![]() ![]() So, how many of us had a crappy first apartment? C’mon, everybody raise your hand! In the course of the blog tour, I’ll be sharing some highlights (and low-lights) of my first year with Mate–and how I drew on that to write Rusty and Oliver, and hopefully you’ll see why these guys are so very close to my heart. In honor of their rather rocky beginning in the crappy apartment with the hand-me-down furniture, I went back to my own roots with my beloved Mate. ![]() The story focuses around Rusty Baker, a once spoiled rich kid who finds himself homeless for the holidays, because he fell in love with Oliver Campbell, his best friend from high school. Welcome to the blog tour for Christmas Kitsch, a full length novel featured in Riptide’s Home for the HolidaysChristmas bundle. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Our knowledge of world exploration as it's been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this landmark work of historical investigation. ![]() Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, "1421" rewrites our understanding of history. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans & transplanted in America & other countries the principal economic crops that have fed & clothed the world. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus & had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. researcher and former submarine commander Gavin Menzies asserts that beginning in 1421, the Chinese Admiral Zheng He commanded 300 vessels in seven. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today. Most records of their journeys were destroyed. Gavin Menzies makes the argument that in the year 1434, Chinathen the world's most technologically advanced civilizationprovided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings. When it returned in 10/1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political & economic chaos. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" & unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. See images for the condition of this book.īlurb: On, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Condition: Good: Good condition for a used book! Some wear. ![]() ![]() ![]() By chance, he gives up his seat on a plane bound for New York City and ends up in a small South Carolina town where a series of events leads him to accept a job working for the local sheriff.Īround the same time in Minneapolis, Minnesota, intruders break into 12-year-old Luke Ellis’s home, kill his parents, and kidnap him. ![]() The beginning follows would-be drifter, Tim Jamieson, who leaves his unfulfilling job and takes to the road in search of something new. Like many of King’s works, there are really two parts to this book that end up converging in a powerful and explosive way. First edition United States cover art.Ģ019’s The Institute is billed as a science fiction/horror novel. So, when I learned that King had released a novel that was a bit more like these titles, I was intrigued. I especially love his classic novels, such as Carrie and Misery, and novellas like The Body, the short which spawned the heart-wrenching movie, Stand by Me. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as the two become closer, an invisible world gets in their way - a world of grudges, misfortunes, spells and curses. And to Elizabeth’s amazement, she wants him to be able to see her - all of her. She can blend in with the crowds easily in the Big Apple. So when her mother decides to move the family to New York City, Elizabeth loves the idea. Elizabeth, on the other hand, can only wish for such a “curse.” If you’re invisible, no one will be able to hurt you. ![]() Stephen is used to invisibility, having been born with that curse. If You Like Andrea Cremer Books, You’ll Love…Īndrea Cremer Synopsis: Invisibility is a standalone novel by Andrea Cremer and David Levithan. The Forbidden Side of Nightshade is written under the pen name of A.D. Notes: Invisibility was written with David Levithan. ![]() ![]() In Real Life is a touching and morally complex tale for young adults. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake. ![]() ![]() Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.īut things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer―a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. “A lovely graphic novel for gamer girls of all ages.” ―Felicia DayĪnda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang comes a New York Times-bestselling graphic novel that takes a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash. ![]() ![]() Uncaged Review: This is by far, my favorite historical romance this year. But the most perilous risk of all is losing their hearts. Their quest to uncover the truth leads to danger and desire. So begins a secret partnership between the fallen duke and the determined lady. Though her brother is convinced of Strathmore’s guilt, Violet isn’t as certain. When the disgraced Duke of Strathmore lands in her lap-literally-she decides he is the answer to her longing for adventure. ![]() Lady Violet West is about to be married to the most boring man in England. He’s on a desperate race to clear his name by any means until a grave error lands him under house arrest with the last sort of distraction he needs. ![]() Suspended from his work as an agent for the Crown, Griffin, Duke of Strathmore, exists under a dark cloud of suspicion for crimes he didn’t commit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sally Hawkins, Rene Beyers, Steve Carver and Ian Convery ![]() Led by an editorial team who have extensive experience researching and practising rewilding, this handbook is essential reading for students, academics and practitioners interested in rewilding, ecological restoration, natural resource management and conservation. Drawing on a range of international case studies the handbook addresses many of the key issues, including land acquisition and longer-term planning, transitioning from restoration (human-led, nature enabled) to rewilding (nature-led, human enabled), and the role of political and social transformational change. The handbook is organised into four sections to reflect key areas of rewilding theory, practice, and debate: the evolution of rewilding, theoretical and practical underpinnings, applications and impacts, and the ethics and philosophy of rewilding. There is, therefore, the need for a comprehensive assessment of this field, and the Routledge Handbook of Rewilding fills this lacuna. However, as a rapidly emerging area of conservation, the term has often been defined and used in a variety of different ways (both temporally and spatially). Rewilding offers a transformational paradigm shift in conservation thinking, and as such is increasingly of interest to academics, policymakers, and practitioners. ![]() This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and current practices of rewilding. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I also can't deny feeling a bit sick to my stomach sometimes when my inbox fills up with people wanting comments on the show. Ed Brubaker (Author, Contributor), & 3 more Format: Kindle Edition 380 ratings Book 1 of 1: Winter Soldier See all formats and editions Kindle & Comixology 19.99 Read on any device Kindle & Comixology Paperback 23.99 15 Used from 19.64 20 New from 19.48 Collects Fear Itself 7.1: Captain America (2011), Winter Soldier (2012) 1-14. Also, I have a great life as a writer and much of it is because of Cap and the Winter Soldier bringing so many readers to my other work. Work-for-hire work is what it is, and I'm honestly thrilled to have co-created something that's become such a big part of pop culture – or even pop subculture with all the Bucky-Steve slash fiction – and that run on Cap was one of the happiest times of my career, certainly while doing superhero comics. "So yeah, mixed feeling, and maybe it'll always be like that (but I sure hope not). I've even seen higher-ups on the publishing side try to take credit for my work a few times, which was pretty galling (to be clear, I'm NOT talking about Tom Breevort, who was a great editor and really helpful)." "…but at the same time, for the most part, all Steve Epting and I have gotten for creating the Winter Soldier and his storyline is a "thanks" here or there, and over the years that's become harder and harder to live with. Also, Anthony Mackie is amazing as the Falcon, and everyone at Marvel Studios that I've ever met (all the way up to Kevin Feige) have been nothing but kind to me…" I'm really happy for Sebastian Stan, who I think is both a great guy and the perfect Bucky/Winter Soldier, and I'm glad to see him getting more screen time finally. ![]() ![]() Ed Brubaker describes the show as something "I sadly have very mixed feelings about. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout, Rhodes comes to realize how much America’s fingerprints are on a world we helped to shape: through the excesses of our post-Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism, post-9/11 nationalism and militarism, mania for technology and social media, and the racism that shaped the backlash to the Obama presidency. ![]() Along the way, a Russian opposition leader he spends time with is poisoned, the Hong Kong protesters he comes to know see their movement snuffed out, and America itself reaches the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a second chance.Įqual parts memoir and reporting, After the Fall is a hugely ambitious and essential work of discovery. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outward. In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. ![]() Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A former White House aide and close confidante to President Barack Obama-and New York Times bestselling author of The World as It Is-travels the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Given that I was named after their only son (of seven children), who drowned in a swimming accident when he was only ten, they – especially Grandpa, who declared, when the body of his only son was brought into their house, “The light of my life has gone out!” – I was given a double dose of grandparenting love that year. I got to live there for my entire eighth-grade year. My missionary parents had given me a great gift: the gift of living with my maternal grandparents, Herbert and Josephine Leininger in their large rambling home in then almost perpetually foggy Arcata in California’s redwood country. Memories flooded in on me as I retrieved it, looked at my teen-age writing inside the cover, and remembered the impact of that first reading. ![]() As I searched for a book generations of young people (as well as adults of all ages) have loved, I chanced to look at the most beloved shelf of books in my entire library: the books I cherished most during my growing-up years. After the two-month marathon September Book of the Month, Victor Hugo’s monumental Les Miserables, I decided I ought to throw in a real change of pace. ![]() |