrue). Benedict's disregard for the facts over and over in this story made it difficult for me. In the book she leads us to believe that Albert Einstein showed no interest in his first child, But if you read his letter dates he states "what kind of little eyes does she have? Whom of us two does she resemble more? Who is giving her milk? Is she hungry? I love her so much & I don't even know her yet! Couldn't she be photographed once you are totally healthy again?." Those are not the word of a man who is bitter for having fathered a child. If you follow the author's instructions and look up the Einstein papers at Princeton you will find the that the author has reinvented history to match what she would like it to be and not as it was. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have never read this book, go check your classroom library, you just might have a copy (or two). ![]() It is one that I read every year and I will definitely revisit it multiple times throughout the year in both reading and writing. I have been able to pull out and extract so many reading and writing mini-lessons using this text. There is something so special about introducing kids to a wonderful text for the very first time. This means I get to be the one to share a really wonderful story with them. It has typically been a book that my students have never heard before. My favorite mentor text is Owl Moon by Jane Yolen. I want to share my all time favorite mentor text with you and give you 3 different reading mini-lessons you can teach using this book. The reality of it is, teachers have sooooo much to do that it can be hard to read every single book before every single mini-lesson. ![]() Sad to say that during my first few years teaching that’s how I approached preparing for my mini-lessons. Have you ever sat down for your reading mini-lesson, grabbed a random book of your library shelf and hoped to be able to extract something meaningful to teach your students? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of Noah’s friends called her Mrs K, so I’ll stick with that. Noah’s mom has a name, which eludes me right now. DisabilityĪ Merry Little Meet Cute has at least one identifiably disabled character: Noah’s mother has bipolar disorder*. Hopeflix has a “morality” clause in all contracts so nothing could possibly go wrong after this meet cute. His Hopeflix director chooses Bee – Bianca – after seeing a headshot. Teddy has everything lined up then an oversized wooden tusk falls on the leading lady and several crew members. Bianca’s porn producer, Teddy, tries to go mainstream by making a movie for Hopeflix (aka Hallmark?). Then Noah’s secret passion, his self-care during hard times, was to watch HIS crush, Bianca. That girl became a porn star called Bianca von Honey. Once upon a time a teenage girl, Bee, had a crush on a boy in a boy band, Noah. ![]() ![]() ![]() All have tales included, and you can see that a writer's position on the ladder of literary achievement is no guarantee of his success at penning a satisfying Sherlockian parody or pastiche. Wodehouse, Anthony Burgess, Kingsley Amis, Stephen King, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman. Among the bookstore brand names who have tried their hand at channeling the Baker Street sleuth: P.G. ![]() ![]() ![]() (By the way, have you met Sheerluck Combs? Shamrock Jolnes? Hemlock Jones? Holmlock Shears? They're all here, and more.)Īnother lesson is how illustrious the ranks of the literary Holmes-bodies are. Editor Otto Penzler has included spoofs of Doyle's detective from as early as the 1890s and 1900s, and from the likes of James M. That's one of the lessons gleaned from this stupendous collection of tales starring Sherlock and his many clones. The Great Detective is such an inspired creation – his phenomenal attention to detail and deductive faculties so highly developed as to make Holmes mythic – that he's drawn others to write about him, whether continuing his adventures or lampooning them, since about a minute after A Study in Scarlet hit print. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the shade of Arthur Conan Doyle (ardent spiritualist that he was, he's bound to survive on some astral plane) must be the most flattered soul in the afterlife. The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories Edited by Otto Penzler ![]() ![]() ![]() Clapton's last name comes from his grandfather, Patricia's father, Reginald Cecil Clapton.Ĭlapton grew up in a very musical household. Although they never legally adopted him, Clapton grew up under the impression that his grandparents were his parents and that his mother was his older sister. ![]() Fryer returned to Canada, where he was already married to another woman, before Clapton's birth.Īs a single teenage mother, Patricia Clapton was unprepared to raise a child on her own, so her mother and stepfather, Rose and Jack Clapp, raised Clapton as their own. Clapton's mother, Patricia Molly Clapton, was only 16 years old at the time of his birth his father, Edward Walter Fryer, was a 24-year-old Canadian soldier stationed in the United Kingdom during World War II. Considered one of the greatest rock 'n' roll guitarists of all time, he is known for such classic songs as "Layla," "Crossroads" and "Wonderful Tonight."Įric Patrick Clapton was born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England. ![]() Eric Clapton was a prominent member of The Yardbirds and Cream before achieving success as a solo artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once you get to the why, the story has to widen and tighten at the same time: to the long duree of urban development, or the microscopic tight focus of bacterial life cycles, These are causes, too. You can tell the story of the Broad Street outbreak on the scale of a few human human lives, people drinking water from the a pump, getting sick and dying over a few weeks, but in telling the story that way, you limit its perspective, limits its ability to convey a fair account of what really happened. The clash of microbe and man that played out on Broad Street for ten days in 1854 was itself partly a consequence of each of these trends, though the chains of cause and effect played out on different scales of experience, both temporal and spatial. Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of twelve books, including Enemy of All Mankind, Farsighted, Wonderland, How We Got to Now, Where Good Ideas Come From, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, and Everything Bad Is Good for You. “2Do not mistake these multiple trends-the energy flows of metropolitan growth, the new taste for tea, the nascent, half-formed awareness of mass behavior-for mere historical background. ![]() ![]() With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves. He's alive, and he's been trying all these years to come home to her. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma's second chance at happiness. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. ![]() ![]() Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Named a Best Book of Summer by Cosmopolitan * InStyle * Redbook * Us Weekly * PopSugar * Buzzfeed * Bustle * Brit+Co * Parade "No one does life and love better." -InStyle "Earth-shaking.you will flip for this epic love story." -Cosmopolitan "Reid's heartwrenching tale asks if it's possible to have multiple soul mates." -Us WeeklyFrom the author of Maybe in Another Life-named a People Magazine pick-comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life. ![]() |