A small duodecimo volume, we purchased it earlier this year to fill a longstanding gap in the collections, taking the opportunity to strengthen our early 17th century holdings from both an English literature and a printing and book history point of view. The 1633 first edition of George Herbert’s The Temple is a recent acquisition for Special Collections. Although I thought that the work of George Herbert was all new to me, I found that I already knew some of his poems almost by heart, having sung the hymns “ Teach me, my God and King“, “ King of Glory, King of Peace” and “ Let All the World in Ev’ry Corner Sing” from a young age, but without taking a great deal of notice of the name of the person who wrote the words.
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So she decides she must learn to stand and fight.īut when Lucas is sent to spy on her, their fates become inextricably linked. The Hunter’s name is Evie Tremain.Įvie Tremain is a seventeen-year-old waitress who has just discovered she is the last in a long line of demon slayers-and an unwilling participant in a war between Hunters and unhumans that has raged for the last thousand years. Lucas Gray is half Shadow Warrior, half human, and a member of the Brotherhood-a group of assassins tasked with killing the last purebred Hunter on Earth before she can fulfill a dangerous prophecy. What happens when you discover you aren’t who you thought you were? When you find out the person you love is the person who must betray you? If fate is already determined-can you fight it? From the author of Hunting Lila, The Sound, and Out of Control comes the first novel in a spooky paranormal trilogy. Faced with Ember's bravery, confidence and all-too-human desires, Garret begins to question everything that the Order has ingrained in him: and what he might be willing to give up to find the truth about dragons. But he cannot kill unless he is certain he has found his prey: and nothing is certain about Ember Hill. Soldier Garret Xavier Sebastian has a mission to seek and destroy all dragons, and Talon's newest recruits in particular. As Ember struggles to accept her future, she and her brother are hunted by the Order of St. But destiny is a matter of perspective, and a rogue dragon will soon challenge everything Ember has been taught. Trained to infiltrate society, Ember wants to live the teen experience and enjoy a summer of freedom before taking her destined place in Talon. Hiding in human form and growing their numbers in secret, the dragons of Talon have become strong and cunning, and they're positioned to take over the world with humans none the wiser.Įmber and Dante Hill are the only sister and brother known to dragonkind. George, a legendary society of dragon slayers. Long ago, dragons were hunted to near extinction by the Order of St. Published by: Harlequin Teen on October 28, 2014 With The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware ( The Woman in Cabin 10) offers a clever and elegant update to James's story, one with less ambiguity but its own eerie potency. By the end, a child is dead, but we still don't know: Were the ghosts real, or were they in the governess's head? Over time, she becomes convinced the children are communing with the ghosts of former servants, who appear to them, at first at a distance and then ever closer, threatening to lead them to damnation. In Henry James's ambiguous, paranoid novella The Turn of the Screw (1898), a governess is left in charge of two children in an isolated Essex country house. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Turn of the Key Author Ruth Ware “Roth skillfully weaves the careful world-building and intricate web of characters that distinguished Divergent.” ( VOYA, starred review) Number one New York Times best seller * Wall Street Journal best seller * USA Today best seller * Number one IndieBound best seller In a stunning twist, the two will discover how fate defines their lives in ways most unexpected. For Cyra, that could mean taking the life of the man who may - or may not - be her father. And when Cyra’s father, Lazmet Noavek - a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead - reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer than ever.Īs Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra and Akos are desperate to stop him at any cost. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.Īkos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: He will die in service to Cyra’s family. The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The Fates Divide is a richly imagined tale of hope and resilience told in four stunning perspectives. In the second book of the Carve the Mark duology, globally best-selling Divergent author Veronica Roth reveals how Cyra and Akos fulfill their fates. Liam was already entrenched in his aunt’s house like some glowering grumpy giant when Mara moved in, with his big muscles and kissable mouth just sitting there on the couch tempting respectable scientists to the dark side…but Helena was her mentor and Mara’s not about to move out and give up her inheritance without a fight. Okay, sure, technically she’s the interloper. And other rules Liam, her detestable big-oil lawyer of a roommate, knows nothing about. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn…Īs an environmental engineer, Mara knows all about the delicate nature of ecosystems. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. A scientist should never cohabitate with her annoyingly hot nemesis-it leads to combustion. This is a one-upmanship-filled world in which seemingly ordinary family parties descend into wild anything-goes affairs and bored wives, worried that they may be traded in for younger models, dabble in cosmetic surgery of the most designer kind. There might not be a Real Housewives of Greenwich but Weisberger – who herself moved to the suburbs from Manhattan – makes a convincing case for why there should be. Read more: 30 best books for reading on the beach this summerĪnyone who has ever watched Real Housewiveswill understand where we’re heading here. Among Miriam’s new friends is Karolina, a former supermodel recently falsely accused of drunk-driving – a situation that may have been engineered by her husband, a handsome senator with high aspirations and very low morals. Licking her wounds, she holes up in Greenwich, Connecticut, with her old friend Miriam, a former hotshot lawyer with the shine coming off her stay-at-home mum dreams. As the novel opens, however, she finds her position as LA’s Rottweiler-in-chief under threat, as a new social media-savvy generation begins snapping at her designer heels. After leaving the fashion industry, Emily has reinvented herself as a crisis manager for celebrities, swooping in to clean up their messes with a no-nonsense attitude and a deft eye for PR. Interactions were found among place and pair bonds, and multigenerational patterns were noted for ancestral and cultural senses of place, with sense of place styles passed from parent to child. Being raised in the place affected feelings of rootedness, particularly for Maori peoples who have ties to tribal territory. Three contexts are used to examine the development of sense of place: residential status in the place (superficial, partial, personal, ancestral, and cultural senses of place) age stage, as in development across the life cycle, using a psychodynamic model (after Erikson and Vaillant) and development of the adult pair bond, most often in marriage. Insider status and local ancestry are important toward the development of a more rooted sense of place. Sense of place differs from place attachment by considering the social and geographical context of place bonds and the sensing of places, such as aesthetics and a feeling of dwelling. But this worst single day in the history of life on Earth was as critical for us as it was for the dinosaurs, as it allowed for evolutionary opportunities that were closed for the previous 100 million years.Ī Macmillan Audio production from St. In the terrible mass extinction that followed, more than half of known species vanished seemingly overnight. An asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. The cause of this disaster was identified decades ago. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. It’s a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now. In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God. Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. Murder.įrank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family-which includes his Methodist minister father his passionate, artistic mother Juilliard-bound older sister and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother-he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. It is a stand-alone work, a coming-of-age story that I sense is at least partially biographical, by turns heartwarming and heart-rending, a very spiritual book shot through with metaphors and turns of phrase that demand to be noted, marked and re-read long after the last. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. ORDINARY GRACE is a bit different, and not merely due to Cork’s absence. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. |