![]() ![]() And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm that has populated the world with experiments both failed and successful that have outlived the corporation itself: a pack of networked foxes, a giant predatory bear. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology-satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. ![]() Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape.īut she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. ![]() The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory-she is part bird, part human, part many other things. ![]() The Strange Bird-from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer-is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel” of a novel, Borne*. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Volkswagen then compounded the fraud by spending millions marketing 'clean diesel, ' only to have the lie exposed by a handful of researchers on a shoestring budget, resulting in a guilty plea to criminal charges in a landmark Department of Justice case. Unable to build cars that could meet emissions standards in the United States honestly, engineers were left with no choice but to cheat. He describes VW's rise from 'the people's car' during the Nazi era to one of Germany's most prestigious and important global brands, touted for being 'green.' He paints vivid portraits of Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piëch and chief executive Martin Winterkorn, arguing that the corporate culture they fostered drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods. In Faster, Higher, Farther, Jack Ewing rips the lid off the conspiracy. By early 2017, VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. ![]() ![]() In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. "A shocking exposé of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. ![]() ![]() ![]() The four of us spent our weekends and summers swimming in the ocean and collecting treasures on the beach. ![]() My brother, two stepsisters and I grew up in a remote house that overlooked the Atlantic Ocean, not far from my grandmother’s old schoolhouse. ![]() You might know that a divorce can be hard on your heart, but we managed our newly blended family by all playing outside together a lot. My mother remarried when I was ten and my stepfather brought two children to the marriage. My parents divorced when I was six years old. My mother was also born in Vero Beach, so my family has been walking the same stretch of shore for generations. She’d stay all week and then, each Friday, (weather permitting), she would row back to the mainland. She rowed a boat to the barrier island every Monday morning to teach in the one-room schoolhouse. My grandmother was a schoolteacher in nearby Wabasso. I was born on April 3, 1953, in Vero Beach, Florida, the very town where my great-grandfather had surveyed the original streets in the early 1920s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In “The Doors of Stone,” readers can expect to finally discover the resolution of many of the series’ ongoing mysteries, such as the true nature of the Chandrian, a group of powerful beings who Kvothe seeks revenge against, and the mysterious Amyr. It did, however, name some plotlines we can expect to be addressed in the threequel: The longer answer? Well, when I asked the ultimate question, it bounced around the answer, not even giving a prediction. One spark of hope came last year when Rothfuss read out the prologue of the upcoming novel on his Twitch page and promised to deliver a chapter in the near future, but it’s still not out yet.Ĭan AI help? In short: no, it does not know when we can expect to see The Doors of Stone hit shelves. ![]() (This is excluding short stories and novellas such as The Slow Regard of Silent Things.) The wait has been agonizing, with no release date in sight. ![]() It’s now been over 11 years since Rothfuss released The Wise Man’s Fear, the second book in the series. With hope in our hearts, we’ve now moved on to asking AI (specifically, ChatGPT) if it knows when Patrick Rothfuss will release the third novel in his Kingkiller Chronicle series, The Doors of Stone. Martin’s The Winds of Winter.īut that won’t stop us. We learned that the hard way after asking it when we can expect to read George R.R. Artificial Intelligence knows a lot of things, but when it comes to predicting the release dates of highly anticipated novels, it cannot be relied upon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Long time antagonist of the Robin Hood tale, the Sheriff of Nottingham, has been terrorizing the town, and his new companion, Guy of Gisborne, tries to woo Marian, hoping to take Robin Hood’s place. ![]() Sherwood follows Maid Marian as she attempts to cope with the loss of the love of her life, while stepping up to fill the void he left, as the protector of Locksley Town. Sherwood , Spooner’s newest novel, tells the tale of Maid Marian, Robin’s long time love interest, as she follows in her late love’s footsteps while remaining independent and unabashedly feminist. Meagan Spooner is the latest author to take on the tale, except there is one major twist: Robin of Locksley is dead. Adaptations of the classic tale rarely feel stale, if only because there is so much to work with. The story of Robin Hood is one that has been told time and time again, from various perspectives and with various plots. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When he happens upon her playing guitar one night, fate intervenes and the two embark on a star-crossed romance.Īs they challenge each other to chase their dreams and fall for each other under the summer night sky, Katie and Charlie form a bond strong enough to change them - and everyone around them - forever.Īvailable Februfrom Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. It isn't until after nightfall that Katie's world opens up, when she takes her guitar to the local train station and plays for the people coming and going.Ĭharlie Reed is a former all-star athlete at a crossroads in his life - and the boy Katie has secretly admired from afar for years. Confined to her house during the day, her company is limited to her widowed father and. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Katie Price has a rare disease that makes exposure to even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Confined to her house during the day, her company is limited to her widowed father and her best (okay, only) friend. A heartbreaking tale of love, loss and one nearly perfect summer perfect for fans of The Fault In Our Stars and Love, Simon. A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BELLA THORNE!Ī heartbreaking tale of love, loss and one nearly perfect summer - perfect for fans of The Fault In Our Stars and Love, Simon. ![]() ![]() ![]() It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.īut when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar-where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester-Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. ![]() ![]() the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this “sensitive and complex” ( BCCB) coming-of-age novel from New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren about two boys who fall in love in a writing class-one from a progressive family and the other from a conservative religious community. “A hopeful and moving love story.” - Publishers Weeklyįangirl meets Simon vs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pushing the Avengers aside in their own book sours it a bit for me. ![]() Let me be clear, if it was like this, I would quite happily buy a six-issue (hell, eight- or ten-issue) series like this. Jonathan Hickman writes great space opera. I could have read many more pages of the Skrulls or the Imperial Guard. Unlike the alien bits in Infinity #1, here it’s intriguing and engaging. I do however find it odd that no one questions this enemy’s name. The Skrulls relate their unification and then the council formulates an attack plan against The Builders. We, along with the Avengers for the most part, are bystanders watching as the great empires of the galaxy come together to face a common foe. Much like Man of Steel was a good movie, but not a very good Superman movie – this was not a very good Avengers comic. Now, just like my review of Infinity #1, I’m going to complain a little, but please keep in mind, this is really a good comic. Join me, after the jump, for my review of Avengers #18. The galaxy’s various empires are uniting against a common enemy, The Builders, and Earth’s Avengers have taken the battle to them. Jonathan Hickman’s mega-epic in the Marvel Universe, Infinity, continues this week in the main, and adjective-less Avengers title. ![]() ![]() ![]() To make ends meet, she's forced into what amounts to sex trafficking, retraining at the Sparrow School to use her body in service to the State. Anti-heroine Dominika Egorova (Lawrence) is a Russian prima ballerina, whose career is viciously curtailed. ![]() The movie closely mirrors the original book. In Jason Matthews' (Opens in a new window) book Red Sparrow, the source material for the new Jennifer Lawrence spy movie out this weekend, the same Cold War enemies face each other across the frozen tundra of former Soviet-era brutalist architecture. While the world wasn't watching, Russia grasped power. In fact, according to a high-ranking Russian official at a clandestine training school for "honey trap" operatives, the battle simply fragmented into thousands of pieces as the West got distracted by social media and shopping. In a chilling moment (and there are many) in Red Sparrow, we learn that the Cold War isn't over.
![]() ![]() Randy Taraborrelli paints an extraordinary psychological portrait of two famous sisters and their ferociously ambitious mother. ![]() Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers, among them their own half-brother, as well as letters and journals, J. If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men, no matter what the cost to themselves or to those they stepped on in their ruthless climb to the top. Her sister, Lee, had liaisons with one and possibly both of Jackie's husbands, in addition to her own three marriages-to an illegitimate royal, a Polish prince and a Hollywood director. Less well known is the story of her love affair with a world renowned architect and a British peer. ![]() Kennedy and the story of their marriage is legendary, as is the story of her second marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. They followed in their mother’s footsteps after her marriages to the philandering socialite “Black Jack” Bouvier and the fabulously rich Standard Oil heir Hugh D. ![]() It was a lesson neither would ever forget. “Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?” Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. ![]() |