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Mrs van gogh
Par Caroline Cauchi. 2023
"As intricate and absorbing as a Van Gogh painting...MRS VAN GOGH will stay with me for a long time." New…
York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor "All the characters jump off the page...what we have here is a very fine novel." Historical Novel Society She's been painted out of history...until now Who tells her story? In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh dies penniless, unknown, a man tortured by his own mind. Eleven years later his work is exhibited in Paris and his unparalleled talent finally recognised. The tireless efforts of one woman gave the world one of its greatest creative minds. But twenty-eight year old Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger, Vincent's sister-in-law and the keeper of his immense collection of paintings, sketches and letters, has, until now, been written out of history. This beautiful, moving novel finally gives this extraordinary woman a voice... Praise for Mrs Van Gogh: "[A] brilliantly fictionalized account of the life of a woman who the world needs to know better" Lit Hub "What an exquisitely written book, I loved every moment! How lucky readers are going to be to read this utterly absorbing and deeply moving book for the first time. Such a treat!" USA Today bestseller Deborah Carr "A truly impressive book and a great talent." Sunday Times bestseller Caroline Corcoran "Brings to vivid life an extraordinary woman... will appeal to all lovers of historical fiction. A story that deserves to be told and widely known." Essie Fox ????? "This book is exquisite! Everything about Johanna's story is astoundingly beautiful and hers is a story that needed to be told, a voice that deserved to be heard" ????? "A beautifully done historical novel, it was so well written and did everything that I was hoping for" ???? "A beautifully written historical novel... Johanna was ahead of her time and the author portrayed her authentically" ????"Historical fiction at its best. A well-written story about a strong woman with a fascinating life" ???? "The author paints a beautiful picture...If you enjoy historical fiction and you like strong female characters, I highly recommend"The devil wears scrubs: A short comedic novel
Par Freida McFadden. 2017
Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights…
on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can't imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there's the devil herself: Jane's senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intactThe tusks of extinction
Par Ray Nayler. 2024
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but…
someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world's foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures fend off poachers long enough for their species to take hold? And will she ever discover the real reason they were brought back? A tense eco-thriller from a new master of the genreLove & mr. lewisham: The story of a very young couple
Par H. G Wells. 2023
The world of young Mr. Lewisham is one day turned upside down when he meets and falls in love with…
Ethel Henderson, a young woman from London who is visiting relatives in Sussex. Their brief and innocent rendezvous has significant implications when Lewisham's job is threatened. Some time later, Lewisham moves to London, where he decides to go search of Ethel, but finding her proves to be more complicated than expected ... This book is said to closely resemble events in H. G. Wells's own lifeThe divorce party: A novel
Par Laura Dave. 2021
"Sizzle Factor: SPF 50. A secret marriage, lies about affairs . . . even sex on the day of the…
divorce party" ( USA Today ) a novel by the author of the New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, The Last Thing He Told Me The second novel from Laura Dave, the acclaimed author of Eight Hundred Grapes and Hello Sunshine . In The Divorce Party , she captures a much-discussed cultural phenomenon that has never been profiled in fiction before-divorce celebrations-with her characteristic wit and warmth. Set in Hamptons high society, The Divorce Party features two women-one newly engaged and one at the end of her marriage-trying to answer the same question: when should you fight to save a relationship, and when should you let go? An insightful and funny multi-generational story, this deeply moving novel is sure to touch anyone whose heart has weathered an unexpected stormWhat remains of elsie jane
Par Chelsea Wakelyn. 2023
A heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of a woman unravelling in the wake of tragedy. Sam is dead, which means…
that Elsie Jane has just lost the brilliant, sensitive man she planned to grow old with. The early days of grief are a fog of work and single parenting. Too restless to sleep, Elsie pores over Sam's old love letters, paces her house, and bickers with the ghosts of Sam and her dead parents night after night. As the year unfolds, she develops an obsession with a local murder mystery, attends a series of disastrous internet dates in search of a "replacement soulmate," and solicits a space-time wizard via Craigslist, convinced he will help her forge a path through the cosmos back to Sam. Examining the ceaseless labor of motherhood, the stigma of death by drug poisoning, and the allure of magical thinking in the wake of tragedy, What Remains of Elsie Jane is a heart-splitting reminder that grief is born from the depths of love. Contains mature themesSabotage sur Zalanie (Les enquêtes spatiales de Nia)
Par Rhéa Dufresne. 2022
Nia mène des enquêtes spatiales aux quatre coins de la galaxie. Sa nouvelle mission la conduit sur la planète Zalanie…
où les récoltes sont endommagées par une série de sabotages. Grâce à ses gadgets et à sa fidèle chatte, la détective cherche de précieux indices pour trouver qui menace la production de légumes.Truth of the Divine: A Novel (Noumena #2)
Par Lindsay Ellis. 2021
USA TODAY BESTSELLERTruth of the Divine is the latest alternate-history first-contact novel in the Noumena series from the instant New…
York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestselling author Lindsay Ellis. The human race is at a crossroads; we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. As the political climate grows more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of granting human rights to nonhuman persons. How do you define “person” in the first place? Cora Sabino not only serves as the full-time communication intermediary between the alien entity Ampersand and his government chaperones but also shares a mysterious bond with him that is both painful and intimate in ways neither of them could have anticipated. Despite this, Ampersand is still keen on keeping secrets, even from Cora, which backfires on them both when investigative journalist Kaveh Mazandarani, a close colleague of Cora’s unscrupulous estranged father, witnesses far more of Ampersand’s machinations than anyone was meant to see. Since Cora has no choice but to trust Kaveh, the two must work together to prove to a fearful world that intelligent, conscious beings should be considered persons, no matter how horrifying, powerful, or malicious they may seem. Making this case is hard enough when the public doesn’t know what it’s dealing with—and it will only become harder when a mysterious flash illuminates the sky, marking the arrival of an agent of chaos that will light an already-unstable world on fire.With a voice completely her own, Lindsay Ellis deepens her realistic exploration of the reality of a planet faced with the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence, probing the essential questions of humanity and decency, and the boundaries of the human mind. While asking the question of what constitutes a “person,” Ellis also examines what makes a monster.The Bezzle: A Martin Hench Novel (The Martin Hench Novels)
Par Cory Doctorow. 1976
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of…
thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares. The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost 25$. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no idea he’s kicked off a chain of events that will overtake the next decade of his life. Martin has made his most dangerous mistake yet: trespassed into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and spoiled their fun. To them, money is a tool, a game, and a way to keep score, and they’ve found their newest mark—California’s Department of Corrections. Secure in the knowledge that they’re living behind far too many firewalls of shell companies and investors ever to be identified, they are interested not in the lives they ruin, but only in how much money they can extract from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy. A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Black Star Renegades: A Black Star Renegades Novel (Black Star Renegades Ser. #1)
Par Michael Moreci. 2019
In the tradition of Star Wars, a galaxy-hopping space adventure about a galactic kingdom bent on control and the young…
misfit who must find the power within before it’s too late.SyFy Wire—January Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Pick Up as soon as PossibleThe Verge—18 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in JanuaryChicago Review of Books—Best New Books of JanuaryCade Sura holds the future of the galaxy in his hands: the ultimate weapon that will bring total peace. He didn’t ask for it, he doesn’t want it, and there’s no worse choice to wield it in all of space, but if he doesn’t, everyone’s totally screwed. The evil Praxis kingdom is on the cusp of having every star system under its control, and if that happens, there’ll be no contesting their cruel reign. Especially if its fanatical overlord, Ga Halle, manages to capture Cade and snag the all-powerful weapon for herself. Cade can’t hide from Praxis, and he can’t run from the destiny that’s been shoved into his hands. So he only has one option: He has to fight. Cade’s not going to let destiny send him on a suicide run, though. With some help from his friends—rebels and scoundrels alike—Cade’s going to use this weapon to chart a new destiny for the galaxy, and for himself. He just has to do so before everyone around him discovers that he’s a complete and total fraud. Blending the space operatics of Star Wars and the swagger of Guardians of the Galaxy,Black Star Renegades is a galaxy-hopping adventure that blasts its way from seedy spacer bars to sacred temples guarded by deadly creatures—all with a cast of misfit characters who have nowhere to go and nothing to lose.Alice Payne Arrives (Alice Payne #1)
Par Kate Heartfield. 2018
Kate Heartfield's Alice Payne Arrives is the story of a time traveling thief turned reluctant hero in this science fiction…
adventure.A disillusioned major, a highwaywoman, and a war raging across time.It’s 1788 and Alice Payne is the notorious highway robber, the Holy Ghost. Aided by her trusty automaton, Laverna, the Holy Ghost is feared by all who own a heavy purse.It’s 1889 and Major Prudence Zuniga is once again attempting to change history—to save history—but seventy attempts later she’s still no closer to her goal.It’s 2016 and . . . well, the less said about 2016 the better!But in 2020 the Farmers and the Guides are locked in battle; time is their battleground, and the world is their prize. Only something new can change the course of the war. Or someone new. Little did they know, but they’ve all been waiting until Alice Payne arrives.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Alice Payne Rides (Alice Payne #2)
Par Kate Heartfield. 2019
Alice Payne Rides is the thrilling sequel to Kate Heartfield's Alice Payne Arrives.After abducting Arthur of Brittany from his own…
time in 1203, thereby creating the mystery that partly prompted the visit in the first place, Alice and her team discover that they have inadvertently brought the smallpox virus back to 1780 with them.Searching for a future vaccine, Prudence finds that the various factions in the future time war intend to use the crisis to their own advantage.Can the team prevent an international pandemic across time, and put history back on its tracks? At least until the next battle in the time war…Praise for Alice Payne Arrives"Twisty time wars, highway robbery, 18th century lady scientists, queer joy. How could I not love this? Alice Payne Arrives at a gallop, breathlessly blending historical fiction and SF tropes, then turning them on their heads." —Sarah Pinsker"Whip smart, and packed with irresistible characters and fast-paced adventure. A playful, pointed, and brilliantly inventive remix of history that unfolds like the most fascinating puzzle box—each new twist and reveal a delight. Counting the days to the sequel." —S.L. HuangAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.The Only Harmless Great Thing
Par Brooke Bolander. 2018
Winner of the Nebula Award for Best NoveletteFinalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon AwardsThe Only Harmless Great…
Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants.In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are the facts.Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying out to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of meaning and justice.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.An Unnatural Life
Par Erin K. Wagner. 2020
Murderbot meets To Kill a Mockingbird in Erin K. Wagner's An Unnatural Life, an interplanetary tale of identity and responsibility.The…
cybernetic organism known as 812-3 is in prison, convicted of murdering a human worker but he claims that he did not do it. With the evidence stacked against him, his lawyer, Aiya Ritsehrer, must determine grounds for an appeal and uncover the true facts of the case.But with artificial life-forms having only recently been awarded legal rights on Earth, the military complex on Europa is resistant to the implementation of these same rights on the Jovian moon.Aiya must battle against her own prejudices and that of her new paymasters, to secure a fair trial for her charge, while navigating her own interpersonal drama, before it's too late.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.The Seventh Perfection
Par Daniel Polansky. 2020
Hugo Award finalist Daniel Polansky crafts an innovative, mind-bending fantasy mystery in The Seventh PerfectionWhen a woman with perfect memory…
sets out to solve a riddle, the threads she tugs on could bring a whole city crashing down. The God-King who made her is at risk, and his other servants will do anything to stop her.To become the God-King's Amanuensis, Manet had to master all seven perfections, developing her body and mind to the peak of human performance. She remembers everything that has happened to her, in absolute clarity, a gift that will surely drive her mad. But before she goes, Manet must unravel a secret which threatens not only the carefully prepared myths of the God-King's ascent, but her own identity and the nature of truth itself.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Riot Baby
Par Tochi Onyebuchi. 2020
Winner of the 2021 World Fantasy AwardWinner of an 2021 ALA Alex AwardWinner of the 2020 New England Book Award…
for FictionWinner of the 2021 Ignyte AwardWinner of the 2021 AABMC Literary AwardA 2021 Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Best Outstanding Work of Literary FictionA 2021 Hugo Award FinalistA 2021 Nebula Award FinalistA 2021 Locus Award FinalistA Goodreads Choice Awards FinalistNamed a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR | Wired | Book Riot | Publishers Weekly | NYPL | The Austen Chronicle | Kobo | GooglePlay | Good Housekeeping | Powell's Books | Den of Geek"Riot Baby, Onyebuchi's first novel for adults, is as much the story of Ella and her brother, Kevin, as it is the story of black pain in America, of the extent and lineage of police brutality, racism and injustice in this country, written in prose as searing and precise as hot diamonds."—The New York Times"Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."—Marlon JamesElla has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands.Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative. It burns fearlessly toward revolution and has quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience.Ella and Kev are both shockingly human and immeasurably powerful. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by racism. Their futures might alter the world.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.The Heart Does Not Grow Back: A Novel
Par Fred Venturini. 2014
EVERY SUPERHERO NEEDS TO START SOMEWHERE...Dale Sampson is used to being a nonperson at his small-town Midwestern high school, picking…
up the scraps of his charismatic lothario of a best friend, Mack. He comforts himself with the certainty that his stellar academic record and brains will bring him the adulation that has evaded him in high school. But when an unthinkable catastrophe tears away the one girl he ever had a chance with, his life takes a bizarre turn as he discovers an inexplicable power: He can regenerate his organs and limbs.When a chance encounter brings him face to face with a girl from his past, he decides that he must use his gift to save her from a violent husband and dismal future. His quest takes him to the glitz and greed of Hollywood, and into the crosshairs of shadowy forces bent on using and abusing his gift. Can Dale use his power to redeem himself and those he loves, or will the one thing that finally makes him special be his demise? The Heart Does Not Grow Back is a darkly comic, starkly original take on the superhero tale, introducing an exceptional new literary voice in Fred Venturini.Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You
Par Scotto Moore. 2019
Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You is a story of music, obsession, violence, and madness by Scotto MooreI was home…
alone on a Saturday night when I experienced the most beautiful piece of music I had ever heard in my life.Beautiful Remorse is the hot new band on the scene, releasing one track a day for ten days straight. Each track has a mysterious name and a strangely powerful effect on the band's fans. A curious music blogger decides to investigate the phenomenon up close by following Beautiful Remorse on tour across Texas and Kansas, realizing along the way that the band’s lead singer, is hiding an incredible, impossible secret.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Infinite Detail: A Novel
Par Tim Maughan. 2019
A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL!The Guardian's Pick for Best Science Fiction Book of the Year!A timely and…
uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the InternetBEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it’s become a center of creative counterculture. But it’s fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York City—now the apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis?AFTER: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently switched off the Internet. Global trade, travel, and communication have collapsed. The luxuries that characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary—who has visions of people presumed dead—is sought out by grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like Grids, who runs the Croft’s black market like personal turf. Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like treasure.The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It.The Technicolor Time Machine
Par Harry Harrison. 1967
Why pay for costumes, scenery, props or actors when the most brilliant drama of all time is unfolding before your…
very eyes, in vivid color--in 1000 A.D.? The head of ailing Climactic Studios has given producer Barney Hendrickson five days to get a major movie in the can--and Climactic out of it. Impossible?Not with Professor Hewett's miraculous time machine, the answer to a Hollywood producer's prayer.Skipping back to AD 1,000 with a whole film crew and two glam stars, Barney sets out to prove that the Vikings discovered America five hundred years before Columbus--and to film the event in glorious technocolor. But it's not as easy as it sounds, as they realize when history lets them down and their Viking Columbus fails to show up in the New World...Join the film crew of the stupendous motion picture saga Viking Columbus as they journey back in time to capture history in the making, in Harry Harrison's hilarious time travel romp, The Technicolor Time Machine.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.