![]() Financing his own team of scientists and artists, Banks battled high seas, hailstorms, treacherous coral reefs and hostile locals to expand the world's knowledge of life on distant shores. ![]() In 1768, as a galivanting young playboy, he joined Captain James Cook's Endeavour expedition to the South Pacific. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge.įabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and the Arctic. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. ![]() The extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery ![]()
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![]() Though information is scarce, the signs of impending collapse-ecological and geopolitical-have been glaringly visible to the characters all along: “No one could plead ignorance that was not willful.” This illuminating social novel offers piercing commentary on race, class and the luxurious mirage of safety, adding up to an all-too-plausible apocalyptic vision. The omniscient narrator occasionally zooms out to provide snapshots of the wider chaotic world that are effective in their brevity. But over a couple days, they form an uneasy collective as a series of strange and increasingly menacing events herald cataclysmic change, from migrating herds of deer to the thunder of military jets roaring overhead. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped-and unexpected new ones are forged-in moments of crisis. He’d not have filled it with such things”). H.’s familiar old fridge yielded nothing but surprise. ![]() and Ruth, in turn, can’t help but wish their renters gone (“G. The returned owners are greeted with polite suspicion and simmering resentment: “It was torture, a home invasion without rape or guns,” thinks Amanda. ![]() and Ruth are seeking refuge in the beach house they’ve rented out. Widespread blackouts have hit the East Coast, and G.H. and Ruth, an African American couple in their 60s, show up unannounced from New York City. Their “illusion of ownership” is shattered when the house’s proprietors, G.H. ![]() Amanda and Clay, married white Brooklynites with two children, rent a secluded house in the Hamptons for a summer vacation. In Alam’s spectacular and ominous latest (after That Kind of Mother), a family’s idyllic summer retreat coincides with global catastrophe. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a gossipmonger with a popular YouTube channel finds evidence that Will is gay, the quarterback’s closet doors begin to crumble. Noah wants the scholarship too and may have a way to get it since the teacher of his class has designs on him, a plan Will isn't happy about. Will's problems seem like nothing compared to Noah's. A scarred orphan who’s slept on park benches and eaten from trash cans, Noah carefully plans his life and multiple jobs so he has money and time to go to art school. ![]() In a painting master class, Will meets his divergent opposite, Noah Zajack. But if he can win the coveted Milton Scholarship for art, he’ll be able to break from his father at the end of his senior year. He meets his wealthy father’s goals as both the quarterback for the famous SCU football team and a business major, but secretly he attends art school and longs to live as a painter. Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (September 19, 2014)Īmazon: Outing the Quarterback (The Long Pass Chronicles Book 1)Īmazon Kindle: Outing the Quarterback (The Long Pass Chronicles Book 1) Elisa_rolle Outing the Quarterback (The Long Pass Chronicles Book 1) by Tara Lain ![]() ![]() ![]() Since 2004, she had placed more than 80 novels on the New York Times list in all formats including manga and graphic novels. With legions of fans known as Paladins (thousands of whom proudly sport tattoos from her series and who travel from all over the world to attend her appearances), her books are always snatched up as soon as they appear on store shelves. New York Times and international bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon is a regular at the #1 spot. How in the world is he supposed to do that? And he's next on the menu.Īs if starting high school isn't hard enough.now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. ![]() Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends.until the night when his best friends try to kill him. ![]() At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1998, during the casting process of the first film adaptation, Ito picked actress Miho Kanno for the role and coached her for the audition. ![]() He noted that the proliferation of Tomie was created while writing a serial storyline, which helped greatly to convey the concept of regeneration. As he developed the story, Ito established that the titular character would be a mean-spirited girl because he believed it would be more interesting if the manga featured someone that wasn't likable. He further explained that the original concept was that for some reason a dead person would come back to life and visit their former friends as if nothing had happened. ![]() Ito's initial concept for the manga was to depict the strangeness of a girl who was nonchalantly attending school, but in reality was dead. Ito was inspired to create Tomie by the phenomenon of lizard tail regeneration. Tomie was written and illustrated by Junji Ito. ![]() ![]() Kit Butler, Viscount Ravensberg is a rake and a rogue – all Society says so. Lauren has been understandably soured on marriage and would like to establish her own home somewhere – Bath would be nice – and live a quiet life. She has been living quietly as a companion to her cousin and good friend, Elizabeth, Duchess of Portfrey. Lauren Edgeworth had retired from Society after her aborted wedding. It definitely goes on my desert island shelf. ![]() There is a wonderful tortured secondary character, and lots of family problems to solve. The heroine, Lauren Edgeworth, is beautiful, dignified and in serious need of some fun in her life. The hero, Kit Butler, Viscount Ravensberg, is a charmer. A Summer To Remember is not a farce, but it is much lighter than her recent hardcover books. Most romance readers think of Mary Balogh as a dark, intense writer, but she has proven in books like The Famous Heroine and Lady With A Black Umbrellathat she can handle the lighter side as well. ![]() ![]() But when she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old home’s basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook’s previous owner–1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. When Alice Hale leaves a career in publicity to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. As she discovers remarkable parallels between this woman’s life and her own, it causes her to question the foundation of her own relationship with her husband–and what it means to be a wife fighting for her place in a patriarchal society. In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife. ![]() ![]() Being anchored in one spot paradoxically gave them the freedom to move, to not constrain themselves to their standard repertoire. Being anchored in one spot paradoxically gave them the freedom to move, to not constrain themselves to their standard repertoire.Early in 1997, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers set up shop at the Fillmore in San Francisco, playing 20 consecutive concerts during a residency that amounted to their only live shows of the year. ![]() Label: Warner Records | EU | Cat#: 093624882596 | Genre: Classic Rock, Rock & RollĮarly in 1997, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers set up shop at the Fillmore in San Francisco, playing 20 consecutive concerts during a residency that amounted to their only live shows of the year. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Live At The Fillmore, 1997 (2022)ĮAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included ![]() ![]() ![]() until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. ![]() explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”-USA Today In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Charlie can now outfight and outrun anyone she meets and D.D.'s instinct is that she's hiding a secret. delves deeper in to the details of Charlie's case, she begins to question the young woman's story. For each of the last two years, one of her childhood friends has been murdered leaving Charlie as the only one of the three friends to remain alive. at her latest crime scene, Charlie lays her cards on the table. Warren, to handle her death investigation. Have you read Lisa yet? At 8pm on 21st January, twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered and she wants Boston's top homicide detective, D.D. Karin Slaughter says she is 'an amazing writer'. IN FOUR DAYS, SOMEONE IS GOING TO KILL ME BUT THEY HAVE GOT TO CATCH ME FIRST. ![]() Warren returns in the sixth novel in Sunday Times bestseller Lisa Gardner's series. ![]() |