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Kill the queen by jennifer estep7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() When a series of deadly attacks shatters the Summit’s peaceful negotiations, Gemma realizes that someone wants to tear the royals down from their thrones-and that this enemy just might succeed. Gladiator meets Game of Thrones: a royal woman becomes a skilled warrior to destroy her murderous cousin, avenge her family, and save her kingdom in this first entry in a dazzling fantasy epic from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Elemental Assassin seriesan enthralling tale that combines magic. Despite her best intentions, Gemma once again finds herself thrown together with Leo and battling her growing feelings for the enemy prince. Gemma knows that Maeven always has a long game in motion, and sure enough, the cunning queen invokes an arcane tradition that threatens the fragile truce between Andvari and the other kingdoms. ![]() Among the other royals in attendance is Queen Maeven Morricone of Morta and her son, Prince Leonidas-Gemma’s charming and dangerous nemesis. Gemma’s quest for answers leads her to a trade Summit between the various kingdoms. Gemma Ripley of Andvari is all those things-and determined to stop an enemy from using magical tearstone weapons to conquer her kingdom. Bestselling author Jennifer Estep continues her Gargoyle Queen epic fantasy series where magic reigns, alliances are tested, and a dangerous attraction could tear down a throne.Ĭrown princess. ![]()
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Jj abrams theseus7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() It can also be read as an annot=ated work in progress. ![]() There are library stamps and some slight foxing, all of it faked! This book can be read as a novel. Postcards, letters, bills even a compass. And then, most unusually, there are many inserts loosely laid in throughout the book. One is the annotations within the text remarks and clarifications, as if handwritten. It is doubly so! It is made to look as if it was published in 1949, and among other mysteries it is also faked up as a library book - from a fictitious library of course! Thus there are many deceptions going on. It is not only a straightforward work of fiction. I opened this extraordinary book to make certain it was a first edition what I did not realise was it is a truly fascinating and unique book imagined by J.J. ![]()
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The plague dogs book7/6/2023 ![]() Rowf and Snitter are not equipped to live as wild animals. That's when life gets really hard for them. When carelessness by the animal care man gives them an opportunity, they break out of their pens and subsequently out of the facility via the heating system. ![]() The two dogs, living in adjoining pens, have become friends, and share their experiences: Rowf is daily nearly drowned in a tank of water, while Snitter has had brain surgery that breaks down the barrier between conscious and unconscious minds, and consequently has mad waking dreams. Rowf, a big, shaggy, black mongrel dog, and Snitter, a black and white fox terrier, are experimental animals at the Animal Research Station-Scientific & Experimental (A.R.S.E.) Rowf was born there, but Snitter once had a loving master and a happy home, until his master was struck by a lorry in an accident that Snitter blames himself for. ![]()
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The bourne ultimatum novel7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() From that point of view, yes, I guess, I am theatrical." I think it's all suspense and what-happens-next. He once remarked: "I equate suspense and good theater in a very similar way. ![]() His theatrical experience may have contributed to his understanding of the energy, escapism and action that the public wanted in a novel. From 1960 to 1970, he managed and produced shows at the Playhouse on the Mall at Bergen Mall in Paramus, New Jersey. In the 1950s, he produced shows at the Grant Lee theater in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Prior to becoming an author, he had been a United States Marine, a theatrical actor and producer. ![]() He was educated at the Rectory School then Cheshire Academy and Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he earned a B.A. ![]() Ludlum was born in New York City, the son of Margaret (née Wadsworth) and George Hartford Ludlum. Life and career Early life and education Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated between 300 million and 500 million. Robert Ludlum (– March 12, 2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series. ![]()
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Running the Books by Avi Steinberg7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Without so much as glancing at me, De Luca said: “No, no, no, no. I decided to try to defuse the situation. “I’m here for my class,” he said casually and proceeded to enter the room. His head shook as though it were about detonate. Officer De Luca appeared behind him, arms swinging, according to his style. Just then, the front door swung open and one of the inmates, Jason, strode in, looking straight ahead and perturbed. On a Wednesday afternoon, I was standing in front of the circulation desk, waiting for the inmates to file into the classroom. The class met every Monday and Wednesday in the back-back room of the library. In this passage, Steinberg reflects on the power dynamics within the prison.Īfter the rousing success of my creative writing class for women in the tower, I decided to inaugurate my class for men. An excerpt from his Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian appears below with permission. Avi Steinberg ’02 spent two years as the prison librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Readers of the previous books in the series will recall that the brothers – the eldest of whom is the Earl of Markham – haven’t had an easy time of it. A Warriner to Tempt Her, the third book in her Wild Warriners series, takes place around five years after the events of A Warriner to Rescue Her, and in it, we find Joseph – the third of the Warriner brothers – qualified as a doctor and working in Retford, not too far from the family home. In the three years or so that she’s been a published author, Virginia Heath has gone from strength to strength, having produced coming up for ten novels, all of which I’ve read, enjoyed and rated highly. Shall we take a moment or three to appreciate that cover? *sigh* I've given this an A- at AAR, so that's 4.5 stars rounded up. ![]()
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Blue flag manga volume 17/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() After reading the trashfire ending that was Ao no Flag’s story this was a nice needed refreshment of the subject matter. He is constantly reflecting throughout the book about all the situations past and future that he might have to deal with when it comes to gays and I think that's fantastic. The main MC that is the dad goes through honestly one of the most smooth, well paced character arcs of all time, being slow to realize his shortcomings of how he thinks of other people. It never becomes overly dramatic, overly happy, nothing because the whole manga is about acceptance and regret. ![]() Firstly, this story's situation setting is goddamn a work of genius, it allows for a perfectly melancholic tone which the author makes sure to never drive too far from. Otouto no Otto is the perfect homophoic introspection story, there is no annoying sense of being overdramatic, it handles all of its subject matters carefully and it does it in a very concise manner. Did you hate Ao no Flag horribly rushed ending arc? Do you want something much nicer pace and deals with being gay in Japan with a much more delicate and profound touch? Then do I have a recommendation for you. ![]()
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Sadie the book7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Sadie loved her more than anything.īut then Mattie died, age thirteen. So Sadie was taking care of Mattie, from when she herself was just six years old. They have lived with their mother, until she ran away when Mattie was ten. Sadie has been taking care of her little sister ever since she was born. I'm not going to say that much about what happens in this book. Brave and loving and just so very strong. And I am not sure I will ever forget about it. Despite this weird feeling in my stomach right now. ![]() Though I should say that I mostly feel ruined right now, after having finished this book. There is so much that I loved about this book. It shows her past and her present, how she is searching for a killer. Sadie is nineteen, her sister, Mattie, was thirteen. ![]() Sadie's part of the story is her journey, searching for the person who killed her little sister. But I loved reading about the radio show too. I have not read a book like this before, written in that way, and it was awesome to do so. And as a radio show, mostly told by a man named West. I very much loved the writing in this book. I felt that her All the Rage book was so important. I had hoped I would love Sadie, and I am so happy that I did so. She is all kinds of sweet, and her books are so good. I shall try my best to share the reasons for why I loved this book.įirst I will start by saying that I adore Courtney. ![]() Though I am not sure my heart will survive it. I did not know how much it would break me. I knew that this book would be heartbreaking. ![]()
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The Devil's Advocate by L.E. Parker7/4/2023 ![]() Al Pacino as Satan in The Devil’s Advocate, riding the New York subway, informing a man who has just pulled a knife on him that the man’s wife is at home, splayed merrily across their green bedspread and enjoying a crack orgy with his best friend (“You ain’t right, man,” says the rattled aggressor, backing off. His great themes, however, and his great scenes, go unremarked: George Clooney as Michael Clayton, at the end of his rope, receiving some silent and inexplicable dispensation from three horses on a pre-dawn hillside in Westchester, N.Y. Gilroy’s knack for plotting-perhaps the least of his gifts-is discussed at length, and he is allowed to talk some rather tedious Hollywood shop, bitching about directors and so on. Or is it simply that Max has no affection for Gilroy’s movies? His piece trundles us steadily through the Gilroy oeuvre, from Dolores Claiborne (Gilroy’s adaptation of a Stephen King novel) and The Devil’s Advocate (which he rewrote) to the Bourne trilogy (which he scripted), and then to Michael Clayton and this year’s Duplicity (both of which he wrote and directed). Max’s recent profile of writer-director Tony Gilroy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such, at least, must be the excuses for D.T. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() After the forced dissolution of the Vlaams Blok, the Vlaams Belang, finding a voice in these novels in the vocal group of like-minded individuals, used as the foundations of the party the grievances of those who were persecuted at the end of World War II. These types of novels continued to be published into the 1980s including Hugo Claus’s Het verdriet van België (The Sorrow of Belgium, 1983) and Louis-Paul Boon’s Hij was een zwarte (He Was a Collaborator, 1986). Novels such as Gerard Walschap’s Zwart en wit (Black and White, 1948) accused the Catholic teachers of brainwashing students to support overt nationalist thinking. ![]() But, for a particular group of nationalists, as more French-speakers vilified the collaborators, the myths of persecution grew eventually serving to strengthen the political platforms on the right. ![]() Those who had family members who collaborated were often ashamed of this history and, in general, there was a palpable loathing directed toward those who collaborated with the Nazi Party, no matter how altruistic those individuals believed their actions to be. After World War II ended, many of the Flemish wished to forget the history of collaboration. ![]() |