![]() ![]() That is if she even makes it to her Ascension and Kolis doesn’t get to her first. And without Nyktos’s love-an emotion he’s incapable of feeling-she won’t survive her Ascension. ![]() The Primal power of Life is growing inside her, pushing her closer to the end of her Culling. ![]() The attacks on the Shadowlands are increasing, and when Kolis summons them to Court, a whole new risk becomes apparent. But memories of their shared pleasure and unrivaled desire are a siren’s call impossible to resist.Īnd as Sera begins to realize that she wants to be more than a Consort in name only, the danger surrounding them intensifies. ![]() Sera cannot afford to fall for the tortured Primal, not when a life no longer bound to a destiny she never wanted is more attainable than ever. Nyktos has a plan, though, and as they work together, the last thing they need is the undeniable, scorching passion that continues to ignite between them. She will do anything to end Kolis, the false King of Gods, and his tyrannical rule of Iliseeum, thus stopping the threat he poses to the mortal realm. Surrounded by those distrustful of her, all Sera has is her duty. The truth about Sera’s plan is out, shattering the fragile trust forged between her and Nyktos. The only one who can save Sera now is the one she spent her life planning to kill. Armentrout comes book two in her Flesh and Fire series… From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. ![]()
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![]() “The Push” begins with a prologue, in which an unidentified narrator, a woman, watches through the front window as a family enjoys the Christmas season. In brief, “The Push” is a stunning, compelling read, more than deserving of its pre-publication attention (and deals).Īs to what it’s about? Well, that’s a little more tricky. Now, a year and a half later, those questions can be answered. In an interview with the Star, Audrain - who started the novel while on maternity leave from her former position as publicity director for Penguin Books Canada - described “The Push” as “a psychological drama told through the lens of motherhood.” Several questions remained: what was “The Push” actually about? And, honestly, how was the book? ![]() ![]() In the summer of 2019, Toronto writer Ashley Audrain made headlines as rights to her novel “The Push” sold in almost two dozen countries in under two weeks, a nearly unprecedented success for a debut writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every midnight, on a forlorn stretch of heath, a phantom carriage reenacts its final, wild ride. ![]() ![]() In this vivid recollection of a magical time and place, water falls from the scullery pump “sparkling like liquid sky.” Autumn is more than a season-it is a land eternally aflame, like Moses’s burning bush. It was here, in a verdant valley tucked into the rolling hills of the Cotswolds, that Laurie Lee learned to look at life with a painter’s eye and a poet’s heart-qualities of vision that, decades later, would make him one of England’s most cherished authors. The cottage his mother had rented for three and sixpence a week had neither running water nor electricity, but it was surrounded by a lovely half-acre garden and, most importantly, it was big enough for the seven children in her care. Three years old and wrapped in a Union Jack to protect him from the sun, Laurie Lee arrived in the village of Slad in the final summer of the First World War. ![]() This international-bestselling memoir of childhood in post–World War I rural England is one of the most “remarkable” portraits of youth in all literature ( The New York Times). ![]() ![]() ![]() Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot. Kelsier recruited the underworld’s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. ![]() Kelsier “snapped” and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler’s most hellish prison. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity,” reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland? Mistborn For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. You can read this before The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) written by Brandon Sanderson which was published in ––. ![]() ![]() Brief Summary of Book: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) by Brandon Sanderson ![]() ![]() Skeptics lament black box algorithms driving fateful decisions about individuals’ credit, education and even liberty. Optimists portray AI as a silver bullet to problems ranging from national security and bank fraud to personalized healthcare and online content moderation. Everyone from academics in conferences to Hollywood producers is considering what the AI revolution means for technology, business and society. The profound policy implications of AI require legislators and regulators to inject laws and ethics into computer code, reversing Lessig’s maxim to position law as code. Systems rely on AI to detect credit card fraud, administer social benefits, enhance personalized medicine and even determine criminal sentencing. These days, the computer code that powers artificial intelligence (AI) is a salient example of Lessig’s statement. ![]() Twenty years have passed since renowned Harvard Professor Larry Lessig coined the phrase “Code is Law”, suggesting that in the digital age, computer code regulates behavior much like legislative code traditionally did. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Lev Grossman's The Magicians, only for horror instead of fantasy, the book examines the way we interact and fail to interact with each other, all bound together with genre delights that are mildly subverted even as they're adoringly celebrated.Įunice is the writer in her family, but Noah is Cosmology's focus and first-person narrator. ![]() It's a horror tale unafraid to tackle big issues of familial fealty, the architecture of fear, and the metaphysics of love, all while shocking the pants off the reader. That question lies at the heart of A Cosmology of Monsters, Shaun Hamill's debut novel. "How long until the world hollows me out?" Eunice Turner asks her younger brother Noah in one of her many letters to him - most of them suicide notes. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Cosmology of Monsters Author Shaun Hamill ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sale penciled the Shadows of the Bat arc “The Misfits” with writer Alan Grant, and worked with the equally celebrated artist Darwyn Cooke on the Superman Confidential storyline “Kryptonite.” ![]() Sale and Loeb also saw great acclaim with a number of other stories, from Challengers of the Unknown Must Die! and Superman For All Seasons at DC and their “colors” series over at Marvel: Daredevil: Yellow, Captain America: White, Spider-Man: Blue, and Hulk: Gray, along with Wolverine and Gambit: Victims. ![]() So successful was this story and their partnership that Loeb and Sale have returned to The Long Halloween multiple times over the years, be it the direct follow up Dark Victory, the Catwoman: When in Rome spinoff, the “spiritual tie-in” Haunted Knight, and last year’s Long Halloween Special. Teamed with frequent collaborator Jeph Loeb, Sale penciled the maxiseries Batman: The Long Halloween, which has been widely regarded as one of the Dark Knight’s most iconic and perennial stories. Sale had a long, acclaimed career in the comics industry, with some of his most notable work involving Batman. Now, his personal Twitter account has announced that he has passed away. Jim Lee recently reported via Twitter that Sale had been admitted to the hospital, but no other details were made available. Reports are coming in that artist Tim Sale has died. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Max Brod describes Kafka rolling on the floor with laughter while reading Walser aloud to friends.īoth of them have humorous bureaucratic language in common, but they use it differently. Except Kafka! Kafka read and loved Walser. Walser just didn’t have that many readers during this lifetime, so it’s not as if everyone was busy talking about whether he was funny or not. At that point people saw the tragic Kafka (died young of tuberculosis story of a guy becoming a beetle the Holocaust) and I think people didn’t figure out that he was funny for quite some time. Most of his reception happened just after World War II. He didn’t have a huge reception in his lifetime. Susan Bernofsky: Yes, but not everyone thought they were funny.īut think about Kafka. Ryan Mihaly: Were they funny in their time, too? Susan Bernofsky: Both Kafka and Walser use bureaucratic language to comic effect. And both Walser and Kafka write in this old, highly formal style, which comes off as very comical in English. Ryan Mihaly: The Metamorphosis and Robert Walser’s Microscripts both deal with these cramped spaces – Microscripts being these texts written on the back of business cards, newspapers, pamphlets, and so on. The conclusion of a conversation with translator Susan Bernofsky. Conversations with Susan Bernofsky, Part 3 JBy Ryan Mihaly and Susan Bernofsky ![]() ![]() ![]() They allow travel to unknown realms, which is the one thing you can’t ![]() ![]() “Once you can read you have power: ditto for disadvantaged children. “All prison-based literacy campaigns are good,” insists Lady Antonia, who gives great credit to the work of Camilla, the new Queen Consort, in this area. Being unable to read makes it less likely that they will get into work and more likely that they will reoffend. ![]() Meanwhile, the most recent data published by the Ministry of Justice show 57 percent of adult prisoners taking initial assessments had literacy levels below those expected of an 11-year-old. Research from the National Literacy Trust has revealed that children who don’t own a book of their own are nearly four times more likely to read below the average expected level for their age. Antonia continues: “I discovered the charity is run entirely by Victoria and a small team, and with very low overheads.” Victoria set up the charity in tribute to her late husband, the playwright and diarist Simon Gray, who was Harold Pinter’s best friend. This is at the heart of everything we do,” says executive director Victoria Gray. “We work in prisons, schools and with disadvantaged young people throughout the UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() It took a couple of chapters for us to realize that, actually, this is a YA horror story, and that - ha ha !- we were both bamboozled by blurbs. Both of us thought it was a murder mystery with hints of horror. Which is only slightly surprising, considering we both went into this book with wildly different assumptions: Ally thought this was a middle grade affair I thought it was a new adult sort of deal. She no longer wonders if she wants to leave…but if she can.īuddy read this with my main spooky pal (and soon to be published author), Ally Russell, and I’m happy to say we both dug it a hell of a lot. With each twisted revelation, Helen questions what she knows about Harrow, her family, and even herself. Why is the house built like a labyrinth? What is digging the holes that appear in the woods each night? And why does the house itself seem to be making her sick? Helen knows that if she is going to survive the year, she needs to uncover the secrets of Harrow. ![]() For as long as she can remember, Harrow has haunted Helen’s dreams - and now those dreams have become a waking nightmare. ![]() The inheritance comes with one condition: she must stay on the grounds of Harrow for one full year, or she’ll be left with nothing. So when her grandfather dies, she’s shocked to learn that he has left everything - the house, the grounds, and the money - to her. Helen Vaughan doesn’t know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven’t spoken to their extended family since. ![]() |