Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 7 September 2011
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Far to Go
A beautifully written, spellbinding piece of work. The characters are compelling and the story's plot twists and turns in large and small ways. Every detail is captivating and full of suspense. The kind of novel that sweeps the reader away into another time and place. Very moving, layered, and powerful. Pick is a wonderfully talented writer. Strongly recommended.
Each time Bartholomew Cubbins attempts to obey the King's order to take off his hat, he finds there is another one on his head. Set in feudal times, the story begins in the Kingdom of Didd, when King Derwin is riding through a street past Bartholomew Cubbins, a poor boy in the market. Bartholomew removes his hat, according to the laws, but another hat mysteriously appears; when he attempts to remove this one too, another one appears again, and this continues, even as he removes more and more hats, each growing in extravagance and beauty from the 451st hat onwards.
Added by: JustGoodNews | Karma: 4306.26 | Fiction literature | 14 August 2011
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The Healing Wars: Book I: The Shifter
A dangerous secret. A deadly skill. Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Taker—with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body. But unlike her sister, Tali, and the other Takers who become Healers, Nya's skill is flawed: she can't push that pain into pynvium, the enchanted metal used to store it. All she can do is shift it into another person, a dangerous skill that she must keep hidden. If discovered, she could be used as a human weapon.
Organic Synthesis Via Examination of Selected Natural Products
This book is written for advanced graduate and undergraduate students to expose them to a variety of strategies for the synthesis of organic compounds. This is done largely within the context of natural products synthesis, but some unnatural products synthesis is also included. Multiple approaches to each group of synthesis targets are presented, and the approaches are compared with one another with an eye on similarities and differences.
Once, Atlas, the Titan god of Strength, was the Greek goddess Nike's slave. Now, he is her master. And soon these sworn enemies destined to destroy one another will be forced to risk everything for a chance at love...
