![]() ![]() ![]() by Alix Berenzy jacket & interior artist. Contents include: A Gathering, A Glory: (intro) by Bruce Coville / The Ugly Unicorn by Jessica Amanda Salmonson / Story Hour by Katherine Coville / The Unicorns of Kabustan by Alethea Eason / A Song For Croaker Nordge by Nancy Varian Berberick & Greg Labarbera / The Healing Truth by Kathryn Lay / Child of Faerie by Gail Kimberly / The New Girl by Sean Stewart / The Dream-Child by Nancy Varian Berberick / Stealing Dreams by Ruth O"Neill / Beyound The Fringe by Gregory Maguire / Tearing Down the Unicorns by Janni Lee Simner / The Guardian of Memory by Bruce Coville. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover Tell us what you like and we'll recommend books you'll love. ![]() Quarter bound blue cloth black boards with white letting on spine and gilt design on front, x, 198 pages with illustrations, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with minor small closed repaired tear back cover by head of spine, now in Mylar. Buy a cheap copy of Song of the Wanderer (The Unicorn Chronicles, Book 2) by Bruce Coville 0590459546 9780590459549 - A gently used book at a great low. Books by Bruce Coville The Search for Snout I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X SEE ALL (34). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. ![]() The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Įric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. But many of those failures are preventable. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm an adult and I STILL can't really tell you what an "Axel" is, or where it's located on my car. At one point, Pete didn't know what a "compass" was, calling it a "disk with letters and a star" and then the next thing you know, he somehow knows what "blinds" and "hood of a car" and is using phrases like "out of his element." Also there were several words used that would be difficult for a younger reader to understand. ![]() Which is kind of annoying.Īlso, I found the writing style was kind of boring and inconsistent. So about halfway through you see pictures from the movie with captions that you haven't even read yet. The thing is, there are eight pages of pictures from the movie that are all placed in the middle of the book, you know instead of in the book where they would have happened. But which do you read/watch first? That's up for debate. ![]() This is LITERALLY the movie turned into a book. ![]() ![]() The Confessions is not a straightforward account of the events of Augustine's life. However, Augustine's autobiography is unique in several ways. Numerous Classical authors had produced stories of their own lives, and Augustine also had specifically Christian examples to draw on, such as the passion narratives of martyred saints like Perpetua. (The most famous example of a reaction against Augustine's Confessions appears in the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French Romantic writer and philosopher.) However, Augustine's Confessions was certainly not the first work of autobiography in Western literature. Augustine did not simply establish a pattern he produced a work whose influence was so pervasive that all later autobiographers were affected by it, either positively or negatively. It is sometimes said that Augustine invented the modern autobiography. At its most basic, an autobiography is the story of a person's life, written by that person. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was the first Black woman to sue a white man in a United States court and prevail. Months later, Isabella won her case and regained custody of her son. With the help of the Van Wagenens, she filed a lawsuit to get him back. Sojourner Truth, First Black Woman to Sue White Man–And WinĪfter the New York Anti-Slavery Law was passed, Dumont illegally sold Isabella’s five-year-old son Peter. When Dumont came to reclaim his “property,” the Van Wagenens offered to buy Isabella’s services from him for $20 until the New York Anti-Slavery Law emancipating all enslaved people took effect in 1827 Dumont agreed. Isabella made her way to New Paltz, New York, where she and her daughter were taken in as free people by Isaac and Maria Van Wagenen. In what must have been a gut-wrenching choice, she left her other children behind because they were still legally bound to Dumont. She later said, “I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.” Incensed, Isabella completed what she felt was her obligation to Dumont and then escaped his clutches, infant daughter in tow. ![]() In the meantime, Dumont promised Isabella he’d grant her freedom on July 4, 1826, “if she would do well and be faithful.” When the date arrived, however, he had a change of heart and refused to let her go. At the turn of the 19th century, New York started legislating emancipation, but it would take over two decades for liberation to come for all enslaved people in the state. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Elle has a good life, a good job and also a handsome man she is dating. Worth the Fight is the first book in her MMA Fighter Series. She authored The MMA Series, Cole Series, and Life On Stage Series among other stand-alone novels. Vi Keeland has had her books translated into more than twenty languages having appeared on over one hundred bestselling lists. Her publications have made her receive some awards among them Number One New York Times Bestselling Author, USA Today Bestselling Author and The Number One Wall Street Journal. She resides in New York together with her husband, whom she met at age six, together with their three children. Vi Keeland is a New York-based romance author best known for her romance trilogy MMA Fighter and Belong to You book series. ![]() The Rules of Dating (With: Penelope Ward) Not Pretending Anymore (With: Penelope Ward) Happily Letter After (With: Penelope Ward) My Favorite Souvenir (With: Penelope Ward) ![]() ![]() Yet, somehow the sex and feeling of the book never seem to intersect. ![]() I emphasize sex, because the book is preoccupied with sex. It promises to divulge a love affair with the color blue, but instead results in a semi-confessional narrative about a less-than-glamorous personal sexual relationship. For me, the almost-cluttered material of the book promises too much. This is revealed by her fans’ and critics’ comments on Goodreads: “Dippy.” “Evocative.” “Borderline humorless.” “Filled with life.” Nevertheless, the resounding opinion from her readers is positive, as it has received 4.3 stars. ![]() Published by Wave Books in 2006, this book of prose poems invites responses as varied as the material it contains. ![]() ![]() Although Maggie Nelson is more popular for her “genre-bending” book, “The Argonauts,” I recently had a chance to read her earlier poetry book “Bluets.” In an attempt to revive my hobby of writing literary commentary as I previously have for “The Cave” by Jose Saramago and Walter Benjamin’s article, “A Berlin Chronicle,” I chose a book that came from an independent publisher, offered a unique combination of prose and poetry and relied on the concept of theme and variation. ![]() ![]() ![]() (I've already read a couple of titles from her Lily Bard series, and enjoyed them as well.) This book has been a fun vacation ready, and I'm glad to be introduced to this series by Charlaine Harris. A nifty puzzle toward the end will challenge the most jaded mystery buffs.”-Publishers Weekly Read more “Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale populated with well-developed, albeit edgy characters. The pun in the title is only the first dose of a potion that is sure to put every listener under Grave Sight’s spell. All they want is to get out of town, but they will have to clear their reputations first. ![]() ![]() Soon Harper and her assistant, her stepbrother Tolliver, are under suspicion. But there’s more than one corpse in those woods, and the second one raises questions no one wants to ask. ![]() Hired by local police, Harper locates the girl’s body in a nearby forest. A teenage girl missing from a small Ozarks town is feared dead. Charlaine Harris writes best-selling mysteries described by Booklist as “gripping and spicy,” and praised by the Denver Post for their “goofy charm.” Grave Sight draws listeners into the intriguing world of Harper Connelly, a woman with a unique gift: she can “see” the dead and how they died. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her vague anxieties about becoming that modern monster, a working mother, are sharpened into nightmare when Bunny cannot be found. Blanche is on edge because she has only just fled the disgrace of unmarried motherhood in small-town Providence for "an office job" in New York. Modernity and the metropolis thus supply the context for often-radical renegotiations of questions of gender and sexuality, as Evelyn Piper's 1957 best-seller Bunny Lake Is Missing abundantly demonstrates.īunny Lake Is Missing begins conventionally enough, with Blanche Lake, a twenty-one- year-old single mother, arriving to collect her three-year-old daughter Bunny from her first day at crèche. ![]() The first pulp titles to be salvaged from obscurity included Faith Baldwin's Skyscraper (1931), whose heroine is torn between domestic bliss and her exhilarating career at the heart of brittle, brilliant New York, and Valerie Taylor's 1950s sensation The Girls from 3B, where three small-town girls are cast adrift in bohemian Chicago, only to seek refuge from heterosexual predations in a seductive and dangerous lesbian underworld. 2003 saw the launch of Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp, a series of female-authored pulp fictions selected for their daring assaults upon genre and gender by the Feminist Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() Extra notes that give more information about some story elements. ![]() **Bonuses for Reading on OppaTranslations** Within this marathon of death, one man becomes aware of an exception to the rules of the game. Everyone had just one life to make their way through the gauntlet of raids prepared to test their mettle. But even within this abyss of despair was a small ray of hope: If even one person were to complete every raid, then humanity would be redeemed and restored back to its former glory. And from the very beginning, billions of lives were extinguished in mere moments. Stuck in this dimension without a way out, only two options existed for the would be hunters: Fight with monsters to complete the many trials ahead, or perish.įaced with hordes of powerful monsters, thrown into battle with complete strangers at random, the unfair game of survival began. ![]() ![]() Every man, woman and child was given a weapon and ordered to fight. And Humanity were to be its latest gladiators. Every person without exception.īut this new world with all its opportunities and gifts of wondrous abilities, was a stadium. Without so much as a warning, humanity in its entirety was suddenly moved to another dimension. ![]() |