![]() The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. ![]() The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.īrought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. Her characters leap out of the audio, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. ![]() The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In steps her birth father's side of the family (who she's never met), the McCreadys.the McCreadys of the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop in small town Georgia-and as luck would have it, they're looking for an event planner and don't care about her reputation among the A-list crowd. With the lights about to be shut off in the trendy condo she can no longer afford, and her savings account dwindling, Margot's situation is near to desperate. That is, until an unfortunate incident involving a shrimp tower, live flamingos, and a shellfish allergy puts her on the black list of the rich and social and out of a job. No request is too extravagant for her to execute with trademark perfection. Type-A Margot Cary is the leading event planner for the crème de la crème of Chicago high society. From beloved romance author Molly Harper ( Half-Moon Hollow and The Nice Girls series) comes the first title in her new rom-com women's fiction series, Southern Eclectic, which features the lives, losses and loves of the McCready family as they manage their family's generational funeral home and bait shop (you read that correctly) on the shore of picturesque Lake Sackett, Georgia. ![]() ![]() ![]() As such, the story of human life in the Americas before the conquest is largely unknown. However, these cultures cover only small regions and brief glimpses into time. There are notable exceptions: the Maya, the Aztecs, and, perhaps, the Inka, though their khipus have not yet been decoded. Pre-Columbus America is often described as "prehistoric" - because historians rely on written records, and, for the most part, such records were not generated by Indians / people who lived in the Western hemisphere. All I can say is I'm glad I eventually looked past the naff cover. It's also a book that tends to have unimpressive covers, both in the US and the UK editions. In particular, what the people, cultures and human ways of living were like (though animals and nature get a bit of a mention, too). 1491 is a book trying to give an overview of current thinking about what America was like before Columbus arrived. ![]() ![]() Unlike Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast, Beach was not mean spirited, nor was she self-obsessed as Gertrude Stein demonstrated herself to be in The Autobiography of Alice B. ![]() While not at all literary - Beach had no pretensions to be a writer and in the memoir describes herself as a "plain reader" - the work comes across as honest and heartfelt. During that period, her store was a hub for expatriate writers including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fizgerald and, most signficantly, James Joyce. Beach was an American woman who operated an English language lending library and bookstore called Shakespeare & Company on Paris' Left Bank from 1919 to 1941*. ![]() The third book read in my project to learn more about literary expatriates in 1920s and 1930s Paris, Sylvia Beach's memoir was in many ways the most enjoyable reading experience to date. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She tries the food on the biggest shell, but quickly finds it too crunchy. "YOU NEVER KNOW WHO MAY LIVE THERE!"īut Kinira is enchanted by the little house, especially the meal set forth, with three charming shell plates waiting for someone. But their home soon has an unexpected visitor.Ī dark-tressed mermaid, Kinira, soon swims by, with her pet pufferfish Puffy, and she has no compunctions about swimming uninvited into the lovely little shell house. ![]() UNDER THE SEA, THE OCTOPUS FAMILY GOT READY FOR A SWIM BEFORE BREAKFAST.īaby Octopus's floppy hat is clamped firmly down on his head, as Mama Okasan and Papa Otosan leave their meal waiting inside the cozy undersea house and set out for their morning constitutional. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The danger of being caught doing something possibly illegal and so indecent.Įxploring issues of class, sex, and gender, this smart, sexy debut by Corinne Sullivan shatters the black-and- white nature of victimhood, taking a close look at blame and moral ambiguity. The danger of losing herself in the wrong person. ![]() Exploring issues of class, sex, and gender, this smart, sexy debut by Corinne. Who is this boy who flirts with her without fear of being caught? Who is this boy who seems immune to consequences and worry a boy for whom the world will always provide?Īs an obsessive, illicit affair begins between them, Imogene is so lost in the haze of first love that she's unable to recognize the danger she's in. The danger of being caught doing something possibly illegal and so indecent. When Imogene meets handsome, popular Adam Kipling a few weeks into her tenure there, a student who exudes charm and status and ease, she's immediately drawn to him. ![]() So, shortly after her college graduation, when she’s offered a teaching position at the Vandenberg School for Boys, an all-boys prep school in Westchester, New York, she immediately accepts, despite having little teaching experience-and very little experience with boys. Shy, introverted Imogene Abney has always been fascinated by the elite world of prep schools, having secretly longed to attend one since she was a girl in Buffalo, New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is a story that leaves the reader gasping in shock and sadness, dry-mouthed and damp-eyed, dragging in air as the final chapters detonate. Cogdill wrote in the Florida Sun-Sentinel that “Derek Nikitas proves that he doesn’t write conventional crime fiction nor does he write conventionally.” And a stellar review in the Washington Post began with these lines: “Here is a book to scorch the heart and freeze the blood. ![]() Marilyn Stasio said in the New York Times that Nikitas’ second novel “bumps up the style requirements for writing crime fiction another notch.” Oline H. Derek Nikitas is the author of two novels: Pyres, nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and The Long Division, which was released last fall to extraordinary reviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() View your current crisis as a faith builder for the future.Stay calm and confident, and give God time to work.Acknowledge your enemy, but keep your eyes on the Lord.Realize that God means for you to be where you are.In The Red Sea Rules, readers will learn strategies to: Just as Moses and the Israelites became trapped between Pharaoh's rushing armies and the uncrossable Red Sea, so are we sometimes overwhelmed by life's problems. Using the Israelites' story in Exodus 14 as an example, Robert Morgan offers ten sound strategies for moving from fear to faith. ![]() As The Red Sea Rules makes comfortingly clear, He is in control. But just as certain is the fact that the same God who led us in will lead us out. ![]() It is certain that we will face difficulties and that God will allow them. Red Sea Rules has been updated with new study questions. Bestselling author Robert Morgan offers ten strategies for dealing with hard times and discouragements in order to move from fear to faith-a divine protocol for handling life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The viceroy's tribute was politically motivated: He commanded the Turkish forces then fighting the Greeks in their war of independence, and hoped his gift would persuade the French not to intervene against him. In the spring of 1827, after wintering in Marseille, she was carefully walked 550 miles to Paris to the delight of thousands of onlookers. ![]() A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from where she had sailed across the Mediterranean standing in the hold, her long neck and head protruding through a hole cut in the deck. In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. ![]() ![]() ![]() You think you're having a bad day? Max is trapped in the same deadly sandstorm that buried the fifty thousand-strong army of the Pharaoh Cambyses II, and she's sharing the only available shelter for miles around with the murdering psychopath who recently kidnapped her and left her adrift in time. Mary's Institute (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for tea. Markham, and many more-as they travel through time, saving St. Mary's tells the chaotic adventures of Madeleine Maxwell and her compatriots-Director Bairstow, Leon "Chief" Farrell, Mr. Just don't call it "time travel"-these historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. ![]() Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. ![]() The eighth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.īehind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. ![]() |