![]() (and often end up with a hardback and kindle copy.) My favourite series, and I always pre-order this one. Stephen Leather’s Dark Forces – July 28. SPIDER SHEPHERD! The best UK thriller series, in my humble opinion. They are still thrilling, but I will admit to reading mostly because of the dogs. Netgalley copy.Īlex Kava’s Reckless Creed – July 26. Cute series about a man (called Creed) who trains service dogs. ![]() Has one of the most memorable sidekicks ever written in Boom. Will buy on kindle.Īce Atkins’s The Innocents – July 12. I’m hoping that this one can recapture the awesomeness that was the early releases of this series. His characters are real, but so so tough. ![]() A favourite series of mine, and one of the few American military fiction authors who I don’t want to give a lesson on tolerance to. The 7th in a great series about Ryan Lock, who works in private security but always seems to find himself in deep trouble. ![]() Sean Black’s The Edge of Alone – July 10. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mir was watching me and I couldn’t back out. By the time I realized I was queued up for the rollercoaster, it was too late for me to change my decision. ![]() I stood in the first line I found, huffy, just to look as though I had somewhere more important to be. ![]() “Mo,” she said, fidgeting with the multiple cow legs wrapped absurdly around her neck, trying to get me to wait up. ![]() A bell went off, a cowbell, I guess, and the barker handed over the stuffed cow to her. Your arrival is uncertain.” The card was still in my pocket.Īnd then, at the beanbag throw, I’d barely hit the lever, but Mir positively smashed it. A moving mannequin behind the glass-bald, unisex-had wagged its waxy finger at me, and the machine spit out a little card. They only give you two throws, and neither of mine had been strong enough.īefore the beanbag throw, I’d had my fortune told from a coin-operated machine. I was mad because I’d tried to win the cow, too, but my beanbag hadn’t plopped against the lever hard enough. It had giant plastic eyes, half-lidded, as though it were surprised yet not at all enthused to find itself at the fair. The toy was almost as big as she was, and she had draped it over her body and was parading it over the fairground. Mir had actually won the cow, the stuffed yellow monstrosity, all floppy shoulders and hips. ![]() ![]() ![]() To prove his loyalty to the queen, his sister, Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds, with the help of his newly appointed bodyguard, the coldly handsome Evemer, who seems to tolerate him at best. ![]() Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court–the body-father of the queen’s new child–in an altercation which results in his humiliation. Now an Indie Next pick! A Most Anticipated Pick for BookRiot | FanFi Addict | The Nerd Daily | io9 | We Are Bookish | Buzzfeed “A delicious tangle of romance, fealty, and dangerous politics.”–Tasha Suri The Goblin Emperor meets “Magnificent Century” in Alexandra Rowland’s A Taste of Gold and Iron, where a queer central romance unfolds in a fantasy world reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire. You can read this before A Taste of Gold and Iron PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Taste of Gold and Iron written by Alexandra Rowland which was published in. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland ![]() ![]() ![]() Taylor within the network’s ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her. Grappling with her decision, she locates “Jane” and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. ![]() When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. 1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. Despite harrowing police raids and the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for “fallen” women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption-a trauma she has never recovered from. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane. ![]() ![]() 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. ” -Associated Press This “powerful debut” ( Hello! Canada ) for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose-inspired by true stories. #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Clever and satisfying.has the potential to remain pertinent for generations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guha in his prologue, calls India an ‘unnatural nation’, far too separated by the dimensions of language, religion and caste. ‘India after Gandhi’ is a journey of Independent India- struggling to maintain its democracy, breaking apart due to enormous differences of language and religion among its people, fighting and killing within itself but always coming together again, stronger than ever. As a product of the Indian education system, I couldn’t agree more with both these men and it wasn’t until I read ‘India after Gandhi’ that the magnitude of history I carry with me by way of legacy dawned on me. He quotes the educationist Krishna Kumar who says that ‘for Indian children, history itself comes to an end with Partition and Independence’. Ramachandra Guha says in the prologue of “India after Gandhi” that in India, history seems to end in 1947. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Do you think you could convince Arthur to fight on my team?” “ That’s a hard no. “First you have to get Merlin and Jordan out of the dungeons, Ari.” “I have a plan for that, too. She gave Gwen space, which ached with distance. They’ll still be expecting you to be newly pregnant.” Gwen didn’t say anything, and Ari could tell that she had her own plans. Then the enchantresses will come bearing the chalice, I’ll steal it, you’ll give birth, and we’ll all return home to the same night we left. “Only two weeks until Arthur’s midsummer birthday celebration. If Gwen needed to have the baby here, Ari would make sure it would happen. Not once.” “ That’s progress for us.” Ari kissed her, mentally reorganizing her to-do list. ![]() “ We’ll do what we always do, Ari.” “The impossible?” Gwen’s small smile was another miracle. Ari held Gwen close, apologizing until Gwen seized her feelings, smearing tears from her face with her knuckles. You shouldn’t have given me that first aid pill.” “I had to!” Gwen started to cry. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the author of Hot Dog Girl comes a fresh and funny YA contemporary queer romance about two teens who fall in love in an indie comic book shop. Michael CrouchTaylor MeskimenRebecca Soler Try for 000 1495month after 30 days. Where the lost wander Wiggly the worm You can kill a cowboy the texas riders western a western frontier fiction Wonderful life the burgess shale and the nature of history Theres Jubilee our Juliet whos struggling with defining her sexuality and Ridley our Romeo whos honestly just trying not to fall apart at this point. ![]() The two star-crossed kiddos in this story meet at a comic convention prom. This queer contemporary tackles serious subjects such as mental health all the way to questioning our sexuality and bi-erasure. Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan Published. Verona Comics - From the author of Hot Dog Girl comes a fresh and funny queer YA contemporary novel about two teens who fall in love in an indie comic book shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() Point, whose construction, begun in 1853, had languished. In February 1861, two months before the Civil War’s first shots, officials in the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan ordered the completion and arming of Ft. officials in California thus faced the challenge of tamping down open and clandestine Confederate insurgencies within the state and preventing invasion by outside rebel forces. By the time the war erupted, about 40% of California’s white population of 380,000 hailed from below the Mason-Dixon line. Moreover, with the Gold Rush of 1849, thousands of Southerners had streamed into the state, many of whom favored the Confederacy. In 1861, slavery remained illegal in California, but blacks lacked full rights, such as suffrage. California entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, and Abraham Lincoln, in the 1860 presidential race, managed to carry the state. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the integrity of art is sacrificed for entertainment, when art is sold out and diluted, the question of whether one must create becomes lost. Embedded in our society’s cultural framework is a drive for box-office success at the expense of true art. ![]() Rilke’s call to necessity speaks poignantly to us today, because art is so often valued only by its ability to be commodified. ![]() Rilke advises Kappus to “go within and probe the depths from which your life issues at its source you will find the answer to the question of whether you must create.” Throughout his five-year correspondence with the young poet, Rilke consistently underscores this necessity of art, a lesson which offers potent implications for young poets in our modern age. Rilke responds to Kappus’ earnest request with striking wisdom and sincerity in what has become known as Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, a book that has instructed generations of writers, including myself. ![]() It was 1903 when the German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke first instructed Franz Kappus to create only if creation “arises from a necessity of your being.” Kappus, a young, aspiring writer, appealed earlier that year to a then twenty-six-year-old Rilke to appraise his work, enclosing several of his own poems with his letter. ![]() |