![]() It's a tough but rewarding existence, but one that has a serpent growing at its heart. People fleeing from the cramped, overcrowded cities of the ecologically-devastated homeworld now find themselves planting cropfields and building sailing boats. On the stage-one colony world of Lalonde, a humid jungle planet accepting colonists from Earth's overflowing European arcologies, a new village is being settled. Meanwhile, Joshua Calvert is a scavenger, hunting the debris fields of the Ruin Ring (the remains of thousands of alien space habitats destroyed by forces unknown two millennia earlier), looking for that elusive find which will make him rich and allow him to repair his father's grounded starship, the Lady Macbeth. ![]() After a stint in the Confederation Navy, they go into business as an independent trader, but a family tragedy prejudices Syrinx against the Adamists, leaving a scar that it seems cannot be healed. Starship and captain are born and raised together, forming an unshakable bond. ![]() Syrinx is an Edenist voidhawk captain, bonded to Oenone. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Our heroine, Katherine, has been engaged to hero Preston since childhood. Though, I am very interested in a certain Duke.īut I’ll focus on this book first. The Gilded Age is all the better thanks to this series and the latest book is probably my favorite so far. What happens when the wrong bride turns out to be the right woman after all? And seeing her out on the town with other men is driving him crazy. He hadn’t expected Katherine to be so charming. But when a mysterious lover at a masquerade turns out to be his would-be fiancée, Preston’s resolve begins to crumble. Because no matter what happens, she and Preston will never marry.Īfter his family nearly lost everything, Preston is done letting his late father ruin his life-including choosing his bride. But this isn’t going to stop Katherine from living life to the fullest as she ditches all silly notions of love and marriage and sets out to sample all the excitement New York City has to offer. The only problem is Preston refuses to acknowledge it. Her father arranged an engagement to the much sought-after tycoon Preston Clarke ages ago. ![]() The charismatic and vivacious Katherine Delafield should be married by now. ![]() ![]() Jarden made a disgusted sound in the back of her throat and pushed off from the door, floating to where Anya snuggled in her sleeping cocoon against one wall. On the run from the Telepath Guild, hunted by their crazy-ass assassin, had to abandon my home and family, and managed to drag my best friends along with me on this fun-filled, life-threatening space safari. Still not looking up from her study of their would-be rescuers, Anya snorted. ![]() Brooding again? the dark-skinned woman asked in disapproving tones. Searching their rigid features for even the faintest hint of compassion, she didn’t lift her head when the door to the cabin slid open and Jarden floated through, graceful as always even in zero gravity. These were military holoscans, typically stern and uncompromising, but Anya didn’t take comfort in their unsmiling faces and hard expressions. The man could have been made of stone and the woman had a face as cold as a glacier and eyes like diamond chips. Unfortunately, they look terribly helpful. And these two people were her last slim hope of averting it. Except mess was too mild a word-catastrophe was better. ![]() What a mess, Anya sighed, staring at the two holographic figures standing on her palm unit. –William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act I Scene IV Chapter 1 " Angels and ministers of grace defend us!" Stepping Stones: The Huntress Series of Short Stories Here There Be Dragons: Sunscapes Trilogy Book 2 ![]() ![]() ![]() In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest, and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In Part One, “Low Men in Yellow Coats,” eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales-each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues to cast its shadow over American lives, politics and culture. The classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. ![]() ![]() No person shall sell or give away any alcoholic beverages to:
![]() ![]() There was no shortage of new recruits at Build Day 2018 They beat out Caltech and MIT to bring home the trophy in their category. The 10‑month‑old club arrives at the inaugural Spaceport America Cup with their first rocket to compete against 110 teams in the world’s largest intercollegiate rocket engineering conference and competition. June 2017, somewhere near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. ![]() Applicant numbers are overwhelming, and Rocket becomes UBC’s largest student engineering design team. “From then on,” says Fortier, “it was all rockets.” His timing impeccable, a Google search turns up the newly minted club. When SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida toward the International Space Station, Hubert Fortier watches live along with millions. Just like that, he is on his way to Vancouver.Įngineering students Joren Jackson and Simon Bambey co-found UBC Rocket – Rocket for short – dedicated to the design, manufacture, and launch of suborbital rockets. A week later, as family and friends are deciding whether to rebuild or relocate, Fortier receives an acceptance letter from UBC. That May, 125 wildfires burn through Alberta, 37 of them out of control, and one takes down his home. He’s submitted applications to a few universities, but he’s counting on a career in the trades. Nineteen-year-old Hubert Fortier is nearly a year out of high school and apprenticing as a welder. ![]() ![]() From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. ![]() After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. ![]() Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of the elderly couple. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. ![]() Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his parents separated when Stephen was a toddler, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() Once in the picturesque town of Santa Monica, Jane (to her immense surprise) is cast as Mary Lennox in a major film production of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story. ![]() The Painted Garden follows ten-year-old Jane Winter, a middle child who has a tendency to get into trouble, as her family moves from rainy England to sunny California not long after World War II. One of Noel Streatfeild’s favorite books was The Secret Garden, and this novel she published in 1949 is a clever retelling of that story. So without further ado, here’s a list of three books I’d love to share with you: Having been a Streatfeild fan since the age of nine, I’m delighted whenever I get the chance to introduce readers to some of her lesser-known stories. And to be honest, I’m always excited when I see people talk about reading any Streatfeild book, because although some of the Shoes books achieved considerable popularity here in the USA, they just never quite attained the same status as other classic children’s novels. ![]() When you hear someone talking about Noel Streatfeild books, chances are they’ll mention one of her most successful stories, usually in the Shoes series: Ballet Shoes or Theater Shoes (UK title- Curtain Up) or Skating Shoes (UK title- White Boots). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Losing the boy she loved once before had nearly destroyed her, but the sparking tension that grows between them becomes impossible for Ivy to deny. But letting him in is as dangerous as hunting the cold-blooded killers stalking the streets. With forest-green eyes and a smile that’s surely left a stream of broken hearts in its wake, he has an uncanny, almost unnatural ability to make her yearn for everything he has to offer. He’s six feet and three inches of temptation and swoon-inducing charm. ![]() Ren Owens is the last person Ivy expected to enter her rigidly controlled life. After all, four years ago, she lost everything at the hands of the creatures she’d sworn to hunt, tearing her world and her heart apart. She, and others like her, know humans aren’t the only thing trolling the French Quarter for fun… and for food. Twenty-two year old Ivy Morgan isn’t your average college student. Things are about to get Wicked in New Orleans. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. ![]() ![]() He said: 'We made a bunch of improvements from the 1.0 to the 2.0 and probably the most noticeable change is the change in the deck.' In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Arx Pax engineer, Kyle O'Neil, discussed the design of their new gadget. The firm also went back to its roots with the skateboard inspired design - just like Marty McFly's in Back to the Future. ![]() ![]() The Hendo 2.0, which is being tested by Hawk, is the recent upgrade on the 1.0 and features improved battery life and better steering capabilities. The surface acts as a secondary magnetic field and it is what makes the high-pitched squeal when the gadget is in motion. The innovation here is in the efficiency of the induction process and the ability to control the movements of the hovering objects. So the board underneath the Hendo can be aluminum and copper to work, for instance. ![]() The magnets only work as long as metal conductor is used in the surface underneath. The Hendo Hoverboard uses four ‘hover engines’ which emit magnetic fields that push against each other. ![]() |