5/13/2023 0 Comments Unhooked by Lisa Maxwell![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Gwen struggles to remember where she came from and tries to find a way home, she must choose between trusting the charming fairy-tale hero who says all the right things and the captivating pirate who promises to keep her safe.Ĭaught in the ultimate battle between good and evil, with time running out and her enemies closing in, Gwen is forced to finally face the truths she’s been hiding from all along. Here, good and evil lose their meaning and memories slip like water through your fingers. The Reviews Are In 'A doorstopper with a total shakeup of an ending: dont miss this splendid series opener. Gwen discovers that this new world she inhabits is called Neverland, but it’s nothing like the Neverland you’ve heard about in stories. And Gwen begins to realize that maybe her mother isn’t so crazy after all… I did not want to leave the world of Unhooked. It won't let go even as the story draws to a close. ![]() It is one that will sink its hooks into you. Gwen’s only saving grace is that her best friend, Olivia, is with her for the summer.īut shortly after their arrival, the girls are kidnapped by shadowy creatures and dragged to a world of flesh-eating sea hags and dangerous Fey. Unhooked is a dark beauty with imaginative and tricky twists to the original Peter Pan story. Her mother believes they are being hunted by brutal monsters, and those delusions have brought them to London, far from the life Gwen had finally started to build for herself. For as long as she can remember, Gwendolyn Allister has never had a place to call home. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Gordon korman i want to go home![]() ![]() His room at home is full of trophies that don't mean anything to him. Deconstructed, since everyone pushes him to do things he doesn't care about, and he's bored with winning all the time. The book is a humorous take on prison break stories, as Rudy and Mike attempt increasingly elaborate escapes and the counselors enact increasingly desperate measures to keep the two in camp. Unfortunately, the counselors have other plans. Rudy, or simply Miller! to the counselors, is a genius and a natural athlete, but has run into enough trouble at school that, in his own words, "The guidance counselors misguided my parents into guiding me here." Rudy is interested in one camp activity only-plotting to leave camp. Fortunately for Mike, he quickly befriends the only other person in all of Camp Algonkian Island who would rather be somewhere else: a quiet loner named Rudy Miller. It's like torture to the unathletic teenager. ![]() Mike Webster has been sent to summer camp as a "reward" for his good marks. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Island by Olivia Levez![]() I’ve just started to read this book and am already hooked. ‘He’s a cool dude and not someone I knew anything about until I moved to the UK six years ago. Mark, Commissioning Editor The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: Poet, Lyricist, Writer, Activist by Benjamin Zephaniah The new characters feel as if they have come straight from Sir Arthur’s pen, and there is a twist at the end that is every bit as shocking as anything from the original stories. ‘Horowitz was commissioned by the Conan Doyle estate to write a new Sherlock Holmes novel, and he brilliantly captures the spirit and adventure of Sir Arthur’s stories. ![]() Gareth, Managing Director House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz ![]() ‘Obsessed, as I am, with the bigger picture I like the idea that humanity is just a bump in the evolutionary road towards some non-sentient data processing future. ![]() Jess, Marketing Executive Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari The perfect antidote to grimdark fantasy such as Game of Thrones, brimming with political intrigue and elves – what more could a girl want?’ ![]() Nothing was off limits and our top choices were varied as you'll see below! The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison The History Press team have chosen their top picks, from all publishers, across all genres - from YA novels and photography to non-fiction and memoirs. As a group of people that love to read, picking our favourite books is no easy feat. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Chouette claire oshetsky review![]() ![]() squarely on Tiny’s fierce love as she battles her husband and nature to allow Chouette to be wild and exact, stakes that feel frightening and true to life…. When she discovers that her husband is on an obsessive and increasingly dangerous quest to find a “cure” for their daughter, Tiny must decide whether Chouette should be raised to fit in or to be herself-and learn what it truly means to be a mother.Īrresting, darkly funny, and unsettling, Chouette is a brilliant exploration of ambition, sacrifice, perceptions of ability, and the ferocity of motherly love. ![]() Even in those times when Chouette’s behaviors grow violent and strange, Tiny’s loving commitment to her daughter is unwavering. ![]() Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. ![]() When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter’s needs. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she warns him. "Claire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying." -Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindĪn exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The backstagers 1 james tynion iv![]() ![]() Genesius, he figures joining the stage crew would involve a lot of just fetching props and getting splinters. When Jory transfers to the private, all-boys school St. James Tynion IV (Detective Comics, The Woods) and artist Rian Sygh (Munchkin, Stolen Forest) explore what it means to be an outcast looking to find ones place in an earnest story of friendship and self-expression. James Tynion IV (Batman Eternal, The Woods) teams up with artist Rian Sygh (Munchkin, Stolen Forest) for an incredible yet earnest story about finding a place to fit in when you’re kinda an outcast. The friendly people from BOOM! Studios have shared with FlipGeeks a preview of the first issue of The Backstagers by James Tynion IV and Rian Sygh. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Necronomicon cthulhu mythos![]() ![]() "And with strange aeons even death may die. Quotations "That is not dead which can eternal lie," Today we take a look at the Necronomicon, potentially the most dangerous book of the western world and one of Lovecrafts most universal ideas that has been. Latter versions derived from Wormius' edition. In 1228 AD, Olaus Wormius the Elder (not to be confused with the 16th century scholar) translated Philetas' Greek into Latin, and is the earliest version known to have survived to present day. He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu. The Greek translation of the title, Necronomicon, meaning "The Laws of the Dead", survives to this day. He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the Arabic edition is nearly unknown, the circa 950 AD translation into Greek by Theodorus Philetas is the first known Western version of this manuscript. Variously banned, burned, lost, and found throughout the ages, it has continued to worm its way into humanity and spread its corruption even with the dilution that comes with translation and copying.Īs stated earlier, the book was originally called Kitab Al-Azif, and this title translates as "book of the howlings of the desert demons or jinn", but may more poetically be translated as "book of the Approacher". The original Arabic book was originally called " Kitab Al-Azif" by its maddened author, Abdul Al-Hazrad sometime before that author's death in 738 AD. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots![]() ![]() ![]() When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks.īecause the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she’s the lucky one. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? As a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. ![]() Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. A smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower-for good or ill-is a properly executed spreadsheet.Īnna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. ![]() ![]() ![]() In much of his prose, too, Poe includes (sometimes telling) rhetorical references to the creation story, from the forbidden wisdom of “Ligeia” to the picturesque vale of “Landor's Cottage.” Allegorically, though, Poe's short story “The Black Cat” treats the creation story of Genesis 1–4 remarkably fully, moving beyond allusion as it essentially retells those chapters of Genesis in macabre form, describing an ideal state, original sin, and murder-the very outline of the biblical narrative itself. ![]() En Freeditorial tienes más de 50.000 libros para descargar y leer online gratis. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. ![]() In Genesis and “Annabel Lee,” moreover, malign influence undoes archetypal innocence. The Black Cat EDGAR ALLAN POE Descarga el libro gratis en todos los formatos. 'The Black Cat' is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. As in the biblical creation story-which provides the literary model of “paradise”-so in these poems: death has a lasting and adverse effect on happiness. ![]() Poems such as “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee,” for instance, allude to ideal states not unlike that described in the creation story of Genesis, particularly the scriptural verses depicting the Garden of Eden. Edgar Allan Poe's personal religious feeling may have been uncertain, but the influence of the Bible on his works is not in question. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Mermaid moon susann cokal![]() Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Sanna is a mermaid - but she is only half seavish. ![]() Blood calls to blood charm calls to charm. Īn award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose, lush descriptions, empathy, and keen wit. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the. ![]() An award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose, lush descriptions, empathy, and keen wit. ![]() ![]() Wow, just wow! This is a rollercoaster of a book with exhilarating highs and soul crushing lows complemented by humour and romance. It is the first in a series of which there are seven novels to date and also several short stories. ![]() This book was recommended to me by a fellow bibliophile and when he said it contained time travelling historians visiting dinosaurs I knew I had to read it and of course review it for the Bookasaurus Blog. ![]() For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake … In Book One, we follow new recruit Max as she rides the catastrophe curve from eleventh-century London to the First World War, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. Meanwhile, within at St Mary’s itself, there are power struggles and intrigues worthy of a book in themselves. Time travel meets history in this explosive, bestselling adventure series.Īt St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, the historians don’t just study the past, they revisit it.īehind the strait-laced façade of a conventional academic institution, the secret of time travel is being used for ground-breaking and daring historical research taking the historians on a rollercoaster ride through history: from the destruction of Pompeii to the Normandy trenches from the Great Fire of London to Bronze Age Troy and even to the time of the dinosaurs… ![]() |