Spindle

Author : E. K. Johnston
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781484776285

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Spindle by E. K. Johnston Pdf

"The most powerful stories encompass a paradox. Spindle is both mythic and true, old beyond reckoning and dazzlingly, gloriously new. You've known this story all your life; you have never heard its like before. The Storyteller Queen lives, and her name is E. K. Johnston." -Rachel Hartman, New York Times best-selling author of Seraphina/DIV DIVThe world is made safe by a woman...but it is a very big world. It has been generations since the Storyteller Queen drove the demon out of her husband and saved her country from fire and blood. Her family has prospered beyond the borders of their village, and two new kingdoms have sprouted on either side of the mountains where the demons are kept prisoner by bright iron, and by the creatures the Storyteller Queen made to keep them contained. But the prison is crumbling. Through years of careful manipulation, a demon has regained her power. She has made one kingdom strong and brought the other to its knees, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. When a princess is born, the demon is ready with the final blow: a curse that will cost the princess her very soul, or force her to destroy her own people to save her life. The threads of magic are tightly spun, binding princess and exiled spinners into a desperate plot to break the curse before the demon can become a queen of men. But the web of power is dangerously tangled--and they may not see the true pattern until it is unspooled.

Author : Abby Franquemont
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781620331965

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Respect the Spindle by Abby Franquemont Pdf

Enjoying a resurgence in popularity thanks to the current trend of DIY crafts, the hand spindle remains one of the most productive, versatile, and convenient tools for creating stunning fiber arts from home, as this beautifully illustrated guide from a veteran spinner and spindle aficionado demonstrates. With step-by-step instructions, this essential manual details the basic steps of spinning and then advances to the more complicated spinning wheel, showing how to use the spindle to make specific types of yarn, explaining traditional spindle spinning techniques, and detailing five simple projects designed to instill confidence in creating a variety of yarns with this simple tool. Combining fascinating historical narratives, traditions, and cultures from around the globe with vivid photography, this all-encompassing tour of the spindle also boasts easy-to-follow, contemporary techniques and styles that affirm the tool's enduring legacy.

Author : Leslie Vedder
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593325834

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The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder Pdf

An Instant Indie Bestseller! Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones in this thrilling fairytale retelling for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and The Cruel Prince. Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles, who definitely doesn’t believe in true love. Shane is a tough-as-dirt girl warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her own way. Briar Rose is a prince under a sleeping curse, who’s been waiting a hundred years for the kiss that will wake him. Cursed princes are nothing but ancient history to Fi—until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle while exploring a long-lost ruin. Now she’s stuck with the spirit of Briar Rose until she and Shane can break the century-old curse on his kingdom. Dark magic, Witch Hunters, and bad exes all stand in her way—not to mention a mysterious witch who might wind up stealing Shane’s heart, along with whatever else she’s after. But nothing scares Fi more than the possibility of falling in love with Briar Rose. Set in a lush world inspired by beloved fairytales, The Bone Spindle is a fast-paced young adult fantasy full of adventure, romance, found family, and snark.

Author : Yuhou Wu,Lixiu Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811533280

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Intelligent Motorized Spindle Technology by Yuhou Wu,Lixiu Zhang Pdf

This book presents the latest information on the intelligent CNC machine tool spindle system, which integrates various disciplines such as mechanical engineering, control engineering, computer science and information technology. It describes a prediction method and model for temperature rise and thermal deformation in motorized spindles and proposes an intelligent stator resistance identification method to reduce the torque ripple of motorized spindles under direct torque control. Further, it discusses the on-line dynamic balance method for NC machine tool spindles. The biogeographic optimization algorithm and hybrid intelligent algorithm presented here were first applied in the field of motorized spindle performance control. In turn, the book presents extensive motorized spindle performance test data and includes detailed examples of how intelligent algorithms can be applied to motor spindle stator resistance identification, temperature field prediction and on-line dynamic balance. In summary, the book provides readers with the latest tools for designing, testing and implementing intelligent motorized spindle systems in terms of the basic theory, technological applications and future prospects, and offers a wealth of practical information for researchers in mechanical engineering, especially in the area of control systems.

Author : E. K. Johnston
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781484728994

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A Thousand Nights by E. K. Johnston Pdf

Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next. And so she is taken in her sister's place, and she believes death will soon follow. But back in their village her sister is mourning. Through her pain, she calls upon the desert winds, conjuring a subtle unseen magic, and something besides death stirs the air in it's place. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a dangerous palace filled with pretty things: intricate statues with wretched eyes, exquisite threads to weave the most beautiful garments. She sees everything as if for the last time. But the first sun sets and rises, and she is not dead. Night after night Lo-Melkhiin comes to her, and listens to the stories she tells and day after day she is awoken by the sunrise. Exploring the palace, she begins to unlock years of fear that have tormented and silenced a kingdom. Lo-Melkhiin was not always a cruel ruler. Something went wrong. The words she speaks to him every night are given strange life of their own. She makes things appear. Little things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. With each tale she spins, her power grows. Soon she dreams of bigger, more terrible magic: power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to rule of a monster.

Author : Jessica Marting
Publisher : Shadow Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781999575403

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Spindle's End by Jessica Marting Pdf

The last memory Anissa Alto has is watching the destruction of the research ship Spindle by a rival scientist and being unable to do anything about it. The next thing she knows, she’s waking up in an unfamiliar sickbay one hundred years later, surrounded by a crew of xeno-archaeologists led by Dr. Benedict Sawyer. Sawyer’s plan was simple: dig up the artifact resting in the bottom of a pit on an uninhabited planet, become an academic superstar, and never teach undergraduates again. The artifact turning out to be a woman from a neighboring star system put into stasis throws his dreams of student-free research off-kilter. Anissa knows who destroyed the Spindle and that the perpetrator is still out there a century later. But as she and Sawyer investigate, it becomes clear that the reason for the ship’s destruction is more than a case of scientific rivalry taken to the extreme and something more sinister. Keywords: science fiction romance, space opera romance, sleeping beauty retelling, genetic engineering science fiction, far future fiction, far future romance

Author : Robin McKinley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781440624940

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Spindle's End by Robin McKinley Pdf

The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a defeat four hundred years old. Robin McKinley's masterful version of Sleeping Beauty is, like all of her work, a remarkable literary feat.

Author : Harprit Sandhu
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781637411292

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Spindles for Small Shop Metalworkers by Harprit Sandhu Pdf

The possibilities of what you can achieve in your workshop are greatly enhanced if you have spindles to use with your lathe! A complete and crucial guide for amateur engineers, this book describes the design, construction, and use for a variety of useful spindles that range in shape and size. Featuring over 150 scale plans, line drawings, and a collection of helpful data tables, this metalworking guide clearly outlines several techniques for milling, grinding, and drilling spindles that are easy to make and have as few parts as possible.

Author : Christian O'Reilly, Simon C. Warby,Tore Nielsen
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889451166

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Sleep Spindles: Breaking the Methodological Wall by Christian O'Reilly, Simon C. Warby,Tore Nielsen Pdf

In the last decade, sleep spindles have attracted steadily increasing attention. This interest is motivated by the many intriguing relationships between spindles and various diseases (e.g., schizophrenia, Parkinson, Alzheimer, autism, mental retardation), recovery processes (e.g., post brain stroke), and cognitive faculties (e.g., memory consolidation, intelligence, dream recall, sleep preservation). Nonetheless, a methodological wall has impeded the study of sleep spindles. Their investigation rests heavily on our ability to reliably and consistently identify spindle patterns from background EEG activity, a task involving many obstacles, including: a fuzzy definition of spindles, low inter-expert agreement on their scoring, lack of consensus on standard techniques for their automated detection, low reproducibility of observed characteristics and correlates, unavailability of large, standardized, high-quality databases, and inconsistencies in the methods used to evaluate the performance of automated detectors. The primary aims of this research topic were to bring together world-class researchers on a project designed to facilitate exchanges on methodological difficulties encountered in assessing sleep spindles and to promote standardized spindle-related resources. In preparing their contributions, authors were encouraged to use existing – or to propose new – publicly available resources for assessing sleep spindles. To allow fair and accurate comparison of reported results, the authors were also encouraged to validate their tools on a common benchmark. A database containing expert spindle scoring (i.e., the Montreal Archive of Sleep Studies) was made publicly available for that purpose.

Author : Shonna Slayton
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781633754928

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Spindle by Shonna Slayton Pdf

In a world where fairies lurk and curses linger, love can bleed like the prick of a finger... Briar Rose knows her life will never be a fairy tale. She’s raising her siblings on her own, her wages at the spinning mill have been cut, and the boy she thought she had a future with has eyes for someone else. Most days it feels like her best friend, Henry Prince, is the only one in her corner...though with his endless flirty jokes, how can she ever take him seriously? When a mysterious peddler offers her a “magic” spindle that could make her more money, sneaking it into the mill seems worth the risk. But then one by one, her fellow spinner girls come down with the mysterious sleeping sickness...and Briar’s not immune. If Briar wants to save the girls—and herself—she’ll have to start believing in fairy tales...and in the power of a prince’s kiss.

Author : Alix E. Harrow
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250765369

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A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow Pdf

USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. “A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales.” —Katherine Arden It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Michelle Schusterman
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399550720

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Spell and Spindle by Michelle Schusterman Pdf

Doll Bones meets Splendors and Glooms as a boy who trades bodies with a wooden marionette. . . . The Museum of Peculiar Arts holds many oddities--a mechanical heart, a diary bound in its owner's skin . . . and Penny, a child-size marionette who almost looks alive. Fog clouds Penny's memories from before the museum, but she catches glimpses here and there: a stage, deep red curtains, long-fingered hands gripping her strings. One day, a boy named Chance touches Penny's strings and hears her voice in his head. Penny can listen, and watch, and think? Now someone else is watching Penny and Chance--a man with a sharp face, a puppeteer who has the tools to change things. A string through a needle. A twist of a spindle. And suddenly Chance is trapped in Penny's marionette body, while Penny is free to run and dance. She knows that finding a way to switch back is the right thing to do. But this body feels so wonderful, so full of life! How can Penny ever return to her puppet shell?

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89048454615

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002672423

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English Patents of Inventions, Specifications by Anonim Pdf

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002656558

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by USA Patent Office Pdf