![]() ![]() " The Golden Braid is a delightful, page-turning retelling of the story of Rapunzel. How will Rapunzel finally take control of her own destiny? And who will prove faithful to a lowly peasant girl with no one to turn to? In this Rapunzel story unlike any other, a world of secrets and treachery is about to be revealed after seventeen years of lies. Could there be more to this knight than his arrogance and desire to marry for riches and position?Īs Rapunzel acclimates to life in a new city, she uncovers a mystery that will forever change her life. As a result, Sir Gerek agrees to repay his debt to Rapunzel by teaching her to read. The journey proves treacherous, and after being rescued by a knightSir GerekRapunzel in turn rescues him farther down the road. After a young village farmer asks for Rapunzels hand in marriage, Mother decides to move them once againthis time, to the large city of Hagenheim. ![]() But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry.įiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter and warns her that no man can be trusted. ![]() She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. The one who needs rescuing isnt always the one in the tower. From New York Times bestselling author comes The Golden Braid! ![]()
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![]() She takes a team to Vaycehn to investigate a phenomenon called death holes, thinking they might lead her to stealth tech. Flint must enforce the law, giving the children to aliens, solving the murders, and arresting the woman for trying to save her own life. by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Author) (115) Years after stumbling across her first Dignity Vessel, Boss now leads a team of people searching for loose stealth technology. Miles becomes embroiled in a bizarre case involving a stolen spaceyacht filled with dead bodies.a triple murder, the kidnapping of two human children, and a woman on the run. The catch: Flint isn't working on the side of the law. His job: Hunt down the Disappeared, outlaws on the run, wanted for crimes against alien cultures. Meet the Retrieval Artists, private detectives who help the lost return home. One group of private detectives is willing to help the "Disappeared". The Disappeared Kristine Kathryn Rusch 3.77 2,099 ratings253 reviews In a universe where humans and aliens co-exist and have formed a loose government called the Earth Alliance, treaties guarantee that humans are subject to alien laws when on alien soil. But alien laws often make no sense, where murder is sanctioned, and where no one can find safe haven, and the punishments vary from loss of life to loss of a first-born child. In a universe where humans and aliens co-exist and have formed a loose government called the Earth Alliance, treaties guarantee that humans are subject to alien laws when on alien soil. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The barnstorming circus has lady pilots, daredevil stuntmen, fire-spinners, and wing walkers, and Birdie is instantly enchanted-especially with a girl pilot named June. When Birdie sees a leaflet for a barnstorming circus with a picture of Dad’s plane on it, she goes to Coney Island in search of answers. Her father’s bank has failed, and worse, he’s disappeared along with his Jenny biplane. ![]() It’s 1930, and Birdie William’s life has crashed along with the stock market. Here is a story about falling-falling from grace, falling in love-as well as soaring to heights you wouldn’t know were possible if you never stepped out into thin air. A book to be re-read over, and over, and over again." -Katherine Locke, award-winning author of The Girl with the Red Balloon "I imagine wing-walking and reading An Impossible Distance to Fall feel a great deal the same: heart-stopping, thrill-seeking and addictive. ![]() ![]() ![]() To celebrate the book’s ten-year anniversary, a limited run of a special edition of Fifty Shades of Grey will be released in the US and Canada on April 5, 2022. With the release of the movies beginning in 2015, fans who love Fifty Shades of Grey got to put faces with the names Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele as the book came alive on the big screen and became one of the hottest erotic romance movies.ĮL James’ latest installment to the series, Freed, was released in 2021, which has only continued the books and series’ popularity. The first three books of the series later claimed the top three spots on the best-selling books of the decade list. ![]() New York Times bestseller, Fifty Shades of Grey has captured the eyes and attention of many readers since the first book in the series came on the scene in 2011. Is there anyone who hasn’t heard of Fifty Shades of Grey? ![]() Looking for a BDSM book like Fifty Shades of Grey or one to read instead of it? Check out this book list! ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Sula by toni morrison![]() ![]() Sula and Nel begin a friendship and are soon threatened by a gang of harassing Irish Catholic white boys. Eva's devotion to Plum does not allow her to watch him decay, so, after rocking him to sleep one night, she kills him by dousing his bed with kerosene and lighting it. Her son, Plum, returns from World War I emotionally wrecked and sinks under his sadness into alcoholism and drug addiction. The matriarchal Eva rules the household from a rocking chair fitted into a child's wagon. One-legged Eva Peace, her daughter Hannah, and Hannah's child, Sula, live in a large house filled with friends, extended family, and assorted boarders. Her daughter, Nel, watches and vows never to let anyone belittle her so cruelly. During a journey by train back to New Orleans to visit her ailing, beloved grandmother, she is humiliated by a bigoted white conductor. Helene Sabat, the daughter of a New Orleans prostitute, marries Wiley Wright, a man from the Bottom, and establishes a respectable home there. ![]() Alone and disoriented, Shadrack drifts back to his home in the Bottom, where he becomes known for his eccentricity and for creating National Suicide Day, January 3, a day once a year on which people can commit suicide and not be stigmatized for doing so. Just after the end of World War I, Shadrack, a black, shell-shocked veteran, is released from the military hospital where he is being treated for battle stress. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Elantris goodreads![]() ![]() Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping - based on their correspondence - to also find love. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling.Īrelon’s new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. ![]() Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. So, without further preamble, let’s jump into my thoughts on Elantris.Įlantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. He’s a brilliant writer of vastly different stories, and we are here to talk about one of those today. ![]() Since my teenage years I have read no less than eight of his books, including Elantris, and I’ve given them all a five star rating. It’s no secret that Brandon Sanderson is one of my favourite fantasy authors. Hi guys and welcome back to another blog post – a book review! In today’s post I’ll be sharing my thoughts on a highly-rated read from last year… Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Books like a town like alice![]() ![]() ![]() They helped fuel the surge of “ten-pound Poms” taking up the Australian government’s offer of assisted migration. Starting that year with A Town Like Alice, his immensely popular books portrayed Australia as a sunny land of opportunity - and plentiful steak and eggs - contrasted with a tightly rationed Britain in the grip of complacent civil servants and envy-ridden politicians. This bestselling British author had upped sticks and moved to Australia in 1950, and would spend the last decade of his life on a property southeast of Melbourne. Despite the quip that Melbourne was “the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world,” falsely attributed to Gardner, the British-born Shute showed great affection for the city, and indeed for Australia as whole. ![]() Many people have been reminded of that novel - or the film version starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner - in the depths of the pandemic lockdowns. Shute is best known for On the Beach, his 1957 novel about a Melbourne awaiting the deadly fallout from a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. I managed to reread Ulysses, but I also found myself tackling the less demanding works of Nevil Shute, the popular writer of the 1940s and 1950s. Some people used the lockdown to finally get around to reading Proust or Joyce. ![]() ![]() ![]() Manuscripts were translated from Latin into the Anglo-Saxon tongue and Norman French and widely distributed throughout Britain. Blending and embellishing many strands of the oral tradition, then setting the action in his own times, he forged the first Arthurian novel. ![]() In 1138 Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote the "semi-historical" History of the Kings of Britain, devoting half of his work to the exploits of Arthur. He is referred to by the Welsh chronicler Nennius in the 9th century and figures prominently in British historical annals of the 10th century. His name first appears in a long Welsh poem of the 7th century, Y Goddodin. This fearless leader was famous in his own time, and over the centuries his legend grew as storytellers awed their audiences with tales of his exploits. ![]() The figure of King Arthur was probably based upon a Celtic king or chieftain who lived in southwestern England during the 6th century and led his warriors against invading armies of Saxons. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The Keep by F. Paul Wilson![]() ![]() Unwilling to start a series character at the time, Wilson refused to write a second Repairman Jack novel until Legacies in 1998. ![]() Costello, created and scripted FTL Newsfeed, which ran daily on the Sci-Fi Channel from 1992 to 1996.Īmong Wilson's best-known characters is the anti-hero Repairman Jack, an urban mercenary introduced in the 1984 New York Times bestseller The Tomb. In the 1990s, he moved from science fiction and horror to medical thrillers and interactive scripting for Disney Interactive and other multimedia companies. ![]() ![]() In 1981, he ventured into the horror genre with the international bestseller The Keep, which was adapted into a film in 1983. Wilson made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school (graduating in 1973), and continued to write science fiction throughout the seventies. Wilson has won the Prometheus Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Inkpot Award from the San Diego ComiCon, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers of America, among other honors. His books include the Repairman Jack novels-including Ground Zero, The Tomb, and Fatal Error-the Adversary cycle-including The Keep-and a young adult series featuring the teenage Jack. Francis Paul Wilson (born May 17, 1946, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American medical doctor and author of horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, and other genres of literary fiction. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Alliance by Danyele Johnson![]() ![]() Hudson Yarde’s life revolves around being Keller’s wingman, it’s a full time job with both it’s perks and drawbacks. When it’s all said and done, can he ever go back to the way things were? But when a war brews and the campus is closed, he will find out a lot of things about himself, what he is, who he is and who he wants to become. Growing up in the boarding school for demon and angel Halves, he’s known no other life. No one except for Hudson, his best friend, his brother in every sense of the word except blood. In all his seventeen years, he’s never had anyone, a mom nor a dad to show him what love means. Seeing that he is an incubus, so you can hardly blame him. Keller Witmore is a bang ‘em and leave ‘em kind of guy. Excessive language and sexual situations may not be suitable for younger teens. Warning - This book is intended for mature audience. ![]() Note: Alternate/new cover edition for ASIN# B00CLY1H0A ![]() |