Shifting shadows by patricia briggs5/10/2023 ![]() It included history in a world-building sense, also. Silver – This was a great story to have as it gave us the history of Samuel and Ariana.Which apparently is pretty much all of them! ![]() Here are few brief thoughts on my favorites. There were also two outtakes, one from Silver Borne and one from Night Broken. The short stories included are: Silver, Fairy Gifts, Gray, Seeing Eye, Alpha and Omega, The Star of David, Roses in Winter, In Red with Pearls, Redemption, and Hollow. Patricia Briggs is a talented and engaging writer and I always have enjoyed everything of hers I have read. ![]() SHIFTING SHADOWS is a short story anthology in the world of Mercy Thompson and includes the world of Charles & Anna. Mercy Thompson’s world just got a whole lot bigger…Ī collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, “one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today” (Fiction Vixen Book Reviews), and the characters she calls friends… This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ![]()
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How everything can collapse5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Diversity, community, and opportunity draw restless youth to urban centers. Today Americans willingly move to big cities. The transition from sedentism to domestication took at least four thousand years. In his fascinating new book, Against the Grain, the Yale professor concurs with Tudge’s assessment: our ancestors did not submit readily to the state. Political scientist and anthropologist James C Scott is the latest to take a stab at this agriculture myth. People did not invent agriculture and shout for joy they drifted or were forced into it, protesting all the way. The changes of the Neolithic Revolution were not really revolutionary, but merely a consolidation of established trends. ![]() He dated porto-farmers back forty thousand years, into the late Paleolithic: ![]() In 1998 British science writer Colin Tudge tore apart the notion of a sudden appearance of agriculture. The reasons for pretty much everything are complex. History has never been neatly wrapped up in a tidy bundle. Humans have short memories and long for fantasy. Sure, a few tribes resisted, but the urban life that grain and livestock provided proved too seductive. ![]() About 10,000 years ago a group figured out agriculture, settled down in the Fertile Crescent, and the seeds of industrial farms were planted. For 250,000 years humans were hunters and gatherers. ![]() Dune messiah sparknotes5/9/2023 ![]() Leto Atreides, along with soldier Gurney Halleck and mentat Thufir Hawat, receive an imperial envoy who formalizes the awarding of Arrakis to House Atreides. Spice is necessary for interstellar travel since it makes possible the expanded consciousness of the navigators who plot faster than light jumps, "folding" space time to travel instantly from one planet to another. It is the only source of the psychoactive spice, which extends life and perception. Paul learns about the planet Arrakis and its people. She tests Paul by having him try to compel her to pass him a glass of water. A member of the quasi-religious order of the Bene Gesserit, Jessica has been trying to teach her son the special powers of her order. On the planet Caladan, Paul Atreides eats breakfast with his mother, Lady Jessica, Duke Leto's concubine. Chani wonders who the new rulers will be. Recently, however, the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV has ordered the Harkonnens to leave Arrakis. The Fremen have been trying to expel the Harkonnens, but to no avail. ![]() ![]() She explains that since before she was born the planet has been ruled by the cruel Harkonnens who have grown enormously rich harvesting the psychogenic substance "melange" also known as the spice. The story opens with a woman telling a portion of her people's history on the desert planet, Arrakis. ![]() Half bad half wild5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() and Penguin Australia will publish it simultaneously. Viking will release the book on March 4 with a 200,000-copy first printing, and Puffin U.K. White witches are good, black witches are evil, and 16-year-old Nathan – who is half and half – is caught in the middle and hunted by both sides. ![]() The trilogy is set in an alternate modern-day England where witches live alongside humans. To date, the book has been sold to publishers in 42 countries. Her novel, Half Bad, book one of a trilogy, was snatched up by publishers in several countries within days of submission, and she scored a movie deal not long thereafter. After a career in finance and a stint as full-time mother, she took a stab at writing and seems to have hit the mark. ![]() British novelist Sally Green’s publishing saga will inspire veteran and aspiring authors alike. ![]() If i were you book leslie margolis5/9/2023 ![]() Middle school angst tempered by humorous insights." - Kirkus Reviews "The strongest chapters are the lively accounts of how Pixie and Dan organize and run parties without Mom. Sweet, brave, and laugh-out-loud funny, We Are Party People by Leslie Margolis is a story of quiet triumph. How far is she willing to go to help the people she loves? When her mom leaves town indefinitely and her new friend Sophie decides to run for class president, Pixie finds herself way too close to the spotlight. ![]() They thrive on attention, love being experts in fun, and throw themselves into party personas, dressing as pirates, princes, mermaids, and more. Meanwhile, her parents own the best party-planning business in town. All she wants is to survive middle school without being noticed. ![]() Shy and quiet, Pixie Jones does everything she can to fade into the background. "I am the opposite of a mermaid and that's exactly the way I like it." ![]() In this middle-grade contemporary novel, a shy girl with party-planner parents learns that stepping out of her comfort zone might not be so scary after all. ![]() Scrivener by Ana Maria Trigo5/9/2023 ![]() Windows version is objectively inferior to Mac versionīottom Line: For a long time, Scrivener was my go-to writing software, and it is still a good option for most writers.Formatting tools are far too complicated.No real-time collaboration or co-author functionality.Cannot open DOC files or ODT files (though Scrivener does import DOCX files).It can be complicated to learn all of Scrivener’s many useful features.Offers a full 30-day free trial that only counts the days you actually open Scrivener.More affordable than comparable writing software.Can export (or “compile”) projects as EPUB, MOBI, PDF, RTF, RTFD, DOC, DOCX, OTD, HTML, TXT, or even FDX, MD, and FOUNTAIN files.Comments, footnotes, annotations, and synopses simplify keeping track of your stream-of-consciousness brainstorming. ![]() ![]() Templates to fit your writing needs (fiction, nonfiction, screenplay, poem, essay, etc.). ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. ![]() Cryoburn5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Read & Ride: Magical Horses was illustrated by Liz Mytinger. That’s Not My Pony from Usborne Books features a simple repeating text, as well as colorful illustrations featuring different touch and feel textures. ![]() The simple text includes fun noises and a repeating structure that kids will love. This board book follows a horse at a farm as he offers rides to all of the barnyard animals. Board Books about horsesĬlip-Clop was written by Nicola Smee. This Printable Reading Log Template is a great way to track the books as well. Learning about horses and reading about them is so much fun! Pick one or two of these children’s books about horses and have fun! These are some of our favorite books about horses. Make certain to check out our 20 Zoo Books for Kids as well! Check out this list of children’s books about horses to inspire your child’s interest. ![]() ![]() Doesn’t every kid want a pony at some point in their life? Horses and horseback riding are a popular topic for young kids, so there are lots of fun books that highlight them. ![]() ![]() Interviewed by Alain Elkann in 2016, Richardson stated that he had reached 1939 and hoped to “go through the war”.Īt the opening of a Picasso show, Minotaurs and Matadors, that he curated at the Gagosian Gallery in London the following year, he said that he had received “a mass” of new papers: “It is a bit of a nightmare but I do my best to cope with it.”Īt least part of the reason for the gap of many years between volumes was because the fees to the Picasso estate for reproductions of his work were so high that Richardson was forced into writing volumes of memoirs to raise money. ![]() This left fully 41 years to cover in the fourth volume, originally due for publication in 2014 but still awaited, through the affair with Dora Maar, the painting of Guernica and Picasso’s death in 1973 after a fecund late period. ![]() |