6/28/2023 0 Comments The monkey god bookThe team included renowned archeologists, anthropologists, scientists, private ex-military survivalists, and Honduran spec-ops trained in jungle survival. Preston, who was hired to report on the expedition for National Geographic and the New Yorker, joined a small team funded by a documentary filmmaker. Major archaeological work at the site started in 2012 and is ongoing. The discovery* of the City of the Jaguar, formerly known as La Ciudad Blanca or The White City, in the perilous Mosquitia region of Honduras has been a thoroughly modern undertaking. Most books about white men exploring the jungle harken back to the grainy black-and-white days of Theodore Rosevelt or Queen Victoria but Douglas Preston’s trek in The Lost City of the Monkey God is anchored firmly in the present. High-tech military equipment, a flesh eating disease, and ancient curses collide in this unapologetically modern twist on the gentleman-explorer narrative.
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Synopsis of apples never fallThe four Delaney children-Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke-were tennis stars in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took to go all the way. But after fifty years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? The Delaney family love one another dearly-it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest in Apples Never Fall. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Beyond Infinity by Gregory BenfordFYI:Benford, a physicist, has won two Nebula Awards and a John W. With its thoughtful extrapolation and mind-bending physics, this book reinforces Benford's position as one of today's foremost writers of hard SF. Cley won't be safe until she solves the secret of the Malign a secret whose truth lies far back in the past, when the human race first set out to explore the galaxy. Her journey quickly takes on an Alice-in-Wonderland quality, as she and Seeker traverse bewildering multidimensional spaces and encounter the immense Leviathan, a living ship that roams the solar system. Aided by the raccoon-like alien Seeker-After-Patterns, which seems to have a parallel agenda all its own, Cley flees Supra captivity and Earth. Cley knows, though, the Supras aren't telling her the whole story. Read 25 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. When a vicious attack by transdimensional life forms leaves Cley the last Original alive, the Supras blame an extradimensional race known as the Malign. But there are mysterious forces afoot among the planets that she never foresaw. So she flees, in the company of an intelligent beast wise beyond recognition. Though the genetically reengineered Supras regard her as limited in intelligence, Cley's precocious nature lands her a job helping to recover scientific and historical data from the immense caches called the Library of Life. Set more than a billion years from now, the novel begins with a young woman who yearns to escape the rigid, timeless Earth she knows. Young Cley is an Original, a genetically pure example of the oldest species of humans on Earth. Expanded from his 1990 novella, "Beyond the Fall of Night," this dense, lively, far-future SF novel from Benford (The Martian Race) sweeps readers away in a taut adventure that examines humanity's role in steering the fate of the universe. 6/27/2023 0 Comments The incal comic“Many things can be said about his mastery of sequential art and ability to wield a seemingly infinite imagination into comic book panels. “Moebius is as close as the comic industry has gotten to having our very own prophet,” Pitarra says. No matter how simple the drawing, or how grand the spectacle on the page, you get the sense that it is but a tiny piece of the fully realized world he’s created inside himself.”Īrtist Nick Pitarra ( Doom Patrol, The Manhattan Projects) didn’t just offer an endorsement - he also created artwork of The Incal’s Moebius and Jodorowsky as tribute. What Moebius does, and what I think what all great artists do, is to show you a window into his soul. That, in short, that serious art can still be fun. Mark Russell ( Snagglepuss: Exist Stage Left, Second Coming) adds, “ The Incal, and the work of Moebius in general, showed me that you can deal with deeply spiritual or intellectual subjects and still have giant spiders. “He has influenced so many artists in how they conceive of space and of fantasy worlds, that you have to try to understand how Moebius works to write for them effectively.” “I love Moebius, but as a writer of comics, Moebius is one of the figures of such huge stature you have to think about even if you don’t like him,” says Kieron Gillen ( Die, Once & Future), one of the current generation of comic creators who’ve lent their support to the new edition. 'Dave' Season 3 Finale: Dave Burd and GaTa Talk Guest Stars, Stalkers and Self-Love 6/27/2023 0 Comments Tik tok of oz bookHe wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works (55 novels in total, 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known now as simply The Wizard of Oz. Frank Baum - Free Ebook Project Gutenberg 70,646 free eBooks 111 by L. According to Wikipedia: "Lyman Frank Baum (1856 – 1919) was an American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W. The series includes: 1 The Wizard of Oz, 2 The Land of Oz, 3 Ozma of Oz, 4 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, 5 The Road to Oz, 6 The Emerald City of Oz, 7 The Patchwork Girl of Oz, 8 Tik-Tok of Oz, 9 The Scarecrow of Oz, 10 Rinkitink in Oz, 11 The Lost Princess of Oz, 12 The Tin Woodman of Oz, 13 The Magic of Oz, 14 Glinda of Oz, and 15 The Royal Book of Oz. Meet the first girl to come to Oz from America since Dorothy Gale Betsy Bobbin of Oklahoma is swept off a ship at sea and into magical adventures when she. This book is partly based upon Baum's stage musical, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, which was in turn based on Ozma of Oz. She meets the Shaggy Man there and the two try to rescue the Shaggy Man's brother from the Nome King. According to Wikipedia: "Betsy Bobbin, a girl from Oklahoma, is shipwrecked with her mule, Hank, in the Rose Kingdom of Oz. 'Monkey and the Little One' was shortlisted for the 2015 Junior Design Awards and listed as one of the top ten best new picture books during Independent Book Sellers Week 2015. She regularly visits schools and enjoys drawing for children.Ĭlaire's new title 'The Best Bit of Daddy's Day' will be published in June 2016. In 2007 Claire wrote her own course on writing and illustrating picture books which she has been teaching ever since, and now at the House of Illustration. Here Claire produced her first dummy book for Small Florence, which was then published and started her dream career as an author illustrator. She moved to London in 1995 and stumbled through many different jobs until she studied children's illustration at Putney School of Art. she has always loved drawing from an early age and remembers being asked by her school mates to draw rabbits for them! After school she studied Fine Art at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury where she achieved a BA degree in Painting. Claire was born in Bath, Wiltshire and moved to Kent when she was six. 6/27/2023 0 Comments The romanov conspiracy a thrillerBook Synopsis Since July 1918, no one has been able to solve the mysterious disappearance of Princess Anastasia-until Dr. Drawn from historical fact, The Romanov Conspiracy is a high-tension story of love and friendship tested by war, and a desperate battle between revenge and redemption, set against one of the most bloody and brutal revolutions in world history.-Publisher. Pavlovs discovery sets her on an unlikely journey to Ireland, where a carefully hidden account of a years-old covert mission is about to change the accepted course of world history and hurl her back into the past - into a maelstrom of deceit, secrets, and lies. The remains offer dramatic new clues to the disappearance of the Romanovs, and in particular their famous daughter, Princess Anastasia, whose murder has always been in question. A member of an international team digging on the outskirts of the present-day Russian city of Ekaterinburg, where the Romanov royal family was executed in July 1918, Pavlov discovers a body perfectly preserved in the permafrost of a disused mine shaft. Laura Pavlov, an American forensic archaeologist, is about to unravel a mystery that promises to shed light on one of the 20th centurys greatest enigmas. 6/26/2023 0 Comments SevenevesIf this had been published fifteen (maybe even ten) years ago, it would be at least two books. The publishers wouldn’t have it, and the editors would rise up and smack down any author who thought they could get away with such hubris. The printing and binding machines would groan and creak. Time was, see, you just couldn’t publish a nearly 900-page hardcover book like this. It breaks all the rules and conventions of the novel form, and that’s not because it’s poorly written-it’s because the book is not trying to follow those conventions. But in this case, that label is a lie-or at the very least, a simplification. I know that it has that stupid “A Novel” subtitle that dangles off the end of a book’s cover like an appendix because some publishers worry that readers are too dumb or lazy to look at a book’s description to figure out if it’s fiction or non-fiction. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Deception by C.J. RedwineEven worse, as it becomes clear that the Commander will stop at nothing to destroy them, the band of survivors begins to question whether the price of freedom may be too great-and whether, hunted by their enemies and the murderous traitor in their midst, they can make it out of the Wasteland alive. The chaos and uncertainty of each day puts unbearable strain on Rachel and Logan, and it isn’t long before they feel their love splintering. Under constant threat from rival Carrington’s army, who is after the device that controls the Cursed One, the group decides to abandon the ruins of their home and take their chances in the Wasteland.īut soon their problems intensify tenfold: someone-possibly inside their ranks-is sabotaging the survivors, picking them off one by one. With their ragged group of survivors struggling to forge a future, it’s up to Logan to become the leader they need-with Rachel by his side. And Rachel, grief stricken over her father’s death, needs Logan more than ever. The brutal Commander’s whereabouts are unknown. Whitley’s review of Deception (Defiance #2) by C.J. 6/26/2023 0 Comments The king must die bookDelivery 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. 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