![]() ![]() He said, ‘No, you bloody fool – that’s not what I meant! I want to see the pretty one!’ The stranger looked at her for a moment, then burst out laughing. ‘Alma! Come instantly! You are requested to be seen!’Īlma rushed into the atrium, bright with expectation. Her adopted sister Prudence is her opposite, a striking beauty, lacking in education, although not in intelligence. What Alma lacks in physical beauty is made up for by her exceptional intelligence and her first-class education. He strategically marries a cold, intelligent Dutch woman, with whom he has Alma. Through hard work and bendy morals, Henry builds up an empire in the trade of exotic plants and becomes ‘one of the three wealthiest men in the Western Hemisphere’. Unlike his father who is ‘forceless’ and ‘complacent’, Henry is ambitious, cynical and willing to do anything to get rich. The Signature of All Things begins in England in the 1760s with the rags-to-riches story of Alma’s father, Henry Whittaker, the son of an orchard man at Kew Gardens, who grows up in extreme poverty surrounded by equally extreme wealth. Equally compelling is the novel’s unlikely heroine, Alma Whittaker, a multi-layered and unusual character and a woman with a brilliant scientific brain born in the wrong century. Firstly, Elizabeth Gilbert is an outstanding storyteller: funny, insightful and ambitious. ![]() I never thought I’d get excited by a novel about botany, but The Signature of All Things proved me wrong. ![]()
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![]() She is an RWA member and serves on the Board of Directors for SFWA as a Director at Large. ![]() ![]() Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning, best-selling author who writes fantasy with romantic elements and fantasy romance. He lives with his family in Riverdale, NY, and his virtual home is. Finally, under the moniker Arvan Eleron, he is the host of a successful Twitch channel focused on story and narrative, with many TTRPG (and several sponsored) campaigns. He is the lead vocalist and trumpet player for The Road, a long running progressive rock band with three albums to its credit, and is the lead writer for Chosen Heart, a video game currently in production. He co-hosts the critically acclaimed actual play Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers, and Fans () podcast, is a member of the Gen Con Writers' Symposium and co-coordinator of the Origins Library, and is a regular panelist at conferences nationally and internationally. He also has short stories in a number of anthologies, and has several projects forthcoming in 2021. In addition to academic work, he is the author of the epic fantasy The Third Sign, the graphic novel Icarus, the dark fantasy Grayshade, and the D&D adventure/sourcebook Tales and Tomes from the Forbidden Library. ![]() John's University in New York City, where he teaches creative writing, speculative fiction, and various other courses in literature. From my most recent bio-please let me know if you need more information! Gregory A. ![]() ![]() ![]() She enjoys chai tea, traveling, chocolate, and spending time with her family. When she’s not busy writing, she can be found spending time with her two young kids, cat, and dog. After that, she was able to develop a system of her own for writing, outlining, and developing characters. Harper read anything and everything she could get her hands on about writing and plotting. ![]() Since then, she has created more than 350 book ideas and hoarded them through the years. She wrote short stories before diving into full-length fiction at the age of ten. Harper fell in love with books at a very young age and soon discovered her love of writing shortly after. She is the Founder of Sharing Shoes, which is a Facebook group which share in her own passion to end child sexual abuse, and Kynde World, which is a group that spreads the philosophy of showing kindness and self to other people. On a community and social level, Harper advocates for the abolishment of clergy penitent privilege which keep pedophiles protected. She weaves fragments of experiences within a religious cult which create an edge-of-your-seat, fictional suspense novel that is so intriguing that you cannot wait to turn the page, or set the book down. Harper L Woods is a mom and grandmother, author and entrepreneur. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, it is immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. ![]() They catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of the very same Camp Nightingale-and when Francesca implores Emma to return to the camp as a painting counselor, Emma sees an opportunity to find closure and move on. Now a rising star in the NYC art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings. The last she-and anyone-saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. Fifteen years ago, summer camper Emma Davis watched sleepily as her three cabin mates snuck out of their cabin in the dead of night. ![]() ![]() ![]() An unabridged audiobook production of all eleven volumes was produced by the Books on Tape company and was read by Alexander Adams (also known as Grover Gardner). Sets of them were frequently offered by book clubs. The volumes were best sellers and sold well for many years. ![]() The series won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 with the 10th volume in the series, Rousseau and Revolution. In the preface to the first volume, Durant states his intention to make the series in 5 volumes, although this would not turn out to be the case. Beginning with The Age of Reason Begins, Ariel is credited as a co-author. The first six volumes of The Story of Civilization are credited to Will Durant alone, with Ariel recognized only in the acknowledgements. The series was written over a span of four decades. ![]() The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering both Eastern and Western civilizations for the general reader, with a particular emphasis on European (Western) history. ![]() ![]() ![]() You probably need to change the url if you are web scraping. When you initialize the WebSpell class, you provide a URL. Ghost (optional): A boolean for making the chromedriver headless. Options include chrome | undetected_chrome | firefox ![]() If omitted, the class will automatically download one into your cache.īrowser (optional): A string to choose which browser you want to use. Currently Chrome is the only supported browser.ĭriver_path (optional): A filepath for a chromedriver. Choosing static will use the requests module while dynamic will use a selenium webdriver. ![]() The WebSpell class returns either a StaticSpell or DynamicSpell depending on which method you select: static or dynamic. Pip install webmage Basic Usage Import WebSpellįrom webmage import WebSpell Initializing the WebSpell class A wrapper around requests, BeautifulSoup, and Selenium (Chrome) to facilitate web scraping. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Bats at the Library,” story and illustrations by Brian Lies Houghton Mifflin, $16, 32 pages, ages 4 to 8. ![]() But the author/artist outdoes himself: the library-after-dark setting works a magic all its own, taking Lies and his audience to an intensely personal place. As with its predecessor, this book’s richly detailed chiaroscuro paintings find considerable humor at the intersection where bat and human behavior meet. ![]() Although the young ones initially misbehave (they make photocopies of their bodies and turn the water fountain into a splash pool), Lies cuts them a little slack: “It’s hard to settle down and read/ when life flits by at dizzy speed.” Story time settles everyone (upside-)down, and soon the furry creatures are “completely swallowed up” in books, giving Lies comic license to bat-tify the signature visuals from classics like Make Way For Ducklings Pippi Longstocking Goodnight, Moon and Peter Rabbit. Lies’s ( Bats at the Beach) much-lauded bats are back and the library’s got them-thanks to a window left open by an unsuspecting (or perhaps sympathetic) librarian. Starred review, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. July 14, 2008īrian Lies. ![]() ![]() OL16282945W Page_number_confidence 88.81 Pages 422 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201223085350 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 778 Scandate 20201220070954 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780545551939 Tts_version 4. I was immediately sucked into the world and the character. ![]() ![]() I love twists on fairy tales and haven’t seen Cinderella in a futuristic, science fiction world before. The cover and title made me so curious, I finally gave in a purchased it. Every time I passed Cinder in a store, I was drawn to it. Urn:lcp:cinder0000meye:epub:de175c3c-20e5-45cb-bf6a-98de5ee97952 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier cinder0000meye Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t21d1vm8f Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780545567473Ġ545551935 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9775 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300111 Openlibrary_edition An Editor’s Thoughts on Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:06:42 Boxid IA40023714 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() The next three books are very transitional, some things change but there is still a large focus on the past despite the shift from saving the past to saving themselves from situations. The first four can get very repetitive and are pretty similar but they do a good job of setting up a world, technology and characters that become pretty important later on. ![]() You can quite clearly split them into categories. The Mayan Prophecy (3/5) – The Infinity Cage (5/5) Gates of Rome (3/5) – City of Shadows (4/5) – The Pirate Kings (4/5) (These four I read before I really started reviewing books so I am leaving their rating out) Time Riders – Day of the Predator – The Doomsday Code – The Eternal War ![]() However once this series takes off it never stops revealing more amazing secrets until the very end. The first few books in this nine book series have reasonably similar plots save the different settings in time. ![]() This sci-fi series follows three characters, Maddy, Liam and Sal, who are rescued from death and put in charge of preventing disturbances in time. The Time Riders series by Alex Scarrow is one that seems made for television. ![]() ![]() ![]() And just outside Bingtown, Amber dreams of relaunching the Paragon, The Mad Ship! The second volume in this superb trilogy from the author of THE FARSEER TRILOGY continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love and magic. Meanwhile in Bingtown, the fading fortunes of the Vestrit family lead Malta deeper into the magical secrets of the mysterious Rain Wilds Traders. However, the Vivacia has been captured by the pirate, 'King' Kennit, and is acquiring a keen bloodlust. Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but she lives only to reclaim the Vivacia as her rightful inheritance. The magic and mayhem continue in this thrilling second instalment of Hobb's new series. ![]() ![]() Assassin's Apprentice was her first novel, and was followed by the equally successful Royal Assassin and Assassin's Quest. Titles in this collection are : Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny Robin Hobb was born in California in 1952 and majored in Communications at Denver University, Colorado. ![]() |