![]() In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates his adventure-the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world-as well as the internal journey that started it all. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? ![]() On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn’t choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart.” -Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things. ![]()
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Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani's quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. ![]() Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, this tale (like Edgedancer before it) gives often-overshadowed characters their own chance to shine. ![]() From Brandon Sanderson author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War-comes a new hefty novella, Dawnshard. ![]() ![]() Something priceless was dying in front of our eyes. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. Ken FollettĮn este breve pero fascinante libro, Ken Follett describe las emociones que sinti cuando conoci la tragedia que amenazaba con destruir Notre-Dame de Par s y recorre, desde los d as de su construcci n, los momentos hist ricos determinantes de un edificio que a trav s de los siglos ha ejercido una fascinaci n universal.įollett rinde homenaje as a Notre-Dame y revela adem s la influencia que ha tenido en las catedrales de todo el mundo y en la escritura de su m s famosa novela, Era una sensaci n desconcertante, como si la tierra hubiera comenzado a temblar. ![]() ![]() Algo de un valor incalculable estaba muriendo ante nuestros ojos. «La imagen de Notre-Dame en llamas me dej aturdido y profundamente afectado. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Thomas’s story is heartbreakingly topical, its greatest strength is in its authentic depiction of a teenage girl, her loving family, and her attempts to reconcile what she knows to be true about their lives with the way those lives are depicted-and completely undervalued-by society at large. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. ![]() Starr’s voice commands attention from page one, a conflicted but clear-eyed lens through which debut author Thomas examines Khalil’s killing, casual racism at Williamson, and Starr’s strained relationship with her white boyfriend. That version of herself-“Williamson Starr”-“doesn’t give anyone a reason to call her ghetto.” She’s already wrestling with what Du Bois called “double consciousness” when she accepts a ride home from Khalil, a childhood friend, who is then pulled over and shot dead by a white cop. But at Williamson Prep, where she’s among a handful of black students, she can’t be herself either: no slang, no anger, no attitude. As a book written for teens, The Hate U Give reminds readers of just how often racialized violence is carried out against that age group (Michael Brown was 18 when he was killed Trayvon. This novel has a powerful message which needs. An exquisite novel, I would recommend to not only YA but adults as well. This book will have you laughing one minute and crying the next. ![]() At home in a neighborhood riven with gang strife, Starr Carter, 16, is both the grocer’s daughter and an outsider, because she attends private school many miles away. The Hate You Give begins with Khalil, Starr’s childhood best friend, shot by a white police officer after the events of a party. ![]() ![]() He saw a blanket of snow on the slopes and the landscape around Chimborazo appeared barren and desolate. Whenever they stopped, an excited Humboldt took out his telescope. For several days as they approached, the mountain stood out against the vibrant blue of the sky with no cloud smudging its imposing outline. Then Chimborazo appeared on the horizon, standing alone on a high plateau, like a majestic dome. ![]() Then, as the men slowly ascended, these voluptuous blooms were replaced by open grass plains where herds of small llama-like vicuñas grazed. ![]() In the valleys they admired daturas with their large trumpet-shaped orange blossoms and bright red fuchsias with their almost unreal-looking sculptural petals. This majestic inactive volcano – a ‘monstrous colossus’ as Humboldt described it – was about one hundred miles to the south-west of Quito and rose to almost 21,000 feet.7Īs Humboldt, Bonpland, Montúfar and José rode towards the volcano, they passed thick tropical vegetation. First, though, he was going to climb Chimborazo – the crown of his obsession. ![]() From Lima Humboldt hoped to find passage to Mexico, which he also wanted to explore. He still intended to travel to Lima, even though Captain Baudin wouldn’t be there. Five months after his arrival, Humboldt finally left Quito on 9 June 1802. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once that happens, someone’s bound to gets pucked over. ![]() Randy’s more than happy to be Lily’s spring board back into the dating scene.Ĭasual sex is only casual until those pesky things called emotions get involved. And she just happens to have a seriously feisty, extra-hot best friend on the rebound. His best friend and teammate has recently given up the puck bunnies and traded them in for a real girlfriend. NHL player, Randy Ballistic, lives up to his last name on the ice and in the bedroom. And who better to try it with than her best friend’s boyfriend’s best friend? What could possibly go wrong? Nothing at all. ![]() Lily LeBlanc isn’t versed in the art of casual sex, but after seven years in an on-again, off-again relationship, she’s definitely willing to give it a shot. Source: Author **I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review** ![]() ![]() ![]() I think it was the right decision on their part to have someone with a child's voice doing the part of the little girl Tansy and adults doing the adult parts. One plus One by JoJo Moyers is in my opinion a very easy read or in my case easy listening. Sometimes I need a book that is just fun to read. You'll laugh, you'll weep, and when you hear the last page, you'll want to start all over again. ![]() One Plus One is Jojo Moyes at her astounding best. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages.maybe ever. Only Jess' knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. That's Jess' life in a nutshell - until an unexpected knight-in-shining-armor offers to rescue them. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math-whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can't afford to pay for. Now, with One Plus One, she's written another contemporary opposites-attract love story that reads like a modern-day Two for the Road. Ever since she debuted stateside, she has captivated fans and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times best-seller list with the word-of-mouth sensation, Me Before You. One irresistible love story from the New York Times best-selling author of Me Before You.Īmerican audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() title "The September Queen") is the first fictional accounting of the extraordinary real-life adventure of Jane Lane, who risked all to help the young Charles II escape after the disastrous Battle of Worcester in 1651, saving his life and the future of the English monarchy. The Darling Strumpet puts the reader smack in the tumultuous world of seventeenth century London, charting Nell Gwynn’s meteoric rise from the grimy slums to triumph as a beloved comic actress, through the cataclysmic years of the last plague epidemic and the Great Fire of 1666, to the licentious court and the arms of the king. ![]() Bess quickly learns to navigate the treacherous waters, and survives the turbulent reigns of five Tudor monarchs to become of the most powerful women in the history of England Venus in Winter, based on the first forty years of the life of the formidable four-times widowed dynast Bess of Hardwick, begins with Bess’s introduction to the court of Henry VIII just as the king weds Anne of Cleves. Gillian Bagwell’s richly detailed historical novels bring to vivid life England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() Another detective, Rick Ballard, comes forward to say that he knew the victim and is certain her killer is a powerful pharmaceutical baron known to have stalked her. As the novel begins, Isles-an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents-is confronted by the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. Rizzoli is carrying her first child, and Isles-divorced and alone at age 40 and suddenly, unsettlingly aware of her biological clock-is experiencing decidedly unspiritual feelings for her priest. ![]() Both of the usually gritty crime fighters are uncharacteristically vulnerable. Pregnant women play key roles in this bone-chilling fourth novel in Gerritsen's edgy, suspenseful series of thrillers featuring Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. 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