![]() ![]() ![]() For the curious among us, there has never been a better time to be alive. Soon, we will not only have the worldwide web, but also new technologies like augmented reality and virtual reality that let us learn and explore through all of our senses rather than textbooks and lectures. Under these circumstances, we must be learning all the time.įortunately, the Internet is the most powerful tool for learning ever invented. The average person today will have 3-5 careers over the course of their lifetime. Today, you can design your own passion-driven learning curriculum and prepare yourself to ride the technological waves that will power the next economic boom. We are on the cusp of a digital education revolution where traditional schools are being disrupted and a lifetime of self-directed learning or unschooling is becoming the new way to thrive. ![]() In a world where nearly all the world’s information is at our fingertips, the barriers to lifelong learning are gone. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Volumnia Gaul who is the head gamemaker and the mastermind behind the Capitol’s experimental weapons division (i.e., the one in charge of making the event as gruesome as she wants for entertainment). However, this time around a girl from District 12 sparks a flame to the slowly rising fire of the Capitol, leaving Snow to wonder whether love is worth losing the power he yearns for.ĭean Casa Highbottom is credited as being the creator of the event. ![]() After becoming a mentor in the 10th annual Hunger Games, it is there when readers learn the origin story of the blood-thirsty event that calls on two members from each district to kill to win the coveted title. Collins outlines Snow’s family’s backstory from being part of the elite in the Capitol to losing all their wealth and status due to the war. Throughout the 517-page novel, readers are taken on a journey of Snow’s former life before he became the feared President of Panem. Only this time, instead of following Katniss Everdeen’s journey from being a girl from District 12 to the iconic mockingjay encouraging districts to take down Snow and the Capitol rule, readers get into the mind of Snow himself. In Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the author reintroduces readers to the world of Panem and the villainous tyrant President Coriolanus Snow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Josephine Angelini's series gives the Trojan War a captivating makeover for the modern age.' - Katharine McGee, New York Times bestselling author of American Royals 'It was such a treat to return to the world of Starcrossed - a world of feuding demigods, forbidden love, and epic drama. With the Fates manipulating them like pieces on a chessboard, Daphne and Ajax must find a way to break the cycle of destruction set in motion by their ancestors before the walls of Troy, or risk becoming yet another pair of star-crossed lovers doomed to repeat the same fatal mistakes. That's because the artist is Ajax Delos, Son of Apollo, Scion of the House of Thebes, and Daphne's mortal enemy. A series of murals painted all over town mysteriously pull at her in ways she can't understand. Fate has brought Daphne, daughter of Zeus, and Heir to the House of Atreus to where the descendants of the Greek gods can shed blood over her once again.īut New York holds a surprise for Daphne and her cursed face-the same one that once launched a thousand ships. It wasn't Daphne's choice to move into the heart of a struggle that has been secretly waging for thirty-three hundred years, but not much in her life has been up to her. Perfect for fans of Alexandra Bracken and Chloe Gong. ![]() The dazzling prequel to the Starcrossed series, the #1 international bestselling trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() One crucial night, after Will was refused into a concert due to the inauthenticity of his fake ID, he decides to go into a porn shop, which is where the two boys cross paths. Moreover, he spends most of his time online, texting a boy named Isaac, who's supposedly from Ohio, but the reality of the situation is that will falls in love with a boy who doesn't exist. ![]() From the very first sentence, it becomes evident that will struggles with depression and other possible mental illnesses. When Tiny reveals his plans about his upcoming semi-biographical musical that he has been writing, ' Tiny Dancer: The Tiny Cooper Story', and that he wants to direct and star in it at their high school Will isn't too excited.Īt the same time, the narration follows will grayson, a boy also living in Chicago and writing in all lowercase letters. Later, it becomes evident that Will found a liking to Tiny's friend, Jane, but is doubting doing anything about it due to the heartbreak that it could eventually cause. Will shows the reader his philosophy from the very beginning of the novel: don't care too much and 'shut up' so you don't get hurt. Will Grayson, a boy living in Chicago, has a best friend that he has known for most of his life, Tiny Cooper, who also happens to be gay. ![]() The novel follows the life of two boys with the same name: Will Grayson. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() When not poring over travel brochures, playing netball, or cooking things that are very likely bad for her, Bec spends most of her time in front of the computer. The series has received starred reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal, with Heart of Iron named one of LJ's Best Romances of 2013. She has been nominated for RT Reviews Best Steampunk Romance for Heart of Iron (2013), won RT Reviews Best Steampunk Romance with Of Silk And Steam (2015), and Forged By Desire was nominated for a RITA award in 2015. Two novellas–Tarnished Knight and The Curious Case Of The Clockwork Menace–fleshed out the series. In 2012, Sourcebooks released her debut novel, Kiss of Steel, the first in the London Steampunk series, followed by: Heart of Iron, My Lady Quicksilver, Forged By Desire, and Of Silk And Steam. Following a life-long love affair with fantasy, she discovered romance novels as a 16 year-old, and hasn’t looked back. ![]() ![]() A member of RWA, she writes sexy, dark paranormals, and adventurous steampunk romances, and grew up with her nose in a book. Bec McMaster is the award-winning author of the London Steampunk series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I started writing erotica for two reasons: I had characters milling around in my head begging to be heard AND I wanted to read stories that were not only hot but also meaningful. I am a happily married woman who believes (based on personal experience) that love conquers all. ![]() I write stories that touch on the ups and downs of lovers and the unique sexual experiences that make life a ton more fun. ![]() It is a healthy combination in real life. The trip to Russia would not be complete without her ultimate fantasy coming true…Īdult Reading Material (18+) This book is for mature audiences only and contains sexually explicit content.Įrotica is delicious fantasy meant to help stimulate both the mind and body. The excitement doesn’t stop there as Master reveals more of his painful history and Rytsar challenges her darker desires. Clark, tries to impress Marquis Gray, and takes her Master to meet the parents. Before she leaves, Brie is given insider information about Ms. The third novelette of the ‘After Graduation’ series takes Brie on a journey overseas where unspoken desires, exploration and love know no bounds.īrie is thrilled to join Master on a trip across the ocean. While the Russian Dom, Rytsar Donkova, reveals his true nature, introducing the young submissive to a different side of BDSM. The bond between Master and Brie grows deeper as he opens up about his mysterious past. Russian intrigue, startling revelations, and submissive enlightenment… Brie’s trip to Russia exceeds her wildest dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And even though The Prince and the Pauper is not based on personal experience (it is set in sixteenth-century England), Twain uses the experiences of two young boys gradually losing their innocence, as he did in both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Petersburg), as well as the steamboats which passed through it daily likewise, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (written after The Prince and the Pauper), the various characters are based on types which Twain encountered both in his hometown and while working as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Two of his best-known novels typify this trait: in his Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain immortalized the sleepy little town of Hannibal, Missouri (the fictional St. Mark Twain's Prince and the Pauper is a popular story and a classic from American Literature.Īs one of America's first and foremost realists and humorists, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) usually wrote of things he knew about from firsthand experience. ![]() Each boy has strong misconception's of what the other boys life is like and series of educational and entertaining adventures play out as the boys grow more comfortable in both their real and assumed roles in life. Twain's popular novel chronicles the adventures of two young boys, a Prince and a Pauper, who exchange roles and stations in life. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER - AN ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL ![]() ![]() Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.īrave New World Revisited (1958) 132 pages. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. ![]() Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some authors use disasters or deaths or drama to end their novels, but John Irving understands that those things aren't really closure, they don't really end anything they just force you to get up and continue, wounded or not. Some authors fade to black when things get gruesome, messy, or explicit, but John Irving never does (and life never does). They're a mess (and Garp may get the worst lot of all) but that's why I like them. They're the victims of rape, car accidents, and infidelity. They're orphaned, abandoned, stranded, confused or unhappily pregnant. Of course, I wouldn't want to be a John Irving character,because terrible things are always happening to them. I love John Irving in particular, partly because I'm always wondering what's always going to happen next, and partly because, despite all the outrageousness of his characters, they behave the way real people behave. When he asks her why she read a particularly disturbing novel, she answers "To find out what happens next." Later, she adds, "A book's true when you can say "yeah! That's how damn people behave all the time." There's a scene in this book it's a revealed that a high-up publisher gives all his manuscripts to his cleaning lady, and she's the one that tells him whether they're worth publishing or not. Because I like it so much, I'm not going to say much, except that it's always worth reading, even if you have read it before. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother Pretty Mary thinks of Kerry as the “Great Abandoner” for her move away from home and her infrequent visits her brother Ken is an angry, abusive alcoholic her nephew Donny is troubled and withdrawn and her only sister Donna has been missing since Kerry was fourteen. Not only is her grandfather dying of cancer, relationships within her family are fraught. Although she is fleeing the heartbreak of a broken relationship with her newly-imprisoned girlfriend back in Brisbane and dodging several warrants for her own arrest, she is nevertheless reluctant to proceed to her destination: her dilapidated family home just outside of the small town of Durrongo. We meet Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman, as she sits on her Harley, idling at an empty intersection. ![]() Though these crimes are assigned to the past, their violent legacies – poverty, addiction, abuse, discrimination – still plague the Bundjalung Nation, an Aboriginal community whose ancestral homelands lie along the northern coast of New South Wales, Australia.īut this is not a story of suffering. Melissa Lucashenko’s novel Too Much Liptells the story of stolen land and stolen children. ![]() |