He will risk everything to save his country and himself. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha general, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war-and he intends to keep it that way. The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. " touches on religion, class, family, love - all organically, all effortlessly, all cloaked in the weight of a post-war reckoning with the cost (literal and figurative) of surviving the events that shape both people and nations." - NPR "The story exists at an intersection of past and future selves, and in the dawning understanding that what you most fear may be what you most need." - Washington Post Face your demons.or feed them. Enter the Grishaverse with the instant #1 New York Times -bestseller King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo, the first book in the King of Scars Duology. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone - Season 2 premiering March 16, 2023! Discover what comes next for the daring rogue Nikolai in the start of this captivating new duology.
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Protected by her brother since the death of her parents, Lady Elizabeth Stanton had to grow up very quickly on the night that there was an attack on the house she and her brother took refuge in. Because, if she’s not careful, he might just steal her heart too. But as she leaves the security of her family and heads off on a larger-than-life adventure with a complete stranger, she has to wonder if this mad journey to Scotland was the largest mistake of her life or her first step toward becoming a woman all her own.Īnd as her fear heats into passion, she must also wonder about the man who’s swept into her life, carried her off from her home, and rewritten her entire world. Besides, he’s already protected her once, even she can attest to that. There’s no turning back, however, once she leaves London with her new fiancé. As frightening as he is handsome, he steals her breath with every penetrating glance from his hazel gaze. Cryptically quiet, the Baron of Clubs is the definition of the strong and silent sort of fellow. Lady Elizabeth Stanton needed to wed quickly in order to save her brother but running away with a rakehell of a baron…. Mysterious and larger than life, this baron might not have been the best choice for elopement… He also explains a central mystery: why Mary would have consented to marry – only three months after the death of her second husband, Lord Darnley – the man who was said to be his killer, the Earl of Bothwell. From the labyrinthine plots laid by the Scottish lords to wrest power for themselves, to the efforts made by Elizabeth's ministers to invalidate Mary's legitimate claim to the English throne, John Guy returns to the archives to explode the myths and correct the inaccuracies that surround this most fascinating monarch. The life of Mary Stuart is one of unparalleled drama and conflict. At twenty-five she entered captivity at the hands of her rival queen, from which only death would release her. She rode out at the head of an army in both victory and defeat saw her second husband assassinated, and married his murderer. She was crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at sixteen years at eighteen she ascended the throne that was her birthright and began ruling one of the most fractious courts in Europe, riven by religious conflict and personal lust for power. A long-overdue and dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians at work today. As he travels the nation meeting others of his tribe-map librarians, publishers, "roadgeeks," pint-sized National Geographic Bee prodigies, the computer geniuses behind Google Maps and other geo-technologies-he comes to admire these geographic obsessives. Ken Jennings was a map nerd from a young age himself, you will not be surprised to learn, even sleeping with a bulky Hammond atlas at the side of his pillow, in lieu of the traditional Teddy bear. Some even draw thousands of their own imaginary maps, lovingly detailing worlds that never were. Some pore over million-dollar collections of the rarest maps of the past others embrace the future by hunting real-world cartographic treasures like "geocaches" or "degree confluences" with GPS device in hand. counties, for example, or all 936 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Some crisscross the map working an endless geographic checklist: visiting all 3,143 U.S. In a world where geography only makes the headlines when college students are (endlessly) discovered to be bad at it, these hardy souls somehow thrive. Much as Brainiac offered a behind-the-scenes look at the little-known demimonde of competitive trivia buffs, Maphead finally gives equal time to that other downtrodden underclass: America's map nerds. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks is Ken's followup to his 2005 best-seller Brainiac. Goals aren't so bad: they're things like getting political prisoners Out, then use their important hostage to negotiate for their goals. The terrorists figure they can kidnap the president and whoosh That's important too,īecause it's why a group of idealistic terrorists decides to crash the TheĬountry's president is expected to turn up. The house party isn't made up of your average music-lovers, it's alsoįull of international businesspeople, politicians, and diplomats.Ībout international economics. 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The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott’s Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written.Īt age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. This book is, in his own words, the story of “why I did stand-up and why I walked away.”Įmmy and Grammy Award–winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been a writer. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly. An internal medicine physician and entrepreneur, in 2017 Dr. He also issued the first Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health, calling for expanded access to prevention and treatment and for recognizing addiction as a chronic illness, not a character flaw. Murthy launched the TurnTheTide campaign, catalyzing a movement among health professionals to address the nation’s opioid crisis. He also served as the 19th Surgeon General under President Barack Obama. As the Vice Admiral of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he commanded a uniformed service of 6,600 public health officers globally. Murthy is the 21st Surgeon General of the United States. In these poems, Eliot takes many of the same points of reference he used to create "The Waste Land," but brings them together in a much more hopeful and un-cynical way. The poems were finally published as a series in 1942 (in New York) and 1943 (London). During this time, many people in England found Eliot's writing encouraging, because the thought of Nazi invasion made Eliot feel like he needed to defend England's culture and history, and in this sense, the war actually gave him the kick he needed to start getting a little more positive about the country he'd trashed so badly in "The Waste Land." Who would've thought that the threat of Nazi invasion was all it would take?Įliot wrote the four poems that make up "Four Quartets" at different times and published them in different years. That's surprising, really, since the dude wrote most of the thing while the Germans were dropping bombs over his head during World War Two. Well, in a nutshell, " Four Quartets" is about as hopeful a poem as you're ever going to get from T.S. Upon moving in with her family, Andrea discovers that they’ve been forced to sell half of the home after her grandfather’s death, moving their belongings into a tight, cramped space. They include her Aunt Angustias, a tyrannical Catholic woman her Uncle Román, an eccentric, formerly renowned musician her Uncle Juan, a failed painter who abuses his beautiful young wife, Gloria and Gloria, a spirited young woman from a poor family, of whom Angustias disapproves. She moves in with estranged family members living in her formerly well-off (but now impoverished) grandmother’s apartment on Calle de Aribau. The novel begins with Andrea leaving a sleepy remote Spanish province to attend university, having learned that the Spanish government has given her a full scholarship. |