6/10/2023 0 Comments A peculiar combinationEllie doesn't care for the major's imperious manner, but she has no choice. But instead of arresting them, government official Major Ramsey has an offer: either Ellie agrees to help him break into a safe and retrieve blueprints crucial to the British war effort, or he turns her over to the police. All is going as planned-until the pair is caught red-handed. So when Uncle Mick receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in an empty house, he and Ellie can't resist. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with World War II in full swing, Uncle Mick's locksmith business just can't pay the bills anymore. Electra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. "Filled with wry humor, tight suspense, and a delightful cast of characters."-Alyssa Maxwell, author of the Gilded Newport mysteries FIRST RULE: DON'T LOSE YOUR CONCENTRATION. The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author's signature wit.
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The trilogy is a franchise based on a slasher, or demons, or possessed coma patients, or something or other, in which sexed-up, boozed-up, and drugged-up twenty-somethings are being killed in pretty spectacular ways. The novel is broken up into three parts, each describing or retelling the events of a film in a horror trilogy. This is a novel - perhaps the novel - for horror film fans. These tales can be from the point of view of anyone involved in cinema from the visual artists all the way to the directors, the actors, or even the audience. What does that mean? Well, firstly make sure you have read her work first and then send us something that is… -Unique and clever Horror stories involving cursed or dangerous films. What we want: - Stories based on the themes set out in Gemma Files’ classic work, Experimental Film. This collection will also have illustrations from various artists. From some of the writers and editors who helped to bring you A Walk in A Darker Wood and the recently published A Walk in a City of Shadows comes a new terrifying collection based on the work of one of Horror’s greatest living authors, Gemma Files! This is the second collection brought to you by Alien Sun Press and we are super excited about it! With the incredible John Langan set to write the foreword, this anthology is a tribute not only to the work of Gemma Files but in particular based on her classic work, Experimental film. Each lists ‘abuses and usurpations’ adding up to a tyrannical plot.” In each, a narrative of self-defense against enslavement is built from fragmentary evidence. “The tone, language, and form are consistent. 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In a recent interview, Patrick said that The Doors of Stone was “moving slower than I would want.” This signifies that he still has a long way to go before he can finish the book. This could be viewed as the explanation for his seemingly limitless imagination.Ī decade after the release of the second book in this trilogy, The Doors of Stone, is eagerly anticipated by enthusiasts. A self-described ‘class clown’ in high school, Patrick was always enthralled with the fantasy world he had created in his mind. More than 10 million copies of the trilogy have been sold worldwide. Patrick Rothfuss is an American author and writer whose work in the fantasy genre has garnered him a slew of awards and accolades. The third and final book in Patrick’s trilogy is The Doors of Stone. “The Wise Man’s Fear” and “The Name of the Wind” were released in 20, respectively, to the delight of lovers of the trilogy. Patrick Rothfuss’ “The Kingkiller Chronicle” is a well-known fantasy trilogy. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Poppy by avi online freeThese deer mice, he knew, could be very sensitive.Īs he flew, he kept his eyes fixed on Poppy’s rock. The owl, cruising high to the west of Bannock Hill, moved his wings slowly, wanting to make the least possible disturbance on the air. Tense, she examined the eastern sky once more. Poppy told herself that if she tired, or if some danger appeared, she would be able to hide-briefly-beneath the high end. It was about halfway between where she hunched and the hole. This time she spied a rectangular strip of wood propped against a stone at an upward angle. It was farther, by far, than the length of Gray House’s attic farther even than the water pump beyond the back door farther, in fact, than Poppy had ever run without stopping to rest. Unfortunately, the bush was on the far side of a flat, open space, a long way from where she crouched. The nearest haven she could see was a bush whose partly exposed roots straddled a hole big enough to shelter her. Once she had caught her breath, she edged a bit out of her nook and studied the terrain. Panting hard but protected by the crevice, Poppy squirmed about and sniffed for hints of danger. Ocax clacked his beak with pleasure, spread his wings, and leaped into the air. Then he watched as she raced toward a rock. In time he saw Poppy’s pink nose poke out from her hiding place. Intently, the owl moved his head from side to side, back and forth, adjusting his depth of vision. 6/8/2023 0 Comments Please look after mom endingShin is along with Kim In-suk and Gong Ji-young, one of the prominent new wave of female writers from the so-called 386 Generation. She made her literary debut in 1985 with the novella Winter’s Fable after graduating from the Seoul Institute of the Arts as a creative writing major. She worked in an electronics plant while attending night school. Her parents were farmers who could not afford to send her to high school, so at sixteen she moved to Seoul, where her older brother lived. She was the fourth child and oldest daughter of six. Shin Kyung-sook was born in 1963 in a village near Jeongeup in Jeolla Province in southern Korea. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you read this book. Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love. A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea-a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation-this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. 6/8/2023 0 Comments Stuka pilot bookIt’s notable how differently Rudel approaches the Soviets compared to how Faust did. The quality of the information he relates keeps it going. The fact he can’t write very well doesn’t hurt the book so much. Rudel’s book is fascinating because (i) it’s all true, and could be verified against the vast store of paperwork the Luftwaffe left behind, (ii) he’s an extremely high achiever, (iii) it’s an expert’s bird’s eye view on a massive air war. It really is like seeing a film negative compared to the original printed image. Where Wolfgang Faust is glorifying in the gore and lurid descriptions of Soviet atrocities, Rudel is explaining orders, regimental movements, relative speeds between aircraft and the minutae of a combat pilot. Where Hank Chinaski is a worthless bar-fly who will call a day successful if he merely avoids shitting himself, Rudel is leading a bomber command and often destroys ten Soviet T-34 tanks a day. Where Bukowski is a masterful writer, Rudel is dull and factual. Ladies, I present to you Hans Ulrich Rudel’s Stuka Pilot memoir of his experiences throughout WW2. Now, would I be able to find a book that represented the opposite of these two? The last two books I reviewed were, respectively, a beautifully written pseudo-memoir about a degenerate alcoholic who achieved nothing in life, and a trashy pseudo-memoir full of blood’n’guts on the WW2 Eastern Front. 6/8/2023 0 Comments Seafire trilogy book 3An immersive, adventurous pleasure." - Kirkus "Will have readers eager for the final installment. She'll need to do everything in her power to convince the Blades that fighting is their only option, that there has to be a life better than the one under Aric Athair's reign, and that finding the women of the Mors Navis is the first step to revolution. She wants to continue fighting Aric's fleet and to take back the Bullet Seas. She wants to find the Mors Navis and her beloved sisters. The Blades escaped Aric Athair's clutches and now live a nomadic existence, ready to disappear at a moment's notice should trouble come their way.īut Caledonia wants to do more than just hide. After nearly dying at the hand of a powerful foe, Caledonia is pulled from the sea and nursed back to health by a crew of former Bullets who call themselves Blades. The second book in a heart-stopping trilogy that follows the captain of an all-female ship hellbent on taking down a vicious warlord's powerful fleet, which Kirkus Reviews called "an immersive, adventurous pleasure that improves on the first book."Ĭaledonia may have lost her crew, but she's not done fighting yet. |