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![]() When she's not writing, Jayne is reading (and re-reading) her favorite authors, cooking Italian feasts, and going on long walks with her husband. In love with all things Scottish, she writes romances set in both Dark Ages and Medieval Scotland. Jayne is the author of a number of best-selling series. ![]() Her vibrant characters, richly researched historical settings and action-packed adventure romance transport readers to forgotten times and imaginary worlds. Multi-award-winning author Jayne Castel writes epic Historical and Fantasy Romance. Curl up with a hot drink and transport yourself to the Scottish Highlands this Christmas. HIGHLANDER PLEDGED is the tender and steamy story of two lost souls who are meant for each other. Now, he has to convince her that he fully intends to honor their marriage vows: to love, protect and cherish her. ![]() Now head of one of the Highland's most feared clans, and with four younger brothers coveting his position, he can't let his guard down, can't show the slightest sign of weakness.īut Tavish has long desired Robina. She does her duty, but underneath her meek façade, Robina is furious: at her kin, fate-and the arrogant young clan-chief who is now her husband. Robina Oliphant's wishes have never been considered by others, so she isn't surprised when her father marries her off to the ruthless clan Gunn in order to secure a political alliance. They wed in the heart of winter, as the Scottish Highlands prepare for Yuletide-but while snow falls, an arranged marriage blossoms into a love match. ![]() ![]() Sharpe who’s acting suspiciously – there’s a ghost who mingles with the guards in the museum, a cat who acts like a spy, and bystanders in black jackets who keep popping up.With pieces and players, you have all the ingredients for a fantastic mystery from the amazing Blue Balliett. Sharpe, who may be playing her own kind of game with the clues. and has a word or two to say about the missing treasure.The kids have been drawn in by the very mysterious Mrs. Now they’ve been matched with two new sleuths – Zoomy, a very small boy with very thick glasses, and Early, a girl who treasures words. THE PLAYERSCalder, Petra, and Tommy are no strangers to heists and puzzles. Blue Balliett, Scholastic Press, 16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-9-8 Ballietts (Chasing Vermeer) latest mystery spotlights the life of Charles Darwin with a boys investigation into a. ![]() And nobody has any idea where they and the other eleven artworks might be. ![]() She and her family now live in Chicago, within walking distance of Frank Lloyd Wrights Robie House. ![]() From New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett, comes an all-new Calder mystery.THE PIECESThirteen extremely valuable pieces of art have been stolen from one of the most secretive museums in the world. Blue Balliett grew up in New York City and attended Brown University. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Knox was also present, although he was injured and has no memory of what occurred. Things are peaceful until word arrives that Brandon, a jock and a jerk, has died in a construction accident. Her dark secret is revealed: she dumped her best friend Knox because he couldn't get it up. Then there's a "Dare," followed by another "Dare." Maeve (a junior) is then picked. ![]() Her secret is eventually revealed: she slept with her elder sister Emma's (a senior) boyfriend. "Truth" is the default response if no response is given (and the advice Unknown gives is to "always take the Dare.")Īs the first player, Phoebe (a junior) is chosen. "Truth" implies that a personal secret about you is made public. For a round of "Truth or Dare," Unknown will choose one person at a time. A group text from an unknown number ("Unknown") informs Bayview High students about a new Game. This novel (Book #2) begins eighteen months after the events in One Of Us Is Lying (Novel) (Book #1) in Part I. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps you’re curious about the precise definition of ‘Golden Age’ Science Fiction. In its author’s own words, the novel is a collision of ‘the conventions of ‘Golden Age’ Science Fiction and ‘Golden Age’ detective fiction, with the emphasis more on the latter.” (Acknowledgements, p.372). “ Jack Glass is Science Fiction, I can say that much. This is a clever book, but it’s a little too distanced and mechanical in its cleverness to ever quite manage to qualify as enjoyable. There’s little point in summarising the plot, because the plot is just another post-modern cog in the cunning little machine that Adam Roberts has so intricately assembled. I’ve been staring at ‘Jack Glass’ for over an hour, trying to find the best way to start this review. ![]() ![]() King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table are gone, except for the ageing Sir Gawain.īritons and Saxon migrants live peacefully together. The book is set in an imaginary world where Arthurian legend intersects with early medieval British history. ![]() The story of Axl and Beatrice is only part of Ishiguro’s fable about memory. ![]() Memory, Ishiguro is suggesting, condemns us to lonely individuality. But their memories also separate them from each other.Įach becomes a person with a different story and a separate fate. They gain an understanding of themselves and their relationship. But they discover that it contains betrayal, distrust, loneliness and disappointment as well as times of love and happiness. In the course of their journey their memories return piece by piece until all their past is revealed to them. They believe that memory can forge a bond so unbreakable that even death will not separate them. They believe that memory of their life together will bind them together more surely than their affection for each other. They remember they had a son and they set out to find him.īut their journey is also a quest for lost memories. Their lack of memory is a mist that sometimes lifts sufficiently to give them a glimpse of their past life. But the main characters of the story – an old Briton couple named Axl and Beatrice – have an intimation of what they are missing. ![]() ![]() If this were all that was to it then Ishiguro’s world would be one where people live like animals and are content because they know nothing else. ![]() ![]() ![]() But from "Iron Lake" - the first in the Cork O'Connor series - to "Fox Creek," Krueger has exhibited a mastery and control that can't be denied. ![]() The author has consistently called himself a storyteller, not a writer, as if the one was somehow lesser than the other. Krueger wastes no time plunging into the action, using present tense to maintain immediacy and ratcheting up the tension through interspersed points of view in short, taut chapters. Cork is hesitant to put much stock in it (his relationship with the spiritual returns again and again throughout the series), but there's no doubt that Henry is in trouble. Cork is hard on their heels as he tries to unravel who the woman really is, why these men are looking for her and who hired them.Īdding to the urgency is the vision of Henry's death that has visited the healer. Three guns-for-hire have come looking for a woman who has taken refuge with Henry Meloux, forcing the ancient Anishinaabe healer (and recurring character, if you're not in the know) to escape into the wilderness with the woman and Cork's wife. That's a lot of mayhem, even for a fictional place, and former sheriff Cork O'Connor is hip-deep in it in "Fox Creek," the latest addition to William Kent Krueger's mystery series. Trouble has returned - for the 19th time! - to the northern Minnesota town of Aurora, population 3,700. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Problem: Yia Yia, Leo's grandmother, is the one who taught Leo to knit. Second, the girl sitting at the gym's front desk that made this switch possible is Evey Paros, and his grandmother always told him, "Leave the Paros family alone." Unfortunately, this causes two other problems: first, if his dad ever finds out he is taking yoga over a defense course, he will be less than pleased. ![]() ![]() But the military self-defense class was immediately a no-go, so Leo manages to get himself enrolled in the yoga course in the same building. Leo is content to sit quietly and knit while in the guidance counselor's office, ignoring all of Drake's attempts at conversation. He also has to periodically sit in a room with Drake, the boy who punched him, while the school guidance counselor looks on in the hopes that something will happen that will allow them to better understand each other. The Situation: Leonidas "Leo" Ermou has been punched in the face, and as a result, his father wants him to take a super-hardcore, military-style, self-defense course. While the previous book focused on a young man with schizophrenia and his attempts to navigate high school, this one follows a young man with anxiety, who is also dealing with the grief of losing someone close to him. Fans of 2017's Words on Bathroom Walls are certainly pleased that Julia Walton has published a second novel, Just Our Luck. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chaos was already breaking out and the world was in danger of slipping back to a time of great darkness, reminiscent of the Middle Ages."ĭark Passage is the first book in the Dark Passage Series by M.L. Her hope was that they were aware of what had happened and would help. Her heart was heavy and she immediately thought of the other realm. “With one final glance behind her, Jen urged her horse forward, and toward the safety of the mountains. Ivy will resist the evil that would separate the lovers. Her childhood friend Ivy 19, from a rough past, can communicate with the dead, and other supernatural gifts emerge. Jen hides in a rundown mansion when her life falls apart, has vivid experiences with a beautiful male entity who longs to be her soulmate, and must choose reality of living or dead. Genre: New Adult/Adult Fiction (Spiritual/Paranormal Romance) ![]() ![]() He looked at India as no Indian was able to his vision was direct, and this directness was, and is, revolutionary. he is nevertheless the least Indian of Indian leaders. ![]() Mohandas Gandhi: Mahatma, great-souled, father of the nation, deified, his name given to streets and parks and squares, honoured everywhere by statues, his portrait garlanded in every pan-shop, hung in hundreds of offices, bare-chested, bespectacled, radiating light and goodness, his likeness so familiar that, simplified to caricature and picked out in electric lights, it is now an accepted part of the decorations of a wedding house. He questioned things that were taken for granted, things that were assimilated into our Idea of India. And this is what made his vision of India so revolutionary. Naipaul says that Gandhi saw India like no other, he observed critically, with an impartial, almost colonial eye. My favourite description of Gandhiji’s uniqueness of vision comes from Naipaul. Real change cannot be imagined otherwise. It requires you to set aside your love for the thing and be objective. ![]() ![]() To change something you love is the hardest. ![]() |