![]() ![]() ![]() On the way out, Nailer is impaled by a rusty piece of metal. Luckily, Nailer is able to escape the oil and washes up on the beach. Sloth, another member of the light crew, finds Nailer in the oil pocket, but decides to leave him to die because she wants Nailer's job and she wants to sneak the oil out of the ship and sell it. While gathering copper wires, Nailer falls through the duct and lands in a deep pool of oil. ![]() As he crawls through the darkness looking for scavenge to make quota, he dreams of traveling through the bright blue waters of the flooded oceans on a speeding clipper ship. Nailer, a small-framed teenage boy, is scavenging through an old rusty ship for copper wire. This infuriates several parties, including Nailer's father, the local power brokers, and Nita's father's enemies, including Nita's uncle Pyce. After a storm, Nailer rescues Nita, the stranded daughter of a wealthy merchant, and helps her to get back home. His mother died when he was a young boy and he now lives with his alcoholic and drug addicted father, Richard Lopez. Nailer is a fifteen-year-old boy who works on the light crew. On the Gulf Coast nearby, humanity has reverted to survival mode and a small economy has grown from the scavenging of washed up oil tankers for bits of copper and other valuables. The polar ice caps have melted and New Orleans is underwater. Human civilization is in decline for ecological reasons. Ship Breaker is a 2010 young adult novel by Paolo Bacigalupi set in a post-apocalyptic future. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her reports and essays have appeared in several publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Nwaubani's journalism focuses on underreported humanitarian issues. Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree won the 2018 Raven Award for Excellence in Arts and Entertainment, was named as one of the American Library Association's Best Fiction for Young Adults, and is a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2019 selection. Her debut young adult novel, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, based on dozens of interviews with women and girls kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram, was published by HarperCollins in September 2018. It was named by The Washington Post as one of the Best Books of the Year. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa) and the 2010 Betty Trask First Book award. Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a novelist, journalist, and essayist. Based in Abuja, Nigeria, she is the first contemporary African writer to launch a global career while fully domiciled in her home country. ![]() ![]() Fantastic Science: The study of the power of names, or "nomenclature", is a legitimate science, routinely employed to manufacture Golems, and reproductive biology is based on preformationism (organisms develop from miniature versions of themselves).In the finale, he manages to escape a hired assassin by writing out the same nomenclature to get a larger golem to hold a door shut, saving himself. ![]() Call-Back: The story begins with the protagonist recounting his first toy golem that would march in a straight line, and how he could copy and edit the nomenclature inside it for different effects.He is not related to the 1970s kung-fu star, David Chiang. The film Arrival is based on his story "Story of Your Life." Among his works are the eight stories published as Stories of Your Life and Others and the novellette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate. ![]() ![]() Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American Speculative Fiction writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moving, fascinating, eloquent, and also beautiful. But, appropriately enough for a flower that is now used on a worldwide basis to raise funds for cancer research, it is, above all, a story of hope. It's a narrative of progress from superstition and myth, taking in politics, greed, religion, science, chance, redemption and love. But in telling the story of the daffodil, what award-winning, best-selling writer Helen O'Neill is really telling is the story of humanity. ![]() Over centuries, the daffodil has been so many things to so many people: it was called 'Narcissus' by the Greeks and prized by the Romans as guarantee of passage to the Underworld it was used by medieval Arabs and ancient Chinese for its medicinal properties and it has inspired poets, lovers, artists and scientists down the ages. ![]() The daffodil is the beautiful first flower of spring, the inspiration of poets, a treasure-trove to scientists and a symbol of everything from unrequited love, rebirth, eternal life and misfortune. A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower. ![]() ![]() AuthorĬanadian Children’s Favourites/Canadian Favourites Format (physical medium, format, dimensions/trim, pagination) ![]() ![]() Montgomery, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1972 (1974 printing) as part of the Canadian Favourites series. Montgomery titles released in paperback that year as part of the Canadian Children’s Favourites series, which was quickly renamed Canadian Favourites. This edition of Anne of Ingleside was published in 1972 by McClelland and Stewart (Toronto), one of five L.M. A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917.A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921.Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939.Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables.Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print Montgomery Reader, Volume 2: A Critical Heritage Montgomery Reader, Volume 3: A Legacy in Review ![]() ![]() ![]() Belladonna is a very likable character and readers will appreciate the difficulty she faces in her efforts to become Arriman’s wife. Ibbotson does magical and strange better than most writers, and readers will enjoy reading a story where the good witch is the odd witch out. Review: This is a ghoulish, funny story that kids will want to reread over and over again. Through each trial and challenge she faces, Belladonna is brought one step closer to Arriman, happiness, and an acceptance of herself for who and what she is. When Belladonna befriends a young boy her chances at winning the contest seem to go up as her new friend discovers his own magical ability. In an effort to gain his attention and affection Belladonna enters into a contest for black witches with the intention of proveing that she is the darkest witch and thus the one Arriman should marry. Summary: Belladonna is a beautiful white witch who wants nothing more then to marry the dark wizard, Arriman the Awful. ![]() ![]() ![]() And like any taboo forbidden place, it was immediately appealing to the child Maud. And as to the relationship of the house and the fen, it carries echoes of the conflict between the human and the natural, the rational and the fairytale, as the fen abounded with “ferishes and hobby-lanterns” which “ull hook you in to a miry death” if you don’t take care. ![]() The novel is perhaps misnamed: it focuses on the house Wake’s End set beside the local fen, some three miles from the village of Wakenhyrst and, like its protagonist, Maud Stearne, the narrative rarely leaves that house which creates a deliciously taut atmosphere. This was my first Paver read having heard some good things about her, and it thrust me straight into a solid Gothic historical yarn with some genuinely creepy moments! ![]() ![]() ![]() Sinek uses Martin Luther King, Jr., as a prime example of a person who led with their Why. This process doesn’t happen by force, but through the inspiration people feel when they hear a message that creates a unified sense of belonging and purpose. Leading with Why is what gains leaders followers. According to leadership expert Simon Sinek, the push-button activates when a leader leads with their “Why.” He references organizations like Southwest and Harley-Davidson that lead with Why, explaining it’s the defining factor that launches businesses into success. This philosophy is the central focus of his best-selling book, Start With Why. ![]() What motivates people to act? Whether it’s a purchase decision or the ability to inspire a group of employees to begin working on an important project, there’s a mental switch that mobilizes people to action. Start with Why Using These Leadership Styles Advertisements.What Implementing The Golden Circle Looks Like.Introduction to Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find. ![]() Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. What I don’t understand why they are so popular among. I know there is a very large audience for novels where terrible things happen to women. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Local Woman Missing (2021) by Mary Kubica. People don't just disappear without a trace. In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense Mary Kubica, author of Just the Nicest Couple, takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried. "Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." -Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark MediaType eBook shortDescription New York Times Bestseller ![]() IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages ![]() ![]() Now I haven't ever written a review before but, I had to with this book. Well, 9 hours later I realized that I read it straight through and could not put it down. So I thought I have a credit I am going to try it. Once I read and heard the storyline I was very captivated from the moment I started to listen to the first 5 min. What made the experience of listening to After the End the most enjoyable? If this book were a movie would you go see it? I really did enjoy the scene with Miles and Juno out in the forest when she hunts for food, very funny. What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!) This book did not, it just ended like every other chapter before it. I think a first book in a series should have an ending to it, but have just enough mystery to have the reader hoping the author will write another one. ![]() I was also disappoint that the first book didn't have an ending. ![]() There is some mystery to the story, but just wasn't enough to make me want to listen to the next book in the series. The character of Miles is very funny as he tries to understand Juno's actions, so I found myself laughing out loud at time. I enjoyed listening to After the End, and at first I was enjoying the story. Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not? ![]() |