![]() OL20924055W Page_number_confidence 85.71 Pages 296 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.8 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210225085402 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1009 Scandate 20210220222438 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781480695160 Tts_version 4. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:08:08 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40065113 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier WREDE has written many novels, including the four books in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles and the middle grade novelizations of the blockbuster films Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Although his role in the brewing conflict is still unseen, someone forged him into the perfect weapon, and his destiny will find him one way or another. So far as I can tell, it is unrelated to King’s Dark Tidings. Rezkin's search is made difficult when whispers speak of a mad king and a war that will engulf the kingdom. Fate of the Fallen is the first entry in Kade’s new fantasy series The Shroud of Prophecy. ![]() Those who do not love him fear him, and anyone is a potential target. While his friends sleep in peace and comfort, Rezkin stalks the night spreading his influence throughout the underworld. None know his true identity nor the dark role for which he was intended. ![]() Armed with masterful weapons mysteriously bestowed upon him by a dead king, Rezkin must travel across Ashai to find the one man who holds the clues to his existence.ĭetermined to adhere to his last orders, Rezkin extends his protection to an unlikely assortment of companions. ![]() His mastery of the Rules and Skills are supreme, yet he has no understanding of life's purpose. Growing up, Kade lived a military lifestyle of traveling to and living in new places. Raised and trained at a secret fortress on the edge of the northern wilds of the Kingdom of Ashai, Rezkin is unexpectedly thrust into the outworld when a terrible battle leaves his trainers dead. Thanks to Kade’s enthusiastic readers and the success of the King’s Dark Tidings series, Kade is now able to create universes spanning space and time, develop criminal empires, plot the downfall of tyrannous rulers, and dive into fantastical mysteries full time. From Book 1: A #1 Best Seller in Amazon's Epic Fantasy! ![]() ![]() ![]() Filled with stunningly detailed illustrations, Lost Ocean is a blissful and relaxing at-home activity for people of all ages. The smooth, untextured pages allow for beautiful blending or gradient techniques with colored pencils or are perfect for pens, allowing the nib to glide evenly over the surface without feathering. Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest fans and newcomers alike will welcome this creative journey into an inky new world.įor Lost Ocean, Johanna picked a crisp ivory paper that accentuates and complements your chosen color palette. Lost Ocean Artist's Edition by Johanna Basford: 9780143130758 : Books A special artist's edition of the hugely bestselling Lost Ocean with 24 illustrations from the original book, ready to color and frame. Visit coral reefs and barnacle-studded shipwrecks, discover intricate shells and pirate treasure. Through intricate pen and ink illustrations to complete, color, and embellish, readers will meet shoals of exotic fish, curious octopuses, and delicately penned seahorses. I am an illustrator and ink evangelist who prefers pens and pencils to pixels. ![]() ![]() ![]() With this coloring book for adults, Johanna Basford invites color-inners of all ages to discover an enchanting underwater world hidden in the depths of the sea. Her intricate, hand-drawn illustrations are loved the world over by those who have colored in (sometimes more than once) her bestselling books Johannas Christmas, Magical Jungle, Lost Ocean, Secret Garden, and Enchanted Forest. From the creator of the worldwide bestsellers Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest, a beautiful new coloring book that takes you on a magical journey beneath the waves. Johanna Basford is an illustrator and ink evangelist who prefers pens and pencils to pixels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. ![]() We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. ![]() So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention-and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions-even abandoning his phone for three months-but nothing seemed to work. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening-and how to get our attention back. ![]() Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. ![]() ![]() She was summoned by Queen Nakia who means to use Yuri as a human sacrifice. Red River is about a fifteen-year-old Japanese girl named Yuri Suzuki, who time travels to Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia. Many of the people and events in the story are drawn from actual history, from Princes Kail Mursili, Sari Arnuwanda, and Zannanza, to battles with the neighboring Mitanni kingdom around the town of Kizzuwatna. The story takes place during the reign of King Suppiluliuma I, at a time when the Hittite Empire was near its peak of power, rivaled only by Egypt, which was then ruled by the young Pharaoh Tutankhamen. In 2001, Red River won the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category. It is published in English in North America by Viz Media.Īs of March 2019, the manga had over 20 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. It was published by Shōgakukan in their Sho-Comi magazine from January 1995 to June 2002. ![]() ![]() The Sky Is on the Banks of the Red River), also known as Anatolia Story, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Chie Shinohara. ![]() Red River ( Japanese: 天は赤い河のほとり, Hepburn: Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori, lit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His unique work announces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. Schelling's Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the 'beginning of the world,' of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos.į.W.J. The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. ![]() ![]() It is a masterpiece' - Times Literary Supplement 'Written with a fierce pursuit of the truth and an utterly modern self-awareness, what a confidant tour de force this turns out to be' - Sunday Express ![]() The protagonists have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life my McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force' - Financial Times Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9781784705565 Number of pages: 176 Weight: 157 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm Edition: Media tie-in MEDIA REVIEWS ![]() Set in the borderland of English history immediately before the liberation and licence of the swinging sixties, McEwan reveals how a life can be irrevocably altered by a moment’s twist of fate. One of Ian McEwan’s most achingly moving and expertly honed novels, On Chesil Beach is a masterpiece of miscommunication and mistaken intent. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Now the inspiration for a major new film, adapted for the screen by Ian McEwanĪnd they had so many plans, giddy plans, heaped up before them in the misty future, as richly tangled as the summer flora of the Dorset coast, and as beautiful.Įdward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Was her third eye open or did she just happen to be charmed? Witch Baby wasn’t all angry, though - she was just misunderstood and wanted to be heard. Witch Baby felt the roaring of the earth, the rage beneath the surface of reality, the stories trapped in the land - the things most people pretended weren’t there. ![]() ![]() She was the purple-eyed, wild-hearted, drum-playing, roller-skating, photo-taking fairy who floated above the ground - yet couldn’t see her own beauty. While reading the Dangerous Angels series as a teen, I immediately related to main character Weetzie Bat’s adopted daughter, Witch Baby. Witch Baby is also the book from which I got my musical name, Globelamp. Above her hung the clock, luminous, like a moon.”Īnd so begins Witch Baby, the second book in a series called Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block (or FLB to my circle of fellow fans/friends). What is that supposed to mean? In the room full of musical instruments, watercolor paints, candles, sparkles, beads, books, basketballs, roses, incense, surfboards, china pixie heads, lanky toy lizards and a rubber chicken, Witch Baby was curling her toes, tapping her drumsticks and pulling on the snarl balls in her hair. ![]() ![]() ![]() His girlfriend supports him, but he doesn’t feel good enough for her and he seems to be always on the verge of doing the wrong thing around her.īowsher, Melodie. He’s living (for now) with his spaced-out mother and little brother in a homeless shelter. ![]() Tyrell is a young African-American teen who can’t get a break. ![]() Greenwillow Books, 2015Ībigail’s parents, believing the end of the world is near, sell their house, give the money to an end-of-times preacher, and drive from North Carolina to San Francisco where they remain homeless and destitute, as Abigail fights to keep her parents, her twin brother, and herself united against all odds. When Rain disappears, Nikki burrows deeper into the underbelly of a city that hides darkness beneath the glamour.īliss, Bryan. Together with Rain, a destitute 12-year-old, she settles into a residential hotel above a punk rock bar. Nikki ends up on the streets of Los Angeles after her boyfriend reveals why he lured her there. ![]() ![]() Our planet faces extinction and yet nobody seems to care. Every day I wonder what the blazes can be causing this abuse of our ecosystem. What on earth is happening to the bees? They say it is an ecological disaster, an environmental holocaust. Mit schnörkelloser Präzision, großem Einfühlungsvermögen und finsterem Humor erzählt Lisa O Donnell die verstörend komische Geschichte dreier verlorener Seelen, die für sich selbst keine Verantwortung tragen können, aber füreinander bedingungslos einstehen. Als die Leute jedoch beginnen, Fragen zu stellen, zeigen sich erste Risse in Marnies und Nellys Lügengebäude, und es kommen erschütternde Details aus ihrem Familienleben zum Vorschein, was ihre Lage nur noch komplizierter macht. Er nimmt sich ihrer an und gibt ihnen so etwas wie ein Zuhause. Lennie merkt bald, dass die Mädchen seine Hilfe brauchen. So ist es ihnen ganz recht, als ihr alter Nachbar Lennie, stadtbekannter (vermeintlicher) Perversling, sich plötzlich für sie interessiert. Irgendwie müssen sie jetzt allein über die Runden kommen, doch allzu viel Geld verdient Marnie als Gelegenheits-Dealerin nicht. ![]() ![]() Und die Geschwister werden es niemandem sagen. ![]() ![]() Niemand sonst weiß, dass sie da liegen und wie sie dahin gekommen sind. Heiligabend in Glasgow: Die fünfzehnjährige Marnie und ihre kleine Schwester Nelly haben gerade ihre toten Eltern im Garten vergraben. ![]() |