![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Were they evil incarnate, or merely a divine check on the population, keeping humanity from expanding past the capacity of the Ship to support? Of course, there were the muties, grotesquely deformed parodies of humans, who lurked in the upper reaches of the Ship, where gravity was weaker. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the universe, and as long as the sacred Converter was fed, the lights would continue to glow, the air would flow, and the Creator's Plan would be fulfilled. But he also understood this was just allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Some are darkly humorous-two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids’ backpacks-while others are devastatingly poignant. Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection.Įach captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. In one of the season’s most acclaimed works of fiction-longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the PEN Open Book Award-Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers “a firecracker of a book.a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingenious” ( Financial Times). Included in Best Books of 2018 Lists from Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated. * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize* *Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize* ![]() ![]() ![]() But when an unexpected arrival threatens Rhage and Mary's new family, he finds himself back in the trenches again, fighting against a destiny that will destroy all he holds most dear.Īs Axe's past becomes known, and fate seems to be turning against Rhage, both males must reach deep - and pray that love, rather than anger, will be their lantern in the darkness. ![]() Rhage, the Brother with the biggest heart, knows all about self-punishing, and he wants to help Axe reach his full potential. But as they delve deeper into her cousin's death, and their physical connection grows into so much more, Axe fears that the secrets he keeps and his tortured conscience will tear them apart. ![]() When an aristocratic female needs a bodyguard, Axe takes the job, though he's unprepared for the animal attraction that flares between him and the one he is sworn to protect.įor Elise, who lost her first cousin to a grisly murder, Axe's dangerous appeal is enticing - and possibly a distraction from her grief. ![]() Among the new recruits, Axe proves to be a cunning and vicious fighter - and also a loner isolated because of personal tragedy. The Black Dagger Brotherhood continues to train the best of the best to join them in the deadly battle against the Lessening Society. Ward returns with an all-new tale of paranormal passion in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. ![]() ![]() She is also a producer on a web series called With Friends Like These. On stage, she has participated in various theatre projects including a play called Becoming Cuba. She has worked with 4Kids Entertainment, NYAV Post, Media Blasters, Nickelodeon, Central Park Media and DuArt Film & Video. In animation, she has performed in Huntik, Viva Piñata, Regal Academy and Winx Club. ![]() In anime, she voiced title characters in Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart, Ojamajo Doremi and Outlanders. ![]() Rebecca Soler has voiced several audiobooks, her most notable being The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer. She lives near Tacoma, Washington, with her husband and twin daughters. In addition to writing, Marissa hosts The Happy Writer podcast. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University and a MA in Publishing from Pace University. Marissa Meyer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles, Heartless, The Renegades Trilogy and Instant Karma, as well as the graphic novel duology Wires and Nerve. ![]() ![]() Beatrice "Tris" Prior starts the series as a 16-year-old girl in search of her identity. The Divergent trilogy follows one such person. Anyone who doesn’t fit into a faction is a threat to society. In a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago, citizens are defined by their factions, affiliations that separate people into personality-based classes: Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). One choice will define you.” Veronica Roth’s thrilling young adult dystopian series Divergent is all about the choices that define us, the paths we choose to take, and the consequences of what we leave behind. ![]() Enter a rigidly structured dystopian world and follow the saga of a girl who dares to make a choice for herself. ![]() ![]() He becomes bored and explores their new basement, in which appears scrolls bearing a captivating history of a land called Alleble. The Door Within begins after a family has moved, and their son, Aidan Thomas, is upset about leaving friends and familiar surroundings. ![]() It is the first in the Door Within trilogy, written by Wayne Thomas Batson. The Door Within is an allegorical semi-contemporary Christian fantasy fiction in which are many moral themes. Against all odds Aidan pulls off a victorious strategy, and with the help of King Eliam, destroys the army of Paragory. Now Aidan finds himself alone, battling hoards of the enemy and seeking out a deadly creature called a Mortiwraith. Already there are some of the enemy's knights hoping to convince the city to join their master, Paragor. Called by King Eliam to be the twelfth knight on an expedition to Mitheguard, Aidan and his glimpse friend Gwenne finally reach the city after being separated from the company by a Tempest. After Aidan reads the scrolls he enters the door within and starts off on some amazing adventures. ![]() ![]() ![]() A world of knights, glimpses and strange beasts. That's how Aidan Thomas feels after the surprise move from Maryland to Colorado, everything he knows is now on the other side of the country, this is what led him to explore his grandfathers basement one summer day, in it he finds three scrolls with a wonderful story of another world, called The Realm. ![]() ![]() Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. ![]() When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school's Family Weekend, she isn't looking for a hookup - it just happens. " Wilsner writes] erotic yearning in a class all their own." - Entertainment Weeklyįrom Meryl Wilsner, the acclaimed author of Something to Talk About, comes Mistakes Were Made, a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend's mom. This reader hopes Wilsner keeps these scorchers coming." - The Washington Post ![]() Cassie and Erin's romance is by turns delightfully raunchy and deeply emotional. "This blazing-hot forbidden romance manages to sensibly, and compassionately, capture the complexities of starting adult life after college and finding love and your identity in middle age. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pagan elements utilized for their creepy and mythopoeic presence more than outright horror, the resulting story is Robert Johnson standing at the crossroads of British folk. "Elizabeth Hand’s Wylding Hall is not only beautifully written, but also a story about the essences of an age past that still haunt the bucolic reaches of England’s countryside. Now, years later, each of the surviving musicians, their friends and lovers (including a psychic, a photographer, and the band’s manager) meets with a young documentary filmmaker to tell his or her own version of what happened during that summer - but whose story is the true one? And what really happened to Julian Blake? There they record the classic album that will make their reputation - but at a terrifying cost, when Julian Blake, their lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen again. ![]() After the tragic and mysterious death of one of their founding members, the young musicians in a British acid-folk band hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with its own dark secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() The drumbeat of change thrums throughout the world. THE FINAL STRIFE is Saara El-Arifis debut novel, the first part of a trilogy inspired by Ghanaian folklore and Arabian myths. US FOR THE SEQUEL IN THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES, THE BATTLE DRUM. The three women find their answers, but they're not the answers they wanted. 4.47 (80 ratings by Goodreads) Hardback The Final Strife English By (author) Saara El-Arifi. The Final Strife was Saara El-Arifis debut novel, the first part of a. ![]() Now, she must guard both her heart and her land. Her searching uncovers the extent of the atrocities of the empire's past and present. But in finding answers, she must make a decision, does she sacrifice her old life in order to raise up her sword once more? Hassa's web of secrets grows ever thicker as she finds herself on a trail of crimes in the city. Stockholmsbutiken Vsterlnggatan 48, 111 29 Stockholm E-mail: fragor. Sylah braves new lands to find a solution for the hurricane that threatens to destroy her home. The Final Strife Malm, Hmta i butik The Battle Drum Ls mer Butiker & nthandel. She must solve the mystery and clear her name without the support of her beloved, Sylah. But when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her reign is thrown into turmoil. Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens' Empire. The truth they find has the power to ignite a war. ![]() Three women seek the truth of the empire's past in the sequel to The Final Strife, the continuation of a visionary fantasy trilogy inspired by Africa and Arabia. The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling series continues… Murder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the past heroines have had more stereotypical “girly” interests, and I had a hard time relating sometimes. Will she and her team solve the clues and find the missing players? Or will betrayal and distrust win, leaving Alice alone in a world of her own? Follow the White Rabbit into this topsy-turvy fantasy where players become prey, a sip of the wrong tea might as well be poison, and a queen’s ways do not always lead one where they ought to go.Īlice was definitely a jog away from some of Sara Ella’s characters in the past. ![]() The stakes are raised when she discovers players go missing during the Trials each year. ![]() Now she has less than twenty-four hours to find her way into Wonderland where nothing is impossible. Soon, Alice receives a rather cryptic invitation to play for Team Heart in this year’s annual-and often deadly-Wonderland Trials. But she gets more than she bargained for when her older sister Charlotte is arrested for having the infamous Wonder Gene-the key to unlocking the curious Wonderland Reality. Survive the Trials.Īll Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. ![]() |