![]() ![]() Hazel's mother has always been on the eccentric side. But how can she change her life? It feels like an impossibility.Īs Hazel's claustrophobic existence continues, it is lightened only by her fun-loving and affectionate father. She is bored with her many expensive toys the only one she still plays with is a rocking horse, on which she gallops while imagining a wild ride into exotic lands. In her cosseted, luxurious, sheltered life, Hazel feels that she is at a crossroads. Hazel vaguely knows that suffragists are women who demand the right to vote. Sneaking into her father's den to read the newspaper, she discovers that the lady is a suffragist. ![]() While Hazel's father is preoccupied and refuses to discuss the wounded woman, Hazel is resourceful. ![]() ![]() He shouts about "you and your lot," claiming that nothing positive can come from their cause. As if this wasn't intriguing enough, immediately after the accident a man in the crowd attacks a female spectator. The crowd is distracted when a woman in a black coat dashes into the path of the horses and is kicked in the head, severely wounding her. Hazel Louise Mull-Dare is nearly 13 years old on a June day in 1913 when she and her father attend a horse race near their London home, an event that will change her life forever - in more ways than one. ![]()
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![]() He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year old girl without her father's consent struggled to feed a family of ten children and was often ill and in pain. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. ![]() ![]() New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Full Bibliographic Record Publication information: ![]() ![]() ![]() “Everything, and I mean everything, is threatened with devastation and loss, but Pajtim Statovci’s prose, the quality of his seeing and remembering, promises to save an invaluable part for all of us.” Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers “Anyone who has ever known what it’s like to leave home in pursuit of happiness and belonging will most likely love this tender, beautiful novel as much as I did.” Crossing is a novel that dazzles and mesmerizes, and the reader, upon finishing, may have the extraordinary sensation that his or her own dreams have been scattered along the journey, beckoning for rereading. “Reading P ajtim Statovci’s fiction is like entering a lucid dream: life and death intertwines in an intimate dance the nostalgia for the past is akin to the nostalgia for the future. NoViolet Bulawayo, author of We Need New Names “Crossing will devour you this is some fierce, dazzling, and heartbreaking shit.”
![]() Necroscope, a finalist for the British Fantasy Award, is the first volume in a powerful series that has enthralled millions of readers with its very different look at vampires and vampire hunters, at the dead and the living and the worlds they share. ![]() Harry Keogh and an army of the dead stand in their way. Seeking power, Boris has made a pact with an undead Thing, long buried in the mountains of Romania they intend to conquer the West with an army of demonic warriors. And the Wamphyri are back - not only in the Vampire World, where the ancient northern ice. Like Harry, Boris can hear the dead.but only when he is mutilating their corpses. The head of Russia's ESPionage "firm" is Boris Dragosani. Seeking revenge after his beloved mother is murdered by a psychic-and psychotic-Russian spy, Harry is recruited by Britain's super-secret, psychically-powered spy organization, E-Branch. Mathematician August Mobius, dead for more than a century, teaches Harry how to fold space and time, to travel anywhere and any when. Lumley crafts a tale that was revolutionary for its time. ![]() Through Harry, dead composers and writers reach new audiences dead inventors see their creations come to life. Necroscope is the book that started a horror series franchise before horror series were considered the norm. The dead have been his friends, his counselors, his inspiration. Since childhood, Harry Keogh has been able to hear and speak to dead people. ![]() Eldritch horror meets international espionage as a bloodthirsty vampire attempts to conquer humanity in this first book of a titanic and terrifying trilogy! ![]() ![]() This is a one-character book, Wallander hogs the limelight, but Mankell’s bit players shore him up pleasingly. You can’t help but think that the sugar crystals floating around in Wallander’s blood will get to him before the book’s serial killer does. ![]() His doctor has told him he eats and drinks too much and doesn’t get enough exercise. To top that all off, he has just been diagnosed with diabetes. His father has died, his ex-wife is getting remarried, and his girlfriend has left him. Wallander is a middle-aged man who has lost his zest for life. In One Step Behind, Hanning Mankell draws an entirely plausible hero in the form of Kurt Wallander. Wallander is left one step behind, trying to find out. Is it possible that Wallander has a serial killer on his hands? What did Svedberg know? Kurt Wallander begins to suspect that his colleague Svedberg had been investigating the disappearance of the three teenagers on his own time, without leaving an official record. A couple of walkers discover their bodies six weeks after they disappeared, each with a gunshot wound to the head. ![]() They had had a midsummer’s eve party and hadn’t been seen since. ![]() He is lying dead on the carpet with his brains blown out.Ī few weeks earlier, three teenagers’ parents reported them missing. ![]() When Karl Svedberg doesn’t show up for work at the Ystad police station, his colleagues are surprised, and concern spreads until Inspector Kurt Wallander visits his home to check he is OK. ![]() ![]() ![]() He still held me cradled against his chest with his other. “Good,” he said simply and brushed my hair out of my face with his free hand. I didn’t want to tell him what had just happened. Woods sat down on a bench along the beach boardwalk and kept me firmly in his lap. ![]() I blinked several times and my eyes came back into focus. I took a deep calming breath and the tightness in my chest was gone. They weren’t taking me this time.Ĭool night airbrushed my face and I realized I was being carried. Move.” Woods’ voice sent warmth through me. I knew I would if she stayed in my head too long. “Della, are you okay?” Strong arms were pulling me close. The monster under your bed will hear you if you get up. Lock your windows and doors and stay tucked in tight. ![]() He will remind you how dangerous the world can be. To be smart you need to read Shakespeare. But he’d asked about my teacher and all I could see was my mother. Had anyone ever cared about such trivial things concerning me before? I had never been asked such personal innocent questions. ![]() ![]() Ticket purchase includes one hardcover copy of Stellarlune, one signed bookplate (no personalizations), three vinyl Iggy stickers, and one virtual-event exclusive series vinyl sticker.Join Shannon in a nationwide virtual event to celebrate Stellarlune. Please see the ticketing page for more information. Once purchased, access to the event will be available via your Eventbrite account on the evening of the event.By purchasing in-person event admission through the ticketing link, you will gain access to the event, and receive three vinyl Iggy stickers, and a pre-signed copy of the B&N exclusive edition of Stellarlune-while supplies last.If you wish, you may return your pre-order via bn.com after securing your in-person event ticket. You must purchase a ticket through the event ticketing link, while supplies last, to access this event, even if you have already pre-ordered an additional copy of the B&N exclusive edition. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() She’ll do whatever she has to do to survive-even if that includes making a deal with the monster, endangering her crush and family, and even risk turning into a monster herself. Jessica Lewis Bad Witch Burning Hardcover Augby Jessica Lewis (Author) 122 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 15.99 37 Used from 2.20 26 New from 12.18 Paperback 11.99 1 New from 11. That’s proven when Latavia is dragged out of her house in the dead of night, into the forbidden Red Wood, and presented as a human sacrifice to an ancient monster. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. The residents are suspicious of her and at times hostile, and it’s clear she’s some kind of outsider. Bad Witch Burning is written by Jessica Lewis and published by Delacorte Press. Still, Sanctum has its perks-mainly, the cute girl who works at the local ice cream shop.īut Latavia can’t ignore how strange her aunt’s tiny town is. Weird, but Latavia isn’t here to solve any scary small town mysteries she’s here for six weeks and six weeks only, and then she’s off to college and won’t look back. These are the rules Latavia’s aunt tells her as soon as she arrives in Sanctum, Alabama for the summer. And above all-never, ever, go into Red Wood. ![]() ![]() From the author of Bad Witch Burning comes another pulse-pounding novel perfect for fans of Supernatural and Lovecraft Country.ĭon't go outside past dark. Forced to spend her summer in her aunt's strange small town, a teen girl discovers dark secrets hidden in the woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() she says yes.Īlternating between their first meeting and their reunion a decade later, this deliciously irresistible novel will have you hanging on until the last word. But the truth is that Chani wants to know if those seventy-two hours were as memorable to Gabe as they were to her. She wants to pretend that she's forgotten about the time they spent together. So when his PR team requests that they reunite for a second interview, she wants to say no. Except that no matter what new essay collection or online editorial she's promoting, someone always asks about The Profile. Ten years later, after a brutal divorce and a healthy dose of therapy, Chani is back in Los Angeles as a successful writer with the career of her dreams. But what comes next proves to be life changing in ways she never saw coming, as the interview turns into a whirlwind weekend that has the tabloids buzzing-and Chani getting closer to Gabe than she had planned. All Chani wants to do is keep her cool and nail the piece. Then she's hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker: her number one celebrity crush and the latest James Bond. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing high-profile book deals, all she does is churn out puff pieces. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. ![]() ![]() They get still nearer before the “Japaners” are through with them. Like a sign, or possibly a curse, and after a murderous storm and two years circling the globe, the first Englishman to pass through the Straits of Magellan, a pilot named John Blackthorne and a dozen human ruins aboard the East India Company's Erasmus of Amsterdam drift into the fishing village of Anjiro, which is controlled by one of Toranaga's fiefs. He will present his victory to the quiet gardenerEmperor and be appointed Shogun-Supreme Military Dictator. President of the Council of Regents, Toranaga has a code name for the future: Crimson Sky. Onoshi, Kiyama, Ishido-oh serve the will in ceremony, while training armies and buying allies. ![]() His will ordered five regents to rule until his 7‐year‐old son reaches majority. Lord Protector of Japan, the peasant general who ordered 400,000 men to build Osaka Castle and ran his country like a genius chess player, has been dead a year. The age of iron and the morning of gunpowder, 12 years of peace after an epidemic of butchery. ![]() |