![]() ![]() ![]() “Kick-ass, one-on-one robot action combines with mind-bending scientific and philosophical speculation. The greatest weapon humanity wields is knowledge in a do-or-die battle to inherit the Earth. ![]() They can turn the tide if they can unlock the last secrets of an advanced alien technology. But Rose and her team at the Earth Defense Corps refuse to surrender. Now humankind faces a nightmare invasion scenario made real, as more colossal machines touch down across the globe. But the truth is closer than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force. As an adult, she’s dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers-and even more perplexing questions. “ Sleeping Giants may have debuted his thrilling saga, but Waking Gods proves that Neuvel’s scope is more daring than readers could have imagined.”- PasteĪs a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. In the gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel’s innovative series about human-alien contact takes another giant step forward. ![]()
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![]() There's stoner-jock Tyler Montana, who might be just as interested in Fabiola as he is in Quique straitlaced senior class president, Ziggy Jackson and Manny Zuniga, who keeps looking at Quique like he's carne asada fresh off the grill. Luckily, Quique's prospects are each intriguing in their own ways. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to reunite with a girl his parents are trying to set him up with. Never mind that he has absolutely zero game. ![]() ![]() Never mind that he's only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Description This "hilariously chaotic and profound" ( Adam Silvera, #1 New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End) summer romp is Netflix's Never Have I Ever meets What If It's Us about a high school senior determined to get over his unrequited feelings for his best friend by getting under someone else.Įnrique "Quique" Luna has one goal this summer-get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marc Thompson I love the way he reads the book and how he brings the characters to life. ![]() What made the experience of listening to Crucible: Star Wars the most enjoyable? To save him, and the galaxy, Luke and Leia must brave a gauntlet of treachery, terrorism, and the untold power of an enigmatic artifact capable of bending space, time, and even the Force itself into an apocalyptic nightmare. And when the murderous duo gets the drop on Han, he finds himself outgunned in the fight of his life. It is a pair of ruthless geniuses with a lethal ally and a lifelong vendetta against Han Solo. Only this time, the Empire is not the enemy. Now Han, Leia, and Luke team up once again in a quest to defeat a dangerous adversary bent on galaxy-wide domination. ![]() When the dust settles, what began as corporate warfare becomes a battle with much higher stakes - and far deadlier consequences. Then monstrous aliens arrive with a message, and mere threats escalate into violent sabotage with mass fatalities. When Han and Leia Solo arrive at Lando Calrissian’s Outer Rim mining operation to help him thwart a hostile takeover, their aim is just to even up the odds and lay down the law. Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and Luke Skywalker return in an all-new Star Wars adventure, which will challenge them in ways they never expected - and forever alter their understanding of life and the Force. ![]() ![]() ![]() Attributed to the pseudonymous “H de V.”, the series followed the exploits of action hero Richard Hannay, a stoic but courageous gentleman who found himself in a variety of challenging situations. Scottish author John Buchan’s adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared as a serial in Blackwood’s Magazine in the summer of 1915. ![]() Here’s a look at all the incarnations of The 39 Steps, from page to screen to stage. But before it was a hit play, The 39 Steps was a bestselling novel and several hit films. The 39 Steps ( US/ UK), Patrick Barlow’s hilarious and fast-paced whodunit, is a theatrical treat packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of four), an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance. ![]() ![]() A colleague and a friend, she is also one of their best profilers and when Daniels sees the connection between Jo and the murder she is forced to make a decision which could ultimately wreck the promising career for which she has sacrificed so much.Īs the case evolves another murderer is on the loose. ![]() Jo Soulsby is already known to the police. Ambivalent and with a dubious alibi she seems just the type to shoot him in the chest. As Daniels’ team delve deeper into the case they find his grown-up sons are happy to see the back of him and his young trophy wife is hardly the weeping wreck you’d expect. ![]() The Murder Wall opens with the horrific double murder of a young nun and her priest in a Northumberland church, a crime which goes unsolved and is still dogging Kate Daniels one year later when the action jumps ahead to the fatal shooting of a prominent local businessman in a swanky dockside development in Newcastle.Īlan Stephens was a man with enemies, even within his family. ![]() Her debut novel The Murder Wall kicks off a series of police procedurals featuring DCI Kate Daniels. Author Mari Hannah’s CV covers stints in the probation service, crown courts and prisons, so when this lady writes crime you can be assured she knows what she’s talking about. Written by Mari Hannah - One piece of advice most wannabe authors will be given is to ‘write what you know’. ![]() ![]() ![]() The title of the book is derived from a remark made by the then-candidate Trump during a 2016 interview with Woodward along with the Washington Post’s political reporter Robert Costa. From the Oval Office to the Situation Room to the White House residences, the author utilizes confidential background interviews to portray the manner in which some of the President’s top aides see him as a danger to national security and have chosen to circumvent him. The book depicts a White House with relentlessness infighting and a work culture that is so toxic as well as volatile that many of the President’s key advisors and cabinet members became accustomed to working around their boss, whom they describe as both uninformed and unstable. ![]() It offers an unprecedented inside-the-room look of the White House through the eyes of President Trump’s inner circle. “Fear: Trump in the White House” is a non-fiction book by Bob Woodward about the presidency of Donald Trump. ![]() ![]() ![]() Salvatore’s original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. Salvatore’s first published novel, The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, became the first As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, and French. ![]() ![]() ![]() As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gordon had anticipated that he would be pursued and carried with him onions from the plantation, which he rubbed on his body to throw the dogs off-scent. Upon learning of his flight, his master recruited several neighbors and together they chased after him with a pack of bloodhounds. In March 1863 he fled his home, heading east towards the Mississippi River. While the plantation owner discharged the overseer who had carried out this vicious attack, for the next two months as Gordon recuperated in bed, he decided to escape. ![]() This beating left him with horrible welts on much of the surface of his back. ![]() Gordon had received a severe whipping for undisclosed reasons in the fall of 1862. The photograph pictures the runaway slave Gordon exposing his scourged back to the camera of two itinerant photographers, William D. This famous photo of the welts on his badly "scourged back" was taken while he was being fitted for a uniform.Īs this famous photograph suggests, photography was capable of communicating powerful ideas about the so-called “ peculiar institution” - ideas that ultimately undermined the prevailing notion that slavery was a benign tradition. The Scourged Back: This slave named Gordon ran for 80 miles to join the Union Forces in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in March 1863. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But you don’t have the right to say nobody’s kid can read this book.”Ī co-founder of book-banning activist group Moms for Liberty told “CBS Sunday Morning” last weekend that books containing “incest, pedophilia, rape” or “pornography” should be banned from schools.Ī slew of notable authors have been taken off some shelves in the state, including Judy Blume, Toni Morrison and James Patterson.Įx-Minneapolis officer Tou Thao convicted of aiding manslaughter in George Floyd’s deathįormer judge who advised Pence on Jan. ![]() “If you don’t want your teenager reading this book, that’s your right as a mom - and good luck with that. “All of it is shocking,” Roberts told The Washington Post. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hardy asserted that this adaptation to living at the waterside would also account for a whole range of peculiarities about the human form, including the layers of fat beneath the skin, the relative lack of body-hair, the development of language and speech, and what has been called our 'runaway brains'. In 1960, the eminent Oxford marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy proposed a revolutionary idea - our human ancestors had started their existence not on the wide savannahs of Africa, but had become accustomed to living alongside water, swimming and diving in the shallows, collecting the abundant food and learning to use language and fashion tools. ![]() Sir David Attenborough considers whether new evidence will help a once widely ridiculed theory of human origins move towards to mainstream acceptance. ![]() |