![]() ![]() He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical-though not most profound-political thinkers. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “She’s my Indiana Jones.”Įvanovich’s books have sold more than 90 million copies, according to Atria, and have been translated into 40 languages. ![]() “I probably enjoyed writing this one more than any other,” Evanovich says of the book, which finds Gabriela traversing jungles in Peru and Costa Rica. ![]() It centers on Gabriela Rose, a treasure hunter for hire-and a descendant of the pirate Blackbeard-whose sexy ex-husband routinely complicates her life. She signed a four-book deal, said to be for eight figures, with Atria in 2020, and in March 2022 she’s releasing The Recovery Agent, the first book in a new series. It’s good.”Įvanovich, 78, has been making moves lately. “At this point I just follow my grandkids around the country,” she says. She moved from Florida to Chapel Hill to be closer to her daughter, Alex, and her grandson she also has a condo in Hawaii, where her son, Peter, and his children live. I’m not equipped for video.” The author is in her bedroom, surrounded by boxes, at a makeshift writing desk, her fluffy white dog at her feet. "I just bought a house in North Carolina and I have absolutely no furniture,” Janet Evanovich says via Zoom. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has lived for over three thousand years. ![]() * This is a re-edited version with an added epilogue.Ībsolute Surrender is book one in the Fallen Guardians series by Georgia Lyn Hunter.Īethan is an immortal guardian. Now Aethan must overcome his darkest fear and claim Echo as his before a far more sinister fate is set free… Aethan.īut when two stubborn will collide, a dangerous passion ignites. ![]() ![]() Until she discovers a horrifying truth about herself, forcing her to turn to the one person she should avoid. And no man, no matter how sexy the infuriating immortal is, will stop her. A female he shouldn’t even look at, one who shakes the precarious foundations of all that he is and who’s determined to walk the edge of danger.Īll her life, Echo Carter wanted “normal,” an impossible feat given that she can see demons.ĭrawn back to the alleys of New York after the brutal death of her friend, she’s determined to hunt down the scourge responsible. Born in the flames of Heaven’s wrath, he’s all things sinful and too dangerous to love.Īn immortal Guardian of the human race, Aethan has walked alone for millennia, trapped in a hell of his own until a feisty mortal crosses his path. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach-a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships-and even keep you in the shallows with God. Over 750,000 Copies Sold Worldwide! Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist Missio Alliance Essential Reading List Ignorance is bliss-except in self-awareness. ![]() ![]() To find her dad-and possibly even save the world-Sky and her best friend, Shawn, must break out of their underground home and venture topside to a land reclaimed by nature and ruled by dinosaurs. Now she has just stumbled on a clue that not only suggests his disappearance is just the tip of an even larger mystery, but also points directly to the surface. ![]() The only way to survive was to move into underground compounds.įive years ago, Sky Mundy’s father vanished from North Compound without a trace. Soon after, they replaced humans at the top of the food chain. ![]() ![]() One hundred and fifty years ago, the first dinosaurs were cloned. Jurassic World meets Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in this epic new middle grade series full of heart-pounding action and breathtaking chills! "Amazing adventures!" raves as they recommend Edge of Extinction as a 2016 Holiday Gift for Tween Readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her books always have a strong theme and plot that takes the reader on an emotional roller-coaster until the very end. I have recently become a fan of Collen Hoover’s books and style of writing. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author). Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding” (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.īut her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life-and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life. Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. ![]() Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us. ![]() Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her fingers found his inside leg, just at the hem of his grey shorts, and pinched him hard. Her beauty lay concealed behind her manner.” And then: “Her displeasure came as a quick exhalation through her nostrils, a reverse sniff he had heard before. Roland Baines is an 11-year-old boy at boarding school when he attracts the attention of a predatory piano teacher, which leads to encounters that will haunt him for years: “The teacher sat close by him on the long stool. With that out of the way, I can say how powerful and affecting the book is-it’s a lens into the way past trauma, parenthood, and global events affect a life. I tell him that the book especially resonates with me, as it encompasses the span of my lifetime. McEwan-whose work has stirred controversy, received critical acclaim, made bestseller lists, been adapted for film, and received many awards, including the 1998 Booker -writes with passion, humor, and insight in this ambitious novel. Ian McEwan’s 18th novel, Lessons (Knopf, Sept.), cuts a wide swath through history, from post-WWII to the pandemic, with the story told through the experiences of a single man. ![]() ![]() In Eat and Run, Jurek opens up about his life and career as a champion athlete with a plant-based diet and inspires runners at every level. He held the American 24-hour record and he was one of the elite runners profiled in the runaway bestseller Born to Run. Scott Jurek's phenomenal success as an ultra-marathoner demonstrates that meat and other animal foods are not necessary for optimum health, strength, and endurance."-Andrew Weil, #1 New York Times bestelling author of Spontaneous Happiness For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force - and darling - in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. ![]() The New York Times bestseller Eat and Run is "the inspiring story of an inspired man. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her packages in tow, Sabina stumbled through the streets of the war-torn Hungarian city. The city’s public transportation had been destroyed, and buildings spewed smoke from smoldering ashes. Soldiers were still fighting, and everything was in ruins. As the train pulled into Budapest, Sabina’s eyes widened. ![]() The journey that should have been quick and easy took days. The Russians had commandeered all the others. No one else would volunteer to make the delivery, so Sabina had to go.Īfter a long search, she found a corner in one of the few available train cars. The Russians had ransacked the Hungarian city, and Richard couldn’t leave Bucharest. You walk through the streets and find girls with their throats sliced, and no one does anything!”īut Sabina knew that without supplies, the relief workers in Hungary wouldn’t be able to feed the starving Jews and Christians of Budapest. “ The Russian soldiers are hungry for women. She braced her legs against food and goods strewn around her. In 1945 on a train between Bucharest and Budapest, Sabina–the only woman on a train full of Russian soldiers–sat in a cargo car among the packages. ![]() ![]() Ambue Ari is home to the staff, both Bolivian and foreign, who work tirelessly to keep that land safe. Wild animals that find refuge in the primary and secondary rainforest, an island of jungle that has, over the years, been aggressively destroyed. Ambue Ari also provides homes to countless others too, whose names we do not know. ![]() And these are the animals we know by name. As well as birds, coatis, peccaries, rhea, and tapirs, amongst others. Big cats like jaguars, pumas, ocelots, margays, and Geoffroy’s cats. It is home to almost a hundred animals rescued from illegal trafficking and the pet trade. ![]() They are all under Nena’s care.Īmbue Ari is right in the path of the annual wildfires that rip through the continent. CIWY manages three sanctuaries now Machía, Jacj Cuisi, and Ambue Ari. She is one of the founders and the president of Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi (CIWY), a Bolivian NGO that fights the illegal wildlife trade and who, over 25 years ago, set up Bolivia’s first ever wildlife sanctuary, Parque Machía. ![]() Nena was calling from Ambue Ari, a 1000-hectare jungle sanctuary for rescued wild animals in the Amazon. ![]() |