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Delacorte Press. Very Good. 6.42 x 1.42 x 9.44 inches. Hardcover. 2016. 400 pages. <br>For readers of Game of Thrones and Marie Lu: Trave ler, the sequel to Seeker. Quin Kincaid is … Mehr…

Delacorte Press. Very Good. 6.42 x 1.42 x 9.44 inches. Hardcover. 2016. 400 pages. <br>For readers of Game of Thrones and Marie Lu: Trave ler, the sequel to Seeker. Quin Kincaid is a Seeker. Her legacy i s an honor, an ancient role passed down for generations. But what she learned on her Oath night changed her world forever. Quin pl edged her life to deception. Her legacy as a Seeker is not noble but savage. Her father, a killer. Her uncle, a liar. Her mother, a casualty. And the boy she once loved is out for vengeance, with her family in his sights. Yet Quin is not alone. Shinobu, her ol dest companion, might now be the only person she can trust. The o nly one who wants answers as desperately as she does. But the dee per they dig into the past, the darker things become. There are l ong-vanished Seeker families, shadowy alliances, and something el se: a sinister plan begun generations ago, with the power to end the legacy forever. The past is close. And it will destroy them a ll. Praise for Traveler, book two in the Seeker series: An acti on-packed read with plenty of surprising turns. Readers of Kami G arcia, Tahereh Mafi, and Marie Lu will appreciate [Traveler].--Bo oklist Praise for Seeker, book one in the Seeker series: Katnis s and Tris would approve. --TeenVogue.com This book will not di sappoint. --USAToday.com Fans of Veronica Roth's Divergent, Mari e Lu's Legend, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series: you r next obsession has arrived.--School Library Journal [A] genre- blending sci-fi, fantasy . . . [with] action-packed scenes.--Book list In this powerful beginning to a complex family saga . . . D ayton excels at creating memorable characters. --Publishers Weekl y Secrets, danger, and romance meet in this unforgettable epic f antasy. --Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures and author of Unbreakable A tightly woven, a ction-packed story of survival and adventure, Seeker is perfect f or fans of Game of Thrones. --Tahereh Mafi, author of the New Yor k Times bestselling Shatter Me series Editorial Reviews From Sc hool Library Journal Gr 9 Up--In this second installment of the t rilogy, the heroine, Quin Kincaid, a Seeker by birth, has just su rvived an epic battle with her ex-love John. Her refusal to surre nder his family's Athame, which would allow him to invoke revenge on those who have wronged his family, has completely destroyed t heir once loving relationship. Because of this, Quin realizes tha t she also has feelings for her longtime friend Shinobu. Together , they fight to unravel the truth behind why Seekers have been ki lling one another and hopefully bring justice to their fallen peo ple and rectify the injustices that have been going on for centur ies. Dayton reveals the answers to the many unanswered questions from the previous volume. Via flashbacks, Dayton explains how oth er important characters, such as John's mother, Catherine, took t he path they did. The author addresses realistic themes within th e work, such as Shinobu's drug addiction and Quin's abusive fathe r. Similar to Hunger Games in story line, this volume is, however , told from many characters' points of view, adding to its appeal . VERDICT For fans of fantasy who enjoy unraveling mysteries, act ion-packed fighting scenes, and interwoven plotlines.--Bernice La Porta, Susan E. Wagner High School, Staten Island, NY Review Pr aise for Traveler, book two in the Seeker series: An action-pack ed read with plenty of surprising turns. Readers of Kami Garcia, Tahereh Mafi, and Marie Lu will appreciate [Traveler].--Booklist Praise for Seeker, book one in the Seeker series: Katniss and T ris would approve. --TeenVogue.com This book will not disappoin t. --USAToday.com Fans of Veronica Roth's Divergent, Marie Lu's Legend, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series: your next obsession has arrived.--School Library Journal [A] genre-blendin g sci-fi, fantasy . . . [with] action-packed scenes.--Booklist I n this powerful beginning to a complex family saga . . . Dayton e xcels at creating memorable characters. --Publishers Weekly Secr ets, danger, and romance meet in this unforgettable epic fantasy. --Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautif ul Creatures and author of Unbreakable A tightly woven, action-p acked story of survival and adventure, Seeker is perfect for fans of Game of Thrones. --Tahereh Mafi, author of the New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series About the Author Arwen Elys Dayto n is the author of Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful as well a s the Seeker series--Seeker, Traveler, and Disruptor and the e-no vella The Young Dread--and the science fiction thriller Resurrect ion. She spends months doing research for her stories. Her explor ations have taken her around the world to places like the Great P yramid of Giza, Hong Kong and its islands, the Baltic Sea, and ma ny ruined castles in Scotland. Arwen lives with her husband and t heir three children on the West Coast of the United States. You c an visit her at arwendayton.com and follow @arwenelysdayton on Tw itter and Instagram. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rig hts reserved. Chapter 1 Quin Shinobu? Quin asked when she saw him stirring. Are you awake? I think so, he answered slowly. Sh inobu MacBain's voice was thick and groggy, but he raised his hea d to look for her. It was the first time he'd moved in several ho urs, and Quin was relieved to see him conscious. She carefully t ucked the leather book she'd been clutching into her jacket pocke t and crossed the darkened hospital room to where Shinobu lay, in a bed that looked too short for someone so tall. Even in the di m light, she could make out the burns on both of his cheeks. They were mostly healed, and his head was now covered with a thick, e ven growth of dark red hair--but she was stuck with the memory of the singed and blood-caked hair the nurses hadshaved off when he was admitted for surgery. Hey, she said, crouching next to the bed. It's good to see you awake. He tried to smile, but it ended up as a grimace. It's good to be awake . . . except for every pa rt of my body hurting. Well, you don't do anything halfway, now, do you? she asked, letting her chin rest on the bed's railing. Y ou'll help me even if it means throwing yourself off a building, crashing an airship, and getting cut in half. You jumped off tha t building with me, he pointed out, his voice still thick with sl eep. We were tied together, so I didn't have a choice. She manag ed a smile, though the memory of that jump was terrifying. Shino bu had been in the London hospital for two weeks. He'd arrived cl ose to death--Quin had brought him by ambulance after their fight on Traveler and the airship's crash into Hyde Park. She'd been i n this room, walking restlessly and sitting and sleeping in its u ncomfortable chair, ever since. She had, in fact, turned seventee n several nights previously, while pacing between his bed and the window at midnight. Behind Shinobu, the hospital's monitors bee ped and whirred, glowing lights traveling across their screens in shifting patterns as they measured his vital signs. They were th e familiar backdrop of Quin's days. She lifted his shirt to look at the deep wound along the right side of his abdomen. The nearl y fatal gash he'd received from her father, Briac Kincaid, had he aled into a tender purple line, seven inches long. It had been se wn up so neatly, the doctors said the scar might disappear altoge ther, but at the moment the wound was still swollen and, judging from Shinobu's expression, terrifically painful whenever he moved . Aside from that injury and the burns on his face, he'd entered the hospital with a badly broken leg and several crushed ribs. T he doctors had bathed the wounds liberally with cellular reconstr uctors, which were forcing him to heal at an accelerated rate. Th ere was one drawback: the process was rather excruciating. Quin brushed her fingers over a lump beneath his skin near the sword w ound, and Shinobu caught her hand. Don't make it drug me, Quin. I want the doctor to take those things out. I'm sleeping too much . To help with the quick-mending wounds, he'd been implanted wit h painkiller reservoirs near his worst injuries. If the pain beca me too intense, or if he moved too vigorously, or if someone push ed on the reservoirs directly, they released a flood of drugs, wh ich usually knocked him out. That was why he'd been mostly uncons cious for the past two weeks. This brief conversation was already one of the longest periods awake he'd had in days, and Quin took it as a very good sign. The doctors had told her his recovery wo uld happen this way--slowly at first, and then accelerating unexp ectedly. You're refusing drugs now? she asked him archly. Shinob u had been on very friendly terms with illicit substances back in Hong Kong, a habit he'd only recently broken. You're full of sur prises tonight, Shinobu MacBain. He didn't laugh, probably becau se that would have hurt, but he pulled her closer with the hand t hat didn't have an IV running into it. Quin eased herself onto th e narrow bed, and hergaze instinctively swept the chamber. The ro om was large, but bare of furnishings except for the bed, the med ical machinery, and the chair in which Quin had been living. Her eyes stopped on the large window above the chair.They were on a h igh floor of the hospital, and through the glass was a panoramic view of nighttime London. Hyde Park was visible in the distance, emergency lights still erected over the broken bulk of Traveler. Shinobu pushed his shoulder into hers on the bed, bringing her b ack to him. Her mind went to the journal in her pocket. Perhaps h e was awake enough to see it. He whispered, There are things to say, Quin, now that I'm awake. You kissed me on the ship. I thou ght you kissed me, she responded, teasing him lightly. I did, he whispered seriously. That kiss . . . she'd replayed it in her m ind hundreds of times. They'd kissed and held each other during t he nightmare, whirling crash of Traveler, and it had been right. They had been so close as children. They'd remained close during all of their Seeker training, even when John came to the estate a nd altered the dynamics of their lives. But it was not until they 'd met again in Hong Kong, changed and older, that she'd seen him for what he was--not just her oldest friend but the other half o f her. Is it too strange, the two of us? she asked before she co uld stop herself. She wasn't sure of her footing in this new and unfamiliar territory of intimacy. It's so strange, he replied im mediately. Quin didn't like that answer at all, but Shinobu drew her hand up to his chest before she could respond, kissed the pal m, and whispered, I've wanted to be with you for so long, and now here you are. The words and the weight of his hand filled her w ith warmth. But . . . all those girls from Corrickmore . . . she said. There had always been lots of girls in Shinobu's life. He'd never once given the impression he was waiting around for her. I expected those girls to make you jealous, but you never noticed , he told her. He didn't say it bitterly; he was simply opening h is heart. All you cared about was John. She responded softly, Yo u took care of me anyway. When John attacked the estate . . . and in Hong Kong . . . on Traveler . . . You're always taking care o f me. Because you're mine, he whispered back. She glanced at hi s face and saw a sleepy smile appearing. He moved her hand closer to his heart, held it there. She turned toward him on the bed, t hinking it might be time to kiss him again-- Ow! he gasped. Wha t happened? Did I-- It's--at your hip. Sorry! That's the athame . Quin scooted away from him and drew the stone dagger from its concealed location at her waistband, where it had just been crush ed into Shinobu's hip bone. Oh, there it is, he said, and he too k the ancient implement from her hands. I've been thinking about it a lot while I've been lying here half-asleep--or dreaming abou t it, maybe. The athame was about as long as her forearm and qui te dull despite its dagger shape. Its handgrip was made up of man y stacked circular dials, all of the same pale stone. This partic ular athame belonged to the Dreads. The Young Dread had handed it to Quin after the crash of Traveler, and it was somewhat differe nt from the other athames she and Shinobu had seen during their S eeker training, more delicate and also more complicated. Shinobu shifted the stone dagger's dials with practiced ease, his IV tub e bobbing as it trailed off his left hand. It has more dials, so you can get to more specific locations than you can with other at hames, don't you think? Quin nodded. She'd spent hours in the qu iet of the hospital room examining this athame. As on all athames , a series of symbols was carved on each dial. By rotating the di als, you could line up seemingly endless iterations of those symb ols. Each combination was a set of coordinates, a place a Seeker could go using the ancient tool. The additional dials on this par ticular dagger meant one could choose locations with much greater precision. During their fight on Traveler, the Dreads had used i t to enter the moving airship. It was a feat that would have been impossible with any other athame. None but the athame of the Dre ads could access a moving location. Watching Shinobu study the d agger so intently and rotate the dials so nimbly, Quin decided th at there was no reason to wait; he was alert enough to hear more. She pulled the leatherbook from her jacket and held it out to hi m. Is that . . . ? he asked. It arrived this afternoon. It was a copy of thejournal that had belonged to John's mother, Catheri ne. Quin had had the real journal with her when she and Shinobu h ad parachuted onto Traveler during that crazy night two weeks ago , but she'd lost it--or rather, John had found it and taken it du ring the frenzied confrontation on the airship. What Quin was ho lding was a copy--a copy she'd made back in Hong Kong weeks ago, before they came to London. Her mother, Fiona, had been with them on Traveler during the crash, and then in the hospital. Fiona ha d returned to Hong Kong a few days prior, and the first thing she 'd done upon arriving was send the copied journal to Quin. She'd even bound the pages in leather, turning them into a new journal in their own right, an accurate copy of Catherine's original in s ize and shape. Quin flipped throu, Delacorte Press, 2016, 2.75, London: Harper Collins, 2001. Book. As New. Paperback. First Edition. Official Movie Guide. Brian Sibley's straightforward approach takes the reader from the initial conception of the movie as it was developed and passed around studios (it initially started life as a two-hour condensed version of the three novels) to the months of complicated special-effects work necessary to do justice to Tolkien's extraordinary imagination. The book features interviews with all the key cast and production members and is liberally decorated with full-color photographs and behind-the-scenes images from the film itself. Sibley manages to document perfectly the filmmakers' painstaking attention to detail, much of which will be missed by many moviegoers, but he also captures a sense of camaraderie from all involved who wanted to make the best movie possible. If it's facts and background trivia you are after, then this is the best place to be--the perfect starting point for those new to Tolkien or eager to find out more about how epic movies are put together. Dedicated Lord of the Rings fans who have been following the epic moviemaking process via the Internet won't find anything here they didn't already know, but this is still a very good companion no matter what level of knowledge or understanding you have of the greatest work of fantastic fiction ever written.., Harper Collins, 2001, 5, Paperback / softback. New. <p><b><i>'Pleasure of Thinking</i> is a very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in' Ai Weiwei<br /></b><br /><b>The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time </b><br /><br />Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing together his thoughts on reading and talking and silence in the Cultural Revolution, about the irrepressible spirit of one beloved pig he met while an 'educated youth', and about being operated on via a textbook, these essays give a rare glimpse into a world rarely seen and discussed with such honesty.<br /><br />Written with a light touch and with a wry sense of humour, these are also the essays of a great literary talent, grappling with sociology, sexuality and feminism, with the cultural clash of living in the USA, and with Chinese sci-fi, the internet, and beloved European writers like Bertrand Russell and Italo Calvino. Electrifying, containing a razor-sharp wit and intellect, this collection reveals the voice of a generation to English-speaking readers for the very first time.</p>, 6, Turnhout Brepols 1978. Hardback, LX+325 pages., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503034317. Le Scivias est la premiere section d'une trilogie qui comprend aussi le Liber vitae meritorum et le Liber divinorum operum. La composition de cet ensemble s'est etalee sur plus de vingt ans. Le titre Scivias a de quoi intriguer le lecteur. Il accole deux mots (sci-vias) sur la signification desquels la sainte s'est expliquee: "In visione etiam vidi quod primus liber visionum mearum Scivias diceretur, quoniam per viam luminis prolatus est, non de alia doctrina". Le livre est donc destine a faire savoir les voies par lesquelles Dieu veut conduire les hommes au salut. Et ces voies que l'auteur decrit sont essentiellement celles que Dieu a revelees dans l'Ancien et le Nouveau Testament. En fait Hildegarde avait recu une education tres soignee et possedait une culture etendue; ses visions ne l'empechaient pas de bien connaitre de science humaine, outre la Bible, la liturgie, les Peres de l'Eglise et les ecrivains medievaux. Ses ecrits en sont impregnes. Ce qui la caracterise, c'est le don de proposer a la facon du prophete ou du voyant, sous une forme poetique et avec l'accent d'une mystique, ce que d'autres ne parvenaient a exprimer que d'une maniere scolastique et austere. Languages: Latin., Turnhout Brepols 1978, 0<