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!
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Yet it soon becomes clear that her mother is more concerned with sticking to Omnistellar protocol than she is with getting Kenzie out safely.Īs Kenzie forms her own plan to escape, she doesn’t realize there’s a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. As a junior guard, she’s excited to prove herself to her company-and that means sacrificing anything that won’t propel her forward.īut then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners.Īt first, she’s confident her commanding officer-who also happens to be her mother-will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.Īs a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. Alien meets Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station-only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures. The man held up his hands, the picture of aggravated innocence. "Yes." Maddox turned to Sabin with a snarl. "Did they breach our walls?" Paris demanded. Each of them snapped to attention and clamored around him. Maddox told the group what he'd discovered, the broken, panicked admission rushing from him. But he saw his friend's expression and frowned. Obviously, he hadn't heard Maddox's cries for help. "Towels?" Lucien asked when he spotted him. He removed the gloves and extra T-shirt along the way, dropping them on the floor wherever he happened to be. Sick to his stomach, he barreled toward the entertainment room. The Hunters had touched Torin and had then touched Ashlyn. There was no sign of the Hunters on the hill, which meant they were already a good distance away. A rappel wire was hooked to the rail and hung all the way to the ground. He strode onto the balcony, nearly breaking through the glass doors to get there. It’s Keegan who’s at her side when the enemy’s witches, traitorous and power-mad, appear to her in her sleep, practicing black magick, sacrificing the innocent, and plotting a brutal destruction for Breen. She rededicates herself to writing her stories, and when his duties as taoiseach permit, she is together with Keegan, who has trained her as a warrior and whom she has grown to love. It’s also a time for celebrations-of her first Christmas in both Talamh and Ireland, of solstice and weddings and births-and daring to find joy again in the wake of sorrow. Breen spreads her wings and realizes a power she’s never experienced before. With the enemy cast out and the portal sealed, this is a time to rest and to prepare. Her grandfather, the dark god Odran, has been defeated in his attempt to rule over Talamh, and over Breen-for now. Now she is in Talamh, trying to heal after a terrible battle and heartbreaking losses. But portals allow for passage in and out-and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose between good and evil, war and peace, life and death…īreen Siobhan Kelly grew up in the world of Man and was once unaware of her true nature. Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. The conclusion of the epic trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening and The Becoming. The Name of the Rose features a different historically oppressive political regime: the Inquisition, a court used by the medieval Catholic Church to arrest, persecute, and punish heretics and all those accused of subverting the authority of the church. His later writings argue that fascism is not only a phenomenon of early twentieth-century Europe, but an “eternal” threat than had oppressed people in the past and could continue to do so in the future. In his lifetime, Umberto Eco witnessed the rise of fascism in Italy and the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-1943). William tells Adso that “I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe”-this is a central idea of postmodernist theory. Many pieces of dialogue and plot points in the novel testify to its postmodern themes, such as William’s statement that “books always speak of other books” and the ultimate failure of his theory that the murders are following a grand design according to the Book of Revelation. Postmodernism is characterized by skepticism about the objective nature of any truth, a distrust of universal explanations, and an emphasis on “intertextuality” (the way in which texts reference or respond to other texts). The Name of the Rose was written and published in the 1970s and 1980s, a period in which postmodernist theory was becoming an increasingly powerful force in European and American literary and intellectual life. Their passion brings them roaring back together, but Gavin is being considered for a board of directors position at the university. That problem is solved a week later when Alana is sitting in the front row of her first college class and in walks her professor-none other than Gavin. One night beneath a rough, possessive stranger named Gavin is not enough, but they’re torn apart before finding out one another’s true identities. Tastes that excite her as much as they confuse her-and she never expected to want to fulfill them so badly. The man who buys her for the night has very specific tastes. But when his connection with the sweet, innocent nun is instant and electric, there is no way to protect himself against his growing, forbidden obsession…Īlana is desperate to pay her college tuition and she only has one thing to sell-her innocence. When the nuns are forced to flee their convent, however, Private Griffin is tasked with protecting her from the other soldiers. On her father’s orders, she has been kept locked away from men, her beauty hidden beneath a habit and robe. She has collaborated with Alexa Riley on a few books.Ībandoned on the convent steps as a child, Sister Mercy has grown up within the stone walls of the church, under the watchful gazes of the nuns. Overview: Jessa Kane loves to write romance. Why is this the first time you’ve heard about this (unless you’ve been reading what I’ve written, heard my radio show or talked to me on the phone)? Well, I’ll tell you. 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In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world? But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism There are also pieces that focus on intersex activism, the bioethics of gender dysphoria management, and the mobilization of transgender advocacy organizations.Ĭonsidering perceptions of queer embodiment past and present, these essays explore the sweeping changes in professional and popular attitudes regarding the transgender community and the issues that affect it. Taken together, these pieces demonstrate the wide-ranging and sometimes antagonistic viewpoints of scholars and activists pursuing different political and intellectual goals.Essays include a documentation of how readers of mass-circulation print media became aware of new medical possibilities for the surgical and hormonal alteration of sex characteristics and began agitating for them a challenge from feminist theorists to transgender movement activists to avoid repeating the mistakes of previous feminist, gay, and lesbian political mobilizations a critique of the overreliance on discursive analysis in much current transgender scholarship and paired essays exploring the so-called Butch/FTM Border Wars from either side of that divide. This special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies presents essays that each adopt a methodologically distinctive analysis of a particular concern in transgender studies. In the process of reading Leviathan, I noticed that Hobbes had a great sense of humour. Also important is the fact that out of selfish desires, man will endeavour to subdue and destroy one another. Pessimism culminates to enmity due to serious mistrusts among men. He further supports his assertions by stating that life in its entirety is an egoistic quest aimed at satisfying desires of men. Hobbes believes that he is endowed more liberally with the faculty of wisdom than other men. This pessimistic view brings Hobbes to a conclusion that nature is objectionable as he presents it in his own view. This is expressed in page 61 of Leviathan. The most important argument that Hobbes points out is pessimism with regard to human nature. Man can do anything so long as he is not being monitored. He further asserts that in the cover of darkness their no limit to mans bad behaviour. He sees man to be pessimistic in his dealings. He talks of the behaviour of human beings in each and every social setting. He points out that man is a social animal with regard to human nature. Thomas Hobbes, in his book, Leviathan, clearly sets out how human beings behave amongst themselves. |