![]() ![]() He finished fourth on Miami's debut last year and former McLaren team mate and 2009 world champion Jenson Button reckons the Mexican, who excels on street circuits, can go a long way to winning over the sceptics. "I really believe that we are in the fight," he said after the race in Baku. ![]() Perez has never won more than two races in a season but is coming off the back of a double success in Azerbaijan - in the Saturday sprint and Sunday's main event - hoping to build momentum. ![]() ![]() The 25-year-old Dutch driver was only five points clear of Perez after four races last year but won in Miami with fastest lap and went on to finish the season 149 points ahead and with 15 victories to his team mate's two. Verstappen, who has enjoyed an unbroken run at the top of the standings since he won in Spain on May 22 last year, has yet to finish lower than second in 2023 and arrives in Florida with a six-point advantage. Sergio Perez wants to be considered a Formula One title contender and this weekend's Miami Grand Prix offers the Mexican a chance to lead the championship for the first time and rattle the cage of Red Bull team mate Max Verstappen.Ī third win in five races would lift 33-year-old Perez above reigning double world champion Verstappen and be quite a statement of intent. ![]()
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![]() ![]() School groups: Explore how illustrators Quentin Blake and Jackie Morris (The Lost Words), bring works of literature to life. ![]() The Lost Words is curated by Compton Verney, with Hamish Hamilton and Penguin Books. “I want The Lost Words to delight the mind and the eye and send children to sleep dreaming of wild things.” Jackie Morris In response to the gradual disappearance of nature from children’s stories and imaginations, Robert’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’ beautiful, iridescent watercolours will take visitors on a journey that makes the familiar appear magical once more.įeaturing a series of immersive floor to ceiling graphics, family interpretation areas and recordings of Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris reading the poems, The Lost Words experience continues beyond the gallery as visitors are invited to explore the words and themes of the exhibition via an interactive discovery trail through the grounds. ![]() “DON’T MISS… an evocative exhibition designed to keep children and adults in touch with nature.” Plant Life Magazine This enchanting exhibition combines the creative talents of writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris to celebrate the relationship between language and the living world, and nature’s power to spark the imagination. ![]() ![]() Upon the sands of the arena, Mia finds new allies, bitter rivals, and more questions about her strange affinity for the shadows. ![]() When it's announced that Scaeva will be making a rare public appearance at the conclusion of the grand games in Godsgrave, Mia defies the Church and sells herself to a gladiatorial collegium for a chance to finally end him. But after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia's suspicions about the Red Church's true motives begin to grow. Nevernight is the first in an epic new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff. Godsgrave: Book two of Sunday Times bestselling fantasy adventure The Nevernight Chronicle: Book 2. ![]() Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits. Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. In a land where three suns almost never set, a ruthless assassin continues her quest for vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Summary: The second thrilling installment of the award-winning Nevernight Chronicle, from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My Review: Eleanor of Aquitaine is one of the most influential woman in the Middle Ages. With astonishing historical detail, mesmerizing pageantry, and irresistible accounts of royal scandal and intrigue, she re-creates not only a remarkable personality but a magnificent past era. Eleanor of Aquitaine lived a long life of many contrasts, of splendor and desolation, power and peril, and in this stunning narrative, Weir captures the woman-the queen-in all her glory. In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of this truly exceptional woman, and provides new insights into her intimate world. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. Synopsis: Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and the mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tamar is a headstrong slave in Mali, a high school junior with a terminal illness on a last-chance trip, a young woman struggling for independence in a segregated train car steaming her toward an arranged marriage. Outlander meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this teen romance that follows two lovers fated to repeat their story across hundreds of lifetimes, who hope to break the cycle once and for all. This is a beautiful cover that conveys all the yearning and love that this book will hold, and, again, I am so excited to help Shanna share this book cover with you. Except this time, they might just be able to break the cycle – and I cannot wait to read this come September.įriends, when I saw the cover for For All Time, I wept. ![]() In For All Time, two teens live hundreds of lifetimes, but one thing is true: the both of them are destined to fall in love. When Skye and I first came across this book, we were ecstatic we love stories that reach and survive across space and time. If you know me, then you’ll know that the reincarnation trope is one of my absolute favourites. The Quiet Pond is delighted to present to you the cover reveal for For All Time by Shanna Miles, a story with the reincarnation trope – about two teens fated to meet and fall in love with each other across hundreds of lifetimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a critical and personal meditation that sees Native American history not as a straight line but rather as a circle in which the same absurd, tragic dynamics are played out over and over again. Suffused with wit, anger, perception, and wisdom, The Inconvenient Indian is at once an engaging chronicle and a devastating subversion of history, insightfully distilling what it means to be “Indian” in North America. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. ![]() ![]() Just as they ignored what the health experts in the Obama administration had to say. Get the full story about surgeryįor instance, media outlets trumpeted a 2019 study that claimed to offer evidence in support of such interventions. But last August, the American Journal of Psychiatry was forced to issue a correction, acknowledging that “the results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care.” In fact, the study’s authors also admitted that those who surgically transitioned “ were more likely to be treated for anxiety disorders” than those who had not.īut media outlets seemed to all but totally ignore the correction. ![]() Some activists and self-proclaimed gender experts say the best solution to gender dysphoria lies in hormonal and surgical transition, a claim my book disputes. I’ve tried to sound the alarm about the real harms that would result, but the activists have a lot of corporate and political power on their side - as I was reminded recently when Amazon canceled my book. ![]() They aren’t faking it, and they didn’t actively choose it.īut they aren’t getting the care they deserve - and, even worse, Big Government and Big Tech are working to deny or conceal the truth in service of a new transgender orthodoxy. ![]() That’s the tragic situation that many people with gender dysphoria experience. Imagine feeling so alienated from your body that you would consider taking cross-sex hormones and removing your genitals. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's hard, in hindsight, to say exactly how a book comes into being. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īehind The Book: A Note to Amazon Readers from Author Sophie Kinsella How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does? Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all. And who is this gorgeous husband-who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she.well, seems to be. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. ![]() Having survived a car accident-in a Mercedes no less-Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed. ![]() When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament. ![]() ![]() ![]() from Columbia University in 1934, where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and studied under philosopher Irwin Edman. After a childhood and adolescence in the Bronx and a high school diploma from Townsend Harris High School, he earned a B.A. Herman Wouk was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia. Soon thereafter, he became a radio dramatist, working in David Freedman's "Joke Factory" and later with Fred Allen for five years and then, in 1941, for the United States government, writing radio spots to sell Herman Wouk was a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. ![]() Herman Wouk was a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’d read extensively in science fiction, speculative fiction, utopias and dystopias ever since my high school years in the 1950s, but I’d never written such a book. “It can’t happen here” could not be depended on: Anything could happen anywhere, given the circumstances.īy 1984, I’d been avoiding my novel for a year or two. ![]() Change could also be as fast as lightning. ![]() Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. but then they disappeared.” I heard such stories many times. During my visits to several countries behind the Iron Curtain - Czechoslovakia, East Germany - I experienced the wariness, the feeling of being spied on, the silences, the changes of subject, the oblique ways in which people might convey information, and these had an influence on what I was writing. Every Sunday the East German Air Force made sonic booms to remind us of how close they were. The keyboard was German because I was living in West Berlin, which was still encircled by the Berlin Wall: The Soviet empire was still strongly in place, and was not to crumble for another five years. In the spring of 1984 I began to write a novel that was not initially called “The Handmaid’s Tale.” I wrote in longhand, mostly on yellow legal notepads, then transcribed my almost illegible scrawlings using a huge German-keyboard manual typewriter I’d rented. ![]() |