![]() Praise for Crooked Kingdom: "A delicious blend of masterfully executed elements. Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of Magicĭemon in the Wood Graphic Novel #1 New York Times bestseller Rule of Wolves The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (previously published as The Grisha Trilogy)Ĭrooked Kingdom The King of Scars Duology Read all the books in the Grishaverse! The Shadow and Bone Trilogy Follow Kaz and his crew into a world of magic and mayhem as they attempt to pull off-and survive-the job of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() Set in the same world as the New York Times-bestselling The Grisha Trilogy, Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows introduces readers to a whole new cast of fantastic characters, cities, and cultures. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone - Season 2 streaming now! The gripping Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom duology from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo, is now available in a stunning paperback boxed set. ![]() ![]() About the Book The gripping Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom duology from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo, is now available in a stunning paperback boxed set. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Focus your resources on these 3 groups of people ![]() If you are starting a new campaign, don’t waste your resources. ![]() Salesmen (the Persuaders) are charismatic, persuasive, and effortly influence others’ buying decisions.Connectors (the Social Glue) seem to know everyone, and naturally connect people across different worlds and communities.Mavens (the Data Banks) always have the inside scoop, and can’t help accumualting and sharing knowledge.LAW OF THE FEWĪ tiny percentage of people – Mavens, Connectors and Salesmen – are accountable for building huge initial momentum because of their special social gifts, and are single-handedly responsible for many trends around us today: Whether you are a marketer, educator, social worker, or someone looking to make an impact, these 3 rules will determine how far your campaign succeeds (or fails). In his book The Tipping Point, Gladwell identifies 3 “rules of epidemics” that determine whether something tips and spreads like wildfire. The Tipping Point: The 3 Rules of Epidemics In this summary, we will give a synopsis of the 3 rules of epidemics to create your own tipping point.ĭo get more details from our full 6-page summary, or read the book for more details and examples! Why do some ideas, behaviors or products start epidemics while others don’t? How do you curb a rampant epidemic, or start a positive campaign that spreads like wildfire? Malcolm Gladwell addresses some of these questions in his famous book, The Tipping Point. ![]() ![]() Destiny is something we can never change, what we can do is make better choices. A day before their engagement, something bad happens. Both the families are very pleased with the relationship and they are about to be engaged. Ravin goes to Delhi to meet Khushi and they are very happy. They sign up on a web matrimonial site and as fate would have it they meet and fall in love. Their parents have been pushing them towards getting into an engagement or wedding soon. This story is about two people Ravin and khushi who are looking forward to get married. This novel is based on a real life event that happened with Ravinder Singh, the author. This book has remained in the bestsellers list, even after 6 years of publication. ![]() Debut novel of well-known Indian English writer Ravinder Singh 'I too had a love story’ was published in 2008 by Shrishti publishers and republished in 2012 by Penguin India. ![]() ![]() The Pink Hotel exposes a tenuous class system within its walls, full of insurmountable expectations and unspoken resentments, which deteriorate as the city burns. ![]() The Pink Hotel closes its doors to "outsiders," and Keith and Kit find themselves confined with an anxious, disgruntled staff and a growing roster of eccentric, ultra-wealthy, dangerously idle guests who flock to the hotel for sanctuary, company, and entertainment. Soon after their arrival, wildfires sweep through the surrounding mountains and Los Angeles becomes a pressure cooker, with riots breaking out across the city amid rolling blackouts. ![]() Kit loves their small-town life, but Keith has always wanted more, and the glittering, lily-scented lobby makes him feel right at home. Newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins can hardly believe their luck when the general manager of the iconic, opulent Pink Hotel invites them to come for a luxurious stay as a bid to hire Keith. ![]() ![]() Confined to an opulent Beverly Hills hotel during a raging wildfire, a young couple is caught in the escalating tension between the wealthy guests and the staff, in Liska Jacobs's blistering, dark social satire, The Pink Hotel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So Lucas decided to craft a serial adventure of his own, set in space against the backdrop of civil war. The quick and dirty version of the film’s history is that George Lucas tried to buy the rights to Flash Gordon in the early 70s in order to fulfill a dream of treating his B-movie childhood hero like serious art, but he was unable to strike a deal. ![]() Now a billion-dollar industry unto itself, Star Wars began life as an indie film that tricked a studio into financing it. That’s 40 years and 4,000 miles away from where all of this began, with a writer/director struggling with technical problems in a far-off desert country on the ballooning budget of a passion project starring mostly unknown actors. After a $4 billion Disney deal, 87 different trailers, and over a year of hype, Star Wars: The Force Awakens premieres worldwide this week after a red-carpet frenzy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, Siken works as a social worker in Tucson.Ĭatherine Wing is the author of two collections of poetry: Enter Invisible (2005) and Gin and Bleach (2012). Siken is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Yale Younger Poets Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Lambda Literary Award, among many more. Richard Siken is a local Tucson poet and author of two collections of poetry: Crush (2005) and War of the Foxes (2015). With Valentine’s day right around the corner, this unique performance is the perfect way to celebrate without leaving your house! (Click here to watch or keep reading for more info.) This performance, “Love Notes,” was given on February 17, 2012. Today, I want to focus on a mixed-media performance given by poets Richard Siken and Catherine Wing in collaboration with the University of Arizona School of Dance. Our audiovisual archive, Voca, holds recordings of readings given at the Poetry Center dating back to the 1960s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their search sends this unlikely duo through glamorous casinos, illicit cabarets, and into the clutches of a ruthless Mafia donna. Frightened and alone, Enne's only clue leads her to Levi Glaiyser-a street lord and con man in desperate need of the compensation Enne offers. Following her mother's trail, she finds herself in the city where no one survives uncorrupted. ![]() But when her mother goes missing, Enne Salta leaves her finishing school-and her reputation-behind. It's no place for a properly raised young lady. Welcome to New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets . . . A teenage girl goes searching for her mother in the City of Sin in this YA fantasy from the New York Times–bestselling coauthor of All of Us Villains. ![]() ![]() He then begins to relive his life with intact memories of the next 25 years, until, despite his best efforts at cardiac health, he dies of a heart attack, again, in 1988. Replay is the account of 43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston, who dies of a heart attack in 1988 and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body as a student at Atlanta's Emory University. Lupoff explored a similar premise in his 1973 short story " 12:01". Its time-loop concept has been referenced as a precursor of Harold Ramis' comedy-drama Groundhog Day (1993). This happens repeatedly, with the man playing out his life differently in each cycle. He relives his life with all his memories of the previous 25 years intact. The novel tells of a 43-year-old man who dies and wakes up back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body. ![]() It won the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Replay is a fantasy novel by American writer Ken Grimwood, first published by Arbor House in 1986. ![]() ![]() Brie finds an unexpected new ally in the Wild Lands, and together they try to find a way to get Finn and Sebastian to work together to save the Unseelie court and face the threat of queen Arya’s court before it’s too late. Alone in a dangerous land, Brie cannot trust anyone, and she doesn’t know where to go or what to do to escape Sebastian. Brie is fleeing the palace after waking up as a fae and learning about Sebastian's manipulation and lies. These Twisted Bonds picks up right where the first book ended. Objectively, I think this book should be 4 stars because of some flaws, but I just loved it SO much despite those flaws. ![]() It is not a perfect book, and there is definitely room for improvement, but despite that, I really enjoyed it and I flew through it. ![]() I said in my review of These Hollow Vows that the ending was very promising and that I was expecting a more enjoyable second book. ✅□ Rushed resolution of the BIG problem at the endĤ.5 stars - I admit that I am not 100% objective, my heart is guiding me right now. ✅ Misha (can we get a spinoff pretty please?) ![]() ![]() ![]() Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, even evil. A brilliant debut.' - Meg Stewart, The Bulletin Written when Coote was 19, 'Innocents' is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession. 'Compelling stuff, sexy and disturbingly frank. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power, and suggests that we all are culpable. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn' t he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. ![]() Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. ![]() |