The witches of karres series5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() But an enemy had somehow convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted criminal, so after a battle leaving his ship in urgent need of repairs, Pausert and the witches of Karres joined an interstellar traveling circus in order to save the galaxy. Of course, these three young women were the universally feared witches of Karres-but how was he to know that?!Īnd after he defeated the Worm World (with the help of the witches, of course), the Empress herself had sent him on a secret mission to stop a nanite plague that was raging across the galaxy. ![]() All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters. NEW ENTRY IN THE WITCHES OF KARRES SERIES BY NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ERIC FLINT & DAVE FREERĬaptain Pausert just can’t catch a break!įirst, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire-and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. ![]()
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Hhhh civilizations5/30/2023 ![]() He finds a continent divided by religious and dynastic quarrels, the Spanish Inquisition, Luther's Reformation, capitalism, the miracle of the printing press, endless warmongering between the ruling monarchies, and constant threat from the Turks. ![]() Thirty years later, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in Europe in the ships stolen from Columbus. Even as their suffering increases, his faith in his superiority, and in his mission, is unshaken. But he and his men are taken captive by Incas. But nobody ultimately knows what became of them.įast forward five hundred years to 1492 and we're reading the journals of Christopher Columbus, mid-Atlantic on his own famous voyage of exploration to the Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest. ![]() They meet local tribes, exchange skills, are taken prisoner, and get as far as Panama. An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhHįreydis is a woman warrior and leader of a band of Viking explorers setting out to the south. ![]() Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Author’s agent: Nancy Stauffer, Nancy Stauffer Associates. Thunder Boy’s energy is irresistible, as is this expansive portrait of a Native American family. Regardless, Alexie’s first picture book showcases his ear for dialogue and sideways sense of humor, and Morales uses voice balloons and other comics elements to complement the characters’ dynamic poses. ![]() He is Thunder Boy Smith Sr., and I am.” Here, his mother pops in from the right lower margin to complete the sentence: “Thunder Boy Smith Jr.” The boy confides that his father’s nickname, Big Thunder, sounds impressive, while his own nickname, Little Thunder, “makes me sound like a burp or a fart.” After confessing “I hate my name!” with a chorus of screaming snakes, wolves, and bears driving the point home, Thunder Boy proposes several profound or funny alternatives, including “Star Boy,” “Old Toys Are Awesome,” and “Drums, Drums, and More Drums” because he “love powwow dancing.” In the end, his father understands his ambivalence and bestows a new name, although some readers may wish the boy, having spent several pages trying on new identities, had come up with it himself. “I am the only Thunder Boy who has ever lived,” says the young narrator. Echoes of Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian resonate in this vibrant first-person tale, illustrated in a stormy palette by Morales ( Niño Wrestles the World). ![]() Magenta transgender book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() This book is in the Curriculum Resource Centre library. ![]() In honor of this year’s banned book week, we are highlighting a few books in our collection that have been frequently or recently challenged or banned in communities across North America Banned Books Week takes place in the last week of September every year, this year’s theme is “Books Unite Us. The event is now organized by a national alliance, including the American Library Association, and holds to tradition by drawing attention to the number of books that are banned and challenged every year, and to directly oppose the censorship of books. (Read more about the history of Banned Books Week here). Banned Books Week calls attention to those books that have been challenged and seeks to reaffirm our commitments against censorship and towards intellectual freedom.īanned Books Week was launched in the USA in 1982 The event was created to promote conversation around banned books in a time when challenges and protests against books were becoming more prevalent. ![]() In recent years, most challenged books contain LGBTQ+ themes, demonstrating a clear pattern in what type of content is targeted. Post prepared by Rebekah Glendinning & Sandy Iversonīanning books may seem like a thing of the past, but every year many books are challenged based on their content or language. ![]() The eldest curses books5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Read Common Sense Medias The Red Scrolls of Magic: The Eldest Curses, Book 1. ![]() ![]() Magnus's magic is growing unstable, and if they can't stop the demons flooding into the city, they might have to follow them all the way back to the source-to the very realm of the dead. Magical curse Crossword Clue The Crossword Solver found 20 answers to. In Shanghai, they learn that a much darker threat awaits them. Also, someone has stabbed Magnus with a strange magical weapon that is changing the very nature of his powers.įortunately, their backup consists of Clary, Jace, Isabelle, and newly minted Shadowhunter Simon. They need to follow the thieves to Shanghai, they need to call some backup to accompany them, and they need a babysitter. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to get it back. Until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus's apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. ![]() They're living together in a fabulous loft, their warlock son, Max, has started learning to walk, and the streets of New York are peaceful and quiet-as peaceful and quiet as they ever are, anyway. Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. The Lost Book of the White is a Shadowhunters novel. Print The Lost Book of the White (#2 The Eldest Curses)įrom #1 New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series and a thrilling adventure for High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, for whom a death-defying mission into the heart of evil is not just a job, it's also a romantic getaway. ![]() ![]() ![]() Murphy shows that the power to change your life lies within you. With practical and approachable lessons, Dr. ![]() By focusing your mental will, you can achieve professional success, build wealth, strengthen personal and professional relationships, build your self-confidence, and even bring about changes to your physical wellbeing-all through the power of the mind. Murphy demonstrates that the strength of the unconscious mind is almost limitless. By showing how simply changing your thinking can produce dramatic changes, Dr. ![]() Joseph Murphy has helped millions of readers and listeners to harness the immense power of their subconscious minds to positively influence their lives. In that time it has sold millions of copies.Ī writer of the same class as Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, and Dale Carnegie, Dr. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind is a classic self-help book that has never been out of print since it was first published over a half century ago. ![]() The joy luck club book online5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() When one of the women dies, her daughter, Jing-mei (June) Woo, is drafted to sit in for her at the game. The members of the Joy Luck Club are four aging “aunties” who gather regularly in San Francisco to play mah-jongg, eat Chinese food and gossip about their children. The book is a meditation on the divided nature of this emigrant life. In “The Joy Luck Club,” her first novel, short-story-like vignettes alternate back and forth between the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and the lives of their American-born daughters in California. THE JOY LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan | Review first published March 19, 1989īorn in Oakland, Calif., in 1952 to a father educated as an engineer in Beijing and a mother raised in a well-to-do Shanghai family, Amy Tan grew up in an American world that was utterly remote from the childhood world of her parents. ![]() Wyn by lily mayne5/30/2023 ![]() I’ve only been in the military for six months, but now I’m part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they’re nothing but husks. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. ![]() Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. ![]() Genre - Fantasy Romance / apocalypse / MM romance ![]() Gödel's Theorem by Torkel Franzén5/29/2023 ![]() I felt that this book would be most suited to those readers who have read the usual popular accounts of Gödel's incompleteness theorem and want to get its ramifications clearer in their minds, as well as those wanting a deeper view of the subject without venturing into too much technicality. Notably, you get a consistent theory if you append to Peano Arithmetic (PA) an axiom expressing the inconsistency of PA. ![]() The important distinction is between a consistent and a sound theory. Sometimes it seemed that he was being too pedantic, but on reflection I felt that this was justified. Torkel Franzn, Gdels Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to its Use. He also looks at Gödel's second incompleteness theorem and questions of consistency. Smullyan, Gdels Incompleteness Theorems, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford 1992. There is also a chapter criticising attempts to use the incompleteness theorem in the philosophy of mind.įranzen goes on to discuss the relationship of incompleteness with the infinite, as well as complexity and randomness. He looks at what has been said about incompleteness in physics, in theology and of course in various postmodern ramblings. Few theorems of pure mathematics have attracted much attention. ![]() In Godel's theorem : an incomplete guide to its use and abuse Torkel Franzen examines various ways that this theorem has been wrongly quoted, and tries to set the reader straight on what it is really about. ![]() Gödel's incompleteness theorem is one of the most well known mathematical results, but unfortunately this has led to it being mentioned in highly inappropriate ways. ![]() Harley quinn mariko tamaki5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() When the cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification that's taking over the neighborhood, Harleen gets mad. Ever since Harleen's parents split, MAMA has been her only family. Harleen is a tough, outspoken, rebellious kid who lives in a ramshackle apartment above a karaoke cabaret owned by a drag queen named MAMA. From Eisner Award and Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki ( This One Summer, Supergirl: Being Super). Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, justice, fairness, and progress and how a weird kid from Gotham's poorest part of town goes about defining her world for herself. ![]() ![]() She'll be in conversation with fellow superhero Gene Luen Yang. The Bindery hosts friend and former staffer Mariko Tamaki for her new book Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass. ![]() |