Their mission is one that seems incredible – investigate the spaceship that sits at the bottom of the ocean, a spaceship that is at least three hundred years old. But Captain Harold Barnes, the project commander and USN officer in charge of the operation knows more than he’s telling.Īnd yet, when the team finds a seemingly alien spherical object with nothing but some indentations along one side of its smooth surface, even Captain Barnes doesn’t have the answer that they all want – what is the sphere and where did it come from? Faced with the sphere that cannot be opened, the project comes to a near standstill… until something begins communicating with the team through their computer screen. Psychologist Norman Johnson, mathematician Harry Adams, astrophysicist Ted Fielding and zoologist Beth Halpern form the team of scientists that accompany a small Navy group into one of the deepest parts of the South Pacific.
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Vanessa Len’s stunning Only a Monster trilogy continues with this second instalment, a thrilling journey where a secret past threatens to unravel everyone's future. Torn between love and family and monstrous choices, Joan must find a way to re-gather her old allies to face down the deadliest of enemies, and to save the timeline itself. When a deadly attack forces Joan back into the monster world as a fugitive, she finds herself on the run with Nick – as Aaron closes in.Īs the danger rises – and Nick gets perilously closer to discovering the truth of what Joan did to him – Joan discovers a secret of her own. Only Joan remembers that there is a ruthless and dangerous enemy still out there. 'Mind-bending, heart wrenching, and unputdownable'. In every story there is a hero and a monster. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. And Nick, the boy she loved, is a stranger who doesn’t even know her name. Hodder & Stoughton, Fantasy fiction - 368 pages. Now, Aaron, her hard-won friend – and maybe more – is an enemy, trying to kill her. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick.īut her success has come at a terrible cost. This sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster will take Joan deeper into the monster world, where treacherous secrets and even more danger await.ĭespite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. Graphic style: from Victorian to digital. Steven Heller is co-chair of the MFA Design (Designer as Author + Entrepreneur) program at New York’s School of Visual Arts and writes a weekly column for. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Graphic style time line - Victorian: British - American - French - Arts and crafts: British - American - Art nouveau: French/Belgian - Jugendstil - Glasgow style - Vienna secession - American - Italian - Early modern: Plakatstil - Wiener Werkstätte - Expressionism: German - Modern: Futurism - Vorticism - Constructivism - De Stijl - Bauhaus - New typography - Art deco: French - German - Swiss - Eastern European - Italian - English - American - Streamline - Dutch - Dada - Heroic realism - Late modern: Swiss - English - American - American international style - Corporate style - Revival - Eclectic - Polish - Psychedelic - Japanese - Post-modern: Memphis/Basel/Zurich - American new wave - American punk - American post-modern - European new wave - Digital: Deconstruction - Emigre - Fontism - Controlled chaos - Rave - Kinetics - New simplicity - New century: Neo-modern - Ornamental - Information - Street art - Hand lettering - Political. Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography and Graphic Design Influence Behavior - Ebook written by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilic. Previous editions entitled: Graphic style: from Victorian to digital. Full Bibliographic Record Publication information:Ģ79 pages : illustrations (some color) 30 cm. Heinlein became one of the first American science-fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. His work continues to have an influence on the science-fiction genre, and on modern culture more generally. His plots often posed provocative situations which challenged conventional social mores. His published works, both fiction and non-fiction, express admiration for competence and emphasize the value of critical thinking. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. Robert Anson Heinlein ( / ˈ h aɪ n l aɪ n/ J– May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Do you know what it feels like to have you so deep inside me?" "I don't care if they find us locked together. I should have known better than to doubt Christine's mad skills. I put off starting this series because I was afraid it wouldn't hold up to her Dark series. I read all of her Dark series and loved them. I always have a mad desire to melt the ice princess." "Am I tempting you, Lily? You always look so cool. It is a great privilege to be counted one myself. I am fascinated by the written word and I love storytellers. I read everything I mean everything! All kinds of books, even encyclopedias. The ability to create pictures and emotions with words is such a miracle to me. I've been a writer all of my life - it is who I am. She also has earned 7 more PEARL awards since Dark Prince. Since then she has been published by various publishing houses including Leisure Books, Pocket Books, and currently is writing for Berkley/Jove. Her debut novel Dark Prince received 3 of the 9 Paranormal Excellence Awards in Romantic Literature (PEARL) in 1999. All of her series have hit the #1 spot on the New York Times bestselling list as well. Christine Feehan is a #1 New York Times bestselling author multiple times over with her portfolio including over 90 published novels, including five series Dark Series, GhostWalker Series, Leopard Series, Drake Sisters Series, the Sisters of the Heart Series, Shadow Riders and Torpedo Ink. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?įearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalised world. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014.įrom the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.Īs teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. A newfound friendship with the educated Elijah fuels his growth he teaches Miles to read through furtively spelling letters in the sand and on his palms. The author deftly builds Miles's awakening through his exposure to this hard labor and cruelty. Miles finds his life upended when Master Tillery catches him with a book: ""Slaves caught looking in books on the Tillery Plantation risked being sold away or maybe even put to death."" Instead, Miles's surrogate mother, Mama Cee, forms an ""understanding"" with the mistress, who sends Miles to a ""breakin' ground"" to have his spirit broken by greedy overseers. McGill (Molly Bannaky) compellingly builds a 12-year-old's transformation from complacent house slave to potential runaway in her historical novel set on a South Carolina slave plantation in 1851. "…a wondrous tale, brimming with adventure, intrigue, and memorable romance."" Given a second chance to properly woo Meriel, can Adrian learn tenderness? Will the two of them claim lasting happiness-or will they lose all to a brutal sworn enemy? Her passionate need for freedom clashes disastrously with his obsession with his enchanting captive. Still less does she expect such a great lord to want her as his mistress. Fierce discipline masters his darker nature-until he finds a winsome slip of a girl lost in his forest, an illegal falcon on her wrist.Įncountering the ice-blond warrior Earl of Shropshire, Meriel de Vere knows his dangerous reputation-and hides her identity to protect her brother's estate from the enemy earl. Wrenched from a monastery before taking final vows, Adrian de Lancey's fighting skill wins him an earldom. An early revelation that Marlena will soon die increases the suspense. Cat is suddenly and completely drawn to Marlena: ethereal though chemically fueled, brilliant but reckless, so comforting when she’s not angry or, worse, too honest. On cue, wild, beautiful, unpredictable Marlena, her new neighbor, appears as Cat, her mother, and brother pull up to the tiny home that’s apparently theirs. Fifteen and stinging from her parents’ recent divorce, Cat has already decided that she’ll be different in freezing, rugged Silver Lake, Michigan, from the nerdy, do-gooder “Cathy” she was back in Pontiac. In Buntin’s vivid debut, Cat, now a New York City public librarian in her thirties, tells the story of the friendship that changed her forever. Dreiser fortunately was able to escape when a former teacher offered to send him to Indiana University at Bloomington for a year. Theodore Dreiser later resented his father for the family?s poverty.Īt the age of fifteen Dreiser moved to Chicago and held jobs washing dishes, clerking a hardware store, and tracing freight cars. The family was forced to move from one Indiana town to another in order to survive. He further was soon cheated by his business partners. He never fully recovered and as a result become deeply religious. In 1864 the cotton mill burned down, and during the reconstruction John Paul was hit in the head with a beam. His father, John Paul, had previously been a cotton mill manager, but a series of unfortunate accidents caused his fortunes to dwindle. Part of a large German-American family, and the ninth of ten children, his childhood was marked by poverty. Theodore Dreiser was born on Augin Terre Haute, Indiana. |