![]() ![]() Now with twenty pages of bonus material, including an exclusive interview with Peter V. Yet as old allegiances are tested and fresh alliances forged, all are unaware of the appearance of a new breed of demon, more intelligent-and deadly-than any that have come before. Once, the Shar'Dama Ka and the Warded Man were friends. But the Northerners claim their own Deliverer: the Warded Man, a dark, forbidding figure. He has proclaimed himself Shar'Dama Ka, the Deliverer, and he carries ancient weapons-a spear and a crown-that give credence to his claim. Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the desert tribes into a demon-killing army. ![]() But is the return of the Deliverer just another myth? Perhaps not. Legends tell of a Deliverer: a general who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. The night now belongs to voracious demons that prey upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind half-forgotten symbols of power. ![]()
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It's a Victorian steampunk universe where the ties between physical clock towers and actual time are inextricable - when two o'clock goes missing from Colton Tower, time itself is disrupted.ĭanny Hart is a clock mechanic, a timekeeper, someone with the ability to feel and manipulate time. I am obviously just not that interested in clocks and mechanics. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s really only the food that’s different.” “I think you’ll find life as a vampire is fairly similar regardless of the location. ![]() “I haven’t really been out of Chicago since I became a vampire.” It was November and the corn was gone, but the acres of wind turbines arced in the darkness above us. We were somewhere in the cornfields of Iowa, about halfway between Chicago and Omaha. “I know,” I said, sitting up a little straighter and scanning the freeway before us. Nor should you keep looking at the postcard of the city you’ve taped to the dashboard.” ![]() That companion, Ethan Sullivan, smiled at me from the passenger seat. My nerves on edge, I tightened my grip on the steering wheel of my companion’s sleek Mercedes convertible. ![]() We’d left Hyde Park, our home turf, and were heading west across the plains toward Nebraska and the Maleficium, an ancient book of magic that my (former?) best friend, Mallory, was evidently intent on stealing. Its bulk was a reminder of where we’d come from . . . The Willis Tower, one of the tallest buildings in the world, was nestled in downtown Chicago, surrounded by glass and steel and the waters of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. More than a thousand feet of skyscraper, the lights at the top of its antennas blinking through the darkness that blanketed the city. ![]() ![]() Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything-not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. ![]() The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the dawn of World War II.Īmid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she’s hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season ![]() “Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story.in a word: awesome.” -N.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The underlying tension will please and unnerve readers, as well as leave them eager for Allen's next. Allen (The Girl Who Chased the Moon) juggles smalltown history and mystical thriller, character development and eerie magical realism in a fine Southern gothic drama. When a skeleton that holds the secret to both the Osgood and Jackson family fortunes is discovered at the Jackson family's old estate, long-held beliefs are likely to be overturned. To further complicate Willa's unrest, Paxton's brother, Colin, fled town years before but has returned and become an irresistible force in Willa's life. Paxton Osgood, Willa's counterpart, has everything Willa envies-wealth, beauty and a sense of belonging-but Paxton hides a deep loneliness and discontent. ![]() The Jacksons were also wealthy once, until the logging industry failed, and Willa's teenage grandmother went to work as a maid for the Osgoods. She's determined now to lead the quiet life she believes her father wants her to have, but is soon derailed by the wealthy and powerful Osgoods, the family that shaped her high school experience. Thirty-year-old Willa Jackson might be returning to her rural North Carolina home to escape her failed marriage, but. At 30, Willa Jackson returns to her small Southern hometown, Walls of Water, N.C., in the wake. At 30, Willa Jackson returns to her small Southern hometown, Walls of Water, N.C., in the wake of a failed marriage to her college sweetheart. Sarah Addison Allen, Bantam, 25 (288p) ISBN 978-2-6. ![]() ![]() The plot is pretty simple, and familiar down to the last detail. But then Blake's daughter is kidnapped, and suddenly a 6-foot-tall cyborg built with mysterious alien technology starts to look like a serious asset, so they set off to do some galaxy-shattering crimes of their own. ![]() Unfortunately, she's a cyborg, and Blake is a racist, so that's doomed from the start. He's going to show the PBI's newest addition around town. The story starts with Blake's old nemesis, the self-declared evil genius Bartholomew Badde, stealing the rediculously overpowered Super EMP weapon, and threatens to send Earth back to the stone age if he doesn't get a 100 billion credits, ASAP.īlake is the expert on Badde, but because no one really likes him he is assigned to a completely different case. Not well-liked, by his colleagues or his ex-wife, not well-adjusted, by anyone's standards, and not very nice. It is very much silly for the sake of silly, and is only science fiction in that it is full of aliens, spaceships, plastic parrots, and other things that might be found in the future.īlake Carter is a detective for the Planetary Bureau of Investigation, and a good one. ![]() A Toaster on Mars is a comic science fiction novel which is a fairly open and obvious tribute to the early Hitchhiker's Guide novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Applegate bases Wishtree on the historical Irish tradition of the raggy tree. People in Red’s diverse neighborhood have nicknamed Red “Wishtree” and each 1st of May they adorn its limbs with scraps of paper, fabric, and other symbols. Wishtree’s narrator is a wise, 216-year-old oak tree named Red. ![]() I highly recommend adults and children alike read this fun and wise book. It has received many accolades, including being a 2017 New York Times bestseller.Īs a self-proclaimed Nature Witch, meaning I love the outdoors, commune with nature, and think nature has a lot to teach humans, Wishtree speaks volumes to me. Wishtree is a beautifully crafted and lyrical YA chapter book by popular children’s book author, Katherine Applegate. The next minute you’re turning us into tables and tongue depressors.” - Red, the oak tree narrator of Wishtree “Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. ![]() ![]() ![]() While his Ojibway culture is erased, except in his memories, Saul’s affinity for hockey elevates him to a higher plane. Jerome’s Indian Residential School in northern Ontario, where all that he “had known was replaced by an ominous black cloud.” Wagamese paints the sad stories of students whose heritage is slowly, forcefully eradicated, though Saul somehow finds respite on the dilapidated hockey rink, where his intuitive skill blossoms under the tutelage of a resident priest. ![]() Saul Indian Horse is taken from his Ojibway family at age eight and placed in St. But perhaps no author has written a novel with such raw, visceral emotion about the lifelong damage resulting from this institutionalization as Wagamese, a Canadian author who died last year. and Canada throughout much of the twentieth century. Many indigenous authors have portrayed the horrific conditions endured by Native children in boarding schools in both the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cross the heroine of a Hollywood screwball comedy with JD Salinger's teenage neurotic, Holden Caulfield, and you're only just starting to get close to her qualities: insightful, astringent and bracingly modern. ![]() But tell me this: which one would you want to be your pal? Answer: Gorce, of course! It's not only that Sally Jay, with her pink hair and her failed outfits, is by far the more lovable of the two (her clothes, she glumly notes, stubbornly divide themselves into three looks: Tyrolean Peasant, Bar Girl, and Dreaded Librarian). Both girls are witty, tenacious, ardent, wide-eyed and strangely perceptive. ![]() S ally Jay Gorce, the clever, funny, good-looking and mildly disorganised heroine of Elaine Dundy's first and best novel, is most often compared to Truman Capote's Holly Golightly, a character who is her exact contemporary in publication terms ( The Dud Avocado and Breakfast at Tiffany 's appeared, to rave reviews, in 1958). ![]() ![]() ![]() Think Jane Austen meets Jack Sparrow' 5***** Reader Review 'Wondrous, whimsical, wiccan follow-up to its flying house pirate predecessor, building upon this magical, Victorian-soaked world deftly and capably' 5***** Reader Review But little do they know, sparks are about to fly. There's just one problem: pirates and witches are sworn enemies. Demanding the help of rakish pirate, Alex O'Riley, Charlotte sets off to find the jewel. Which is what happens when the evil Lady Armitage reaches it first. ![]() When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find the jewel before it falls into the wrong hands. If you love playful dialogue and language, fun characters, and interesting worlds, I recommend' 5**** Reader Review! _ Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft. TIKTOK MADE ME BUY IT! The swoon-worthy second book in TikTok's favourite Victorian fantasy romance series 'Incredible! Sensational! Fantastic! So charming your inner Lizzie Bennet will swoon' 5***** Reader Review 'OBSESSED. ![]() |