![]() ![]() ![]() Setting Free the Bears: Siggy and Hannes were disenchanted students and fellow conspirators. Three volumes in one: Setting Free the Bears The Water-Method Man The 158-Pound Marriage. The 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft.' -Terrence Des Pres. ![]() ![]() Irving's cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive.'One of the most remarkable things about John Irving's first three novels, viewed from the vantage of The World According to Garp, is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise. 'Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications.' -The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When a terror group transforms three of its members into human time bombs, the whole of America is at risk. Read on to find out how to immerse yourself in Cameron’s world of mystery, deception, and moral ambiguity! All Marc Cameron Books in Order The Jericho Quinn Series National Security (2011) Each novel focuses on its own mission, but characters and certain plot points do overlap between books, so readers are encouraged to follow the publication order. ![]() To truly delve into the world of each of Cameron’s series, it is best to approach them chronologically and to read through each series separately. Cameron gained further notoriety in 2017 when he started contributing to the beloved Jack Ryan series. Due to his popularity, his novels have been translated into multiple languages across the globe. ![]() Cameron has used these experiences as inspiration throughout his writing, adding an extra edge and sense of realism to his narratives.Ĭameron has spent much of his writing career at the top of bestseller lists, gaining repeated praise for his unpredictable plots and engaging prose. His work took him across the country, with many of his assignments focusing on fugitive retrieval and dignitary protection. Before starting his career as an author, Cameron served in American law enforcement for over twenty-five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series, 2) Hardcover Augby Cixin Liu (Author), Joel Martinsen (Translator) 23,451 ratings Book 2 of 4: The Three-Body Problem Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 3 million more titles 11. ![]() Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. If he finds other life-another hunter, an angel or a demon, a. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. "Wildly imaginative." -President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() The writing is, as is stereotypical of White, dense to say the least. As the story progresses, their obsession grows through this adversity, as Voss loses the strength to continue to lie to himself about his metaphorical (or even literal) divinity and clings to the mental phantasm of his love, and as Laura goes through the physical torment that so frequently comes to those with great longing. ![]() The rest of the story splits in twain, with one side focusing on Voss’ journey into the country with all the adversity and doom that comes with it, while the other focuses on how Trevalyan maneuvers through a world hostile to herself while waiting hopelessly for her lover. Meeting only twice in the beginning of the story, neither of the two think much of their encounters until Voss sets out upon his great odyssey upon which the two grow infatuated with each other. The novel centres around not only a physical adventure as one would expect, but also a romantic one between two characters: The titular German explorer Johann Ulrich Voss and the bookish orphan Laura Trevalyan. ![]() So describes just one aspect of Voss, the magnum opus of Australia’s only laureate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White. “Your country is of great subtlety’, a quote laced with irony: both an exaltation of the hidden beauty of the continent, and a metaphor for how the great nothingness of the vast outback swallows one up with hidden threats one would not expect. ![]() ![]() "Every now and again a cozy comes along in which the author not only checks off all of the boxes but does such an excellent job in the process that the book totally stands out from the crowd. To save her aunt and get her pizza place generating some dough, Delilah must deliver the real killer. ![]() Handsome local police detective Calvin Capone, great grandson of the legendary gangster, opens an investigation, threatening to sink Delilah’s pie-in-the-sky ambitions before they can even get off the ground. Just before opening night, though, Delilah’s plans for pizza perfection hit the skids when her fiancé dumps her and leaves her with a very large memento from their relationship-Butterball, their spoiled, plus-sized tabby cat.ĭelilah’s trouble deepens when she discovers a dead body and finds her elderly aunt holding the murder weapon. ![]() Engaged to a hunk with a hefty trust fund, Delilah is poised to begin a life that’s just about as delicious as one of her cheesy creations. ![]() Fresh mozzarella, tangy tomato sauce, and murder: the perfect recipe for a delicious first entry in Mindy Quigley's Six Feet Deep Dish, a delectable new series.ĭelilah O’Leary can’t wait to open her new gourmet deep-dish pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin-a charming resort town with a long history as a mobsters’ hideaway, millionaires’ playground, and vacation mecca. ![]() ![]() Her sisters included Lady Diana Mosley Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire and Jessica, who immortalised the Mitford family in her autobiography Hons and Rebels. Nancy Mitford was born in London on November 28 1904, daughter of the second Baron Redesdale, and the eldest of six girls. ![]() Nancy Mitford describes the daily life of this splendid court in sumptuous detail, recreating the past in vivid colour. The Sun King's universe centred on Versailles, a glittering palace from where Louis conducted his government and complex love affairs. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within his absolute control. Read more WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA TILLYARD During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford. ![]() BIC Classification: 1DDF 3JD 3JF BGH HBJD HBLH. ![]() ![]() During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. Description for The Sun King (Vintage Classics) Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() John and a post-college life cushioned by a fat, endless trust fund. The product of Donna’s first marriage to a dashing Frenchman, Eloise has spent her school years at the best private boarding schools, her winter holidays in St. Her brother Paul lives in Philadelphia with his older, handsomer, tenured track professor boyfriend who’s recently been saying things like “monogamy is an oppressive heteronormative construct,” while eyeing undergrads. Alice is in her thirties, single, smart, beautiful, stuck in a dead-end job where she is mired in a rather predictable, though enjoyable, affair with her married boss. Donna, the clan’s mother, is now a widow living in the Chicago suburbs with a penchant for the occasional joint and more than one glass of wine with her best friend while watching House Hunters International. The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family. Paul and Alice’s half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at “it” restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. ![]() They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, outlaw leader John Ringo wants the same turf as Earp. The truth could destroy Earp's plans for wealth and glory, and he'll do anything to bury it. When a failed stage holdup results in two dead, Tombstone explodes with speculation about who attempted the robbery. Like Jesse, Mildred has episodes of seeing things that can’t possibly be there. Mildred Benjamin is a young widow making her living as a newspaper typesetter, and-unbeknownst to the other ladies of Tombstone-selling tales of Western derring-do to the magazines back East. In Tombstone, Jesse meets the tubercular Doc Holliday, whose inner magic is as suppressed as his own, but whose power is enough to attract the sorcerous attention of Wyatt Earp. Jesse Fox left his Eastern college education to travel West, where he’s made some decidedly odd friends, like the physician Chow Lung, who insists that Jesse has a talent for magic. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.Ībove the ground, power is also about allegiances. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the whole, it's a compelling story that quickly becomes a page-turner. But Bachorz needs this high-stakes bit to justify why kids can't simply run away. Some of the premise is difficult to swallow, such as that within days, residents of Candor become so addicted to the Messages that even a few hours without them could mean death. Proof that the Messages work.” But when Oscar falls for the new girl, Nia, he's forced to rethink his entire identity. Secretly, he's the town's biggest rebel-he illegally shuttles kids to freedom before the Messages can take hold (for a price)-while on the surface he's “the model Candor boy. ![]() Oscar Banks, the son of Candor's founder, leads a double life. ![]() Avoid physical contact”-that dull any impulse toward creativity, rebellion or even sexual desire. In the town of Candor, conformity is law negative emotions are banished and residents are fed a steady diet of subliminal Messages-“Respectful space in every place. Debut novelist Bachorz delivers a dystopian novel that takes place in the present, giving the genre a fresh twist. ![]() |