![]() ![]() ![]() Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new. A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre, and rating. Moon Called as its meant to be heard, narrated by Lorelei King. It began with the visual novel WP, Fate/stay night, and has since gathered a number of prequels, sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations bearing the same "Fate" name.įate/Prototype Special Drama CD: On Ship Christmas Murderįate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 2wei! Herzįate/GUDAGUDA Order Drama CD: Kaettekita GUDAGUDA Otoku Techniqueįate/Grand Order THE STAGE - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Replica Agateramįate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Vow in the Snowįate/stay night Ⅰ. Series list: Mercy Thompson (22 Books) by Patricia Briggs. Slogan: A Tale of Heroes, Desire and "Destiny".įate series is a TYPE-MOON media collective that follows various events called Holy Grail Wars that involve Masters, generally accomplished magi, summoning Servants, Heroic Spirits, and battling each other until the last remaining pair can claim the purported Holy Grail. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Thoreau knew, intuition comes in glimpses and flashes, fits and starts. Throughout the day, the ordinariness of our characters’ minutes ticking by collides with sudden sublime and surreal interruptions. In “Society,” family man Ramirez moves through the morass of a middle class existence-mortgage, health insurance, failing home appliances-and spends a biblically hilarious day navigating the bureaucratic inferno of civilized society. In “Friendship,” Luke leads his partner Guy on a surreal journey into the Rocky Mountains as well as into parts of himself he dares not confront. In "Solitude," eighty-year old Alice plays detective of the soul, wading through her murky past, trying to uncover a core memory, which leads her to attempt to break free from the walls of her dementia-and her nursing home. Walden: Life in the Woods is a radical, western re-imagining of Henry David Thoreau’s classic "Walden." Taking place over twenty-four hours, the film interlaces Solitude, Friendship and Society: three contemporary narratives about the trappings of modern life and the unlikely transcendentalists who dream dangerously of escape. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, a passionate love affair created a rift between the family, with shattering consequences that reverberated for decades to come. But above all else, she longed to be asked to stay at the house on Bank Street, to be a part of Robert and James’s sophisticated world, even as the AIDS crisis brings devastation to their community. Seduced by the heady pull of mentorship and hoping to follow in the footsteps of her mother-a former Balanchine ballerina-Carlisle’s aspiration to become a professional ballet dancer bloomed. Brilliant but troubled, James gave Carlisle an education in all that he held dear in life-literature, music, and, most of all, dance. Throughout her childhood, Carlisle Martin got to see her father, Robert, for only a few precious weeks a year when she visited the brownstone apartment in Greenwich Village he shared with his partner, James. ![]() I cannot recommend it enough.” -Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins and All This Could Be Yours I cried several times while reading it, and was sorry to let it go when I was done. It is about art, life, death, love, and family and it is beautifully and sharply written. “ They’re Going to Love You is my idea of a perfect book. finger-trap puzzle of a plot."- New York Times Book Review ![]() "Beautiful.Howrey, a former dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, proves herself a talented choreographer in her own right.A gripping novel set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The second robbery sets in place of the just God a vision of a "cruel power." Yet because he does believe in a power, Silas is able to believe that Eppie is sent for his salvation, and through Eppie's influence he finds new faith in the goodness of other men. The betrayal by William Dane costs Silas his faith in men, and the betrayal of the drawing of the lots takes his faith in a just God. They have roots they develop naturally from his past. The changes in Silas' character are never arbitrary. Silas changes greatly during the course of the book, yet part of him always remains "the same Silas Marner who had once loved his fellow with tender love and trusted in an unseen goodness." That original love and trust seemed crushed by the evils which befall him, but they return with even greater strength, and it seems natural that they should do so. He is a product of Eliot's desire to arouse sympathy for ordinary imperfect humanity going about its day-to-day business. He is not notably intelligent or courageous or unselfish. ![]() ![]() ![]() These criminals attempted to steal Class One foodstuffs from the private warehouse of the Inner City. ".assaulting a citizen of the Inner City, robbery, trespass-ing and resisting arrest. ![]() He was walking back and forth, pointing to the condemned and rattling off a list of crimes, his pale eyes gleaming with triumph. The pet stood on the edge of the platform, puffed up and swaggering, as if he had caught the kids himself. The trap had closed the hunters had caught them, and there was no place for them to run. I crossed my arms tightly, feeling their desperation. Still, they had the same look of all Unregistereds thin and ragged, their eyes darting about like trapped animals. I didn't know them they weren't part of my crowd. The other two were even younger, fourteen and fifteen if I had to guess, and siblings, since they both had the same stringy yellow hair. The oldest was about my age, seventeen and skinny, with huge frightened eyes and greasy dark hair that hung to his shoulders. ![]() There were three of them this time, two boys and a girl. I stood at the back, a nameless face in the crowd, too close to the gallows for comfort but unable to look away. They hung the Unregistereds in the old warehouse district it was a public execution, so everyone went to see. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until Wulfe vanished, all of them were powerless loners, many of whom quietly moved to the Tri-Cities in the hope that the safety promised by Mercy and Adam's pack would extend to them as well. And these are not just ordinary people but supernatural beings. Someone is taking people from locked rooms, from the aisles of stores, and even from crowded parties. So Mercy goes out to find her stalker-and discovers more than just Wulfe have disappeared. The mistress of the vampire seethe informs Mercy that the pack must produce Wulfe to prove their innocence, or the loose alliance between the local vampires and werewolves is over. But when he disappears, the Tri-Cities pack is blamed. Since he's deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of "fun" is stalking Mercy, some may see it as no great loss. Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Published by Berkley Publishing Group on August 23, 2022 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the Publisher. ![]() ![]() Radiometric dating of nearby rocks indicated the resulting skeleton, classified as Ardipithecus ramidus-nicknamed “Ardi”-was an astounding 4.4 million years old, more than a million years older than the world-famous “Lucy.” The team spent the next 15 years studying the bones in strict secrecy, all while continuing to rack up landmark fossil discoveries in the field and becoming increasingly ensnared in bitter disputes with scientific peers and Ethiopian bureaucrats. It is the ultimate mystery: where do we come from? In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White uncovered a set of ancient bones in Ethiopia’s Afar region. A work of staggering depth." - Minneapolis Star TribuneĪ decade in the making, Fossil Men is a scientific detective story played out in anatomy and the natural history of the human body: the first full-length account of the discovery of a startlingly unpredicted human ancestor more than a million years older than Lucy ![]() In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." - New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) ![]() ![]() Pattison's uncanny ability to write evocatively about science. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are lots of things I would do very, very differently and I’m never going to be a spokesman for the Conservative Party. He’s made it a bit of a priority and I’m grateful. In fairness to him, that had already appeared on his radar. Obviously, the true answer is it needs tons and tons of money, but I thought I’d say something that was potentially achievable, so I talked about looking after doctors. I met him fairly soon after he became health secretary and he asked what one thing I would do to help the NHS. ![]() In general, Matt Hancock is doing a good job. Because if that book puts you off medicine then medicine’s really going to put you off medicine. They read your book and now they don’t want to do it.” My response to that is: good. I get occasional emails from parents, saying, “You put my son/daughter off medicine. It’s not part of the interview process it’s not taught at medical school. I don’t think I knew what I was getting into. Medicine is a job to go into with your eyes wide open. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a different phenomenon, of which the visible tip of the iceberg is Christian home-schooling and the Duggar family, of the reality show "19 Kids and Counting." That's not the "Christian right" that Ms. What's less obvious is that a significant part of that "Christian right" are not our run of the mill evangelical Christians, people who may be more supportive of morality- based laws, and less supportive of sex education, contraception, and teaching the facts of evolution, but who aren't all that different from the mainstream, especially the mainline Protestant mainstream. Most of us are aware of the influence of the "Christian right" in Republican politics. ![]() Kathryn Joyce takes us on an alarming, enlightening, startling journey through an American subculture most of us are unaware of. ![]() ![]() ![]() Incidents of poisoning from these plants are therefore not uncommon and may be the result of accidental exposure or deliberate, suicidal ingestion of the toxic parts. ![]() While one is a wild shrub (Datura) that proliferates in the countryside and by roadsides, and the other (Oleander) is a garden plant that features in many homes. These plants are commonly encountered in almost all parts of India. The exact nature of plant poisoning varies from region to region, but certain plants are almost ubiquitous in distribution, and among these, Oleander and Datura are the prime examples. While most cases are due to chemicals or drugs or envenomation by venomous creatures, a significant proportion also results from consumption or exposure to toxic plants or plant parts or products. India has a very high incidence of poisoning. ![]() |