![]() ![]() Written by the author of Mirror, Mirror and Conceal, Don't Feel, Jen Calonita's latest twist is sure to delight and surprise. ![]() Can Meg put her past behind her and use her quick-wit to defeat monsters and gods alike, including the nefarious Hades? Will she finally figure out her place and contribution to the world? Or will her fear of commitment have her running away from an eternity of godhood with Herc? The ex-boyfriend who immediately moved on to someone else while she was stuck in the Underworld. ![]() The ex-boyfriend she saved by selling her soul to Hades. The mission? Oh, just to rescue her ex's current wife from the Underworld. All Meg has to do is complete a mysterious quest. Luckily, Hera has a solution, offering Meg a chance to prove herself worthy of a spot on Mt. That is, until Zeus tells Meg that she can't be with Hercules because she's, well, mortal. After Hercules proves he's a true hero and regains his godship, all seems right in the world. Go the Distance (Twisted Tale Series 11) by Jen Calonita Narrated by Amanda Troop Unabridged 7 hours, 47 minutes 3.9 (25) Audiobook (Digital) FREE With a B&N Audiobooks Subscription Cancel Anytime Hardcover 16.49 eBook 10.99 Audiobook 0. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this book takes us from colonial mansions to ramshackle zoos, from sweaty nightclubs to the jostling seats of motorbikes, from ex-pat flats to sizzling back-alley street carts. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds them all. Alongside them, we meet a young boy who is sent to a boarding school for the métis children of French expatriates, just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule two Frenchmen who are trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., who find themselves investigating strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. The fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. 2011: A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. ![]() 1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed. Two young women go missing decades apart. ![]() A century of Vietnam’s history and folklore comes to life in this “brilliant, sweeping epic that swaps spirits and sheds time like snakeskin” (Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Survivor Song). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the premise is a bit out there, the science fiction is detailed and fascinating. Scientist Ryland Grace discovers the source of the problem, and he ends up on a last ditch effort to save humanity from probable extinction. In Project Hail Mary, the sun’s energy is being affected by an unknown source. ![]() So when Andy Weir’s latest book, Project Hail Mary, hit the shelves, it was a no-brainer to add it to my reading list, and to make sure that it ended up near the top of it. I’ve read Artemis, Randomize (a short story from Amazon’s Forward Series), and The Martian, which is still one of my favorite books of all time. One such author who I particularly enjoy reading is Andy Weir. Whether it’s their style of writing, their storytelling ability, or their imagination of what’s possible, there is something about their work that speaks to me. The more science fiction I read, the more I find myself drawn to certain authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() If we lose this game, we won’t have the chance to redeem ourselves until we play them in the Christmas Classic, which means these dickheads will have the upper hand for the next two months. This is technically just a preseason game, but it’s against Candlehawk Prep, our rival high school, and right now we’re trailing them by eighteen points. The opposing team grabs the rebound and my ears burn as I run back to play defense on the other side of the court. The ball is usually so controlled in my hands, but tonight it’s like I’m chucking a giant potato through a wind tunnel. I play shooting guard, so I’m supposed to, you know, shoot, but this is the third time I’ve taken a shot that hasn’t even touched the rim. It’s almost as humiliating as the air ball I lobbed up a second ago. “No more shots! Give the ball to someone else!” She’s only using my last name because she can’t remember my first name. “Zajac!” Coach screams, waving wildly at me. You would think, based on the fact that I’ve played varsity basketball for three years now, that I know how to score a basket. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the invention of the electronic computer in the mid-20th century, theorists have speculated about how to make a machine as intelligent as a human being. ![]() Bostrom cogently argues that the prospect of superintelligent machines is "the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced." If we fail to meet this challenge, he concludes, malevolent or indifferent artificial intelligence (AI) will likely destroy us all. Should humanity sanction the creation of intelligent machines? That's the pressing issue at the heart of the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom's fascinating new book, Superintelligence. The penalty for violating the Orange Catholic Bible's commandment "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" was immediate death. ![]() Human computers called Mentats serve as a substitute for the outlawed technology. In Frank Herbert's Dune books, humanity has long banned the creation of "thinking machines." Ten thousand years earlier, their ancestors destroyed all such computers in a movement called the Butlerian Jihad, because they felt the machines controlled them. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, by Nick Bostrom, Oxford University Press, 324 pages, $29.95 ![]() ![]() ![]() If there are higher dimensions, is there a fourth-dimension beyond the third? Sphere grumpily rejects such a preposterous idea, and Square is plunged back to Flatland. In this case in two-dimensional Flatland.īut Square speculates further. Thus, a three-dimensional: object from that higher dimension is experienced and can be experienced only in terms of the dimension in which it is encountered. Square's visionary guide in that final dimension is a Sphere, which in Flatland is experienced first as a point, then an expanding and contracting circle, and finally back to a point. ![]() ![]() Through a series of dream and strange encounters in other dimensions beyond Flatland: in Lineland (one dimension), Pointland (no dimension), and ultimately Sphereland (three dimensions). Abbott, an ardent social reformer, was mocking class-based hierarchies, pervasive elitism, and the deeply-rooted misogyny that limited women in many ways in Victorian society. Social status is determined by the number of sides a figure possesses, and women are delegated to straight lines, the least significant shapes. It is narrated by "A Square", a mathematician in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, where Squares and Pentagons are deemed professionals and "gentlemen". ABBOTT'S NOVELS IN THE VICTORIAN RELIGIOUS CONTEXTįlatland (1884) is a hugely popular whimsical satire in novella form by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926), mathematician, educator, clergyman, and author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stream It or Skip It: 'When Love Springs' on Hallmark, Where a Gorgeous Lily Pond Steals the Whole Movie Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ on Hulu, A Fiery French Love Triangle That Cuts And Draws Blood Stream It Or Skip It: 'Manifest West' on Hulu, a Thoughtful Dramatic Thriller About a Family Off the GridĬhris Pratt Shares "Interesting Fact" About Filming a Nude Scene on 'The O.C.' With Adam Brody Is ‘A Man Called Otto’ Based on a True Story? 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That’s also where the similarities end, because in terms of personality our girl Kate is nothing like Samantha from UaPS. ➽ Travels with one other girl and a pair of related young men (cousins or brothers) of which one is serious, one is light-hearted ![]() ➽ Heroines whose stories begin after the unnatural deaths of their fathers ➽ Setting of 19th-century Wild West complete with cowboys I read this book right after Stacey Lee’s Under a Painted Sky, so the similarities between these two books basically hit me over the head with a hammer. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate’s quest for revenge may prove fatal. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers-and justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() The men of Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 (StG.2), flying Junkers Ju-87B Stukas, had been tasked with sinking the troublesome ship. ![]() Out in the Gulf of Finland, the Soviet Baltic Fleet’s 23,000-ton dreadnought Marat was hurling 12-inch, 1,000-pound shells 18 miles onto German forces encircling Leningrad. Lieutenant Hans-Ulrich Rudel and the rest of his dive bomber wing had gathered in mid-September 1941 to strike another blow in Operation Barbarossa, Germany's campaign to conquer the USSR. Ntil very recently the remote forward airstrip had been deep inside Soviet Russia, but now it was Nazi territory. ![]() Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Germany’s most highly decorated combat pilot, only shot down nine enemy aircraft, but he destroyed the equivalent of more than three Soviet tank corpsĪs seen in the July 2011 issue of AVIATION HISTORY magazine Hans-Ulrich Rudel plunges to the attack in Eagle of the Eastern Front: the Story of Hans-Ulrich Rudel, by Don Hollway ![]() ![]() ![]() Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821, the son of a doctor, and received his education both at home and at a boarding school. Dostoevsky’s writing, which is frequently regarded as the pinnacle of realism, tries not to transcend reality but to depict it in all its complexities.įyodor Dostoevsky is regarded as one of the finest writers and literary psychologists of the twentieth century. Before realism, ordinary life was regarded as beneath literature, which was supposed to transcend the banal. Realism centered on “genuine” people, such as city inhabitants, prostitutes, poor students, humble craftsmen, and other characters that had previously been ridiculed or used as comedic relief. Realist writers, such as Honoré de Balzac in France, Charles Dickens in England, and Nikolai Gogol and Dostoevsky in Russia, reexamined the novel’s basic purpose. In his previous works, Dostoevsky tackled issues on the human condition, such as existentialism, rationalism, and religion, all pertinent to the problems of 19th century Russia.ĭostoevsky was a forerunner of realism in the modern novel, and Notes from Underground (1864), as well as his subsequent works, fall under this category. ‘ The Brothers Karamazov‘ came after Dostoevsky had already published a string of literary masterpieces such as Notes From the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), and The Idiot (1869). ![]() |