![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. ![]() 'An absolutely fantastic read' Fantasy Book Review 'The pulse of a thriller and the hook of a fascinating hero balancing on the edge of psychosis' Library Journal From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a new novella collection, including a brand new, never-been-published story. The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds is an omnibus edition of the three amazing Legion novellas: Legion, Legion: Skin Deep and Legion: Lies of the Beholder. But managing a team is a challenge in itself, all the more so when some of the team feel they know better than Stephen himself. If you need a stolen corpse retrieved or a missing inventor found, Stephen Leeds is the man - or rather, the team - for the job. One of his many 'aspects' is a trained soldier, another a psychological expert, a third is a librarian, and all of them want to help him solve problems, making him an exceptionally versatile intelligence agent. ![]() But not for his own skills - his clients want to tap into the imaginary experts that populate his mind - and it's getting a bit crowded in there. Also out that year was the final volume of the Stephen Leeds saga, Legion: Lies of the Beholder, which was also published in an omnibus edition, Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds, that includes all three volumes. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a new novella collection, including a brand new, never-been-published story. The follow-up, Starsight, was released December 2019. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her illustrated Moomin books, which began to be published just after the second world war, brought her phenomenal acclaim and devotion. Klovharun encapsulates something of Jansson’s originality as an artist and writer – and her human presence. ![]() The island meant “privacy, remoteness, intimacy, a rounded whole without bridges or fences”. For 18 years she and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä spent long summers there, heading out from Helsinki as soon as the ice broke in April, leaving only in early October. It has scarcely any foliage, no running water and no electricity. ![]() Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago is tiny – some 6,000 sq metres – and isolated, “a rock in the middle of nowhere”, according to Jansson’s niece, Sophia. I n 1964, when she was in her 50s, the Moomin creator Tove Jansson settled on her dream island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mo Yan was a member of the Communist Liberation Army. So it is that the base, sustaining sorghum cereal, along with people, become drenched in blood. Time following the fall of traditional dynastic rule, a region once a German concession (Tsingtao beer), as China grapples between Communism and Democracy in modernization, plus Japanese invasion via Korea, culminating in Mao's Cultural Revolution. ![]() A tale of rural life in China's eastern seaboard in the 1920s & 1930s. Of interest, Mo Yan, popularly translated as "don't speak", is also a play on homophones of his given name, and, as author states, in honor of parental caution that "loose lips" invites trouble in troubled times. Shantung-born, 2012 Nobel winner Guan Moye (1955 -) is better known by his pen name Mo Yan. A legend in China, where it won major literary. A 3-generation, historical novel of family & myth narrated in a series of flashbacks. Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. Softcover/NF w/light edge & surface rubs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brett had family issues as well that we get to see throughout the book. Becca had problems throughout the book that I feel like are relatable to many teens these days dealing with divorce or lack of a parent in their lives. ![]() It’s told from the POV of Becca and Brett. This story was a cute, somewhat typical, YA romance novel. When the line between real and pretend begins to blur, they are forced to answer the question: is this fake romance the realest thing in either of their lives? But with Becca still picking up the pieces from when her world was blown apart years ago and Brett just barely holding his together now, they begin to realize they have more in common than they ever could have imagined. It’s the perfect solution: he gets people off his back for not dating and she can keep up the ruse.Īcting like the perfect couple isn’t easy though, especially when you barely know the other person. When he overhears Becca’s lie, Brett decides to step in and be her mystery guy. ![]() Being captain of the football team and one of the most popular guys in school, he should have no problem finding someone to date, but he’s always been more focused on his future than who to bring to prom. But when her former best friend teases her for not having a boyfriend, Becca impulsively pretends she’s been secretly seeing someone.īrett Wells has it all. It’s been years since seventeen-year-old Becca Hart believed in true love. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the shock waves settle, the two superpowers are caught in a horrifying face-off. The miscalculation turns into a disaster when Truman fails to foresee Russia’s reaction.Īlmost instantly, Stalin strikes U.S. In actual history, Truman rejected his general’s advice here, he does not. MacArthur advocates a strike on Chinese targets in Manchuria. ![]() The only way to stop the Communist surge into the Korean Peninsula and save thousands of American lives is through a nuclear attack. military has been cut to the bone after victory over the Nazis-while China and the USSR have built up their forces. MacArthur recognizes a stark reality: The U.S. ![]() Now, this masterly storyteller turns his eyes to the aftermath of World War II and asks: In an era of nuclear posturing, what if the Cold War had suddenly turned hot?īombs Away begins with President Harry Truman in desperate consultation with General Douglas MacArthur, whose control of the ground war in Korea has slipped disastrously away. In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed. ![]() ![]() Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City. 1662-63 during the first months of 1663). (There are 12 pence in a shilling, 20 shillings in a pound)īecause the old-style calendar was in use at the time the diary was written, in which the New Year began on March 25th, the year has been given a dual number in January, February and March, as has been done elsewhere in the diary, (eg. are used to designate Pounds, Shillings, and Pence. ![]() Notes: Where sums of money are referred to, £, s. Thanks to Sarah Bruce for providing these excerpts. Some university students created a 3-minute virtual tour of what London might have looked like before the Great Fire. The complete diaries are online complete or abridged or " concise." There's an online project where participants are adding annotations to the diary. Home > Resources > Book Helps > Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpts) Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpts) ![]() ![]() ![]() Plunged into a world of ghosts, shapeshifters, and wizards he attempts to rescue the alchemist from Henry's clutches, but he quickly discovers that there's much more to the old man than he bargained for. Soon, however, he remembers who he is and is horrified when he realizes what he's done. Injured in the battle, Duncan loses his memory and is adopted by a family of mercenaries who trick him into kidnapping the alchemist for England's Henry VIII. ![]() But when the Scots lose to the English at Flodden and the king is killed, everything falls to pieces. When Scottish warrior Duncan McLeod meets a mysterious alchemist secretly working for the king, he thinks the country's glorious future is assured. Who is the mysterious alchemist and what does he want with Duncan? 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Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradition-bound castle of Gormenghast. Urn:lcp:titusgroan0000peak_v4k2:lcpdf:c9325fb4-1846-41f4-8cfd-f477d8f76557 More than a fantasy writer, Peake (19111968) was a prolific painter, illustrator, writer, and poet. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:29:05 Boxid IA40008116 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() This is, in many ways, why Lawrence Durrell’s 1961 commencement to The Alexandria Quartet is so prescient, even if it is, more often than not, an extremely cynical view of love, and its recyclability–a polite word for disposability.ĭurrell’s protagonist, an Irishman who becomes referred to as Darley in subsequent novels of the quartet, is someone whose “evolved” view of love might have been impressive and avant-garde in its time, but now just comes across as garden variety fuckboy doublespeak. It’s a world that prides its bottom line on “the self”–improving it, bettering it, concerning one self with it. In the era that is now, it’s easy to be jaded about love. ![]() ![]() Justine is a novel that, in addition to being a part of a larger tableau–specifically The Alexandria Quartet–defies what most enthusiasts of literature have come to rely upon in depictions of love: that it lasts forever, that it can’t be broken or altered by what Days of Our Lives calls the sands of time. ![]() ![]() And where he goes, lawmen are sure to follow. And with him, trouble.įor although the man claims to just need a place to rest for the night, he wouldn't be here in the bitter month of January if he wasn't on the run. Facing a future alone, matters are only compounded when a desperate stranger arrives on her doorstep. In the inhospitable lands of Utah Territory, glovemaker Deborah Tyler awaits her husband's return home after months working across the state.īut as his due date comes and goes without a word, Deborah starts to fear the worst. They showed up during the spring, they appeared in the summer and early fall. From the critically acclaimed author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree comes The Glovemaker - a stunning historical novel for fans of Cold Mountain.įor almost four years, men came to my cabin carrying trouble on their backs, each one haunted and looking over their shoulders. ![]() |