5/10/2023 0 Comments Wayward by chuck wendig![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The survivors, sleepwalkers and shepherds alike, have a dream of rebuilding human society. Because the sleepwalking epidemic was only the first in a chain of events that led to the end of the world-and the birth of a new one. Their secret destination: Ouray, a small town in Colorado that would become one of the last outposts of civilization. They were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. ![]() "If King had written a sequel to The Stand, it might look something like this monumental epic of a story."-James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of Bones "As great as Wanderers was, Wayward is better."-Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. "If King had written a sequel to The Stand, it might look something like this monumental epic of a story."-James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of Bones "As great as Wanderers was, Wayward is better."-Christopher Golden. ![]()
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His play on words, blatant come-ons, raunchy flirting and in your face Halloween costumes opened a door to her that she never knew she was able to enter. Just by being himself, Dane brought out the other side of Larsen. ![]() Holy fireballs! Dane and Larsen are HOT!!! Their dirty flirting was hilarious and more times than not, a precursor to their dirtier, naughtier activities. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Tai pan james clavell review![]() ![]() I also read this book with my co-worker, Sean, as a part of our one-on-one book club focused on Asian writers (I’m a very social reader - reading with someone or reading something with a connection to someone is so much more enjoyable to me). ![]() What would you say that your answer to the favorite-book question says about you? ![]() I actually just ordered the book to re-read it. My own answer to the question, Love in the Time of Cholera, is accompanied by an asterisk because of how long it has been since I last read the book (several years) and how much I may have changed since then. My hunch is that for most people, the answer to the question, “what is your favorite book?” is not super revealing. It made me wonder about the favorite books of my other friends and family members - Would their choice of favorite book say a lot about them? Would it be a special way to get closer to them or to better understand their tastes? Reading King Rat with these questions in the back of my mind added a layer of engagement that I really enjoyed. I chose to read this book because a friend of mine, Austin, told me that it was his favorite book. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Alex a cold fury hockey novel![]() ![]() But when the friction between Roman and her new family heats up, Lexi wonders whether she's a pawn in their game. As one relationship takes off, another begins: Brian seems to be clicking with Lexi's boss at the coffee shop. That's where she first meets sexy, intimidating Roman-who's really a big softie at heart. Lexi Robertson came to Raleigh, North Carolina, to finally meet her father, Brian Brannon, and her half sister, Gray, both of whom work in the Cold Fury's front office. Luckily he's got an enticing distraction: a fun-loving barista who plays the ukulele and brings out a side of Roman he didn't know he had. t now Roman's feeling the burn from management to clean up his act, or else. When he's not chilling in the penalty box, the sizzling Czech skate demon is racking up tabloid headlines for his scandalous behavior with the ladies. ![]() In a league full of troublemakers, Cold Fury defenseman Roman Sykora stands out-at least when it comes to negative publicity. By Bennett, Sawyer Read by Dukehart, Cris Halstead, Graham ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments The midnight library book buy![]() Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction Reviews An instant New York Times bestseller Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. ![]() The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits." -The Washington Post Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon ![]() ![]() #53 in Bestselling Audiobooks #5 in Bestselling Science Fiction Audiobooks ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Monsters born and made![]() ![]() Many of the great Greek monsters were descendants of Typhon, the most deadly monster of Greek mythology. In this section, you'll learn interesting facts and information about the many creatures and monsters of ancient Greek mythology Children of Typhon There were also many fabulous animals such as the Nemean Lion, golden-fleeced Ram and the winged horse Pegasus, not to mention the creatures of legend such as the Phoenix, the Griffin and Unicorns. ![]() Luckily for the heroes, the Ancient Greeks had the strangest, coolest, most terrifying creatures & monsters mythology had to offer ranging from Dragons, Giants, Demons and Ghosts, to multi-formed creatures such as the Sphinx, Minotaur, Centaurs, Manticores & Chimaera. The heroes are probably the best-known part of Greek mythology, but what makes a hero? Creatures and Monsters from Greek Mythology ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Book hild![]() At this point in history (the seventh century A.D.), many lords and kings reign over their tribes and small kingdoms, constantly warring and striving to dominate the others and become overking of the Angles. Middle Ages Britain is, if you’ll pardon my middlebrow analogy, a lot like the human settlements in the Lord of the Rings movies: dark and filthy halls, flagons of ale, angry warriors stomping around with swords and wearing stinky furs. Seattle-based author Nicola Griffith depicts a complex and deeply unfamiliar setting - we’re talking Beowulf times here - in her imaginative reconstruction of the young life of the woman who would become St. Or maybe it’s not, because there won’t be anything to find fault with in this vibrant, painstakingly detailed portrait of life in Britain in the Middle Ages. ![]() If you’re one of those readers who enjoys grumbling about anachronisms and sloppy writing in historical novels, then Hild is the book for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is about rabbits who live lives in their environment. It was the author’s debut novel that won some book awards, including the prestigious annual Carnegie Medal and also the annual Guardian Prize. He also looks after his little brother, Fiver, a fragile soul prone to odd hallucinations. ![]() ![]() Hazel, our protagonist, is a youngster scratching out a living as best he can on the outskirts of society. Although Adams’s daughters, for whom he wrote the story, have said that he repeatedly disavowed any allegorical interpretations of his anthropomorphic fantasy-ranging from communism to Christianity-the late author didn’t mince words when it came to a message about humanity’s impact on the environment: “Men will never rest till they’ve spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. Watership Down pdf free download is an adventure novel by an English author Richard Adams. An epic Low Fantasy adventure novel written by Richard Adams, first published in 1972. ![]() Led by reluctant rabbit-in-chief Hazel, the budding colony must contend with various elil, the word for the thousand natural enemies of rabbits in Adams’s inventive Lapine language, as they seek a home where they can finally live in peace. They head off in search of greener pastures and eventually settle on the hillside of Watership Down. Watership Down was similarly popular in the US, where it became Penguin’s all-time best seller, with 50 million copies in print across 18 languages. Richard Adams’s classic tale of escape, adventure and survival- winner of the 1972 Carnegie Medal in Literature and the 1973 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-follows a group of rabbits as they flee a warren doomed by the encroachment of man. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis, Kansas City and Boston, it is the story of epic, transformative times and two violent men, who meet on a descent into blood and Hell. ![]() Filled with real events and real heroes and villains, who rampaged from New York's Bowery through to Chicago, St. It is a story of murder and revenge, set during the rise of organized crime in America from 1900 to 1912 when the Irish Mob ruled all major American cities, only to be taken down by its own hubris and the rise of the Jewish and Italian Mobs into labor racketeering and, then, bootlegging. This year, his newly-written historical novel, The Circus of Satan, will be published. He is now at work on the third book in The Sentinel Trilogy, currently untitled, while The Sentinel and The Guardian are being mounted for e-book sales. The Sentinel sequel, The Guardian, was also a bestseller along with his next book, Monster. Based on Jeffrey Konvitzs best-selling novel, this contemporary gothic chiller features amazing special makeup effects by the legendary Dick Smith (THE. His first published novel (Simon and Schuster and Ballantine) was The Sentinel, which rose to Number 2 on the New York Times Mass Market Best Seller List. Jeffrey Konvitz was born in New York City, but after graduating from Cornell University and Columbia Law School, he headed to Los Angeles, where he lives and works as an entertainment finance attorney, producer (The Sentinel and Spy Hard, among others) and novelist. THE SENTINEL By Jeffrey Konvitz (Original publication date: 1974) My suspicion is that there was a different expectation from horror in the 1970s. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Grace by robert lacey![]() ![]() ![]() He weaves the tale of a complex and surprisingly conflicted woman who created a dream for herself and lived it. ![]() Through hundred's of interviews with Grace's family and friends, Robert Lacey is the first author to penetrate the storybook facade. Peopled with an extraordinary cast of characters, Grace is a rich and riveting story. He reveals the misadventures of the Grimaldi children since their mother's death- the paternity suits against Prince Albert, Princess Stephanie's children born out of wedlock, the marriage and romances of Princess Caroline. Robert Lacey reveals new details about Grace's tragic, early death. Half marriage of convenience, half genuine love match, their tumultuous relationship formed the backdrop for a romance no Hollywood writer could have scripted. Lacey captures the pageantry of the 1956 marriage, then focuses on the somewhat sleazy reality behind Monacos charming facade and its easily bored, practical. After a string of passionate affairs with leading film stars such as Clark Gable, Ray Milland and William Holden, Grace met and married her Prince. From the moment Grace Kelly stepped before the movie camera in 1950, the world was captivated by this stunningly beautiful yet elusive actress. ![]() |