![]() ![]() Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. ![]() Fantasy adventure at its very best Starburst Williams excels at eldritch world-building Guardian An original new voice in heroic fantasy Adrian Tchaikovsky The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb and Jay Kristoff. Book Synopsis **Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel** The first book in the award-winning Winnowing Flame trilogy. ![]() The Jurelia are coming, and the Ninth Rain will fall. And Tormalin is soon drawn into a conspiracy of magic and war, whilst a horror from the depths of history threatens to make even his people look reasonable. But not everyone is willing to let the Eboran empire fall. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artifacts is still preferable to the abomination he left behind. When the eccentric explorer Lady de Grazon offers him employment, he foresees an easy life escorting a rich old woman from one side of Sarn to the other. Better to enjoy the pleasures of wine and coin, the pursuit of men and women, than to waste away under the blind gaze of a long-dead god. Tormalin the Oathless, last son of Ebora, has had enough. Wolves walk streets that once shone with gold, and Eboras people - diseased and inhuman - are fading into nothing. About the Book The great wall of Ebora is crumbling. ![]()
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It’s neither the home you’ve left behind, nor an adopted culture-instead, it’s somewhere in between: a country of the mind, in which English is the national language, the Habsburg buildings are an outdoor museum made just for you, and because of your disconnection from the culture, you can arrange your daily details pretty much as you’d like. I’d never been a spy, committed murder, or smuggled state secrets across borders, but for the previous six years I’d lived as a novelist in Budapest, living in that tenuous non-place where many expatriates exist. ![]() ![]() The idea of a Tourist as a kind of intelligence agent sprang out of my own lifestyle in 2007. ![]() ![]() ![]() Annie is Natalie's doting mother, Blake's dutiful wife and otherwise barely there. Blake's a cad-a habitual philanderer, and the sort of father who forgets birthdays-but we don't totally blame him for bailing out. 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Annie Colwater knows she's in for a spell of loneliness when her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie, leaves Southern California for a summer in London, but the teary airport farewell is just the beginning of a chaotic time. ![]() Never one to gush, she is more than ever disciplined in her writing, and the result is a clean, deep thrust into the reader's heart. ![]() In her first hardcover after a distinguished career in paperback romance (Home Again), Hannah shows what it takes for an author to make that defining leap. ![]() ![]() The idea of truth itself is a core theme of the book: Lepore traces how a number of technological and political forces-including newspapers, mass media, propaganda, polling, and political consulting-have fundamentally altered the way that Americans define and understand what is true, ultimately eroding a shared understanding of empirical truth. These Truths sets out to examine the extent to which the United States has lived up to its ideals. ![]() ![]() The book's title references the statement in the Declaration of Independence "we hold these truths to be self-evident," which introduces three political ideas that Lepore identifies as the founding pillars of the American experiment: political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. ![]() It traces American politics, law, journalism, and technology from the Age of Discovery through the present day, focusing on America's founding truths and their role in uniting, dividing, and transforming the nation. These Truths: A History of the United States is a one-volume book of American history written by award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore. ![]() ![]() ![]() He's even there for her when the video goes viral and Nik's social media blows up-in a bad way. 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The author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when a public proposal doesn't turn into a happy ending, thanks to a woman who knows exactly how to make one on her own. ![]() ![]() ![]() As deadly accidents fuel tensions within the factory, Wen is torn between her growing feelings for Melik, who is enraged at the sadistic factory bosses and the prejudice faced by his people at the hand of Wen’s, and her need to appease the ghost, who is determined to protect her against any threat-real or imagined. At the same time, she is lured by the mystery of the ghost. This love story for the ages, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, is a little dark, a bit breathless, and completely compelling. ![]() Guilt-ridden, Wen befriends the Noor, including the outspoken leader, a young man named Melik. Of Metal and Wishes by Fine, Sarah Comment on this title Synopses & Reviews Read an Excerpt ISBN13: 9781442483583 ISBN10: 144248358X Condition: Like New All Product Details Staff Pick This unusual and hauntingly powerful love story is set in a slaughterhouse factory housing a ghost who grants wishes. And after one of the Noor humiliates Wen, the ghost grants an impulsive wish of hers-brutally. ![]() Wen often hears the whisper of a ghost in the slaughterhouse, a ghost who grants wishes to those who need them most. Sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical clinic, housed in a slaughterhouse staffed by the Noor, men hired as cheap factory labor. A “grisly and satisfying” tale ( Publishers Weekly) inspired by The Phantom of the Opera. This love story for the ages, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, is a little dark, a bit breathless, and completely compelling. ![]() ![]() Additionally, Brubaker himself made a cameo in the film.Ĭaptain America: Winter Soldier provides examples of: As a tie-in to the film, the comic was reprinted in a deluxe hardcover edition. The events of this arc were loosely adapted in the 2014 movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier. What clues they find seem to indicate that Lukin now has control of a Reality Warping artifact, and of a Cold War legend known as the Winter Soldier. With the help of Sharon Carter, Steve follows the Skull's posthumous tracks for his mass bombings across the world, while Nick Fury investigates their prime suspect, Alexander Lukin, the CEO of Kronas Corporation. ![]() While adjusting to life in 2000s New York City, Steve Rogers receives an astonishing call from S.H.I.E.L.D.: the Red Skull has been assassinated and whoever killed him has stolen the Cosmic Cube. ![]() It was written by Ed Brubaker, and published in 2005 as the first part of Captain America's Volume 5 series, running from issues #1-9 and #11-14 note #10 is exempted from the storyline due to being an unrelated House of M tie-in. Captain America: Winter Soldier is a story arc in Marvel's Captain America comics. ![]() ![]() In the end you get exhausted from always tensing the skin around your ribs, never letting your shoulders sink, brushing along walls all your life with white knuckles, always afraid that someone will notice you, because no one's supposed to do that.Īll Nadia knew was that she had never felt like someone who had anything in common with anyone else. ![]() ![]() You can get it into your head to do some unbelievably stupid things when you run out of tears, when you can't silence the voices no one else can hear, when you've never been in a room where you felt normal. An evil little creature that wouldn't have shown up on any X-rays was living in her chest, rushing through her blood and filling her head with whispers, saying she wasn't good enough, that she was weak and ugly and would never be anything but broken. “She isn't traumatized, she isn't weighed down by any obvious grief. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only reason why I didn't mind as much was because Eileen was such a fun narrator and Otessa really does know how to write. ![]() For a book that sets us up at the beginning as some big event changing her life I kind of expected a bit more than what I got. ![]() The reason why I'm not sure if I wanna give this book 5 stars was we got 90% of inner ramblings of Eileen and 10% of plot in literally only the last chaper. After I finished I don't think I ever knew anyone as intimate as I did Eileen. I mean we had a nice whole page of her bowel movements for one and some uncomfortable sex fantasies between coworkers. We got every glimpse of her mind and some of it was so disgusting I couldn't believe I was actually reading it. Ottessa has a way of dark dry humor that makes this book fun to read but make no mistake it was also very disturbing at times too. I wanted to grab her through the book and help her but also throttle her too. Eileen is a mess but the feelings she had of self loathing and need for approval was relatable to me at times maybe not quite as exaggerated but still relatable as a reader. Maybe im a bit of a sicko for relating to the character at some points and loving her considering a lot of the lower star reviews on goodreads saying otherwise and Im not even sure Ottessa wanted you to like her either. ![]() |