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Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy Book 3 (Tawny Man Trilogy #3)
Par Robin Hobb. 2004
&“Complex . . . an atmosphere-filled adventure . . . with a fair quota of surprises . . . a…
winning combination of strong characters and colorful societies.&”—Kirkus ReviewsIn the final book in the Tawny Man Trilogy, Fitz and the Fool are tested more severely than ever in a book the Monroe News-Star calls &“a breathtaking ride from beginning to end.&”FitzChivalry Farseer has become firmly ensconced in the queen&’s court. Along with his mentor, Chade, and the simpleminded yet strongly skilled Thick, Fitz strives to aid Prince Dutiful on a quest that could secure peace with the Out Islands—and win Dutiful the hand of the Narcheska Elliania.The Narcheska has set the prince an unfathomable task: to behead a dragon trapped in ice on the isle of Aslevjal. Yet not all the clans of the Out Islands support their effort. Are there darker forces at work behind Elliania&’s demand? Knowing that the Fool has foretold he will die on the island of ice, Fitz plots to leave his dearest friend behind. But fate cannot so easily be defied.The Stars are Dying
Par Chloe C. Peñaranda. 2024
A USA Today and B&N bestseller, don't miss this tale of star-crossed lovers in a world full of magic, mystery,…
and betrayal. 'The brightest star needs the darkest night.'In a world abandoned by its celestial guardians and left to suffer a tyrant king's reign, all Astraea can recall are the fragmented memories of the past five years. She's determined to discover more about her past, even if that means leaving behind the only safety and security she has ever known by venturing out into a world where bloodthirsty vampires are rumoured to roam. Making her way in an unfamiliar world, she encounters the mysterious Nyte, who makes her an offer she cannot refuse. As Astraea accepts Nyte's help, she is drawn in by his darkness and she begins to wonder if she has struck a deal with one of the ruthless beings her people have always feared.Astraea's opportunity to escape this deal presents itself when she has to decide whether to take her friend's place in centenary celebrations of the Libertatem - a succession of trials hosted by the king in which the five human lands compete for safety against vampires who hunt them down to drink their blood. Is fighting for the safety of her kingdom worth more than answering questions about her past?______________________________'The ending of this book truly had me shocked! The extensive world-building was executed beautifully with Chloe's style of writing.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'This book has been on my mind constantly since I finished it last night . . . TSAD is nothing short of a masterpiece' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'I read this book in one sitting, not that I ever can when it is a Chloe Penaranda book because she just has a way of gripping me and this is no different' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A perfect start to a new favourite series' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Tariq and the Drowning City: Book 1 (The Spiritstone Saga)
Par Sarwat Chadda. 2024
Driven from their home by drought and disease, Tariq and his river tribe travel to the great capital city of…
Ethrial. But once they arrive, Tariq realises that they are still in grave danger - and time is running out! Tariq is a seer, and he's had a troubling vision of a tidal wave that will drown the whole city. But when Tariq warns of impending disaster, he is banished from the city. The only ones who believe Tariq are Livia, and elf inventor, and Artos, the soldier who arrests him. An ancient legend called The Saga of the Spiritstones might hold the key to preventing a disaster. Can Tariq and his new friends find a long-lost Spiritstone and use its powerful elemental magic to save Ethrial, and the people they love, from complete devastation?Someone You Can Build a Nest in: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night
Par John Wiswell. 2024
"Do love stories often end this way?" "Why do you think it's over?"Shesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a…
monster: she's fallen in love.Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who usually resides as an amorphous lump in the swamp of a ruined manor, unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Through a chance encounter, she meets a different kind of human, warm-hearted Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen for a human in turn. Shesheshen is loath to deceive, but just as she's about to confess her true identity, Homily reveals she's hunting the shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Shesheshen didn't curse anyone, but to give them both a chance at happiness, she must figure out why Homily's twisted family thinks she did. And the bigger challenge remains: surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to learn to build a life with the woman she loves.A glorious, funny, occasionally slightly violent love story which asks us to examine - and re-examine - the meaning of legacy, family and love.Readers love John Wiswell:'Like a warm hug' - Goodreads reviewer on "Open House on Haunted Hill"'So very sweet . . . a perfect little story' - Goodreads reviewer on 'Open House on Haunted Hill''Heart-aching . . . you shouldn't miss this one' - Goodreads reviewer on 'Open House on Haunted Hill''Cozy and charming and made my heart grow three sizes which cannot be healthy' - Goodreads reviewer on "Open House on Haunted Hill"'Has such a unique view and voice in his writing that his work is literally incomparable. And I can't wait for what comes next' - Goodreads reviewer on 'Open House on Haunted Hill'Lucky In Love: An Accidental Zodiacs Story (The Accidental Zodiacs)
Par Jennifer Laslie, Cora Ward. 2024
Sometimes luck has nothing to do with it, but sometimes it’s everything. Karma Quinn’s luck with men didn’t always run…
on the good side, and her last blind date was no exception. Forced to turn to a black-market artifact at the Celestial Shadow Market, she can only hope it’ll help protect her. Luciano Rossi didn’t believe in luck, even with a hated nickname like Lucky. When he winds up on a case with a beautiful woman to tail, the idea of luck doesn’t seem so far-fetched. Even if his unbearable partner was determined to get him kicked off the case at every turn. But when Karma realizes that blind date was more dangerous than expected, can she trust Luciano to keep her safe, or will the lies he’s told to keep her close be his undoing? Dive in today to uncover what kind of luck it takes to survive life as a Zodiac.Approaching the Source (Warriors of Vhast)
Par Cary Lenehan. 2024
Approaching the Source continues to follow the battle of good and evil in an ongoing story on the distant and…
artificial world of Vhast. The people who find themselves in the formerly hidden village of Mousehole begin to find out where their enemy, the Adversaries, are based. Instead of reacting to them, they begin to learn more about them and take them on in their own strongholds.Following on from Intimations of Evil, and the next five books of the series, the Princess, and her wife the mage, the Cat, the priest, the ghazi, and the many others, including free and former slaves, begin to strike out and discover how much they have grown and how they can confound an enemy that has plagued Vhast for thousands of years.Approaching the Source is the seventh and penultimate book of a series where magic is a scientific experiment. Good struggles with evil to control this magic in a world made by an alien race for their own purposes.Girlfriend in a Coma: A Novel
Par Douglas Coupland. 2011
On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school…
senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers—modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition—before finally reuniting on a conspiracy-driven super-natural television series. But real life grows as surreal as their TV show as Richard and his friends await Karen's reawakening . . . and the subsequent apocalypse.The Complete War of the Worlds
Par H. G. Wells. 2020
From the father of science fiction, the nineteenth-century British classic novel of alien invasion, along with two sequels. Together…
in one volume for the first time—H. G. Wells&’s seminal science fiction classic The War of the Worlds, with the contemporaneous, unauthorized, but extremely popular sequel Edison&’'s Conquest of Mars, as well as Wells&’s own, much later conceptual sequel, Star Begotten. How often do you watch the sky at night? Ever see bright streaks of light exploding from the red planet? Get ready for adventurous reading as you embark on a journey to find out just how these alien invasions play out! In The War of the Worlds, how will woefully unprepared Earthlings respond to towering three-legged &“fighting machines&” armed with heat-rays and chemical weapons that far exceed the capabilities of the nineteenth-century English military? In Edison&’s Conquest of Mars, Earth's leaders fear that the Martians will return to invade once more. US President William McKinley, Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Emperor Mutsuhito unite to plan an attack on Mars. Led by American inventor Thomas Edison, a group of scientists develop new technologies based on what earlier Martian visitors left behind. They design and build a fleet of space ships for the pre-emptive move. What will happen when the two opposing forces meet? The protagonist of Star Begotten, Joseph Davis, is an author of popular histories, who becomes suspicious that he and his family have been exposed to a Martian influence of another sort and are in the process of being changed. What might that influence be? Three classics of Martian invasion in one volume.Luke Lancelot and the Golden Shield
Par Giles Andreae. 2004
When Luke's brother Arthur is given an ancient and magnificent sword for his birthday, Luke is crushed. He is the…
one who dreams of being a knight - it's not fair! But as promised by Merlin, Luke soon gets the chance to prove himself as a true and courageous knight. When the evil Morgana poisons Arthur and her brother Mandrake turns into a dragon and steals him away to a secret lair, Luke and sister Gwinnie chase after them on the magnificent flying horse Avalon. Together they manage to save Arthur and defeat the evil Morgana and Mandrake. Afterwards, back at Camelot, Luke is made a knight for his bravery - the bravest knight of all!Kronos
Par Guy Adams. 2011
'What manner of monster can wreak such damage? I only hope you know how it can be stopped.' The peace…
of an English village is shattered when a young girl withers before her friend's eyes, becoming but dust and bones. Witnessing this terrifying transformation, local physician Dr Marcus fears the village has been cursed by the presence of evil. He immediately summons his old army friend, the mysterious but powerful vampire hunter, Kronos.Together with the help of his assistant Professor Grost, Kronos has dedicated his whole life to destroying vampires. He knows that there is nothing so varied and deadly. With a vampire nothing is certain, especially how one might be able to kill it. As more and more villagers fall prey to this deadly curse, time is against him. And when it comes dangerously close to home, Kronos is faced with a terrible choice...Love Will Tear Us Apart: (The Stranger Times 3) (The Stranger Times #3)
Par C. K. McDonnell. 2023
Love can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is…
dead.Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but what lengths will he go to in an attempt to rescue her?With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor, Hannah Willis, couldn't have come at a worse time. It speaks volumes that her decision to reconcile with her philandering ex-husband is only marginally less surprising than Banecroft and his wife getting back together. In this time of crisis, is her decision to swan off to a fancy new-age retreat run by a celebrity cult really the best thing for anyone?As if that wasn't enough, one of the paper's ex-columnists has disappeared, a particularly impressive trick seeing as he never existed in the first place.Floating statues, hijacked ghosts, homicidal cherubs, irate starlings, Reliant Robins and quite possibly several deeply sinister conspiracies; all-in-all, a typical week for the staff of The Stranger Times.Ladybird Classics: Gulliver's Travels
Par Jonathan Swift. 2013
This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the…
classic story for younger readers.It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of Gulliver's travels and adventures in the strange lands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Black Beauty, The Secret Garden, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Heidi, The Jungle Book, The Wind in the Willows, The Three Musketeers and Treasure Island.Jake Cake: The Werewolf Teacher (Jake Cake)
Par Michael Broad. 2007
This is the first book in a four-book series. Each book has three unbelievable adventures written in Jake's own notebooks…
and embellished with his gloriously funny comments and illustrations throughout. Here Jake meets a werewolf, a monster and a real-life mummy.Deliciously funny, the stories are a satisfying blend of comforting real life mixed with magical mayhem. Just right for boys and girls of 7+, and for all fans of Horrid Henry!Jake Cake: The Robot Dinner Lady (Jake Cake)
Par Michael Broad. 2007
Jake Cake is an ordinary kid who likes writing and illustrating stories about his adventures. He swears they're all true,…
but no one ever believes him. In this second book of a four-book series, Jake discovers the school dinner lady is a robot (and she can't cook chips!), he has goblins in his garden (they're green and they bite) and he's tricked by a really tricky witch (trouble!).Just perfect for readers of 7+.Jake Cake: The Pirate Curse (Jake Cake)
Par Michael Broad. 2008
The fifth book about Jake Cake and his EXTRAORDINARY adventures. Here are three more hilarious stories, written in Jake Cake's…
own notebooks and embellished with his very funny comments and illustrations. It's not Jake's fault that he gets cursed by the ghost of Old Crusty, the fierce pirate (get those decks swabbed!), meets an alien pretending to be his granny and rubs up against a really mean genie!Jake Cake: The Football Beast (Jake Cake)
Par Michael Broad. 2008
Have you ever met a yeti playing football, a very tricky sea monster or a REAL phantom on the ghost…
train at the funfair? Jake has, and here's what happened when he met them! (Nobody believed him, of course.)Jake Cake: The Visiting Vampire (Jake Cake)
Par Michael Broad. 2007
In this fourth book in the series, Jake battles with a vampire visiting his school (fangs and bats and zombies),…
a demon hairdresser (arrrrrggggh!) and stays in a haunted castle (things that go CLANG in the night!).Joe v. the Fairies
Par Emily Smith. 2011
"There's no such things as fairies!"Joe is sure he's right, but his sisters are obsessed by them. They've turned the…
climbing frame into a fairy bower, there are fairy cakes for tea and no one wants to do his assault course any more. Then a new neighbour arrives, who loves climbing trees and messing about in the pond - and has some other very useful talents too.The Ice Whisperers
Par Helenka Stachera. 2021
'An epic icy adventure with a warming tale of sisterhood at its heart' - Maria Kuzniar'Every way I look at…
it, I love this book from the crystalline brilliance of its surface to its tender, glowing heart' - Zillah Bethell A chilling magical adventure about two sisters born 40,000 years apart, perfect for fans of The House With Chicken Legs and The Wild Way Home. When Bela's mother dies, she is summoned to deepest Siberia to stay with an uncle she's never met. Exploring his strange scientific workshop, she uncovers a secret she was never meant to find - a doorway that opens to an icy land, frozen in time and full of legends come to life.But this frozen land is in danger, and it's up to Bela to find a way to save it. To succeed, she must join forces with the impossible: a long-lost sister she never knew she had, born 40,000 years before . . .Invisible Vinnie
Par Jenny Millward. 2012
'Zack's not scared of anything. But everyone's scared of him.'Rose wishes Zack wasn't such a big bully. He's always teasing…
her at school. Luckily for Rose, her Uncle Vinnie has a wizard trick or two up his sleeve - maybe he can conjure up a magic solution to her problem?Soon, with a little help from Uncle Vinnie and the classroom pet rat, Rose is ready to teach Zack a lesson he'll never forget . . . A comical and thought-provoking story by an award-winning author.Illustrated by Sue Heap, winner of the Smarties Prize Gold Award.