The demon king seven realms6/7/2023 It was SO GOOD going back and starting this series again. What seems safest on its face may not be in the long run.” The Seven Realms tremble when the lives of Hans and Raisa collide, fanning the flames of the smoldering war between clans and wizards. She aspires to be like Hanalea-the legendary warrior queen who killed the Demon King and saved the world. Raisa wants to be more than an ornament in a glittering cage. She's just returned to court after three years of freedom in the mountains-riding, hunting, and working the famous clan markets. Meanwhile, Raisa ana'Marianna, princess heir of the Fells, has her own battles to fight. With a magical piece that powerful at stake, Han knows that the Bayars will stop at nothing to get it back. Soon Han learns that the amulet has an evil history-it once belonged to the Demon King, the wizard who nearly destroyed the world a millennium ago. Han takes an amulet from Micah Bayar, son of the High Wizard, to keep him from using it against them. One day, Han and his clan friend, Dancer, confront three young wizards setting fire to the sacred mountain of Hanalea. They're clearly magicked-as he grows, they grow, and he's never been able to get them off. The only thing of value he has is something he can't sell-the thick silver cuffs he's worn since birth. Reformed thief Han Alister will do almost anything to eke out a living for his family. Times are hard in the mountain city of Fellsmarch.
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The paying guests by sarah waters6/7/2023 It is this prose and its transitory feminine perspective that Waters offers a pastiche of in The Paying Guests, using as her starting point the characteristic predicament of a genteel household of women driven by necessity to let out rooms in their large and now – father and brothers being dead – half-empty Camberwell villa. This style might be described as the attempt to depict the loss of propriety while remaining proper, and the result was some exquisitely tortured and distinctive prose that did not age well and consequently has been undervalued – though never entirely neglected. Writers such as Elizabeth Bowen and Elizabeth Taylor could use the domestic novel to grapple with the intricacies of a broken civilisation and the reconfiguring of gender and social roles it entailed. This was also a period in which a new kind of literary realism was born, in particular a female style, as a result of the loss of men and male authority and values. S et in London in the 1920s, Sarah Waters' sixth novel concerns itself with the transitional social world of postwar Britain, and with the new forms of licence, mobility and self-definition to which the smashed civic order was giving rise as the old constraints of class and gender fell away. Nothing like this great work had ever been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in Promontory Peak, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined.Īmbrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men - the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary - who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation. In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot - the end of the track. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, living off buffalo, deer, and antelope. At its peak, the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line. government pitted two companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads - against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life. Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage. In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Love Under Quarantine by Kylie Scott6/7/2023 “Kylie Scott and Audrey Carlan weave a charming and witty romance into a confusing and stressful real-life scenario and the result is magic. Through a sexy, hopeful, strangers-to-lovers romance, the authors prove with love, trust, and faith, we can conquer anything. While the world is ravaged by a global pandemic, hotshot NFL running back Evan Sparks is locked in his own personal hell. Writing together for the first time, New York Times bestselling authors Kylie Scott and Audrey Carlan team up to tell a story that not only is a beautiful escape during a trying time, but a true lesson on the power of humanity’s ability to survive. They quickly figure out that as long as they have one another, they can handle anything. The pair of loners, never expecting to find a friend in all the madness, meet each day out on their balconies like a modern-day Romeo and Juliet.Įach new day brings unique challenges for the pair as they navigate the unknown and find solace together. An example of Coronavirus Themed Romance Fiction - Love Under Quarantine by Kylie Scott and Audrey Carlan Title (Dublin Core) Description (Dublin Core). Romance writer Sadie Walsh is having the worst case of writer’s block ever…until the incredible, muscular stranger staying next door gets her muse going strong. With a career-ending scandal on his back, Evan hides out in his best friend’s empty San Francisco home, the full city shutdown locking him in a lonely twenty-story apartment in the sky. While the world is ravaged by a global pandemic, hotshot NFL running back Evan Sparks is locked in his own personal hell. A field guide to american houses6/7/2023 The illustrated story of why our houses-great and humble and everything in between-look the way they do." Angela Serratore, The New York Times Magazine It’s alive, noisy-and demands our close attention.” That conversation, in which the most mundane elements of building design are cast as characters in the story of a city, turns the streetscape into something greater than the brick and limestone it’s made of. It’s also useful to those of us who study preservation professionally, to bring our insistence that buildings are just as alive as plants-and just as worthy of careful, affectionate attention-into the broader cultural conversation about urban spaces. McAlester’s book is excellent for the layperson who wants to wander about the neighborhood with a bit more authority, or perhaps for the homeowner who can’t decide what kind of windows might look best. “The most authoritative dictionary of the language spoken by the built environment. A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture Joan crawford mummy dearest6/6/2023 If her purpose were to hurt me, she has already accomplished it without going to the trouble of writing a book." I don’t think my adopted daughter is writing this book just to hurt me. I think this book will be full of lies and twisted truths. Per an excerpt in Vanity Fair, Joan is quoted as having said: “I think she’s using my name strictly to make money. And, this seems to be another example of the FX series drawing from real life, because Charlotte Chandler's 2008 biography on Joan, Not The Girl Next Door, alleged that Joan really did know about her daughter's book. But the finale of Feud claims that Joan Crawford knew about Mommie Dearest before its publication. Christina Crawford's memoir Mommie Dearest was published a year after the death of its subject, her adoptive mother. A kiss before dying book review6/6/2023 Since Daddy is the moralistic disinheriting type, our protagonist figures a kid before they are properly married and he's had time to work his charms and soften the old man up will just ruin everything. Except she goes and gets pregnant before his plan can come to fruition. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.Ī Kiss Before Dying is a taut little thriller about a sociopath who conceives an ingenuous plan to seduce the daughter of a wealthy copper baron. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder. The solution may demand desperate measures. Her name is Dorothy she loves him, and she's pregnant. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing-not even murder-to get where he wants to go. A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Kinsella love your life6/6/2023 As their fantasy starts to fade, they discover just how different their personal worlds are. Things seem to be perfect for Aria and Dutch.īut then their real identities-Ava and Matt-must return to London. The two embark on a baggage-free, whirlwind love affair, cliff-jumping into gem-colored Mediterranean waters and exploring the splendor of the Italian coast. When the neighboring martial arts retreat is canceled and a few of its attendees join their small writing community, Ava, now going by “Aria,” meets “Dutch,” a man who seems too good to be true. She’s determined to finish writing the novel she’s been fantasizing about, even though it means leaving her close-knit group of friends and her precious dog, Harold, behind.Īt the retreat, she’s not allowed to use her real name or reveal any personal information. So after a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers’ retreat in coastal Italy. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”-Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your LoverĬall Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher, an utterly delightful novel about a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer’s retreat in Italy-only to find that real love comes with its own filters Zarafa by Michael Allin6/6/2023 The young Nubian giraffe was captured by Arab hunters near Sennar in Sudan and first taken by camel, then sailed by felucca on the Blue Nile to Khartoum. The giraffe known today as Zarafa was one among a series of diplomatic gifts exchanged between Charles X of France and the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha, to enhance their relationship. She didn't receive the name "Zarafa" until 1985. These were the first giraffes to be seen in Europe for over three centuries, since the Medici giraffe was sent to Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence in 1486. A gift from Muhammad Ali of Egypt to King Charles X of France, she was one of three giraffes Muhammad Ali sent to European rulers in 1827. Zarafa (January 1824 – 12 January 1845) was a female Nubian giraffe who lived in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris for 18 years. Study of the Giraffe Given to Charles X by the Viceroy of Egypt (1827) by Nicolas Huet the Younger, also showing the groom who would look after her for eighteen years Together they wrote at least one film script for student production, "Lavinia: a Girl of the Street", which demonstrated Esther's trademark tongue-in-cheek style. While at Vassar, she became friendly with Paula Volsky and Jane Bishop. At Vassar, she completed B.A.s in both Spanish and Drama. Life įriesner attended the Hunter College High School, a public magnet high school in New York City, as well as Vassar College. This humor allows her to discuss with broader audiences about issues like gender equality and social justice. She is best known for her humorous style of writing, both in the titles and the works themselves. Friesner at RavenCon16 in Richmond VA in 2023Įsther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner (born July 16, 1951) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. |