Detail of Book sleep redefine your rest for success in work sport and life nick div :
Author : nick littlehales
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Detail of Book the wise man s fear :
Author : patrick rothfuss
Descripton : there are three things all wise men fear the sea in storm a night with no moon and the anger of a gentle man my name is kvothe i have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings i burned down the town of trebon i have spent the night with felurian and left with both my sanity and my life i was expelled from the university at a younger age than most people are allowed in i tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day i have talked to gods loved women and written songs that make the minstrels weep you may have heard of me so begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view a story unequaled in fantasy literature now in the wise man s fear an escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces kvothe to leave the university and seek his fortune abroad adrift penniless and alone he travels to vintas where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society while attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble kvothe uncovers an assassination attempt comes into conflict with a rival arcanist and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild in an attempt to solve the mystery of who or what is waylaying travelers on the king s road all the while kvothe searches for answers attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious amyr the chandrian and the death of his parents along the way kvothe is put on trial by the legendary adem mercenaries is forced to reclaim the honor of the edema ruh and travels into the fae realm there he meets felurian the faerie woman no man can resist and who no man has ever survived until kvothe in the wise man s fear kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time
Detail of Book wanderers :
Author : chuck wendig
Descripton : a decadent rock star a deeply religious radio host a disgraced scientist and a teenage girl who may be the world s last hope shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady she appears to be sleepwalking she cannot talk and cannot be woken up and she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows but shana and her sister are not alone soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across america on the same mysterious journey and like shana there are other shepherds who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead for on their journey they will discover an america convulsed with terror and violence where this apocalyptic epidemic proves less dangerous than the fear of it as the rest of society collapses all around them and an ultraviolent militia threatens to exterminate them the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic the terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world
Detail of Book shadowspell academy the culling trials :
Author : k f breene
Descripton : you don t choose the academy the academy chooses you i had no idea how those words would change my life or how they d changed my life already until the day the most dangerous man i ve ever met waltzed onto my farm and left us a death sentence in an invitation my younger brother has been chosen for the prestigious secret magical school hidden within the folds of our mundane world a place so dangerous they don t guarantee you ll make it out alive if he doesn t go our entire family will be killed it s the same invitation my older brother received three years ago the same place he mysteriously died the academy has already killed one sibling i ll be damned if they take another i do the only thing an older sister can chop off my hair strap on two bras to flatten the girls and take my brother s place magic and monsters are real assassins are coming for me and the dead are prone to rise what s a girl faking it as a boy supposed to do that s right beat the academy at its own game or die trying shadowspell academy book 1 and shadowspell academy book 2 end with a cliffhanger
Detail of Book 999 :
Author : heather dune macadam
Descripton : an amazon best of the month selection a fresh remarkable story of auschwitz on the 75th anniversary of its liberation an uplifting story of the herculean strength of young girls in a staggeringly harrowing situation kirkus intimate harrowing this careful sympathetic history illuminates an incomprehensible human tragedy publishers weeklyon march 25 1942 nearly a thousand young unmarried jewish women boarded a train in poprad slovakia filled with a sense of adventure and national pride they left their parents homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good bye believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months they were eager to report for government service instead the young women many of them teenagers were sent to auschwitz their government paid 500 reich marks about 200 apiece for the nazis to take them as slave labor of those 999 innocent deportees only a few would survive the facts of the first official jewish transport to auschwitz are little known yet profoundly relevant today these were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war there were no men among them sent to almost certain death the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were jewish but also because they were female now acclaimed author heather dune macadam reveals their poignant stories drawing on extensive interviews with survivors and consulting with historians witnesses and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to holocaust literature and women s history
Detail of Book little voices :
Author : vanessa lillie
Descripton : devon burges is in the throes of a high risk birth when she learns of her dear friend s murder the police quickly name another friend as the chief suspect but devon doesn t buy it and despite her difficult recovery she decides to investigate haunted by postpartum problems that manifest as a cruel voice in her head devon is barely getting by yet her instincts are still sharp and she s bent on proving her friend s innocence but as devon digs into the evidence the voice in her head grows more insistent the danger more intense each layer is darker more disturbing and she s not sure she or her baby can survive what lies at the truth
Detail of Book gawayn and e grene knyt :
Author : unknown
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Detail of Book jonathan strange mr norrell :
Author : susanna clarke
Descripton : librarian note alternate cover edition of 9780765356154 sophisticated witty and ingeniously convincing susanna clarke s magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical england she has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more english magicians were once the wonder of the known world with fairy servants at their beck and call they could command winds mountains and woods but by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic they can only write long dull papers about it while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory but at hurtfew abbey in yorkshire the rich reclusive mr norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from england s magical past and regained some of the powers of england s magicians he goes to london and raises a beautiful young woman from the dead soon he is lending his help to the government in the war against napoleon bonaparte creating ghostly fleets of rain ships to confuse and alarm the french all goes well until a rival magician appears jonathan strange is handsome charming and talkative the very opposite of mr norrell strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with wellington s army and doing magic on battlefields astonished to find another practicing magician mr norrell accepts strange as a pupil but it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what english magic ought to be are very different for mr norrell their power is something to be cautiously controlled while jonathan strange will always be attracted to the wildest most perilous forms of magic he becomes fascinated by the ancient shadowy figure of the raven king a child taken by fairies who became king of both england and faerie and the most legendary magician of all eventually strange s heedless pursuit of long forgotten magic threatens to destroy not only his partnership with norrell but everything that he holds dear
Detail of Book doctor sleep :
Author : stephen king
Descripton : soon to be a major motion picture starring ewan mcgregor from master storyteller stephen king his unforgettable and terrifying sequel to the shining an instant 1 new york times bestseller that is a vivid frightscape the new york times years ago the haunting of the overlook hotel nearly broke young dan torrance s sanity as his paranormal gift known as the shining opened a door straight into hell and even though dan is all grown up the ghosts of the overlook and his father s legacy of alcoholism and violence kept him drifting aimlessly for most of his life now dan has finally found some order in the chaos by working in a local hospice earning the nickname doctor sleep by secretly using his special abilities to comfort the dying and prepare them for the afterlife but when he unexpectedly meets twelve year old abra stone who possesses an even more powerful manifestation of the shining the two find their lives in sudden jeopardy at the hands of the ageless and murderous nomadic tribe known as the true knot reigniting dan s own demons and summoning him to battle for this young girl s soul and survival
Detail of Book the conscious parent transforming ourselves :
Author : shefali tsabary
Descripton : while we think it s our responsibility to mold and shape our children s future the essential premise of dr shefali tsabary s a call to conscious parenting is that our children are born to us to create deep internal transformation within us our children have the power to unleash our egoic behavior unlike anyone else triggering all of our emotional reactivity as through our intimate relationship with them we are exposed to our immaturity they become our most accurate mirror of our own lack of emotional development in other words by inviting us to confront who we are in our relationship with them our children raise us to be the parents they long for us to become despite our best intentions to raise our children well in our unconsciousness we pass on emotional legacies to our children that have deep and lasting repercussions bequeathing to them our unresolved needs unmet expectations and frustrated dreams we shackle them in unconscious patterns that shut them down to their own unique being to do justice to parenthood a parent needs to become conscious only to the degree we are willing to transform our own emotional present do we succeed in positively influencing our children s future dr tsabary asks us to set aside traditional parenting strategies that major in controlling our children and instead find true kinship with their spirits by tuning into who each child is in its own unique essence surrendering to the oneness of the parent child relationship in this way lifts parenting out of the physical and into the realm of the sacred peppered with practical hands on examples from dr tsabary s real life experiences with the countless families she has helped journey consciously together a call to conscious parenting is a manual for giving our children the opportunity to shine and dazzle with their natural state of being
Detail of Book serious moonlight :
Author : jenn bennett
Descripton : mystery book aficionado birdie lindberg has an overactive imagination raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents she s cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect but her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college working the graveyard shift at a historic seattle hotel in her new job birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer and gregarious daniel aoki volunteers to be her guide the hotel s charismatic young van driver shares the same nocturnal shift and patronizes the waterfront moonlight diner where she waits for the early morning ferry after work daniel also shares her appetite for intrigue and he s stumbled upon a real life mystery a famous reclusive writer never before seen in public might be secretly meeting someone at the hotel to uncover the writer s puzzling identity birdie must come out of her shell discovering that the most confounding mystery of all may be her growing feelings for the elusive riddle that is daniel
Detail of Book the hod king :
Author : josiah bancroft
Descripton : as senlin and his crew become further dragged in to the conspiracies of the tower everything falls to one question who is the hod king
Detail of Book the secrets we kept :
Author : lara prescott
Descripton : a thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies of love and duty and of sacrifice inspired by the true story of the cia plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of soviet russia not with propaganda but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century doctor zhivago at the height of the cold war two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the cia and given the assignment of a lifetime their mission to smuggle doctor zhivago out of the ussr where no one dare publish it and help pasternak s magnum opus make its way into print around the world glamorous and sophisticated sally forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men irina is a complete novice and under sally s tutelage quickly learns how to blend in make drops and invisibly ferry classified documents the secrets we kept combines a legendary literary love story the decades long affair between pasternak and his mistress and muse olga ivinskaya who was sent to the gulag and inspired zhivago s heroine lara with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk from pasternak s country estate outside moscow to the brutalities of the gulag from washington d c to paris and milan the secrets we kept captures a watershed moment in the history of literature told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail and at the center of this unforgettable debut is the powerful belief that a piece of art can change the world
Detail of Book a dangerous act of kindness :
Author : lp fergusson
Descripton : what would you risk for a complete stranger when widow millie sanger finds injured enemy pilot lukas schiller on her farm the distant war is suddenly at her doorstep compassionate millie knows he ll be killed if discovered and makes the dangerous decision to offer him shelter from the storm on opposite sides of the inescapable conflict the two strangers forge an unexpected and passionate bond but as the snow thaws the relentless fury of world war two forces them apart leaving only the haunting memories of what they shared and an understanding that their secret must never see light as millie s dangerous act of kindness sets them on paths they never could have expected those closest to them become their greatest threats and the consequences of compassion prove deadly a dangerous act of kindness is a beautiful harrowing love story perfect for fans of rachel hore and santa montefiore
Detail of Book along for the ride :
Author : sarah dessen
Descripton : a job in a clothes boutique introduces auden to the world of girls their talk their friendship their crushes she missed out on all that too busy being the perfect daughter to her demanding mother then she meets eli an intriguing loner and a fellow insomniac who becomes her guide to the nocturnal world of the town together they embark on parallel quests for auden to experience the carefree teenage life she s been denied for eli to come to terms with the guilt he feels for the death of a friend in her signature pitch perfect style sarah dessen explores the hearts of two lonely people learning to connect
Detail of Book guess how much i love you :
Author : sam mcbratney
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Detail of Book diamond city diamond city 1 :
Author : francesca flores
Descripton : good things don t happen to girls who come from nothing unless they risk everything fierce and ambitious aina sols as sharp as her blade and as mysterious as the blood magic she protects after the murder of her parents aina takes a job as an assassin to survive and finds a new family in those like her the unwanted and forgotten her boss is brutal and cold with a questionable sense of morality but he provides a place for people with nowhere else to go and makes sure they stay there diamond city built by magic ruled by tyrants and in desperate need of saving it is a world full of dark forces and hidden agendas old rivalries and lethal new enemies to claim a future for herself in a world that doesn t want her to survive aina will have to win a game of murder and conspiracy and risk losing everything full of action romance and dark magic book one of francesca flores breathtaking fantasy duology will leave readers eager for more
Detail of Book technically you started it :
Author : lana wood johnson
Descripton : there s just one problem haley doesn t know who martin is and martin doesn t know that haley doesn t know but they better figure it out fast before their meet cute becomes an epic meet disaster
Detail of Book the quiet at the end of the world :
Author : lauren james
Descripton : lowrie and shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility closeted in a pocket of london and doted upon by a small ageing community the pair spend their days mudlarking for artefacts from history and looking for treasure in their once opulent mansion their idyllic life is torn apart when a secret is uncovered that threatens not only their family but humanity s entire existence lowrie and shen face an impossible choice in the quiet at the end of the world they must decide who to save and who to sacrifice
Detail of Book parisian lives :
Author : deirdre bair
Descripton : national book award winning biographer deirdre bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in paris with samuel beckett and simone de beauvoir painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art in 1971 deirdre bair was a journalist and recently minted ph d who managed to secure access to nobel prize winning author samuel beckett he agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written or even read a biography herself the next seven years of intimate conversations intercontinental research and peculiar cat and mouse games resulted in samuel beckett a biography which went on to win the national book award and propel deirdre to her next subject simone de beauvoir the catch de beauvoir and beckett despised each other and lived essentially on the same street while quite literally dodging one subject or the other and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great caf s of paris bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next her seven year relationship with the domineering and difficult de beauvoir required a radical change in approach yielding another groundbreaking literary profile drawing on bair s extensive notes from the period including never before told anecdotes and details that were considered impossible to publish at the time parisian lives is full of personality and warmth and give us an entirely new window on the all too human side of these legendary thinkers
Detail of Book inferno dark kings novel 18 :
Author : donna grant
Descripton : inferno is the explosive most anticipated final book in donna grant s dark kings series featuring con the king of the dragon kings i knew what i wanted and nothing was going to stop me king of dragon kings driven ruthless shrewd the weight of survival for constantine and his brethren has pushed him to set aside his own yearnings for now he s the most powerful of all dragon kings and con will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who dares to threaten his existence for years con has hidden his pain his desperation for there is one smoldering beauty that he craves above all else even if he feels he doesn t deserve her however his enemies are at every corner there is no one left to trust but none of that matters anymore there is only one thing that con wants with this one woman by his side he can fight for the freedom of his fellow men in arms all con has to do is get her to surrender her heart and be his for all time
Detail of Book panic :
Author : lauren oliver
Descripton : heather never thought she would compete in panic a legendary game played by graduating seniors where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher she d never thought of herself as fearless the kind of person who would fight to stand out but when she finds something and someone to fight for she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought dodge has never been afraid of panic his secret will fuel him and get him all the way through the game he s sure of it but what he doesn t know is that he s not the only one with a secret everyone has something to play for for heather and dodge the game will bring new alliances unexpected revelations and the possibility of first love for each of them and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear are those we need the most
Detail of Book rats saw god :
Author : rob thomas
Descripton : but his herbal endeavors and personal demons have lead to a severe lack of motivation steve s flunking out but if he writes a one hundred page paper he can graduate steve realizes he must write what he knows and through telling the story of how he got to where he is he discovers exactly where he wants to be
Detail of Book meet cute :
Author : helena hunting
Descripton : the daxton hughes was also a student in her class her embarrassment over their meet cute quickly turned into a friendship she never expected of course she never saw his betrayal coming either now eight years later dax is in her office asking for legal advice despite her anger kailyn can t help feeling sorry for the devastated man who just became sole guardian to his thirteen year old sister but when her boss gets wind of kailyn s new celebrity client there s even more at stake than dax s custody issues if she gets dax to work at their firm she ll be promoted to partner the more time kailyn spends with dax and his sister the more she starts to feel like a family and the more she realizes the chemistry they had all those years ago is as fresh as ever but will they be able to forgive the mistakes of the past or will one betrayal lead to another
Detail of Book du ct de chez swann :
Author : marcel proust
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