6/28/2023 0 Comments Tracywolff![]() ![]() ![]() The Crave series is best enjoyed in order.īeing the lone human in a school for paranormals is precarious at the best of times.Īt the worst of times, it’s a little like being the last chew toy in a room full of rabid dogs.Īnd at average times…well, at average times, it’s honestly pretty cool. All I know is that saving the people I love is going to require sacrifice. The only thing Hudson and Jaxon agree on is that leaving Katmere would mean my certain death.Īnd not only am I fighting for my life, but now everyone else’s is at stake-unless we can defeat an unspeakable evil. ![]() The Circle is caught in a power play and the Vampire Court is trying to drag me out of my world and into theirs. But far worse enemies are at our doorstep. He insists there are secrets I don’t know about, threatening to drive a wedge between Jaxon and me forever. Just when I start to feel safe again, Hudson is back with a vengeance. I’ve returned to Katmere Academy, but I’m haunted by fragments of days I have no recollection of living and struggling to understand who, or what, I really am. Glitter magazine’s YA Feminist Must-Reads of 2020Įverything feels off-especially me. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris![]() I never lost track of who was speaking, and I never lost interest in the story.obviously. Schorr seemlessly pulled off the witty banter between many of the characters. The narrator also portrays Ben perfectly as the quiet, reserved love interest. She really gets Janelle's dry wit and sarcasm and she nails those one-liners. Katie Schorr was an excellent pick for narrator of this book. ![]() And so sometimes I caught myself pulling out the ARC and picking up where I'd left off on the audio. I listened whenever I could, but it still wasn't enough. I still didn't have time to fit the book into my reading schedule, though, so I downloaded the audio a couple of weeks ago. Fast forward to the present, when I'm seeing so many people showing their enthusiasm for the sequel, which releases at the end of next month, and I figured I'd better check out what all the fuss is about. ![]() I received an ARC prior to release last year, but I got backlogged and never got around to it. ![]() This novel was exhilarating.and honestly, that's putting it kind of mildly. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Stolen Time by Danielle Rollins![]() ![]() ![]() But after meeting a stranger and stowing away on his peculiar aircraft, she wakes up in a chilling version of the world she left behind-and for the first time in her life, realizes she’s in way over her head. ![]() I know I can't really speak for him, but I feel like Doc Brown would be onboard with this one.”-Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series “The hauntingly evocative prose seduced me, the compellingly nuanced characters captivated me, and the twisting storyline ensnared my thoughts in an infinite spiral that refused to release me until the final word.”-Romina Russell, New York Times bestselling author of the Zodiac series Seattle, 1913 Dorothy spent her life learning the art of the con. “Endearing, exciting, and very clever, Danielle Rollins' Stolen Time is the kind of time-travel story I'm always on the lookout for. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Curious minds evanovich![]() ![]() What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country. ![]() At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. Good thing he's also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he'd probably be homeless. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. ![]() Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of thrillers featuring the invincible and incompatible pairing of Knight and Moon.Įmerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, like people used to say, I'm cutting to the chase and telling it like it is. Too many times we all get introduced to people who seem perfectly nice and later on you find out they're cracked. So I sat and waited while Clayton made things right between the Town of Mount Pleasant and Maisie by writing a check.Īnyway, the jailhouse may seem like an insensitive place to begin my story, but I think it's best if you know the truth about what my family is like. Maisie was crazy like a fox and we all knew it. I was glad they brought her in to the police station until I could get there because her behavior surely demonstrates a lack of sound judgment. The local police beg to differ, saying this is a case of animal cruelty, endangerment, and reckless behavior. ![]() ![]() She claims it is not against any law in the state of South Carolina to take a llama for a walk on the open road. M y husband, Clayton, and I were at the police station getting my mother, Maisie, out of jail for brushing up against the wrong side of the law. Amazon Barnes&Noble IndieBound Available Now! Preview of The Hurricane Sisters Prologue: According to Liz ![]() ![]() ![]() Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. ![]() ![]() They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile.Ĭarrie returns from Australia at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life - shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name - still she finds herself lonely. In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.Įlfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The best we could do bui![]() ![]() The work drawn in pale watercolor has a nostalgic but somewhat sad air. Its depiction of trauma being passed down to the next generation is very delicate and clever. The story grew together with the author’s newborn son, and took ten years to complete. This work is drawn as a family memoir but turned out to be something more than a mere oral history and a “memoir,” rather a full-length artistic work. Along with the black ink lines, the vermilion watercolor portrays the continuous story of parents and offspring, sometimes becoming thick and bold to express blood and flames, and other times light and blurry to depict the heartwarming atmosphere around the house. After learning about her parents’ lives during her oral history research in graduate school, she learned from scratch how to draw graphic novels to write a memoir of her family. This is the author’s first graphic novel. The family history spans five generations, intertwined with the turbulent modern history of Vietnam, including World War II, the First Indochina War, and the Vietnam War. The story progresses while switching between BUI’s current experience as a mother, and her parents’ childhood as they grow up in Vietnam, and depicts their escape from Vietnam to the U.S. The story begins in 2005 in New York City, where author BUI gives birth to her baby. This is an autobiographical graphic novel by a Vietnamese-American author tracing her family history. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Blue mind book![]() ![]() But as seductively pristine as these waters are, Nichols warns, they also carry risk and a downside, as evidenced by the devastation of Superstorm Sandy and the environmentally devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This postulate is further proved by the consistent demand for premium-priced oceanfront property across the globe. ![]() Factors such as DNA, biology and physical well-being can predispose one to an attraction to water, he writes, and as his numerous studies suggest, we tend to be at our happiest when surrounded by a natural environment, whether swimming, surfing or simply bathing, and “riverbanks, beaches, and lakefronts” play a large part in this accumulated state of blissfulness. On a personal note, Nichols admits to his own attraction to the water’s edge initiated when he brought his 18-month-old daughter along on an oceanside coastal trek from Oregon to Mexico. He astutely examines how the ocean, the color blue and regular human interaction with water significantly affect mood, attitude and energetic productivity, and he explores our evolutionary connection to water and the ways it inspires creative flow. Passionately dedicated to oceanic sciences, marine biologist and California Academy of Sciences research associate Nichols presents fieldwork largely focused on scientific experiments measuring the human brain’s electrical response to water. ![]() A lifelong ocean advocate and aquatic educator examines the biocentric and neurochemical wonderments of water. ![]() ![]() ![]() Costain, Mika Waltari, Howard Pyle … and Maurice Druon, the amazing French writer who gave us the The Accursed Kings, seven splendid novels that chronicle the downfall of the Capetian kings and the beginnings of the Hundred Years War.ĭruon’s novels have not been easy to find, especially in English translation (and the seventh and final volume was never translated into English at all). ![]() ![]() My own series draws on both traditions … and while I undoubtedly drew much of my inspiration from Tolkien, Vance, Howard, and the other fantasists who came before me, A Game of Thrones and its sequels were also influenced by the works of great historical novelists like Thomas B. I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth. Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. Marguerite of Burgundy, Queen of NavarreĨ. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That short story, "The Men Who Corflued Mohammed," is a fannish homage to Alfred Bester's " The Men Who Murdered Mohammed." Glyer's one professional fiction sale appeared in the book Alternate Worldcons, edited by Mike Resnick. Glyer started the fanzine in 1978 to report on clubs, conventions, fannish projects, fans, fanzines, awards, and to publish articles like "Is Your Club Dead Yet?", written in what has been described as a "no-nonsense style". File 770 is a paper fanzine that appears once or twice a year and is also available in e-form it also has a regular daily on-line presence in the fannish blogosphere with the latest in news from around science fiction and fandom. The newszine takes its name from the legendary party that ran continuously for two days in Room 770 at Nolacon, the 9th World Science Fiction Convention in 1951, that upstaged that convention and entered fannish lore as a result. Glyer has edited a number of fanzines, including the award-winning File 770. The 1982 World Science Fiction Convention ( Worldcon) committee presented Glyer a special award in 1982 for "Keeping the Fan in Fanzine Publishing." Glyer won the Best Fan Writer Hugo in 1984, 1986, 1988, and 2016. ![]() He has won the Hugo Award 12 times in two categories: File 770 won the Best Fanzine Hugo in 1984, 1985, 1989, 2000, 2001, 2008, 20. Mike Glyer (born February 16, 1953) is both the editor and publisher of the long-running science fiction fan newszine File 770. ![]() |