![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What seem like two very different cases slowly intertwine, revealing a diabolical plot with global implications. At the same time Sally's friend Jim helps a magician escape from the clutches of a couple of thugs trying to kill him. One of her clients has lost her savings in the failure if a shipping company that went belly up under very mysterious circumstances. Sally is 22 now and running her own financial consultant business, almost certainly the only woman in 1870s London with such a position. Pullman has created a wonderful cast of characters in Sally and her friends. While I enjoyed the first book in this series, The Ruby in the Smoke, this book more than overshadows it. I put everything else aside last night to read it and didn't stop until I'd finished it after midnight. "It's been a long time since I could say I "devoured" a book as I did this one. But as she delves deeper into the identity of a wealthy and elusive industrialist, she uncovers a plot so diabolical, it could subvert the entire civilized world. WHEN ONE OF Sally’s clients loses a large sum of money in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally sets out to investigate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Whether set in terrestrial oceans or on far-off space stations, Cat Rambo’s masterfully told stories explore themes of gender, despair, tragedy, and the triumph of both human and non-human alike. Rambo's poststory notes are as engaging as the strong, thought-provoking stories, and she's an undeniably talented prose stylist and world-builder, but taken as a whole, this tour of misery and ambiguity is hard to love. Near + Far One of the Most Notable SF Short Story Collections of 2012. The lighthearted "Kallakak's Cousins" and "Zeppelin Follies" lighten up the otherwise heavy collection. Several of the stories, including "VOCOBOX ," confront how women's voices can be taken from them the fantastic story "Timesnip" is the only one that offers those women hope for the future. ![]() Others, such as "Memories of Moments, Bright as Falling Stars," show that even succeeding against the odds comes with a tragic price. Cat Rambo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling, Nalo Hopkinson, Delia Sherman (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating 263 ratings published 2014 2 editions. Her characters, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, struggle against systems stacked against them some tales, such as "Do the Right Thing," end ambiguously, leaving readers to decide whether to fear that the stacked deck will crush the protagonist or hope that the hero will overcome. Fantasy Magazine, October 2014: Women Destroy Fantasy Special Issue. ![]() PW reviewer Rambo offers, in her two-part collection of 24 short stories, tales of despair and a few of triumph in the near and far futures. ![]() ![]() His classic style graces the pages of many children's books including Crossway's best-selling children's book, You Are Special, also written by Max Lucado. He has done freelance illustrative work for Disney Press and other major publishers, and has illustrated internationally renowned gift editions of several literary classics including Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and A Christmas Carol. ![]() Sergio Martinez was born in Mexico City, studied art in Paris, and has worked as an art director and illustrator on three continents. Max lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Denalyn, and has three daughters and one granddaughter. His award-winning books have been translated into more than fifty-four languages and he has been named one of the most influential leaders in social media by The New York Times. Max Lucado (MA, Abilene Christian University) serves as the minister of preaching at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, and is a best-selling author and speaker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gameboard of The Gods is the first book in a new sci-fi fantasy series for adults by Richelle Mead author of the popular YA Vampire Academy books. ![]() As their investigation races forward, unknown enemies and powers greater than they can imagine are gathering in the shadows, ready to reclaim the world in which humans are merely game pieces on their board. ![]() When Justin and Mae are assigned to work together to solve a string of ritualistic murders, they soon realize that their discoveries have exposed them to terrible danger. Raised in an aristocratic caste, Mae is now a member of the military’s most elite and terrifying tier, a soldier with enhanced reflexes and skills. But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes to bring him back to the Republic of United North America (RUNA). In a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. ![]() Published 2013 464 pages Summary (from the book jacket) ![]() ![]() ![]() Maeve married Gordon Snell, writer and editor of children's books. After these letters were published, Maeve left teaching and became a journalist. They were so impressed with these chatty letters from all over the world that they decided to send them to a newspaper. While she was away, she sent letters home to her parents. She liked going to different places, such as a Kibbutz in Israel, and she worked in a camp in the United States. She also loved traveling, and this was how she found her niche as a writer. She studied at University College Dublin and was a teacher for a while. Although she described herself as an overweight child, her parents' attitude gave her the confidence to accept herself for who she was. Her parents were very positive and provided her with a happy childhood. Maeve Binchy was born on in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of four. ![]() ![]() The book called "Jackapple Joe" had wowed the critics and made the Years later, Jay is a grown man, an author with one wonderful book to hisĬredit. Halt when the old railway was sold to an upscale developer and Joeĭisappeared, his shack boarded up and abandoned. It was a magical time for Jay that came to an abrupt Show More named Jackapple Joe, who taught him secrets of herbs, gardening, Refreshing, heartening and uplifting reading. It's only a matter of not losing hope completely and let others surprise you, with one foot in the Earth and the other one suspended in the air, letting the wind blow where it has to. ![]() ![]() I'll stick to the magic and a bit of luck, as Jay says. Magic, wine, faith or simply luck and coincidence. This is a book about haunted lives, unfinished stories and the chance to change your own life and atone for your past mistakes. Guided by a kind of Joe's ghost, Jay leaves London and moves to a little rural village in France where he buys an abandoned farm and where he starts writing again, inspired by his mysterious neighbour, Marisa. Home brewed wine made by Joe takes unusual importance in the present time of the story, because it's only when Jay drinks it that he finds the courage to change what makes him unhappy. The novel moves forward and backwards in time, and the reader is able to know young Jay, when he meets Joe, an eccentric old man who leaves a deep impression in lonely Jay, becoming his special friend and his secret hideaway. ![]() Show More had been spent in that successful novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is Janey’s link to the past, and a symbol of the hope that someday she and her parents might be able to stay somewhere “as long as they want to” instead of only “as long as they can.” The plate “meant to her what a doll might have meant if she had had one.” It goes with the family wherever they move, but is never unpacked because they haven’t lived in one place long enough or in a house with a fitting spot for a precious heirloom to hang. Janey’s willow plate belonged to her great-great grandmother. “The words ‘no work’ always meant a move to another place.” This time, the Texas Dust Bowl has driven Janey’s family to the San Joaquin Valley in California. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1945, author Howard Pease listed Doris Gates among only three children’s authors he knew of who had written “a story intimately related to this modern world, a story that takes up a modern problem and thinks it through without evasion.”īlue Willow is about Janey Larkin, a ten-year-old girl who has spent her life moving from place to place as her father follows the work. One notable aspect of this book is that it is considered to be, if not the first, then one of the first realistic “problem” stories about a child. Between 19, Gates worked as a children’s librarian in Fresno, California, where she became familiar with many children of migrant workers during the Great Depression. Blue Willow by Doris Gates was a 1941 Newbery Honor Book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dom talking about feelings? Sitting on pillows? Communing with nature? Learning love languages? Nope. Never in a million years did Rosie believe her stoic, too-manly-to-emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippy. When her girlfriends encourage Rosie to demand more out of life and pursue her dream of opening a restaurant, she decides to demand more out of love, too. ![]() Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with ten years ago is nowhere to be found. Now Rosie’s lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with a unique, sexy romantic comedy about a young married couple whose rocky relationship needs a serious renovation. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of those books where you fall in love with the characters and story so much, you just don't want to let them go. She really brought the story to life - and it wasn't easy to do as there were three main characters (one of them being a three year old child) and a variety of secondary characters. I have not read the physical book yet, but the audio version was beautifully narrated by Hayden Bishop. ![]() The consent, communication and tenderness in these scenes are what take them from merely sex to the most intimate of lovemaking. ![]() One in this book, and one in Perfect Rhythm. I am a die-hard romantic and Jae has written two of the most beautiful love scenes I've ever read. It was fascinating, it was impressive, it was exciting, it was frightening and at times utterly beautiful. The detail was so amazing that it felt like I was riding right along with their wagon train from Independence, Missouri to Oregon. The painstaking research that went into this was apparent and I was completely riveted by the story. HOW did it take me this long to experience this book?!? I'm still making my way through Jae's published works and after 11 of them so far, I have to say that this is in my top 2 of hers (the other being Perfect Rhythm) and way up there on my all-time favorites list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is always other people made him do it, no matter what anyone else says. He always knew beforehand when the wrong action was being taken, be it the Kruger Telegram or his descent on Morocco. His powers wax and wan as suits, constitutionally unable to control his Chancellor’s foreign policy on one page, giving him “strict orders to maintain peace” on another. Wilhelm is a terrible liar, flatly denying events that most definitely occurred, such as the infamous “blank cheque” meeting with the Austrians on 5 July 1914. “I gave the dying Emperor his last joy on earth when I had the Second Infantry Brigade march past him, led by me in person.”īut what about the leadup to World War One? Well, yes, there are several semi-connected chapters.Īnd… …they’re worthless from a historical perspective. My man really loves his parades, and he’s pretty sure everyone else does too: ![]() Wilhelm is out to counter the narrative that he caused World War One. ![]() So, ex-Emperor Wilhelm II published his Memoirs in 1922, appropriately clocking in at a double-ply tissue-paper creaking 306 pages. Millions are dead, the concert of Europe is in tatters and your Crown is back in the gutter.Īnd everyone says: It’s. You’re a blowhard, a blunderer, a sabre-rattler, the unwelcome culmination of centuries of monarchical inbreeding. ![]() |
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