7/4/2023 0 Comments The wildwood chronicles![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And what begins as a rescue mission becomes something much greater as the two friends find themselves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness. In Wildwood, Prue and her friend Curtis uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval-a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions. The story is told from multiple points of view, and the book features more than eighty illustrations, including six full-color plates, making this an absolutely gorgeous object. It feels at once firmly steeped in the classics of children's literature and completely fresh. Wildwood captivates readers with the wonder and thrill of a secret world within the landscape of a modern city. For fans of the Chronicles of Narnia comes the first book in the Wildwood Chronicles, the New York Times bestselling fantasy adventure series by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I very much so enjoyed the experience of reading into the lives of Duke Drake Amberly and his true love, the espionage Fox for the Patriots Elise Cooper. The revolutionary war era is my favorite historical time period and I hardly find a novel entwined in that time that I enjoy, but that was not the case with this novel. I dare say that I could quite feel my heart beating out of my chest at times through out this adventure. When his pursuit of “The Fox” brings him dangerously close to the truth, she’ll risk everything to prove that love and forgiveness are all they need. Then she meets Drake, and learns that love could be hers, as well. ![]() Yet the more he sees of spirited Elise Cooper, the more he’s moved by the happiness she brings him…never suspecting the dangerous secret she hides.Her faith drives Elise to spy for the rebels, dreaming only of freedom for her homeland. Drake Amberly, Duke of Hawk Haven, won’t leave South Carolina until he’s unmasked the colonial spy who killed his brother. He came to the colonies for one reason: revenge. ![]() Publisher: Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Harvey the thief of always![]() ![]() The Holiday House is truly a place of miracles. Given the rest of the book, I’d bet on the latter. Thinking about it, given that Harvey was willing to follow a strange man to a mysterious house without much consideration for his safety, suggests either that Harvey is not very bright, or Rictus is extremely persuasive. There is no better place for children, Rictus said, than Mister Hood’s Holiday House. Then he met a strange, smiling man named Rictus, who told Harvey of a wonderful place where boredom could not enter, and there was nothing to be had but fun and adventure. The interminable grayness of February, the drudgery of life – going to school, coming home, going to school again – and believes that, if his life became the tiniest bit more boring, he would most certainly perish. Harvey Swick is ten years old, and like so many ten year-old boys, he is bored with his life. ![]() Having grown up in New England, where February is the punishment that God metes out for all sinners, I have decided that you can’t beat that. ![]() “The great, gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.” This book has one of the best opening lines I have ever read: ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Beautiful monsters jex lane![]() ![]() ![]() This story has given you everything from psychological to realistic elements during its narrative. Captive is a story about the weakness of human nature and their act of betrayal. It talks about the happenings of the characters through their thoughts and actions. ![]() You need to have your hands on this book to take you through an emotional sojourn for better experience.Ĭaptive By Jex Lane Read Online Free pdf is a novel that has been written in a very detailed fashion. Written in a simple expression, the Captive by Jex Lane Read Online Free can be read by any individual that can identify letters and comprehend simple expression. Adam Lewis was in jail for 7 years and the first order Liam wanted to give was to make sure that he was never seen again outside the jail walls. Liam Conner whose daughter was killed by a group of criminals has decided to take out revenge from Adam Lewis one of the criminals who kidnapped and then killed his daughter. The story starts with a feeling of revenge to avenge his daughter. Captive By Jex Lane Read Online story revolves around the protagonist that is a father who has lost his daughter. It has been Published by Conrad Crime, a branch of Mills & Boon. The Captive is a sensational novel written by Jex Lane. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Sunyi dean the book eaters![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘A gripping and beautifully plotted story told with verve and deliciously dark wit’Daily Mail. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, and Let the Right One In This is a story of escape, a mother’s savage devotion and a queer love that will electrify readers looking for something beguiling, thrilling, strange and new. ![]() But time is running out – for her family want her back, and with every soul her son consumes he loses a little more of himself… Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger. The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and legends.Ĭhildren are rare and their numbers have dwindled, so when Devon Fairweather’s second child is born a dreaded Mind Eater – a perversion of her own kind, who consumes not stories but the minds and souls of humans – she flees before he can be turned into a weapon for the family… or worse. Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. Schwab ‘A vampire-themed Handmaid’s Tale, with effective thrills that are intensified by social commentary’ GuardianĪ gorgeous new fantasy horror – a book about stories and fairy tales with family and love at its dark heart… 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I devoured this’ V.E. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Someone perfect by mary balogh![]() She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling 'Slightly' sextet and 'Simply' quartet. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. She also enjoys watching tennis and curling. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. ![]() ![]() She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. ![]() Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Neil gaiman mythology books![]() ![]() Like the Vikings themselves, his characters value ingenuity as much as physical prowess, since both help to build a memorable reputation. In writing it, Gaiman has provided an enchanting contemporary interpretation of the Viking ethos. And that sacrifices must be made to secure a good future. That carefully chosen words could be as powerful as deeds. It’s a passage that gives us a fascinating glimpse into an Old Norse worldview: It suggests that these early medieval people believed gods were many and formidable. This was the beginning of all things, the death that made all life possible. ![]() There was no other way to make the worlds. Odin and Ve and Vili killed the giant Ymir. They spoke of the universe, and of life, and of the future. Ve and Vili and Odin looked at each other and spoke of what was needful to do, there in the void of Ginnungagap. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Hell Cop by Astrid Amara![]() ![]() Someone is summoning demons to Parmas City and telling them to target children. When he’s experiencing strong emotions, he can also turn into the Human Torch. Jay Yervant, that man, is a Hell Cop who can set things ablaze just by touching those things with his bare skin. Really, that man is covered in flames, not that he is in pain or anything. Brian, a 21-year old temp in the Parmas City Hospital, is helping the staff deal with a major emergency (demons are starting to munch on kids in the city for who knows what purpose so badly injured and even dead kids are showing up) when he comes across a hot guy who is on fire. Three Hell Cops are going to fall in love in this anthology.Īstrid Amara starts the show with Next of Kin. ![]() In Parmas City, humans, ghosts, disenfranchised demons, and various other spooks have to co-exist, sometimes uneasily, in the same confines and we also have our enforcers called the Hell Cops to watch over them and make sure that the threat of misbehaving demons in the city is minimized if not eradicated altogether. Hell Cop has three stories set in the same urban fantasy setting. Hell Cop by Astrid Amara, Nicole Kimberling, and Ginn Hale ![]() ![]() ![]() Tyler takes aim at a sentimental trope deeply embedded in American culture. For all its charm, French Braid is a quietly subversive novel, tacklinging fundamental assumptions about womanhood, motherhood and female aging. It looks squarely at the consequences of stifled female ambition - to the woman herself, and to those in her orbit. The novel is imbued with an old-school feminism of a kind currently unfashionable. French Braid is the opposite of reassuring. It is a moving meditation on the passage of time. ![]() French Braid is a novel about what is remembered, what we’re left with when all the choices have been made, the children raised, the dreams realized or abandoned. Instead, French Braid offers something subtler and finer, the long view on family: what remains years later, when the particulars have been sanded away by time. Five decades into her career, one gets the sense that Tyler is no longer quite so interested in the details. The younger Garretts are drawn haphazardly, or not at all. There are simply too many years to cover, too many children and grandchildren to keep track of. But while her earlier novels were heavy on domestic details, vividly evoking the texture of daily life, French Braid is less fully imagined, the characters less developed. For Tyler fans, this is familiar territory: the quotidian frictions and rewards of family life in white, middle-class Baltimore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() High school was ages ago, but as they team up again to teach ballroom dance, old feelings flair to life-just as his ex-fiancee shows up on New Year’s Eve, determined to win him back.Dating the wrong people has convinced both Ben and Andi that what they really want is each other. Desperate for a new beginning, he flees to Los Angeles and moves in across the hall from Andi. Too bad the celebrity client she’s matched with can’t make her heart flutter or limbs turn to mush the way Ben, Rachel’s totally off-limits brother, can with a simple smile.Ben’s fiancee just called off their wedding for the third time. When Rachel gifts Andi a professional matchmaking service out of guilt, Andi agrees to give it a try. Can a ballroom dance partnership be their key to finding love?Andi’s long-term boyfriend just dumped her, and it’s all her best friend Rachel’s fault. A high school science teacher fleeing from his possessive ex-fiancee. A divorce attorney fake-dating a billionaire. ![]() |