![]() ![]() Killing Atticus is the only loose end he needs to tie up before unleashing Ragnarok-AKA the Apocalypse. run like hell.Ĭrashing the pantheon marathon is the Norse god Loki. ![]() His usual magical option of shifting planes is blocked, so instead of playing hide-and-seek, the game plan is. Dodging their slings and arrows, Atticus, Granuaile, and his wolfhound, Oberon, are making a mad dash across modern-day Europe to seek help from a friend of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Good thing, because he’s being chased by not one but two goddesses of the hunt-Artemis and Diana-for messing with one of their own. Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden.”- SFFWorldįor someone who’s been alive for two thousand years, Atticus O’Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. “ Hearne is a terrific storyteller with a great snarky wit. . In the sixth novel in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan finds himself the target of two goddesses of the hunt and a trickster god determined to unleash the apocalypse. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Since its inception, the Hoffer has become one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses.Ĭongratulations to our fellow poetry recipients:ġst Runner-Up: The Mauled Keeper by Lynn Marie Houston May the book have a long life!Ībout the Award: The Eric Hoffer Award honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. This award honors your beautiful and life-sustaining work. The editors offer a book to savor, read slowly, smile at, sigh over, and cherish always.”Ī big shout-out to our publisher, Ginny Connors of Grayson Books, and to every poet in the anthology. Addressing mindfulness, these poems encourage us to look, not only inward but outward, to become more aware of how we are, or can be, more thoughtful in all aspects of the only life we have to live. Most all it motivates us to reach out for something more substantial, more magical than anything found in the here and now. In so doing, the multitude of poets from all walks of life pack an emotional wallop. ![]() This truly unforgettable anthology is filled with astute and lyrical observations of the world. If done well, every sound and word has something to say. In announcing the award, the judges wrote: “Poems are careful things. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen Baxter was born in Liverpool, England, in 1957. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. A mystery that could destroy the Wheel-and kill them all. They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes all the way back to the creation of the solar system. Once on the Wheel, the Doctor and his companions face a critical situation when they become suspected by some as the source of the ongoing sabotage. Some of the younger workers are even refusing to go down into the warren-like mines any more.Īnd then one of them, surfing Saturn’s rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction. And there are stories among the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Maybe it’s only a run of bad luck, but the equipment failures and thefts of resources have been increasing. It’s a bad place to live-and a worse place to grow up. A ring of ice and metal turning around a moon of Saturn, home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. ![]() Like it or not, they’re coming in for a landing, who knows where or when. The TARDIS has carried the Doctor and his companions, Jamie and Zoe, to all sorts of places, but now, when they don’t want to go anywhere, the TARDIS makes a decision for them. Hurtling through a vortex beyond time and space is a police box that’s not a police box. From Stephen Baxter, master of science fiction and national bestselling author of Bronze Summer, comes an all-new Doctor Who adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anna works all day, determined to fill a crate on her own. Everyone in town gets up early and travels to the orchard to work. They are surrounded by bags of apples to enjoy at home. The family travels home after apple-selling day. The family sets up the fruit stand to sell their apples. They pick all varieties of apples, filling box after box. Up, Up, Up! It’s Apple Picking Time by Jody Frickes ShapiroĪ family travels from their home to their grandparents’ apple ranch. The best apples are ones straight from a tree! After a busy day at the market, Annie is home, tired but happy on her apple farm.Ī simple rhyming book about a family’s trip to the orchard to pick apples. She trucks her homemade goods and apples to the city to sell. Soon they get to the best part – making apple pie.Īnnie is a farmer with an orchard of apple trees. 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When Anna Hibiscus returns to her big house in Nigeria after visiting her Canadian grandmother, it seems like so much has changed. ![]() ![]() Back in Africa after a month’s visit with Granny Canada, Anna Hibiscus finds that some things are different-but her home is just as full of love-in this fifth warm and funny chapter-book adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Trust is hard to come by in a town known for its monsters, but so is time.Ĭarina Adores is home to modern, r omantic love stories where LGBTQ+ characters find their happily-ever-afters. When an old skeleton and a fresh corpse turn a grief errand into a murder investigation, the unlikely Eli is the only person Julien can turn to. And hasn't taken his brooding gaze off Eli since he's arrived. He's spent years cultivating a persona to disguise his origins, but for the first time ever he's been entrusted with a real responsibility-and he plans to take that seriously.Įven if the handsome tourist who claims to be in town for some R & R is clearly on a hunt for all things paranormal. Charlie Adhara Pack of Lies (Monster Hunt, 1) Paperback Augby Charlie Adhara (Author) 321 ratings Book 1 of 2: Monster Hunt See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 12.99 18 Used from 8.35 25 New from 11.59 Audio CD 23.60 2 New from 23. And now the manager of a haven for rebel pack runaways. Perhaps most especially the strange, magnetic manager of a deserted retreat that's nearly as odd as its staff.Įli Smith is a lot of things: thief, werewolf, glamour-puss, liar. ![]() The key to his brother's mysterious last days might be found in this tiny town, and now Julien's amateur investigation is starting to unearth things the locals would rather keep buried. ![]() Julien Doran arrived in sleepy Maudit Falls, North Carolina, with a heart full of hurt and a head full of questions. "Highly recommend Adhara for all fans of paranormal and romantic suspense." -Smart Bitches, Trashy Books ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Enriched by the series’ trademark comprehensive maps, illustrations, and annotations, and with contributions from the preeminent classical scholars of today, The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander is the definitive edition of this essential work of ancient history. This vivid and engaging new translation of Arrian will fascinate readers who are interested in classical studies, the history of warfare, and the origins of East–West tensions still swirling in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan today. Arrian, himself a military commander, combines his firsthand experience of battle with material from Ptolemy’s memoirs and other ancient sources to compose a singular portrait of Alexander. Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander, widely considered the most authoritative history of the brilliant leader’s great conquests, is the latest addition to the acclaimed Landmark series.Īfter twelve years of hard-fought campaigns, Alexander the Great controlled a vast empire that was bordered by the Adriatic sea to the west and modern-day India to the east. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also present at the surgery was Howard Raikes, a prickly left-wing activist violently opposed to Blunt but enamoured of his niece. Her boyfriend, Frank Carter, had a weak motive given that Morley had attempted to dissuade her from seeing him. ![]() Morley’s secretary had been called away by a fake telegram. Morley’s partner, Reilly, is a rogue but seems to have no motive. The movements of people at the dental surgery are inconclusive. Amberiotis dies of an overdose of anaesthetic and it is thought that the dentist has killed himself after realising the accident for which he had been responsible. ![]() The presence of a man thought essential to the country’s economic survival, the banker, Blunt, ensures Japp’s involvement in the case. Between Poirot’s appointment and Morley’s death there were only three patients: Banker Alistair Blunt, Mabelle, and a Greek blackmailer named Amberiotis. Later, he hears from Inspector Japp that Morley has died of a gunshot. He returns to her the shiny buckle that has fallen from her shoe. Hercule Poirot leaves the office of his dentist, Morley, after an appointment, and notices the arrival of Mabelle Sainsbury Seale. ![]() ![]() ![]() I could hardly see anything out of the window in the darkness. Bad idea, given it was going to be boring to spend eight insomniac hours in an empty compartment. Before leaving, I drank four cups of coffee in the canteen chatting with the students. ![]() ![]() ![]() The railways had just started this new summer train and nobody knew about it. In most cases, I shared my compartment with talkative women, snoring men and wailing infants. When I was younger, I used to check the reservation chart stuck outside a train bogie to see all the female passengers near my seat (F-17 to F-25 is what I’d look for most). Yes, you see it in the movies, you hear about it from friends’ friends but it never happens to you. And two, it is not everyday you sit in an empty compartment and a young, pretty girl walks in. The night train ride from Kanpur to Delhi was the most memorable journey of my life. Welcome to one night call center, another witty, dark novel from the award-winning author of the national bestseller Five Point Someone.Īre you ready to take the Call? Prologue Excerpt She said it was the night they got a phone call. The girl said the story was about six people working in a a call center, set in one night. He hesitated, but asked what the story was about. However, she had a condition: that he make it into his second book. To pass the time, she offered to tell a story. In winter 2004, a writer met a young girl on a night train journey. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think that both theoretical and practical instruction along this line could, at the very least, awaken the majority of cadets to the necessity of handling human problems on a human basis and do much to improve leadership and personnel handling in the Army at large.” My department traces its origin to this very letter, although I doubt Eisenhower could have ever imagined the scope and breadth of today’s academic department. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Eisenhower wrote to Taylor “A feature I would very much like to see included in the curriculum is a course in practical or applied psychology. Buy Relevance of Leadership Theories to Topics of Nutrition and Lung Cancer Risk by Akrawi, Dr. Eisenhower felt that many of the leadership failures he had observed in the army’s officer corps during World War II were the result of his officers’ lack of education and understanding about psychology. In a Januletter to General Maxwell Taylor, West Point’s Superintendent, General Eisenhower encouraged Taylor to build the study of psychology into West Point’s curriculum. Indeed, you can trace the establishment of the study of psychology at West Point to none other than General Dwight D. ![]() Of course leadership, as you may suspect, is a topic of utmost interest to the military. Nationally, very few academic departments offer undergraduate degree programs in leadership. ![]() |