6/10/2023 0 Comments Stone Tree by Gyrðir Elíasson![]() ![]() When I glanced from the antenna dangling against the wall to the big satellite dishes sprouting like huge mushrooms on my own roof, I couldn’t help smiling. Last summer I bought the house next door, hence my curiosity, but I can’t find any information. Not such a long time in the life of a house, yet no one knows anything. On the wall by the living-room window there is a green copper plaque bearing the inscription Built 2010. Yet someone must at least have intended to live there. The wind gusts in through the gap in bitter weather. I notice that the glass in the living-room window is cracked right across and the pane in the front door is broken. It’s as if it was simply built and then abandoned without ever becoming anyone’s home. I’ve asked many people who lived in this house but no one seems to have heard of it ever being occupied. The rusty roof rises against the rust-red backdrop of the mountain. One of its ropes has frayed through, leaving it to trail on the ground, not moving except in gales when it drags over the grass with a mournful creaking. The garden is a jungle: trees and hedges growing unchecked, moss in the grass on the lawn, dandelions and daisies everywhere, and an ancient swing hanging from a tree. There are cracks in all the outside walls and the paint, once white, is now stained brown and flaking off in many places. It’s old and dilapidated, with dirty, tattered curtains covering the windows, the roof on the verge of collapse and the antenna dangling from the gable on its wire. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Becoming brianna series![]() ![]() ![]() Terri has a husband, two daughters, and one poodle (all adorable). Terri is the New York Times bestselling author of the Emmie & Friends series and the cartoonist of the award-winning syndicated comic strip The Pajama Diaries (2006–2020). She also knows how wonderful it is when friendships do work out. But as a mom (and former middle school student in the dark ages), she knows these things happen. 520 a Middle school is full of challenges. My ideal classroom will be an environment that is open to new ideas and a place to shape and mold an upcoming generation. a The Emmie & Friends Series v Book 4: 511 0 a Performed by Em Eldridge. As a teacher, I would like to build a relationship with my students and be a role model for them. As a Type A perfectionist, Terri Libenson hates to admit that she has any ex-friends. Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide) Libenson, Terri and Em, Eldridge. ![]() ![]() ![]() From her, McCaleb learns a terrible truth: that the donor of his heart was not killed in an accident, as he'd been told, but was murdered. But McCaleb's calm seas turn choppy when a story in the "What Happened To?" column of the LA Times brings him face-to-face with the sister of the woman whose heart now beats in his chest. Thanks to a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terrell McCaleb is enjoying a quiet retirement, renovating the fishing boat he lives on in Los Angeles Harbor. ![]() It's the story of a lifetime-except that "the Poet" already seems to know that Jack is trailing him.… Here is definitive proof that Michael Connelly is among the best suspense novelists working today. ![]() But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work-a devious cop killer who's left a coast-to-coast trail of "suicide notes" drawn from the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like “The Women Men Don’t See” by James Tiptree, Jr… perhaps her most famous story, and that’s saying something. How incredible was The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3? It contains some of the finest science fiction stories of all time, packed into one slender volume. Here’s what I said last year about #3, published in 1973. ![]() It still speaks to adults today, clearly and with no loss of voice, and I now consider Carr’s Bestvolumes - especially the ones he did in the mid-70s - to be some some of the best SF anthologies ever printed. I’ve returned to Carr’s Best Science Fiction of the Year recently, and discovered why I didn’t connect with them four decades ago: unlike many of his contemporaries, Carr brought an adult eye to SF, and the fiction he selected spoke to adults. I went back to reading pulp SF in books like Before the Golden Age, and was blissfully happy to do so for many years. I picked up my first one in 1977, at the age of 13, and I discovered pretty quickly that they weren’t for me. One of those exceptions is Terry Carr’s Best Science Fiction of the Year. What I learned to love as a teen I largely still enjoy… with some exceptions. My taste in science fiction - like my taste in music and film - was shaped early. ![]() ![]() ![]() Any backordered components will ship separately as they become available. ![]() In-stock components will ship according to our normal shipping time. When you order a package, you are charged one price for all package items. Because most package items or components are also sold separately and may be components of multiple packages, these items may not have the same inventory availability at any point in time. Although packages are sets, items are not physically bundled together. Any item sold as a package on our website is identified by a unique alpha-numeric item number (such as "APH1AB"). ![]() A listing of individual items that make up a package is provided on the package item's product detail page along with real-time item availability of those items. A "package" is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Something is inside Mabel, something ghastly, and yet there is almost nothing Bell can do about it. ![]() ![]() Now, though, it seems as though they were warnings, statements of simple fact. Aaaah! Oh, it's horrible, this teeming visage, believe me (though I'd better not give too much away here), and suddenly Bell has every reason to remember her mother's stories. Interrupted, her future sister-in-law turns around to reveal a face that is…. Say, I've got a few dresses that might fit you… want to try them on?"), but she also has a dark secret, one that Bell discovers after wandering into a cave in the forest. It's a remote place, surrounded by thick woods, into which she is warned not to wander, and when her only ally – Madame Beauchamp, the housekeeper – disappears, she is more lonely than ever, her dreams populated by dozens of sets of teeth that bite into her and seem to cling on even when she wakes. H aving spent her early childhood listening to her mother's scary stories – the worst kind of monsters, she was told, are those that burrow inside a person and eat them alive from the inside out – Bell is now an orphan who must spend her school holidays with her brother, Clarence, and his fiancee, Rebecca, at their house in the country. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The pale blue dot![]() ![]() The image inspired the title of scientist Carl Sagan's 1994 book, "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space,” in which he wrote: "Look again at that dot. This image of Earth is part of a family portrait of our solar system taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from about 3.8 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. Just slightly larger than nearby Venus, Earth is the biggest of the four planets closest to the Sun, all of which are made of mostly rock and metal. ![]() While Earth is only the fifth largest planet in the solar system, it is the only world in our solar system with abundant liquid water on the surface. There are seven iterations of this poster: Version A, Version B, Version C, Version D, Version E, Version F and Version GĮarth-our home planet- is the third planet from the Sun, and the only place we know of so far that’s inhabited by living things.Several download options are available in the column on the right. The posters are best printed on 11x17 paper. Optional back with a brief summary and orbit diagram. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Never let me go book cover![]() ![]() Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. ![]() Its students are well-tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun, comes “a Gothic tour de force" ( The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist-a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() I certainly have some thoughts, but I think the best way for me to write this review is going to be to do my what I liked/what I didn’t like kind of review. The War of Two Queens has created some controversy in the book community. ![]() ![]() To end what the Blood Queen has begun, Poppy might have to become what she has been prophesied to be-what she fears the most.Īs the Harbinger of Death and Destruction. ![]() Ancient primal powers have already stirred, revealing the horror of what began eons ago. Not if she has any hope of building a future where both kingdoms can reside in peace.Ī great primal power rises…Together, Poppy and Casteel must embrace traditions old and new to safeguard those they hold dear-to protect those who cannot defend themselves. With the strength of the Primal of Life’s guards behind her, and the support of the wolven, Poppy must convince the Atlantian generals to make war her way-because there can be no retreat this time. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable.Īnd born of mortal flesh…Nothing will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the Blood Crown stands for. From the desperation of golden crowns…Casteel Da’Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could’ve prepared for the staggering revelations. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Krysia by Krystyna Mihulka![]() 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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