![]() ![]() All the while, in the real world, Robert Osmark is as close to losing his company as he's ever been, and both Sandra and Jeff will have to pick sides once the battle lines are drawn. or dead? From the city of Harrowick to the perilous depths of the Grass Sea, Alan will have to fight a corrupt syndicate, earn his place in the Thieves' Union, and face down monsters and the risen dead if he wants a happy ending. Is the lady just what the Plague Doctor ordered, or will his efforts to get a job and woo her only leave him jaded. She wears plate armor in the field and around her heart. ![]() He's close to broke and left without orders. Illusionist and novice spy Alan Campbell just got out of one relationship only to have another woman walk into his life: the Lady Camilla Favonius of the Imperial Inquisition. Lucky for him, she's not that kind of Inquisitor. ![]() He's a part-time Imperial hero, full-time thief. ![]()
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Stasiland has the subtitle Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall. ![]() Tags 6degrees 20 Books of Summer 1001 Books Africa America Art Australia Autobiography Biography Black culture Black history Blogging about blogging Book review Britain Canada Comedy Crime Dystopia Economics England Fantasy Feminism Film France Germany Graphic novel Historical fiction History Horror Humour Independent Publisher India Influx Press Italy Japan Journalism LGBTQ London Mental health Meta Music Mystery New York Paris Philosophy Picture Prompt Book Bingo Poetry Politics Psychology Racism Randomness Religion Russia Science Science Fiction SciFi Scotland Short stories Six Degrees of Separation Sociology Spain Speculative fiction Sweden Thriller Tokyo Translation Travel United Kingdom USA Wales War Women's Prize for Fiction Women in translation Women in translation month Women read women ![]() ![]() ![]() In the cutthroat business world, one adage rules all: keep your enemies close and your ex-lovers closer. The inner circle of glamour, sex, and privilege was Jax's playground-but this time, I knew the rules of the game. ![]() Unlike the last time we'd drifted into each other's lives, I knew exactly what I was dealing with. I wasn't the girl he once knew, but he hadn't changed. Heres the second video in my passionflix series I read, watched and reviewed Afterburn, Aftershock by Sylvia Day What did you think of the book and the mo. Under the tutelage of Lei Yeung, one of the sharpest businesswomen in New York, I had picked up a thing or two since Jax walked away. Walking into a deal I'd worked hard to close. In a way I did both when I took Jackson Rutledge as a lover. NOTE: The title will not be available at the on-site event bookstore. Please include BLC or RAGT in the comment field. 1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day, Americas premier author of provocative fiction, delivers two novels from Cosmo Red-Hot. A trade paperback and NOOK Book original. ![]() ![]() For attendees pick up at event only - no shipping. Afterburn / Aftershock (Cosmo Red-Hot Reads from Harlequin) 288. Attending author at the 2023 BOOKLOVERSCON in Houston, June 1-4 and will also be at the 2023 READERS AND AUTHORS GET TOGETHER at the Cincinnati Airport area, June 7-10. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() International best-selling author, Craig Silvey, is based in Fremantle, Western Australia. Runt is a heart-warming and hilarious tale of kindness, friendship, hurdles, hoops, tunnels, see-saws, being yourself and bringing out the best in others. With all eyes on them, Annie and Runt must beat the odds and the fastest dogs in the world to save her farm. But when a greedy local landowner puts her family's home at risk, Annie directs Runt's extraordinary talents towards a different pursuit - winning the Agility Course Grand Championship at the lucrative Krumpets Dog Show in London.However, there is a curious catch: Runt will only obey Annie's commands if nobody else is watching. The two share a very special bond.Īfter years evading capture, Runt is remarkably fast and agile, perfect for herding runaway sheep. 11-year-old Annie Shearer, a solitary girl with a compulsion for fixing things, lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called Runt. Runt is truly something special and destined to become an immediate classic. ![]() Listen to this ANU/Canberra Times Meet the Author conversation on Experience ANU SoundCloud channelĬraig Silvey will be in conversation with Irma Gold on Craig's new novel Runt, a heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones and Honeybee.Ī new book from Craig Silvey is a publishing occasion. ![]() ![]() ![]() From there she travels on to Australia in search of lost love. She decides to use the money to repay the Malayan people who risked their lives to help her and her fellow prisoners during the war so she travels back to the village where they stayed. During this appalling ordeal she befriends Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own life to help the women.Ī few years later, and back in England, Jean receives an unexpected and substantial inheritance. She is forced on a brutal march across the country with a group of women and children. ![]() Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan. A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. ![]() ![]() But first he must seek the secret of the mysterious Runestaff, a quest that will send him into barbaric wonder and perverse evil, desperate to avert the doom of all the world:- Review(s): "The third omnibus volume, complete and fully authorised, of Michael Moorcock's great fantasy sequence, 'The Tale Of The Eternal Champion' the supreme achievement in modern imaginative literature" / "His work is the nearest thing we have in modern English fiction to a never-ending carnival" - Angela Carter:- (original cost £7.99). The Dark Empire has humiliated and mutilated Dorian Hawkmoon, but it cannot rob him of two consuming passions - his love for Yisselda of Brass and his hatred of her ruthless suitor Meliadus. ![]() And relentlessly the armies of the Dark Empire, mile by brutal mile, ravage and destroy the once-peaceful city states. He feels a kind of fellowship with it for, like him, it is old, like him, it has survived much turmoil and, like him, it seems to have been strengthened than weakened by the ravages of time. ![]() On his rides, Count Brass always comes to the Ruin. 1st printing of 2001 edition:- Contents: The Jewell In The Skull / The Mad God's Amulet / The Sword Of The Dawn / The Runestaff:- Synopsis: The earth has grown old, her landscapes mellow, her people lost in a brooding dream: an age of antique cities, scientific sorcery, crystal machines, great flying engines with mechanical wings. He is an ally of Dorian Hawkmoon and an enemy to the Dark Empire of Granbretan. © 1992: An omnibus of 4 novels that are 3rd in the 'Tale Of The Eternal Champion' series of books. Cover Art: Yoshitaka Amano (illustrator). Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything Alex has ever known changes before his eyes, and it’s a wondrous transformation. In Artime, each child is taught to cultivate their creative abilities and learn how to use them magically, weaving spells through paintbrushes and musical instruments. Upon arrival at the destination where he expected to be eliminated, however, Alex discovers a stunning secret–behind the mirage of the death farm there is instead a place called Artime. Thirteen-year-old Alex tries his hardest to be stoic when his fate is announced as Unwanted, even while leaving behind his twin, Aaron, a Wanted. A riveting middlegrade dystopian novel from New York Times bestselling Wake author Lisa McMann that Kirkus Reviews calls “The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter.” Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into categories: the strong, intelligent Wanteds go to university, and the artistic Unwanteds are sent to their deaths. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mackesy is co-directing with Peter Baynton, co-adapting with Jon Croker and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sister Isobel Waller-Bridge is composing the original score. Hollander will play the mole, Elba the fox, Byrne the horse and Coward Nicoll will lead as ‘the boy’. The heartfelt journey told in the novel by Charlie Mackesy will be reimagined in full color with hand-drawn traditional animation, as Abrams combines with Cara Speller of NoneMore Productions for the adaptation. ![]() Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions is adapting international bestseller The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse for the BBC this Christmas, with Idris Elba, Tom Hollander, Gabriel Byrne and newcomer Jude Coward Nicoll boarding. Abrams Behind BBC Christmas Adaptation Idris Elba, Tom Hollander Aboard ![]() ![]() Alice and Cora travel with an evolving cast of characters, including British soldiers, Native scouts, and the famous frontiersman Natty Bumppo. ![]() ![]() The threat of violence hovers over the party from the opening pages. Set during the French and Indian War, the novel takes place mostly in upstate New York, and centers on the journey of Cora and Alice Munro, the daughters of British Colonel George Munro, who are traveling to the safety of Fort William Henry. Cooper is remembered particularly for The Leatherstocking Tales, a group of five novels following the life of frontiersman Natty Bumppo, of which The Last of the Mohicans is the second. One of the most popular and prolific American authors of the 19th century, Cooper's novels tackled themes that were of great concern in America's frontier expansion and the resulting conflicts between settler colonials and Indigenous peoples. Housed in a quarter-leather custom clamshell case. Book one with all points noted in BAL, book two with the copyright page in state B (no priority). Moderate foxing throughout, as is almost universal with unwashed copies of this book. Pages untrimmed (or varying sizes, as issued). All internal contents including end papers original. ![]() An attractive set in original drab paper covered boards (rebacked with new spine labels). ![]() ![]() ![]() But if you know where to look, there’s an even easier guide: Each episode is named for a different Henry James story. The result is a less obviously cheeky version of Hulu’s Stephen King mixtape Castle Rock.įlanagan has given interviews shouting out a few spooky James tales he and his writers drew inspiration from. ![]() But while The Turn of the Screw may be the spine of the series, Flanagan and his writers have fleshed out the nine episodes by remixing and riffing on several other James short stories and novellas. The clearest inspiration in play here is James’s most famous ghost story, The Turn of the Screw Flanagan brought back Hill House stand-out Victoria Pedretti to play the show’s haunted governess. But The Haunting of Bly Manor is even less of a direct adaptation than Hill House. ![]() When it came time for the next installment in what could be Netflix’s answer to FX’s popular anthology American Horror Story, Flanagan and his writers turned to another master of dense psychological terror: 19th-century novelist Henry James. The miniseries is Mike Flanagan’s follow-up to the surprise 2018 smash hit The Haunting of Hill House, which drew inspiration from Shirley Jackson’s eponymous 1959 novel. All nine episodes of The Haunting of Bly Manor hit Netflix this weekend, just in time to send spooky-season chills all the way down your spine. ![]() |