Warrior Wench by Marie Andreas5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. This is going to be a very twisty and dangerous ride!" Four and a half stars- TOP PICK! RT Book Reviews The launch book sets up this dangerous universe and fills it with amazing characters who are sure to grab reader's hearts and minds. There is plenty of action, thrills and some humor in her new series, The Asarlaí Wars, as these mercenaries become reluctant sort-of heroes in the face of treachery and fanaticism. "Andreas has already been making a name for herself with her terrific fantasy series The Lost Ancients, but now she kicks off a fast-paced and high-energy SF series featuring a band of mercenaries led by Starship Captain Vaslisha Tor Dain. When not saving the general populace from coffee shop shenanigans, Marie likes to visit the UK and keeps hoping someone will give her a nice summer home in the Forest of Dean. But when her patrons begin disappearing tooand then turning up deadshe finds herself unemployed, restless, and desperate. She lives in Southern California and is currently owned by two very faery-minded cats. Giles has spent her life mining the ruins of the elves who vanished from the Four Kingdoms a thousand years ago. So really, writing is a way of saving the masses. If she wasn’t writing about all of the people in her head, she’d be lurking about coffee shops annoying innocent passer-by with her stories. Marie is a fantasy and science fiction reader with a serious writing addiction. ![]()
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How to gain friends and influence others5/10/2023 ![]() Carnegie argues the best way to make someone feel important is to be curious about them. We don’t do this with false flattery or brown nosing - there is nothing worse than an office suck-up. The Big Secret of Dealing with People is making everyone feel important. Let’s follow Benjamin Franklin’s wise advice: “I will speak ill of no man… and speak all the good I know of everybody.” Principle #2: Make people feel important with curiosity Skinner proved that when animals are rewarded for good behavior, they learn faster than animals punished for bad behavior. However, Carnegie argues we cannot change behavior with threats or punishments. When you don’t agree with someone, feel they have done wrong, or need to give someone negative feedback, it’s hard not to be critical. Criticism more often is met with resentment than behavioral change. If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive. ![]() Principle #1: Don’t criticize, condemn or complain ![]() ![]() When you walk into the office or email a colleague or go to a networking event, you always should use these three basic people principles. Part I: Fundamental Techniques for Handling People In this post, I want to give you the summary for the workplace, professional relationships and the business environment. Dale Carnegie’s quintessential principles from his groundbreaking book How to Win Friends and Influence People have stood the test of time. ![]() Drive by daniel pink cliff notes5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Rewards decrease creativity and narrow focus.But research suggests extrinsic rewards harm all of these qualities: The new economy requires thinking skills - creativity, collaboration, long-term thinking. These extrinsic (or external) rewards work well for routine tasks.īut in the new information economy, this model is now outdated. Pay a person more per widget they make, and that person will crank out more widgets. Because human work in factories was easy to measure, it was easy to see how work policies changed productivity. ![]() ![]() This system worked well in the era of industrialization. Within management, this gave rise to the “carrots and sticks” model - reward the behavior that you want, and punish the behavior you don’t want. On a higher level, we also seek reward and avoid punishment. Starting with the basics: humans, like any other animal, have a foundational desire to survive. Why do people do what they do? What drives behavior? Understanding this is important for guiding your own behavior to achieve your goals, and driving other people’s behavior to meet the organization’s goals. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Drive ![]() Liberty's Fire by Lydia Syson5/10/2023 ![]() There is Navigation menu in the top-right of every page. Don't worry though it is actually easy to navigate. 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Bookshelves is only one of many features at. ![]() ![]() You are currently viewing the details page on Bookshelves for the book Liberty's Fire by Lydia Syson.īookshelves is one feature of Bookshelves is found under the /shelves/ subfolder at. ![]() Dress your family5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Kylie Jenner Sets Red Carpet on Fire in Red Dress at the Met Gala 2023: Photos She knows Travis is an amazing father and that’s the only thing that she cares about.” ![]() ![]() “At the end of the day, the only thing that matters to Kylie is what’s best for her kids, period. “ has no idea what the future holds, but right now she doesn’t see any type of a reconciliation,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly of the Keeping Up With the Kardashiansalum in February. The parents, who share daughter Stormi and son Aire, 15 months, split the following December after dating off and on for five years. The gown and veil certainly gave bridal vibes, but the reality star did not marry her longtime partner, Travis Scott. She received Shannon’s blessing and enjoyed the night with all of her sisters, including Kendall Jenner, who wore a dramatic black Prada ballgown that contrasted with Kylie’s white number. “I was like, unless I can honor Virgil, and Shannon would want me to go, and I would wear Off-White, then that’s the only reason I would go today, to honor him,” Jenner explained in a behind-the-scenes video shared via her YouTube channel after the event. Feast Your Eyes on Kylie Jenner’s Met Gala Looks Through the Years: Photos Read article ![]() ![]() ![]() And in a great trickster tale, innocent Kayvan the Brave fools those who mock him. “Sparrow’s Quest” begins with a little bird who wants to know what the most powerful thing in the world is and discovers his own strength in the process. After swallowing the huge animals that threaten him, including a leopard and a wolf, he spills them out at an opportune moment and defeats his enemies. The title tale features a mischievous, tiny creature who is desperately poor but also cheeky. But the stories are universal with their trickster and monster characters and themes of betrayal, love, and redemption. All seven entries in this picture-book anthology are Iranian folktales, presented by a duo who knows the country well (Adl grew up in Iran Laird’s has traveled widely there). ![]() Trial of thorns by stacey trombley5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It exists to find excellent books that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. The SPFBO exists to shine a light on self-published fantasy. ![]() For the past five years, Mark Lawrence in conjunction with a group of awesome bloggers has run the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO), and this year is the sixth! From the man himself: Self-published books can have a difficult time getting into book awards and being chosen for reviews by prestigious book bloggers. Many of the book recommendations made there are novels written by independent (“indie”) authors, who don’t go through a traditional publishing house like Penguin or Hachette, but oversee their books’ preparation and publishing on their own. If you’re a member of our Facebook group, chances are you’re familiar with self-published books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dopo mille esitazioni - perché proprio lei? sarà all'altezza delle aspettative di una delle più grandi scrittrici viventi? - la giovane parte alla volta dell'isolata magione dell'anziana autrice, nelle campagne dello Yorkshire. È questo l'invito con cui Vida Winter, sfuggente e carismatica scrittrice alla fine dei suoi giorni, informa Margaret della sua investitura a propria biografa ufficiale. Manderò una macchina a prenderla alla stazione di Harrogate. Venga lunedì con il treno delle quattro e mezzo. La sua prevedibile esistenza viene sconvolta un giorno da una lettera tanto enigmatica quanto perentoria: Margaret Lea è una giovane libraia antiquaria che negli anni trascorsi con il padre tra pagine immortali e volumi sepolti dall'oblio, ha coltivato una quieta passione per le biografie letterarie in cui di tanto in tanto si cimenta. ![]() Ursula le guin a wizard of earthsea5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Though A Wizard of Earthsea is set in an alternate fantasy world composed of a sprawling archipelago amidst a vast, planet-covering sea, the societal challenges the world of Earthsea faces are often similar to those readers are familiar with. Today, her name is synonymous with using the “safe, sterile laboratory” of the future and fictional world in order to examine the nature of reality, the issues at the heart of the human condition, and the possibilities and dangers that humanity faces as it expands, changes, and seeks to spread its own influence. She was responsible for revolutionizing the genre by incorporating literary, lyrical prose, Taoist influences, and themes of feminism, anarchism, and environmentalism into her many works. ![]() Nevertheless, her enduring influence on the genre inspired writers like David Mitchell ( Cloud Atlas), Neil Gaiman ( American Gods, The Sandman), Kelly Link ( Magic for Beginners), and Jeff VanderMeer ( Annihilation). Although she was known throughout her life as “America’s greatest living science fiction writer,” she balked at being put in a box as a sci-fi writer and preferred to be known simply as a novelist. After studying at Radcliffe College (present-day Harvard University) and Columbia University, she worked as a secretary and a French teacher and eventually as a full-time writer of science fiction. ![]() Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to anthropologist parents. ![]() Glass sword book cover5/8/2023 ![]() I glance at one of the many cuts on my arms, probably from Evangeline. Now he sits across from me, staring at his feet, letting his wounds begin the slow process of healing naturally. He bled freely on the sand, cut and bruised by our would-be executioners. ![]() Evangeline, Ptolemus, the nymph lord, all those who tried to kill me in the arena. I already have blood all over my clothes. The rag she gives me is clean, but it still smells like blood. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever? Now, she’s on the run and looking to recruit others Reds with powers like hers. ( In case you have no idea what we’re talking about, Glass Sword is the sequel to Red Queen, the crazy awesome fantasy/dystopian/action debut novel by Queen Victoria Aveyard and it goes on sale February 9th!)Īs we’re sure all you members of the Scarlet Guard remember, RED QUEEN ends with Mare being HORRIBLY BETRAYED. And you can now read chapters 4-7 here so you can anguish some more. ![]() ![]() READ, RED AS THE DAWN! We have posted the first three chapters from GLASS SWORD for your reading pleasure/anguish. ![]() |