![]() ![]() ![]() Unfolding across decades-from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century-and across continents-from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west-Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman’s devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. ![]() Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men. ![]() “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”- Evening StandardĪ sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.Ībandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. “Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”- Booklist ![]()
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![]() ![]() As the two work together, they discover there is more to one another than they thought-and soon their friendship is threatening to blossom into something more.īut with dangerous conflict brewing that makes the alliance more important than ever, acting on their feelings could be deadly. ![]() When a shocking assassination leaves the kingdom reeling, Mare and Denna reluctantly join forces to search for the culprit. To make matters worse, she must learn to ride Mynaria’s formidable warhorses before her coronation-and her teacher is the person who intimidates her most, the prickly and unconventional Princess, sister of her betrothed. Now Denna has to learn the ways of her new kingdom while trying to hide her growing magic. She possesses an Affinity for fire-a dangerous gift for the future queen of a land where magic is forbidden. ![]() Her marriage will seal the alliance between Mynaria and her homeland, protecting her people from other hostile kingdoms. Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Stan died in 2005 and Jan in 2012, Mike continues to create the delightful Berenstain Bear adventures from his studio in Pennsylvania. Sister Bear arrived in 1974, and baby Honey joined the family in 2000. The Bear family has expanded over the years as well. Mike joined with his parents as a creative team in the late 1980s. Writing and illustrating the books has become a Berenstain family affair. Since their inception, the Berenstain Bears stories have expanded to include picture books, beginning readers, and chapter books-even a hit TV show on PBS. What began as an idea sparked by their young sons' love of reading has become over the years arguably the best-selling children's book series ever. Since then, more than 370 Berenstain Bears books have been published, and more than 300 million copies have been sold. The first story starring the bear family, The Big Honey Hunt, appeared in 1962. Stan and Jan Berenstain were already successful cartoonists for magazines and adult humor books when they began writing children's books. ![]() ![]() There he meets Kiara, the daughter of his professor and a type of girl he normally wouldn’t fall for. In Rules of Attraction it’s the younger brother, Carlos, gets into problem with a drug lord and has to leave Mexico to go and live with Alex. In Perfect Chemistry the eldest Fuentes brother, Alex, meets uptown, perfect Brittany, only to find out that she’s a real person behind the facade. Both books are kind of modern, urban Romeo of Juliet stories both brothers get into trouble and fall for a girl from different sides of the track. The story lines of both books are similar, but still unique for each book. What I love about the Perfect Chemistry books - besides that they are truly adorable, addictive, sweet and quirky and with characters that steels your heart - is that you get to know all of the Fuentes brothers. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Each book is a standalone, full length (110k words), contemporary romantic comedy novel, and follows the misadventures and exploits of seven friends in Chicago, all members of the same knitting group. Marriage of Inconvenience is book #7 in the Knitting in the City series. Goodreads Choice Award Semi-Finalist for Best Romance Sure, she might have a wee little crush on Dan the Security Man, but with clear rules, expectations, and a legally binding contract, Kat is certain she can make it through this debacle with her sanity-and heart-all in one piece.Įxcept, what happens when Dan O'Malley isn't as indifferent-or as trustworthy-as she thought? Dan O'Malley checks all the boxes: single, romantically indifferent to her, completely trustworthy. Fortunately, she knows exactly who to ask. To avoid imminent disaster, she must marry immediately it is essential that the person she chooses have no romantic feelings for her whatsoever and be completely trustworthy. But now, Kat's silver spoon past has finally caught up with her, and so have her youthful mistakes. ![]() Determined to live a quiet life, Kat Tanner changed her identity years ago and eschewed her family's legacy. and yes, she is *that* Kathleen Tyson): 1) She's determined to make good decisions, 2) She must get married ASAP, and 3) She knows how to knit.īeing a billionaire heiress isn't all it's cracked up to be. ![]() coming 2017) Marriage of Inconvenience (7, coming 2018) Winston Brothers Series. ![]() There are three things you need to know about Kat Tanner (aka Kathleen Tyson. Knitting in the City Series (Contemporary Romantic Comedy). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An assignment that merely requires Alex to pose as the winner of a contest and test the new super computer, Stormbreaker, which is being given to every school aged child in the country, a gift the government believes is too good to be true. A car accident that mysteriously left his car riddled with bullet holes. His mission? Complete the assignment his uncle Ian (the banker?) had been on before he was killed in car accident. What do these gadgets have in common and who would possibly need them? Alex Rider, 14-year-old Special Operations Officer for the British Intelligence Agency MI6. Nintendo Game Boy, with four game cartridges, each performing an extraordinary function: fax/photocopy, x-ray, bug finder, and smoke bomb. Small tube of zip cream that is harmless to the touch but can burn through metal. ![]() Normal black, plastic yo-yo equipped with a special nylon string that will lift up to 200 pounds and clips securely to your belt. Natrona County Library Serving Natrona County, Wyoming, we promote literacy, support discovery and creation, and build community. ![]() ![]() Kennedy’s debut novel captures the odd ability of war-zone residents to be simultaneously adrenalized by and resigned to their environment. Cushla’s efforts to provide aid and comfort to them after Davy’s father is the victim of a savage partisan attack also lead to unintended, devastating consequences. Davy’s parents (and by unfortunate extension, their children) are almost universally loathed due to their mixed Protestant-Catholic union. Cushla is also drawn into the embattled and miserable family circumstances of spirited Davy, one of her beloved students. An encounter with Michael Agnew, an older, married, Protestant-three strikes in Cushla’s world!-barrister who frequents the bar, leads her to a romantic entanglement with unplanned repercussions. Her days are spent teaching young children in a Catholic school, and her evenings are spent tending to her mother’s alcohol-fueled and increasingly erratic behavior as well as helping out in the family’s pub. ![]() ![]() A clandestine affair unfolds with tragic inevitability during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Ĭushla Lavery, in her 20s, lives with her mother on the outskirts of the battlefield that was Belfast in the 1970s. ![]() ![]() Now I seriously can’t believe anyone likes these constant visual issues that RTAO brings to the table. And yes, these visual issues are not present when you disable Ray Tracing. ![]() As a result of that, there isn’t any visual consistency in this game with RT On. This happens when approaching objects, and when you’re getting away from them. As you can see, shadows can form right in front of you, completely changing the way things look. In the following video, we highlight these visual issues. As such, with RT On, you’ll get AWFUL visual changes while exploring the environments. The problem here, however, is that the radius of the RTAO is really short. Ray Tracing in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor adds RTAO, RTGI on specific objects, and very few RT Reflections. For those wondering, the gameplay footage of this video is from the game’s latest version (with its latest patch applied). We also used Windows 10 64-bit, and the GeForce 531.68 driver. ![]() In fact, the game can look atrocious with Ray Tracing, and we highly recommend disabling it.īefore continuing, for our tests, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, and NVIDIA’s RTX 4090. The reality is that the Ray Tracing implementation in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is not that good. ![]() Or at least that’s what some people want to make you believe. Now as you may have heard, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor can look “amazing” with Ray Tracing. You know what? I’ve been sitting on this since the game came out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.Īli, Monica. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īgamben, Giorgio. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This violence functions as a metonym of the systemic violence of global capitalism and its new spatial order conceived as a space of exception. In particular, the chapter examines the novel’s focus on gated communities as physical manifestations of the ideology of global capitalism and on the dystopic nature of gating, through the analysis of the violence perpetrated by community residents against outsiders. This chapter examines Ballard’s novel Super- Cannes and its engagement with the city as a space where ideology, social transformations, history, and economic trends converge. Ballard represents architectural forms, the urban dimension, and the human relations evolving around them as a means of examining and better understanding the transformations of capitalism over the last five decades. ![]() |