![]() Is it any wonder he can't find a date?Įxpanding on Book Two of Jim Butcher's New York Times bestselling saga, and featuring writer Mark Powers and artist Chase Conley, Fool Moon collects the first half of the 8-issue series in one volume, complete with bonus material and a cover gallery. Before it's all over, Harry will find himself caught between friends, enemies, and arcane forces bent on his destruction. But as is always the case when it comes to the creatures of the Nevernever, there's far more going on than meets the eye. If all that weren't enough, a pack of werewolves have unleashed a wave of terror on the Windy City. And the enigmatic White Council continues to view him with suspicion. ![]() Chicago`s underworld and the cops alike think he's mobster Johnny Marcone's supernatural enforcer. He lives with his family in Independence, Missouri. ![]() His resume includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least 200 years ago, and he turned to writing because anything else probably would have driven him insane. Genre: Mystery, Fantasy, Action Adventure Jim Butcher is a bestselling author and martial arts enthusiast. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Now, with 22 months in the slammer behind him, he’s working on his next book. His chronicle ends with his arrest for fraud. Belfort displays dirty writing skills many basis points above his tricky ilk. A reviewer of Kirkus Reviews added "It is crass, certainly, and vulgar-and a hell of a read. But it reports only surface events, never revealing what motivates Belfort or any of the other characters". The story is told mostly in dialogue, with allegedly contemporaneous mental asides by the author, reported verbatim. As might be expected in the autobiography of a veteran con man with movie rights already sold, it's hard to know how much to believe. The firm was shut down by regulators in the late 1990s, and Belfort was subsequently jailed for securities fraud.Ī reviewer of Publishers Weekly stated "The book's main topic is the vast amount of drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort engaged in order to survive. Belfort's autobiographical account was continued by Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, published in 2009.īelfort tells his real-life story of creating Stratton Oakmont, a brokerage house engaged in pump and dump schemes with penny stocks. The Wolf of Wall Street is a memoir by former stockbroker and trader Jordan Belfort, first published in September 2007 by Bantam Books, then adapted into a 2013 film of the same name (directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort). ![]() ![]() No matter your size, shape, or pedigree-if you love each other, you are a family! Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
![]() Toby's Tails - Still Wagging (Fantasy Farm Tales Book 4)Īlso available in French Toby et Compagnie - Ca bouge toujours! translated by Emilie Baudrez Toby's Tails - Billy and Daisy's Big Adventure (Fantasy Farm Tales Book 3) Toby's Tails - The Chicken Patrol (Fantasy Farm Tales Book 2)Īlso available in French Toby et Compagnie - Le Mystere du Poulailler translated by Emilie Baudrez.Īnd Spanish - La Patrulla de las Gallinas (Fantasy Farm Tales nº 2) translated by Jose Luis Cortes. ![]() Some of the Fantasy Farm series are also available in French and Spanish. Toby's Tails (Book 1) has been nominated as the Judges' choice in Golden Box Book Awards 2017.Ĭoming soon: A special story about an abandoned kitten who comes to live at Fantasy Farm. ![]() There are 8 Fantasy Farm books at the moment and Toby's Tails - Easter at Fantasy Farm won the Favorite Holiday Book category in the 2016 Summer Indie Book Awards. ![]() The star is Toby her Border Collie, and all the animals live on or near her smallholding. ![]() The books offer a wealth of information about family pets and the natural world. Award Winning Children's Book Author, Susan Keefe has written the Fantasy Farm Tales series for children who love animals. ![]() ![]() In the sticky darkness of a July midnight the cat waited there for more than a half hour. The rat had scurried through a gap in the wall of the wooden shack, and the cat was inspecting all the narrow gaps and wondering how the rat had managed to squeeze itself in. Visit our website at to find out more about The Library of America, and to sign up to receive our occasional newsletter with exclusive interviews with Library of America authors and editors, and our popular Story of the Week e-mails.ĪT THE edge of the alleyway facing Vernon Street, a gray cat waited for a large rat to emerge from its hiding place. Each year the Library adds new volumes to its collection of essential works by America’s foremost novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and statesmen. THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America’s best and most significant writing. The Moon in the Gutter copyright © 1953 by the Estate of David Goodis. ![]() No part of the book may be reproduced commercially by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without permission of the publisher. ![]() Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright © 2012 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vane contemplates, “I could give him no notion of who I was. Awakened to his true condition by the question, “Who are you?” Mr. Vane, a man at first unaware he has no real sense of identity. Lilith is a tribute to the power of truth encased in story. Auden wrote in his introduction to the 1954 reprint of Lilith, “George MacDonald is pre-eminently a mythopoeic writer…In his power…to project his inner life into images, beings, landscapes which are valid for all, he is one of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth century.” I’ve decided that my two favorite George MacDonald books, Lilith and Phantastes, are a safe and stimulating way for Christians to experience a godly version of a hallucinogenic drug trip. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t like that Annwyl and the dragon are apart for a year. ![]() I love that Annwyl doesn’t care about being queen she’s like “let someone else do it” Like the battle with Annwyl's brother doesn’t go on too long So bloodthirsty.įearghus' mother is chained up and likes it Their banter was good and I like that Annwly didn’t give any fucks. we thought she was going to bang him as a dragon! Aiken's newest release!įearghus was kind to her as a dragon and then the opposite as a knight.Īnnwyl felt super comfortable in front of him as a dragon. ****Make sure you follow us on Instagram romanceataglance we'll be raffling off G.A. Though, truth be told, we were KINDA (read 100%) hoping for some kinky dragon/human moments! Instead, we got a lot of the feels from those moments. Aiken to us! Dragon actually was a really fun and smutty read and we were not disappointed by the steam level of this book. Thank you to our dear friends on Insta for recommending G.A. Romance at a Glance Reviews Dragon Actually By G.A. ![]() ![]() Scott’s believably childlike narration recounts events and adults’ reactions to them as he understands them. ![]() The author peppers the narrative with tidbits from the early ’60s, such as Tang, MAD magazine and talk of “Ruskies,” “Commies” and duck-and-cover school drills. The book examines racism when Scott’s mother becomes so seriously injured that it seems she will not survive, their neighbor wants to put both her and the family’s black maid out of the shelter to die. ![]() Scott and his friend Ronnie, the rather nasty neighborhood smartass, continue their friendly rivalry in the shelter, while their parents reveal much about their own personalities. In chapters that alternate between their time in the shelter and the weeks leading up to the attack, the story reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the characters. However, when the Civil Defense siren sounds, sending them to the shelter, they can’t keep their neighbors out, even though they have enough food for only their own family. Strasser once again combines terrific suspense with thoughtful depth when the bombs really do fall in this alternate-history Cuban missile crisis thriller.Įleven-year-old Scott’s family becomes the laughingstock of their neighborhood when, worried about possible nuclear attack, they build a bomb shelter. ![]() ![]() ![]() But what happens when the lie is more significant? Sometimes they’re even almost a rite of passage, like the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. Sometimes these lies are understandable, forgivable. If-when-the truth comes out, there are also all sorts of responses: It’s for your own good. Parents lie to their children for all sorts of reasons. She lives in isolation with her father, who has claimed her entire life that there is no way to break the curse. Lena, the main character of Briar Girls, is cursed-the touch of her skin can kill. Then, of course, I had to figure out how to make these characters feel like real (fictional) people, with compelling thoughts, feelings, desires, and pains. ![]() How many characters could I jam into a plot and still hold it all together? I started with Rapunzel and the witch who cursed her, then threw in Sleeping Beauty, Jack (and the Beanstalk), Hansel and Gretel, and made up some of my own tales for good measure. When I started writing Briar Girls, I was mostly thinking about how much I wanted to create an epic fairy tale mashup. Fairy tale curses are familiar territory, but for Briar Girls, author Rebecca Kim Wells wanted to go beyond the supposed curse and look at what that magical apparent impediment would do to those that have it, and how they live going forward. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before long he has reconnected with a one-time comrade-turned-deserter (Bokeem Woodbine) who has turned his back on the UNSC for the life of an outlaw, and whose job seems to be to show Masterchief that there is an existence beyond daily extra-terrestrial mass murder. In the first of two episodes screened so far for press, he stumbles upon a strange glowing artefact on a pioneer world, and after unwittingly activating its mysterious powers begins to experience visions of his former life before being turned into an all-powerful alien-killing badass.Ĭue some serious awol action, as the power-suited soldier grabs the last remaining settler from the planet, a 17-year-old girl (Yerin Ha) and sets off on what we assume will be a journey of self-discovery with wider significance. ![]() ![]() Aficionados will recognise elements of Larry Niven’s Ringworld saga, as well as a heavy hint of Iain M Banks’s Culture novels, while this new version of Masterchief has a Robocop-lite in space vibe. The game and TV show seem to borrow from all the good places in modern sci-fi. ![]() |