The Final Strife sings of rebellion, love, and the courage it takes to stand up to tyranny, following three women whose journeys will keep you gripped to the last' -Samantha Shannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree 'Epic in scope, its worldbuilding as intricate as filigree. The drumbeat of change thrums throughout the world. The three women find their answers, but they're not the answers they wanted. Now, she must guard both her heart and her land. Her searching uncovers the extent of the atrocities of the empire's past and present. Hassa's web of secrets grows ever thicker as she finds herself on a trail of crimes in the city. But in finding answers, she must make a decision, does she sacrifice her old life in order to raise up her sword once more? Sylah braves new lands to find a solution for the hurricane that threatens to destroy her home. She must solve the mystery and clear her name without the support of her beloved, Sylah. But when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her reign is thrown into turmoil. The truth they find has the power to ignite a war.Īnoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens' Empire. Three women seek the truth of the empire's past in the sequel to The Final Strife, the continuation of a visionary fantasy trilogy inspired by Africa and Arabia. The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling series continues…
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a blistering critique of Silicon Valley, a kind of nonfiction corollary to Dave Eggers's The Circle. compelling. You will not be able to put this book down.' - The Washington Post It is a tale of heroic cupidity on a scale that made the very best and the very brightest look like the very, very foolish. 'A dazzling story of deception in Silicon Valley. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509868087 Number of pages: 352 Weight: 264 g Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 24 mm MEDIA REVIEWS In Bad Blood, John Carreyrou tells the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018 “You think putting on a sombrero would be enough to make us blend in?” Jim's voice dripped with sarcasm. “Naomi has people in San Antonio,” Wash said. “We can work this out on the road,” she said. “You can never, never give them another cause to hunt you, James. He lowered his voice to an angry whisper. “All of this is beside the point!” Jim shouted. He couldn't help smiling it felt so good to say it, even if it set his father off. “Everybody's keen on denying that manâ” White daddies don't like their daughters running off with black boys.” What about this boy? I saw his daddy, and he was white and mad. “I guess you've forgotten what it's like,” Rhoda said. “What are you talking about, woman?” His eyes flicked down to Naomi's stomach. Rhoda pulled back from Beto, but she kept her hands on his shoulders. about this?” He jabbed a finger in Naomi's direction. “You know this boy?” Jim said to Rhoda, his voice accusing. “He's not my daddy anymore,” Beto said in a whisper. But what if she’s just another bully? What will it take for her to step up and tell the truth? When Drew Godfrey, an awkward outcast with unwashed hair, writes to her, the situation spirals into what the school calls “a cyberbullying crisis” and what the church calls “sorcery.” Cass wants to be the kind of person who sticks up for the persecuted, who protects the victims the way she tries to protect her brother from the homophobes in her church. So Cass does what any self-respecting high school girl would do: she secretly begins writing a tarot-inspired advice blog. Her family’s religion is so overbearing, she can NEVER write about who she truly is. Assigned by her English teacher to write a poem that reveals her true self, Cassandra Randall is stuck. Goodreads Summary: Cassandra fears rocking the family boat. You can find Sometimes Never, Sometimes Always on goodreads|You can find Elissa Janine Hoole on Twitter, Facebook and her website Where I Got It: an ARC from - this hasn’t influenced my review in any way. Book: Sometimes Never, Sometimes Always by Elissa Janine HooleĮxpected Publication Is Novemby Flux|Expected Number Of Pages: 363 Allen Grove, professor of English literature at Alfred University, and new scenes of gratuitous zombie mayhem. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This Heirloom Edition of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies includes a new preface by the author, an afterword by Dr. Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Booklist Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Message. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry?Ĭomplete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to hear. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers - and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.Īs our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton - and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. 5/13/2023 0 Comments A Bit of Rough by Lucy FelthouseHe was just a little taller than me, slim and lightly tattooed. He was one of those guys you love to hate. Despite the fact he was mocking himself, it sounded like he was desperate for the people listening to know just how many women had been in his life, for however brief an interlude. The one he was regaling the room with when I arrived was an incident where he’d blown off a woman for the evening, only for her to turn up at his house and see him getting hot and heavy with someone else. Turns out he was quite the ladies’ man and had many close calls. We were in a pub, and he was telling anybody that would listen about the many mishaps in his love life. When I met Andrew through friends of friends, I instantly pegged him as a bit of a moron. She’s not had sex in a while, so Alison figures there’s no harm in going home with him to get herself a bit of rough. Yet, much to her confusion, Alison still finds herself attracted to him. He’s a total bad boy and does nothing but chain smoke and brag about his stream of past conquests. When Alison meets Andrew, she instantly pegs him as a moron. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Seizure reichs novel“Nobody does forensics thrillers like Kathy Reichs. Praise for Kathy Reichs and the Temperance Brennan series No matter where she goes, Tempe’s cases make for the most gripping reading. (It all began with a visit from a pair of detectives-and a John Doe recovered from an arson scene in a trailer.) The collection is rounded out with three more stories that take Tempe from the low country of the Florida Everglades, where she makes a grisly discovery in the stomach of an eighteen-foot Burmese python, to the heights of Mount Everest, where a frozen corpse is unearthed. In this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of criminal investigation. In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs’s very first novel, Deja Dead, she at last reveals the tale of how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. Now she brings that same artistry to her first volume of collected short fiction. The #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the hit Fox series Bones, Kathy Reichs is renowned for chilling suspense and fascinating forensic detail. Good News for Temperance Brennan Fans! The Bone Collection is coming to you this November.Ī collection of pulse-pounding tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan-including the untold story of her first case! 5/13/2023 0 Comments Ink by Sabrina VourvouliasSabrina Vourvoulias is an award-winning Latina news editor, writer and digital storyteller. A story of how the power of love and community out-survives even the grimmest times. As the nightmare unfolds before them, unforeseen alliances between the inked-like Mari, Meche, and Toño-and non-immigrants-Finn, Del, and Abbie-are formed, all in the desperate hope to confront it. The tattoos have marked them for horrors they could not have imagined within US borders. For the “inked”-those whose immigration status has been permanently tattooed on their wrists-those famous words on the Statue of Liberty are starting to ring hollow. All across the United States, people scramble to survive new, draconian policies that mark and track immigrants and their children (citizens or not) as their freedoms rapidly erode around them. The future of the entire country will depend on them. The strongest of people can be found in the unlikeliest of places. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me." America has lost its way. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The first counsel by brad meltzerLike most, Michael thinks he can handle the pressure. A world where power is an aphrodisiac, your father is the President, your close friends wear earpieces and carry guns, and everyone watches your every move. It's a world all of us have heard about but few of us really know. And when Michael Garrick, a young White House lawyer, begins dating the irresistible Nora, he's instantly spellbound, just like everyone else in her world. Shadow is the Secret Service code name for First Daughter Nora Hartson. Now, with his trademark surgical plotting, razor-sharp dialogue, and lightning pace, he explores the charged atmosphere of life inside the White House as it's never been seen. With New York Times bestsellers The Tenth Justice and Dead Even, Brad Meltzer emerged as one of the hottest new authors writing thrillers today. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Beneath a marble skyOL5702481W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.45 Pages 374 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0929701712 Urn:lcp:beneathmarblesky00john:lcpdf:fbeee9cf-365a-431b-a2ac-738d51f5c344 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier beneathmarblesky00john Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9087bc36 Isbn 0451218469ĩ780451218469 Lccn 2004001374 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL7574841M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:02:51 Boxid IA170701 Boxid_2 CH105801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Reprint. |