![]() These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History," the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. ** A 2018 GoodReads Choice Award Nominee in the History & Biography category**Ī captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Anita sends Willie away.Īnita becomes deeply embroiled in the case when more victims are found mutilated. Anita informs Willie that she is already a part of the Regional Preternatural Investigation Team and therefore, is already working the case. Willie wants Anita to investigate a string of vampire murders that have been taking place around St. The story begins with Anita meeting with Willie McCoy, a former weasel turned into two-bit vampire. From the job at Animators, Inc., Anita also became a vampire slayer and federal marshal, one of the few in the country that could legally execute vampires and other members of the undead community. Anita was born with the gift of necromancy, the ability to commune with the dead. The purpose of raising the dead is usually to grant closure to loved ones, to solve homicides, or resolve other legal matters. Anita Blake is by trade an animator, one who raises the dead for money. Hamilton is a novel introducing Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. ![]() ![]() The post of Senior Wrangler was an unusual one, as was the name itself. ![]() There seemed to be more Mustrum Ridcully than one body could reasonably contain. it took him several minutes to understand any new idea put to him, and this is a very valuable trait in a leader, because anything anyone is still trying to explain to you after two minutes is probably important and anything they give up after a mere minute or so is almost certainly something they shouldn’t have been bothering you with in the first place. YOU FEAR TO DIE? ‘It’s not that I don’t want…I mean, I’ve always…it’s just that life is a habit that’s hard to break…’ (RM) (There was, of course, a present before the present now, but that was also the present. …in the house of Death there is no time but the present. This is probably fine from the species’ point of view, but from the perspective of the actual individuals involved it can be a real pig… (RM) That there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial andĮrror to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone. ![]() Their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way NatureĪnd organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes ![]() ![]() ![]() This time, Micah will sweep the boy off his feet, for real! ![]() He’s determined that Boy 100 will be different. Ninety-nine “boyfriends” later, his account is hugely popular, and everyone is eagerly awaiting Boy 100. Instead, Micah draws each crush to share on Instagram with a post about their imaginary dates. Unfortunately, he’s also the prince of imaginary meet-cutes, since he’s too nervous to actually ask boys out. As the “Prince of Chicago,”-the son of local celebrity sports radio host known as the King of Chicago-he has everything going for him. But when a meet-cute with Boy 100 goes wrong, Micah embarks on a Prince Charming-like quest throughout Chicago to find true love-for real this time. ![]() Micah Summers runs a popular Instagram full of drawings of his numerous imaginary boyfriends (ninety-nine so far)-though he's never had a real boyfriend before. A charming YA rom-com perfect for fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue and What If It’s Us. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he finds his snowman somewhat melted one morning, a young boy wonders what the snowy figure might have gotten up to the night before, imagining a series of exciting events, from a trip to the park to a sports competition involving all of the snowman's friends. Īnd if they give you trouble? It's pretty easy to destroy them. Seriously, who's afraid of a little ol' snowman? They're not only friendly, but they offer some sage advice as well. My kid had visions of these guys tromping up the steps to kill him in his sleep:īoy am I glad that phase is over. Rather than thinking how fun it could be for snowmen to have adventures like this after he went to bed: When he was just a wee little lad, he had a problem realizing that this: ![]() This book scared the crap out of my youngest. ![]() The story is adorable, the artwork is quality. Snowmen At Night tells what happens at night (duh) to the snowman you built during the day. The next day when I saw him, he was not the same at all." "One wintery day I made a snowman very round and tall. The youngest bounded out of his room hollering his plans to build an epic snowman. Like every other snow day, I was woken up this morning AN ENTIRE F-ING HOUR EARLIER than our regular school-day "get up time" by a couple of screaming banshees. WARNING: THIS REVIEW ISN'T WHAT I'D CALL "CHILD FRIENDLY" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Beltane festival at Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire. ![]() The majority of people are pagan, but Wiccans and Christians are also welcome, as well as their four-legged friends: “We’ve had cats, dogs, a bunny, ferrets … everybody’s welcome, as long as you keep your clothes on!” “There’s a full range from babies to old people with walkers and electric wheelchairs,” she says. Annelli Stafford, a practising “eclectic” pagan and the organiser of Beltane at Thornborough Henge in North Yorkshire, agrees: “It’s a really nice start to the year after a long, cold winter.” A regular since 2011, Stafford describes the energy and stunning skies at the three ancient henges, and the event’s welcoming spirit. “To be in a circle, to have a huge bel-fire and to jump the ashes into the full summer, it’s very life-enhancing,” says Adrian Rooke, a druid from the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD), which runs druidry courses. One of the eight festivals in the “ wheel of the year”, Beltane is observed from 30 April to 1 May in the northern hemisphere and is an occasion for joyful ritual that marks the moment spring bursts into life, with fires, flower garlands – and perhaps a maypole. I t’s nearly Beltane, and pagans across the country are getting ready to celebrate. ![]() ![]() 6-8)Ī Cinderella parody features the off-the-wall, whang-dang Texas hyperbole of Ketteman (The Year of No More Corn, 1993, etc.) and the insouciance of Warhola, who proves himself only too capable of creating a fairy godcow that she's so appealingly whimsical makes it easy to accept the classic tale's inversions. I wil sta widdem fro ever!” Readers, plant-lovers or otherwise, will find this vegetative visitor taking root in their affections too. As the summer goes on, however, Plantzilla proves less a menace than an eager asset, as capable of playing field hockey with Mortimer as jazz for his boogying parents-even spitting out the unharmed dog and, ultimately, writing a letter of its own: “PEEEple Gooood. ![]() 564, etc.) fleshes out the details in a series of frenetic scenes increasingly crowded with long, snaky tendrils, ragged leaves, and bulbous green appendages with ominously toothy rims. ![]() With characteristic comic extravagance, Catrow ( We the Kids, p. Having sat next to “Plantcilia” all through third grade, Mortimer begs permission to bring it home for the summer, but after it proves to be both mobile and carnivorous (the family Chihuahua vanishes), his mother is beseeching Mr. ![]() 342, etc.) sketches the plot in a series of letters from young Mortimer Henryson and his parents to Mortimer’s science teacher, Mr. “Little Shop of Horrors” for the teddy bear set? Not at all, despite similarities: in this warmhearted tale, a tropical plant with a taste for meat goes from scary houseguest to beloved family member. ![]() ![]() ![]() A storm cloud of a man stuffed into a suit strikes a deal with the girl whose smart mouth drives him to the ultimate madness called love. ![]() What's one little white wedding lie with a bossy grump built like a god?įull-length enemies-to-lovers romance loaded with banter, drama, and so much slow-burn heat you'll want that happily-ever-after shaken over ice. ![]() Then 's just 90 days, and mama needs a windfall. Nix the blushing when everyone gushes over what a “perfect couple” we'd be. King Snarlypants has a peanut-sized heart and a chip on his shoulder bigger than a redwood. Guess who needs an image makeover to shore up the family business. Then tragedy strikes, upending his limitless ego. I vowed I'd prove him wrong - and sabotage a metric ton of his coffee. ![]() He swore I wasn't fit for Brandt Ideas, chewed me up, and spat me back out. Who knew he was my boss when he crashed my worst date ever? I must be short of a full bushel rejecting Chicago's finest billionaire. Of course, this fortune comes with a ginormous snag - Ward Brandt. You know that awkward moment when your lava-hot boss says “marry me”? Wall Street Journal best-selling author Nicole Snow returns with a screaming, funny romance where two office enemies fake love until they're all out of make-believe. ![]() ![]() does have a different section of the website called the Review Team, which offers free books in exchange for review. Bookshelves is not for downloading or buying books directly. Similarly, books are not available to purchase directly from. 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In some ways Eugenides mocks the pretentiousness of the Ivy league college environment and forces his characters to face up to the reality of life outside of books. What Eugenides has done with this novel is perfectly capture the atmosphere of an Ivy League school and it’s alums in the 1980s. ![]() It was well-written with a blend of humor, empathy, and psychological insight that I found impressive. I loved this book for a variety of reasons. Jeffrey Eugenides creates a new kind of contemporary love story in “his most powerful novel yet” ( Newsweek ![]() As all three of them face life in the real world they will have to reevaluate everything they have learned. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes-the charismatic and intense Leonard Bankhead, and her old friend the mystically inclined Mitchell Grammaticus. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. ![]() In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. Synopsis (from Amazon): Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? ![]() |