![]() ![]() Martin's A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, and a must-read for all fans of HBO's GAME OF THRONES. This is the most exciting fantasy series since George R. Sequel to the extraordinary THE NAME OF THE WIND, THE WISE MAN'S FEAR is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy from Patrick Rothfuss. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. ![]() 'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. ![]() The Kingkiller Chronicle Series 3 Books Collection Set by Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear & The Slow Regard of Silent Things): ![]()
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![]() ![]() Nisha is used to being friends with Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, but that all changes when Partition happens. ![]() ![]() Nisha’s father is Hindu (as are Nisha and Amil), and Kazi is Muslim. She narrates her life and the events unfolding around her in letters to her Muslim mother, who died while giving birth to Nisha and Amil, her twin brother. Nisha, an introvert who rarely speaks to people outside of her family, begins keeping a diary in July 1947, after Kazi, the family chef, gives her a blank book for her 12th birthday. This was another of those rare books that I read in one sitting, ignoring all of the other things I was supposed to do, allowing myself to be sucked into this book and its world. Told through Nisha’s letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl’s search for home, for her own identity…and for a hopeful future. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can’t imagine losing her homeland, too. When Papa decides it’s too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn’t know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. ![]() ![]() Bob’s commentary and reaction are understandable upon waking up in such a world. Spoiler alert for the rest of this paragraph: I would have preferred a less heavy-handed method, since it doesn’t come from our narrator’s beliefs but from the world building. The anti-religious sentiment was laid on thick. There is an instinctual drive to his actions, which made up for some of the Deus Ex Machina. ![]() However, there are several instances later of his resourcefulness, so the balance is there, if not a little skewed in his favor. Much of what happens in the book displays the main character’s astounding luck. The action scenes felt planned throughout the book, and we get our first taste of this in the facility where he is trained for his mission to operate a Von Neumann probe. You can hear a ‘Wa Wa Waaaaa’ after every one of his snide remarks. Then we are treated to a big chunk of time post-mortem, Bob hasn’t really changed, except in his calculating power. Sets up some foreboding points of reference. Starts out pretty geeky: main character going to a convention. It would be fine if he didn’t treat the audience like kids, encouraged by a subliminal laugh track. ![]() ![]() ![]() The main issue is Bob, the narrator/ commentator, giving a peanut gallery run down of events, which are all about himself, in different forms, conquering the galaxy. Every time I was introduced to an interesting, high-brow scientific concept, I was cringing at the corny humor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Across the hall is the only other injured guy on campus, hockey star Adam Hartley, who recently broke his leg in a few places after a drunken wall crawl. Fortunately Dana is super-awesome and loves the giant space and is super sweet and nice. She's adapting to getting around an old school campus with stairs, and feeling guilty that she and her (uninjured) roomie Dana are kept away from the rest of their cohorts in the one building with handicapped-accessible rooms. Suffice it to say the year wasn't good and she insisted on going to college eight months after the accident so she could get the hell away from home. ![]() In her senior year of college, she had a horrible accident happen during a game that left her legs mostly paralyzed. 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With the mill’s owner pushing hard to start fracking on Native American Blackfeet land, Jessica starts to connect the dots between the killings. Devastated by the death, she can’t help but draw connections between the supposed accident and her own father’s unsolved demise… When she’s not writing mystery novels, Kelly is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, and the author of fifteen non-fiction books and over 100 articles on issues such as the refugee crisis, campus rape, women and the media, animals, and the environment. But her boring summer break becomes a nightmare when her cousin dies at the local sawmill. Philosophy grad student Jessica James isn’t thrilled to be back home in Montana. If she’s not careful, she might leave in a body bag… Winner of the Silver Falchion Award for Best Mystery/SuspenseĪll proceeds from sales go to American Indian College Fund. ![]() ![]() In Penn Scully's case, I pierced his heart until he bled out, then left it in a trash can on a bright summer day.įour years ago, he asked me to save all my firsts for him. The thing about stiletto heels is that they make a hell of a dent when you walk all over the people who try to hurt you. I'm about to prove to her that she's nothing but a spoiled princess.Įveryone loves a good old unapologetic punk.īut being a bitch? Oh, you get slammed for every snarky comment, cynical eye roll, and foot you put in your adversaries' way. There's a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she's about to shell out some serious tears.ĭaria Followhill thinks she is THE queen. Yeah, baby girl, say it-I'm your foster brother. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much. ![]() Now, I'm her parents' latest shiny project. The good thing about circumstances? They can change. I'd had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my heart was completely iced. They say revenge is a dish best served cold. Shen comes an intense, high school enemies-to-lovers romance with a twist. Pretty Reckless is unputdownable and absolute Kindle Crack." - Kindle Crack Book Reviewsįrom USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author L.J. This complex and venomous tale takes on a modern-day Cruel Intentions/Mean Girls vibe. "A runaway train of revenge, rivalry and angst. ![]() "Best Romance Novels of 2019" - Oprah Magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() Then his head began to be flooded with music that seemed to come, unstoppably, from nowhere. He bought recordings, acquired a piano and began to teach himself to play. Everything seemed normal until this fan of rock music was suddenly seized by a craving for classical piano music. ![]() Cicoria's heart apparently stopped, but he was resuscitated, and a few weeks later he was back at work. His new collection starts quite literally with a bolt from the blue, when a 42-year-old surgeon, Tony Cicoria, was struck by lightning in 1994. The result is a sort of reverse-engineering of the soul. But Sacks is adept at turning neurological narratives into humanly affecting stories, by showing how precariously our worlds are poised on a little biochemistry. The genre could have been an exploitative sideshow: a parade of misfits whose brains have been weirdly affected by disease, trauma, congenital defect or medical treatment. In his earlier collections of clinical tales - most famously in "Awakenings" (1973) and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (1985) - Sacks presented with compassion, sensitivity and learning what, in coarser hands, might have been freak shows of the mind. But there does seem to be no shortage of doctors who are musical and one of them is Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and author, who has now combined two of his passions in one book. Perhaps the concert was a medical benefit more likely, it never happened. ![]() ![]() Urban legend has it that when a patron fell ill in Carnegie Hall and the call went out for a doctor in the house, half the audience stood up to help. ![]() ![]() His books are so action packed and cinematic that they'll practically direct the film for you, all you have to do is pay attention. So, executives, once you're tired of releasing things people aren't interested in and losing money because of it, try a David Gemmell novel. You'll make so much money from this, Disney will try to buy you out. This is like that except 100 times better. Troy trilogy- Believe it or not there are lots of people who liked the Brad Pitt Troy movie. How can you not make money off this? Put Jerek Mace on the big screen and rake in some dollars! Legend was first published in paperback in 1984. Block toned, as always, but otherwise very tight and square. Morningstar- The protagonist is Robin Hood, Trevor Belmont and William Wallace COMBINED. by David Gemmell Used Fine Hardcover first London: Century. There's a whole trilogy of this stuff, then afterwards it sets the stage for the Druss series, which would also be a massive cash cow if done decently. ![]() ![]() If you make this movie or tv series, not only do you attract the Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings fanbases, but you also also get summer action movie fans who like to see antihero hitmen killing a bunch of bad guys for redemption. Waylander- The protagonist is medieval fantasy John Wick, except instead of guns, he uses crossbows and knives. ![]() Let me explain to you how much money is not being made right now: Gemmell is an untapped gold mine for blockbuster movies and shows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It pulses with blood and breath, excrement and the bodies of the living. This collection crawls with insects, communicative plants, and poetry. Her essays track the impact the often unnoticed has on the human psyche, discovering the awe upon the recognition that even the desert’s heart beats. Recalling Biblical and religious sojourns, Larson maps her own travels from the desert to Salt Lake City to New York City to Jerusalem, observing the life that curls in a leaf, the bug that spews cinnamon-flavored goo, and the water that occasionally floods the desert. Beginning with a Mormon-founded experiment in primitive survival, teenagers hike the Arizona desert while Larson shines light on the effects of prolonged exposure to the outdoors, to lands considered inhospitable to life. Nominated for the 2020 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction!īrooke Larson’s essay collection Pleasing Tree explores the human relationship with the wilderness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like either of them really cared about the well-being of some fucked-up dancer. ![]() Watch him,” he heard Viv say to Gary before she left for the night-click-clacking across the strip club and out into the night in her shiny red high heels. With half a bottle of whiskey churning around in his stomach and whatever Viv had tipped into his hand from her little box of pills, Nicky was anyone’s. Lima Oscar Victor Echo and The Truth About Everything If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favourite authorised retailer. This book remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. ![]() Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s weird imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. ![]() |