![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Rise of the Red Shadow chronicles the early life of one of the most mysterious figures of the The Book of Deacon trilogy, the creature called Lain. Under the learned hand of the one human who believed in his potential, the young malthrope would instead be given the wisdom to take his first steps on the long journey to his destiny. The beast was to be sold for a handful of silver, but fate intervened in the form of an old blind slave named Ben. Had it been a human, it might have been treated with compassion, but in the eyes of human society a malthrope was a monster, a mix of fox and man believed to be a murderer and thief by its very nature. It was there that a pair of trackers, eager to retrieve a lost slave, instead found an orphaned malthrope. For the warrior who would come to be known as the fearsome Red Shadow, the story began in a forgotten glade deep in the land of Tressor. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The biologists found that the animals' personalities didn't matter if there was no common enemy as when there were no invading species, all the colonies thrived. While the docile colony seemed to be thriving at first - reproducing faster than the others and spreading colonies nearby - their webs were invaded by more aggressive species that stole their food and eggs as well as eating the passive hosts.Īt the end of the six year term, the colonies descended from the docile pair were extinct, while the colonies started by aggressive pairs and a mixture of the two personalities survived, even if their colonies got off to a slower start as they reproduced more slowly. ![]() Leaving each colonies to go forth and multiplying the wild, the scientists checked on the creatures' progress every summer for six years. The researchers believe spiders have personalities While some spiders might be aggressive, other arachnids could be naturally 'timid' and docile,' scientists said - which might go some way to helping some people become less afraid of the creatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was just a single word that was completely unknown to Nick: Erebos. ![]() ![]() The two set off on a dangerous mission in which the border between reality and the virtual world begins to blur. Now unable to play, Nick turns to a friend for help in finding out who controls the game. When it sends Nick on a deadly assignment, he refuses and is banished from the game. But Erebos knows a lot about the players and begins to manipulate their lives. Players of the game must obey strict rules: always play alone, never talk about the game, and never tell anyone your nickname.Ĭurious, Nick joins the game and quickly becomes addicted. When 16-year-old Nick receives a package containing the mysterious computer game Erebos, he wonders if it will explain the behavior of his classmates, who have been secretive lately. Summary: An intelligent computer game with a disturbing agenda. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Deep down in their souls, they can feel they are the same.īut when Catherine’s father dies and the household’s treatment of Heathcliff only grows more cruel, their relationship becomes strained and threatens to unravel. Catherine knows she must mold herself into someone pretty and good and marriageable, even though it might destroy her spirit.Īs they occasionally flee into the moors to escape judgment and share the half-remembered language of their unknown kin, Catherine and Heathcliff come to find solace in each other. Her father is grooming her for a place in proper society, and that’s all that matters. Yorkshire, North of England, 1786. As the abandoned son of a lascar-a sailor from India-Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an “outsider.” Now he’s been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father’s language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks gibberish.Ĭatherine is the younger child of the estate’s owner, a daughter with light skin and brown curls and a mother that nobody talks about. Sometimes, lost things find their way home… What Souls Are Made Of, British Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri’s masterful new take on Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and fourth book in the Remixed Classics , will leave readers breathless. What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix. ![]() ![]() ![]() She gives great detail without going overboard. The world building that Painter has done is great, as I expected. Others might only have a difference in skin, eye or hair color that don’t work well in humans. He has six fingers on each hand (not to be confused with the man who kills Inigo Montoya’s father) and horns which he takes to sawing off most of the time (though it seems his hide better than Hellboy’s). ![]() Our man character, Augustine, really can’t blend. Not all of the fae are able to blend in with humans, but some more than others. There are many different kinds of fae and they are out in the open, so humans are aware of them. ![]() This series focuses more on the fae world, instead of the vampires. While I recommend trying the House of Comarre series, I don’t think it matters if you read this first, so jump on in. ![]() There is some character overlap, but no so much that you will miss anything. If you haven’t read that series, don’t fret, you won’t be lost in the slightest. It is set in the same New Orleans with the same world. This book is a slight spin-off of the House of Comarre series. When I saw it was going be on audio, I thought “Score!”. I read Kristen Painter’s House of Comarre series in its entirety last year and loved it. House of the Rising Sun was on my list as soon as I saw it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is more of a survey-of-the-landscape type book. Some books are very narrowly focused and organized to support a key thesis. I don't have an issue with the idea that a 'language instinct' may exist, but I was never quite clear what he meant by the term 'instinct.' Regardless, as an introduction to all the key topics of interest in his field, this is a great book. He is less entertaining when he tries to argue his support for a particular ideological position. Pinker is at his best relating about the exciting research going on in neurolinguistics. That was one of the best parts for me, and I didn't have a clue it would be included. Fortunately, there is a 2007 update at the end of the book that comments on and catches up with some of the latest developments. This book came out in 1994 and it says a lot about how fast this field is growing that certain parts already feel a little outdated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Sando's attentions and favor flip-flop from one boy to the other, the rivalry between the two, present from the beginning, grows stronger and more sinister. Surfing isn't the only dangerous game in town. This mix of doubt and desire intensifies when the boys make a discovery about their mentor's past. As the boys become more skilled, their exploits become more reckless narrator Bruce (nicknamed “Pikeletâ€) has doubts about where all this is heading, while the aptly named Loonie wants only bigger and bolder thrills. He recognizes their daredevil wildness and takes it upon himself to teach them to surf. Their attraction is focused on the water—ponds, rivers, the sea—but they do little more than play around until they fall in with a mysterious, older man named Sando. Two thrill-seeking boys, Bruce and Loonie, are young teenagers in smalltown Australia, circa the early 1970s. This slender book packs an emotional wallop. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was Milan Lucic’s, who ran Ryan Miller last season without fear of retribution from a soft Buffalo roster.Īll that changed last summer, as the Sabres added the gritty Steve Ott and goon extraordinaire Scott – this was done in direct response to the lack of toughness Buffalo showed in response to Lucic’s charge of Miller. Though Thornton knows, understands, and loves his role on the Bruins, the Scott fight was not his battle. However, he never should have had to do it. He knows his job is to fight the other team’s tough guys and, despite overwhelming odds, did his job. Despite giving up six inches in height and over 50 pounds to the 6-foot-8, Thornton had no second thoughts about throwing punches with Scott, and for that he deserves credit. When Boston’s Shawn Thornton dropped the gloves with Buffalo behemoth John Scott Thursday night, he earned the respect of his teammates, the fans, opposing fans, and likely Scott himself. Milan Lucic let Shawn Thornton fight his battle with the Buffalo Sabres Thursday night. ![]() ![]() ![]() I sparred with the night clerk for a couple of minutes, but it was like trying to open a sardine can after you broke off the metal lip. ![]() It was one of those transient motels, something between a fleabag and a dive.You've been beaten up, slapped, shot full of hop until you were as crazy as two waltzing mice now let's see you do something really tough, like getting up.She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.It was smaller than Buckingham Palace and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler building. Or maybe it was just the plain fact that I am tired and growing old. Mostly chasing a few missing husbands and then chasing their wives once I found them, in order to get paid. Maybe it was the rotten weather we'd had in L.A. This past spring was the first that I felt tired and realized I was growing old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In one picture, Nicholas cavorts with a swarm of colorful butterflies that cover the page (there are twenty four, each a different species) and in another, he is camouflaged by a swirl of autumn leaves, some larger than he. Whether a robin feeding a worm to its young, a flowering dogwood, a swallowtail butterfly, or a trillium in bloom, each is presented with painstaking accuracy. On each page, through an interesting use of perspective, Nicholas is dwarfed by some element of nature which strikes us with its giant-sized detail in the foreground. Nicholas (named for Ole Risom’s son) is a bright-eyed rabbit, dressed in a soft yellow shirt and red white-stitched overalls. Richard Scarry was a prolific writer and illustrator, but this is arguably his most beautiful book. There were several other books in this series, also written by Risom ( I Am a Mouse, I Am a Puppy, I Am a Kitten), but the first stands apart. ![]() Ole Risom, the Danish art director for Golden Press during the 1950’s and 1960’s, invited his good friend, Richard Scarry, to collaborate on this book. At the end, he curls up in his hollow tree and falls asleep.Īs with many of the Golden Books, the strength of I Am a Bunny lies in its rich illustrations. ![]() I live in a hollow tree.” Disarmingly straightforward, he tells what he likes to do during each of the four seasons: pick flowers and chase butterflies in the spring, look at frogs and blow dandelion seeds in the summer, watch the leaves falling in the autumn and the snow falling in the winter. A bunny faces the reader and introduces himself. ![]() |