![]() ![]() ![]() Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his discoveries. His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. 'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available Now.Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But what about the mysterious man in the dark overcoat and fedora hat? And why are all these “magicians” trying to recruit Nate and his friends? Who can they trust? Stott, has arrived with a few enchanted sweets of his own. In addition, the ice cream truck driver, Mr. Chocolate balls that make you a master of disguise. White, owner of the Sweet Tooth, and soon learn about the magical side effects of her candies: Rock candy that makes you weightless. In this start to the series, four young friends-Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon-meet the grandmotherly Mrs. Welcome to the Sweet Tooth Ice Cream & Candy Shoppe, where the confections are a bit on the…unusual side. And so begins The Candy Shop War, a trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Beyonders and Fablehaven series. Magical candy that gives kids superpowers? Sweet! The possibility of evil overtaking the world? Not so tasty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The payload lodged in the nose cone is a very special "treasure," for on it depends the success of future launchings.The holiday becomes an adventure when their new friend, Lady Rhesus, the space monkey, is stolen and they discover that her tracks lead to a fisherman's beach shack. Anxious to help Uncle Walt, a rocket expert at Patrick Air Force Base, they join in the search for the rocket's nose cone, which is lost among the debris. This was the first sight to greet the Hollisters on their arrival in Florida for a visit with their cousins, Sharon and Randy Davis. Suddenly it exploded into a thousand pieces, showering the ocean and beaches with debris. =, A slender missile, fire streaming from its tail, rose majestically into the blue sky over the waters of Cape Kennedy. Just jacket and book covers in very good condition. ![]() ![]() Evanovich fans will find this closer in style to the Stephanie Plum novels." - Booklist A plan so sinister that only a megalomaniac could think it up, and only the unlikely duo of the irrepressibly charming Emerson Knight and the tenacious Riley Moon can stop it. Through the streets of Washington, D.C., and down into the underground vault of the Federal Reserve in New York City, an evil plan is exposed. What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Good thing he's also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he'd probably be homeless. Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry. ![]() ![]() Paperback - CURIOUS MINDS KNIGHT AND MOON #1 ![]() ![]() ![]() Our study implies a later regional divergence than predicted by genetic analyses, identifies an approximately 3,000-kilometre stylistic connection and offers important new insights into the social dimension of ancient interactions. This suggests that climate exerted some influence in shaping human social contact. The timing of this disconnection broadly corresponds with the southward shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, which caused periodic flooding of the Zambezi River catchment (an area that connects eastern and southern Africa). This connection breaks down approximately 33 ka, with populations remaining isolated until herders entered southern Africa after 2 ka. We found that ostrich eggshell bead technology probably originated in eastern Africa and spread southward approximately 50–33 ka via a regional network. Here we compare ostrich eggshell bead variations between eastern and southern Africa to explore population dynamics over the past 50,000 years. Genetic analyses reveal that eastern and southern African lineages diverged sometime in the Pleistocene epoch, approximately 350–70 thousand years ago (ka) 3, 4 however, little is known about the exact timing of these interactions, the cultural context of these exchanges or the mechanisms that drove their separation. ![]() ![]() Humans evolved in a patchwork of semi-connected populations across Africa 1, 2 understanding when and how these groups connected is critical to interpreting our present-day biological and cultural diversity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mysterious Leon Redbeard is their guide, and there’s a surprising new addition to the crew: the Elf King’s son, Trellis. In the third installment of the thrilling Amulet series, Emily, Navin, and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis, which is believed to be located on an island high above the clouds. ![]() But when Em, her brother, and Miskit and the rest of the robotic crew aboard the walking house reach the city, they quickly realize that seeking help is looking for trouble, dangerous trouble. Together with Miskit, they face the most terrifying monster of all, and Em finally has the chance to save someone she loves.Įmily and Navin’s mother is still in a coma from the arachnopod’s poison, and there’s only one place to find help: Kanalis, the bustling, beautiful city of waterfalls. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals.Įventually, they enlist the help of a small mechanical rabbit named Miskit. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids’ mom through a door in the basement. After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Give me belonging, give me identity, give me continuity, but give me transcendence and mystery and awe all in one. So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide: But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot, and we live twice as long. ![]() Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. So reconciling our need for security and our need for adventure into one relationship, or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in terms. So what sustains desire, and why is it so difficult? And at the heart of sustaining desire in a committed relationship, I think is the reconciliation of two fundamental human needs. This is the first time that we want sex over time about pleasure and connection that is rooted in desire. “.this is the first time in the history of humankind where we are trying to experience sexuality in the long term, not because we want 14 children, for which we need to have even more because many of them won't make it, and not because it is exclusively a woman's marital duty. ![]() ![]() ![]() , Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come. ![]() will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history," Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. Bowing to pressure from parents, the Willard school board recently voted 6-0 to remove the book 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' from the high school library. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. ![]() Tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation's truths, or belied them. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths," Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. ![]() ), Jill Lepore's one-volume history of America places truth itself-a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence-at the center of the nation's history. Norton Publication Date 2019-10 Section New Titles - Paperback / US History Type New Format ISBN 9780393357424 The challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has attempted it in decades. Widely hailed for its "sweeping, sobering account of the American past" ( These Truths by Jill Lepore Details Author Jill Lepore Publisher W. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cats of Ulthar, Carter's allies, rescue him and return him to a port city.Īfter a long journey, Carter finds the carving, recognizing the visage of the gods in traders who dock at Celephaïs. While seeking passage there, Carter is kidnapped by turbaned slavers, who take him to the moon and deliver him to horrible moon-beasts, the servants of malevolent god Nyarlathotep. Carter realizes the gods' mortal descendants will share those features and presumably be near Kadath. In the cat-laden city of Ulthar, Atal mentions a huge mountainside carving of the gods' features. The Zoogs, a race of predatory rodents, direct him to Ulthar to find the priest Atal. ![]() ![]() ![]() They warn Carter of great danger and suggest that the gods purposefully stopped his visions.Ĭarter's knowledge of Dreamlands customs and languages makes his quest comparatively less risky than if done by an amateur, but he must consult entities with a dangerous reputation. In dream, Carter consults priests in a temple that borders the Dreamlands. Undaunted, Carter resolves to beseech the gods in person at Kadath. When he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the city's whereabouts, his dreams of the city stop altogether. Randolph Carter dreams of a majestic city but can not approach it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games ![]()
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