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![]() ![]() It offers unprecedented insight into his design process, working methods, and inspirations, and features original sketches and drawings – many of which are published here for the first time. The book offers fresh insight into the work and creative practice of Oudolf, both from a horticultural and artistic perspective, showcasing high-profile and lesser-known gardens, including Chicago’s Lurie Garden, Hauser & Wirth Somerset and Menorca, Venice Biennale, Singer Museum, Belle Isle in Detroit, Noma, and others. ![]() Made in close collaboration with Oudolf, this book showcases gardens throughout his career and across the globe – from New York’s acclaimed High Line to the newly planted Vitra Campus in Germany. Step into a Piet Oudolf garden and you are transported into a dreamlike meadowscape, filled with perennials, seasonal color, and texture. A major monograph on the Dutch garden designer, featuring his gardens and the largest collection of his drawings ever published ![]() ![]() Faint harp music drifts through the air at night - but the only harp on the island has no strings. When Addie coughs up blood, the ground drinks it up and a flower sprouts from the stained spot. It’s immediately apparent that there is some weird and deliciously creepy shit going on on this island. Who is she if she can’t ever freedive again?Īddie’s mother and new stepfather whisk her to the remote Eulalie Island for a tropical vacation. ![]() She’s unmoored questioning where she went for those minutes. Perfect for fans of Wilder Girls.Īddie is one of the world’s best freedivers - she can sink to a depth equivalent of a 19-story-building without an oxygen tank - but after an accident where she drowned and was clinically dead for eight and a half minutes, she has to take a break from her beloved sport. ![]() Addie is one of the world’s best freedivers - she can sink to a depth equivalent of a 19-story-building without an oxygen tank - but after an accident where she drowned and was Eerie, magical, and GORGEOUSLY written. ![]() 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 starsĮerie, magical, and GORGEOUSLY written. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only her courage, unexpected friendships and rediscovered technologies can save her mother’s life - and her family’s honour. She is pitted against gang leaders, slavers and violent machete-men. In a world reshaped by floods and the loss of technology, Ollu must make a perilous journey. The other side of the fog is an alternate Britain in the time of the Roman conquest. How many rules will she break to save her mother? Is she prepared to risk everything? On a field trip, British students Ursula and Dan disappear into a yellow-colored fog. I loved the Arthurian legends and books about King Arthur as a child and always wanted to write one. The Ark is forbidden to males but she has to accept their help. Buzz is a genetically enhanced stranger from across the sea, while Ratter is a boy prophet, a spy from the old City. ![]() With her old allies under attack, she finds herself reluctantly welcoming two escaped slaves on board The Ark. Ollu has to venture into forbidden waters, Bad Water, and she must go alone. ![]() ![]() When they lose all their trade goods in a storm and her Mum gets sick, the only way to save her mother’s life and the life of her baby siblings is to make the most dangerous trade of her life. Though I still feel an editor could’ve improved this greatly. I will not be seeking out more books by the rather mysterious N. Meaning she already read it and suggested we read it. We have 18 copies of Warriors of Alavna for sale starting from 7.65. Ollu is a barger a trader living and working on her mother’s matriarchal boat, The Ark. Warriors of Alavna was M’s choice for this month. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jor-El says that Kal-El showed them the face of the man of tomorrow. Superman will not be coming.īack in Superman’s consciousness…Kal-El is telling his father that Superman had one more labor to perform before he died. He tells Jimmy Olsen to turn off the signal watch. He can continue to play at living or turn and face down evil one more time.īack on Earth, the now super powered Lex Luthor is floating in the air at the Daily Planet. ![]() The consciousness is similar to energy or matter. A convertion to solar radio-consciousness. ![]() ![]() Kal-El wants to know if he is dead, what is the place they are in? Jor-El says that Kal-El’s body is undergoing a mutation. Kal-El died defending humanity from the tyrant sun-Solaris. His father tells Kal-El that he is dead too. Kal-El thinks that Jor-El is suffering from a fever. Not only is Jor-El dead, but Kal-El’s mother and all the other Kryptonians also died when the planet exploded. Kal-El wants to know why Jor-El took him from the Science Plaza. Synopsis: On what appears to be Krypton…Jor-El and Kal-El are climbing into a flying car. The Top 5 Most Memorable Superman Moments in Comic Book HistoryĬreative Team Writer: Grant Morrison Penciller: Frank Quitely Inker: Jamie GrantĪrt Rating: 9 Night Girls out of 10 Story Rating: 10 Night Girls out of 10 Overall Rating: 9.5 Night Girls out of 10 ![]() ![]() ![]() Its prankish verve monstrous richness of detail a one-woman variety show of literary styles and types." The novel traces a pair of young academics-Roland Michell and Maud Bailey-as they uncover a clandestine love affair between two long-dead Victorian poets. The New Yorker dubbed it "more fun to read than The Name of the Rose. On the nature of possession-the lover by the beloved, the biographer by his subject-she is profound," said The Sunday Times (London). "On academic rivalry and obsession, Byatt is delicious. Time magazine calls her "a novelist of dazzling inventiveness." Possession, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990. ![]() Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillful novels of our time. Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A. ![]() ![]() Many of these previously out of print novels are available again today as digitally reissued classics, including the author's most recently re-released and much beloved novels in The Wyckerley Trilogy. Between then and 1997, she wrote 11 more romance novels (Dorchester Penguin USA), for which she was nominated for or won many awards. Her first book, a historical romance, was published by Dorchester in 1989. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, and also studied literature at Royal Holloway College of the University of London, at George Washington University, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Īfter college, Gaffney taught 12th grade English for a year before becoming a freelance court reporter, a job she pursued in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C., for the next fifteen years. ![]() ![]() Patricia Gaffney was born in Tampa, Florida, and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() Because, you know, if you look at the game normally, you'll only see two separate little screens of incomprehensible shifting noise. It seems like it introduces more movement abilities as it goes, though I've not reached the end yet because I need to keep resting my eyes. Stereogram (the game) is a platformer where you you run and leap across 100 connected screens ('rooms'), jumping and wall-sliding and riding elevators and bouncing off doodads and such. Let your eyes go slack and gaze into the distance of an optical illusion as you jump around pretty little Magic Eye levels in this platformer which reminds me of VVVVVV. ![]() It's called Stereogram, because it's made of moving stereograms. If you spent a portion of the 90s going cross-eyed to look at Magic Eye 3D pictures of dolphins, elephants, and sailboats emerging from fields of noise, you might enjoy the new platformer from indie developer Daniel Linssen. ![]() ![]() While I greatly enjoyed the story, I found it somewhat complicated simply because McCaffrey has so many characters in her books. Point is, Moreta is set at a much earlier point in Pernese history than the first six books. Thus, all of the Pern books begin by explaining during which Pass or Interval the events take place.)ĪNYWAY. The interval before Dragonflight is, I believe, 400 years. ![]() ![]() The exception was the long interval leading up to the events in her first book, Dragonflight. In Moreta, McCaffrey jumps back in Pernese time, to the end of the Sixth Pass of the Red Star (per McCaffrey, the Red Star drops its life-eating ‘thread’ for about fifty years per pass, with a usual 200-year interval between passes. The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews//Įven though Menolly’s fire lizards aren’t really a part of this review, I love this fanart by mrgro on DeviantArt so. Pargeter, Edith (also writing as Ellis Peters).Mertz, Barbara (also writing as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels). ![]() ![]() Christie, Agatha (also writing as Mary Westmacott).Children’s History: Landmark, Signature Biographies, and We Were There.#BookSpin & #BookSpinBingo (Litsy Challenge). ![]() ![]() ![]() Jerrie’s dream never died, and at the age of 38 she did what no other woman had ever done before – she flew solo around the world in a tiny 11-year-old single-engine Cessna. ![]() But why not – it’s even rumored that her grandfather, Raymond Wright, is actually related to the famous Wright Brothers! After all, at that time young girls in small towns across America were expected to learn how to become successful wives and mothers. Of course, no one really believed her then. At the age of seven she took her first airplane ride in a Ford Tri-Motor and told her family and friends that she would someday fly around the world. A native of Newark, Ohio and former resident of Bexley, Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock early on exhibited the tenacity to follow her dreams. ![]() |