![]() I can’t recommend it enough!" (ERNEST CLINE bestselling author of Ready Player One) Artemis is everything you could hope for in a follow-up to his smash debut The Martian: another smart, fun, fast-paced adventure that you won’t be able to put down, featuring a heroine who’s equal parts Ellen Ripley, Arya Stark, and Jyn Erso. " Weir has done it again: he’s created a diverse and fantastic new world, filled with eclectic and memorable characters, and woven them into a dazzling work of contemporary science fiction – one that’s chock-full of actual science. ![]() ![]() His future society living inside massive domes built not far from where Armstrong set foot in 1969 is utterly plausible." ( The Times) ![]() Weir’s great strength, as he showed in The Martian, is to make us believe. She is young, rebellious and a petty criminal. "Jazz, Weir’s main character, is a moon-born version of Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander. There's no question that this novel is going to be a hit" ( The Guardian) His second novel concerns a likeable protagonist in peril, saved by her own resourcefulness, in a tale that leaves readers better informed about science than they were before they read it.Plus the narrator has real charm. ![]() " Artemis does for the moon what The Martian did for Mars. ![]()
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![]() ![]() No, you probably can't drive a car for hundreds of miles while suffering the effects of a ruptured anything, never mind everything, not even if your kid is in the car with a book of matches and a gas can. No, the human body cannot be reduced to charred bones with gasoline and a couple minutes, not even if it belongs to your crazy mom. ![]() No, marginally post-pubescent children wouldn't be able to set their mom's dead body on fire with gasoline and then bury the bones on the beach without getting caught once during the entire multi-hour operation-and who does that, anyway? No, you don't go from come-down to withdrawal to i-will-fucking-kill-you within four hours of your last crazy-pill. No, antipsychotics don't actually get you high like that. No, the NCAA would never permit a psychotic player to don a school uniform on the condition he be stoned out of his mind on antipsychotics the entire time. ![]() No, teenagers are not typically ushered into nightclubs to knock back shots. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Snow & Rose, bestselling author-illustrator Emily Winfield Martin retells the traditional but little-known fairy tale “Snow White and Rose Red.” The beautiful full-color illustrations throughout and unusual yet relatable characters will bring readers back to this book again and again. This is the story of two sisters and the enchanted woods that have been waiting for them to break a set of terrible spells. Once, they had a father and mother who loved them more than the sun and moon.īut that was before their father disappeared into the woods and their mother disappeared into sorrow. ![]() Once, they lived in a big house with spectacular gardens and an army of servants. Snow and Rose didn’t know they were in a fairy tale. Emily Winfield Martin is a collector and lover of fairy tales, and the original Grimm’s tale of Snow White and Rose Red enchanted and haunted her all her life. A fairy-tale reimagining of Snow White and Rose Red from the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Emily Winfield Martin. The deeper meanings of these stories do emerge, but the pleasure they give is paramount." - The New York Times "Emily Winfield Martin - reimagine Brothers Grimm fairy tales, treating delight, with a few grisly bits folded in, as its own reward. ![]() A fairy-tale reimagining of Snow White and Rose Red from the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Emily Winfield Martin. ![]() ![]() ![]() He receives a note asking him to meet someone at an abandoned, crumbling farmhouse, and finds that he has been named one of the executors of the will of a recently-deceased woman he never knew. Readers of Penny’s series think of the inhabitants of Three Pines as old friends: the artist Clara, the bookstore owner and former psychologist Myrna, Olivier and Gabri, who own the bistro and make delicious meals, and the cantankerous old poet Ruth and her pet duck Rosa.Īs Kingdom of the Blind begins, Gamache is on suspension from the Sûreté following the events of the previous summer, detailed in the previous volume, Glass Houses. ![]() ![]() Kingdom of the Blind is the latest in Louise Penny’s popular mystery series featuring Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache, former head of the Sûreté de Québec, who lives with his wife Reine-Marie in the tiny village of Three Pines. ![]() ![]() As for this new princess, she is much younger, seemingly embroiled in a strange time warp story (It does explain why she has changed so much from issue to issue), and senses that something is wrong, though she doesn’t know exactly what that is. ![]() Straczynski definitely goes for the total reboot of Wonder Woman here, breaking completely from the previous continuity though he doesn’t try to pretend that the old Diana never existed, but weaves her different incarnations into this tale. Well, after finishing this one and simmering on it for a while, I have to say I like it – with a few “buts.” Sure, I’d read less-than-stellar reviews about this series, but I was willing to give Straczynski the benefit of the doubt until he showed me my trust was misplaced. I was cool with whatever – as long as the re-boot was well-thought out, had an interesting story, and treated this iconic hero with the respect she deserved. All I’m saying is that – while I’m a long-time fan of Diana – I didn’t come into this one having any preconceived notions about what the creative team could or could not do. ![]() ![]() ![]() Okay, I have to be honest here: I don’t consider myself a diehard Wonder Woman fan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she isn't sure of anything-not the mother who lied, the man she calls Dad, or the girl staring back at her in the mirror. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A.īut when Cordelia's GeneQuest results reveal that her father is not the person she thought he was, but a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, her entire world shatters. Debut author Dante Medema explores the emotional fallout after a teenage girl discovers she is the product of an affair. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. ![]() While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. Told through a series of poems, text messages, and emails, this contemporary YA is perfect for fans of Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin. The Truth Project by Dante Medema Hardcover Epic Reads. " A heart-wrenching quest for identity every YA reader will relate to, and a deep dive into the meaning of family." -Ellen Hopkins, #1 New York Times bestselling authorĭebut author Dante Medema explores the emotional fallout after a teenage girl discovers she is the product of an affair. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, is one of the last people to see her powerful parents alive. ![]() Returning to the genre that made him the world's best-selling author, James Patterson introduces a teen detective on a mission to uncover her family's darkest secrets- and maybe confess some of her own. Tandy and her brothers are the only suspects, and as she begins to remember flashes of disturbing past events, she's forced to ask the question: What is the Angel family truly capable of?īUT I'M GOING TO FIND OUT WHO KILLED THEM- EVEN IF IT WAS ME. Source: Thank you to Random House for providing me with a copy to review Title: Confessions of a Murder Suspect Author: James Patterson ![]() ![]() I'd watch the three of them stop being kids and start being more.and I'd hope hope hope that when Belly falls in love - 'cause you know she will - she'd give her heart to the exact right boy." - Lauren Myracle, author of the ttyl series and Bliss I would inhale the ocean air and soak up the sun, and I would hang out all day with kind-wonderful-funny-awkward Belly and her two known-'em-forever buds, Jeremiah and Conrad. "If I could live inside this amazing book, I would. A deliciously sweet read." - Deb Caletti, author of Honey, Baby, Sweetheart and Wild Roses " The Summer I Turned Pretty offers a hard-to-resist combination - a beach house, summer love, enduring friendship. "This book has what every girl wants in a summer." - Sarah Dessen, author of Just Listen and Lock and Key ![]() But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer-they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Some summers are just destined to be pretty.īelly measures her life in summers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as everything seems to be going downhill, a stampede of cows interrupts the evaluations as a protest of the cure. When asked what her favorite book is, she says Romeo and Juliet because it's about sacrifice and beauty and then answers that her favorite color is gray instead of a safe color like blue or green. Upon her first interview, Lena starts to panic, in part because she remembers her mother's apparent suicide, and as a result her answers are a little bit out of the ordinary. She enters the interview procedure alongside her best friend Hana Tate expecting an average score which would secure her a reasonable match and allow her to proceed to college. Even on the day of her evaluation, Lena works on her interview procedure with her aunt Carol. Lena Haloway starts off Delirium counting down the days to her cure. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.īut with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love. Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Thyoy didn’t understand that once love - the deliria - blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the main interpretations of probability – frequentism, propensionism, logicism and subjectivism -, the latter is no doubt the closest to the pragmatist outlook. In addition, scientist-philosophers like Ernst Mach, Ludwig Boltzmann, Henri Poincaré, Pierre Duhem, and Karl Pearson, who heralded a conception of science and knowledge at large that was close to pragmatism, were very influential in that debate. ![]() Upholders of different interpretations of probability such as Hans Reichenbach, Ernest Nagel, Rudolf Carnap, Frank Ramsey, and Bruno de Finetti, acknowledged their debt towards pragmatist philosophers, including Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Clarence Irving Lewis, William Dewey and Giovanni Vailati. Pragmatism, taken not just as a philosophical movement but as a way of addressing problems, strongly influenced the debate on the foundations of probability during the first half of the twentieth century. ![]() |