![]() She has to make life-altering decisions in every turn and as she does, flashbacks and anecdotes of her prior experiences help us understand why and how she makes them (sometimes). Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig is historical fiction about Shek Yeung, the Pirate Queen of China. Shek is strong, fearless, persuasive and badass and this is what her fleet needs to survive enemy fleets who want to take over the Opium trade in China and other nearby countries. This story begins with the heroine watching her husband die. Pirate Shek Yeung has to figure out what the next steps are for her fleet when her husband and co-commander, the feared Cheng Yat, is stabbed by the Portuguese and dies moments later. A book of salt and grit, blood and sweat, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is an unmissable portrait of a woman who leads with the courage and ruthlessness of our darkest and most beloved heroes. A debut novel inspired by the legendary career of one of historys most successful pirates. ![]() Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea By Rita Chang-Eppig Cover Image. I had to re-read some of the historical context in the beginning a few times but that made it so much more easier to continue on through. Old Man and the Sea By Ernest Hemingway Cover Image. Finished Deep As The Sky, Red As The Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig through an eArc from NetGalley and it was an adventure to say the least. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Contains 72 pages with exciting illustrations in every chapter.Includes complete answer keys at the back for all written exercises. ![]() Defines and uses words in context with new vocabulary prior to each chapter.Has 60 vocabulary exercises in modified Cloze format. ![]()
![]() What made the experience of listening to How to Be a Pirate the most enjoyable?ĭavid Tennant is an awesome narrator. Read the rest of Hiccup's exploits in the rest of the series and check out the all-new Hiccup website at It's the place to go for games, downloads, activities and sneak peeks! ![]() How to Train Your Dragon is now a major DreamWorks franchise starring Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett and Jonah Hill and the TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network. ![]() Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a Hero.Ĭan Hiccup find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure before Alvin the Treacherous gets his sneaky hands on it? And if Hiccup opens a box that says DO NOT OPEN, will he live to tell the tale? Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. THE STORY CONTINUES in the second volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs. ![]() Listen to the books that inspired the How to Train Your Dragon films, narrated by David Tennant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s more of a feeling than anything else, and Herbert does a great job of establishing that slow but unsettling dread that creeps up over time. She also started to be the source of a number of other miracles, and so people started flocking to the little village that she lived in to get a little slice of that miracle pie.īut all is not what it seems, and as time goes on, it becomes more and more apparent that there’s a dark side to the miracles. The plot itself follows a young girl who was deaf/mute but who miraculously regained the gift of speech. It felt as though he was just including them for the sake of including them, knowing that a certain percentage of his readers are into that sort of thing, but at least he didn’t use awkward phrasing like “most wetness” or “engorged shaft”. There are also a few sex scenes in it that actually worked quite well, though I’m not sure how necessary they were to the plot. I’d say that it’s more like Crickley Hall than The Rats, in that it doesn’t have as much blood and gore and that it’s more about the slow but sure buildup of a threat. Sure, it might not be as thrilling or as high-octane as some of his other books, but it’s still a cracking read. James Herbert is always good, and this book is no exception. ![]() ![]() Okay, I am currently 130 pages into The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez and it’s one of those situations where I have enjoyed the ride thus far but I have a big hunch that although it’s feeling very five star heavy at the moment.that I’m going to be disappointed.Ĭonfession time: Your girl doesn’t mind spoilers. She could beat you at beer pong and had a football team who would kick your ass for saying one wrong word to her, but she’d never let them because she could handle herself.” ![]() ![]() The girl in high school who hung out with all the guys, but she never dated any of them because none of them was mature enough for her. That girl who had a boyfriend who went to college and picked her up in his car after school. What I had sitting next to me was the “cool girl.” That rare woman who was gorgeous without being nuts. ![]() ![]() ![]() "¡Nos tenemos a ti y nos tenemos a mí en las manos! ![]() Los versos con la palabra "tenemos", que se repiten una y otra vez a través del libro, nos animan a creer en la inclusión y a promover la unidad y la amistad por todo el mundo. "We've got you and you got me in our hands.Įl galardonado ilustrador Rafael López le da nueva vida al conocido spiritual "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" en una adaptación bilingüe en la que celebra la vida de todos los jóvenes del mundo. The rhythmic verse and repetitive emphasis on "we" and "our" advocate for inclusive communities and promote unity and friendship all around the world. Award-winning illustrator Rafael López breathes new life to the famous spiritual with a bilingual adaptation of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" that celebrates the life of every young person in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Can Death’s own daughters survive the ceaseless scheming, much less while preserving France and Brittany, their chosen families, and the old gods? LaFevers’ dynamic, fully realized protagonists once again shine in alternating first-person accounts-and, better still, are afforded love interests every bit their equals. Meanwhile, France’s regent seeks power at every turn Pierre, Sybella’s bloodthirsty brother, pursues malevolent ends of his own and the enforced monotheism of 15th-century Europe grinds in tension with the Nine, a set of pre-Christian deities Sybella and Genevieve serve. Surrounded by manipulators and shrinking in his father’s shadow, the king struggles to find his footing as a ruler. ![]() Sybella, an assassin trained by the convent of Saint Mortain and attendee to the former Duchess of Brittany, now Queen of France, makes contact with Genevieve, a fellow novitiate foundering five years into her infiltration of the French court. Rife with labyrinthine plotting, swoonworthy romance, and endless intrigue, the 500-plus–page conclusion to LaFevers’ Courting Darkness duology resumes in medias res. Two daughters of Death test their faith and meet their fate. ![]() ![]() ![]() The detail with which Sanderson explores the hows and whys of allomancy in the novel, setting up a crescendo of action and adventure by its end, is a solid illustration of his own “First Law of Magics,” which posits that a writer’s capacity to resolve a story’s conflict using magic is directly correlated with readers’ understanding of how that magic works. The 2006 epic fantasy follows a pair of allomancers-individuals who ingest small amounts of metal to fuel magical abilities-as they rebel against an immortal ruler’s thousand-year reign. Now with over 10 million copies sold, The Mistborn Series has the thrills of a heist story, the twistiness of political intrigue, and the epic scale of a landmark fantasy saga. With Mistborn: The Final Empire, Sanderson popularized his approach to crafting complex magic systems, in which the rules that govern the extraordinary have more in common with a chemical equation than with a wave of a wand. Narrated by Michael Kramer 4.9 star 147 reviews headphones Audiobook 24 hr 39 min Unabridged.Now, he’s one of the genre’s most beloved-and prolific-authors. Mistborn: The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson Dec 2008 Mistborn: The Final Empire wasn’t Sanderson’s first novel to find a publisher-that was 2005’s Elantris-but it was the book that defined his approach to writing fantasy and set him on a path toward widespread recognition. ![]() For years, Brandon Sanderson spent his nights behind the desk at a Provo, Utah hotel, churning out manuscripts that he hoped one day might take their place on shelves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it any wonder there are now 27 books in the series? All necessary ingredients to keep this reader wanting more. ![]() ![]() Add to the mix a slew of quirky, comical characters and a setting featuring anything but ordinary businesses. There’s an unstoppable, wise-cracking heroine, plenty of action, suspense, romantic tension and a villainous type that makes the reader cringe every time he appears on the page. This opens the door for Stephanie to bumble her way to capturing fugitives and a whole lot more. It just so happens that her low-life cousin Vinny runs a bail bonds office and is short one bounty hunter. Newly unemployed, divorced, and short on funds, Stephanie does what any able-bodied young female with no brag-worthy job skills living in the “Burg” of Trenton, New Jersey would do: she blackmails her way into becoming an apprehension officer, AKA, a bounty hunter. The moment I began Chapter One, I discovered that not only did it hold up well, the writing and execution were even more admirable than I remembered. That’s when I first read the book that kicked off the successful series. As a long-time Stephanie Plum fan who’d stopped reading the series after Book 15 or so, I was certain a re-reading of One for the Money by Janet Evanovich would not hold the same pleasure for me as it did some twenty years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (They can be read together or separately, and in any order.) The answer seems to be that he has been saving up what he’s learned and has deposited a fair amount of it into The Passenger and Stella Maris, a pair of novels he is publishing this autumn, 15 years after his last novel The Road won the Pulitzer prize. Rarefied science hasn’t figured in any of his writings, not even in work completed after he came to SFI, such as No Country for Old Men (2005), The Road (2006) or his screenplay for Ridley Scott’s The Counsellor (2013). A scan of his shelves at SFI would reveal, instead of novels by Booker prize winners, manuscripts by his many scientist friends, such as Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard, or Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist from Arizona State University.ĭuring the half dozen times I have seen McCarthy at SFI, I’ve often wondered what he was doing with all this arcane material he was greedily absorbing. Heady reading matter is nonetheless what McCarthy has long preferred. ![]() |