![]() But there's something deeply amiss in her new home, too, and soon she finds herself swept into a deadly new mystery with a secretive prince, the ghost of an ancient queen, and a poison vine called Bloodleaf.Īurelia is entangled in a centuries-long game of love, power, and war, and if she can't break free before the Tribunal makes its last move, she may lose far more than her crown. ![]() When a devastating assassination attempt reveals her magical abilities, Aurelia is forced to flee her country with nothing but her life.Īlone and adrift in an enemy kingdom, Aurelia plans her revenge against the Tribunal, desperate to bring down the dark organization that has wrought terror upon her people for hundreds of years. Surrounded by spirits and burdened with forbidden magic, she lives in constant fear of discovery by the witch-hunting Tribunal and their bloodthirsty mobs. ![]() "BLOODLEAF feels like a classic in the making." – Sara Holland, New York Times bestselling author of EverlessĪ roar of a dark and luscious epic fantasy that's layered with heady romance, bloodthirsty magic, and ghostly intrigue-an absolutely wicked delight.Īurelia is a princess, but they call her a witch. ![]() "Enchanting, visceral, and twisty"- New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess, Laura Sebastian Crystal Smith is a writer, photographer, and artist who developed an early love of storytelling in a family of voracious readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (The first book in the series, "Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead" was set in post-Katrina New Orleans.) When she was a girl growing up in Brooklyn, Claire and two friends found a book under enigmatic circumstances. Gran's "Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway" is the second Claire DeWitt novel, set in San Francisco, the city of Dashiell Hammett, where Claire lives and works. Claire, or another PI much like her, might have been inevitable - or maybe it just takes a writer as good as Sara Gran to make her seem that way. Perhaps it was only a matter of time until a sleuth came along whose expertise was essentially irrational.Ĭlaire Dewitt recognizes a clue by the weird chills she gets when she first encounters it, and she makes some of her most important deductions in dreams and under the influence of mind-altering substances. This makes the hard-boiled detective novel one of the more mystically disposed genres, as unlikely as that may sound to the casual observer. ![]() ![]() People meet, actions are taken and a vast machinery is set in motion, the characters carried along by it more or less against their wills. Fate, dark and implacable, has always played a role in noir fiction. ![]() ![]() On the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, is born an infant prophesied to change the world. In the city, a Foretelling of the future is uttered. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.įor three days battle has raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. ![]() ![]() Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! ![]() ![]() ![]() Lawrence Stone, The Causes of the English Revolution 1529–1642 (London, 1972), p. Hinds (ed.), Calendar of State Paper and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice (London, 1911), XVII, 75–6. 205.ĭavid Cressy, ‘Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England’, Journal of British Studies, 35 (October 1996), 451.Īllen B. 110.Ĭompare Roger Lockyer, James VI and I (London, 1998), p. Houston, James I, 2nd edn (London, 1995), p. Roger Lockyer, Buckingham: The Life and Political Career of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham 1592–1628 (London, 1981) Lee, ‘James I and the Historians’, p. Johnson, Maija Jansson Cole, Mary Frear Keeler, and William B. Maurice Lee Jr, ‘James I and the Historians: Not a Bad King After All?’, Albion, 16 (Summer 1984), 158 Great Britain’s Solomon (Urbana, 1990), p. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is also a great look at the way science progresses from hypothesis through testing and data accumulation to new understanding and new hypotheses, making mistakes and course corrections along the way as better techniques and more and better data become available.Corson's book is much more focused on the lobster itself than Woodard's The Lobster Coast, which is really a socio-political and economic history of much of the same parts of Maine. Corson is as in love with the subject of lobsters as the people he talks to and works alongside throughout the book, and they are fascinating creatures in ways the ordinary lobster-savorer can't imagine. Corson chronicles the discoveries about lobster behavior that have been made over the past thirty or so years as biologists, oceanographers, ecologists, conservationists, and lobstering communities have worked, both together and against each other, to make sure that the lobster fisheries on the New England coast don't go the way of other similar fisheries - cod, for example - that were overfished to the brink of extinction during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ![]() ![]() The Secret Life of Lobsters is a fascinating layperson's look at lobster biology and ecology from the perspectives of both the scientific community and the lobstermen. ![]() ![]() Rachel Van Dyken’s Bachelors Of Arizona Books In Order Click here to subscribe Audible Free Trial #ad. You can get any two books from list for free with your Audible Free Trial Subscription. ![]() ![]()
![]() 'Isaacson doesn't claim to make any fresh discoveries, but his book is intelligently organised, simply written and beautifully illustrated.' Book of the Day, The Guardian. 'an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millennium's greatest minds.' - The Observer 'Infinitely curious, easily distracted, vain and vegetarian, Leonardo is brought to vivid life in this accomplished biography.' - The Sunday Times. Isaacson is an assured guide to Leonardo's fallibility - so many projects started, so few completed - as well as his extraordinary curiosity and his even more remarkable painterly skills that were sharpened by intense observation.' Michael Prodger, Books of the Year - The Sunday Times Leonardo was resolutely human (illegitimate, vegan, in need of patrons) rather than the near deity of legend. For all his supernatural gifts as an artist and natural scientist. 'Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore. 'Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, he's simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable man' ![]() The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs delivers an engrossing biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most creative genius. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amber Smith 'A magical, haunted tale of the sea, spells and secrets. This is the latest of several YA property deals for Netflix, who just nabbed the rights to an adaptation of Stephanie Perkins‘ There’s Someone Inside Your House and a distribution deal for the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before movie, based on the series by Jenny Han. THE WICKED DEEP is more than just a scary story, it is a tale with substance and depth, one of magic and curses, betrayal and revenge, but most importantly, it is a story about the redemptive power of love to make even the worst wrongs, right. The Wicked Deep novel is currently available for purchase via Amazon and Indiebound. Penny desperately wants to save Bo from their clutches, but can she save him without losing herself? As summer carries on, the town’s suspicion grows as they wait for the other shoe to drop. ![]() Penny Talbot is used to the town’s curse and approaches it with a quiet wariness… until the day she thinks newcomer and crush Bo Carter may become a victim of the sisters. Every year since, their spirits “rise”, overtake the bodies of three teen girls from town, and lure three teen boys into their own death by drowning. Centuries ago, three sisters were drowned for witchcraft. The novel, which hit shelves on March 6th and the New York Times bestseller list shortly thereafter, takes place in the small town of Sparrow, Oregon. In its rapid bid to gain more more IP, Netflix just made a six-figure deal for a new supernatural YA adaptation: Shea Ernshaw’s The Wicked Deep! Shea Ernshaw’s THE WICKED DEEP set to make a splash at Netflix! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was just the tool I used to tell the story and make people see what I wanted them to see. Those kinds of coincidences are just eerie, but then there are the bigger, more meaningful connections, like the part where R says the apocalypse happened slowly and sneakily, one compromise at a time, "seemingly isolated incidents until the moment they all merged." That one has been haunting me lately Feels like we might be at that merging moment now.īut for a long time, I didn't think much about the language itself. Literally the next day, I found out this exact same station had been abandoned by the SPD as the area was occupied by racial justice protestors. I've been doing livestream readings on Patreon and I just did one last week where two Black kids take shelter in the abandoned police station in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, noting that it looks like it was vacated intentionally instead of destroyed like the others. Sometimes it's just odd little details like characters commenting on how looters took all the toilet paper, but sometimes it's eerily specific, like descriptions of post-apocalyptic Seattle that almost perfectly match what's happening there now. And the parallels just kept coming when the pandemic hit. ![]() ![]() The title of world’s most populous country is expected to change later this month. OK, here’s today’s show.įrom The New York Times, I’m Sabrina Tavernise. Find them wherever you listen to us and subscribe. Those conversations give us a look inside the two opposing wings of the Republican Party as they jostle for control going into next year’s elections. ![]() Like this week’s show, it’s a two-parter featuring back-to-back interviews, first with MyPillow CEO and election denier Mike Lindell, and then with RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. And every week, it dives deeply into questions about American politics. Before we get started today, I just wanted to let you know that our colleagues over at The Run-Up have started releasing their second season. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. ![]() Transcript Can India Become the Next Global Superpower? The country has become the world’s most populous, but there are doubts about whether that title heralds a growth in wealth and influence. ![]() |