![]() ![]() Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. A boundless passion that will lead to sweet ruin… Could this exquisite female be a spy sent by the very Valkyrie he hunts? When Jo betrays the identity of the one man she will die to protect, she and Rune become locked in a treacherous battle of wills that pits ultimate loyalty against unbridled lust. Read Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole with a free trial. Yet before he strikes, a vampiric creature pierces him with aching pleasure, stealing his forbidden blood-and jeopardizing his brethren’s secrets. ![]() In his sights: the oldest living Valkyrie. A lethally sensual enforcer on a mission Archer Rune the Baneblood never fails to eliminate his target. The day he was taken away began Jo’s transition from would-be superhero…to enchanting villain. ![]() Protecting her baby brother Thaddeus became her entire life. A foundling raised in a world of humansGrowing up, orphaned Josephine didn't know who or what she was - just that she was 'bad,' an outcast with strange powers. Protecting her baby brother became her entire life. The next searing novel in Kresley Cole's bestselling Immortals After Dark series. A foundling raised in a world of humans Growing up, Josephine didn’t know who or what she was-just that she was an outcast with strange powers. An immortal assassin is caught between desire and duty in this sizzling novel from Kresley Cole’s #1 New York Times bestselling Immortals After Dark series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His award-winning short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic (as well as being broadcast on BBC Radio 2), and has been collected in Alone (In the Dark), Touching the Flame, FunnyBones, Peripheral Visions, Shadow Writer, The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, The Spaces Between and GHOSTS. ![]() His genre journalism has appeared in such magazines as Fangoria, SFX and Rue Morgue, and his non-fiction books are the critically acclaimed The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark. Paul Kane has been writing professionally for almost fifteen years. ![]() ![]() When he's suddenly called out to paint another portrait, he sends the children to stay with his cousin Angela in London. ![]() The kids' father, Casper, paints deposed royalty. He's the most observant of the children, always carefully noting everything going on around him and thinking through what it all means. Max, the youngest, is the most outgoing of the Hardscrabble children, but even his best efforts aren't enough to overcome the family's reputation and earn him a non-Hardscrabble friend. Lucia, the middle child, acts confident but is actually very lonely. He also hasn't spoken a word aloud since then - instead, he invented a personal sign language that only Lucia knows fluently, Max can puzzle out, and their father can't hardly understand. Otto, the eldest Hardscrabble kid, began wearing a scarf on a daily basis after their mother disappeared. ![]() ![]() For most of their lives they've been the "weird" children that everyone whispers about and no one wants to be friends with. The three Hardscrabble children, Otto, Lucia, and Max, live in the town of Little Trunks. If that's a problem for you, I recommend reading my review on LibraryThing, Goodreads, or Booklikes instead, where I have the ability to use spoiler tags. I'm not kidding - I give away a big part of the mystery. ![]() The Kneebone Boy is a Middle Grade adventure/mystery novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was awarded an MA at the University of Sussex in 1966 and also studied in Perugia, Italy. Taylor at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he earned a BA in history in 1962. He studied in Grenoble, France, from 1957 to 1958 and then under A. Academic careerĭavies was born to Richard and Elizabeth Davies in Bolton, Lancashire. He was granted Polish citizenship in 2014. He has a special interest in Central and Eastern Europe and is UNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University, professor emeritus at University College London, a visiting professor at the Collège d'Europe, and an honorary fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. Ivor Norman Richard Davies CMG FBA FRHistS (born 8 June 1939) is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. School of Slavonic and East European Studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, the crazed fan of the former and the animus-made-flesh of the latter meld into the avenging figure of John Shooter, a failed writer who claims that top author Mort Rainey has stolen one of his stories. ![]() Next comes "Secret Window, Secret Garden," the most self-conscious novella of the four, a dour and tense reworking of Misery and The Dark Half. And if the entities turn out to be more whimsical than scary ("sort of like beachballs"), they bounce the tale into King's most upbeat ending ever, a rhapsodic celebration of life. The premium cut sits on top: "The Langoliers," whose wildly original premise-that a group of airline passengers travel a few minutes into the past to encounter the entities that eat Being, leaving Nothingness-unfolds in classic King fashion, with a psychic blind girl, a demented financier, a mystery writer, and a British spy awash in mounting suspense (why is the beer "Flat! Flat as a pancake!"? and what is that sound like "Animals at feeding time" at the place near the airport?). A double-double Whopper hot from the grill of "America's literary boogeyman," as he puts it in his introduction: four sizzling horror novellas sandwiched within the theme of "Time.and the corrosive effects it can have on the human heart." Sure, they're dripping with excess wordage and high-calorie sentiment, but cut away the fat and there's still more steak here than in any other horror book of the year. ![]() ![]() The premise is very simple, and if it sounds like an ‘80s creature feature (or a “nature gone bad” scenario) then you’re in the right ballpark. ![]() Turns out I was right, and Cold Storage – although not without its flaws – is a lot of fun. I picked it up on the strength of Koepp’s credentials in the screenwriting industry, and also because it the blurb made it sound like a Michael Crichton-style techno-thriller crossed with a Stephen King schlock horror. With the help of two unwitting security guards, he has one night to quarantine this horror, before it destroys all of humanity.” Only Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz can stop it. After decades underground in a forgotten sub-basement, a highly mutative organism – capable of extinction-level destruction – has found its way out. Cold Storage is the debut novel of David Koepp, a screenwriter whose most famous credit is his work on Jurassic Park. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Captured by Hera, Wonder Woman must find a way to free herself and warn Themyscira before it's too late in Wonder Woman #797. Metropolis is under attack by thousands of miniature parasite creatures in Superman #2. Barry comes up with a new plan to stop the Fraction, while Wally ends up on another planet in The Flash #795. When Nightwing wakes up in the morgue, he realizes that Olivia is in trouble in Nightwing #102. When the prison tries to cut off Selina's access to the outside world via her cat, she decides it's time to break out of prison in Catwoman #53. Disconnected from the Green, Alec Holland must make a last stance if he is going to save humanity in Swamp Thing: Green Hell #3. For Ras Al Ghul's plan to work, he must eliminate Batman once and for all in Batman: One Bad Day: Ra's Al Ghul #1. ![]() Simon Stagg is murdered with Batman and Superman are on the case in Batman/Superman: World's Finest #13. This Week on Earth Station DCU! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs are partners in time. ![]() ![]() ![]() By looking closely at authentic Montessori practices, she shows the tight correlation between the Montessori system in action and children practicing and strengthening the very traits they will need for adulthood. Montessori education expert Paula Lillard Preschlack offers a clear explanation of how the Montessori approach helps children. There is one complete system of education that effectively supports the natural development of such essential abilities: Montessori. However, standard American educational practices-stressing memorization, grades, and testing-are failing to foster these skills. ![]() ![]() A beautifully comprehensive book on how the Montessori approach applies to all ages of children and how we can make Montessori accessible to all." - Simone Davies, author of The Montessori Toddler and coauthor of The Monessori Baby Children's future successes depend on developing the abilities to innovate, be resilient in the face of their mistakes, problem-solve creatively, and collaborate with peers effectively. ![]() Book Synopsis " The Montessori Potential should be handed to everyone who has ever asked, 'But how does Montessori work in practice and why?' Paula makes the Montessori approach easy to digest, shares her wisdom and experience, and delights the reader with stories of real children and families to bring the ideas to life. ![]() ![]() Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume "community" history of African Americans. ![]() ![]() It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history. Jones on Jamestown's first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed's portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence."- O: The Oprah Magazine The story begins in 1619-a year before the Mayflower-when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain's impressive choir."- The Washington Post "From journalist Hannah P. LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL - "A vital addition to curriculum on race in America. ![]() Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present-edited by Ibram X. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Asian American Literary Award, and the American Library Association Alex Award. After studying art as an undergraduate at Yale University she pursued a career as a painter for several years before turning to fiction writing at age 30. The book is based on Otsuka’s own family history: her grandfather was arrested by the FBI as a suspected spy fo Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. ![]() It was a New York Times Notable Book, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers finalist. ![]() Her first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, is about the internment of a Japanese-American family during World War II. Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. ![]() |