6/10/2023 0 Comments Cast in Firelight by Dana Swift![]() The first book in an epic, heart-pounding fantasy duology about two royal heirs betrothed to be married, but whose loyalties are torn, and a ruthless enemy who threatens their world, perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir, Susan Dennard, and Mary E. Now Wickery's fate is in the hands of rivals.? Fiancées.? Partners.? Whatever they are, it's complicated and bound for greatness or destruction. and neither realizes who the other is, adopting separate secret identities instead.īetween dodging deathly spells and keeping their true selves hidden, the pair must learn to put their trust in the other if either is to uncover the real threat. ![]() Only, destiny has other plans and with the criminal underbelly of Belwar suddenly making a move for control, their paths cross. The first book in an epic, heart-pounding fantasy duology about two royal heirs betrothed to be married, but whose loyalties are torn. ![]() Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. But after years of rivalry from afar, Adraa and Jatin only agree on one thing: their reunion will be anything but sweet. National Geographic Books, Young Adult Fiction - 448 pages. ![]() Together, their arranged marriage will unite two of Wickery's most powerful kingdoms. ![]() Jatin is the royal heir to Naupure, a competitive wizard who's mastered all nine colors of magic, and a boy anxious to return home for the first time since he was a child. Adraa is the royal heir of Belwar, a talented witch on the cusp of taking her royal ceremony test, and a girl who just wants to prove her worth to her people. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Haunted castles ray russell![]() ![]() ![]() Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toroįilmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Under the tuscan sun book![]() ![]() ![]() During the trip, the new divorcée impulsively decides to purchase a rural Tuscan villa and struggles to start her life anew amid colorful local characters, including the handsome Marcello (Raoul Bova). In an attempt to bring her out of a deep depression, her best friend, Patti (Sandra Oh), encourages Frances to take a tour of Italy. When Frances Mayes (Diane Lane) learns her husband is cheating on her from a writer whom she gave a bad review, her life is turned upside down. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Maidenhair by mikhail shishkin![]() Mikhail Shishkin is one of Russia's most prominent and respected contemporary writers. It bravely takes on the eternal questions-of truth and fiction, of time and timeless-ness, of love and war, of Death and the Word-and is a movingly luminescent expression of the pain of life and its uncountable joys. Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair is an instant classic of Russian literature. ![]() These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a his-tory of an ancient Persian war letters sent to his son Nebuchadnezzasaurus, ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia's wars and revolutions in the early part of the twentieth century, and eventually saw the Soviet Union's dissolution. ![]() One of the most prominent names in modern Russian literature.- Publishers Weeklyĭay after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter-the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise-and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. ![]() ![]() ![]() A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. ![]() When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. ![]() Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() No mention of the farm is made for the rest of the series. Piggle-Wiggle (1957) she has apparently returned to her original neighborhood and to her magical cures. Piggle-Wiggle uses no magic for her cures the farm itself does the most good. Piggle-Wiggle sells her house in town and purchases a farm, where with the assistance of a large assortment of animals she continues to help children overcome their bad habits. Cures range from the mundane (the "Won't-Pick-Up-Toys Cure", allowing a small boy to continue leaving his toys scattered about his room until the room becomes so cluttered that he is unable to escape) to the fantastic (the "Interrupting Cure", a special powder that is blown on the interrupter, which causes the person to become temporarily mute every time he/she tries to interrupt someone). Piggle-Wiggle provides parents with cures for their children's bad habits. ![]() ![]() In the first two books of the series, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a chest full of magical cures left to her by her deceased husband, Mr. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Stories for punjabi widows![]() The compromise – in a twist Nikki certainly didn’t see coming – is to spend a portion the class time learning the basics of English and the rest of the time telling each other erotic stories based on their fantasies and memories with their deceased husbands. Nikki expects it to be a creative writing class, but the widows who sign up expect to learn their ABCs. There’s… something of a miscommunication, though. ![]() ![]() She takes a chance when she interviews to teach a writing class for a Punjabi community center, figuring she has nothing to lose by earning a little extra cash and seeing if teaching is something she feels more passionately about than law. ![]() She’s a law school dropout, she’s trying to live on her own (a big cultural no-no for more traditional Sikhs), and is working in a London pub while she’s trying to figure it out. Our protagonist, Nikki, is the liberal London daughter of Indian immigrants, and she can’t help but feel like she’s a disappointment to her family. While it might not be quite as detailed in its promiscuous encounters, Balli Kaur Jaswal’s novel Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows has a lot more going for it for readers who want plot and humor with their passion. Reviewed by Kamryn Kronschnabel, Patrons Services Librarian ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Moonlight mile book review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a world in which motives and allegiances constantly shift and mistakes are fatal. Their search leads them into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, a mentally unstable crime boss and his equally demented wife, a priceless, thousand-year-old cross, and a happily homicidal Russian gangster. Haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most. Kenzie and Gennaro risked everything to find the young girl-only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane delivers an explosive tale of integrity and vengeance-heralding the long-awaited return of private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela GennaroĪmanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Ever wonder why some salons stink so much? Yes, they are filled with toxic chemicals.) They give a brief overview of the regulations guiding the cosmetic industry (or lack thereof) and a rundown of some of the most common toxins found in personal care/beauty products. The book starts with the authors' story of how they got interested in beauty product ingredients after realizing that the primary ingredient in their “keratin” hair treatment was formaldehyde. ![]() The “why bother” clause – “If you can't be sure a product is safe – and it's not doing your looks any favors – why bother using it?”.If you wouldn't put it in your mouth, why would you put it on your skin?.Skin is absorbent – this is why transdermal medications work.Top “Common Sense Ideas” from No More Dirty Looks ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis Post-Dispatch, Tony Messenger has spent years in county and municipal courthouses documenting how poor Americans are convicted of minor crimes and then saddled with exorbitant fines and fees. Please read this book." - James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling authorĪs a columnist for the St. "Crucial evidence that the justice system is broken and has to be fixed. "Intimate, raw, and utterly scathing" - Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water ![]() In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished. ![]() |