![]() ![]() These cards have waited patiently for over a decade to find their way into the world. Adoring fans of The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern’s 2011 bestselling novel, came away captivated by the dreamlike world, eccentric characters, and fantasy romance that. The accompanying guidebook offers interpretations of the cards and suggested spreads for tarot readings for beginners and expert readers alike. The cats know more than they’ll ever tell. Archetypal figures like The Fool, The Hierophant, and The Lovers emerge from dark skies and swirling clouds. This painted series captures the themes of each of the 78 cards in a traditional Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck with equal parts whimsy and mystery. It is a mix of myth and fairy tale, where each individual you meet may be an illusion, reflection, or distortion. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Octo7:54 AM EDT T wo young students locked into a magical competition, the rules of which neither understands, do battle with feats of astounding. When Erin Morgenstern was working on her international bestseller The Night Circus, she began a creative exercise to better understand the complexities of the tarot. This black-and-white world is a little bit circusy, a little bit Wonderland, and a little bit nocturnal phantasia of its own invention. ![]() ![]() It is a mix of myth and fairy tale, where each individual you meet may be an illusion, reflection, or distortion. ![]() This black-and-white world is a little bit circusy, a little bit Wonderland, and a little bit nocturnal phantasia of its own invention. A fantastical 78-card tarot deck and guidebook hand-painted by the award-winning author of the spellbinding bestseller The Night Circus. ![]()
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(Mariana trained alongside Theo Faber, the criminal psychotherapist who unraveled the strange case of Alicia Berenson in Michaelides’ debut, and he makes an appearance or two here.) ![]() Fans of Alex Michaelides’ blockbuster debut The Silent Patient will eagerly dive into his newest thriller, The Maidens, which will immerse them in the world of Mariana Andros, a 36-year-old group therapist living in London and mourning the strange drowning of her husband Sebastian a year ago in Greece. ![]() ![]() ![]() Faced with a barefoot 5-mile-hike home, Mildred loses interest in making trouble for Mary Alice. Mildred brazenly follows Mary Alice home, demanding a dollar-but Grandma Dowdel turns the tables on the tyrant, slyly untying Mildred's stolen horse. Day one in the new high school finds Mary Alice getting on the wrong side of the local bully, Mildred Burdick. Having no choice in the matter, Mary Alice arrives by train in September with her beloved cat Bootsie and prized Philco radio. Grandma's Hickory farming community could not be more different from Chicago if it tried, and the grandmother Mary Alice remembers from childhood is a no-nonsense country gal. Her brother, Joey Dowdel, joins the army while Mary Alice is less than thrilled with the arrangement. 15-year-old Mary Alice is sent downstate to live with Grandma Dowdel while her mother and father remain in Chicago. The year is 1938, and the Great Depression has hit the Dowdel family hard. It is a sequel to A Long Way from Chicago, which itself received a Newbery Honor. ![]() ![]() 144 pp (first edition, hardback)130 pp (2000)Ī Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck published in 2000 and won the Newbery Medal in 2001. ![]() ![]() She’s determined to thwart his plans at every turn and sets out to do just that. Ivy refuses to accept that she’s supposed to amuse the pixie and remain in his world for time being. Once there, she meets Beauty whom Beast has also kept prisoner within the enchanted castle. Tumbling around in a dark forest, she comes across a Beast intent on keeping her locked up within his castle. Part of her hopes that in doing so, she’ll be able to go back home. With no other alternative but to march forward, she decides to play along with the pixie’s games. She’s now a prisoner in an unknown world and all because of a wretched pixie. She desperately clamors to go back home, even though she knows it’s not yet likely for her to do so. She’s soon transported to a new world via the mirror in the bathroom, inciting her fear of mirrors as she recalls the face looking back at her within it. ![]() Inadvertently lashing out at her mother due to the fact that her treasured picture of her father has gone missing, Ivy thinks it can’t get any worse. The new move to their new place makes her realize just how much she hates moving. ![]() ![]() She’s moved around so much she’s lost track of where she’s lived and how long they’ve stayed there. Because her father works for the army, she’s not exactly allowed to remain in one place for long. Ivy Thorn has been displeased with the way her life has been going for a very long time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I finished this book because it was horrific and intense. I picked this book up because it was suggested. Alex learns quickly that if he wants to survive, he has to escape, but it seems that for everyone, guilty and innocent alike, there is no escape from Furnace. Strange things prowl the halls in the dark, mutant creatures with bloody maws, men with gas masks for faces, and the cruel warden, who just might be the Devil himself. The maze of walls and cell doors are splattered in blood, and the screams of the adolescent inmates can be heard echoing throughout the night from all around. ![]() Natrona County Library Serving Natrona County, Wyoming, we promote literacy, support discovery and creation, and build community.įourteen year old Alex has been accused of a murder he didn’t commit and is sentenced to Furnace, a penitentiary deep under ground that might as well be Hell on earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the father of the internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, the founder of. Lane Fox is also a gardening correspondent for the Financial Times. His appearance as an extra, in addition to his work as a historical consultant, was publicized at the time of the film's release. He was historical adviser to the film director Oliver Stone for the epic Alexander. He is a lecturer in Ancient History at Exeter College, Oxford. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history, a subject in which he held an Oxford Research Fellowship, and is also New College's Tutor for Oriental Studies. Since 1977, he has been a tutor in Greek and Roman history, and since 1990 University Reader in Ancient History. Lane Fox was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. ![]() ![]() Robin Lane Fox (born 1946) is an English historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford and University of Oxford Reader in Ancient History. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As expected, Belly will have to make some really hard choices when this summer does not go the way she had planned, leading to some awkward conversations. The 2009 hit novel of the same name by Jenny Han has been turned into a series on Prime Video. When an unexpected visitor threatens the future of Susannah's beloved house, Belly has to rally the gang to come together-and to decide once and for all where her heart lies. Editors Note: The following article contains spoilers for Season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty. A little bit more than a year after the first installment made its debut, the coming-of-age drama is ready to return with more twists and turns.īelly used to count down the days until she could return to Cousins Beach, but with Conrad ( Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah ( Gavin Casalegno) fighting over her heart and the return of Susannah's cancer, she's not sure summer will ever be the same. While the premise sounds simple, there's nothing easy about the feelings Belly experiences while trying to figure out who she should date, going through the growing pains of teenage romance. Belly's ( Lola Tung) journey is about to continue, as Prime Videohas set July 14 as the premiere date for the second season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, their successful adaptation of Jenny Han's novels about a girl that falls in love during a summer family vacation. ![]() ![]() ![]() All this was done by an outfit that began life in a garage. The firm makes what are, in effect, private-sector surveillance satellites, photographing the entire planet and giving everyone from hedge funds to journalists the kind of imagery that not even governments had two decades ago. Planet Labs helped pioneer the idea that lots of cheap mass-produced satellites could accomplish far more than a few fancy expensive ones. Two of them have been strikingly successful. They are Planet Labs, which makes imaging satellites, and Astra, Firefly and Rocket Lab, all of which make rockets. After spending months hanging around offices and launch-pads, talking to engineers and bosses, he profiles four other space hopefuls in “When the Heavens Went on Sale”. Mr Vance-who published a well-received biography of Mr Musk in 2015-is more interested in the group of swashbuckling startups that have tried to follow in SpaceX’s contrails. SpaceX flies more rockets, and carries more satellites, than every other spacefaring entity combined.īut SpaceX serves only to set the stage for the story told in Ashlee Vance’s new book. A decade and a half later, the plucky insurgent has become the incumbent. It thus helped prove that a private firm run on a relative shoestring could do something which had, hitherto, been the preserve of a handful of nation-states and giant aerospace firms. 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