![]() The entire team became an extension of him-his mind, his skills, his passing, his rebounding, his unselfishness, his enthusiasm, his everything. Slowly, he watched the right nucleus form around him, quick guards and heady players who intrinsically understood where to go and what to do. ![]() The big redhead anchored the perfect team in college, then spent his professional career wondering if it would ever happen again. He'd had it, he'd had it… and then it was gone. The coach would spend the next two years thinking about that perfect team. ![]() Within a year they imploded, ravaged by injuries and jealousy and money and everything else that was ruining the NBA at the time. When he finally won a championship, it happened in the blink of an eye-a young group peaking at the right time, a beautiful mix of speed and teamwork, his vision come to life, a dream finally realized. Deep down, he worried his career could pass without ever finding the right blend of players. ![]() He walked the streets for hours after tough losses, frightened players with his passion, challenged them to fistfights in the locker room, never wavered in his belief that basketball should be played a certain way. ![]() The coach spent his life waiting for the perfect team. They may have lived within 362 pages of a hardcover book, but I grew up with them. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, why did nobody listen to Briony for even two seconds? It makes sense magick can be broken with magick. All of the character's held similar one-sided ideals and because they did not develop away or have their one goal expanded upon, they frustrated me. Alistar's purpose was to sacrifice himself for Isabel, a person he barely knew, because he loved her. ![]() What upset about this novel the most was how one-minded the characters were. Still good, but not what I anticipated from the blurb. To be fair, The Hunger Games is one of my favourite novels and when I compare All of Us Villains to the glee that novel made me feel, this one is just okay. All of Us Villains presents through its blurb to contain The Hunger Games vibes but with magick and for me, it fell short of reaching those vibes. I feel this novel could have been shortened and its wow-factor would have immediately increased. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() O trabalho que agora apresentamos, propõe uma nova leitura historiográfica de um dos períodos mais controversos e porventura menos estudados da I República portuguesa: o Governo do General Pimenta de Castro (25 de Janeiro a 14 de Maio de 1915), primeira tentativa conservadora de inverter a orientação radical que o regime tivera até esse momento, sob a direcção do Partido Republicano Português (Partido Democrático), que foi bruscamente interrompida pela revolução mais sangrenta da I República, saldada num número superior a duzentos mortos e mais de mil feridos. ![]() ![]() ![]() Power and what people are willing to do to gain it is a theme in the Fantasy genre that we’re all familiar with, it’s nothing new, but somehow it’s a concept that never seems to not help create an entertaining and twisty story that leaves us readers filled with intrigue and anticipated pleasure. When on the very edge of death, matters such as fortune and legacy are meaningless in the face of knowing that someone who cares for you will hold your hand as you slip away.” – Morgan Rhodes, “Crystal Storm” To see my Fancast/Dreamcast of the series – Click HERE Total Star Rating: 3.75 Stars ![]() ![]() To see my review of book #4 – Frozen Tides – Click HERE To see my review of book #3 – Gathering Darkness – Click HERE To see my review of book #2 – Rebel Spring – Click HERE To see my review of book #1 – Falling Kingdoms – Click HERE ***Warning! This review contains spoilers from this book and from previous books in th series, continue reading at your own risk! You’ve officially been warned!*** ![]() ![]() ![]() Her story is narrated by an unusual cabin boy with a sharp wit. Along her journey, Tress encounters a talking rat, a crew of reluctant pirates, and plenty of danger. Luckily, Tress is kindhearted, resourceful, and curious-which also makes her an appealing heroine. Ships protected by spore-killing silver sail these seas, and it’s Tress’ quest to find a ship and somehow persuade its crew to carry her to a place no ships want to go, to rescue a person nobody cares about but her. Verdant spores explode into fast-growing vines if they get wet, which means inhaling them can be deadly. The seas on Tress’ world are dangerous because they’re not made of water-they’re made of colorful spores that pour down from the world’s 12 stationary moons. To do that, she’ll have to get off the barren island she’s forbidden to leave, cross the dangerous Verdant Sea, the even more dangerous Crimson Sea, and the totally deadly Midnight Sea, and somehow defeat the unbeatable Sorceress. Charlie, meanwhile, has been captured by the mysterious Sorceress who rules the Midnight Sea, which leaves Tress with no choice but to go rescue him. When the duke realizes the two teenagers are falling in love, he takes Charlie away to find a suitable wife-and returns with a different young man as his heir. Charlie is the son of the local duke, but he likes stories more than fencing. ![]() ![]() Tress is an ordinary girl with no thirst to see the world. A fantasy adventure with a sometimes-biting wit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seuss's best-selling books, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.Īs the first step in a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss presents a crazy world of boxing Goxes and winking Yinks that drink pink ink! In this hilarious exploration of simple concepts such as colours, numbers and opposites, Dr. From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() More importantly, it's a place where Nat won't be persecuted, even if her darkest secret comes to light. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called "the Blue." They say it's a paradise, where the sun still shines and the waters are turquoise. At the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature-freezing. ![]() Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. "- MARGARET STOHL, New York Times bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures trilogy From Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston, the New York Times bestselling authors of the Blue Bloods and Witches of East End series. "As fearless as a futuristic Game of Thrones. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl meets Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart in TJ Klune's YA debut: a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves. And he'll do it with or without Seth's reluctant help. Now instead of just writing stories about him, Nick actually gets to kiss him. But after a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City's mightiest hero (and Nick's biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. Flash Fire is the explosive sequel to The Extraordinaries by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune Through bravery, charm, and an alarming amount of enthusiasm, Nick landed himself the superhero boyfriend of his dreams. ![]() ![]() Instead of fighting crime, Nick contends with a new year at school, a father who doesn't trust him and a best friend named Seth, who may or may not be the love of Nick's short, uneventful life. Flash Fire (The Extraordinaries Series 2) by TJ Klune 4.4 (50) eBook 9.99 Hardcover 15.99 Paperback 11.99 eBook 9.99 Audiobook 0.00 View All Available Formats & Editions Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. Shadow Star protects the city and manipulates darkness, and Pyro Storm is determined to bring the city to its knees using his power over fire.Īnd then there's Nick, who.well, being the most popular fan-fiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right? In Nova City, there are extraordinary people, capable of feats that defy the imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeanne was sixth in the family of four boys and four girls. Her mother came of a clerical Walloon family, and was the divorced wife of a professor in Leyden University. She was born in 1839, in Batavia, because her father was Viceroy of the Dutch East Indies. That, now, was a girl, one of the most engaging figures in the margin of the nineteenth century, sad proof of what happens to Jeanne d'Arc if she is unlucky enough not to be burned. They raise a white finger and say only, ‘This is a community of human beings, and, look you, we are not beasts of the field.’ But I kept my eyes on the mountain, wondering which gully had seen the military exploits of my admired Jeanne Merkus. They do not publicly declare the relationship of man to God, like a Christian tower or spire. These are among the most pleasing architectural gestures ever made by urbanity. We saw the town suddenly in a parting between showers, handsome and couchant, and, like all Turkish towns, green with trees and refined by the minarets of many mosques. We found ourselves slipping down the side of a broad and fertile valley that lay voluptuously under the guard of a closed circle of mountains, the plump grey-green body of a substantial river, running its whole length, marked by poplars and birches. Trebinje is the nearest town to the Dalmatian coast that exhibits what life was like for the Slavs who were conquered by the Turks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Four books in his middle-grade Alcatraz vs. ![]() He was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight were followed by the final book in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013. Tor has published Elantris, the Mistborn trilogy and its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, the first two in the planned ten-volume series The Stormlight Archive. This changed when an eighth grade teacher gave him Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly.īrandon was working on his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested to him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. ![]() This collection features The Emperor’s Soul, Mistborn: Secret History, and a brand-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer.Įarlier this year he released Calamity, the finale of the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners trilogy that began with Steelheart.īrandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Brandon’s major books for the second half of 2016 are The Dark Talent, the final volume in Alcatraz Smedry’s autobiographical account of his battle against the Evil Librarians who secretly rule our world, and Arcanum Unbounded, the collection of short fiction in the Cosmere universe that includes the Mistborn series and the StormlightĪrchive, among others. ![]() |