![]() ![]() turns out to be a lot more buttoned-up and toned down than she'd hoped. Where better to get a fresh start than the nation's capitol?Īlas, D.C. She needs an exciting new life-not to mention real employment. When Jacqueline Turner's fiancÉ gives her two days to move out of his apartment, she has no choice but to leave New York City and crash with her best friend in Washington, D.C. ![]() The Capitol Hill aide who scandalized Washington, D.C., with her blog has now written a sharp, steamy, utterly unrepentant novel set against the backdrop of the nation's capitol. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This thought-provoking survival-of-the-fittest story will leave you breathless for more. Kasie West, author of "Pivot Point" A fast-paced, wild ride of a book. "Publishers Weekly" A double dose of intensity and danger in this riveting tale of survival, heartache, and love. the textual equivalent of a Quentin Tarantino movie. Elana Johnson, author of the Possession series Stylish, frenetic, and violent. ![]() ![]() Mindy McGinnis, author of "Not a Drop to Drink" Romance and action fans alike will love it. "VOYA" A fast ride from first to final pages, "Dualed" combines action and heart. Fans of the Divergent trilogy will want to read this imaginative tale. Andrew Fukuda, author of the Hunt series Full of unexpected turns. Praise for "Dualed: " The kind of book Katniss Everdeen and Jason Bourne would devour. How far will the Board go to keep their secrets safe? And how far will West go to save those she loves? With nonstop action and surprising twists, Elsie Chapman s intoxicating sequel to "Dualed" reveals everything. The Board is lying, and West will have to uncover the truth of the past to secure her future. ![]() But when West recognizes her target as a ghost from her past, she realizes she s in over her head. They want her to kill one last time, and offer her a deal worth killing for. She defeated her Alternate, a twin raised by another family, and proved she s worthy of a future. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:myinventionsauto0000tesl:epub:03c1755f-f4e6-4135-a02f-67b6dbddd2f6 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier myinventionsauto0000tesl Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2qgtj5rms1 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0910077002Ġ910077010 Lccn 82082495 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.7935 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200077 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:05:25 Associated-names Johnston, Ben, 1947- Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40315314 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() Utterly fearless.” -Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby One of the most powerful and propulsive pieces of speculative fiction I’ve read in years. “Set in a magical and magic-ridden Georgia of the 1920s, Ring Shout is a thrilling and provocative inferno of a story. How some of us push ourselves to be more than those emotions, how others glut themselves on the darkness.”-Cassandra Khaw, finalist for the British Fantasy and Locus Awards And I’m still processing its meditations on hatred and rage and fear. I didn’t expect to squirm from the body horror, but I absolutely did. It is brilliant and coldly angry, cosmic horror and historical fiction without a shred of sentimentality. “There are plenty of books that make metaphors of monsters, but RING SHOUT names its horrors without flinching. ![]() ![]() But Daniel soon realizes that fairytales don’t exist, and unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn’t guarantee their happily ever after…it only further threatens it. One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. Moments like that with girls like her don’t happen outside of fairytales. When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect. Read more Print length 1 pages Language English Publisher Recorded Books, Inc. But it is only in loving Sky that he can finally begin to heal himself. But this love has conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe. In Losing Hope, Holder reveals the way in which the events of Sky' s youth affected him and his family, leading him to seek his own redemption in the act of saving her. ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after.Ī chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. This book can also be read as a standalone. ![]() ![]() ![]() His literary breakthrough came in 1890 with Hunger – a book that many regard as one of the most important novels of Norwegian and European literary history. ![]() With his literary pursuit of the unconscious life of the mind, of “the meanderings of thoughts and feelings in the blue”, he was to achieve recognition as one of the first great modernists in European literary history. The landscape and environment in Nordland became the source of many of his stories.īut Hamsun was a vagabond on earth. ![]() Hamsun left Nordland when he was 20 but returned to Hamarøy as an established author, living at Skogheim farm from 1911 to 1917 with his wife Marie and their children. Hamarøy became Hamsun’s childhood realm: here he grew up, and here the feeling of home took root – patriotism on a small scale. Three years later the family moved to Hamarøy in Nordland. Knut Hamsun was born as Knud Pedersen in the Gudbrandsdalen district of Norway on 4 August 1859. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An intricate, masterful page-turner about politics, treachery, religion, love and healing." - Kirkus, starred review * "Brimming with powerful emotions, thrilling sword fights, and accurate period detail, this tightly plotted tale will enthrall readers of romantic historical fantasy." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "Personal where Grave Mercy was political and comprehensive, this story focuses tightly on Sybella as she seeks vengeance upon the many men who have wronged her. ![]() It's a place where history mingles with mystery and love is never expected." - Booklist, starred review * "The prose's beauty inspires immediate re-reads of many a sentence, but its forward momentum is irresistible. * "LaFevers is that wonderful sort of storyteller who so completely meshes events, descriptions, and characters that readers get lost in the world she's concocted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() aside from the incongruously English dubbed version of Kerity (the sister sounds like a digitized Brit and the parents seemed stocked with awkward dialogue). Despite Rebecca Dautremer’s renown, I sadly found very little mention of her in the U.S. The caveat to this imaginative inheritance is Nathaniel’s illiteracy which is relentlessly mocked by his bratty sister and the impending collapse of his aunt’s dilapidated house. ![]() Kerity, directed by Dominique Monféry, is about a young boy named Nathaniel who inherits his aunt’s library and the real life stories contained within the books. Dautremer has recently brought her design talents and also her love of folklore to life in the animated salute to storytelling entitled Kerity: La Maison des Contes (the English title is Eleanor’s Secret). ![]() She has worked on such children’s book titles as The Secret Lives of Princesses and collaborated with her husband, author Taï-Marc Le Thanh, on an adaptation of the notorious child-napping ogress of Slavic-lore, Babayaga. Il etait aussi tres amoureux de Roxane, sa cousine, qui, elle, etait amoureuse de Christian. Quand il fumait, il se brulait toujours le bout du nez, mais quand la pluie tombait, sa moustache netait jamais mouillee. Dautremer has a legacy as an illustrator with a soft spot for fairytales touched by a sense of humor. Ta-Marc Le Thanh, Rbecca Dautremer (Illustrator) 4.21. The art of French illustrator Rebecca Dautremer is like stepping through paper windows into miniature, rouge accented worlds of wonder. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Bean Quartet"/"Shadow Quartet" ( Ender's Shadow combined with "Shadow Trilogy"), also referred to as: "Shadow Trilogy": Original set of sequels to Ender's Shadow, also referred to as: "Ender Quintet" ("Ender Quartet" combined with Ender in Exile). "Ender Quartet" ( Ender's Game combined with "Speaker Trilogy"), also referred to as: "Speaker Trilogy": Original set of sequels to Ender's Game, also referred to as: ^ a b Note on the following (maybe not yet so common) Trilogies:. ![]() Last part of Ender in Exile (1/3) takes places after Shadow of the Giant. First part of Ender in Exile (2/3) takes place during the Shadow Trilogy. ![]() "Colours" is a war story set in roughly Napoleonic times. Instead it settles for being a story about petty office politics, with quickly forgettable characters. ![]() "How the Morning Glory Grows" could have been a steampunk police procedural about steampunk mecha and genetic engineering experts. The story of "No, They Dream of Mechanical Hearts" survives because of villains who aren't ruthless enough to press their case - or clever enough to recognise the implications of imprisoning an expert android crafter in a cell guarded by an android. "Morrow's Knight" takes a while to build up steam - a major strike against a short story, which does not have time to do that - and quickly becomes predictable. It isn't a story it's just a single long scene interrupted by musings. While it has a richly researched world with interesting characters, the story has neither conflict nor any sense of dynamism. The opening story,"'Ascension", is fundamentally static. I honestly expected more from this anthology. These stories also employ tired tropes, like blatantly stupid villains, stereotypical sneering hypocritical Westerners, and characters who are invincible by virtue of being mechanical. ![]() That would work in mainstream fiction, but some stories here are not, and fall flat because of it. The stories are all mellow, as smooth and pleasant as the cover. The novelty of the effort - a Singaporean steampunk anthology, with a mainly-female crew, covering imperialism and Asia - outweighs the actual experience of the stories. ![]() |