![]() ![]() Rhodes always tells a smashing story, and this is no exception. Written in alternating perspectives that shift between modern-day Toronto and the ancient kingdoms of Mytica, Rhodes delivers a rich and suspensful series opener that will leave readers breathless. Crys is guilt-ridden, having witnessed the entire event, and vows to do whatever is necessary to save her… but from what? Nothing has prepared them for what’s in store. ![]() Two parallel worlds collide and Becca is left in a catatonic state after her spirit is snatched from modern-day Toronto back to the ancient world of Mytica. Thinking it's nothing more than run-of-the-mill inventory, Becca opens it and removes the book inside, unwittingly triggering an ancient magic and intertwining their fates with the powers that flow from the mysterious leather-bound book. It's a relatively uneventful after-school job, until an package arrives addressed to her mother, Julia. The lives of Toronto teens Crystal and Becca Hatcher revolve around helping their mother out at the family's used bookstore, The Speckled Muse. New York Times bestselling author Morgan Rhodes takes readers into exhilarating new high-fantasy territory with A BOOK OF SPIRITS AND THIEVES, an epic contemporary saga perfect for fans of Sarah J. ![]() “A modern day Outlander filled with adventure and danger…a breathless tale that only Morgan Rhodes could tell.”-Hypable ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Michelle Mankin – Strange Magic Part I, IIĪ rock star, a mysterious woman and a little bit of strange magic. Sparks fly as Lexi and Ryan race against time to save the world from long forgotten demons.Īnika finds herself battling a volatile spell, where all bets are off, and magic will fly. ![]() Pepper’s world is set on its axis when she discovers she’s fated to be with Connall, her very own immortal Viking. Having inherited the estate of her Great-Aunt Alice, Becky soon finds the mysterious Frippe House is hiding some dark secrets.Ĭan Somnus and Lailani’s hearts be mended? Or will it be too late to heal the wounds that have scarred them both?īorn a prince of the underworld, Eric can’t escape his legacy after his father is murdered and all hell breaks loose around him. Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep, that is when the assassins come out to play.Ĭhazma wants revenge against the dark sorcerer who slaughtered her parents–but will Jethro McBain get in her way? Who knew an actual soul existed beneath the skin of this monster I let myself become. Passion heats up between a dangerous rogue and the angel he was meant to save…or destroy. Men that change into dragons and dead men wielding knives was NOT the weekend Kyndel had planned. 20 Hot-As-Hell stories from your favorite USA Today best selling and award-winning authors just in time for Halloween! All proceeds to benefit The Epilepsy Foundation!ĭeath’s big business. ![]() ![]() Irene is as mean as she is beautiful, so Scottie makes a point to keep her distance. ![]() High school nemeses fall in love in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy, a queer YA rom com perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Casey McQuiston.Īfter an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. ![]() ![]() “A little sweet, a little sharp.” - Booklist, starred review ![]() ![]() ![]() The I realized it was Manly Wade Wellman’s birthday (b. It’s been a while since I posted anything, and so I was going to do an update. Manly Wade Wellman’s “The Finger of Halugra” This entry was posted in birthday, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Manly Wade Wellman, Weird Tales and tagged birthday, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Manly Wade Wellman, Weird Tales on by Keith West. ![]() If you haven’t figured it out by now, Wellman is a favorite around these here parts, so in honor of his birth, in addition to raising a glass in his honor later this evening, I’m going to look at three of his stories that feature the same character, Sergeant Jaeger. Wellman’s stories were among the first I read when I picked up an issue with his name on the cover. Someone who had had a subscription had sold an almost complete run to the local second hand bookstore when I was in high school. He had a number of stories published there in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. I first discovered Wellman’s short stories in the pages of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. But he wrote a lot of other things, as well. ![]() Wellman is best remembered for his stories of the John the Balladeer, set in the Appalachian mountains. ![]() Today, May 21, marks the birth of Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986). ![]() ![]() ![]() In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self.įitzgerald’s memoir-in-essays begins with a childhood that moves at breakneck speed from safety to violence, recounting an extraordinary pilgrimage through trauma to self-understanding and, ultimately, acceptance. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents’ lives-or so he was told. ![]() He’s been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. A TIME Best Book of the Summer * A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick * A Publishers Weekly Best Memoir of the Season * A Buzzfeed Book Pick * A Goodreads Readers’ Most Anticipated Book * A Chicago Tribune Book Pick * A Book You Should Read * A Los Angeles Times Book to Add to Your Reading List ![]() ![]() ![]() Her decisions have the power to change her fate-and the fate of time itself.Įverless takes the title for debut YA Fantasy that surprised the hell outta me in a very good way! I read a TON of YA Fantasy & it’s been increasingly difficult to find ones that keep me invested in the story start to finish. ![]() Soon she’s caught in a tangle of violent secrets and finds her heart torn between two people she thought she’d never see again. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever.īut going back to Everless brings more danger-and temptation-than Jules could have ever imagined. ![]() A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings’ palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency-extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one’s own lifespan. *Thank you HarperTeen, Edelweiss, and Sara Holland for the early review copy in exchange for my honest opinion ![]() ![]() ![]() They aren’t portrayed as poor because they are lazy or have an addiction or whatever. I liked that Ramona’s family was so loving and just doing the best they can with what they have. By that I mean, the residents and Ramona were really portrayed with humanity. One thing I truly enjoyed was that it lacked all that sanctimonious I am privileged bullshit in depicting the trailer park. And I would recommend it over and over again. Meanwhile, Ramona’s sister Hattie is pregnant. ![]() Then a blast from the past, Freddie, comes back into her life and she starts to have feelings for him too and question her sexuality. So, Ramona is into girls and she strictly thinks that is it for her. Anyways, her parents ended up splitting and it is now Ramona, her sister Hattie, and her father who live together in a trailer in a park. Their mother works at a casino and flits in and out of their lives. Granted, for her it was Hurricane Katrina and she was five years old. Ramona Blue is about this girl named Ramona whose life, much like Alexander Hamilton’s, changed when a hurricane came. Bless audiobooks you guys because I finally listened to Ramona Blue and it was as special and excellent as I predicted and hoped it would be. It also was just looking at me from my Overdrive wishlist. The catalyst for reading Ramona Blue was basically that it was staring me in the face on the shelf by my bed. ![]() Sorry but if you didn’t like Dumplin I don’t even know how to talk to you as a person. ![]() Honestly, all of Julie Murphy’s books are treasures. Why Did I Listen To Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy? ![]() ![]() COVER FEATURES TEXTILE DESIGN BY ELZA SUNDERLAND ‘It is snortingly funny in its depiction of the death throes of a relationship. This is Nora Ephron’s (screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle) roman a clef: ‘I always thought during the pain of the marriage that one day it would make a funny book,’ she once said. Heartburn is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and most satisfyingly revenge. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. The fact that this woman has a ‘neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb’ is no consolation. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. ![]() ‘I kept a copy of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn next to me as a reminder of how to be funny and truthful, and all I ended up doing was ignoring my writing and rereading Heartburn’ AMY POEHLER Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel’ NIGELLA LAWSON ‘I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other. ![]() 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY STANLEY TUCCI ![]() ![]() ![]() Plan Your VisitĮxperience the world of Ray Bradbury for yourself. The broader collection of papers includes manuscripts, typescripts, screenplay and teleplay drafts, story concepts, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks with original drawings and printed comic strips from his youth, and ephemera he collected documenting his travels, and more.Īlso preserved is Bradbury’s original furniture, including his writing desk, paint table, bookshelves, and chairs. The contents of Ray Bradbury’s office and library include more than 100,000 pages of published and unpublished literary works stored in thirty-one of the author’s filing cabinets, forty years of his personal and professional correspondence (over 10,000 pages), author’s copies of his books, including extensive foreign language editions, and his working library (a combined 4,000 volumes). ![]() Located on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Museum features its recreation of Ray Bradbury’s basement office and library as it evolved in his Los Angeles, California, home for more than half a century. Explore the legacy of Bradbury through his vast works, manuscripts, artifacts, and much more. ![]() ![]() Discuss the idea of determining one’s own future versus the idea of one’s future being predetermined.Ĥ. Is one human life more valuable than another? Explain.ģ. To what extent should someone go to save a loved one?Ģ. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba’s unrelenting search for Lugh stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.īlood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetic writing style, and an epic love story-making Moira Young is one of the most exciting new voices in teen fiction. ![]() Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the outside world, Saba discovers she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. But when four cloaked horsemen capture Lugh, Saba's world is shattered, and she embarks on a quest to get him back. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. ![]() The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. ![]() The book that will “blow you away”** has a dazzling new look in paperback! ![]() |