Known to locals only as “Ben,” the bearded and robed offworlder is an enigmatic stranger who keeps to himself, shares nothing of his past, and goes to great pains to remain an outsider. And an unlikely place to find a Jedi Master in hiding, or an orphaned infant boy on whose tiny shoulders rests the future of a galaxy. A backwater planet on the edge of civilized space. Tatooine-a harsh desert world where farmers toil in the heat of two suns while trying to protect themselves and their loved ones from the marauding Tusken Raiders. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi has lost everything.
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Praise for Melissa Albert: 'Magical, mesmerising and inventive.' Karen McManus, bestselling author of One of Us is Lying 'You'll not sleep a wink' Heat 'The Hazel Wood kept me up all night. El libro TALES FROM THE HINTERLAND de MELISSA ALBERT en Casa del Libro: ¡descubre las mejores ofertas y envíos gratis Envío en 1 día gratis a partir de 19 Blog Estado de tu pedido Ayuda Venta a empresas e instituciones 0. Featuring beautiful interior illustrations by Nick Hayes. The highly anticipated collection of stories set in the creepy, haunting fairytale world first introduced in Melissa Albert's internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Hazel Wood series. But it's not safe inside these pages, and once you enter, you may never want to leave. In this brutal and beautiful world a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in the trees, and an enchantress is killed twice - and still lives. Journey into the Hinterland, where every page tells a wondrously terrible adventure. Grimm's Fairy Tales meets Ransom Riggs in this deeply creepy, gorgeously illustrated collection of twelve original pitch-dark fairytales, from international bestselling author of The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert. But the gist of it was, being homeless is not a game, and if you think it is, I already won, so send me the money! Haven't heard from him again!" And I can't repeat what I said to the guy. He's gonna take some homeless people off the street, give them a job, and the one that does the most with their life is going to get a $300,000 house, $100,000 in cash. In the days just after his story was broadcast on "20/20," Gardner fielded a lot of weird offers related to his rise from homelessness to wealth - including a proposal for a reality show. Then, after getting himself into a training program and proving he could keep company with the best of them, Gardner became a multimillionaire stockbroker. 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A wall has been built to keep the Diné safe from what remains, but little can keep them safe from the monsters that have woken up inside those borders and the witches who work to destroy what life is left. In Roanhorse’s hard-hitting debut novel, most of the world has perished, and Dinétah (the Navajo Nation) has risen. She’s going to need them on a journey culminating in the kind of battle fantasy readers will relish. After the Big Water, Maggie Hoskie’s monster-slaying clan powers have woken up. In ten gripping short stories, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings, such as: In this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI’s radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. Eye-opening.”-Mark CubanĪI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Lee and Chen take us on an immersive trip through the future. “This inspired collaboration between a pioneering technologist and a visionary writer of science fiction offers bold and urgent insights.”-Yann LeCun, winner of the Turing Award chief AI scientist, Facebook. 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Thankfully it did the trick, there was a lot about this book that I was not at all expecting, there were some slightly heavier themes but there was also more of a complex relationship to explore which I enjoyed.Īn arranged marriage trope in this kind of romance book is always entertaining because you know it’s going to make for a pretty interesting getting to know you stage and in this case it worked so well, putting two very opposite people together in this intense and crazy family is asking for trouble in both the good and the bad ways. After reading about Nino in the first book in this series I was definitely intrigued for his story and was hoping that it would have a little bit more of the spark that I was searching for in Twisted Loyalties. |