![]() ![]() With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace - not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton - once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. ![]() The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations - whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future ( Snow Crash), or both ( Cryptonomicon). ![]() “Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.” - Time ![]()
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The bat then plays a role in his son's misplaced worship of a fading legend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis Schneider carries his father's treasured souvenir baseball into battle during the Civil War (Abner Doubleday makes a cameo), trading it for an original Louisville Slugger from a wounded rebel. It's an ambitious work of research, weaving authentic details about the evolution of the sport into stories about nine fictional young people with baseball in their DNA. The love of baseball links nine generations of the Schneider/Snider/Flint family in this story collection that tracks the national pastime from the 1840s to the present day. ![]() ![]() ![]() He earned a bachelor's degree in social science from Chapman College in Southern California. He's an inspiration to anyone.BRENT POPPEN, a USA Bronze and Gold Medalist in wheelchair rugby and tennis, is an avid water skier, substitute teacher, counselor and international motivational speaker. Brent's road to recovery was riddled with potholes, but in the end he was victorious. Poppen competed in two consecutive Paralympics, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, in wheelchair rugby and tennis, earning a Bronze Medal in wheelchair rugby and numerous Gold Medals and world titles in both sports.This book is a riveting read, a true story of courage in the face of adversity, of triumph over tragedy. BRENT POPPEN'S "Tragedy On The Mountain" reveals how a sports accident at age sixteen left the author a quadriplegic, but it did not paralyze his athletic dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is the result of Chris's year-long journey, distilling the lessons he learned into a few core truths about how we get things done (or, indeed, don't). Among the experiments that he undertook are: going several weeks on little to no sleep cutting out caffeine and sugar taking a daily siesta living in total isolation for 10 days stretching his workweek to 90 hours and getting up at 5:30 every morning, all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. After graduating college, Chris Bailey decided to dedicate a whole year to doing just that - experimenting with as many of the techniques as he could, and finding the things that work. Nearly all of us want to be more productive, but finding the method that works for you among the hundreds and hundreds of different tips, tricks and hacks can be a daunting prospect. 'A fun, interesting, and useful read!' David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done ![]() For readers who made David Allen's Getting Things Done a perennial bestseller, a fresh and entertaining exploration of the best ways to accomplish more. ![]() ![]() The evil, twisted, prisoner Padan Fain, takes Mat's mysterious and powerful, but tainted, dagger, without which he would slowly die, as well as the Horn of Valere. Shortly after her arrival, the fortress at Fal Dara is attacked by Trollocs and Myrddraal. ![]() Finally, in a distant land, a strange group of people start an invasion of the western coast.įollowing the events in The Eye of the World, the book opens with the major characters united at the city-fortress of Fal Dara in Shienar, where the Amyrlin Seat is traveling to. At the same time, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, and Elayne Trakand go to the White Tower in Tar Valon to begin learning the ways of the Aes Sedai. The main story is about a group of young heroes, namely Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, and Perrin Aybara, all ta'veren, who join Shienaran soldiers in a quest to get the Horn of Valere out of enemy hands. ![]() ![]() The Great Hunt consists of a prologue and fifty chapters. ![]() ![]() And every time I finish a book they write, I am salivating for the next. The ensemble casts they create always feel so damn real and always manage to make me crazy trying to pick who my favorite is. I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to say it with every book they write – no one writes character dynamics like Krista & Becca Ritchie do. And when it knocks you backwards, it pulls you upright again.” ![]() “And you said you wanted an in-your-face, overjoyed kind of love that knocks you backwards.” He takes a beat. I am filled with so much love for these characters.Įvery. After finishing Alphas Like Us, after all those twists I didn’t see coming and all those sweet moments, my heart IS SO FULL. ![]() ![]() So I’ll try to keep this as generic as possible. It’s pretty hard to review the third book in a series without spoilers. Alphas Like Us (Like Us #3) by Krista & Becca Ritchie – 4.5 Stars! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The riveting ending will leave readers panting for the next sequel." - Kirkus Reviews "This riveting narrative, impossible to put down, is not only an excellent addition to the current fangs and fur craze, but is also a beautifully written romance that, along with Shiver, will have teens clamoring for the third and final entry." - Voice of Youth Advocates "Leaves readers hanging in anticipation for the next installment." - Booklist, Praise for Shiver:"A lyrical tale of alienated werewolves and first love. The riveting ending will leave readers panting for the next sequel." - Kirkus Reviews "This riveting narrative, impossible to put down, is not only an excellent addition to the current fangs and fur craze, but is also a beautifully written romance that, along with Shiver, will have teens clamoring for the third and final entry." - Voice of Youth Advocates "Leaves readers hanging in anticipation for the next installment." - Booklist, Praise for Linger #1 New York Times Bestseller "This sequel's poetic prose skillfully captures the four teens' longings for love, forgetting, remembering, righting wrongs andlife itself. Praise for Linger #1 New York Times Bestseller "This sequel's poetic prose skillfully captures the four teens' longings for love, forgetting, remembering, righting wrongs andlife itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() But first, my Get the Guy review, because it’s amazing and everyone should know about it. I hope I’ll be cooler/smarter/fitter/more successful in a year. (Slash-ennui.) Here’s the thing: Get the Guy made me so much better at meeting people, and so much more enthusiastic about relationships in general, that I started wondering: What else could I learn? And because I like a list/challenge as much as anyone, I’ve resolved to read one self-help book a week for the rest of the year. I spend a lot of time looking out windows - which I generally think is a good thing, but can devolve into entirely too much relaxation. But there are, one might say, areas for improvement: I haven’t had a boyfriend for two years. I don’t have it too bad: I like what I do, I have a solid network of friends and family, and I get to travel a lot. ![]() ![]() What he had to say was so important to me that it took me an extra hour to get there, because I kept stopping in random parking lots to take notes. Nothing - nothing - has done more to change my perspective on dating, relationships and love more than this book, which I initially listened to on Audible while driving to my family vacation in Maryland. Sounds like an exaggeration, right? It’s not. Matthew Hussey’s book “Get the Guy” changed my life. ![]() ![]() ![]() It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history.įour Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume "community" history of African Americans. The story begins in 1619-a year before the Mayflower-when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. ![]() Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. ![]() BlainĪ chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history's great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present-edited by Ibram X. ![]() |