![]() ![]() All that changes the night his sister appears at his window, entrusting him with a secret…and a stolen dragon. ![]() Different breeds take to the skies in nighttime bouts between the infamous kins―criminal gangs who rule through violence and intimidation.Ībel has always loved dragons, but after a disastrous showing in his dragon rider’s exam, he’s destined never to fly one himself. Most famously of all, the dragons battle. Now dragons haul the city’s cargo, taxi its bustling people between skyscrapers, and advertise its wares in bright, neon displays. ![]() But in the city of Drakopolis, humans domesticated them centuries ago. Once, dragons nearly drove themselves to extinction. In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. A room that connects him with two new friends from different corners of the country-and opens the door to a life-changing year full of magic, friendship, and adventure. (Yes, he sees the irony.) But one day, when the door closes behind him, Héctor discovers he’s stumbled into a room that shouldn’t be possible. Most days, Héctor just wishes he could disappear. At Héctor’s new school, he couldn’t feel more alone. Back home, being gay didn’t mean feeling different. San Francisco and Orangevale may be in the same state, but for Héctor Muñoz, they might as well be a million miles apart. ![]()
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Not with his fingers curved down toward that area. “Dare you to say that to her,” I jibed, watching as, in the light from the fire, he rolled his eyes. “What?” Rain complained, hearing Harlow’s warning much as I had and, as usual, chose to act like a butthead anyway. ![]() Something about it, about him really, made me sit up and listen. I shivered at the sound of Harlow’s low, gravely voice. ![]() ![]() Inside the metal costume was an actor named Anthony Daniels. But C-3PO wasn't an amazing display of animatronics with a unique and unforgettable voice-over. When Star Wars burst onto the big screen in 1977, an unfailingly polite golden droid called C-3PO captured imaginations around the globe. I have indeed now written a book - telling my story, in my voice, not his - recognizing that our voices and our stories are inextricably intertwined.' ![]() My golden companion worries about such things - I don't. 'The odds of me ever writing a book were approximately.Oh, never mind. Abrams and a selection of music from the Star Wars films, composed by John Williams. Including a foreword written and read by J.J. DK Audio presents the audiobook edition of I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story, written and read by Anthony Daniels. ![]() ![]() ![]() His decision to quit drinking and the journey that led him to his Christian faith The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live.ĭecision Points brings readers inside the Texas governor’s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.įor the first time, we learn President Bush’s perspective and insights on: Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. 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A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter's riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines ![]() ![]() ![]() It was only the abrupt entry of Islam on the scene, in the course of the seventh century, and the conquest of the eastern, southern and western shores of the great European lake, which altered the position, with consequences which were to influence the whole course of subsequent history. "the barbarian kingdoms, founded in the fifth century in the soil of Western Europe, still preserved the most striking and essential characteristics of ancient civilisation, to wit, its Mediterranean character. ![]() No greater summary of the Pirenne thesis can be given than by Henri Pirenne himself in the introduction to this book: The Pirenne thesis is further elaborated in this dense and somewhat antiquated but still valuable and insightful bookįirst coming to prominence in his monumental Mohammed and Charlemagne, Pirenne here expands and defends his notion of the decline of antiquity and the creation of a Medieval society. ![]() ![]() Now everything in Rachel’s life is exploding in slow motion. She’s recently become aware that her husband (“a fairly short person”) is not only having an affair with a woman in their social set (“a fairly tall person with a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs, never mind her feet, which are sort of splayed”) but had the audacity to fall in love with her. The narrator, Rachel Samstat, is a food writer and cookbook author in her late thirties, seven months pregnant with her second child. I can admit, with only a mild quaver in my voice, that although “ Heartburn”-Nora Ephron’s novel, from 1983, a fictionalization of the end of her marriage to the philandering journalist Carl Bernstein-is good, often great, with moments of real dazzle and zing, it’s maybe not the very best work in the vast Ephron œuvre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Dangerous espionage, an unusual love story, and richly drawn background make this a book to capture quick and lasting interest.”- Horn BookĮloise Jarvis McGraw was an author of children's books. But just when Mara is ready to offer Sheftu her help and her heart, her duplicity is discovered, and a battle ensues in which both Mara’s life and the fate of Egypt are at stake. ![]() So, to barter for her freedom, she finds herself playing the dangerous role of double spy for two arch enemies-each of whom supports a contender for the throne of Egypt.Īgainst her will, Mara finds herself falling in love with one of her masters, the noble Sheftu, and she starts to believe in his plans of restoring Thutmose III to the throne. Mara is not like other slaves she can read and write, as well as speak the language of Babylonian. Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom in ancient Egypt, under the rule of Queen Hatshepsut. This compelling story of adventure, romance, and intrigue, set in ancient Egypt, was written by the three-time Newbery Honor and Edgar Award winning author Eloise Jarvis McGraw. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just because she is on her own though, does not mean that she is "alone." Many thanks are due to the McCloud Community Resource Center, to her brother and his family, and her mother, for all their help. ![]() Teresa Garcia (once Teresa Huddleston-Garcia) is a 30-something mother of two children with special needs, raising them "alone" in the small mountain town of McCloud, CA. She has written poetry nearly all her life, and draws upon her love of nature and the intricate webs of life for inspiration. Teresa Huddleston-Garcia is a mother of two living at the foot of the sacred Mount Shasta in Northern California. Although the poems and songs speak for themselves, brief explanations of culture have been included, with a list of resources for further reading in the back. The poetry herein is the product of a Western Woman who has been heavily influenced by the East, and particularly by her researches into Shinto spirituality and Japanese folklore. The flower of a poem opens her petals to the sun, amidst a garden of other poems. The Kami ever call for their Miko, and they are both within us all. The worlds of the visible and invisible mesh, and sometimes the unseen is glimpsed between the red posts of the torii on a walk in the woods, or at home. ![]() The world is a fine tapestry, ever worked and ever evolving upon the loom of spirit. ![]() |