5/22/2023 0 Comments Feist magician apprenticeI’d seen it displayed in every book store that had a fantasy section and saw it included on multiple “top 100” lists of fantasy series. Magician by Raymond Feist was always something that floated around my periphery. While I appreciated the immense depth and detail, I wasn’t up for the challenge and put it on hold after book three. Little did I know that I would have to receive a PhD in Steven Erikson’s work to enjoy them: dropping you in the middle of multiple conflicts, it’s up to you to untease the sprawling subplots over hundreds of characters. I first dipped my toes in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Being swamped with work, I decided to forgo the edifying classics and attack my increasingly growing fantasy reading list. I rediscovered my love for pleasure-driven reading this past Spring when I received a Kindle for my birthday. This was a much needed meat and potatoes fantasy.
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Possum magic bookThe Royal Canadian Mint has said that its lawsuit is aimed at protecting what sets it apart on the global market. In recent years, the Canadians’ list of clients has ranged from Indonesia to the United Arab Emirates. The duelling mints are also business rivals who rely on developing new technologies in order to secure contracts around the world. Their demands have been countered with another lawsuit – this week the Australian government filed a counter claim asking that the Canadian patent be declared invalid on the grounds that it is not enough of a “novelty” over what has been done previously. While the coins in question include 12 colourful designs printed on an estimated 15m coins, the Canadian mint said it is not seeking the destruction of any coins already in circulation. Recently, the Canadian mint expanded its lawsuit to include several other $2 coins, including a 2017 release featuring designs from Possum Magic and Olympic-themed coins. 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All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Dragon bones by lisa seeWhen the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangtze River, Hulan and Stark are sent to Site 518 for two very different reasons: Hulan to investigate the death, David to uncover who is stealing artifacts from the site. The story of DRAGON BONES unfurls like an ancient Chinese landscape scroll. Yet, the reservoir formed by the dam will inundate over 2,000 archaeological sites and displace over 2 million people. When completed, the Three Gorges Dam will be the most powerful dam ever built and the biggest project China has undertaken since the building of the Great Wall. Now, in her latest novel DRAGON BONES (Random House 2003), Liu Hulan, an agent for China’s Ministry of Public Security, and her American husband, attorney David Stark, return to investigate murder and archaeological theft at the Three Gorges Dam, one of the most beautiful and unique places on earth. And they’ve gone to dreadful lengths to conceal their secret … meaning John could be in danger.īut the family also has a daughter, lovely Kismine, and with her help, John may yet escape the fate her family has meted out to all their other guests so far … But the classmate’s family proves to be much more than simply wealthy: They own a mountain made entirely of one solid diamond. Unger, a young Southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is Fitzgerald’s hallucinatory paean to the American West and all its promises. Scott Fitzgerald’s ongoing lush fantasies about the extremes of wealth with his much more somber understanding of what underpins it. Although this novella stands out from his body of work in that it’s a playful yet sinister fairy tale, it brilliantly fuses F. In a 2013 interview, Herman Parish recalls how his aunt created Amelia Bedelia's character because of the need to target children of a certain age when they are both interested in reading and able to use their imagination without restraint. The inspiration for the protagonist was likely a housekeeper at her grandparents home where Peggy Parish played as a child. 2013 marked the book's 50th anniversary and commemorated its popularity with the publication of a new line of Amelia Bedelia books. Over 35 million copies of books in the series have been sold. Amelia Bedelia has been referenced for its use of language and portrayal of gender norms. The idea for the book came from a former housekeeper as well as Peggy's third-grade students at the Dalton School in Manhattan who tended to confuse vocabulary, often with comic results. It was written by Peggy Parish, illustrated by Fritz Siebel, and published by Harper and Row in 1963. Amelia Bedelia is the first book in the popular Amelia Bedelia children's picture book series about a housekeeper who takes her instructions literally. Then, as soon as someone fished him out, he disappeared, and she spent the next twenty years searching for him (employing, it must be said, some rather dubious strategies). Carillon last saw the guy, he was bobbing up and down in the water, trying to tell her something she could only half-hear between all the blubs and glubs. (I am sure this cannot have been legally binding, but never mind that detail.) The two did not see each other again for many years, and when a reunion was finally arranged, it was quickly ended by a boat accident. Carillon, who was married to a boy named Leon - he later decided he'd rather be called Noel - when they were aged five and seven, in order to secure the inheritance of a soup-factory-based family fortune. And this book, which I remember adoring at the age of eight or so, is no exception. I might not enjoy these books quite as intensely as I did way back when, but plenty of them turn out to still be entertaining. Fortunately, somewhat to my surprise, I've had a pretty good success rate. Show More enjoy, but you've also gone and tarnished a childhood memory. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Doctor sleep sequel to the shiningThen Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.” Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. John Grisham books are available in two styles – Legal stories and non-legal stories. John Grisham Books in Order of Publication He has written over 40 books, including fiction, thrillers, young adult books, and short stories. Today, John Grisham has sold over 300 million books worldwide that have been translated into 42 languages. His second novel, “The Firm,” got him into the spotlight and made him consider a career as a writer. He authored his first book, “A Time to Kill,” inspired by an actual court case. Grisham is an American novelist who is one of only three authors to sell 2 million copies on a first printing alongside J.K Rowling and Tom Clancy.īefore becoming an author, he was a master of legal thrillers working as a criminal defense attorney. However, you will not notice much difference in his niche change, as they are all as intriguing. Over the years of his writing, he has branched from the legal stories he is popularly known for and published sports and non-fiction stories. Right from his debut novel, “ A Time to Kill” to the 2021 release, “Sooley,” Grisham’s books are nothing short of captivating. In the past three decades, John Grisham has written nearly a book each year, with a number of them adopted into popular movies. Reading John Grisham books in order introduces you to a series of legal thrillers that will make you fall in love with the nonstop suspense. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The robots of dawn by isaac asimovYou have a legal obligation to take reasonable care of the goods while they are in your possession. The goods do not need to be in their original packaging however in a sellable condition, and at your own cost and risk. If a refund is payable to you we will process the refund as soon as possible, and, in any case within fourteen (14) days. However you will be responsible for the cost of returning the goods to us. If a full refund including original delivery costs is required then the entire order needs to be returned back to us within fourteen (14) working days. Please note that this does not affect your statutory rights. Some goods are non-returnable for hygiene reasons. 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