![]() His rock is Declan Tyler, former AFL football player turned announcer. ![]() Simon is a television producer and hes still as snarky, funny, outspoken, and emotionally bumbling as ever. Instead, a young man named Coby has filled the role of both his assistant and best friend for the past few years. Its been eight years since the last book in this series, Tigerland, and Simon Murray no longer has his friend Nyssa as his assistant. These MCs are unforgettable simply because they are so very realrock steady, down to earth guys who bring life to the pages of my e-reader and take me away to their world during the time they share a glimpse of their lives with me. And yet, theres a depth of emotion and shared moments of love and unity between two men who first captured my attention, and then my heart, many years ago when I met them in Tigers and Devils. ![]() ![]() Theres really no one single event in this book that I can name as outstanding or exciting or remarkable. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But in the end it is Bilbo alone who must face the most dreaded dragon in all Middle-earth-and a destiny that waits in the dark caverns beneath the Misty Mountains, where a twisted creature known as Gollum jealously guards a precious magic ring. Along the way, the company faces trolls, goblins, giant spiders, and worse. When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim stolen treasure from the evil dragon Smaug, Gandalf the wizard suggests an unlikely accomplice: Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented hobbit. 'This book is the definitive explication of the sources, characters, places, and all things Hobbit. The most recent revised edition was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in August 2002. Tolkien, was a comprehensive study of the publication history of The Hobbit. Now a blockbuster film by Peter Jackson, Academy Award–winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit was also adapted into a fully painted graphic novel, a classic in its own right, presented here in a new expanded edition. The Annotated Hobbit by Douglas Anderson and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is one of the best-loved books of all time. ![]() ![]() AN ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE FANTASY CLASSIC WITH SIX NEW PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS!įirst published in the United States more than seventy-five years ago, J.R.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She knows she shouldn't, but what else is she going to do with her boring Valentine's Day?One sexy hook-up later, her mind is blown and the secret's out.Maverick Monroe.Bad boy.The most talented football player in the country.Just ask him.Too bad for him Delaney's sworn off dating athletes forever after her last heartbreak.But Maverick wants more than one night and refuses to give up on winning Delaney's heart. Curious.His dare? Spend one night in his bed-a night he promises will be unforgettable-and she can solve the mystery of who he is. Good girl.Lover of fluffy kitties and Star Wars. ![]() NEW STAND-ALONE RELEASE: Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills kicks off a brand-new, sexy, heartfelt contemporary romance series with I DARE YOU!Badass Athlete: I dare you to.Delaney Shaw: Who is this?The late night text is random, but "Badass Athlete" sure seems to know who she is.Delaney Shaw. ![]() ![]() ![]() Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French. He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of nonfiction. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, a title many still honor. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. ![]() Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy).Īsimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ![]() ![]() It was a challenge and ended up feeling more like a job to get the storyline to work. I tried to do this book from a completely different situation, two people who are already in a relationship of sorts. I liked seeing Darrin and Marybeth finally push past their problems, accept their situation and move on to a promising future. ![]() ![]() Even knowing that it was difficult for some readers to get into, I have to say that I really do enjoy the book and I am very proud of it. I would never publish a book that I didn’t enjoy writing. I don’t want to get tied into doing things by the book, sticking to any type of writing formula and I thought that this plot was be the ultimate writing challenge for myself. For that I apologize, but like I said I was trying something completely new. Instead of watching them fall in love, I threw you into a story about two people in love with obstacles and who are already in a relationship of sorts. ![]() What happened was that I tried something completely new. Double Dare is out and while a lot of you are enjoying the book, a few of you just couldn’t quite get the feel of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() His treatment of some of the central themes of modern times-sexual and social politics, the nature of intimate relationships, the collapse of traditional values, the uncertainty of the human condition as the twentieth century drew to a close-is as revealing and compelling as that of any of his contemporaries. From the beginning of his career as a writer, John Updike (Ma– January 27, 2009) demonstrated his strengths as a brilliant stylist and a master of mood and tone whose linguistic facility has sometimes overshadowed the dimensions of his vision of existence in the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() Sal Paradise (based on Kerouac) is a young writer living on the East Coast of the US in the late 1940s. Hailed as a modern classic, it was adapted into a film (released in 2012) by the same name. With its vibrant characters and incredible life experiences, the novel is an indelible snapshot of mid-century American restlessness and a burgeoning counterculture. Many consider On the Road one of the 20th century’s most important and influential novels. In striking contrast to these intellectuals, however, is the central character, whose journeys are more literal-and whose love of life on the road is infectious. Burroughs (who penned the 1959 novel Naked Lunch). ![]() ![]() Sal Paradise (Kerouac’s pseudonym) is the story’s protagonist and narrator, while other key characters stand in for fellow Beat luminaries in his circle, including poet Allen Ginsberg (best known for the revolutionary 1956 poem Howl) and writer William S. ![]() ![]() He is invited to hang out with the “it” crowd, which includes Anna, the girl of his dreams. ![]() He doesn’t know what to expect after his declaration is made, but what he gets is DEFINITELY not what he expected. Lonely and sick of his life, Butter declares online one night that he will eat himself to death over a live webcast on New Year’s Eve on. This incident is pretty indicative of his life though, in which he is constantly belittled, and made to feel invisible, despite his massive size. Summary: “Butter” is a 423-pound lonely teen, nicknamed after an incident in which he was bullied into eating an entire stick of dirty butter. ![]() Genre/Audience: Contemporary, Young adult ![]() ![]() ![]() Ordinals continue to gain traction too as the world’s leading exchange Binance moved to list Bitcoin NFTs on its platform. Yesterday, the market capitalization of BRC-20 tokens hit $1 billion. Yet even more curious than the vault itself. This one resting where no one ever expected. Now, decades later, a second vault has been uncovered. Its purpose was to preserve Earth’s genetic history in the event of a global catastrophe. ![]() In March, another programmer created a fungible token creation standard, BRC-20 (a hat tip to Ethereum’s ERC-20 token standard) atop Ordinals, sparking a flurry of meme coins on the market. The future of the world has begun In 1984 a doomsday vault was constructed on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. ![]() The development hasn’t stopped there either. ![]() Here, you can see them all in order (plus the year each book was published) As an Amazon Associate, we earn money from purchases made through links in this page. It was developed in early 2023, essentially ushering in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the largest network in the industry. Michael C Grumley Books in Order (11 Book Series) Description Michael C Grumley has written a series of 11 books. 1 day ago &0183 &32 Bitcoin bull and Microstrategy co-founder Michael Saylor said the latest Ordinals craze has been a catalyst for Bitcoin adoption. They offer a way to store media on the network by inscribing their data on the smallest unit of Bitcoin, satoshi. Ordinals, unlike the other catalysts mentioned, is a newer development on the leading blockchain. I stopped by this morning to discuss currencies, crypto, politics, #bitcoin, banking, macro, money, and the media with /e6ljbGM124 ![]() ![]() When Europeans colonised the New World, the diseases they carried killed 90 per cent of the indigenous population. They are also not aggressive toward humans (there are no “man-eating” jaguars).īut what struck me most of all was that much of what has kept the western hemisphere’s largest cat off the endangered species list has come down to blind luck. And of its adaptability (these cats crossed a land bridge from northern Asia before settling in the tropics of North, Central and South America). We learn of the animal’s savagery (jaguars kill by crushing the skulls of their prey). And in telling the cat’s story, Rabinowitz takes the reader on a personal quest, from ancient Mayan ruins to London Zoo, as he seeks to uncover the unique “jaguarness” of the animal he seeks to protect. ![]() ![]() An Indomitable Beast begins with an exhaustively researched natural history of the jaguar from palaeo to present. ![]() |