![]() ![]() My favorite book in the Shades of Magic series. But I do know that you come asking after one another when only a few strides and a handful of stars divide you.” “I do not know why you two are circling each other like stars. But the balance of magic is ever perilous, and for one city to flourish, another London must fall. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night will reappear in the morning. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games–an extravagant international competition of magic meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries–a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port.Īnd while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life. Now, restless after having given up his smuggling habit, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks as she always meant to do. ![]() Four months since Prince Rhy was wounded, and since the nefarious Dane twins of White London fell, and four months since the stone was cast with Holland’s dying body through the rift–back into Black London. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. ![]() It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into Kell’s possession. ![]()
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![]() Their daughter, Brianna, is safe-they think-on the other side of a dangerous future their lives are their own to venture as they will. Still, a highlander is born to risk-and so is a time-traveler. In her long awaited new novel, Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon continues the remarkable story of Claire and Jamie Fraser that began with the classic Outlander, and its bestselling sequels, Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager.Ĭast ashore in the American colonies, the Frasers are faced with a bleak choice: return to a Scotland fallen into famine and poverty, or seize the risky chance of a new life in the New World-menaced by Claire's certain knowledge of the coming Revolution. ![]() This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780385311403. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miranda makes for a strong, independent-minded protagonist, and Shakespeare fans will enjoy the many references to his work and life, including Miranda’s frequent quotations and a surprising revelation about Shakespeare’s wife. Then the search takes a dangerous turn after another scholar also after the manuscripts proves that he is willing to do anything to stop Miranda and Lord Hamilton from finding them first. The pair have instant chemistry, but Lord Hamilton fights his feelings for Miranda because he needs to marry someone of a higher station than hers to pay off his debts and support his family. ![]() Lord Hamilton prefers horses to books, but he is buried in inherited debt and agrees to help with the hunt in hopes that he’ll be able to profit from the manuscripts. Her hunt for the documents leads her to write to Lord Robert Hamilton, a descendant of one of the owners of the Globe Theatre. Meet local author Samantha Hastings, who will read a portion of her new regency romance fiction novel Secret of Sonnets, answer audience questions. ![]() Twenty-six-year-old Miranda Hatch has no interest in marriage and instead dreams of achieving renown as the scholar who discovered Shakespeare’s missing manuscripts. Hastings ( The Duchess Contract) returns with a pleasant, wholesome romance set in 1812 England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes we get lucky and they are the same thing. ![]() Much audible blushing." Already, she was well on the path to exploring the paradoxical emotions involved in first love and true love. At times this involved a twenty-page analysis of a two minute conversation with her current crush and included such phrases as "Pause. ![]() In her teenage years, Huntley's writing involved forcing friends to listen to her stories. To this day, some things remain constant in Huntley's life: her love of family, salt air, summer and beaches and a shaky grasp of math. Her first story involved a family with twenty children who lived by the ocean. Skipping the Scotch and the smokes, she began to write. In whole-hearted support, her father presented her with a typewriter, a package of Lucky Strike cigarettes, a bottle of Scotch and a note advising her to "Be Bold, Be Bold, Be Bold." For her tenth birthday. It was only natural that one day she would decide to pursue a career in writing. Born to parents who read anything and everything, the young, shy and nearsighted Huntley found herself searching for books that let her fall in love. ![]() ![]() In my novel, I hope to embrace the full range of contemporary and historical meanings of the phrase, from a beautiful utopia where there is no suffering, to an absurd and over-optimistic fantasy. “A True Story,” to a 1925 Robert Graves poem (“ Kingfishers, when they die, To far Cloud-Cuckoo pastures fly”), to the 2014 LEGO movie. In the centuries since, a ‘cloud cuckoo land’ has been used to describe any number of fanciful worlds, employed in works from Lucian’s second-century A.D. ![]() In “The Birds,” two heroes, Trustyfriend and Goodhope, decide to leave Athens because it has become too corrupt, and-with the help of the world’s birds-build a better city in the sky, halfway between the realm of humans and the realm of the gods. ![]() A: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ ( Νεϕελοκοκκυγία) was a phrase invented by the comic playwright Aristophanes’ 2,400 years ago in “The Birds,” one his few plays that survives to this day. ![]() ![]() So, what's the book about? Well, the blurb actually does a great job of giving you just enough to intrigue you, but not enough to ruin any plot points, so I'll just paste that in: It honestly feels quite like what I imagine could happen if a woman was investigating the suspicious death of her friend. There's no suspension of believe or leaps you have to take in order to believe what happens. And finally, the story is quite believable. ![]() Second, the plot was clearly was very throughly thought out (meaning, there's really no fluff and everything happens for a reason as the layers of the story unfold and come together). But this book has a clear strength to it's writing that very much impressed me. KA Tucker has several books under her belt and I've loved her writing for a long time. Honestly, I'd best describe it as an incredibly solid read. Maybe we can call it Sexy Suspense? That might work best. ![]() It's quite sexy even though it doesn't tell a love story. Technically, this is a Suspense novel, but do strongly feel like it'll appeal to fans of Romance. ![]() ![]() Thrilling, addictive, and filled with hidden secrets that kept me guessing the whole way through, He Will Be My Ruin kept me reading for hours without stopping. That must be what he does - he uncovers your secrets, your fears, your flaws - and he uses them against you. ![]() ![]() ![]() So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. I’m out, we’re all out-and I didn’t even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.Īnd now the impossible dream has come true. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Paste, Publishers Weekly Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Katie’s aunt Leda decides to hire a lawyer for Katie’s trial. Everyone says that Katie is a liar, because there are enough doctors, who, according to the results of the analysis, claim that Katie was pregnant and had a baby shortly before the tragedy. ![]() Katie Fisher is an 18-year-old girl from the Amish village, who is suspected of murder, but she claims she was not pregnant. Probably the umbilical cord is cut off with the help of scissors, which disappear on the farm of Aaron Fisher, Katie’s father. In addition, the umbilical cord is cut off and police officers are sure that the baby was strangled. Later, forensic scientists discover that the baby died after his birth, because some tissue fibers and a few bruises are found in his mouth. No one knows for sure whether the baby’s death was planned or whether he died during childbirth or he was stillborn. This murder of the baby is a big shock for all inhabitants, because murder is a big sin for the entire Amish settlement. The story begins with the moment when people accidentally discover the newborn dead baby on the Amish farm, who is wrapped in a sheet and abandoned on the street. The novel “ Plain Truth” tells about the religious people, who live on the Amish farm and about the mysterious story of a dead baby. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() He probably sees her as nothing more than a barrier to his dream job. So why does Cole make her want to get back in the game? The man is as arrogant as he is handsome. Since she’s learned that wanting more usually leads to disappointment, Penelope’s resigned to sitting on the sidelines when it comes to love. Penelope Pope knows all too well that she comes off as just one of the guys. And soon, he can’t take his eyes off her. Cole usually likes his women flirty and curvy, but he takes a special interest in his skinny, sassy rival, if only to keep an eye on her. ![]() Female competition, in the form of a fresh-faced tomboy who can hang with the dudes-and write circles around them, too. Then his boss drops a bombshell: Cole has competition. ![]() Hotshot sports editor Cole Sharpe has been freelancing for Oxford for years, so when he hears about a staff position opening up, he figures he’s got the inside track. Meet the men of Oxford magazine! In the first captivating spin-off of Lauren Layne’s Sex, Love & Stiletto series, a not-so-friendly battle of the sexes turns into a scorching office romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Donald Trump even talked as if he were a Saunders character: his all too revealing tossed word salad of venom, steely ignorance and neediness. Turning on the TV, it was suddenly like the news was being written by Saunders. Then 2016 happened, maybe the least subtle year since 1933. There were times I thought that Saunders’s America was a little over-the-top, a little too satirical and on the nose. Saunders’s dystopian stories are about an America that is more re-enactment theme park or sci-fi, corporate-speak circus than functioning democracy. ![]() I’ve been reading the extraordinary short stories of George Saunders for nearly 20 years, and one thing I’d never thought was that his warped, sneakily malicious and increasingly sentimental vision of 10-minutes-into-the-future America would ever seem particularly prophetic. ![]() |