And he'll use any means to destroy her, including the one person she has grown to trust. Smart, sexy, and stubborn as hell, Emily brings out the alpha male in Colin, unleashing a wild, heady desire that takes them both over the edge.īut in the shadows, the Night Butcher waits.eager to spill Emily's blood and taste her terror. Especially not one like Detective Colin Gyth whose gold-flecked eyes and predatory air make Emily realize how much she's been longing to lose control.Ĭolin can't believe the doctor he's been assigned to work with on the Night Butcher murder investigation is the one person who could expose his true identity as a wolf shifter. But her gift for recognizing and healing the Other-those creatures of the night that most humans don't even know exist-requires a few house rules. Cynthia lives along the Alabama Gulf Coast. Since she began writing full-time in 2005, Cynthia has written over one hundred novels and novellas. She is a New York Times, USA Today, Digital Book World, and IndieReader best-seller. Instead of the typical therapist's caseload of midlife crises and mother fixations, Emily treats vampires with blood phobias and sex-demons looking for meaningful relationships. Award-winning author Cynthia Eden writes sexy tales of contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and paranormal romance. Emily Drake's patients tend to be a little unusual.
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You're not going to tell me that some poor miserable slob of a man who beats up his own child has committed a sin? When was the last time you saw a sin? Oh, you've seen quite a few? Well, I haven't, not lately. In times when nobody is interested in God, what would happen if you could prove the existence of sin, pure and simple? Wouldn't that be a windfall for you? A new proof of God's existence! If there is such a thing as sin, evil, a living malignant force, there must be a God! You could almost make a believer out of me. I mean, who cares about such things as the Great Watchmaker?īut what if you could show me a sin? a purely evil deed, an intolerable deed for which there is no explanation? Now there's a mystery. The more we know about the beauty and order of the universe, the less God has to do with it. “Can good come from evil? Have you ever considered the possibility that one might undertake a search not for God but for evil? You people may have been on the wrong track all these years with all that talk about God and signs of his existence, the order and beauty of the universe-that's all washed up and you know it. Smiley has the skill to dramatize effectively, as readers of such earlier books of hers as twoĬollections of novellas, "The Age of Grief" (1987) and "Ordinary Love and Good Will" (1989) can attest. Part of it remains absorbed by the foreground, whose domestic details and bucolic rhythms Ms. Now of course upon reading this, the reader's mind divides. Madness and generational conflict begins. "It's as simple as that." So the farm is divided into two instead of three, with Ginny and Rose to take turns looking after Larry. "You don't want it, my girl, you're out," says Larry to Caroline. "I don't know," says the youngest, Caroline, who is a lawyer. "It's a great idea," says the second daughter, Rose. What do they think of the plan? "It'sĪ good idea," says the oldest, who is called Ginny. In 1979, the three sisters' father, Laurence (Larry) Cook, decides to form a corporation out of his farm holdings and give each of his daughters a third of it. $23.Īt the opening of Jane Smiley's latest novel, "A Thousand Acres," the narrator, a woman named Virginia Cook Smith, describes the farm in Zebulon County, Iowa, that she and her two younger sisters, Rose and Caroline, have grown up on: "Paidįor, no encumbrances, as flat and fertile, black, friable and exposed as any piece of land on the face of the earth."Īnd then comes the shock of recognition. October 31, 1991, Thursday, Late Edition - Finalīy Jane Smiley 371 pages. Books of The Times On an Iowa Farm, a Tragedy With Echoes of Lear 'Astounding' NPR 'Amazing' Ann Leckie 'Breaks uncharted ground' Library Journal 'Powerful' io9 'Elegiac, complex, and intriguing' Publishers Weekly 'Intricate and extraordinary' New York Times 'Brilliant' Washington Post The Broken Earth trilogy is complete - beginning with The Fifth Season, continuing in The Obelisk Gate (Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel) and concluding with The Stone Sky (Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award). This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. IT STARTS WITH BETRAYAL, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. IT STARTS WITH DEATH, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. Under historien har civilisationen p Stillheten kommit att. D antar dessa vulkaniska, seismiska, atmosfriska, geomagnetiska omvlvningar apokalyptiska proportioner. Ibland gr jorden in i en Femte rstid, som kan strcka sig ver flera r. Men jorden r allt annat n stilla: skalv och jordbvningar kommer och gr stndigt. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 1 in the record-breaking triple Hugo-Award-winning trilogy ***One of Time Magazine's top 100 fantasy books of all time*** ***Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards*** ***A New York Times Notable Book and the inaugural book club pick *** THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS. Den sndrade jordens enda kontinent kallas Stillheten. ' Can Climate Change Be Funny?' Wall Street Journal, 26 March 2010: W1-W4. 'Funny Thing, Climate.' New Scientist,ģ April 2010: 24-25. Leonard Lopate Show, 6 April 2010 [Novelist Ian McEwan talks 'British Writer Ian McEwan Tackles Global Warming in New Novel Solar.' Canadian Press, 30 March 2010. ' Ways With Words 2010: Ian McEwan Interview.' Telegraph. McEwan: The Full Interview.' Telegraph, 12 February 2011.īradbury, Lorna. 'By The Book: Ian McEwan.' New York Times Book Review, 'There Is Also That: An Interview with Ian McEwan.' McEwan Interview.' CBC: As It Happens, September 2014 [Video With Ian McEwan.' Harry Ransom Center, September 2014. Interview with Ian McEwan.' The Oxford Culture Review, 1 McEwan and Amy Bloom.' BBC Radio 4, 4 September 2014. McEwan talks ahead of his city date.' Oxford Times, 4 September Wall Street Journal, 5 September 2014: D7. Ian McEwan Has Evolved from Literary Shocker to Compassionate Novelist.'Īnd Religion Clash in Ian McEwan's New Novel.' Wall Street Journal,Ĭronin, Brenda. McEwan on His Latest Book The Children Act.' Charlie Rose, McEwan.' Overheard with Evan Smith, 23 October 2014. Dawson Interviews Ian McEwan.' Concrete: The University of EastĪnglia's Official Student Newspaper, 28 October 2014. It seems he has begun receiving “treatments” from DJ GoodNews, whose impeccably beneficent persona persuades David to embrace the love in the world and nourish it as he can. She confides the affair and suggests a divorce David instructs her to tell their two children during his three-day absence she dithers, and when David returns he apologizes for not loving her properly. Husband David, a newspaper columnist known as “the Angriest Man in Holloway,” is insufferably cynical and absorbed by his public spleen-spitting. Narrator Katie Carr, a 40-something doctor in England’s National Health Service, finds herself disenchanted with her marriage and in the midst of an affair. Though the 72-hour metamorphosis is a bit of a stretch, no matter: this hilarious romp entirely justifies the wise reader’s agreement to play along. Another delightful comedy from Hornby ( High Fidelity, 1995, etc.), this one about a woman whose plans to divorce her crabby husband are sidetracked by his sudden, if loony, embrace of saintliness. She hears a voice that she thinks is in her head, but it calls her a “nit” a word she would not use, and the voice tells he to find the mouse hole. The Plot: Alice is in a mental institution, she was found with blood covering her body and talking about a cross between a man and a white rabbit that she followed. I’ve read some graphic stuff but this was intense for me. I usually do trigger warnings for the recommendation section instead of my first thought but this novel is so in your face, massive trigger warning for rape and violence. The character’s in this book from the Wonderland books are Alice, The Mad Hatter, The White Rabbit, The Jabberwocky, The Walrus, The Carpenter, The Door Mouse, The Caterpillar, and The Cheshire Cat (some of the names and features are changed). I would say this novel is like Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, in how it tells a more adult version of a classic children’s literature meets Lev Grossman’s The Magicians series, with it’s use of magic, sex, and violence. The novel does create it’s own twisted story with a lot of references and clever nods to characters from the wonderland world. Alice By Christina Henry is a brutally harsh grownup retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland) and Through the Looking Glass. OL46589W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.92 Pages 620 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0140243003 Urn:lcp:wheeloffortune02howa:epub:390d131c-557d-4c5d-bc59-ace84f134f5b Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wheeloffortune02howa Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t99602b3w Isbn 0671499890 Lccn 84005357 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition I was lucky enough to read The Wheel of Fortune first of all. I have read some of the six Starbridge series about churchmen, but religious matters are not my prime interest. Urn:lcp:wheeloffortune02howa:lcpdf:c60f9135-aa23-48aa-947b-717ff4b4a474 My wife has read all the books of Susan Howatch and says that the author has developed a lot since the early books, Penmarric and Cashelmara. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:56:20 Boxid IA100922 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor It is a must-read for anyone who enjoys historical fiction. Overall, Homecoming: A Novel is a beautiful and heart-wrenching story that will stay with readers long after they finish the book. The ending is satisfying and the book leaves the reader with a sense of hope. The story is full of emotion and suspense as Alice and Ivy's lives intertwine. The novel is beautifully written and the characters are well-developed. Along the way, we learn about the struggles and sacrifices Ivy makes to make a life for herself and her family. The story then takes us back to the 1940s and follows the life of Alice's grandmother, Ivy, as she meets and falls in love with a soldier and embarks on a new life in Australia. She discovers that her grandmother was a war bride and sets off on a journey to uncover the truth about her grandmother's life. The book begins in the present day with a young woman named Alice who is trying to unravel the mystery of her grandmother's past. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton. Written by Kate Morton, this book is a captivating story that follows the lives of two women from different time periods. A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. Homecoming: A Novel is an engaging and thought-provoking read. Technically, King’s cosmic world-building has nothing to do with The Boogeyman, the latest horror movie from Host and Dashcam director Rob Savage - but it was still on my mind for the full 98-minute runtime. The takeaway from the Dark Tower books: The unknown is better left unknown, and if the todash’s beasties ever find their way into your reality, run. As Roland and his and ka-tet, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake, eventually learn, ancient advanced societies of Roland’s “Mid-World” parallel universe found ways to breach the fabric between realities and reach the todash space, and every being who beheld it seems to have agreed that it’s pure terror. The idea of todash creeps into other King books - The Mist and From a Buick 8 are biggies - but it’s always looming in the late Dark Tower novels. Lovecraft, King mesmerized me with the promise of a darkness between worlds, where violent titans lurked and an unlucky few lived out an eternity in foggy hell. Specifically, todash space.īefore I understood “cosmic horror” as the defining mode of H.P. Stephen King devoted more than 4,000 pages to detailing the fantasy world of The Dark Tower, and yet by the end of Roland Deschain’s journey to the tower, there was still space shrouded in shadow. |