![]() Time is running out, and as the fight starts to claim human lives, McKenzie has no choice but to decide once and for all whom to trust and where she ultimately stands in the face of a cataclysmic civil war. ![]() ![]() He teaches her the forbidden fae language and tells her dark truths about the Court, all to persuade her to turn against the king. For just as long, she’s been in love with Kyol, the king’s sword-master-and relationships between humans and fae are forbidden. But any hope for a normal life is shattered when she’s captured by Aren, the fierce and uncompromising rebel leader. Others lead to lies. A Houston college student trying to finish her degree, McKenzie has been working for the fae king for years, tracking vicious rebels who would claim the Realm. McKenzie Lewis can track them, reading the shadows they leave behind. There can only be one allegiance. It’s her time to choose. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This work provides a potential way to develop high performance lithium ion storage materials. ![]() Therefore, the HNFs as an anode material for record lithium-ion storage exhibits an excellent cycling stability (0.0015% decay rate for 8000 cycles at 5.0 A g-1) and a high rate capacity (240.6 mAh g-1 at 10.0 A g-1). e book Addeddate 14:37:45 Identifier these-hollow-vows-by-lexi-ryan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2c1zt994pw Ocr tesseract 5.0. Furthermore, the carbon protective layer of HNFs can further enhance the structural stability and improve the conductivity, greatly enhancing ion and electron transport to promote long-term cycle stability. Topics Fantasy, Young adult Collection folkscanomyfiction folkscanomy additionalcollections. In addition, the hollow hierarchical structure of HNFs with ultrathin nanosheets accommodates the volume expansion, prevents the pulverization and aggregation issues of composite materials, which can maintain the structural stability during cycling to promote outstanding electrochemical performance. Through Mott-Schottky and EIS tests, it was found that the introduction of a smaller proportion of Ni atoms to form HNFs can produce the optimal electronic structure, increase the electronic conductivity and improve the reaction kinetics. ![]() ![]() Herein, a series of carbon-based bimetallic Co2-xNixP hollow nanoflowers HNFs) with different amounts of Ni2+ doping were synthesized by simple solvothermal and phosphating process. 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But, once I finally managed to open it up and start, I finished it within a day and a half. ![]() ![]() After reserving Peter and the Shadow Thieves at the library and finally picking it up, it sat on my bookshelf for days. ![]() ![]() ![]() In what way? Two ideas in particular stand out: 1) the idea that Shakespeare was a secular poet with an essentially post-enlightenment disdain for Christian faith and 2) the idea that his audience would have enjoyed merely secular plays which left out all serious allusion to Christian faith. However, as usual, his perspective is fundamentally flawed. ![]() ![]() It displays his deep love of poetry, and includes some truly eloquent descriptions of Orsino: “that sublimely outrageous lover of love” and “amiable erotic lunacy.” Bloom is worth reading just to enjoy his sentences. Harold Bloom’s discussion of Twelfth Night in his Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is, as would be expected, insightful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holleran’s groundbreaking first novel, Dancer from the Dance, is widely regarded as a classic work of gay literature. In prose that’s in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac, Andrew Holleran takes the listener from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington, DC, filled with handsome young men, to the lonely facades of rural Florida. Semi-anonymous sexual encounters, gallows humor, and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light. Now he must witness the slow demise of a friend just a shade older than he is. The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old age and tragedy. ![]() This program is read by award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award-nominee David Pittu.Īndrew Holleran’s unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire-the first novel in thirteen years from one of the most acclaimed gay authors of our time. ![]() ![]() We witness his interactions with such complex personalities as Ted Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin. Day by day, we see his forceful advocacy for nuclear containment, sustainable energy, human rights, and peace in the Middle East. But this extraordinary document has never been made public-until now.īy carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency. When his four-year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary amounted to more than five thousand pages. ![]() He offered unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders he narrated the progress of secret negotiations such as those that led to the Camp David Accords. The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter-filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the worldĮach day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having attained my 62 year, and being offlicted with a complication of disease and infirmities, many of which have been brought upon me by the cruelty of an ungodly and hard hearted world and do many times threaten to put a period to my Earthly existence, I feel it my duty and my priveledge to give (as my last testimony to a world from whence I must soon take my depart ure) an account, not particularly of my own manne of life from my youth up, but after saying som ewhat concerning my ancestors, as well as myself, to trace carefully up, ev en from the cradle to the grave The footsteps of some the manner of whose life and as such as to excite in the minds intense of int cur in the minds of all who ever knew them personally or shall hear of them hereafter. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are having trouble finding the link to add a new thread, try this. Please avoid all-caps, especially in thread topics, as it is considered SHOUTING. They are able to edit and improve the Goodreads catalog, and have made it one of the better catalogs online.Īctivities include combining editions, fixing book and author typos, adding book covers and discussing policies. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who have applied for and received librarian status on Goodreads. Source title: The Cactus: A Novel The Physical Object Format paperback Number of pages 384 ID Numbers Open Library OL27341607M ISBN 10 0778369072 ISBN 13 9780778369073 Amazon ID (ASIN) 0778369072. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to comment or request changes to book records.įor general comments on Goodreads and for requests for changes to site functionality, try Goodreads Help or use the Contact Us link instead.įor tips on being a librarian, check out the The Cactus by Sarah Haywood, May 07, 2019, Park Row edition, paperback. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamie Ford is the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Kyung-sook Shin’s elegantly spare prose is a joy to read, but it is the quiet interstitial space between her words, where our own remembrances and regrets are allowed to seep in, that convicts each one of us to our core. Each chapter adds a layer to the story’s depth and complexity, until we are left with an indelible portrait of a woman whose entire identity, despite her secret desires, is tied up in her children and the heartbreaking loss that is felt when family bonds loosen over time. ![]() Please Look After Mom is the story of a mother, and her family’s search for her after she goes missing in a crowded train station, told through four richly imagined voices: her daughter’s, her oldest son’s, her husband’s, and finally her own. And with this gesture, we catch a glimpse of the depth of love she has for her first-born and the duty-bound sacrifices she’s made on behalf her family. “I can fall asleep better if I’m next to the wall,” she says. At night, they sleep on the floor and she offers to lie next to the wall to shield him from a draft. ![]() He lives in a duty office in the building where he works, because he can't afford an apartment. Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011: There is a simple, yet remarkable, scene in Kyung-sook Shin’s novel, Please Look After Mom, where the book’s title character visits her adult son in Seoul. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue-it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and-the author’s favorite-historical tourism. ![]() We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other-a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.įrom Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history. ![]() |