The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee5/31/2023 I found that McGee has a way with enticing readers. There are a few problems with this book, and I need to share them. I promoted a book that has been widely discredited for being harmful to the queer community, and I sincerely apologize for that. THE DAZZLING HEIGHTS is the sequel to one of my favorite reads of last year, THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR. There will be spoilers for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR and THE DAZZLING HEIGHTS in this review. And in a world of such dazzling heights, just one wrong step can mean a devastating fall. And she knows exactly where to begin.īut unbeknownst to them all, someone is watching their every move, someone with revenge in mind. She’s desperate to be with him… no matter the cost.Īnd then there’s CALLIOPE, the mysterious, bohemian beauty who arrives in New York, determined to cause a stir. But being there means seeing the boy whose heart she broke, and who broke hers in return.ĪVERY is tormented by her love for the one person in the world she can never have. When RYLIN wins a scholarship to an upper-floor school, her life transforms overnight. Will he do what it takes to be free of her for good? WATT just wants to put everything behind him…until Leda forces him to start hacking again. She’ll do anything to make sure the truth stays hidden–even if it means trusting her enemy. LEDA is haunted by memories of what happened on the worst night of her life. But amidst high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, five teenagers are keeping dangerous secrets… Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marvel that touches the sky.
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Highfire book 25/31/2023 Or are they?Ī canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett “Squib” Moreau does what he can to survive, trying not to break the heart of his saintly single mother. Still, no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten core. He is the last of his kind, the last dragon. However.he has survived, unlike the rest. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie-now he goes by Vern. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs-now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. “ True Detective meets Swamp Thing in the Artemis Fowl author’s neo-noirish thriller about a curmudgeonly dragon in Louisiana.” - Guardianįrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance- loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana-and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a fifteen-year-old troublemaker on the run from a crooked sheriff. To begin formulating an answer to these questions, I want to examine the conceptual history of deep time. This begs the question: how far back should we go? What could the historian possibly find in the murky depths of prehistory, during a period before human beings even existed? We must revisit the site of destruction, dig through the rubble, and locate an alternative past to repair the future. Azoulay calls on us to do more than look back in despair. Potential history is a political genre, and the past that it seeks to upend must be relevant to the present. If an alternative history provides resources to build a more just and sustainable future, how might we extend that insight into the deep past as well? That is the question I kept asking as I read Ariella Azoulay’s provocative new book. What might a potential prehistory have looked like? This essay is from the larger Verso roundtable, "Unlearning Imperialism: Responses to Ariella Aïsha Azoulay's Potential History. Flatland audio book5/31/2023 "My role is to track in front of the field team to identify sites of significance, so we can avoid them," he says.Īs part of Tū Mai Taonga, the field team is laying 150 kilometres of pest trapping lines in this 4500 hectare forest block. That's about to change, with Te Paparahi the location for the first stage of a multi-million dollar, multi-year project to restore the forests of Aotea, called Tū Mai Taonga.ĭavis is taking The Detail for a walk off the main track up to a ridgeline, to explain his job as wāhi tapu advisor on the mana whenua-led programme. "Grey warblers, a couple of fantails."Ĭompared to Okiwi Basin a few kilometres down the road, where a cat and rat control programme is already underway, this forest is silent. "There's not many birds," says Hiku Davis. Last year it recorded the lowest number of birds of any of the 18 sites monitored around the island. There's virtually no birdsong here, because the area is overrun with feral cats and rats. The nearest shop is about 30 minutes' drive away and the area around here is rarely gets visited - except by locals who live in the nearby community, the farmers on the neighbouring block and a few surfers.īut a short walk into the bush reveals an unwelcome eeriness. The forest block of Te Paparahi, in the north of Aotea Great Barrier Island, looks untouched from the gravel road that runs past it to one of the island's many deserted white sand beaches. Some of the field team heading out to do track clearing work Photo: Supplied/Tū Mai Taonga |