![]() When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin. ![]() In acclaimed author Jack Carr’s follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece’s skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and set him on another path of revenge. ![]() “ True Believer, the highly anticipated new thriller from Jack Carr, is one of this year’s hottest thrillers, and a perfect fit for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Daniel Silva.” -The Real Book Spy A terrific addition to the genre, Jack Carr and his alter-ego protagonist, James Reece, continue to blow me away.”-Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mission Critical “A powerful, thoughtful, realistic, at times terrifying thriller that I could not put down. Both author Jack Carr and main character James Reece are the real deal, the action is razor sharp, the suspense is unrelenting, and the tradecraft is so authentic the government will probably ban it-so read it while you can!” -Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Past Tense ![]()
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Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. ![]() Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. The Strugatsky brothers' poignant and introspective novel of first contact that inspired the classic film Stalker ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This story is full of challenges and struggles that culminate in "overcoming faith" guaranteed to inspire. It also gives readers renewed purpose and glorious hope for the future. To those who have lost loved ones, this book is a source of deep comfort. He shares with intricate detail the glorious beauty, radiant colors, intoxicating aromas, and boundless love and joy he experienced while in heaven. ![]() Dale describes the luxurious countryside, the massive rainbow colored wall with gates of pearl, the awesome townships and the spiritual family that welcomed him. In this captivating book you'll learn about angelic guides, living Light, and indescribable music from the astonishing city of gold. Not only was Dale's life forever altered but his story has already changed the lives of tens of thousands. To say that his journey to heaven transformed him forever, is an understatement. This was not a vision or a dream, but a very real experience. In the gruesome aftermath of the crash Dale experienced a life-changing journey to heaven. ![]() Dale Black was a passenger in a horrific airplane crash which some have called the most ironic in aviation history. In the early days of his flying career, Capt. Flight to Heaven: A Plane Crash.A Lone Survivor.A Journey to Heaven-and Backįlight To Heaven is a beautifully written and amazing account of life, death - and life again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leroux was a music critic and uses his knowledge of the musical cannon and the behind the scenes workings of a theatre to frame his story which he tells through a narrator. ![]() In essence a pot-pouri of a novel, part drama, part gothic horror romance, murder mystery, fairy story, comedy. Suffice it to say that the original novel is packed not only with all the elements for which M & S became famous/notorious – romance between a junior aristocrat and a poor girl forced to earn her living in the theatre, danger, mystery, adversity and the final triumph of love, but it also includes comedy, exoticism, gothic horror, the supernatural, a fairy godmother figure, a wicked witch and historical fact. Most of you will have seen Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical (1986) based on the story, or an earlier film version (1925, illustrated above), so I won’t go into the story. ![]() After much ado trying to find a title which I could verify was actually published first by M & B and which was not exorbitantly expensive, I lit upon Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. ![]() I wanted to source an early title for the session on books produced by Mills & Boon publishers at the beginning of their existence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Geralt prepares to spend the night at the old palace which houses the striga. Geralt is unsure whether Adda can live a normal life even if the curse is lifted. Foltest insists that Adda not be harmed, but grants Geralt permission to kill her if the curse cannot be lifted. The King of Temeria, Foltest, has offered a reward to anyone who can lift the curse on his daughter, Adda (the result of an incestuous union with his late sister), who was born as a striga, and terrorizes the town every night. The two make love, and fall asleep together, with Geralt dreaming of his fight with the monster who wounded him. Wiedźmin "The Voice of Reason" ( Głos rozsądku) Part I - In Ellander's Temple of Melitele, a wounded Geralt is awakened from his slumber by Iola, a mute servant. In 2003, it won the Premio Ignotus for Best Anthology. The Last Wish was first published in English on 7 June 2007 by Gollancz, and has also been translated into several other languages. During that time he has flashbacks to recent events in his life, with each flashback forming a short story. The collection contains seven short stories interspersed with a continuing frame story: Geralt of Rivia, after having been injured in battle, rests in a temple. ![]() Published by SuperNowa in 1993, it was preceded by 1992's Sword of Destiny, but is officially considered the first entry in the series and Sword of Destiny the second. The Last Wish ( Polish: Ostatnie życzenie) is the third published short story collection in Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher series. ![]() ![]() Teodoro is a romantic and is therefore kind of terrible in bed. Vadinho likes sex and doesn’t feel uncomfortable about it at all. Amado’s characters’ complicated humanity could be summed up like this: Flor likes sex, a lot, but feels kind of uncomfortable about it. Amado deals, primarily, in clichés and while this novel isn’t really allegorical (because the sex stands in for sex, and the concern for reputation is represented by nothing other than itself, for example), its characters look flatly allegorical. But it’s not subtle and it really offers almost nothing in terms of insight into what makes people tick. This is not to say it isn’t fun and generally well-written, for it is both these things. In this battle between spirit and matter, the body wins out and Dona Flor finds a way to appear to inhabit both these realms to her own (nearly infinite) satisfaction.ĭona Flor and Her Two Husbands is rather a silly novel. It isn’t much of a battle, in the end–having known extremities of sexual joy with her first husband, the roguish and incorrigible Vadhino, Dona Flor tries to re-imagine herself as a staid and entirely respectable woman in her second marriage to the gentle but dull Teodoro. Jorge Amado’s Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands claims, in its subtitle, to be about “the fearsome battle between spirit and matter”. ![]() ![]() Isobel is a portrait painter, a master of her Craft, and while her passion lies in oils and canvas, she does understand that by staying in her small town she’s confining herself to a small and stagnant existence. ![]() The fair folk are unable to create anything substantial without magic, so they covet human items like dresses, cutlery, books-and especially art. ![]() The town of Whimsy is a place frozen in endless summer, set on the edge of the faerie-lands where humans survive by trading their Craft with the fair folk for enchantments. It’s fairly standard fantasy fare, but it’s pretty and catches my eye. I like how there are visible brushstrokes mimicking a real painting, which is a nod to Isobel’s art. ![]() Relationship Status: Campfire StorytellerĪnyone else a bit uncomfortable with how intensely this raven is staring us down? I’m guessing this is Rook in his raven form, protecting Isobel from any myriad of dangers. Bonus Factors: Faeries, Giant Treehouse, Standalone ![]() ![]() ![]() Using her grandmother's mystical culinary traditions, Claire has built a successful catering business - and a carefully controlled, utterly predictable life - upon the family's peculiar gift for making life-altering delicacies: lilac jelly to engender humility, for instance, or rose geranium wine to call up fond memories. ![]() There, an apple tree bearing fruit of magical properties looms over a garden filled with herbs and edible flowers that possess the power to affect in curious ways anyone who eats them.įor nearly a decade, 34-year-old Claire Waverley, at peace with her family inheritance, has lived in the house alone, embracing the spirit of the grandmother who raised her, ruing her mother's unfortunate destiny and seemingly unconcerned about the fate of her rebellious sister, Sydney, who freed herself long ago from their small town's constraints. The women of the Waverley family - whether they like it or not - are heirs to an unusual legacy, one that grows in a fenced plot behind their Queen Anne home on Pendland Street in Bascom, North Carolina. Genres: Chick-Lit, Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Magical Realism, Romance, Women's FictionĪlso by this author: First Frost (Waverley Family, #2), Other Birds Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1) Also in this series: First Frost (Waverley Family, #2) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Life has taught Ondro not to hope, but then, he never believed in love at first sight either. But with their separation looming, confessing his feelings would only lead to pain and humiliation. Soon, he catches a glimpse of the home he longs for. When he is put in a position to offer Jamie comfort without hope of recompense, Ondro doesn’t hesitate. Jaded Ondro never would have guessed he could fall in love during a brief layover-until now. During a layover in Basel, Switzerland, he meets Jamie, an American living in Scotland who is as brilliant as he is beautiful. The demons proved impossible to outrun, though, and now, desperate for somewhere to belong, Ondro is returning to start over. To get caught up, click on the link provided and then it’s onto The Layover!Įight years ago, Ondro Smrek fled Slovakia and the bigotry that drove his first lover to take his own life. She’s brought the last part of the prequel, The Swiss Experiment for our readers. Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words is happy to be a part of Roe Horvat’s new release tour for her story, The Layover. ![]() ![]() And as past and present intertwine, Kate is given the strength and inspiration to reforge her own life. ![]() As Kate unravels the dying woman's story she is amazed to discover how much it echoes her own. It belongs to a frail old lady, Agnes, and the two women become close friends. In the Dream House flies in the face of a common perception that. Then one evening, out walking, she stumbles upon the house of her dreams, a beautiful place, full of memories - but tantalizingly out of her reach. The book is groundbreakingwe would expect nothing less from the author of the outstanding 2017 short-story collection Her. Months later, with Simon still working all hours and the strains of living with his mother beginning to tell, Kate is questioning the wisdom of their move. Sacrificing her career, her friends and her independence, Kate battles to make a new life for the family under her mother-in-law's roof - while they search in vain for the perfect home. When everything starts to come apart at the seams they decide to uproot and move to the Suffolk coast. In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado is an all engrossing and harrowing memoir about one of Machado’s previous relationships. ![]() ![]() Kate Hutchinson and her husband Simon are Londoners, performing the balancing act of raising two young children in a cramped terraced house whilst holding down stressful full-time jobs. Now available in paperback, Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is a searing account of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman. ![]() |