6/27/2023 0 Comments Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman![]() ![]() ![]() The ship on which she travels is captained by a Sephardic Jew who gives her passage in return for treating his son’s dengue fever, an excuse for Hoffman to link two long-standing unfair persecutions-of smart women as witches and Jews as, well, Jews. Maria, with new daughter Faith, whose birthmark is a half-moon, follows him. Enchanted by the island, Puritan Hathorne loses his rigidity long enough to impregnate Maria before returning to Salem, Massachusetts, without saying goodbye. At 15 she is seduced by 37-year-old American businessman John Hathorne (his name an allusion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote about mistreatment of marked women). After vengeful men murder Hannah in 1674, Maria escapes first to her unmotherly birth mother, a troubled practitioner of dark, self-serving magic, then to Curaçao as an indentured servant. ![]() She lovingly teaches ancient healing methods to Maria, whose star birthmark indicates inherent magical powers and since Hannah considers ink and paper the most powerful magic, she also teaches Maria reading and writing. In 1664, Hannah Owens, practitioner of “the Nameless Art” sometimes called witchcraft, finds baby Maria abandoned near her isolated cottage in Essex County, England. Set in late-17th-century England and America, the pre-prequel to Hoffman’s Practical Magic (1995) and The Rules of Magic (2017) covers the earliest generations of magically empowered Owens women and the legacy they created. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The premise is something that’s been done countless times before but this story didn’t come across old or tired. He can handle living with the most handsome and endearing man he’s ever met, a man he immediately knows he wants in the worst way and can’t have. So he has valid reasons for offering Chris this business deal: in exchange for living in a gorgeous mansion for a year, playing the doting husband, Chris gets all the writing time he wants and walks away with a million-dollar payoff. To keep control of his company, he has to marry. The last thing Chris expects is a marriage proposal from New York City’s most eligible bachelor! ![]() ![]() When struggling novelist Chris Valentine meets Jesse Donovan, he’s interested in a book contract, or possibly a date. Their marriage was supposed to be all business…. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin![]() ![]() ![]() Unsurprisingly, Lansing’s account of the ordeal-which he wrote after conducting lengthy interviews with each of the survivors-is an emotional roller coaster, and narrator Simon Prebble navigates the high peaks and low troughs of the story with gravitas, keeping the listener engaged even when the story feels most hopeless. Not only that, but when the ice thawed, it cracked and sank the Endurance rather than freeing it, forcing the men to travel nearly 350 miles to safety in lifeboats. Shackleton and his 27-man crew were faced with a seemingly impossible challenge: surviving through five long, harrowing months of Antarctic weather in an open ship. Any survival enthusiast has likely heard of the unbelievable true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his ship, the Endurance, which set out in 1914 to explore the southernmost parts of the Atlantic Ocean and instead became trapped in ice. ![]() ![]() ![]() The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established the award winners, and exciting, original voices. A young mother, trapped inside her isolated home with her children, must do everything in her power to survive the night.įLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. /rebates/2fWhere-the-Chill-Waits-T-Chris-Martindale2fbook2f7196543&. ![]() Following a trail of carnage, retired police chief Sam Larsen, along with a hellbent group of men and a corrupt sheriff, desperately try to stop the beast before its contagious hunger spreads to others. ![]() Among them, a predatorial psychopath welcomes a master as cold and dark as his heart. Fans of The Ritual by Adam Nevill and action-packed horror movies like Demons and 30 Days of Night will love this new chiller from the author of Tomb of Gods.ĭuring a winter storm, a ravenous beast preys upon the people of a remote town and a pipeline construction company. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments 7th time loop novel![]() Apr 8 Oshi no Ko is a Dark Look at the Entertainment Industry.Apr 10 Anime Boston 2023: What It's Like to Work in Anime (UPDATED).Convention reports chronological archives.00:50 Girls Band Cry Anime Unveils 2 Music Videos, Cast, Staff.01:28 Anime Limited to Release Great Pretender Anime on Home Video in U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland.01:43 Tatsuwo's Dawn of the Witch Manga Adaptation Ends.02:01 Gundam Gets The Battle Tales of Flanagan Boon U.C.02:40 The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today Anime Previewed in 2nd Promo Video.03:55 Tekken 8 Fighting Game Reveals Gameplay Trailer for Bryan Fury.05:11 Cygames Reveals Bang Brave Bang Bravern Original TV Anime.05:55 The First Slam Dunk Surpasses Weathering With You, Becomes 9th Highest-Earning Anime Film in Japan.06:43 Suzume Film Ends Theatrical Run in Japan with 14.79 Billion Yen Total Box Office Earnings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Under the midnight moon, dark secrets are revealed-Cassandra thought she had the perfect life until she suffered a devastating tragedy. ![]() And as Jessie follows a bloody trail to the shocking truth, she'll have to decide who she can trust when the moon is full. Now, as a town's deepest secrets come to light, no one is safe: not friends, lovers, or strangers. Will's dark, penetrating eyes see into a part of Jessie's soul she never knew existed. It's against Jessie's better judgment to accept Will's help in her investigation, yet she soon finds herself doing exactly that-and more. And for a cop, distraction-no matter how pleasurable-can be deadly. He's also the only man capable of distracting Jessie from her work. Professor Will Cadotte is a Native American activist. Officer Jessie McQuade has seen plenty in her years on the force-but nothing as intriguing as the gorgeous, naked man she encounters while tracking a rogue wolf. The area's normally shy wolf population has begun stalking human prey, and their victims have been disappearing. ![]() Miniwa, Wisconsin is under siege, but not by the usual summer tourists. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Tell me you want me willow winters![]() ![]() The chemistry between Adrian and Suzette is off the charts from the beginning. ![]() The Story: When Adrian meets with upper management to tell them that he has bought the company and will be implementing changes including a reduction of the workforce, Suzette immediately lets her feelings about that be known and in turn catches the attention of Adrian. Suzette has spent the last ten years building up her department into one that operates at peak efficiency and refuses to let the new CEO come in and tear it down. The heroine: Suzette Parks - a department head at the latest company that Adrian Bradford purchased. ![]() He sees himself as the owner of everything within his domain after researching and buying a new company including the employees. The Hero: Adrian Bradford - a ruthless CEO who buys up companies in trouble to either streamlines them to see if they can start making a worthy profit or breaking them up and selling them off for parts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their leader is an interesting character: a woman who rose from the slums of Mumbai to become a world-renowned expert in nanotechnology. ![]() In accordance with the requirements of the inevitable movie version, the Wildfire team consists of a small group of contentious scientists who are dangerously ill-equipped to trudge into the jungle. The elite Wildfire crew will trudge into the jungle and try to keep the planet from being infected. Given that predicament, humanity has just one hope to avoid what the military calls “the ‘gray goo’ scenario” that would kill everyone on Earth: Project Wildfire. ![]() But the bigger problem is that the anomaly feeds off energy, which a nuclear explosion would provide in abundance. Wilson suggests that a nuclear strike is problematic because the anomaly is on foreign soil, though such diplomatic awkwardness probably wouldn’t matter if we’re all dead. Wilson was a fine choice to write the sequel to "The Andromeda Strain." (Sara Vanderpas) ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The candy shop war by brandon mull![]() ![]() Soon enough, though, they find out that it's no ordinary candy shop Mrs. She's just opened a brand new candy shop, and enlists the help of the kids. It's about a group of 5th graders, 3 boys and 1 girl, who become friends with an old lady in town. That major issue aside, I did like the story and the characters. I just felt the author was thisclose to mentioning that she felt her slanty eyes. She doesn't have a mirror, so she feels her face and guesses that she is Asian. In an even worse example, when the main characters take a magic candy that is supposed to temporarily change their ethnicity as a way to disguise them, one girl becomes Chinese. ![]() From the start he unnecessarily describes non-white characters by their race. However, one thing will keep me from being able to recommend this title to others: the author's use of race. I absolutely loved the colorful, glittery cover, and the premise seemed like such fun. I wanted to love this book from the very beginning. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Ag riddle lost in time![]() ![]() She soon learns that impossible tasks are her specialty. People around her insist that both are impossible tasks.īut Adeline doesn't give up. So she sets out on a quest to prove him innocent. She can't bear to lose her father as well. Thanks to a machine Sam helped invent, the world's worst criminals are now sent to the past - approximately 200 million years into the past, to the dawn of the time of the dinosaurs - where they must live out their lives alone, in exile from the human race.Īdeline Anderson has already lost her mother to a deadly, unfair disease. They will be convicted.Īnd so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses.īut in the future, murderers aren't sent to prison. He and his daughter are accused of the crime. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. Gripping, clever, mind-bending stuff."įrom the worldwide bestselling author of Departure and Winter World comes a standalone novel about a father and daughter trying to unravel an intricate murder mystery spread across time - with a jaw-dropping twist. "Are we talking plot twists? More like spirals. Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough." ![]() ![]() "Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this. "Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read." ![]() |