![]() ![]() ![]() As June plunges deeper into their world, her choices will ultimately determine their survival or extermination. The Clockwork Dynasty seamlessly interweaves past and present, exploring a race of beings designed to live by ironclad principles, yet constantly searching for meaning. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries. ![]() Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time, possessed with uncanny power, and destined to serve great empires. ![]() Russia, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin, the tsar’s loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past… Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. It reads like classic steampunk on steroids." -Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player Two " fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator…. An ingenious thriller that follows a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries-from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Won Talento Plata (Silver Talent) in 2020 at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Second, as a crisis management consultant, it is my desire to help businesses and individuals on how to prepare and face crises when they come.īecoming a university lecturer at 32 years of age and winning the Talento Plata (Silver Talent) award after my first full year as faculty. First, as a history teacher, I aim to inspire students to understand that a knowledge of the past is key to comprehending our future. It is my objective to remedy that situation.Īpart from this, I have a two-fold career goal. The current historiography does not have many resources aiming towards this goal. Over the past 5 years I have been involved in the research of linking the history of Asia and Latin America, as I believe both areas of the world have similar cultural and political backgrounds. I am a historian and crisis management consultant with over 10 years of experience in bringing a new approach to the teaching and understanding of history. History Teachers, Postsecondary, Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other, Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education ![]() Maurizzio Zamudio Contact Maurizzio Zamudio ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the last 50 years, Jan Gehl has changed the way that we think about architecture and city planning – moving from the modernist separation of uses to a human-scale approach inviting people to use their cities.Īt a time when growing numbers are populating cities, planning urban spaces to be humane, safe, and open to all is ever-more critical. In a recently published autobiography ‘People Cities The Life and Legacy of Jan Gehl’, the authors Peter Newman and Annie Matan explain how Jan Gehl believes good architecture is not about form, but about the interaction between form and life. ![]() “A good city is like a good party – you stay for longer than you plan,” says Danish architect Jan Gehl. In this interview 1, he talks about the joys and challenges of creating people-friendly cities. Over the last 50 years, Danish architect Jan Gehl has changed the way that we think about architecture and city planning, moving from the modernist separation of uses to a human-scale approach inviting people to use their cities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her debut series, the Books of Faerie, is published by Flux. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL SHIVER About the Author(s)Īfter a tumultuous past as a history major, calligraphy instructor, wedding musician, technical editor, and equestrian artist, Maggie Stiefvater is now a full-time writer and New York Times bestselling author of the Shiver trilogy, The Scorpio Races, and The Raven Boys. Lament is a dark faerie fantasy that features authentic Celtic faerie lore, plus cover art and interior illustrations by acclaimed faerie artist Julia Jeffrey. Deirdre had been wishing her life weren’t so dull, but getting trapped in the middle of a centuries-old faerie war isn’t exactly what she had in mind. ![]() Caught in the crossfire with Deirdre is James, her wisecracking but loyal best friend. Namely, kill Deirdre before her music captures the attention of the Fae and threatens the Queen’s sovereignty. Sworn enemies, Luke and Aodhan each have a deadly assignment from the Faerie Queen. An equally hunky-and equally dangerous-dark faerie soldier named Aodhan is also stalking Deirdre. Trouble is, the enigmatic and gorgeous Luke turns out to be a gallowglass-a soulless faerie assassin. Deirdre finds herself infatuated with a mysterious boy who enters her ordinary suburban life, seemingly out of thin air. She’s about to find out she’s also a cloverhand-one who can see faeries. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a painfully shy but prodigiously gifted musician. ![]() ![]() It is a unique document, unparalleled in American Indian literature, a story of death, of determination against all odds, of the cruelties perpetuated against American Indians, and of the Native American struggle for rights. Originally published in 1990, Lakota Woman was a national best seller and winner of the American Book Award. ![]() Mary eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the American Indian Movement's chief medicine man, who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies. Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. ![]() ![]() As she grows she only becomes more beautiful - for she is bright and meek and kind as well.īut the king gives no heed, much less love, to his daughters. Orual has learned from their Greek slave/tutor that Istra means Psyche in Greek. Orual takes it upon herself to become the baby's new mother. But this young mother, dying at delivery, produces only another baby girl. The king marries another wife for another political link but more so for a son. The older daughter, Orual, is but a child observing. There are two daughters of a mean old king in a barely civilized fictitious land. He has altered it and added to it - for the better! Don't misalign your expectations for this book which stands on its own very well. ![]() Don't read it before you take in the real text. But it is for good reason that it is at the end. But the very few extras that I have glimpsed are only a beginning to the layers and meanings and truths forged into this incredible tale.Ī hint and a warning: Lewis has added a bare two pages to tell us that the ancient Greek myth of Psyche was his inspiration - and he even gives us that story in a small nutshell. And I've only had a first reading of this story. ![]() Lewis is a not only a great storyteller but a great author. When I was in school I learned that great authors will put more in their stories than you read at first. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally posted on Tales to Tide You OverI read the first book in this series months ago, but the minute I saw the author in my NetGalley list, the strength of that story and characters came pouring back, making me eager to return to their world. When a powerful enemy steps from the shadows, Sebastian must choose: complete the mission and earn his place among the Unseelie who took him in, or risk his very life to ensure freedom for the man he loves. How he came to be the whipping boy of one of the most powerful and corrupt faeries in the Summer Court is a truth Sebastian is determined to uncover, even if it puts him at odds with the very people who can lead him to the missing Unseelie prince. And the more Duine helps Sebastian navigate Court life, the more it becomes clear the servant is not who he appears to be. A servant for whom Sebastian, an estranged Seelie royal himself, is developing a dangerous and deepening affection.īut behind the mask Duine wears are secrets as dangerous as what's smoldering between them. Sebastian's only hope of surviving the Court and bringing home Prince Lyne's traitorous brother lies with Duine, a magickless Unseelie servant desperate to win his freedom. ![]() The oppressed lower classes are drained of their magick, and around every corner political intrigues threaten an already unstable regime. The Summer Court is nothing like Sebastian remembers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was also a Book of the Month selection by author Megan Miranda. The novel was listed as one of Real Simple's "59 Best Books of 2021" and received positive reviews in The Concord Insider and Kirkus Reviews. ![]() Luke Speed of Curtis Brown Group and Josie Freeman of ICM Partners represented the rights to the book. Rock Paper Scissors was first published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins on August 19, 2021, and was published in the United States by Flatiron Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, on September 7, 2021. In April 2021, Netflix announced that it would be releasing a six-part series based on the novel, to be produced by Suzanne Mackie. The plot follows a couple in an unhappy marriage who take a weekend holiday to a repurposed chapel the Scottish countryside. Rock Paper Scissors is a 2021 psychological thriller novel by British author Alice Feeney. For the 2012 novel (translated 2015), see Naja Marie Aidt. This article is about the 2021 novel by Feeney. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So naturally he decides to come back, make his home there, and resume his relationship with her. But at times for me, she was just a character who was there, not one I was actively rooting formīut aside from that, still a good book and a nice conclusion to the Three Sisters Island trilogy.which is my favorite of all Nora's trilogies.Įleven years ago, 20-year-old Sam Logan dumped 19-year-old Mia Devlin because he felt "trapped" by her love and life on the New England island where they grew up. Maybe it was her attitude and arrogance.I'm not sure. ![]() I just didn't like her as much as the other characters. The other thing that kept me from really loving the book was Mia herself. I would have liked to see Mia soften toward him a little more before the end. She sleeps with him, does things with him, but she's constantly saying "I'll never risk my heart again" and saying it's just sex and fun. Their romance just has this rather cold vibe. The abrupt change in her feelings came off a little.weird for me. ![]() Mia keeps her heart locked away from Sam for the whole book (with good reason mostly) then at the end, she's suddenly like, okay, I accept you and your love. What I didn't particularly like about the book was the romance between Mia and Sam. I liked the plot as it dealt with resolving the threat to the island and beating the evil. While I still liked this book, it was my least favorite of the Three Sisters Island trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, selling fifteen million copies worldwide, many of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, and was made into two hit movies by Disney. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses. ![]() After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby-writing novels-for emotional succor. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse - at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels). ![]() |