Ophelia finds herself in the magical city of Babel. It is finally time to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to good use. In Babel, automata have taken over the most humble jobs from humans and under the surface of this orderly ark social unrest stirs. Will Ophelia's talent as a reader help to avoid her being lured into a deadly trap?
Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the heart of German Idealism: purpose lay not in Gods judgment but in worldly projects; freedom required not being subject to arbitrary authority, human or divine. Yet purpose and freedom never shed their theistic structure.
A powerful, heart-breaking, ultimately redemptive novel about three childhood friends in 1930s Vienna whose fates are closely intertwined, even when their lives take very different courses.<br>
<b>The tantalizing romance of <i>These Violent Delights</i> meets the mechanical wonders of <i>Cinder </i>in Vanessa Le's <i>The Last Bloodcarver</i>, the first in a two-book debut - with a riveting medical magic system and lush Vietnam-inspired fantasy world. </b>
<b>The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home.</b>
