![]() Why have I never heard about this book before last month? It was SO GOOD. And never question stepping forward and saying, ‘I deserve to live.’” ❗️❗️ Trigger warnings: slavery, torture and sex trade mentioned ✅ Hate-to-love (kind of) / Slow burn and sweet romance ![]() ✅ Strong, resilient, and badass main character Maas and Raven Kennedy will devour this tale of dark magic, passionate romance, vengeance, and redemption. Even if it means sacrificing her heart.įans of epic romantic fantasy like Sarah J. Even if it means gambling in the Orders’ deadly games. The bloody past he wants to forget may be the key to her future… or the downfall of them both.īut Tisaanah will stop at nothing to save those she abandoned. But even more dangerous are her growing feelings for Maxantarius. The Orders’ intentions are cryptic, and Tisaanah must prove herself under the threat of looming war. But to join their ranks, she must complete an apprenticeship with Maxantarius Farlione, a handsome and reclusive fire wielder who despises the Orders. ![]() But the night she tries to buy her freedom, she barely escapes with her life.ĭesperate to save the best friend she left behind, Tisaanah journeys to the Orders, the most powerful organizations of magic Wielders in the world. ![]() Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing but a sharp wit and a touch of magic. And a dark magic that will entangle their fates. A reclusive warrior who no longer believes it exists. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Shelf Control #229: Behind That Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers.Book Review: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu by Augusto Higo Oshiro and translated by Jennifer Shyue.If you participate this week, do share your links and I’ll add you to the participants list! Have you read A Town Like Alice? How did you like it? Any others by Shute that you’d recommend?Ĭover image and description via Goodreads author information via Wikipedia ![]() So, this makes A Town Like Alice a book that I definitely do want to read! I’ve enjoyed the books by Shute I’ve read before, particularly Pied Piper, the story of a retired man who wants to contribute to the Second World War and finds an opportunity to do so, when he must help take some children out of the continent and into safety. While the description seems to reveal only the bare outlines of the plot, this is a book I’ve heard so much about over the years, including from fellow bloggers and readers. But from here, she ends up travelling to an isolated Australian outpost where she faces a challenge that will draw on all her resourcefulness and spirit. After the war, back in England, Jean decides to travel to Malaya once more to give back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean Paget is a young Englishwoman living in Malaya who is captured by the invading Japanese and finds herself on the death march. A Town Like Alice (1950) is described as a story of love and war, which follows its heroine from the Malayan jungles to Australia. ![]() ![]() I chose to write this particular story as a book because I wanted to create a story that I could present to an audience in its purest form. I can’t tell you how excited I am to present to you my first novel, Abomination. Currently I'm writing the movie adaptation of the Mark Millar comic Starlight for 20th Century Fox. Most recently, I served as screenwriter for the upcoming Star Wars standalone film which will be released next year. I also co-wrote the Will Smith sci-fi movie After Earth, and helped create Telltale Games' The Walking Dead, for which I was the co-recipient of a BAFTA award for Best Story. ![]() My best-known work is my original screenplay for The Book of Eli, the post-apocalyptic thriller starring Denzel Washington. Hi! My name is Gary and I'm a screenwriter turned author. ![]() Too incredible to be believed, too terrible to be retold. ![]() Some believe that the true history of this dark age was deliberately concealed by its surviving scholars. Consumed by feudal warfare, Europe plunged into a centuries-long era of illiteracy and cultural desolation from which few historical records survived. After the fall of the Roman Empire, chaos and bloodshed swept across the remains of western civilization like a plague. ![]() ![]() ![]() Parker, brilliant and overconfident, takes it upon himself to discover what ails this mystery patient and finally cure him. Desperate and fearful, the hospital's directors keep him strictly confined and allow minimal contact with staff for their own safety, convinced that releasing him would unleash catastrophe on the outside world. Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. ![]() ![]() Summary "In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Marina dies, Nina is summoned to Moscow to accept an award on behalf of the regiment from Stalin. As she experiences sorority for the first time in her life, Nina falls in love with a fellow pilot, the educated and beautiful Moscovite Yelena Vetsina. When the Soviet Union go to war with Nazi Germany, Nina is recruited to Marina Raskova’s famed all-female aviation regiment. After Nina’s father tries to drown her in Lake Baikal, she seeks out “the opposite of drowning” (40) and trains to be a pilot. ![]() Nina grew up in the wilds of Siberia in a dysfunctional family headed by an alcoholic father. Ian and Nina embark on a sexual relationship however, Nina repeatedly shuns Ian’s pleas for further commitment.Īnother narrative strand focuses on the life of Nina. There, Tony scores a job in the antiques shop while Ian and Nina attempt to track down the Huntress. After learning from the Huntress’s mother that her daughter, Lorelei Vogt, is in America sending missives from McBride’s Antiques, the trio travel to Boston. ![]() Along with Tony Rodomovsky and Nina Markova-a former Soviet pilot and Graham’s estranged wife-Graham searches for the Huntress, an untried Nazi war criminal who killed his younger brother Sebastian in cold blood. ![]() The first strand, set in 1950, takes the perspective of British war correspondent Ian Graham. The novel has three distinct narrative strands, each written in third-person from the perspective of a different narrator. ![]() ![]() ![]() The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard, the crypt, and at the bottom of the ocean–but powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago. or a curse? With Ezra’s help, Hester investigates her family’s strange, sad history. ![]() For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. ![]() You can read this before Monstrous Beauty PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Monstrous Beauty written by Elizabeth Fama which was published in. Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester. Brief Summary of Book: Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when his waggish set of “Guncle Rules” no longer appease Maisie and Grant’s parental void, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility, and the realization that, sometimes, even being larger than life means you’re unfailingly human.” Patrick has no idea what to expect, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love, a somewhat-stalled acting career, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. ![]() So when tragedy strikes and Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian, he is, honestly, overwhelmed. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. “From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. About the book, from Penguin Random House: ![]() ![]() ![]() Alas, we never got to see just how good our prediction was, because Spaun withdrew from the tournament before the first shots were struck.Ģ023 AT&T Byron Nelson: J.J. How last week’s long shot faredĪt last week’s AT&T Byron Nelson, we felt we had a great pick in line with J.J. ![]() For an insurance bet or one with less risk, put some money on Hatton to finish top 10 or top 20. ![]() Should you bet $10 for Hatton to win and he ends up hoisting the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday, you’ll earn a cool $400. In his eight previous appearances at the PGA Championship, Hatton has collected four top-25s and two top-10s, and he finished T13 at last year’s PGA at Southern Hills. His best finish of the year came at one of the biggest events of the year, a runner-up at the Players Championship, which bodes well for his chances. ![]() ![]() For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return. Braiding SweetgrassIndigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. ![]() ![]() In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).ĭrawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings-asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass-offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants is a graceful, illuminating study of the wisdom of the natural. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. ![]() Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants is a graceful, illuminating study of the wisdom of the natural world, from a world-renowned indigenous scientistĪs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am loathe to share any more of the plot of The Passion because much of the joy that comes from reading this book is its ability to continually surprise. The pair meet in Russia, where Henri falls in love with Villanelle, deserts the army and, along with a defrocked Irish priest Patrick, they start the two-thousand mile trek back to Venice, that city of dreams and chance, where they will meet their singular destinies. Not figuratively speaking, she quite literally keeps it in a jar. Her passion is for a married woman, who has stolen her heart. Meanwhile in Venice, Villanelle is the flame-haired, cross-dressing, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, who makes her living as a croupier and pickpocket. His passion for his leader leads him from war to inevitable war and from glory in France to frozen destitution in Russia.Īh folly, but I think if Bonaparte had asked us to strap on wings and fly to St James’s Palace we would gave set off as confidently as a child lets loose a kite. Henri, is a simple French soldier, whose sole job is to prepare chickens for Napoleon’s dinners each night. ![]() The Passion interweaves the stories and destinies of two remarkable characters. The Passion is a short, hypnotic and vibrant novel set against the backdrop of Napoleon’s tumultuous campaigns in Europe and Russia in the early 1800s. ![]() |