5/11/2023 0 Comments Night Games by R.L. StineIn 1986, Stine wrote his first horror novel, called Blind Date. He wrote dozens of humor books for kids under the pen name Jovial Bob Stine and created the humor magazine Bananas. He later moved to New York City to pursue his career as a writer. Stine edited the OSU humor magazine, The Sundial, for three out of his four years there. He graduated from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He began writing at age 9 when he found a typewriter in his attic, subsequently beginning to type stories and joke books. Stine was born in Columbus, Ohio on Octo to Jewish parents, Anne Stine, a homemaker and Lewis Stine, a shipping clerk. 2.8.5 Find Your Fate Junior: Golden Girl.2.5 Non-fiction and Jovial Bob Stine books.2.1.4.5 99 Fear Street: The House of Evil.2.1.3.1 Give Yourself Goosebumps Special Edition.
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5/11/2023 0 Comments How to avoid a climateDrawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.īill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. They probably should have added that hearts are, too. But they say rules are meant to be broken. But the more I come unraveled at the hands of Clay Johnson, the more trouble I have discerning what’s fake and what’s undoubtedly real - particularly, the way my heart flutters every time that breathtaking man touches me. So, to sweeten the deal, I convince him to help me - not just to get my crush’s attention, but to knock his socks off once I have it. What he doesn’t realize is that this bookworm is a virgin, and far from versed in seducing a musician. All by pretending to be in a relationship. But when he witnesses how I fall to pieces in front of my guitar-toting crush, his wheels start turning. We meet to discuss his behavior and review media relations standards. He used to be the easiest of all the players for me to wrangle as the Public Relations Coordinator, but after a nasty breakup with his high school sweetheart, he’s a mess. There’s hardly a day he’s not headline material during football season, and never a day he isn’t a bullseye target for every girl on campus. Clay Johnson has the abs of Adonis and the deadly smirk of the devil, himself. And I just asked him to take my virginity. The hottest college football safety in the nation just asked me to be his fake girlfriend. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The Mabinogion by UnknownThe stories are so diverse that it has been argued that they are not even a true collection. The highly sophisticated complexity of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi defies categorisation. There is a classic hero quest, " Culhwch and Olwen" historic legend in " Lludd and Llefelys" glimpses a far off age and other tales portray a very different King Arthur from the later popular versions. The title covers a collection of eleven prose stories of widely different types. These stories offer drama, philosophy, romance, tragedy, fantasy and humour, and were created by various narrators over time. 1350–1410, as well as a few earlier fragments. The two main source manuscripts were created c. The stories were compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. The Mabinogion ( Welsh pronunciation: ( Audio file "Mabinogion.wav " not found)) are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain. Bendigeidfran carries the body of his nephew Gwern. The Two Kings (sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones, 1984) near Harlech Castle, Wales. For other uses, see Mabinogi (disambiguation). 5/11/2023 0 Comments The fifth season novelAlong the way, it can also challenge us to take a good look at our own reality, and question with an imaginative, open mind: how can we strive to create social structures that are not focused on white, patriarchal, cisgendered, and capitalist systems of inequity?Īs poet Lucille Clifton says, “We cannot create what we can’t imagine.” Imagination is an integral element to envisioning concrete change, one that goes hand in hand with hope. Speculative fiction immerses the reader in an alternate universe, hooking us in with a stirring narrative and intricate world-building-or the good stories do, anyways. What if, just as a thought experiment, our works that reimagined current structures of power also had robots? Karl Marx may be famous for his thorough, analytic attack on capitalism (see: all three volumes and the 1000-plus pages of Das Kapital), but let’s be real: it’s not the most exciting to read. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Push book preciousGiven these circumstances, it's no surprise that Precious often feels as if her mind has become a television set, playing and replaying videos that offer her a brief respite from the bleak realities of her daily life. Not much later, she learns that her father has infected her with H.I.V. A week after her second child, Abdul, is born, Precious finds herself out on the streets of Harlem, without a place to live. Little Mongo, Precious's first child, to whom she gave birth at the age of 12, turns out to have Down's syndrome and is quickly taken away from her. It's hard to imagine how things could get much worse, but in the course of "Push," Sapphire throws a lot more misfortune Precious's way. She, too, sexually abuses Precious, and treats her as a maidservant around the house. Her mother has not only allowed these rapes to occur, but also beats Precious for stealing her man. Like Celie in "The Color Purple," the heroine of "Push" is the survivor of a brutal childhood and youth at the age of 16, Claireece or "Precious" as she calls herself, has already had two children by the man she knows as her father. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" and mix it up with the feminist sentimentality and anger of Alice Walker's "Color Purple"? The answer is "Push," a much-talked-about first novel by a poet named Sapphire, a novel that manages to be disturbing, affecting and manipulative all at the same time. What do you get if you borrow the notion of an idiosyncratic teen-age narrator from J. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Usagi yo jimboWe feel that through this imprint with Dark Horse, an expanded Usagi Universe is becoming a reality. Because of this new synergy, I am able to continue to do what I love most: create more Usagi Yojimbo stories. I still write, hand-draw, and hand-letter each story. Being the sole creator of Usagi Yojimbo takes a tremendous amount of time and responsibility. As the industry continues to change, I feel he brings a unique progressive perspective. I've known Mike Richardson for more than 30 years, and he is one of the pioneers and champions of creator-owned IP. The setting is 17th century Japan, when the age of civil wars has barely ended and the Shogun has established power. As the sole creator and owner of Usagi Yojimbo, this is a significant milestone. I'm very excited, honored and thankful to have my own publishing imprint with Dark Horse. Sakai will serve as Dogu Publishing's creative director, and notes the scale of this accomplishment in relation to a single-creator IP, saying: Dark Horse will publish content through Dogu Publishing, its new imprint focusing on bringing Sakai's works - including Usagi Yojimbo - to fans. Today, Dark Horse Comics has revealed a new partnership with Stan Sakai’s Dogu Publishing that will not only bring Usagi Yojimbo back to the publisher but also include expansions of the Yojimbo universe. Related: Dark Horse Unveils Hellboy, BPRD & More Mike Mignola Collections (Exclusive) 5/10/2023 0 Comments Sin Like Flynn by Kathryn Le VequeJoin Joshua and Georgina in a fun romp about pushy mothers, socieital norms, and that one thing all souls search for - true love. And Georgina Poyington is directly in her path. His mother, Josephine, has had enough of her son's reluctance to take a wife and decides to take matters into her own hands, for she is the madwoman who drives the Red Charger. He's also Viscount Sunbury and, as such, he's the most sought after bachelor in town. Joshua Wethersfield is a local barrister. Georgina is about to meet her fate at the hands of that madwoman. 4.6 out of 5 stars322 Kindle Edition 0.000.00 Free with Kindle Unlimited membership Learn More Available instantly Or 3. People live in fear of that Red Charger, a sleek phaeton pulled by a big, red horse and driven by a madwoman. Sin Like Flynn: A Regency Historical Romance Duet by Kathryn Le Vequeand Alexa Aston Sold by: Amazon Media EU S. But the one thing she hears about, quite frequently, is the tale of the Red Charger. There is a social hierarchy, as always, and Georgina doesn't quite fit in. Love a fun Regency romp? Get ready for Georgina and the Red Charger! When Miss Georgina Poyington and her father move to a new village, Georgina settles in to a town with all of the usual secrets towns have. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Nightfall book asimovCompiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction, it begins with “Nightfall”, the tale of a world with eternal sun that is suddenly plunged into total darkness and utter madness. Published when the author was only twenty-one, “Nightfall” was arguably Asimov’s breakout work, making such an impression that, almost thirty years later, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted it the best science-fiction short story ever written. A collection of 20 classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall”įrom one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction comes this collection of twenty short works of fiction, arranged in order of publication from 1941 to 1967. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Wilding treeThe Burrells' degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life - all by itself. Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer - proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain - the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade.Įxtremely rare species, including turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, lesser spotted woodpeckers and purple emperor butterflies, are now breeding at Knepp, and populations of other species are rocketing. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.įorced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. |