Dead heat briggs5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Agent: Lynn Prentis, Lynn Prentis Literary. The Cornicks work seamlessly together but sweep their interpersonal messiness under the rug, even though Briggs shows those around them tackling their issues head-on. Anna%E2%80%99s Omega %E2%80%9Cwolf whisperer%E2%80%9D qualities shine, and the couple%E2%80%99s scenes with the dying man are hauntingly beautiful. Charles and Anna%E2%80%99s lively interactions with helpful federal law enforcement add some spark. ![]() Their planned quiet trip to Arizona is anything but they must break a spell that nearly results in the murder-suicide of a mother and her children, and when a little girl literally dissolves before their eyes, the twosome realize they are fighting a very dangerous fae. Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs: 9780425256282 : Books Praised for having the perfect blend of action, romance, suspense, and paranormal, 1 New York Times bestselling author Patrica Briggs's. In her new A&O book, werewolves Charles and Anna Cornick investigate a gruesome supernatural mystery, visit a terminally ill old friend at his Arizona horse farm, and mostly avoid discussing Anna%E2%80%99s desire to have children. Briggs%E2%80%99s Alpha & Omega novels are more episodic than those in the Mercy Thompson series, allowing for a more intimate focus. ![]()
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The Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson5/13/2023 ![]() Why we chose this story: The National Memorial African Bookstore was a Harlem landmark. All the words together make an itch that needs to be scratched. Black people from all over come to hear and learn and read, read, read the stories and poems, histories, and truths of their lives. The bookstore is home to what came before, what is now, and what can be. People from the neighborhood, and famous people like Muhammad Ali, Eartha Kitt, James Baldwin, Malcom X, and Langston Hughes. Every day, people come to the bookstore, and they read. Things like truth and how to figure out for yourself what that is. Sometimes I don’t get why they’re mad or what’s so funny.” ![]() ![]() About how black folks should respect and support each other. “People come to hear talk about fighting for the same rights white people have. ![]() English poet emily wuthering heights5/13/2023 ![]() In 1824, the family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it was in these surroundings that their literary oddities flourished. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. She published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell.Įmily was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, being younger than Charlotte Brontë and older than Anne Brontë. In childhood, after the death of their mother, the three sisters and their brother Patrick Branw Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. ![]() Emily was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. She published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. ![]() The mammoth hunters book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Mammoth Hunters is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual. ![]() The third volume in the Earths Children series, set in the world of pre-historic humans. Yet Ayla is also drawn to Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master-carver of ivory.Īyla must choose: remain with Ranec and the Mamutoi, or follow Jondalar into the unknown. The Mammoth Hunters (Earths Children Book Three). Leaving the valley of horses with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi, the Mammoth Hunters, who are Others like her.Īs she settles into this new life among a people at first strange and disturbingly different, soon Ayla begins to feel at home, finally leaving her painful memories of the Clan behind and finding female friends. Auel’s internationally bestselling epic of life 25,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth. ![]() The third novel in the Earth’s Children series, Jean M. ![]() Restored by Joanna Chambers5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. 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Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. ![]() ![]() This started with The Main Attraction in 1963. The 32nd book in the series was published in 1988 and is titled High Noon at Midnight.Īvallone did an incredible amount of television and movie tie-ins, over two dozen. He would go on to write several more novels after that in the Ed Noon series that this book started off. ![]() His debut novel came out in 1953 and was titled The Tall Dolores. The total amount of work that he has put out in his career and lifetime includes articles, short stories, and novels, over a thousand works in total. ![]() He wrote secret agent stories as well as mystery stories and novelizations of films and television. He would go on to become a successful published author of prolific proportions. The author was born in New York City on October 27, 1924. The author had many pen names that he used to write books and more. He also used a variety of other pen names, including Sidney Stuart, Dorothea Nile, Edwina Noone, Priscilla Dalton, Troy Conway, Vance Stanton, Mark Dane, Steve Michaels, Lee Davis Willoughby, Max Walker, John Patrick, Jeanne-Anne dePre, Mike Avalone, Dora Highland, and Stuart Jason, in addition to sharing the Nick Carter pen name with other authors. His full name is Michael Angelo Avallone Jr. ![]() Michael Avallone is an American published author. ![]() Queens of fennbirn series5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() We can also talk about all the sitcom theme songs in this bio. I mean, whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV? Used to be everywhere you look, there's a heart, a hand to hold on to.Īnyway, I love to hear from readers so drop me a line here or at my website and we'll talk about friends to know, and ways to grow, and how if you threw a party you would see that the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend. My likes include animals, food, and nostalgia. There's more coming soon like ALL THESE BODIES and a new fantasy series, so don't waste another minute on your cryin. ![]() There's more to life that what you're living, so take a chance and face the wind. Fiction, philosophy, good books, bad books, because you take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have a stack of books and stuff. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. The Anna Dressed in Blood duo is horror, The Goddess War trilogy is mythology, and Three Dark Crowns is fantasy, because the world don't move to the beat of just one drum. ![]() ![]() ![]() Celia Rivenbark is the author of the bestselling classics We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier, and Bless Your Heart, Tramp. If you’re looking for a hilarious beach book, this is it. You Can’t Drink All Day if You Don’t Start in the Morning by Celia Rivenbark After the death of her husband, Merritt inherits a charming home in Beaufort, SC, and with it, she begins unraveling the family past as she faces her own fears and finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Lowcountry. The Sound of Glass explores Southern family’s buried history, which will change the life of the woman who unearths it, secret by shattering secret. This series captures the essence of summer life at the beach and weaves a fascinating tale of what it means to truly be a family. In this enchanting trilogy set on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe captures the complex relationships between Dora, Carson, and Harper, three half-sisters scattered across the country-and a grandmother determined to help them rediscover their family bonds. ![]() The Summer Girls, The Summer Wind, and The Summer’s End. The Lowcountry Summer Series by Mary Alice Monroe: Summer is the perfect time to relax and get lost in a great book! Whether you’re working on your tan, spending a rainy afternoon indoors, or just kicking your feet up on a back porch, a good book is an essential for summer!Ĭheck out some of our favorite summer beach reads: ![]() Isabel allende daughter paula5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Her father was a first cousin of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973 so Salvador is her first cousin once removed. Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru as the daughter of Francisca Llona Barros and Tomás Allende the Chilean ambassador to Peru. ![]() She is of Basque, Spanish, and Portuguese descent. ![]() Having adopted American citizenship in 2003 and having lived in California since 1989, she currently resides in California with her husband. She has lectured and toured many American colleges to teach literature. In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Īllende's novels are sometimes based upon her own personal experiences and often pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism. In 2010 she received Chile's National Literature Prize. Allende has been called "the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author". Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus) (1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias) (2002), which have been commercially successful. Isabel Allende Llona (born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. ![]() The 5th wave 2nd book5/13/2023 ![]() There's prolific swearing, too, with variations on da-, h-, a-, s-, and f-, as well as religious profanities. Certain main characters have their wills, souls, and consciences broken by sadistic military men in intense scenes. People die in a whole variety of ways, primarily by gunshot, but also by impalement, suicide (by hanging, overdose, and gunshot), being burned alive, electrocution, etc. Characters are shot at and stalked they witness the violent deaths of loved ones and the protagonists shoot and beat up their enemies to achieve their goals. In the Others' systematic waves, 7 billion humans die, many killed by a gruesome plague with nauseating symptoms. if the Nazis had killed 1200 times as many people. There are similarities between the Others' genocide and the Holocaust. ![]() Its violence, vulgarities, and sensual moments are in no way overblown in other reviews. This novel is in absolutely no way for the faint of heart. ![]() ![]() Author Yancey's plotting and perspective shifts absolutely take the cake in his "gripping epic of catastrophic loss, unthinkable odds, and unflinching courage" there are so many twists, turns, loops, double-crosses, triple-crosses, and cliffhangers that you barely know which way is up by the time you're fully invested in the story, feverishly flipping the pages to get to the next chapter. ![]() The 5th Wave is a brilliantly constructed, utterly addictive, and extremely grim apocalyptic YA novel. ![]() |