![]() ![]() Upon discovering that Cress was in contact with the Rampion & planning to escape, she tied her up. In Cress, Sybil visited Cress' satellite with Jacin accompanying her. She then took control of her gift and tortured Sybil, who went insane & ultimately killed herself by jumping off the palace roof. ![]() Sybil manipulated Wolf into attempting to kill Cinder, though she retaliated by attacking Sybil's mind. Death ĭuring Kai's kidnapping, Sybil discovered Cinder & the crew on the rooftop and ordered for them to be killed. Her role in the Lunar court was said to be "between a doting lapdog and gleeful servant who delighted in seeing to Queen Levana's cruelest requests," as when when she attacked and nearly blinded an innocent Earthen servant just because Queen Levana asked her to. ![]() She was also the mistress of Crescent Darnel before the hacker's betrayal. ![]() Sybil was in charge of taking care of the ungifted Lunar children being held captive in the dormitories. Sybil Mira was later the head thaumaturge of Levana & the ambassador of Luna to the Eastern Commonwealth with her personal guard being Jacin Clay. She was then deemed the official royal representative of ungifted affairs by Queen Channary. In Channary's reign, she was "the court's ambassador with the biochemical research team" (the group responsible for creating Letumosis). ![]()
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Meetings with M, banter with Miss Moneypenny, a concentration on precise types of motor vehicle, clearly specified weaponry, a suitably psychopathic villain-and, of course, the Bond girls. ![]() There are certain givens in a Bond novel, certain necessary requirements that should be fulfilled and acknowledged. ![]() When you write a new James Bond novel, you are very aware of both the heritage and the expectations. ![]() ![]() ![]() My initial reaction to this novel (a week or so after I finished listening to it) is to reflect on my connection with Seraphina. Some of the most interesting dragons I've read." (Christopher Paolini, New York Times best-selling author of Eragon) “ lush, intricately plotted fantasy.” ( The Washington Post) "Will appeal to both fans of Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series and Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown." 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Lyrical, imaginative, and wholly original, this New York Times best seller with eight starred reviews is not to be missed. ![]() ![]() “Reading Georgia Hunter’s We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. We Were the Lucky Ones, though fictionalized, draws on her efforts to uncover her family’s history her blog ( offers an intimate at the extensive research this project required. When Georgia was fifteen years old, she learned that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. Georgia is the debut novelist of We Were the Lucky Ones (Viking)-a new release that was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Best Books to Read in 2017 and Harper’s Bazaar’s Books You Need To Read in February. Today, I’m honored to be in the virtual company of Georgia Hunter. ![]() Copies of the book will be available for purchase/signing. ![]() This event is free and open to the public. 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A water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. ![]() ![]() ![]() For John Roe O'Neill is a molecular biologist who has the knowledge, and now the motivation, to devise and disseminate a genetically carried plague-a plague to which, like those that scourged mankind centuries ago, there is no antidote, but one that zeros in, unerringly and fatally, on women. It tells of one man's revenge, of the man watching from the window who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible vengeance upon the human race. The White Plague is a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme. 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