Helen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella5/29/2023 ![]() Helen of Sparta is one of those stories for which I have been waiting for a very long time. ![]() She refuses to bend to the will of the gods. ![]() But at every turn, new dangers-violence, betrayal,Įxtortion, threat of war-thwart Helen’s plans and bar her path. With Theseus at her side, she believes she canĮscape her destiny. Need of protection, she finds shelter and comfort in the arms of To do so, she must defy her familyĪnd betray her betrothed by fleeing the palace in the dead of night. These dreams foretold impending war-a war that ![]() Source: Review copy from Historical Fiction Virtual Book ToursĪway with Paris to Troy, Helen of Sparta was haunted by nightmares of aīurning city under siege. ![]()
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Malice pintip5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Couched inside the mystery is an ever-present reminder that there is no way we can know today what challenges to come will change us fundamentally. Pintip Dunn sets up this story with slow-rolling reveals which increase the pace and urgency of the evolving narrative. And this girl has her eyes on the prize she isn’t going to let boys distract her from surviving highschool. Alice is chugging along despite difficulties in a broken family, keeping a STEM preoccupied older brother anchored to the outside world. Who is Alice Sherman? She would say she’s a loyal sister, loyal friend, a person who sees the best in things, but admittedly, the worst baker. Malice is Pintip Dunn doing what she does best, testing her readers to see possibilities that lay just outside what we accept as possible. One of the existential questions Pintip Dunn’s asks of her heroine in her newest page-turning YA Sci-fi, Thriller. Are you the same person now as you will be ten years from now? ![]() Cell 8 by Anders Roslund5/29/2023 ![]() The Stockholm police arrest Schwarz for aggravated assault, but when Grens learns that the assailant has been living in Sweden under a false identity, he begins to suspect that something darker and more complex underlies the incident. ![]() Six years later, on a ferry between Finland and Sweden, a singer named John Schwarz viciously attacks a drunken lout harassing a woman, leaving the man in a coma. When Frey unexpectedly dies of heart disease before he either receives his just punishment or achieves redemption, the wheels of justice grind to a halt. The victim's father hungers for revenge, while a prison guard is torn by compassion for the young man. ![]() In Ohio, seventeen-year-old John Meyer Frey rots on Death Row for the brutal murder of his girlfriend. ![]() CELL 8 by Anders & HellstromRoslund - DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK See all titles by Anders Roslund and Börge HellströmįROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF THREE SECONDS.ĭetective Superintendent Ewert Grens of THREE SECONDS returns in a riveting mystery that centers on perhaps the most controversial subject in the modern criminal justice system: the death penalty. ![]() Ravenhood trilogy5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Kate Stewart's Ravenhood Trilogy is a gritty, sexy modern romantic day take on Robin Hood with a plethora of breathtaking twists. ![]() Cecilia has always played it safe, but, blinded by her growing feelings for Sean and Dominic, she's determined to enjoy her last summer of freedom and be open to new experiences no matter where they mightlead. ![]() He introduces her to his close knit circle of friends - including the enigmatic Dominic - a group who live by their own rules and brandish the same raven tattoo. But everything changes when she meets sexy local Sean on her first day of work. In return, he'll not only pay her college tuition but will hand over a small fortune that will enable Cecilia to help her single mother. "In your heart of hearts, if you didn't have to choose, would you?"The deal is simple: all nineteen-year-old student Cecilia Horner has to do is survive a year in the small town of Triple Falls, living with her estranged father and working at his factory. ![]() The nature of fragile things paperback5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear.įrom the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. ![]() ![]() Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. ![]() The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly5/29/2023 ![]() Claire Welton had just identified my client as the man who had forced her out of her Mercedes E60 at gunpoint on Christmas Eve last year. ![]() This, of course, belied my true intent, which was to destroy the woman who sat there with her eyes fixed on me. I approached the witness stand with a warm and welcoming smile. The Gods of Guilt shows once again why “Michael Connelly excels, easily surpassing John Grisham in the building of courtroom suspense” ( Los Angeles Times). Haunted by the ghosts of his past, Mickey must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in the life. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. ![]() ![]() Mickey Haller gets the text, “Call me ASAP – 187,” and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. ![]() Defense attorney Mickey Haller is forced to bend the law until it breaks when he is hired to defend a man accused of killing a prostitute in this novel of courtroom suspense, the “best one yet” ( The Washington Post). ![]() Lovesickness by Junji Ito5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() During his childhood, a woman committed suicide because he told her a cruel fortune. Although Rysusuke appears very sweet natured, readers quickly realize that he harbours a dark secret. Lovesickness explores being a prisoner of guilt. Amidst this chaos, Rysusuke begins patrolling the intersections trying to stop the boy in black from telling fortunes. ![]() He turns friends against friends, leads a woman to kill her lover’s son and set herself ablaze, and culminates in the mass suicide of teenage girls. The young women quickly become obsessed with the boy in black: each wants to fulfil his twisted fortunes. One day a “beautiful boy dressed in all black clothing, with a pierced ear”, known as the boy in black, begins to maliciously tell the young women of the town bad fortunes. This is where an individual must stand at an intersection and wait for the first passerby to tell them their fortune. The town is ominous as the people within it are fanatics of “crossroad fortune-telling”. ![]() Lovesickness is the collection’s main story, which follows Rysusuke who returns to a town where he had once lived before. Lovesickness is one of Junji Ito’s lesser-known titles - Tomie and Uzamaki are the most famous - but Lovesickness certainly rivals them in terms of storytelling. ![]() ![]() Wilson’s great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries’ future with such horrifying results. At its end a recognizably modern Europe had been created but at a terrible price.Peter Wilson’s book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of events. ![]() Whether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by it. The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder. Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. ![]() A devastating account of a war which raged all over Europe, with terrible and long-lasting consequences for the whole continent ![]() Minalima philosopher's stone5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Rowling’s complete and unabridged text is accompanied by MinaLima’s handsome colour illustrations on nearly every page, superb design, and eight exclusive, interactive paper-engineered elements – including Harry’s Hogwarts letter, the magical entrance to Diagon Alley, a sumptuous feast in the Great Hall of Hogwarts and more.ĭesigned and illustrated by the iconic house of MinaLima – best known for establishing the visual graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films – this is the perfect gift for Harry Potter fans and a beautiful addition to any collector’s bookshelf, enticing readers of all ages to discover the Harry Potter novels all over again. ![]() ![]() Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, illustrated in brilliant colour by award-winning design studio MinaLima and featuring exclusive interactive paper-engineered elements, including a fold-out Hogwarts letter and more!Īn irresistible new edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone created with ultra-talented designers MinaLima, the design magicians behind the gorgeous visual graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films. ![]() The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was inevitable, really, that being married to Zachary meant Dorian would have to discover his inner gamer sooner or later. Language: English Words: 7,592 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 6 Kudos: 2 Hits: 9 Comforting and the giving of teddy bears ensues. Kat and Zachary have been making it their personal mission to expose Dorian to all of musical theater with a series of Broadway trips, but when they take him to see Phantom of the Opera, he relates way too hard and has a little bit of a breakdown at the theater. dorian has not gotten enough love in his childhood but that ends today.zachary and kat and dorian being theater nerds.Language: English Words: 3,326 Chapters: 1/3 Comments: 1 Kudos: 1 Hits: 5įor BoogleBoot Fandoms: The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern A chance to bask in the wonder, revel in the delights, and spend some time with the characters.ĭedicated to Leander, posted on his birthday. This fic is a bonus scene from Fateheart, set directly after the events of Part 2 and before the beginning of Part 3. How do you end a night like the winter solstice? By telling stories, of course. Part of the extended canon of Fateheart: A Starless Seaquel The End of the Night (King of the World and other stories)īoogleBoot Fandoms: The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |