![]() ![]() If you're an inveterate map lover yourself-or even if you're among the cartographically clueless who can get lost in a supermarket-let Ken Jennings be your guide to the strange world of mapheads. Ken Jennings was an anonymous Salt Lake City software engineer in 2004 when he unexpectedly became a TV celebrity after his record-breaking seventy-four-game, 2. Jennings also considers the ways in which cartography has shaped our history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever been.įrom the "Here be dragons" parchment maps of the Age of Discovery to the spinning globes of grade school to the postmodern revolution of digital maps and GPS, Maphead is filled with intriguing details, engaging anecdotes, and enlightening analysis. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the "unreal estate" charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. I was pleasantly surprised with what I found. ![]() Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, "a literary gem" ( The Atlantic). I approached Ken Jennings’ new book, Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks, without expectations. ![]()
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![]() The author tackles difficult and unpleasant themes and subjects within this novel, allowing it to live to its description. It’s a high fantasy romance but one that takes its time before revealing the romance. Heart of the Fae is the debut novel in The Otherworld Series by Emma Hamm. ![]() She contributed to Stolen Brides of the Fae book series, where she wrote Stolen Goblin Bride’s first book. Years later, Hamm has more than a dozen novels under her name spread across different book series. However, Emma’s professional writing career began the moment she realized she could write on her own, and that’s when she decided to write her own book. They would often craft fantastical stories that dove deep into the fantasy worlds they created. ![]() She started writing because she always had a story to tell the world, and her journey began in online forums where she would write with friends. Emma Hamm is an American romance, science fiction, and fantasy romance author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiberias Calore VII, Mare's former love, chooses to become the King of Norta instead of staying with her, which both angers and saddens Mare. Mare Barrow, Diana Farley, and Davidson stand together in Corvium just minutes after an intense battle against the former king, Maven Calore. for all will be tested, but not all will make it out alive. In the epic conclusion to Victoria Aveyard's stunning series, Mare must embrace her fate and summon all her power. Will victory be enough to topple the Silver kingdoms? Or will the little lightning girl be forever silenced? ![]() War is coming, and all Mare has fought for hangs in the balance. But Maven is driven by an obsession so deep, he will stop at nothing to have Mare as his own again, even if it means demolishing everything - and everyone - in his path. Cal's powerful Silver allies, alongside Mare and the Scarlet Guard, prove a formidable force. starting with the crown on Maven's head.īut no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost broke her. Now determined to protect her heart - and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her - Mare resolves to destroy the kingdom of Norta once and for all. Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal's betrayal nearly destroyed her. ![]() ![]() ![]() While spying on Japanese shipping from behind enemy lines, Jim befriended Tosca, a young islander who worked with him as a scout. There, he thinks back to his youth, working for Naval Intelligence during World War II in the Solomon Islands. Slowing down from a hard-lived life and a recent leg amputation, Jim retreats to an island in Maine: to drink, smoke, and to be left alone. Jim Kennoway was once an esteemed member of the ornithology department at the Museum of Natural History in New York, collecting and skinning birds as specimens. ![]() Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winner Alice Greenway’s new novel is a story of lost love, wartime, and rebirth, inspired by the career of her grandfather noted ornithologist Jim Greenway set on islands in Maine and the Solomons. ![]() |