Dark and shallow lies goodreads5/13/2023 Suddenly, she doesn’t know who she can trust. When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou – a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town’s bloody history – Grey realizes that La Cachette’s past is far more present and dangerous than she’d ever understood. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something – her grandmother Honey her childhood crush Hart and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave. Grey can’t believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World–and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey’s best friend, disappeared six months earlier. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. Synopsis: A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power. Genre: YA, Mystery/Thriller, Supernatural
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Innocent traitor by alison weir5/13/2023 And though she has no ambitions to rule, preferring to immerse herself in books and religious studies, she is forced to accept the crown, and by so doing sets off a firestorm of intrigue, betrayal, and tragedy.Īlison Weir uses her unmatched skills as a historian to enliven the many dynamic characters of this majestic drama. Unabashedly honest and exceptionally intelligent, Jane possesses a sound strength of character beyond her years that equips her to weather the vicious storm. With the premature passing of Jane’s adolescent cousin, and Henry’s successor, King Edward VI, comes a struggle for supremacy fueled by political machinations and lethal religious fervor. The child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she is merely a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, Jane Grey was born during the harrowingly turbulent period between Anne Boleyn’s beheading and the demise of Jane’s infamous great-uncle, King Henry VIII. It is the story of Lady Jane Grey–“the Nine Days’ Queen”–a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century. Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. I am to die when I have hardly begun to live. Confessions by kanae minato5/13/2023 (.) Minato spins out this gut-wrenching thrill ride with clean, high-impact language and a structure that allows for several points of view." - Steph Cha, The Los Angeles Times Yuko is positioned as the hero, but as the plot unfolds, taking turn after sickening turn, her actions start looking maniacal, disproportionate, perhaps out-and-out unforgivable. (.) Like any complex revenge tale, Confessions comes with a healthy dose of moral ambiguity. "(T)he most delightfully evil book you will read this year.Confessions was made into a film in 2010, directed by Nakashima Tetsuyaī- : effectively disturbing, but can't quite fulfil promise of its clever design.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Edith greek mythology5/13/2023 A lot of the stories are like one another, but were told by a different person, they would use a God, Goddess, or mortal that was similar. Hamilton’s book was extremely educational when discussing the relationship between mortals and immortals. She also separated the Greek stories from the Roman ones. She would group love stories in one section and then tales of the Trojan War in another. Hamilton organized her book well making it an easy to follow read. The goal was to be as accurate as possible to the originals so the readers could understand what the original writers were like. Hamilton wrote small passages at the beginning of the stories giving information on the original writers. Hamilton states the point of this book is to “show us the way the human race thought and felt untold ages ago.” (13) She is also wanting to entertain her readers and give the audience more knowledge about the Roman and Greek Myths and how the ancient civilizations explained them, which she succeeds in doing. The divine comedy purgatory5/13/2023 In Inferno, the spirit of Roman poet Virgil leads.
The Wizard's Heart by S.R. Howen5/12/2023 Tricked by demons, and followed by the queen's soldiers, they must find the fabled Wizard's Heart in the frozen Winter Valley. In order to prevent magic, and the Zingari, from being wiped from the land, Sorann must become Javert's wife and leave everything behind that she once held dear. When Sorann's failed healer's magic test brings them together, they discover the prophecy governing the land is false. Javert is a member of the wandering tribe called the Zingari and their future king. Only then can the heart be found and the evil of the world kept in its bounds." -The Prophecy of the Land Sorann is the queen's daughter and training to be an empathic healer. When he comes, his one true wife must carry within her a child of the old one who would be king. The shadow rising5/12/2023 Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Timeīy Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve.Īgainst the Shadow rising stands the Dragon Reborn. In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his next move. In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plans the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland. In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn. In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. Author cider with rosie5/12/2023 While the first volume famously recounts his childhood in the idyllic Slad Valley, the second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1934, and the third with his return in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigade. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE, was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter. The book is organised in accord with his own early exploration of his widening world. He was one of seven children in a close family headed by his mother : he grew up in England, in a Cotswold village governed by tradition. While the first volume famously recounts his childhood in the idyllic Slad Valley, the second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1934, and the third with his return in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigade. In Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee recalls his childhood and adolescence. It has sold over six million copies worldwide. It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960). Talk about a brazen and altogether elongated (robust) black kettle which, to all intents and utterly non-humble purposes, Scruton appears to have been soundly inoculated with. In light of the above, it’s mighty ironic that in the Introduction of Fools, Frauds and Firebrands – Thinkers of the New Left, Roger Scruton rather deftly writes: ”and I have allowed my publisher, Robin Baird-Smith, to persuade me that a new book might bring some relief to students compelled to chew on the glutinous prose of Deleuze, to treat seriously the mad incantations of Zizek, or to believe that there is more to Habermas’s theory of communicative action than his inability to communicate it.” Hence progressive forces always achieve ‘irreversible changes,’ while reactionary forces are wrong-footed by their contradictory and merely ‘nostalgic’ attempts to defend a doomed social order. Since everything is in motion and the ‘struggle’ between the forces of progress and the forces of reaction is always and everywhere, it is important that the triumph of ideology over reality be constantly recorded and endorsed. It is always something to ‘fight for,’ and ‘Fight for Peace!,’ ‘Struggle for Peace!’ took their place among the official slogans of the Communist Party.įrom the same source comes the penchant for ‘irreversible’ changes. Peace never appears in Newspeak as a condition of rest and normality. Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier5/12/2023 Liadan is taken captive by the Painted Man, who is revealed to be a man quite unlike his legend. For the Lord and Lady of the forest spirits have seen in Liadan's future a doomed romance, death a child and a terrible choice to be made. The forest spirits warn Liadan that she must remain for ever at Sevenwaters if the sacred isles are to be won back from the Britons who took them by force. The forests of Sevenwaters have cast their spell over Sorcha's daughter Liadan, who, like her mother, has inherited the talent to heal and to see into the spirit world. A powerful and entracing romance, set in the Celtic twilight of 10th century Ireland: a new MISTS OF AVALON for readers of historical fantasy. |