![]() My characters are based loosely in mythology with some kick-but mythical creatures such as demons, witches, and fey-like beings. Shadow Quest is a unique mix of genres that incorporates paranormal romance, fantasy, and science fiction romance. Q - Tell us a little bit about your Shadow Quest series. ![]() But those whom she escaped want her back and will stop at nothing to reclaim her. And when Analia is discovered, she must keep her secrets close while contending with her freshly awakened desire for the brutally handsome demon. Staying hidden from the fearsome demon captain and his crew proves impossible, however. ![]() Risking her life, she stows away on a passing merchant ship, which could lead to freedom.or a life worse than death. He needs her forever.Īfter years of captivity by man who cruelly exploits her mysterious powers, Analia makes a desperate and dangerous bid to escape. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Savaged by a Rabid, he miraculously pulled through, but now he's a Werewolf. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedom.Ĭhase is a survivor too, only he didn't get away so lightly. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity to undermine it – to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true self. Marked as Pack, but Human, not Werewolf, Bryn is something of an oddity. Ever since a Rabid killed her family – only narrowly escaping herself – she's been under the care of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callum. Perfect reading for the paranormal fan.īryn has lived almost all her life around Werewolves. Summary: A book that showcases all that is good about the paranormal fantasy genre – fast-paced, action-packed, with really interesting and otherworldly paranormal characters and just a touch of romance to sweeten the mix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl.as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies. A spellbinding New York Times bestseller (Booklist starred review): When a conspiracy leads to a rash of murder-suicides, rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk. At first her sole aim is to get out alive - until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Throughout her childhood she is plagued by ever more terrifying troubles, but she is protected by a mysterious stranger who acts as her guardian. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.Ĭhyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author) 4.37 Rating details 227 ratings 6 reviews Lightning: The first time the lightning strikes, Laura Shane is born. ![]() A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. ![]() ![]() The Iron Giant is terrific for what it does, and with its simple ideas, we have a film that accomplishes much more than what we would get than your usual film that overdoes everything in order to grab the viewer's attention. ![]() This is a great movie, one that should be enjoyed by anyone that loves a solid animated feature. The film is tailored to anyone that enjoys a fun, entertaining picture that is beautiful to look at and is engaging from start to finish. The film isn't your typical animated features such as the computer animated ventures of Pixar, and this one venture more in the cartoon department, but it does it very well that it can appeal to any age group. The Iron Giant boasts a great cast of varied voice talent, and they brilliantly bring these characters to life. This is a fine piece of animation, a film that really is well done in the way they delivered its ideas, and it is an enthralling, wonderful movie that I recommend to any viewer that enjoys a solid animated feature. I thoroughly enjoyed the film, and it boasts some great animation, effective direction that keeps you entertained with its story, which is pretty simple, and in doing that, we have something quite charming, funny, entertaining and of course memorable. ![]() Brilliant animated feature, The Iron Giant is an entertaining ride from start to finish, and a real treat for the eyes. ![]() ![]() Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. ![]() ![]() With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. ![]() * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * ![]() ![]() ![]() Bobby Ray Dean grew up in a single parent home with an absent father, his mother was a prostitute who overdosed one night and left him alone in the world, a fact that was concealed from him for a time. The first thing to know about Roman is that he used to be Bobby Ray Dean, a person that he has left behind in pursuit of new opportunities. To those who know him better, he is a dark and brooding soul who is angry at God, mad at the world, and afraid to voice the events of his past. ![]() Roman Velasco is a wealthy and successful artist who appears to have it all together….at least…in the eyes of the public. ![]() The Masterpiece deals with subjects such as childhood trauma and abuse, absent parents, street culture, gangs, romantic relationships, mentors, death, grief, bitterness, pain, evil, near-death experiences, single parenthood, broken lives, and the healing power of God’s love and forgiveness. ![]() It meets somewhere in the middle and adds many intriguing elements to become one of the most unique tales on the market today. This is not your typical romance novel nor is it your typical prodigal son tale either. This new novel tells the tale of two hurting people, one has buried his past with the hopes of escaping the darkness of his life, and the other has picked up the broken pieces of her life and is trying to move forward. UPDATE: The rating for this novel has been changed after further review by our team. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rotting wood structure seemed to be part of the earth itself, and spoke bluntly of the many years of winter storms it had survived.Ĭircus paraphernalia lay everywhere. The barn’s rock supports had tumbled down at every corner, resembling small volcanoes with boulders spewed in all directions. ![]() It was from there both baby sounds emanated.Ī rutted dirt road snaked up the center of the farm, separating the pale yellow German-Swiss style two-story house from the large, old, rock and timber barn. It seemed to rest, but for a moment, at the foot of Olymstroem Mountain upon a rather small but quaint old German farm. The first sunlight of the morning bathed the chilly Hagendorf Valley with its burnt ochre sphere. ![]() They drifted over the countryside, beyond the river, across the corn rows and the desolate fields of last summer’s picking. ![]() Then, together, they joined-the wailing and trumpeting became one. It, too, was whisked away through the thermals, swirling and dashing about until it met its kin. Deeper, brassy, trumpety, but still a…baby sound. ON A GRAY, FOGGY MORNING THEY CAME, rising on the cold north winds from the icy peaks, sweeping across the timber land into the gray, misty valleys of the Black Forest… baby sounds! Somewhere below the fog layer, the insistent wails of a baby could be heard, their temerity as if from Mother Earth herself.Īnd then another voice arose. ![]() ![]() ![]() In doing so, she creates a lasting and unique study of the author, his writing, and his creativity. Guignery taps her vast knowledge of Barnes's work to uncover delightful surprises from the rich archive of materials held at the Harry Ransom Center. It's a fascinating work of scholarship about Julian Barnes's creative process that Barnes himself read in draft and commented on prior to publication. ![]() Vanessa Guignery publishes Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer's Archives. Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer's Archives - Vanessa Guignery Edited and with a chronology by Vanessa Guignery. Translated from the English by Jean-Pierre Aoustin and Jean Guiloineau. ![]() 24.Ģ8 October 2021 - Publication of Romans by Gallimard. ġ6 December 2021 - " Flaubert at Two Hundred." London Review of Books, vol. Julian Barnes on books and authors in this Q&A for The Guardian.ħ April 2022 - " Can a rabbit talk to a cat? Lartigue takes a leap." London Review of Books, vol. ġ July 2022 - " Julian Barnes: ‘When I first read EM Forster, I thought he was a bit wet’." The Guardian. 27 July 2022 - " In 1971, I felt Larkin was speaking directly to me," New Statesman. ![]() ![]() ![]() He returned with thousands of specimens of plants and animals, generating enormous interest in Europe, while the racy accounts of his amorous adventures in Tahiti made him one of the most famous and notorious men in England.Īs the longest-serving president of Britain's Royal Society, Banks was perhaps the most important man in the scientific world for more than half a century. Financing his own team of scientists and artists, Banks battled high seas, hailstorms, treacherous coral reefs and hostile locals to expand the world's knowledge of life on distant shores. In 1768, as a galivanting young playboy, he joined Captain James Cook's Endeavour expedition to the South Pacific. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge.įabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and the Arctic. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery ![]() ![]() Year One moves fairly quickly, jumping from various important characters to the next, and that was kind of my biggest issue with it. This is what we will see when an epidemic happens. ![]() I find being able to picture the boring logistics of trying to get people to emergency rooms, doctors struggling to cope with the onslaught of sick people and their desperate families to be somewhat comforting. My favourite parts were in the beginning, when the world was going to shit and people were getting rushed to the hospital. It wipes out the majority of the population, but it also sparks an awakening in folks with magic in their blood - strengthening their powers, which will either help them survive or make them targets. What appears to be a regular hunting expedition turns deadly days later when the shooter is afflicted by an incurable disease that spreads like wildfire across the globe. ![]() ![]() It starts out with a family vacation in Scotland, when a peasant is shot and falls right in the middle of a stone circle, and its blood seeps into the frosted ground. ![]() My first Nora Roberts! The two books were a gift from my friend who’s a huge Nora Roberts fan, and she thought Year One could be a good entry point because I’m a real sucker for dystopia fiction. ![]() |