![]() Michael describes this endeavor as something he did “just for fun with no intention of publishing.” After presenting the first manuscript to his daughter, he was chagrined that she declared, “I can’t read it like this, can’t you get it published?” ![]() Each of the six books was written as an individual episode but also included intertwining elements and mysteries that develop over time. Intrigued by the idea of writing a series with an overarching story line, he created the Riyria Revelations. The itch returned when he decided to create a series of books for his then thirteen-year-old daughter, who was struggling in school due to dyslexia. ![]() Michael discovered that never is a very long time, and he ended his writing hiatus after a decade. ![]() During that time, he wrote twelve novels, and after finding no traction in publishing, he gave up and vowed never to write creatively again. For ten years Michael developed his craft by studying authors such as Stephen King, Ayn Rand, and John Steinbeck. But the desire to fill the blank page and see what doors the typewriter keys would unlock wouldn’t let him go. Well, he was just eight years old at the time, so we’ll forgive him that trespass. After finding a manual typewriter in the basement of a friend’s house, Michael inserted a blank piece of paper and typed: It was a dark and stormy night and a shot rang out. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mixing traits extracted from her profound knowledge of anthropology acquired from growing up with her father, the famous anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. She was known for her treatment of gender ( The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems ( The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. ![]() ![]() Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() Afraid that it will hurt and that she will not be able to sail to Buck’s Harbor with her dad, Sal becomes distressed but is reassured by mom that a loose tooth is just one of many childhood passages to becoming a grownup. Sal wakes up one morning to discover she has a loose tooth. To this day I still cringe when I hear a door slam. Annie would like to make me sweat and enjoyed giving it a couple of practice runs not enough force to yank out the tooth, but enough to draw blood. Sometimes he would let my sister do the honors. Standing a good couple of paces from the open door, anxiety would build while I wait for the door to slam and set in motion a chain of events that would send my tooth flying through the air. ![]() ![]() My dad would tie one end of the string around the loose tooth and the other end to a doorknob. There was a time-honored tradition in our family whenever my sister and I had a loose tooth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. ![]() But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. ![]() In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor-engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even greater pain awaits. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. ![]() ![]() ![]() Independently wealthy, he runs a boutique printing press and is a popular and respected member of the Little Wesley township. In Deep Water (1957) Vic Van Allen seemingly has it all. However, beneath this finely polished surface seep the irritations, perversions and desires that were always going to make the realisation of that dream impossible. From the outside her characters appear, or at least believe they appear, to be living a perfect life-the post-war American Dream. Like her most famous character, Tom Ripley, Highsmith is something of an aesthete, and her characters are almost always well dressed and would never let something as bothersome as murder get in the way of cocktail hour or a dinner party at the neighbours’. While most of her novels have what she describes as ‘slow, even tranquil beginnings,’ there’s guaranteed to be a body count before too long. Her narratives are geared to unsettle, bringing readers up close and personal with what she calls her ‘hero-criminals’-charming psychopaths, peeping toms, men caught between a rock and a hard place and quick to part with their moral scruples. Perhaps most famous for her novels Strangers on a Train (1950) and The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), Highsmith crafts suspense like no other. If you are yet to enjoy the thrill of a Patricia Highsmith story, you’re really missing out. Margot McGovern dives into a lesser known Highsmith. ![]() ![]() ![]() From England’s shores to China’s palaces, from the Silk Road’s outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland, Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from powerful adversaries around the globe. Our Best Sale Yet Add 4 Books Priced Under 5 To Your Cart Learn more. The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage fraught with peril and intrigue. See all of the Temeraire books in order and find cheap used copies - used books as low as 3.94 with free shipping at. But the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial dragon intended for Napoleon–Temeraire himself– has fallen into British hands. Thrust into England’s Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation’s history. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo–an incalculably valuable dragon egg. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Raiku Dynasty, another titan in the political hierarchy of the Milky Way, in an attempt to seize resources that will further their progress, invades the territories of Earthfront and Keden. ![]() Iron Five is a military unit under the control of Earthfront, one of the leading powers-that-be, powers engaged in an intergalactic race to bridge the gap to a new galaxy. Keden and Earth have a history of bad blood, making their alliance solely one of convenience. The events in this book happen eight hundred and ninety-five years into the future, in a time when man has colonized much of the galaxy, where powerful governments and corporations control star systems throughout known space. ![]() ![]() ![]() Redeeming Love was released in 1991, and yet it is still a top-selling Francine Rivers book in the Christian fiction industry to this day – which is pretty impressive! Well, that’s how I feel about it at least. We do love when books become movies because as readers, we know that we have the inside scoop on all the details and twists and turns. Yes, it’s that movie you are thinking of! Trying Something New The book is based on the biblical story of Gomer and Hosea, and it’s called Redeeming Love. ![]() Why is it important to note that she is a born-again Christian, you ask? Well, that’s because the book she wrote after this period in her life is arguably her most notable piece of work, and I am sure it will sound familiar to you. She wrote historical romances for many years until she became a born-again Christian in 1986. Rivers has enjoyed a successful writing career and is a New York Times best-seller. American author Francine Rivers writes fiction novels with strong Christian themes, which include romance novels that are quite inspirational. ![]() ![]() And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan.Katherine Rundell’s fifth novel is a heist as never seen before – the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong. She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. ![]() ![]() But he still thinks he has one more big score in. ![]() Seeing Jack’s spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home. Bob (Nick Nolte) is an aging thief who has seen better days and is battling both an addiction to heroin and a growing gambling problem. I cannot emphasize enough on how Katherine Rundell has perfectly represented the character of Vita, a disabled but iron willed polio survivor. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. The Good Thieves is a story of friendship and the battle of good against evil. Katherine Rundells fifth novel is a heist as never seen before - the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong. Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell … _ FOYLES CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019From the winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award _ ‘An amazing adventure story, told with sparkling style and sleight of hand’ – Jacqueline Wilson ‘Read everything she writes’ – Daily Mail _Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Underground Man's every word anticipates the words of an other, with whom he enters into an obsessive internal polemic. According to Mikhail Bakhtin, in the Underground Man's confession "there is literally not a single monologically firm, undissociated word". Although the first part of the novella has the form of a monologue, the narrator's form of address to his reader is acutely dialogized. The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St. ![]() ![]() It is a first-person narrative in the form of a " confession": the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title "A Confession". Notes from Underground ( pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapíski iz podpólʹya also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. ![]() |