![]() ![]() Her first published book, Understanding Chaos Magic (Capall Bann, 1996), was the first book on chaos magic to bring a general understanding of the subject to a wide audience, and earned her a place among the best known writers on chaos magic. ![]() ![]() She is no longer able to travel to the US however, as they do not accept her British passport due to complica Jaq D Hawkins is a British author in the genres of Steampunk, Fantasy and the occult. She retired from public speaking in 2006, but started making exceptions on occasion in 2008. Her Spirits of the Elements series spread her reputation across a wider spectrum of the magical community and led to speaking engagements in far flung corners of the earth, including the US and Japan as well as the UK. Jaq D Hawkins is a British author in the genres of Steampunk, Fantasy and the occult. ![]()
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![]() Over the past two decades, Brown’s extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. ![]() ![]() As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances-a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection. In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. This is the framework for meaningful connection.” Brené Brown writes, “If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. ![]() In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anche lei, come Tessia (protagonista del libro L'apprendista del Mago) presenta un interesse per la Guarigione. Sonea non mi piaceva molto, all'inizio, ma dopo mi sono affezionata abbastanza. La seconda parte, invece, è dedicata al suo imparare il controllo e alla sua scelta di entrare o meno a far parte della Corporazione. La prima parte segue Sonea che scopre i suoi poteri e cerca di nascondersi, con l'aiuto dei suoi amici e dei Ladri, dalla Corporazione dei maghi, che lei ritiene malvagi e senza cuore. Il libro è diviso in due parti, e la protagonista è Sonea, giovane dwell (ovvero un'abitante dei bassifondi). UnĪttimo prima sembrava a portata di mano, un attimo dopo le Una sfera bianca le incombeva davanti e brillava di luce intensa.Įra impossibile stabilire a che distanza si trovasse. Quando quella si aprì, Sonea si ritrovò sulla soglia del buio. ![]() ![]() Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak. Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. ![]() The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages. About the Book Continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II.īook Synopsis This book is truly epic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ollie and Moritz need each other, even if they won't admit it. Unfortunately, superecholocation and sarcasm don't help him fight a bully or approach Owen, the boy who treats him like a human. Rescued from a lab, Moritz requires a pacemaker and lacks eyes, but he insists he isn't blind he can acutely sense his surroundings by clicking his tongue. Buzzing with awkward wisecracks and restless energy, he draws the aloof, sardonic Moritz into conversation. Ollie’s allergy to electricity has exiled him and his mother to a cabin in the Michigan woods with little company besides Auburn-Stache, his unconventional doctor, and Liz, a girl who brings him news from the world of TVs and humidifiers. Ollie sees his new German pen pal, Moritz, as a potential lifeline. Opposites attract-and repel-in Thomas' epistolary debut novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trying to understand who she is, and how she ended up in such a hopeless place, Lottie bands together with other outcasts, including a brave and lovely girl named Charlie. When she takes Nox, her memories remain a mystery, and the monsters who fill the sky at night refuse to snatch her. But she soon comes to realize that she is not at all like the people of Abeo City. Like the other lost souls, Lottie wakens in this harsh landscape and runs in terror from the Snatchers. Nox will give you back a single memory–for a price. The people of Abeo City have forgotten their pasts, and they can trade locks of their hair to sinister women known only as the Sixers for an addictive drug. But inside the rotting walls of the Safe Houses comes a quieter, creeping danger. The lost souls gather indoors at night as Snatchers tear through the sky on black-feathered wings, stalking them. As you struggle to rise, as your breath exhales like a ghost, you know only two things: You can’t remember who you are. Diemer’s second YA novel, Twixt, is out now! Diemer writes novels about girls who love girls, who kick ass and take names, finding the courage to fight for what they believe in, while experiencing magic and monsters along the way. ![]() You can read her best-selling romance by searching for Bridget Essex. Diemer no longer writes YA, and she no longer writes under this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a 19-year-old officer cadet at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, Kappus wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke after learning that as a young man, Rilke, the son of an Austrian army officer, had studied at the academy's lower school at Sankt Pölten in the 1890s. The Banat region (now divided between Hungary, Serbia and Romania) was populated with a large population of ethnic Germans known as Banat Swabians or Danube Swabians of which Kappus' ancestry is derived. Kappus is known chiefly as the military academy cadet who wrote to Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) for advice in a series of letters from 1902 to 1908 that were assembled and published in the best-selling book Letters to a Young Poet (1929).įranz Xaver Kappus was born on in Timișoara (also known as German: Temeschwar, Temeschburg or Temeswar, in Hungarian: Temesvár), in the Banat province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ![]() Franz Xaver Kappus ( – 9 October 1966) was an Austrian military officer, journalist, editor and writer who wrote poetry, short-stories, novels and screenplays. ![]() ![]() ![]() Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and a narrative flair worthy of Patrick O'Brian. It was the first great appropriation of federal money and the first demonstration of the power of the new central government, calling for the creation of entirely new domestic industries, and the extraction of natural resources from the backwoods of Maine to the uninhabited coastal islands of Georgia.įrom the complicated politics of the initial decision, through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. The unique combination of power, speed and tactical versatility - smaller than a battleship and larger than a sloop - that all navies sent on their most daring missions. In 1794, President Washington signed legislation authorizing the construction of six heavy frigates. ![]() Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce from the vicious depredations of the Barbary pirates, or would it drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? How large a navy would suffice? The founders - particularly Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Adams - debated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once. Before the ink was dry on the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the young republic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This new edition of The Story of Christianity incorporates recent archaeological discoveries to give us a better view of the early Christian communities. The Story of Christianity demonstrates at each point what new challenges and opportunities faced the church and how Christians struggled with the various options open to them, thereby shaping the future direction of the church. From Jesus's faithful apostles to the early reformist John Wycliffe, Gonzalez skillfully weaves details from the lives of prominent figures tracing core theological issues and developments within the various traditions of the church. The Story of Christianity, volume 1, relates the dramatic events, the colorful characters, and the revolutionary ideas that shaped the first fifteen centuries of the church's life and thought. ![]() In this fully revised and updated edition, the lauded church historian Justo Gonzalez tells the story of Christianity from its fragile infancy to its pervasive dominance at the dawn of the Protestant Reformation. ![]() ![]() ![]() We meet her again about half-way through the novel, and, eventually learn that she’s there to find her long separated children and spouse. The plot kicks off when a mysterious woman-the orcamancer-rides an orca to the city, polar bear at her side, triggering rumors and speculation about who she might be, and why she had come. ![]() Themes like hybridity and diaspora, alienation and found family, greed, religious intolerance and genocide, class struggle, revenge, and rebellion are all seamlessly woven together in a tale told in the floating Arctic city of Qaanaaq, a city peopled with refugees, run by artificial intelligence, and owned by the mega-wealthy. Miller creates a vivid, if daunting and dystopian, future after climate change has so ravaged the world that the great powers have fallen and nearly everyone is a refugee. ![]() |
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