![]() Does he have what it takes to outwit the wily trickster god? But Magnus's biggest challenge will be facing his own inner demons. Along the way, they will face angry sea gods, hostile giants, and an evil fire-breathing dragon. ![]() It's up to Magnus and his friends to stop him, but to do so they will have to sail across the oceans of Midgard, Jotunheim, and Niflheim in a desperate race to reach Naglfar before it's ready to sail. He's readying Naglfar, the Ship of the Dead, complete with a host of giants and zombies, to sail against the Asgardian gods and begin the final battle of Ragnarok. His cousin, Annabeth, recruits her boyfriend, Percy Jackson, to give Magnus some pointers, but will his training be enough? Now Magnus faces his most dangerous trial yet. But he has strong and steadfast friends, including Hearthstone the elf, Blitzen the dwarf, and Samirah the Valkyrie, and together they have achieved brave deeds, such as defeating Fenris Wolf and battling giants for Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. ![]() As the son of Frey, the god of summer, fertility, and health, Magnus isn't naturally inclined to fighting. ![]() ![]() Magnus Chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the Hotel Valhalla and one of Odin's chosen warriors. ![]()
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![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Can Liv rebuild the pieces of her broken past, when it means questioning not just who she is, but what she is? All the Broken Pieces Cindi Madsen This book is a work of fiction. Yet the deeper they dig, the less things make sense. Liv knows the details of the car accident that put her in the coma, but as the voices invade her dreams, and her dreams start feeling like memories, she and Spencer seek out answers. But when Liv starts hanging around with Spencer, whose own mysterious past also has him on the fringe, life feels complete for the first time in, well, as long as she can remember. As she stumbles through her junior year, the voices get louder, insisting she please the popular group while simultaneously despising them. Nothing, not even her reflection, seems familiar. ![]() ![]() Liv comes out of a coma with no memory of her past and two distinct, warring voices inside her head. It's a unique story with layered characters I couldn't help but fall in love with." -Nyrae Dawn, author of Charade " All the Broken Pieces kept me guessing and frantically flipping the pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Peter,” said little Benjamin, in a whisper, “who has got your clothes?” He looked poorly, and was dressed in a red cotton pocket-handkerchief. He came round the back of the fir-tree, and nearly tumbled upon the top of his Cousin Peter. Little Benjamin did not very much want to see his Aunt. She also sold herbs, and rosemary tea, and rabbit-tobacco (which is what we call lavender). Rabbit was a widow she earned her living by knitting rabbit-wool mittens and muffatees (I once bought a pair at a bazaar). That wood was full of rabbit holes and in the neatest, sandiest hole of all lived Benjamin’s aunt and his cousins-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. McGregor in her best bonnet.Īs soon as they had passed, little Benjamin Bunny slid down into the road, and set off-with a hop, skip, and a jump-to call upon his relations, who lived in the wood at the back of Mr. He pricked his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony.Ī gig was coming along the road it was driven by Mr. One morning a little rabbit sat on a bank. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! ![]() The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author expounds these and many other ideas with exceptional passion and knowledge, expressed in a masterly prose style. It must preserve the purity of the materials it uses and it must serve as a source of power and renewal for the society that produces it. Architecture is an exalting discipline that must dignify and ennoble public life. In delineating the relationship of these terms to architecture, Ruskin distinguishes between architecture and mere building. ![]() The "seven lamps" are Sacrifice, Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory, and Obedience. The book was published to immediate acclaim and has since become an acknowledged classic. Titled The Seven Lamps of Architecture, it was far more than a treatise on the Gothic style instead, it elaborated Ruskin's deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. By the following April, the book was finished. ![]() In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a work that would examine the essence of Gothic architecture. "I believe architecture must be the beginning of arts, and that the others must follow her in their time and order and I think the prosperity of our schools of painting and sculpture, in which no one will deny the life, though many the health, depends upon that of our architecture." - John Ruskin. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I discovered Oliver Jeffers’ books 10 years ago, I hadn’t read a children’s book since my own childhood. ![]() Jeffers never shies away from life’s big questions or from an unbelievable premise and it’s his mix of wisdom and humour that has contributed to his success as an author and illustrator. For instance, in This Moose Belongs to Me, the main character, Wilfred, learns that humans cannot really own a wild animal, even if said animal is excellent at providing Wilfred with shelter from the rain. That’s a line he often walks, perilous as it is, but he maintains it steadily. While wiping away my tears, I thought that the film beautifully demonstrated what I love about Jeffers’ books: they exist in a world that’s cute and whimsical, but also so insightful and filled with occasionally devastating earnestness. Recently I watched Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, an animated film based on Oliver Jeffers’s picture book by the same name. ![]() ![]() I was provided an eARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Can Devon and Chiamaka stop Aces before things become incredibly deadly? ![]() Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures.Īs Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards stacked against them. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too. ![]() When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a caring but strict figure, determined in what she sees as her duty to guide the man. Her tactics range from treats, like paying off his debt (using stolen money) to tricks, such as letting rabid animals into his apartment and causing car crashes. The story begins in the town of Night Vale, where strangeness is commonplace, and where the unnamed Faceless Old Woman currently resides as she watches over a young man and tries to course correct his life. You can devour this book or parcel it out like a disturbing treat, never knowing if you’re in for a funny and creepy wander with an unseen woman who haunts the corners of one’s vision, or a swashbuckling caper through Europe in the 19th century. ![]() Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor have written a spectacular story in The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home, capturing the dark myth of gothic literature with the pace and adventure of a classic novel, adding in an absurdist essence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book endures because it is so grippingly perplexing. The young men in the novel believe they have the original Golem of Prague in a coffin that was also used to spirit one of the main characters out of Nazi occupied Prague. If you have read any book on this list, it's probably this one. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon. If the danger of creation intrigues you, then you might dig these books where men give life to clay. As Chabon puts it, it is not the act of breathing life into the lifeless that makes the story of the golem so interesting, but the element of danger in bringing something to life. While there are many legends about what makes a golem go, they usually involve a learned practitioner of faith, a lot of chanting, a lump of clay and a word. Michael Chabon wrote that the myth of the golem endures because it mirrors the creative act itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ĭavid Traxel for the New York Times criticized Larson for having "little sense of pacing or focus" in the "grab-bag" approach he took when discussing the exhibition. Janet Maslin of the New York Times praised the book as "vivid" and "lively", and commented on how the research done by Larson on the many "odd and amazing" events of the 1893 exhibition are "given shape and energy" by his "dramatic inclinations". ![]() Holmes, a serial killer who lured his victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed "Murder Castle". The book interweaves the true tales of Daniel Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World's Fair, and H. The Devil in the White City is divided into four parts, the first three happening in Chicago between 18, while part four of the book takes place in Philadelphia circa 1895. The concept has since been in development hell in March 2023, Hulu announced they would no longer be pursuing a television series using the rights. Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the film rights in 2010. ![]() Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United States. Set in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style. ![]() ![]() Oddly, what I liked most about Hell Bent was quite different than what I liked about Ninth House. I really enjoyed Hell Bent - not as much as Ninth House, but I think that's quite common for the second book in a series, where the sense of discovery is dimmed because the world is already established. I am happy to say that my worries were unfounded. ![]() Would Hell Bent live up to the expectations that I brought into the reading experience? There's always a worry with a sequel to a book like this, especially leaving off as it does on such a cliffhanger. ![]() When reading it, I found myself completely spellbound by the extremely dark atmosphere Bardugo created of a collection of secret societies dabbling in magic beneath Yale's pristine Ivy League facade. ![]() |