6/28/2023 0 Comments Grave Witch by Kalayna Price![]() ![]() Despite all that, Alex is going to need his help to navigate the tangled webs of real-world and paranormal politics, and to track down a killer wielding a magic so malevolent, it may cost Alex not just her life, but also her soul. As a grave witch, Alex Craft can speak to the deadshe's even on good terms with Death himself. Andrews seems to be hiding something, although it's certainly not his dislike of Alex. To solve this case, Alex will have to team up with tough homicide detective Falin Andrews. ![]() You know you're having a bad day when Death is saving your life. Then, someone makes a serious attempt on her life, thwarted only by Death's intervention. Alex is investigating a high-profile murder when she's attacked by the ghost she is raising - which should be impossible. But even though she's on good terms with Death himself, nothing has prepared her for her latest case. Īs a private investigator and consultant for the police, Alex has seen a lot of dark magic. Just because Grave Witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, doesn't mean she has to like what they have to say. ![]() Perfect for fans of Charlaine Harris and Cassandra Clare. The first book in the Alex Craft urban fantasy series about a Grave Witch who can talk to the dead. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Ready player one book![]() ![]() ![]() Like millions of others, Wade dreams of discovering a virtual Easter Egg that lies concealed within one of thousands of virtual worlds by the OASIS's creator, the late James Halliday. Like most of humanity he escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia. Orphaned 18-year-old Wade Watts lives in the "stacks", dwellings, literally, formed from stacks of old cars, trailers, RVs, etc. Society is high tech with glowing neon everywhere. Chrome and glass skyscrapers soar into the heavens towering over buildings as grey and miserable as the dystopian, Bladerunner-esque weather. ![]() The year is 2045 and life in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, resembles scenes from every Hollywood sci-fi, dystopian flick you’ve ever seen. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The tiger prince iris johansen![]() Time had honed and hardened the faultless symmetry of the face Margaret had once described as having the beauty of a fallen angel, but it still held the riveting magnetism it had always possessed. The boy had always burned with a restless, volatile energy, but now he cast out an almost incandescent vitality. The scrap of an old verse popped into Ian's mind, underscoring the impression that had leapt into being the instant he had caught sight of Ruel. Certainly no trace of tameness lingered in his brother now. Yet the reports he had received over the years should have given him some warning, and even as a boy Ruel had never been tame. Somehow he had not expected Ruel to look so lethal. Shock jolted through Ian MacClaren as he peered through the smoke layering the air of the bar at the two men squaring off across the room. Stripped to the waist, his muscles gleaming gold-bronze in the lantern light, blue eyes blazing with fierce joy, he circled the huge mulatto holding the machete. Ruel's right hand gripped a bone-handled knife with deadly competence, and an eager smile curved his lips. ![]() Ruel reminded Ian of a beautiful tiger set to pounce. ![]() ![]() Much like the previous book, it sometimes feels like you're watching someone play a video game and laboriously go through all the dialogue options. It also suffers from an over-abundance of exposition. Rather than a galaxy wide adventure, this is more an exploration of two specific characters. It's rather comfortable being back in the same universe. I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this series - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - and this is. ![]() Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall her program, has remained by her side and is determined to help her adjust to her new world.īecause Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over. ![]() She’s never felt so isolated.īut Lovelace is not alone. She’s gone from being virtually omniscient to a limited physical existence, in a community where her kind are illegal. Now, reactivated and reset, Lovelace finds herself in a synthetic body. She was a ship’s artificial intelligence system, tasked with caring for the health and well-being of her crew, possessing a distinct personality and very human emotions. Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. ![]() Beginning during the final events of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, this standalone sequel branches out to explore new characters and new corners of the galaxy. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck![]() ![]() ![]() And in the company of dotty Miss Dabney and old pal Alexander, Blossom sails to London where she's immortalized at Mme. ("Her spirit may roam but she calls Bluff City home"). She becomes a local celebrity: "Blossom Culp-Pintsize Prophetess," advertises the Chamber of Commerce. ![]() For Blossom-and readers-it's a night to remember. Plucky Blossom Culp, Bluff City social outcast, in 1914, starts out as a mystic manqué tricking gullible classmates, but then suddenly she starts having honest-to-goodness visions: first of a car accident, then strange flashforwards (even one of the moon landing), and finally a trip back twenty months in time to relive the watery demise of a British boy who sank on the Titanic. This is still a blithe and spirited occult comedy with fewer genuine spooky moments but plenty of out-and-out belly laughs. Once again there's a child-ghost in trouble and once again an eccentric oldster steps in to take Alexander and Blossom on exotic travels. So closely does this follow The Ghost Belonged to Me (1975) that at times Peck's sequel on Second Sight verges on déja vu. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments On the road to unfreedom![]() ![]() But this threat presents an opportunity to better understand the pillars of our freedoms and face the choices that will determine the future: equality or oligarchy, individualism or totalitarianism, truth or lies. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the creation of Donald Trump, an American failure deployed as a Russian weapon. In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West by supporting the far right in Europe, invading Ukraine in 2014, and waging a cyberwar during the 2016 presidential campaign and the EU referendum. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia. ![]() The past is another country, the old saying goes. RT FckKazaps: There is much speculation about what prompted Putin to launch his genocidal war against. ![]() ‘One of the best…brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy’s retreat in the early years of 21st century’ Guardian From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia’s ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Carved in Stone by John A. Cowgill![]() ![]() I vincoli can be translated as constraints, bonds, ties, links. Your face is swollen from the treatment and your head fantastically stitched together as you sit on the edge of the sofa, all attention, all wrapped in chains of attention. Martino, it is evening and raining in London, and I am making tea and we don’t say that we both know it’s the last time we will meet. ![]() ![]() Is a single white marble, translucent with a turquoise wave breaking within it, attention is that marble bouncing wildly down the alley and reaching the top of the steps by the bar I met you at in Monti, Martino, to sit out the evenings drinking on those steps, where all the treads are bowed in the middle by millennia of pilgrims heading up to San Pietro in Vincoli, to seek forgiveness, to bow their heads, to ask some questions of themselves in a place attention is a single block of white Carrara marble carved by Michelangelo into the statue of Moses we stood before, stoned, wondering why he’d horns, and attention to the style of things is a quality worn, Martino, by you around Hoxton or Testaccio like a purple boiler suit, which you also wore, and attention is that single white marble now descending the stone steps by the bar, rolling along the depth of one tread and dropping, then rolling the depth of another, and dropping, and the next, dropping and rolling, dropping and rolling, not silently, until the single white marble, translucent with a turquoise wave, hits the pavement and skitters onto the cobbles to wedge, pearl-like, beneath the tyre of a Vespa. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "An intriguing romp through Louis XV's France. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Lovers in Arms by Osiris Brackhaus![]() ![]() Please don't assume you could pass a history test on this novel alone. Also, while great care has been taken to be as accurate as possible in many details regarding the period has, some details were deliberately changed to fit the story. Real, historic personalities appearing are not meant to be accurate representations, but adapted characters for the dramatic purposes of this fictitious universe. Even though this story deals with real, historic events, the story and all characters therein are purely fictitious. Do not take the events in this story as proof of plausibility, legality or safety of actions described. It contains explicit violent content and is intended for mature readers. For further information, please contact This is a work of fiction. No part of this work may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission from the author, except as allowed by fair use. © 2019 by Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus, Kassel, GermanyĪll rights reserved. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Tj stiles the first tycoon![]() ![]() It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. In The First Tycoon, Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodore’s personal life. ![]() Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today. ![]() We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation-in fact, as T. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation’s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.įounder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. ![]() |