![]() ![]() "The writing and storytelling is as clear and fun as the title indicates. ![]() "Ford's strengths are evident in the taut acton sequences and suspenseful pacing."- Publishers Weekly "The novel unfolds cinematically with loads of breathtaking action, a perfect candidate for film or television adaptation. ![]() "Ford's breakneck pace keeps the tension high, and the thrills coming the whole way through."- BookPage If she cant unravel the conspiracy in time, her. Shes got 24 hours to clear her name - and its not just her life at stake. A fast-paced, high-adrenaline tale that manages to get into some dark themes without losing its sense of fun."- Kirkus But all she really wants to do is kick back, have a beer, and pretend shes normal for once.But then a body turns up at the site of her last job - murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled off. "Teagan is a frank and funny narrator for this wild ride, which starts off with our heroine falling from the 82nd floor of a skyscraper and pretty much never slow down. "Ford's debut holds nothing back, delivering a sense of absurd fun and high-speed thrills that more than lives up to that amazing title."- B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog A drunken back-alley brawler of a book."- Robert Brockway, author of The Unnoticeables ![]() It's like the X-Men, if everybody was sick of each other's sh*t, they had to work manual labor to pay rent, and Professor X was a sociopathic government stooge. "Furious, frenetic, fun, and "f**k you": All equally valid descriptions of this book and its punk rock chef/psychic warrior protagonist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And indeed, the ball does set things spinning: new figures enter their life, promising new futures. Nella is desperate to save the family and maintain appearances, to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future, and when they receive an invitation to Amsterdam’s most exclusive ball, she is overjoyed-perhaps this will set their fortunes straight. On Thea’s birthday, also the day that her mother Marin died, the secrets from the past begin to overwhelm the present. At the city’s theatre, Walter, the love of her life, awaits her, but at home in the house on the Herengracht, all is not well-her father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly, and the Brandt family are selling their furniture in order to eat. In the golden city of Amsterdam, in 1705, Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and she is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. ![]() The House of Fortune is a glorious, sweeping story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s determination to rule her own destiny. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a case of mistaken identity leads to a sexy proposition involving rope, a hot lumberjack Dom and a much younger newbie sub get more than they bargained for. I think all the smexiness might have clouded my judgment. Phew! □□□□Ĭoming with a short review tomorrow. I do hope if and when this gets published at all retailers, it will be expanded a little. At least I don't think they get to know each other well enough to fall in love, cuz other then these scenes, they didn't do much else. Able to hold this big, strong man in the palm of my bound hand." "I’d always assumed bondage would make me feel helpless. Watching him, experiencing with him, was utterly breathtaking. That was much rarer, and with Cam, everything felt new again. A lot of times I felt more like the conductor of someone else’s symphony-which could be an awesome feeling, giving others the sort of experience with ropes they desired most-but it wasn’t the same as sharing something, discovering things together as equal participants, feeding off each other’s energy. "Bondage scenes were supposed to be a shared experience, but they didn’t always work out that way. Bondage is often portrayed as a power move. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of this we take care in describing the condition of each book in great detail. Note: All our books are vintage and second hand with the majority being 45+ years old. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. ![]() Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. ![]() Shop Categories Fiction Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure Journals and Magazines Art, Fashion & Photography Biography & True Stories Classics, Poetry & Drama General Non-Fiction Humanities Social Sciences Economics Law Medicine Science Technology, Engineering & Agri Children's Myths, Legends & Supernatural Ephemera Vintage Collections Wholesale Vinyl Auctions The Vampires of Finistere The Vampires of Finistere by Peter Saxon Publisher: PBS Limited Year Published: 1972 Condition: ACCEPTABLE Folio: N/A Signed: N/A 1st Edition: N/A Ex-Library: N/A Dust jacket: No Dust jacket condition: No Jacket Pagination: 190 Edition: No Edition Remarks ISBN: N/A Reference: 1676282665MHA Image note: Image taken of actual book Description: 1972. The Vampires of Finistere by Peter Saxon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The majority of her book reviews can be found at Goodreads you can also find her on Facebook and Twitter She lives on Puget Sound with her husband, daughter, a Havanese pupper called Jimmy Dean, and Bella, a rambunctious cat. ![]() Under her own name Rosina writes contemporary novels (and academic work, for example here). The new series jumps ahead past the destruction of the Civil War to follow Nathaniel and Elizabeth’s granddaughters into the twentieth century. Her newest novel about the Bonner family is The Gilded Hour. Sara is the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of the Bonner family in the vast forests in upstate New York, from about 1792-1825. Since 2000 she spends her time haunting the intersection where history and storytelling meet, wallowing in 19th century newspapers, magazines, street maps, and academic historical research. Rosina Lippi is a former academic and tenured university professor. Sara Donati is the pen name of Rosina Lippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ….It’s dim inside, and you smell the shop before you see it it’s a lovely smell….it combines must and dust and age, and walls of wood and floors of wood…the shelves go on forever they go up to the ceiling….” Instead her best friend went and wrote back to her: “It is the loveliest old shop straight out of Dickens you would go absolutely out of your mind over it. The bookshop staff wanted her to visit, but Helene could not afford to go. Helene Hanff,who fell in love with an English bookshopīut she was a writer and writers are often poor. Through the mail, Helene Hanff wrote, “I enclose $4 to cover the $3.88 due you, buy yourself a cup of coffee with the 12 cents…Now, do you have….” And back came more estate-quality editions so beautiful she hardly dared read them. In England Lyons Tea Shops were all over, and Elizabeth would not ascend the throne for three more years. Yes, there really was a world when you could order anything and the seller did not doubt you would pay for it. The invoice would be enclosed with the books. saying they had copies of a few things on her list and would send them book mail. Back came a letter from one FPD (Frank Doel) for Marks & Co. She sent the bookshop a list of what she wanted. She wanted a number of classic books, then only available in old editions the great cheap reprints of today had not yet been envisioned. In New York 1949, in the years not long following the terrible losses in the world from the War, a young writer who had never gone to college sent a letter to a bookshop called Marks and Co. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Arsinoe is lost, the responsibility of stopping the ravaging mist heavy on her shoulders. Mirabella has returned to the capital, seemingly under a banner of truce.Katharine maintains her rule over Fennbirn – for now – but at huge personal cost. The Young Queens is the story of the three queens when they were born, before they were separated - it gives a short glimpse of the time when they all lived together, loved each other and protected one another. Katharine, the poisoner queen, has been crowned and is trying to ignore the whispers that call her illegitimate, undead, cursed. The battle has been fought, blood has been spilt and a queen has been crowned, but not all are happy with the outcome. Arsinoe, after discovering the truth about her powers, must figure out how to make her secret talent work in her favour without anyone finding out. Katharine, once the weak and feeble sister, is stronger than ever before. With the unforgettable events of the Quickening behind them and the Ascension Year underway, all bets are off. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rand described herself as a "man-worshiper," as one who revered man at his highest and best. His independence, his commitment to his own rational thinking, and his integrity mark him as a distinctive Ayn Rand hero. Howard Roark is the first such figure in her novels. The book is about the conflict between those who think for themselves and those who allow others to dominate their lives.Īccording to Ayn Rand, the goal of her writing is the presentation of an ideal man. The theme, as Ayn Rand states it, is individualism versus collectivism, not in politics but in men's souls. ![]() Roark, like many inventors and creative thinkers of history, struggles to win acceptance for his ideas against the tradition-bound masses, who follow established norms and are fearful of change. Its hero, Howard Roark, is an innovative architect, a man whose brilliant and radically new designs are not understood and are rejected by the majority of society. ![]() Having grown up in the totalitarian dictatorship of the Soviet Union, holding an impassioned belief in political freedom and the rights of the individual, Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead as a tribute to the creative freethinker. All of the major intellectual themes that inform Rand's fiction and her subsequent philosophy are presented clearly in this novel. ![]() The Fountainhead serves as an excellent introduction to both Ayn Rand's writing and her philosophy of Objectivism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Another section is devoted to Justinian’s courtship and lifelong love affair with Theodora-of-the-aforementioned-sex-act (actually, her name up until she married him was Theodora-from-the-brothel – seriously), his fascination with the more arcane elements of Christian dogma, his law code and the refinements he made to the fine arts of bureaucracy, and his exhaustive but unsuccessful attempts to reconquer the western empire. Rosen covers the events that caused the Roman empire to split into its eastern and western halves, the barbarian invasions and other events that caused the western empire to fall in 479 C.E., and the rise of Justinian. This is a historian who believes in using a wide-angle lens. To give you a sense of what Rosen is like as a storyteller, with the exception of a few paragraphs in the introduction, the bubonic plague makes its appearance in the book on page 162. in the Mediterranean and surrounding areas – in particular in the area of ending what we think of as the “ancient” way of life and ushering in what is usually called the medieval world. The stated purpose of this book is to explore the effects of the massive outbreak of bubonic plague beginning in 542 C.E. ![]() This is the sort of history book I love – multidisciplinary, oriented around synthesis rather than analysis, and not afraid to go into detail about a sex act that a certain former empress of the Eastern Roman Empire liked to perform with a goose (I’m not telling, but it’s on pp. ![]() ![]() His dark hair is swept back from his face in glossy waves that touch the back of his collar. ![]() I’ve never been in the presence of someone so young yet so formidable in my life. “So yes, Raquel Morgan…” Sandra repeats herself, leaving the introduction open as she gestures toward me. For a moment, I wonder if he can… being the devil and all. “From Taron?” The muscle in his square jaw moves, and he looks to the right, towards Taron’s office, as if he can see through the wall. My heart stutters in my chest, and all I can think is Wow. Raquel Morgan is taking over international relations from Taron.” (BOSS OF ME is a STAND-ALONE enemies-to-lovers, military romance with an arrogant boss and the feisty woman who steals his heart. I’ve spent seven years building one of the top companies in Nashville, and I’m not about to let some ambitious, cardigan-wearing new kid distract me from my goals. ![]() She has long, dark hair, crystal blue eyes, and freckles… Freckles. She’s stubborn, independent, and a fighter. I won’t fall for his charm or how sexy he fills out that suit. I don’t care about his deep brown eyes or the way the muscle moves in his square jaw when he’s pissed. I say don’t worry-I’m not about to let some arrogant, young CEO derail my dreams. ![]() My sister says he’s the devil she says don’t fall for him. ![]() |