portent
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There has been a deluge of similarly admiring pieces – headlines include “The Giver: A Portent Of What Might Be?”
From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2014
Co-authored with Ian Lurie, CEO and founder of Seattle-based Portent Inc. A version of this post first appeared on the Portent blog.
From Forbes • Aug. 18, 2014
A small consolation for Hodder, which has also recently lost Jeffrey Archer to Harper Collins, is that Herbert's sixteenth novel, Portent, is now in its eleventh week in the top 10 bestseller list.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2013
Typically, as in the didactically eco-conscious Portent, romantic love redeems the loner hero.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2013
Portent of head winds and foul weather that we may meet in Channel before the last of Glasgow's grime and smoke-wrack is blown from the rigging.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.
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