Certain that the technology to create Reg must come from deep within the Abyss, the two decide to venture forth into the chasm to recover his memories and see the bottom of the great pit with their own eyes. She comes to name him Reg, and he has no recollection of the events preceding his discovery. Even so, Riko has a chance encounter with a mysterious robot with the appearance of an ordinary young boy. However, just a novice Red Whistle herself, she is only permitted to roam its most upper layer. Riko, daughter of the missing White Whistle Lyza the Annihilator, aspires to become like her mother and explore the furthest reaches of the Abyss. The best and bravest of the Divers, the White Whistles, are hailed as legends by those who remain on the surface. How did it come to be? What lies at the bottom? Countless brave individuals, known as Divers, have sought to solve these mysteries of the Abyss, fearlessly descending into its darkest realms. The Abyss-a gaping chasm stretching down into the depths of the earth, filled with mysterious creatures and relics from a time long past.
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Her protagonists wed early in the page-count – and then she lets us watch as their lives begin to fray. They are as much a part of any reader’s mind as Jane Eyre or Jay Gatsby, and in an age when many novels still found their subject in courtship, George Eliot used them to look at marriage instead. Middlemarch has at least three characters whose names have become bywords, starting with its great heroine, Dorothea Brooke the others are the young doctor, Tertius Lydgate, and Dorothea’s first husband, the pedant Edward Casaubon. Each page is a lesson in how to be honest with yourself. If you really read this novel, you will learn about yourself if you listen to her, if you let her sentences penetrate, you will find out things about yourself that you didn’t and maybe don’t even want to know. Her pronouns pull the reader into the narrative, dispensing wisdom, and as often as not suggesting that our first reactions are shallow. It has George Eliot, it has a narrator whose voice and presence are as memorable as that of any character in English literature. I've reread and reread this and will continue to, just because I don't like how much I miss the characters every time I shut the book." This was a completely wonderful retelling of a classic fairytale. "Right up there with Ella Enchanted and The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Levine has done it again: given us a fairytale and heroine with enough magic and reality woven together to be completely charming, disarming, memorable, and favorite-book-worthy. A magic mirror, a charming prince, a jealous queen, palace intrigue, and an injured king twine into a maze that Aza must penetrate to save herself and her beloved kingdom. She’s hidden in the shadows in her parents’ inn, but when she becomes lady-in-waiting to the new queen, she has to step into the light-especially when the queen demands a dangerous favor. But singing is only one of the two qualities prized in the Kingdom of Ayortha. She can “throw” her voice so it seems to come from anywhere. Īza’s singing is the fairest in all the land, and the most unusual. Once upon a time, there was a girl who wanted to be pretty. All strove for personal excellence, and success became contagious. Each team helped develop innovative ideas, new tactics, and new strategies. The unique story of the Barb begins with its men, who had the confidence to become unbeatable. And in a fascinating twist, he uses archival documents from the Japanese Navy to give its version of events. Fluckey has drawn on logs, reports, letters, interviews, and a recently discovered illegal diary kept by one of his torpedomen. This is a gripping adventure chock-full of "you-are-there" moments. At the same time, the Barb did far more than merely sink ships-she changed forever the way submarines stalk and kill their prey. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. After the war he devoted himself to writing and established an international reputation with such books as La Peste ( The Plague 1947), Les Justes ( The Just 1949) and La Chute ( The Fall 1956). He edited and contributed to the underground newspaper Combat, which he had helped to found. His first two important books, L'Etranger ( The Outsider) and the long essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe ( The Myth of Sisyphus), were published when he returned to Paris.Īfter the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He went to Paris, where he worked on the newspaper Paris Soir before returning to Algeria. His early essays were collected in L'Envers et l'endroit ( The Wrong Side and the Right Side) and Noces ( Nuptials). He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist as well as organizing the Théâtre de l'équipe, a young avant-garde dramatic group. His childhood was poor, although not unhappy. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.Īlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger- now one of the most widely read novels of this century- in 1942. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems… Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women’s murders on the island. 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Bailey and Vanessa shared everything: laughter, secrets, and packets of Pop Rocks to ward off bad days. This compelling puzzle of a story, filled with engrossing twists and turns, is written in alternating prose and text message formats. Message Not Found a book by Dante Medema An emotionally complex portrayal of secrets, loss, and grief from Dante Medema, Indies Introduce author of the Indie Next Pick title The Truth Project. That is, until the bot starts dropping hints that there was more going on with Vanessa than Bailey realized-a secret so big, it may have contributed to Vanessa’s death. The more data she uploads to the bot, the more it feels like she’s really talking to her best friend. Message Not Found by Dante Medema (Goodreads Author) 4.08 Rating details 1,013 ratings 334 reviews An emotionally complex portrayal of secrets, loss, and grief from Dante Medema, Indies Introduce author of the Indie Next Pick title The Truth Project. To help grieve her loss, Bailey creates a chat bot of Vanessa using years’ worth of their shared text messages and emails. Now Bailey, who thought she knew Vanessa better than anyone in the world, is left with a million unanswered questions, and the only person with answers is gone. But that all changed the night Vanessa left Bailey’s, headed for home, and ended up swerving off a cliff nowhere near her house. An emotionally complex portrayal of secrets, loss, and grief from Dante Medema, Indies Introduce author of the Indie Next Pick title The Truth Project.īailey and Vanessa shared everything: laughter, secrets, and packets of Pop Rocks to ward off bad days. |