![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Leni grows up in the shadow of her parents' increasingly volatile marriage, she meets Matthew. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown. Caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, she dares to hope that Alaska will lead to a better future for her family, and a place to belong. Thirteen-year-old Leni is coming of age in a tumultuous time. You have to be willing to save yourselves. You can't count on anyone to save you and your children. A woman has to be tough as steel up here. The New York Times number one bestseller. Set against the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, from the bestselling author of The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I love an enemies-to-lovers romance, and this one is really well done. ![]() They both throw themselves into their work, and when Jess’s transfer to the FBI’s Chicago office sees her going straight into an undercover mission, they are both horrified to discover that they are now partners. Jessica is newly divorced after her marriage to a Hollywood producer fell apart due to her dedication to her job, and John’s long-term relationship has just gone up in flames for the same reason. Following misinterpreted motives and misunderstandings they became fierce competitors who couldn’t wait to see the back of each other at the completion of their training. John was a dedicated Army Ranger, the picture of the perfect soldier who flew through the physical aspects of the training, and Jessica was fresh out of law school and an academic wiz. John Shepherd and Jessica Harlow met while training to become FBI agents. I loved this book! Another smart, funny, sexy and romantic read from Ms James! ![]() ![]() ![]() He looks at the sky and sees “a half-moonĪnd what seemed like a trillion stars.” All those stars seem to match “the By the novel’sĮnd, Scott is very light indeed, his thoughts drifting toward the cosmic. The next thing that happens is that Scott loses weight even faster. The events of the Turkey Trot race do makeĪ large difference to Deirdre’s standing in the town. Infuriated by his presumption-the man still looks old, still looks fat-she The air), he gets to take her out to dinner and try to establish a real friendship. Scott gives Deirdre a wager: If he beats her (by this time he weighs under 100 pounds and almost leaps through Deirdre is aįormer competitive athlete, sure to win the race. Problem and the weight-loss conundrum work in tandem throughout Elevation, colliding finally in the fateful day of the Turkey Trot 12-kilometer run. Help them, if they won’t trust his friendship? In the town, which is affecting business at their joint, Frijole. Even worse, Deirdre and Missy are the object of some serious homophobia Stay away from her slightly more friendly wife. Deirdre especially isĮxtraordinarily rude to Scott, seemingly without reason, and she tells him to Up the road from Scott live a married couple, Deirdre McComb and Missy Donaldson, who own a restaurant in town. Scott and Bob are also flummoxed by another matter. ![]() Know whom to turn to besides his doctor and friend, Bob Ellis, who figures there’s no medical explanation for Scott’s condition. ![]() ![]() And yet, it would appear that some writers still think there is an audience for schlocky, over-the-top horror, usually printed in paperback and with titles usually of the form “The + gerund.” One of the most relentless of these is Brian Keene (b. 1967). ![]() Countless hacks sought to capitalise on the craze for horror by churning out novels by the hundreds-with the result that the “boom” died from this surfeit of mediocrity. ![]() The horror “boom” of the 1970s and 1980s was itself largely a pop culture phenomenon, and few of the endless array of novels generated during this period-even by such notables as Stephen King, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, and others-have any hope of surviving much beyond our time. Cave, and so on ad infinitum), Dennis Wheatley, and others. Reynolds, the pulpsters of the 1920s and 1930s (Seabury Quinn, Hugh B. This tendency continued throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with such writers as Thomas Rymer ( Varney the Vampire, 1847), George W. Lewis, Mary Shelley, and Charles Robert Maturin. ![]() ![]() We can, if we like, trace the origin of “popular” weird fiction to the Gothic novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a motley crew of hacks, wannabes, and imitators produced hundreds of utterly forgettable novels and tales that mimicked the genuine contributions of a few noteworthy writers, specifically Ann Radcliffe, M. ![]() ![]() Darcy plans to be in an aisle seat halfway across the ocean as soon as the renovations start, but before she can cut and run, she finds a familiar face on her porch: house-flipper extraordinaire Tom’s arrived, he’s bearing power tools, and he’s single for the first time in almost a decade. ![]() When Darcy and Jamie inherit a tumble-down cottage from their grandmother, they’re left with strict instructions to bring it back to its former glory and sell the property. That’s the problem with finding her dream man at age eight and peaking in her photography career at age twenty-ever since, she’s had to learn to settle for good enough. Despite Darcy’s best efforts, Tom’s off limits and loyal to her brother, 99%. She’s travelled the world, and can categorically say that no one measures up to Tom Valeska, whose only flaw is that Darcy’s twin brother Jamie saw him first and claimed him forever as his best friend. Darcy Barrett has undertaken a global survey of men. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She uses the Power on him to try and get answers to her questions. While there, he is found out to tinker with evidence by one of the Aes Sedai, Liandrin of the Red Ajah. Rand goes in search for Egwene, and knowing she used to visit Fain, he goes to the dungeons where he was held. Trollocs attack the town's keep, freeing Fain from the dungeons and taking with them the Horn of Valere and Mat's dagger. Moiraine convinces the Amyrlin, Siuan, that Rand must be allowed to go his own way, and that she will be there when he needs her. Any plans he had to leave are shelved when a contingent of Aes Sedai visit, the Amyrlin Seat among them. Rand has remained in Fal Dara, practicing the sword with Lan, even though he had said he would get as far away as possible. The book begins a few weeks after the end of The Eye of the World. ![]() ![]() ![]() You may not even like him by the time you finish this book, but I promise you will love him by the end of this series.Ībout the heroine: There is a chance, that you might think she’s a bit naïve, or weak, but then again who starts out as a badass? Badasses are a product of growth and I am going to put her through hell, and you get to watch her come up swinging every time I knock her on her ass. They are aggressive, assholes, one step above a caveman when we meet them. I write flawed, raw, caveman-like assholes that eventually let you see their redeeming qualities. Or will the past destroy me before I can save the people I love from what I’ve done.Ībout the hero: chances are you may not fall instantly in love with him, that’s because I don’t write men you instantly love you grow to love them. Will the one thing I can’t live without, be the key to destroying and undoing the past? How far will I be able to take it, or will he destroy me and everything I care about? ![]() The monster we’ve run from for centuries has found us. ![]() Our powers are locked by an ancient curse, one meant to protect us from being found. We found protection in the Colville National Forest, nestled in a town protected by magical barriers. We’ve avoided the ‘real world’ altogether hiding from monsters and other creatures we share this planet with. ![]() My coven has remained hidden in the shadows for centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, he has growing up to do and friendships to nurture, including those with the brooding Jackalope, enigmatic Karya and irrepressible (and unforgettable) Woad. For an unforeseen discovery in an art curator's office connects them to many mysterious and magical deeds - both good and evil - and forces the maturing young Robin to face his own history and all that entails.Īs he moves between the worlds, Robin must face the challenges of the Grimms, tackle a spider-wielding maniac, navigate the waterfall city of the Panthea and explore the many deadly secrets of the Netherworlde's darkest forests. When Robin's great aunt Irene takes him and fellow Fae Jackalope on a trip to London, it triggers a series of events that will place at least one of them in deadly peril. Robin Fellows, Scion of the Arcania, has a destiny to fulfil - along with an unruly faun to keep in check and many strange friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. ![]() Under Bartlett’s leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. ![]() The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Beautiful prose, thrilling action, a touch of romance, and two complicated heroes to root for make this a not-to-be-missed sequel. Readers will be pulled in by both the riveting mystery and Charlotte Holmes, a brilliant heroine with secrets of her own.” - Maureen Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of the Shades of London series But as the complicated lines of friendship, love, and loyalty blur, time is running out-and tragedy waits in the wings. When Watson and Holmes join the theater program, the “accidents” start anew, giving them no choice but to throw themselves into the case. And no one-least of all the girl’s peculiar, close-knit group of friends-is talking. The mystery has gone unsolved the case is cold. ![]() With all the freedom their pre-college summer program provides and no one on their tail, the only mystery they need to solve, once and for all, is what they are to each other.īut upon their arrival at Oxford, Charlotte is immediately drawn into a new case: a series of accidents befell the theater program at Oxford last year, culminating in a young woman going missing on the night of a major performance. In the explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series, Holmes and Watson think they’re finally in the clear after graduating from Sherringford…but danger awaits in the hallowed halls of Oxford.Ĭharlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson finally have a chance to start over. ![]() |