Dire Sparks (Song of the Aura, Book Five)

Dire Sparks (Song of the Aura, Book Five) Review

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The Blackwood is burning. The Grymclaw has fallen. Vastion has been swept away by the Golden Nation. All who have not been killed are enslaved by Sheolus and his legion of Pit Striders. Rebels are few, and heroes are nonexistent. The Prophet and the Prince fight for their lives alongside the last of the Aura.

But far, far away, chained to the wall of a forgotten dungeon in the distant Golden Nation homeland, Elia Treele, the Halanyad, awakens.

She will face torture, betrayal, and soul-wrenching loss. But should she persevere… should she resist the temptations of the Pit… Vast may have one last fighting chance.

The fate of the world rests in her hands… and the legend continues on.

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Escape of the Terra-Cotta Soldiers: An Ethan Sparks Adventure

Escape of the Terra-Cotta Soldiers: An Ethan Sparks Adventure Review

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Ethan Sparks is psyched when he lands an assignment as a photojournalist with The Young Explorer Magazine. He's covering his dad's latest archaeological dig in China. While his dad excavates a Terra-Cotta Soldier, Ethan looks for ways to keep his article exciting. But excitement finds him instead. While on a tour of the Great Wall, a sniper attempts to assassinate his father. Ethan barely catches his breath before more trouble comes his way. He encounters a wacko with bloody tear ducts who has a sinister way of controlling people. Then there's an international conspiracy with double agents who switch teams so often that Ethan has to crack a code with his friend, Chen Jun, to solve the mystery. Before he knows it, he's up to his neck in danger and he almost gets buried as deep as the Terra-Cotta Soldiers. Not even his dad or the CIA can save him now.

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The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) Review

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"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II.

Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.

Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."

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Cirque du Soleil: The Spark - Igniting the Creative Fire that Lives within Us All

Cirque du Soleil: The Spark - Igniting the Creative Fire that Lives within Us All Review

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Creativity and innovation are widely recognized as essential to success in business, and so many aspects of our lives. For over two decades, Cirque du Soleil has been a world-renowned laboratory of creativity, enthralling audiences around the world by fusing dazzling acrobatics, staging and choreography, and music, along with beautiful costumes and technical effects to inspire and create magical, almost otherworldly theatrical experiences. In The Spark, Cirque's former president of creative content, Lyn Heward, invites readers inside the world and ideas of Cirque du Soleil through the story of an ordinary man searching for meaning in his work and life.

Like so many other people in their careers, sports agent Frank Castle has lost the passion he once had for his job. But a chance encounter with an inspiring Cirque du Soleil director takes him inside Cirque du Soleil to meet the artists, directors, designers, and technicians who create, shape, and perform in their acclaimed shows. As the story unfolds, the artists reveal surprising secrets about the sparks that ignite their creativity — from the pressure of deadlines and the exhilaration that comes from risking it all, to the chance encounters and everyday occurrences that have changed the way they live and work. As Frank comes to discover, every one of us is creative — wherever we work or whatever our job title is — but it’s up to us to tap into that powerful force.

As The Spark makes clear, there is no single formula for creative success–each of us must unlock the power of our imagination in our own way. An inspiring tale that draws on behind-the-scenes stories from the most creative people in entertainment as well as some out-of-this-world Cirque du Soleil magic, The Spark is an unparalleled guide on how to make creativity a part of everything you do.


Lyn Heward is the former President and COO of Cirque du Soleil’s Creative Content Division and is currently acting as executive producer for a variety of special projects. John U. Bacon, a veteran journalist and public speaker, has won numerous national writing awards and is the author of three books.

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A Tale of Two Cities (SparkNotes Literature Guide)

A Tale of Two Cities (SparkNotes Literature Guide) Review

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As the Sparks Fly Upwards

As the Sparks Fly Upwards Review

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When Mark, a newly ordained young English Anglican priest feels called to work with one of the bush brotherhoods in the Australian outback he discovers that all of his recently acquired book learning is one thing; the learning of human character is another. In a series of episodes meet, along the way, a host of memorable characters, including the formidable Mrs Ezekiel with a finger in every pie, Nails the resourceful undertaker with a claw for a hand, diminutive and surprising Miss Ridley, and the malevolent Ferret. The story, like a stream, takes us through the rapids of laughter into places where life runs deeply in pools of quiet reflection, but with an undertow that catches at the heart as well as the mind. This is a book in which each chapter is a story complete in itself, but where the characters merge in the end into driving the tale to a conclusion which contains its own element of the unexpected. It can therefore be an easy and gentle read, one step at a time, or consumed in one delightful whole. Read it once for the joys of discovery, and then slowly again for the beauty of the language. Those who read As the Sparks Fly Upwards are placing themselves in the hands of a master storyteller. —John Marsden, Internationally acc laimed Author In the rich tradition of Australian bush stories, Richard Stamp blends wry humour with pathos and laces it all with wise reflections on our human condition. There are plenty of barbs, plenty of laughs and more than a few tears lurking in these deceptively gentle tales. —Hugh Mackay, Social Researcher and Author

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Spark Notes No Fear Shakespeare Othello (SparkNotes No Fear Shakespeare)

Spark Notes No Fear Shakespeare Othello (SparkNotes No Fear Shakespeare) Review

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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Othello on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

 

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