![]() ![]() ![]() There is a lot of action and intrigue and magic. ![]() I just love all the characters and dragons in these book so much. These are such wonderful fantasy books and are so much fun to read!Ĭreel has been making a good living as a seamstress, but when word comes of an army of dragons preparing to invade she jumps right into the action. I really loved this sequel to Dragon Slippers. This is the second book in the Dragon Slippers trilogy. Funny, heart-felt, and action packed, this is a sequel that will satisfy on every level.” Never one to sit around, Creel throws herself headlong into an adventure that will reunite her with her dragon friend Shardas, pit her against a vicious new enemy and perhaps rekindle a friendship with Prince Luka that seems to have gone cold. Then word comes that a bordering country has been breeding dragons in preparation for an invasion. “With the Dragon Wars over, Creel finds herself bored with life as a seamstress. Stand Alone or Series: 2nd book in the Dragon Slippers series ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. ![]() McFadden is the author of the novels Gathering of Waters, Glorious, and This Bitter Earth.īernice L. ![]() To read this novel is to take a journey through loss and suffering to a place of forgiveness, understanding, and grace. Sugar brings a Southern African-American town vividly to life, with its flowering magnolia trees, lingering scents of jasmine and honeysuckle, and white picket fences that keep strangers out-but ignorance and superstition in. Over sweet-potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins, transforming both women's lives-and the life of an entire town. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the daughter who was murdered fifteen years before. McFadden reveals amazing talent."Ī young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. ![]() Sugar speaks of what is real."- The Dallas Morning Newsįrom an exciting new voice in African-American contemporary fiction comes a novel Ebony praised for its "unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until the end." The Chicago Defender calls Sugar "a literary explosion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet his silence lasted longer than even grief could occasion. ![]() The horror of the spectacle, the ignorance of all around how this misfortune had happened, and above all, the tremendous phenomenon before him, took away the Prince’s speech. ![]() For instance, from the descent of the enormous helmet to the shattering of the castle walls by the immense and reinvigorated supernatural anatomy of Alfonso, Walpole crafted his story so as to achieve a suspension of reason within enclosed settings, where readers might feel as lost and disoriented as the characters entrapped by the supernatural world. The uniqueness of this novel is that Walpole uses unique objects and symbols to depict divine justice (Carso 121). Walpole portrays that an ancestral crime and curse and a haunted interior crammed with supernatural appliances such as portraits that stare back and music that floats from ghostly instruments attest to the purity and orthodoxy of the novel’s formal Gothic features. ![]() ![]() No wonder she’d thought she was elsewhere. She’d come in just before two, torn off her clothes, dropped exhausted into bed, and managed about four hours’ sleep. This last item, as well as the telephone beside it, brought everything sharply into focus. Nor should it have been strewn with papers, notebooks, several open volumes, and a large word processor. In fact, there shouldn’t have been a desk in here at all. They were drawn across a window which was itself in the wrong place. She hadn’t started out the previous night in this bed or even in this room, so for a moment she blinked, perplexed, wondering when the plain red curtains had been changed for that hideous print of yellow chrysanthemums and green leaves lounging on a field of what appeared to be bracken. ![]() When it broke into her dream-an unwelcome interloper, considering the subject matter her subconscious had been pursuing-she bolted upright in bed. The second light, however, positioned to shine directly in her face from an angle-lamp on the bedside table, acted as efficiently as a blast of music or a jangling alarm. ![]() The first light, twelve feet away on her desk, managed only to rouse her moderately. ![]() ![]() The fifth book in the Inspector Lynley series, 1992Įlena Weaver awakened when the second light went on in her bed-sitting room. ![]() ![]() ![]() This rich tapestry of intrigue, betrayal, trauma, protection, old religion, and historically based politics resurrects the urgency and depth of the His Fair Assassin series-but must be read after the others (“new duology” label notwithstanding). Will Sybella and Genevieve find each other, or even learn each other’s information, before things come crashing down? They alternate narrating in first-person present, with great immediacy. Danger’s everywhere-rape, murder-and love is a risk. Sybella and Genevieve have brilliant skills-killing, scheming, spying, protecting, and sometimes finding Mortain’s grace-but everyone who holds power abuses it terribly. Meanwhile, Genevieve, another assassin/daughter of Mortain, languishes in an undercover placement in France, instruction-less-so she builds herself a plan. ![]() Having changed the nature of death (incomprehensibly) in Mortal Heart (2014), LaFevers ignores that and focuses on Sybella’s doubt about how to serve her father, Mortain-the god of Death-without the black marques that previously showed her whom to kill. The duchess promises, when queen, to protect Sybella’s young sisters from their brother’s house, where the men molested Sybella ( Dark Triumph, 2013). Sybella, a trained assassin, escorts Brittany’s duchess to France to marry King Charles. History, intrigue, and peril in 15th-century Brittany and France. ![]() ![]() ![]() To make matters worse, it becomes clear that Riley’s new house guests are definitely either in trouble or are trouble after bad guys deliver a warning with a severed finger.Ĭan Nick and Riley solve the case the old-fashioned way before they all end up in pieces? Or will a surprise birthday party, a dog doody bandit, an accidental arson, and a blast from the past be too much for them to handle? Normal stuff.īut normal comes to a screeching halt when our favorite psychic is abducted by a stranger with candy, and her powers go on the fritz. Meanwhile, Riley has her hands full fixing up the crumbling crime scene they call home and setting boundaries with the breaking-and-entering octogenarians next door. It’s every bit as bad as you can imagine. ![]() Penny is calling the investigative shots. While Nick gives up sleeping and showering to obsess over the cold case that still haunts him, his business partner Mrs. It looks like summer is over and so is Riley’s bad luck. Not only do they finally have their own place, they also haven’t found any new dead bodies on the premises. Riley Thorn and her hot, tattooed, private investigator boyfriend are all moved in to their new fixer-upper. ![]() ![]() Reflecting the increase in literary production and the facilitation of materials, this Works include nearly 200Īnthologies, more than 100 autobiographies/biographies or other narrative, and almost 250 novels by more than 100 authors from 16 different countries. More than 3,000 individual titles by more than 500 authors are referenced. This reference covers all forms of narrative-short story, autobiography, novel, novella, and others-written by Latin American women from 1898 to 2007. Stories, novels, novellas, autobiographies, and biographies) by Latin American women bibliographic resources, Kathy Leonard has compiled Latin American Women Writers: A Resource Guide to Titles in English. In addition, the various types of published narrative (short Writers, but such material can be difficult to locate due to the lack of available bibliographic resources. ![]() ![]() There is a wealth of published literature in English by Latin American women ![]() ![]() Where is God in this story? Can you see Jesus? Can you see the Holy Spirit?.What happens when Daisy returns to the park?.What happens to disrupt Daisy’s world? How does this make her feel?.Who and or what makes up Daisy’s world?.What does Daisy love? How does she show it?.As the story comes to a close, the other dog, who could easily see Daisy as an enemy, shows her instead what it is to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” ( Luke 6:31). As a result, Daisy uses poor judgment that ends up costing her dearly. ![]() Unfortunately, during a trip to the park, another dog doesn’t give her the option and chooses to play with her ball too. It is something that is not easily learned for those of us who had fewer instances where sharing was even an issue, like us only children. All children, it seems, are taught from an early age to share. Theological Partners for Conversation: Daisy teaches us a simple and timeless lesson about sharing, while also retelling the principles given to us in Luke 6:31. ![]() This title won the 2012 Caldecott Award for best illustrated children’s book. The broad strokes make it easy to read Daisy’s emotions as they change with every turn of the page. The illustrations are done in what might first appear as childish paintings or even finger paint. This story, told solely in pictures, uses the illustrations to tell a story that may have been over simplified if words were used. Summary: This is a story told all in pictures about a dog and the ball she loves. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The aptly-named giant Pacific octopus Octavia comes alive in the book (as do other octopuses) with a unique personality that responds to Montgomery in poignant ways, as I described in my review for the Times Literary Supplement last week: Montgomery offers a unique window into octopus behavior and intelligence through elegant descriptions - both science-based and emotional - of her extended encounters with octopuses while going behind the scenes at Boston's New England Aquarium and diving in Polynesian waters. As I wrote here at 13.7 last month, after a morning at my local aquarium, I have fallen hard for all things octopus. ![]() I'll be cheering for Montgomery's book to climb even higher in the ranks. This past Sunday, an invertebrate cracked the top group.Ĭoming in 10th - after books about birds, dogs, wolves, sheep and elephants - was Sy Montgomery's The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration in the Wonder of Consciousness. Once a month, The New York Times Book Review includes animals as a category in its best-selling books list. ![]() ![]() Enough said.īring to a boil: Stephanie Plum is working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night and snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, during the day. ![]() Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help find he killer and collect the moolah.Īdd a secret ingredient: Stephanie Plum's Grandma Mazur. Pump up the heat: Chipotle's sponsor is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers. ![]() ![]() Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime, and the only one she'll talk to is Trenton cop Joe Morelli. This item: Finger Lickin Fifteen (Stephanie Plum Novels) by Janet Evanovich Mass Market Paperback 8. ![]() Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton in a barbecue cookoff and loses his head - literally. It's the spiciest, sauciest, most rib-sticking Plum yet. Finger lickin' fifteen by Evanovich, Janet Publication date 2009 Topics Plum, Stephanie (Fictitious character), Women bounty hunters, Police, Cooks Publisher New York : St. ![]() |