![]() ![]() As the world is propelled further into conflict and conspiracy, Frey and Tally join forces to put a check on the people in power, while still trying to understand their own power and where it belongs. ![]() Freedom, she observes, has a way of destroying things. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice - and using it to question everything her family stood for. IT'S TIME TO COME OUT OF HIDING Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ossuary cemetary segmented shelves overgrown, graveyard, vertical shelves, zdzisław beksiński, hr giger, mystical occult symbol in real life, high detail, green fog -ar 9:16 -iw 1 Top 5 AI Prompt Marketplaces and Hubs: World Database Search Prompts ![]() ![]() Photo of an extremely cute alien fish swimming an alien habitable underwater planet, coral reefs, dream-like atmosphere, water, plants, peaceful, serenity, calm ocean, tansparent water, reefs, fish, coral, inner peace, awareness, silence, nature, evolution -version 3 -s 42000 -uplight -ar 4:3 -no text, blur Published: 2 August 2022, 4:17 pm Updated:, 11:44 pmĮarth after human extinction, a new beginning, nature taking back the planet, harmony, peace, earth balanced -version 3 -s 42000 -uplight -ar 4:3 -no text, blur, people, humans, pollutionįreeform ferrofluids, beautiful dark chaos, swirling black frequency -ar 3:4 -iw 9 -q 2 -s 1250Ī home built in a huge Soap bubble, windows, doors, porches, awnings, middle of SPACE, cyberpunk lights, Hyper Detail, 8K, HD, Octane Rendering, Unreal Engine, V-Ray, full hd - s5000 -uplight -q 3 -stop 80-w 0.5 -ar 1:3 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The chase hurtles along through washes of gore and less wholesome substances to a massively explosive resolution. The plot moves back and forth between modern times and 1898 London (or an alternate, as in his lurid descriptions of the city’s festering stews the author makes several seemingly offhand references to “slum cannibals”). He now has modern memories and a new, horrifying agenda that requires the Timekey Chevie carries around her neck. Their purpose? Simply to stay alive, as a secret device that opens wormholes between past and present but sometimes causes weird mutations in those who use it has turned Garrick into a shape-changing supergenius. She hooks up with Riley, a 19th-century lad trained in the killing arts by Victorian-era master assassin/stage magician Albert Garrick. Colfer opens a new series that promises to be every bit as brisk and violent as Artemis Fowl-this one featuring travelers using steampunk-style time machines for (usually) evil purposes.Ĭhevron Savano is a teenager of Shawnee descent trained as an FBI agent in an ill-fated anti-terrorist program (and named, as it turns out, for a gas station). ![]() ![]() ![]() This was further justified by the Dead Sea Scrolls, since it didn't foresee anything of this. The death of Kaworu made SEELE conclude that Kaworu wasn't the "successor of life" after all. ![]() But the loss of Eva Units 03 and 04 and the delay of Units 05 and 06 lead SEELE to the construction of Mass Production Evangelions controlled by Kaworu Dummy Plugs. This would, with the help of thirteen Evangelion units, accomplish the Human Instrumentality Project. ![]() SEELE's original plan to accomplish this was to make Kaworu the Seventeenth Angel, the carrier of Adam's soul, merge with Lilith, causing the Third Impact. They work to destroy the Angels, then unite all humanity as one and sequentially unite with Lilith and Adam, so that they can become part of God-the next stage of existence. ![]() The Seed of Adam (the progenitor of the angels) was the original seed to arrive to Earth, but because of the arrival of the Seed of Lilith (the progenitor of humanity), Adam's seed was inactivated, so SEELE views Humanity as the false successors of Earth, and the Angels as the true successors, the sons of God, and for that Humanity is burdened by the "Original Sin" because it should never have existed. SEELE strive to accomplish the Human Instrumentality Project - the goal of uniting the human race as one, thus ending all the wars and individual struggles of mankind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Med-droids soon arrive and take Peony to the quarantines, but Cinder tests negative for the disease. Suddenly, Peony’s skin begins to break out in splotches-she’s caught letumosis. There, Cinder finds a magbelt as well as an old gasoline car. Cinder decides to go with Peony and Iko, her android, to a junkyard to scavenge for a magbelt. ![]() When Cinder gets home from the market, her stepmother Adri is getting dresses fitted for Cinder’s stepsisters Pearl and Peony for the upcoming ball, but Adri says that she can’t afford both a dress for Cinder and new a magbelt for their hover. After he leaves, an outbreak of the deadly plague letumosis spreads through the market, and the baker, Chang Sacha, is taken to the quarantines. As a cyborg, Cinder faces discrimination from people who believe she is less than human, so she keeps her identity hidden from Kai. Just after this, the prince of the Eastern Commonwealth, Prince Kai, visits her booth and asks her to fix his android Nainsi, explaining that Cinder has a reputation as the best mechanic in New Beijing. One day, at her mechanic’s booth, Cinder struggles to remove her old, rusty mechanical foot and then fits herself with the new prosthetic she just purchased. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Cinder is a cyborg mechanic living in the futuristic city of New Beijing in the country of the Eastern Commonwealth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With his glitching-robot mannerisms and anti-establishment obsessions, Gregory was an obvious send up of Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist, Facebook board member and erstwhile Trump campaign donor. Gregory loads up on sesame futures and reaps a $68-million profit. Contemplating its sesame seeds, he has a flash of oblique insight: A rare confluence of cicada broods will soon decimate sesame crops, driving up its commodity price. In the third episode of the HBO sitcom “ Silicon Valley,” Peter Gregory, a brilliant but socially awkward investor, encounters a fast-food hamburger bun for seemingly the first time. ![]() If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power ![]() ![]() ![]() She sets out to find her father who might not even be alive. She soon realizes that she may not be able to survive on her own for much longer. At first, her only goal is to simply survive. Like any 15-year-old girl, she does not always think clearly, which can jeopardize her survival. ![]() It is primarily written in first-person, but also addresses the reader in the second-person in a few parts of the novel. It is written as if it were Ruby’s journal. The format of this book could be a little different for some. Even the dew left on the grass each morning is tainted. The apocalypse is being caused by killer rain, which has contaminated all fresh and saltwater. The book is based in England in a town called Dartbridge, which is the perfect location for the book to follow due to the high percentage of rainfall. This book follows a 15-year-old girl, Ruby, struggling to survive when the apocalypse begins while she is out with her friends. ![]() H2O was written by Virginia Bergin and was originally published in the United Kingdom in 2014 under the title The Rain. This sci-fi story is not futuristic with advanced technology, but a present-day novel set within an apocalypse. In addition to those branches of the genre, Science Fiction also includes stories like H2O. When we think of Science Fiction, we predominantly think of Star Wars and superhero movies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seabirds are depicted almost exclusively in flight, precisely as most will encounter them at sea. "Birds are illustrated in poses that best highlight diagnostic features. Mike Carter, Australian Birdlife, June 2017 When not lying open on my desk, my copy of this invaluable tome will reside on that special bookshelf reserved for those frequently consulted books that I need to reach easily and frequently - a treatise that I will be able to quote with confidence knowing that it will quickly become 'the authority' on the occurrence and identification of Australian birds." The species accounts are also extremely good. Postures and aspects are well chosen to illustrate salient features and in the main, the colours are true to life. "the plates are exceptionally good, and of high quality throughout. Susan Wyndham, "2017 Books of the Year", Australian Book Review #397, December 2017 "a gorgeous lure to spend more time in nature." If not, I suspect you’ll find this a fantastic new field guide for beginners and experts alike." ![]() "Do we need yet another field guide to birds in Australia? If you’re anything like me, you’ve already pre-ordered a copy for your library. View the media release for The Australian Bird Guide ( PDF) ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman’s belief that books can carry us anywhere―even back home.Ĥ.5 Stars. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she’s going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. Not everyone is keen on Cussy’s family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.Ĭussy’s not only a book woman, however she’s also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. ![]() The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything―everything except books, that is. ![]() ![]() ![]() After her husband’s death, Curie raised their two daughters alone. She combined her scientific career with a fulfilling and devoted marriage to Pierre Curie, her scientific collaborator. She overcame significant prejudices against professional women. There is also the opinion that achieving professional success in science is so demanding that women who wish to pursue a scientific career must forgo family life.Ĭurie’s life and accomplishments directly contradict these ideas. Perceptions that women are less competent than men in math and science persist, although there is no evidence to support the idea. Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie Curie, a biography by Barbara Goldsmith, appears at a time when women are still underrepresented in most fields of science. In 1995 her (still-radioactive!) ashes were interred in the Pantheon in Paris, making her the first and only woman to receive such an honor. ![]() She was awarded Nobel prizes in physics (1903) and in chemistry (1911). Curie carried out groundbreaking research, providing the first detailed description of radioactivity and using its detection to discover two new elements: polonium and radium. In the early part of the twentieth century, when professional opportunities for women were rare, she was the first woman to obtain a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne. Most scientists, especially women, are fascinated by Marie Curie. ![]() Obsessive genius: The inner world of Marie Curie. ![]() |