![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. *Corrupt is a STANDALONE dark romance with no cliffhanger. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they're out. The opportunity is too good to be true, as well as the timing. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven't had her body, I know that I have her mind. ![]() She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. ![]() My brother's girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. ![]() Michael Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. He's bad, and the dirt I've seen isn't content to stay in my head anymore. Now, I've graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven't stopped watching Michael. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid.For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. The star of his college's basketball team and now gone pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. He's handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. My boyfriend's older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. Erika I was told that dreams were our heart's desires. From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a new dark romance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way to a busy and disturbing ending, Charlie makes a connection with Turing that allows for some nerd-pleasing kibble like “non-deterministic polynomial time.” McEwan ( Nutshell, 2016, etc.) brings humor and considerable ethical rumination to a cautionary tale about artificial intelligence. These statements flag a fateful backstory comprising a teenage Miranda, two schoolmates, and a death threat. Early on, the android has told Charlie that Miranda is a liar and might harm him without providing details. Before long, as things between the humans seem to be getting serious, Charlie finds himself the first man “to be cuckolded by an artefact.” They all survive the fling, although Charlie imagines he detects “the scent of warm electronics on her sheets,” and Adam turns lovesick, composing 2,000 haiku for Miranda (namesake of the Bard’s character who famously utters: “O brave new world, / That has such people in’t”). He and Miranda, the younger woman living above him, each supply half the “personality parameters” required to push Adam past his factory presets. The narrator, Charlie Friend, an aimless 32-year-old, inherits enough money to buy one of the pricey robots. The year is 1982, the British are about to lose the Falklands War, and Alan Turing is not only still alive, but his work has helped give rise to a line of androids almost indistinguishable from humans. The British author’s latest novel concerns a triangle formed by two humans and one android in an alternate version of England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This new edition of The Near Witch also included the in-universe short story "The Ash-Born Boy" and a never-before-seen introduction from V. Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab's debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won't soon forget. ![]() ![]() Right now they take pieces of me with them. As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi's need to know about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy. The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab 31,959 ratings, 3.66 average rating, 4,937 reviews The Near Witch Quotes Showing 1-30 of 40 Maybe one day the words will pour out like so many others, easy and smooth and on their own. The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. But when an actual stranger, a boy who seems to fade like smoke, appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. There are no strangers in the town of Near. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. In 2011, The Near Witch appeared in bookstoresthe debut novel by a young author named Victoria Schwab. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. Summary: "The Near Witch" is only an old story told to frighten children. ![]() ![]() ![]() pour la jeunesse, Guerres et batailles imaginaires - Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Rois et souverains - Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Démonologie - Romans, nouvelles, etc. ![]() ![]() Publication date 2019 Topics Generals - Juvenile fiction, Demonology - Juvenile fiction, Kings and rulers - Juvenile fiction, Imaginary wars and battles - Juvenile fiction, Magic - Juvenile fiction, Generals - Fiction, Demonology - Fiction, Kings and rulers - Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles - Fiction, Good and evil - Fiction, Magic - Fiction, Voyages and travels - Fiction, Secrecy - Fiction, Quests (Expeditions) - Fiction, Adventure stories, Fantasy, Généraux - Romans, nouvelles, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2003, Carle received the Children’s Literature Legacy Award for lifetime achievement in children's literature. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many bestsellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into seventy languages and sold over fifty-five million copies. ![]() Eric Carle (1929–2021) was acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children, including Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Have You Seen My Cat? and The Tiny Seed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's up to the Belgian to work out which of his fellow travellers is a murderer.Ĭhristie's second novel is the first to star her lesser-known detectives Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley. Poirot books passage on the train only for a fellow passenger to be found dead the next day. ![]() It wasn't to Raymond Chandler's taste – "only a halfwit could guess it", he said – but thanks partly to the 1974 film adaptation, which won an Oscar for Ingrid Bergman, this could be Christie's best-known mystery. She provides the reader with red herrings galore before Marple works out whodunnit. I've never known a case in real life." Christie wrote in her foreword to this Miss Marple mystery that she wanted to do a variation on a well-known theme, with "a highly orthodox and conventional library" but "a wildly improbable and highly sensational body". "Bodies are always being found in libraries in books. "You've been dreaming, Dolly," Colonel Bantry tells his wife. ![]() ![]() HeathDay is committed to maintaining the highest possible levels of impartial editorial standards in the content that we present on our website.
![]() The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. If you’d like to be added to our reading group, please send us your name, email and phone number. ![]() A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent either the day before or on the morning of the meeting. Books are in stock now and reading group books purchased at the store receive a 15% discount. Our next selection is The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington. The Book Beat reading group will meet live at Zoom online on Wednesday May 26, at 7 PM. ![]() “Her book deals engagingly with Carrington’s short-lived reunion with a still-smitten Ernst in Lisbon and New York, her two marriages, and in particular her friendship in Mexico City with Remedios Varo, the painter and wife of the surrealist poet Benjamin Péret.” - The Guardian If you’d like to read further, we have UK copies in stock The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorehead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() is Cora Carmack’s most exciting work to date. “Bright, electric and imaginative with crackling tension and thrilling twists that left me ravenous for more. ![]() Roar is a force of magic and romance to be reckoned with!”-Wendy Higgins, New York Times bestselling author of the Sweet Evil trilogy “Carmack shines with this unique fantasy and alluring romance.”-# 1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. “A rich and unforgettable fantasy forged from the power of storms, the danger of secrets, and the magic of Cora Carmack's imagination.”-Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures & author of The Lovely Reckless, on Roar “ Rage delivers an incredible second chapter in Cora Carmack's Stormheart series, and will have you positively aching for the next one. ” -Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval “A blazing maelstrom of powerful magic, fierce romance, and adventurous storytelling. New York Times bestselling author Cora Carmacks young adult debut: Roar.In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control rora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a belief among some that the Colony should be a fresh start from all prior hierarchies given the current physical state of Planet Earth. Unrest has spread as word from the Colony reports there is already fighting between a group of separatists and the existing governmental organizations that hope to transition their positions and sense of law and order from one planet to another. This creates the perfect opportunity for a mutiny. The ship’s crew is currently preparing to enter the Osler radiation belt, a black zone that will block communications coming in, and going out. ![]() Planet Earth has degraded to a point that it will become uninhabitable in the next decade or two. However, we learn that 33 colonists aboard the USS Montgomery have left Earth to repopulate the species on a new planet. ![]() The narration over the top of the visuals tells a story that appears to be unrelated to this event. The series opens up with some very ominous visuals, as a dead woman floats lifelessly through the vacuum of space. The story is centered around a colony ships’ onboard artificial intelligence system guiding a group of children through deep space after their parents were murdered. Sentient is published by TKO Studios, written by Jeff Lemire, with art and colors by Gabriel Walta, and letters by Steve Wands. ![]() |