I hated twists of established fairy tales/characters/movies. Just watch out for that kinky dungeon party along the way. Don’t forget to pack your pearls – Breene’s new dark fantasy series will lead you through her kingdom of loyalty, darkness, and steam. If you’re looking for something dirtier than the standard vanilla romance books, get this book. THIS BOOK IS NC17 – If you’re a Young Adult genre fan – move on. It's the first of a trilogy, ending on a cliffhanger. This is an enemies-to-lovers and possible fated mates story suitable for 18+. This is a dark and spicy Beauty and the Beast retelling featuring an anti-hero, a strong heroine, and a humorous supporting cast. I can save the whole forgotten kingdom, locked away by the demon king's power.īut it would mean taming the monster beneath his skin. Seeks to use me.Īpparently, I can save him. Forces me back to the castle as his prisoner. When he catches me trespassing in the forbidden wood, he doesn't punish me with death, as he's entitled. The only one keeping this kingdom alive is Nyfain, the golden prince to a stolen throne. Stuck here by a deal between the late king and a demon who seeks our destruction. The creature that stalks the forbidden wood.
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We do our best to ensure all of our customers enjoy a happy shopping experience with however occasionally you may need to return an item. The five children have all sorts of exciting adventures together, including being captured by the Enchanter Red-Cloak in the Land of Castles, a birthday treat for Joy in the Land of Wishes, and a delicious visit to the Land of Cakes! One day, Robin and Joy read about the Magic Faraway Tree in a book and decide to go meet Joe, Beth and Frannie themselves. How can they save the magical Faraway Tree? Stuck-up Connie refuses to believe in the Faraway Tree - until Joe, Beth and Frannie take her to the Land of Secrets and the Land of Treats!īut then the tree starts dying, and nobody knows what's wrong. And who drives a runaway train in the Land of Do-As-You-Please. Joe, Beth and Frannie take their cousin Rick on an adventure he'll never forget!įind out how they escape from the Land of Dreams, and what goes wrong in the Land of Topsy-Turvy. They make new friends, slide down the slippery-slip, and go to a fancy-dress feasts in the Land of Birthdays! Joe, Beth and Frannie move right next door to an Enchanted Wood, and discover the Faraway Tree with its many different lands. Mia Kerick is the mother of four exceptional children-a daughter in law school, another in dance school, a third studying at Mia’s alma mater, Boston College, and her lone son still in high school. When Jamie’s perspective changes and he emerges from his shell, Kai changes, too, gaining a whole new understanding of what sex can be when love is there too. Kai’s plan is based on what he knows best-music-and he stages a “musical intervention” to let Jamie know he’s not alone and things can get better. Kai is angry at first when he takes the brunt of Jamie’s bad temper, but after Kai accidentally discovers the abuse Jamie has suffered, he wants to fix things. Having been sexually abused by his older stepbrother for several years, Jamie has grown an impenetrable outer shell meant to keep the world at a safe distance. But Jamie’s lessons in life have been harsher. Sporting long hair and alluring hippie style, Kai expects his interest will be reciprocated, with satisfying sex as the end goal. Out, proud, free-spirited, and sexually aware, Kai sets his sights on his darkly Gothic and undeniably bad-tempered coworker, Jamie Arlotta, a freshman at the local arts university. As a musician at the popular college café Coed Joe’s, high school senior Kai Manter is never lacking for male attention. Something about a process beginning in distant galaxies, of matter colliding with anti-matter, causing a leaking of time from the universe and the super-saturation of our own world. Scientific-sounding explanations are given for the phenomenon. This isn't a story of man against nature, but of man against himself. For they seem to be both repulsed and attracted by it, as if the external transformation happening to the world reflects something taking place within their own hearts and minds. And how they do is almost as bizarre as the strange phenomenon itself. The central conflict in The Crystal World has to do with how certain powerless characters in one place respond to it psychologically. There may be authorities somewhere trying to defeat the transformation spreading across our planet from three locales, but that isn't part of this story. The crystallization threatening our planet has been working through the entire universe and is inevitable. Ballard's world, however, that isn't the drama which unfolds. If The Crystal World were a typical science fiction novel about an impending global disaster, it'd have scientists and military heroes working against the clock in suspenseful attempts to stop the apocalypse. This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories. A clever pastiche of news reports and interviews chronicles a college's initiative to "turn off" the human ability to recognize beauty in "Liking What You See: A Documentary." With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty and constant change, and also by beauty and wonder. In the amazing and much-lauded title story (the basis for the 2016 movie Arrival), a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her knowledge of alien languages and non-linear memory recollection. Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change-the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens-while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers listeners the dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar. OMG this was so great A blend of paranormal, ancient Egypt, pharaohs, and mythology Wow. not without risking the very survival of the Bodywalkers. And yet Docia is so vulnerable and attractive that she awakens a hunger in Ram that is undeniable, a carnal craving he cannot yield to. A desire rises in him that is forbidden-this woman is his queen, the mate of his king, his leader, his best friend. He is overwhelmed by a searing connection that goes deep into the twin souls inside him. But as this golden warrior sweeps in to protect her, he feels something more than body heat every time they touch. When Ram finds Docia, he has no doubt that she is his queen. That is, as long as Docia’s savior doesn’t turn out to be a crazed kidnapper. Then, when a tall, blond, muscular stranger intervenes on her behalf, telling her it is his duty to protect her at all cost, what is just a feeling turns to proof positive. On her way to work, secretary Docia Waverley hurtles into a crashing crossroads, and she quickly begins to suspect that things will never be the same. From New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Frank comes this first book in The World of the Nightwalkers-an exciting and sensual new spin-off series in which the Bodywalkers, an ancient race of the night, battles the evil forces who prey on them. On their honeymoon in the picturesque Amalfi Coast, Lila discovers that she has married a terrifying Bluebeard, with no bottom to his depravity. My Brilliant Friend ‘s marvelous, harrowing sophomore season begins with a fairy-tale air. That means, in part, fighting for a place for young women amid those gangsters and would-be revolutionaries, whose squabbles (and beatings) once seemed so far away. Spanning about five years, from the night of Lila’s wedding to Elena’s college graduation and first taste of professional success, the eight-part season finds the two young women navigating their way through their dusty, impoverished neighborhood, both striving for a kind of life neither their parents would dream of. The vicious feuds between the neighborhood’s rival mobsters, as well as the lingering post-war hostility between the Communists and the fascists, were important world-building, but also overshadowed Elena and Lila’s comparatively uneventful girlhoods while being seldom compelling enough as their own storylines.īut with season two, subtitled The Story of a New Name, the series transitions fully from anthropology to fiction. Its central tale of two girl friends, whose relationship was marked by obstinate loyalty to and ineradicable competition with one another, was often obscured by the TV drama’s focus on male violence - against wives, children, but most of all each other. At least from the perspective of 21st-century America, My Brilliant Friend‘s debut season also felt like something of an ethnography. Indeed, the book is often considered to be the foundational text of the consensus school, a historiographical movement criticised for its “strikingly conservative” vision of the American past. 1 That the book elicited such an angry response due to its critical tenor might seem perplexing given Hofstadter’s later, and continued, association with consensus history. Amidst the insults and accusations, the correspondent declared the work a “rotten, disloyal book.” To the reader, Hofstadter’s hatred of his native land seemed apparent and his “filthy lies” were clearly part of the wider assault on America that had been launched by the New Deal. Shortly after the publication of The American Political Tradition, Richard Hofstadter received a castigatory letter from an enraged reader. Her older son has lived in Japan, Australia, and now resides in New Zealand. She presently has two Australian shepherds, six cats, and a very old canary. She has kept Cinnamon Ridge as her primary residence but divides her time between there and her son John's farm, where she has the support of her loved ones and can enjoy his horses, cows, and raise her own chickens.Ĭatherine loves animals and birds, both wild and domestic. Sadly, Catherine lost her husband to a long-term illness in 2014. She named it Cinnamon Ridge after the huge ponderosa pines on the property, which sport bark the color of cinnamon. It was her dream home, a wonderland in the winter and beyond beautiful in the summer. In 2001 she and her husband purchased a central Oregon home located on a ridge with incredible mountain views and surrounded by forestland honeycombed with trails. Anderson, an industrial electrician and entrepreneur. Nine books later, she did her first single-title contemporary.Ĭatherine married Sidney D. In 1988, she sold her first book to Harlequin Intrigue and went on to write three more before she tried her hand at a single-title historical romance. The morning that one of her professors asked if she could use samples of Catherine’s creative writing on an overhead projector to teach was a dream come true. She always yearned to be a writer like her mother. See this thread for more information.Īdeline Catherine was born and raised in Grants Pass, Oregon, USA. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Set against the backdrop of the burgeoning women’s rights movement, The Lives of Diamond Bessie is a captivating tale of betrayal and redemption that explores whether seeking revenge is worth the price you might pay. Inspired by a true story and set amid the burgeoning women’s rights movement, The Lives of Diamond Bessie is a haunting tale of betrayal and redemption that explores whether seeking revenge is worth the price you might pay. But Bessie doesn’t let her story end there. But Bessie doesn’t let her story end there. She’s proven wrong when she suffers the ultimate betrayal at the hands of the man she thought would be her salvation. With her marriage, she believes her dream of returning to proper society has finally come true. Jody Hadlock tells the gripping story of Annie Moore aka Diamond Bessie who is wronged by a man who left her pregnant and then wronged again by a family who disowned her. But few rights or opportunities are available to a woman in the 1860s, and after failing to find a respectable job, Annie resorts to prostitution in order to survive.Īs a highly sought-after demi-mondaine, Annie-now Bessie-garners many expensive gifts from her admirers, and eventually meets and marries the son of a wealthy jeweler. When the nuns take her baby, Annie escapes, determined to find a way to be reunited with her daughter. Pregnant out of wedlock, sixteen-year-old Annie Moore is sent to live at a convent for fallen women. |