![]() ![]() ![]() The Mind is Its Own Place - Carrie Vaughn.The Firewall and the Door - Sean McMullen. ![]() Twenty Lights to “The Land of Snow” - Michael Bishop.The Symphony of Ice and Dust - Julie Novakova.Diving into the Wreck - Kristine Kathryn Rusch.Three Bodies at Mitanni - Seth Dickinson.With galaxy-spanning adventures of discovery and adventure, from generations ships to warp drives, exploring new worlds to first contacts, science fiction writers have given readers increasingly new and alien ways to look out into our broad and sprawling universe. Generations of writers have explored these new frontiers and the endless possibilities they present in great detail. The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them. The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke ( Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year). ![]()
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A Good MarriageĪ Good Marriage is a novella by American writer Stephen King, published in the collection Full Dark, No Stars (2010).ĭarcy Anderson has been married to Bob, an accountant from Portland, Maine, for 27 years. ![]() For the film based on the novella, see A Good Marriage (film). ![]() ![]() ![]() In any case, it served to excite Europeans about the riches in trade and culture which might be found in unfamiliar areas of the world and to encourage them to venture out in search of them. Only later was it realized that most of its contents are quite accurate. His account of the trip was published in 1298 as Divisament dou Monde (Description of the world), now known generally as "The Travels of Marco Polo." Although read widely when it appeared, it was regarded by most readers as a work of fiction. He included information on the culture and religion as well as the geography and government of the regions he visited. He was among the first Europeans to visit this part of the world and was the first to record in detail the many things he observed there. ![]() 1254-1324) was a Venetian merchant and adventurer who made an extended, twenty-four year (1271-95), journey with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo into central Asia, including seventeen years spent in Mongol-controlled China. The Journeys of Marco Polo and Their Impact Overview ![]() ![]() Tor Teen published Anna Dressed In Blood in 2012. For reasons neither can explain, the two begin to realize that in their opposite, they may have finally found the one person who can help them unravel their complicated pasts, and survive their complicated present. Since her death, Anna (Hasson) has killed each and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian house she used to call home, but yet there is something about Cas that compels her to spare his life. Searching for a ghost the locals call “Anna Dressed in Blood,” Cas finds a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he’s never faced before. ![]() They follow legends and local lore, destroy the angry dead, and keep pesky things like plans for the future and friends at bay. Now, armed with his father’s mysterious and deadly dagger, Cas travels America with his mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. So did his father, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. The plot: Cas Lowood (Monaghan) has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. ![]() Lionsgate Developing TV Series With 'Twlight' Writer Stephenie Meyer For Hulu ![]() ![]() ![]() The books she devoured as a child were disappointing, telling stories of aristocratic English children with nannies and ponies or poor children whose problems disappeared when long-lost rich relatives showed up and solved their problems. ![]() This did not diminish Cleary's love of books, and by third grade she was a much better reader and spent most of her time surrounded by books-either at home or at the library. Her mother then acted as the town librarian in a room upstairs from a bank. The young Cleary learned to love books and reading. When her family lost the farm, they moved to northeast Portland’s Hollywood neighborhood and her father found work as a bank security guard. When the Great Depression hit, her father lost his job.ĭespite her mother’s efforts to bring books to the young Cleary, she was put into the low reading circle when she started school in Portland. For more than half a century, she wrote stories that allowed kids to see themselves in the books.īeverly Atlee Bunn was born on Apin McMinnville, Oregon. Up until the age of six, Cleary-an only child-lived on her family farm in nearby Yamhill. The town was small and did not have a library, so Cleary’s mother arranged for the State Library to send books to Yamhill. Beverly Cleary created some of the most beloved children’s book characters of the 20th century. Writing about the children in her own neighborhood, Cleary’s stories of the rambunctious youth of Klickitat and Tillamook Streets have sold more than 91 million copies and changed the genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, "Among the Trees," and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "ongoing quest" Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 16 Pilkington's name appears ninth (in order of dignity) in the one-leaf 'Distribution of Copies' in vol. ![]() Two letters from Halliwell to Pilkington and his receipt for the subscription of £42 (all dated July 1853) are mounted on the rear endleaf of vol. 77 of 150 printed, originally subscribed for by James Pilkington, M. the largest form in which the bard has yet appeared" (Jaggard (1909), p. Halliwell's great folio edition, '"the most extensive repository of literary, historical, and archaeological information regarding Shakespeare and his writings to be found in any single work, and, typographically, the most sumptuous edition. Half morocco, uniform with Halliwell's folio Shakespeare, to which it is a supplement bookplate of F. A descriptive calendar of the ancient manuscripts and records in the possession of the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon including notices of Shakespeare and his family. Sixteen volumes, tall thick folio, original half morocco, rubbed at extremities but very sound. by J O Halliwell the illustrations and wood engravings by Frederick William Fairholt. The text formed from a new collation of the early editions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, Anh’s family find their feet in their new adoptive city of Sydney. ![]() The family begins a new life in Australia, the country that offers them asylum as refugees. ![]() They are rescued by a German merchant ship, which brings them to safety. The journey proves more perilous than they could have ever imagined: on the small fishing boat on which the family makes their escape, they barely evade Vietnamese patrol boats, are almost shipwrecked in a violent storm, and are captured by pirates, who strip them of all their valuables and the few provisions they had brought with them. They are accompanied by over thirty members of their extended family, as well as family friends. His father and mother have decided to flee the country, taking Anh and his baby brother Khoa with them. Anh Do is then only two-and-a-half years old. In the aftermath of the war, and under the grip of a repressive Communist regime, the country’s population suffers through hardship and poverty. It is the late 1970s in Saigon, Vietnam, and rhe Vietnam War has recently ended. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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The sweeping love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler comes to a close in All for One, the riveting final installment of the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza trilogy. After all, she and Alex have an arrival of their own to plan for, though Alex's latest case brings a perilous threat that may destroy everything. if only Eliza can keep herself from interfering too much in the course of true love. It's not long before sparks start to fly. ![]() ![]() When they agree to take in an orphaned teenage girl along with Eliza's oldest brother, John Schuyler, Eliza can't help but attempt a match. But new additions to Alex & Eliza's little family mean change is afoot in the Hamilton household. ![]() ![]() They're the toast of the town, keeping New York City buzzing with tales of their lavish parties, of Eliza's legendary wit, and of Alex's brilliant legal mind. As a young nation begins to take shape, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are on top of the world. Now in paperback, the dazzling finale to the trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love Story, about the epic romance of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. ![]() |