![]() ![]() Born in a rural manor, educated in England’s grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. ![]() ![]() But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight." -Alex Orlando, Discover By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. "Falk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. ![]() Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History MagazineĪn illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. ![]()
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A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom a pair of teenage girls can’t let go of their idol an entire neighborhood is cursed to death when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma. The stories in her new collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken-fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history-with bracing urgency. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Mariana Enriquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire comes a new collection of singularly unsettling stories, by an Argentine author who has earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other illustrators have been used for foreign-language editions. The original American series was illustrated by Salvatore Murdocca until 2016, after which AG Ford took over. ![]() Magic Tree House is an American series of children's books written by the American author Mary Pope Osborne. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( April 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. ![]() ![]() And out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come the deepest things I know about God.”Įlisabeth Elliot’s life work was to share these deepest things: the trustworthiness of God, the blessings of obedience, the hope of joy in the midst of sorrow, the call to love one’s enemy, the priceless treasure of purity, and the true meaning of Biblical womanhood and manhood. Familiar with suffering, Elliot wrote, “The deepest things that I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. ![]() Elisabeth, along with her young daughter Valerie, would later return to Auca territory to live among and minister to the people who killed her husband. 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Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods - a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, 7-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn. ![]() ![]() How can an immortal sentenced to die fight back? He has to find the killer - and the answers lie deep in vampire lore. 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White Nights Vampires of Manhattan is the first novel in the sequel to the Blue Bloods series that serves as a second cycle in the story of the Blue Bloods. ![]() ![]() ![]() Courage, kindness, and adventure abounds in this charming, illustrated chapter. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. by Kallie George and Stephanie Graegin Book 1 of the Heartwood Hotel Series. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games ![]()
![]() The Stuyvesant and Gray books feature Harris Stuyvesant, a Bureau of Investigation agent who finds himself far out of his depth, first in England during the 1926 General Strike (Touchstone), then in Paris during the sweltering confusion of September, 1929 (The Bones of Paris). In the course of the series, Kate encounters a female Rembrandt, a modern-day Holy Fool, two difficult teenagers, a manifestation of the goddess Kali and an eighty-year-old manuscript concerning Sherlock Holmes. The Kate Martinelli series, starting with A Grave Talent, concerns a San Francisco homicide inspector, her SFPD partner, and her life partner. ![]() For a complete list of the Mary Russell books in order, click here. ![]() ![]() The series follows their amiably contentious partnership into the 1920s as they challenge each other to ever greater feats of detection. In the Mary Russell series (first entry: The Beekeeper's Apprentice), fifteen-year-old Russell meets Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs in 1915, becoming his apprentice, then his partner. For a complete list of her books in order, please visit King writes both series and standalone novels. ![]() New York Times bestselling crime writer Laurie R. ![]() |