![]() ![]() When she can actually tear herself away from books (either reading or writing them), she enjoys bad reality TV, traveling, trying interesting cocktails, and shopping for dresses. ![]() Originally from Michigan, Richelle now lives in Seattle, Washington where she works on her three series full-time: Georgina Kincaid, Dark Swan, and Vampire Academy.Ī life-long reader, Richelle has always loved mythology and folklore. Scorpio Richelle Mead is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of urban fantasy books for both adults and teens. She's a self-professed coffee addict and has a passion for all things wacky and humorous. ![]() A life-long reader, Richelle has always loved mythology and folklore. Originally from Michigan, Richelle now lives in Seattle, Washington where she works on her three series full-time: Georgina Kincaid, Dark Swan, and Vampire Academy. ![]()
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![]() StarDust: Tristran and The Witch Mini Bust Set ![]() This set is packaged in a four-color box with a four-color Certificate of Authenticity. This set includes two limited-edition, hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain busts! The Star Bust measures approximately 3.875” tall x 2.25” wide x 2.25” deep, and Lord Primus Bust measures approximately 3.75” tall x 2” wide x 2.25” deep. StarDust: Star and Lord Primus Mini Bust Set This stunning poster reprints the new cover art of NEIL GAIMAN’S AND CHARLES VESS’S STARDUST DELUXE HARDCOVER and measures 24" x 36". These eye-catching notecards are packaged in a four-color box complete with foil-stamping and ribbon.Ī beautiful image of a fallen Star from the cover of the upcoming re-released softcover of Stardust, this poster measures 24” x 36”. ![]() ![]() ![]() This beautiful set of 20 notecards and 20 envelopes feature four notecards each of the following five images: Starlight, Star Dust, Watching A Shooting Star, Power of Stormhold, and Into Deep Woods. Don’t miss these amazing new products direct from the pages of Neil Gaiman’s and Charles Vess’s acclaimed, best-selling graphic novel STARDUST, released to coincide with the motion picture release! ![]() ![]() She also writes as Megan Lindholm, and works under that name have been finalists for the Hugo award, the Nebula Award, and the Endeavor award. She and her husband Fred have three grown children and one teenager, and three grand-children. In addition to writing, her interests include gardening, mushrooming, and beachcombing. Robin Hobb lives and works in Tacoma, Washington, and has been a professional writer for over 30 years. ![]() Robin Hobb is the author of three well-received fantasy trilogies: The Farseer Trilogy (Assassin’s Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assassin’s Quest), The Liveship Traders Trilogy (Ship of Magic, Mad Ship and Ship of Destiny) and the Tawny Man Trilogy (Fool’s Errand, Golden Fool, and Fool’s Fate) Her current work in progress is entitled Shaman’s Crossing. ![]() There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found. A 4 star means I'm probably in trouble with my editor for missing a deadline because I was reading this book. A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. So a 2 star from me means,yes, I liked the book, and I'd loan it to a friend and it went everywhere in my jacket pocket or purse until I finished it. If a book is so-so, it ends up under the bed somewhere, or maybe under a stinky judo bag in the back of the van. ![]() It's a good book that survives the reading process with me. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. ** I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Robert Barnett at Williams & Connolly. ![]() Not all the jokes land, but plenty do, and the value of having an author with as vast a reach as Patterson put a disabled character in the spotlight shouldn’t be underestimated. I Funny Series Authors: James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein Illustrators: Laura Park, Jomike Tejido Number of Books in Series: 6. Park’s wisecracking cartoons (not all seen by PW) play an integral role in the storytelling, laying bare Jamie’s fears, triumphs, and sense of humor. ![]() ![]() Much of it derives from Jamie’s comedic aspirations (he calls himself a “sit-down comic”), which are fueled by his friends’ reactions to his one-liners and the encouragement of his warmhearted uncle. Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world’s greatest standup comedianeven if he doesn’t have a lot to laugh about. Wheelchair-bound middle-schooler Jamie has recently moved in with his aunt’s cheerless family, including-a bit too conveniently-school bully Stevie, Jamie’s new “adoptive brother.” Despite Jamie’s desire to be treated like an ordinary kid (one of the more important themes the authors emphasize) and a dark, lingering unknown (only late in the novel does Jamie reveal the reason for his paralysis and his parents’ absence), humor abounds. In James Patterson’s heartwarming 1 New York Times bestseller, middle schooler Jamie Grimm faces bullying and self-doubt as he chases his dream to become the world’s greatest comedian. The broad humor that runs throughout this heavily illustrated story from Patterson and Grabenstein masks personal pain, demonstrating resiliency in the face of tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ironically, these two literary outsiders continue to exert a tremendous influence on our culture while the “mainstream” novelists they disliked are not widely read outside of academic circles. But they lived at the height of literary Modernism, an era when “difficult” writing was prized over accessible writing, when it was thought that literature should reflect the angst of contemporary times and be full of stylistic novelties. ![]() Lewis and Tolkien were finding too little of what they liked in stories because they preferred the traditional stories of their childhood and youth-myth, legend, epic, fantasy, and fairy tales. Tolkien’s effort, “The Lost Road,” was never finished, but Lewis’s half of the bargain resulted in Out of the Silent Planet, the first book of the Ransom trilogy. I am afraid we shall have to write some ourselves.” The two went on to agree that Lewis would try his hand at a space-travel tale and Tolkien would do something with time-travel. As Tolkien explained it, Lewis said to him one day, “Tollers, there is too little of what we really like in stories. Out of the Silent Planet sprung from a conversation between C. They would have been even more alarmed if they had noticed that he was writing what he called “theologized science fiction,” a fast-paced adventure story with profound spiritual overtones. Lewis scandalized his fellow Oxford dons in 1938 when he published a fantasy novel, Out of the Silent Planet. ![]() Having already earned a reputation as a formidable literary scholar, C. ![]() ![]() In "THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE", the citizens of St. And its running time was at least eight minutes shorter. This particular version starred Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple. Some eighteen years later, another adaptation of the novel aired on television. ![]() ![]() And my borderline apathy toward the 1930 novel even extended to the television movie adaptation that aired in 1986. Nor did it include any special circumstances that made it unique. ![]() The problem with "The Murder in the Vicarage" is that I never found it to be a particularly thought provoking tale. I can think of numerous Christie tales set in a small village - including St. Mary Mead - could be the reason why this particular tale has never rocked my boat. One could assume that the novel's setting - in the small village of St. ![]() Never mind that it featured the first appearance of elderly sleuth, Miss Jane Marple, in a feature-length novel. I have never been a big fan of Agatha Christie's 1930 novel, "The Murder at the Vicarage". I have another of my many confessions to make. "THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE" (2004) Review ![]() ![]() The book takes just an hour or so to read, but you still feel like you know Bill Furlong by the end and understand why he does what he does. Associated Press noted, "Keegan's economy of prose is a marvel. This depth of the book surprised some reviewers, given that Small Things Like These is a quick read that could be considered a novella given its length. ![]() Multiple reviewers commented on the moral storytelling, which comes across as "a sort of anti- Christmas Carol." Kirkus called the book " stunning feat of storytelling and moral clarity." The Herald said the book "assures us we are all capable of doing the right thing, and that goodness, like misery, can be handed on from man to man." Small Things Like These was generally well-received by critics and received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church." Reception During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. ![]() In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Booker Prize. Small Things Like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. ![]() 2021 historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan Small Things Like These ![]() ![]() ![]() He therefore undertook a journey to Asgard. He thought to himself whether this could come from their own nature, or whether the cause must be sought for among the gods whom they worshiped. He wondered much that the asa-folk was so mighty in knowledge, that all things went after their will. King Gylfe was a wise man and skilled in the black art. Four heads and eight eyes Bore the oxen As they went before the wide Robbed land of the grassy isle.Ģ. Thus says Brage, the old skald: Gefjun glad Drew from Gylfe The excellent land, Denmark's increase, So that it reeked From the running beasts. And in the Malar Lake the bays correspond to the capes in Seeland. And where the land had been taken away became afterward a sea, which in Sweden is now called Logrinn (the Lake, the Malar Lake in Sweden). There Gefjun set the land, gave it a name and called it Seeland. Then went the plow so hard and deep that it tore up the land, and the oxen drew it westward into the sea, until it stood still in a sound. She took from the north, from Jotunheim, four oxen, which were the sons of a giant and her, and set them before the plow. But this woman was of the asa-race her name was Gefjun. Of him it is said that he gave to a wayfaring woman, as a reward for the entertainment she had afforded him by her story-telling, a plow-land in his realm, as large as four oxen could plow it in a day and a night. ![]() King Gylfe ruled the lands that are now called Svithjod (Sweden). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Nikolos’ ego cannot handle it and using the animal sanctuary as leverage (which is in Prudence’s grandfather’s name, and which he has threatened to sell due to the supposed divorce), he makes her agree to a trial marriage. But with her mother’s death, and all the debts to Theo paid off by Nikolos over the years, all the bets are off. And she has already the plans for achieving just that – go to a sperm bank, and divorce her eight-year long on-off husband, Nikolos Angelis (they had married under duress, he to save his ailing family business, and she to save her ill mother, all with the help of her rich grandfather, Theo Demakis). When the heroine’s dogs are her knight in shining armour for once…Ī huge lover of animals, and running an animal sanctuary, Prudence, in her mid-twenties, has only one desire now – to become a mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken–physically, emotionally, psychically. ![]() Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn’t move with her. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. After taking her first breath in NYC, she was brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. ![]() |