![]() Overshadowed by her husband's mistress, the gorgeous, conniving Diane de Poitiers, and unable to bear children, Catherine resorted to the dark arts of sorcery to win Henry's love and enhance her fertility-for which she would pay a price. Violent conflict rent the city state and she found herself imprisoned and threatened by her family's enemies before finally being released and married off to the handsome Prince Henry of France. Born into one of Florence's most powerful families, Catherine was soon left a fabulously rich heiress by the early deaths of her parents. In her latest historical fiction, Jeanne Kalogridis tells Catherine's story-that of a tender young girl, destined to be a pawn in Machiavellian games. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history. Confidante of Nostradamus, scheming mother-in-law to Mary, Queen of Scots, and architect of the bloody St. ![]() ![]() From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author of I, Mona Lisa and The Borgia Bride, comes a new novel that tells the passionate story of a queen who loved not wisely. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Or it might create something far stranger. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction - and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass - still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire - face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. ![]() No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Īn alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. Source: purchased from Audible, supplied by publisher via Edelweiss, supplied by publisher via NetGalleyįormats available: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) by Arkady Martine ![]() ![]() Not only does Jeremy witness the answer to several questions that have puzzled historians about Cabot, but he bumps into a very surprising visitor on The Matthew. After a brief, frightening trip to a storm-tossed Bluenose, Jeremy picks up the stamp depicting The Matthew, the small ship that John Cabot sailed in to discover eastern Canada. He turns again to his grandfather's stamp album and the magical magnifying glass that took him on adventures to the past. In this sequel to Ghost Voyages, stamp traveler Jeremy is once again aboard famous Canadian sailing ships of the past, this time sailing with John Cabot as he claims Newfoundland for England.Įleven-year-old Jeremy's got good reason to get out of the house and get out of the present-demanding letters from a father he hasn't seen since he was four have got his mother really upset. ![]() (In this sequel to Ghost Voyages, stamp traveler Jeremy is.) ![]() ![]() ![]() Though I’m sure anyone who skipped Brynn and Tom’s story will immediately want to go back and rectify that after devouring this one. I received a free copy through the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.Ĥ stars - Well that was just some good old fashioned fun goodness!! A perfect complement to Man Hands, while you don’t need to read the first book to enjoy this one, I highly recommend that you check out both. Eventually I'll win her over.if my past doesn't ruin everything first. They don't call her the Ashkicker for nothing. And nothing gets me going faster than her contempt for me. She's the sweet cream to my gourmet espresso. Two: never trust a man with a unibrow.Ash is my missing my piece. One: Ash and I are destined for each other. He's a manipulating mansplaining party boy in preppy clothes.So why can't I get him out of my head?īrahtThere are two things I know without question. But somehow I went from throwing down to kneeling down. One minute I was arguing with my arrogant competitor-our usual trash-talk over who deserves the larger commission. Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2018 #LetsReadIndie Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 AtoZ Reading Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 New Release Challengeįind it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon ✩ B&N ✩ Kobo ✩ iBooks ✩ IndieBoundĪshI still don't know how it happened. Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Romantic Comedy ![]() ![]() If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. ![]() ![]() Bryan’s Grandville series stars a steampunk badger and while his magnum opus Alice in Sunderland may start in modern Britain, its twists and turns connect prehistoric beasts, Humpty Dumpty and Sid James. Two of Britain’s finest graphic novelists, the husband and wife team have previously covered the Paris Commune and imperialism in the South Pacific ( The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia) and the women’s suffrage movement ( Sally Heathcote: Suffragette). ![]() The samosa-bearing aid worker isn’t the only person on unfamiliar ground: with its tight contemporary focus, Rain is something of a departure for Mary and Bryan Talbot too. “Not usually in Yorkshire, though!” That natural disasters can and increasingly will affect not just people in rolling news stories a long way away but anyone, anywhere, is at the heart of Rain, a love story that’s also a flood story. “W e provide help in disaster areas all around the world,” says the aid agency volunteer serving warm samosas. ![]() ![]() See the 2014 movie with Julianne Moore (Oscar for Best Actress) and Alec Baldwin. ![]() ![]() Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.Īlice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life.Īs confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. ![]() Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. ![]() ![]() ![]() I chugged shots books like no one’s business. And the past six months were an epic party: I felt invincible. I read the revised edition of The Gunslinger! I even read The Wind Through the Keyhole!Īnd this series is epic…it was penned by The Master, after all!īut so much epic-ness has a consequence. If you have been following this blog at all over the past 6 months or so (and I truly thank both all of my devoted fans), you would know that I just finished reading all eight (all eight!) Dark Tower books. I have had my share of the other kind of hangover, but given that this blog is devoted to all things nerdy, I thought I would acknowledge book hangovers…after all, the struggle is real! Yeah, nothing like reading an awesome book series, going crazy and having all kinds of fun… Well, maybe its not quite that bad, but they are no fun. Until you wake up, and can’t piece together your night, and find out later that you had some wild shenanigans with your friends and maybe even got married the previous night… You have fun, you party hard and life is good! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t conduct a detailed cross examination or anything like that. The revised version is actually set in the 70s, the place names are switched around a bit, and there’s a few paragraphs that are moved around/added/deleted. The changes in the revised text, as far as I can tell, were minor. In 1978 another film version was made, and Finney updated his novel to coincide with the release of the new movie and to make the book more appealing for a younger generation After this, reprints of the book bore the film’s title. The movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers came out in 1956. The first whole edition came out in 1955. The Body Snatchers was originally serialised in Colliers Magazine in 1954. I wish somebody had told me this before I read the book. If you haven’t read The Body Snatchers already, let me tell you a bit about its history before you rush out to buy a copy. I didn’t know they were based on a book until I saw this novel being discussed in Stephen King’s Danse Macabre, a history of horror. I have known of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers movies and had an idea of what they were about for as long as I remember, but I have never actually seen either of them. Dell Books – 1955 (Originally serialised 1954) ![]() ![]() Bumpy initially, the story becomes steadily more engrossing as Kade finds her feet stylistically and her characters' voices and identities develop. Alona is part of the clamoring crowd at first, and by the time she learns to work with Will, it might be too late for him to avoid the mental hospital and make it to graduation. ![]() review 1: I love this book for what it is- its a. and the Goth series consist of 3 paranormal books written by Stacey Kade. Author: Stacey Kade, Book: The Ghost and the Goth (2010), Series: The Ghost and the Goth in PDF,EPUB. ![]() Will, in fact, can see and speak with the dead, who overwhelm him with their demands to take care of last requests. See all of the The Ghost and the Goth books in order and find cheap used. While Alona is learning to cope with the fact that a ghost can't be the center of attention (and that her friends aren't as genuine as she believed them to be), her narration alternates with that of one of her former classmates, Will, a social outcast fighting a diagnosis of mental illness. Alona has secrets, but before readers can discover them, she gets killed ("God, buses are so ugly when you see them that close up"). The sneering heroine of Kade's debut novel, the aptly named Alona, rules her high school's social scene with an iron fist. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was not a main character in any novel.) Killashandra (1986) ISBN 0-2 (includes a Brainship from the Ship series by the same author, in the same setting, in a minor role.Crystal Singer (1982) ISBN 6-1 (first published in four parts in the anthologies Continuum 1, 2, 3, & 4, edited by Roger Elwood).Source of invaluable crystals vital to various industries, the Heptite Guild is known to require absolute, perfect pitch in hearing and voice for all applicants, especially those seeking to mine crystal by song. Ballybran is home to one of the FSP's wealthiest, yet most reclusive organizations-the Heptite Guild. The series is set on the planet Ballybran which is under a permanent biohazard travel restriction. The Crystal Singer series is a series of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey. ![]() JSTOR ( July 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Crystal Singer series" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. ![]() |