The Vestrit family's only hope of renewed prosperity is the Vivacia, a liveship they have nurtured for three generations. Bingtown's Old Traders, their wealth eroded by northern wars and the rapacity of southern pirates, now face an influx of upstart merchants who bring change to a complex society. Visit Bantam's website at Description: Not far from the Six Duchies lies Bingtown, hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships- rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. 1) ISBN 4-5 Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036. Warren Youll Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hobb, Robin. Book design by Lisa Stokes Cover art copyright ©1998 by Stephen Youll. Book One of the Liveship Traders Trilogy A Bantam Spectra Book/March 1998 All rights reserved.
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Without fortune or means to pay those debts, Sir Bennet realizes his only option is to make a marriage match with a wealthy noblewoman. Sir Bennet is returning home to protect his family from an imminent attack by neighboring lords who seek repayment of debts. No nobleman would want to marry a woman so flawed. Lady Sabine is harboring a skin blemish that, if revealed, could cause her to be branded as a witch, put her life in danger, and damage her chances of making a good marriage. If you're looking for a good, clean read that combines the setting and mood of a medieval fairytale with the heat of historical romance-you found it! A dangerous secret that threatens their love. One of the firefighters on the scene said, “We thought we were looking at the bowels of hell….It was surreal.” Besides telling the story of the historic library and its destruction, the author recounts the intense arson investigation and provides an in-depth biography of the troubled young man who was arrested for starting it, actor Harry Peak. The fire raged “for more than seven hours and reached temperatures of 2000 degrees…more than one million books were burned or damaged.” Though nobody was killed, 22 people were injured, and it took more than 3 million gallons of water to put it out. In her latest, New Yorker staff writer Orlean ( Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, 2011, etc.) seeks to “tell about a place I love that doesn’t belong to me but feels like it is mine.” It’s the story of the Los Angeles Public Library, poet Charles Bukowski’s “wondrous place,” and what happened to it on April 29, 1986: It burned down. An engaging, casual history of librarians and libraries and a famous one that burned down. Your non-refundable purchase legally allows you to replicate this file for your own personal reading only, on your own personal computer or device. We thank you kindly for purchasing this title. To request permission and all other inquiries, contact Riptide Publishing at the mailing address above, at, or at. Reviewers may quote brief passages in a review. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher, and where permitted by law. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Ĭopyright © 2012 by Heidi Belleau and Rachel HaimowitzĪll rights reserved. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously. It’s a heart-achingly visceral look at survival and exploitation, the nature of good and evil, and the risks we take for love. Set in modern-day Europe, the final book in the Half Bad trilogy is more than a story about witches. But even Gabriel’s love may not be enough to save Nathan from this war, or from the person he has become. Gabriel, his closest companion, urges Nathan to run away with him, to start a peaceful life together. And lately Nathan has started to suffer from visions: a vision of a golden moment when he dies, and of an endless line of Hunters, impossible to overcome. An amulet protected by the extremely powerful witch Ledger could be the tool Nathan needs to save himself and the Alliance, but this amulet is not so easily acquired. Nor is Nathan any closer to his personal goal: getting revenge on Annalise, the girl he once loved before she committed an unthinkable crime. Nathan’s tally of kills is rising, and yet he’s no closer to ending the tyrannical rule of the Council of White Witches in England. The Alliance is losing the war, and their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Byrn, is losing his mind. And yet, slowly but surely, he uncovers the strained relationships and hidden secrets that lead him to the killer. Jimmy is 'emotional incontinent', and you would think he would have trouble suspecting anyone of murder. Thrown into this psychological mix is Jimmy Perez, the lonely detective assigned to the case. The islanders believe Tait had murdered a young schoolgirl, Catriona Bruce, eight years before and are all certain who must have murdered Catherine. A few days later an incomer to the island, Fran Hunter, discovers the body of teenager Catherine Ross in the snow not far from the old man's house. The novel begins at New Year in the Shetland home of elderly Magnus Tait. It's a neatly constructed novel, perfectly paced and beautifully written – the psychological crime story meets the old-fashioned whodunit. It is the first Ann Cleeves book I've read, and it won't be the last. Raven Black won the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger for 2006. It's neatly constructed, perfectly paced and beautifully written – the psychological crime novel meets the old-fashioned whodunit. Summary: This novel won the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger for 2006. " Blackout is truly terrifying in its all-too-realistic premise. "Fast, tense, thrilling - and timely: this will happen one day. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. After all, the power doesn't just keep the lights on―it keeps us alive. With the United States now also at risk, Piero goes on the run with Lauren Shannon, a young American CNN reporter based in Paris, desperate to uncover who is behind the attacks. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect himself. There is no power, anywhere.Ī former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. But something seems strange about this night. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Highly recommended." ―Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesĪ terrifyingly plausible million-copy selling debut disaster thriller. "Fast, tense, thrilling ― and timely: this will happen one day. His first book, Sleepless Nights, a collection of short stories for adults, was published in 1985 and was followed in 1997 by a second volume, A Kind of Heaven. He is an experienced creative writing teacher and has worked for the Arvon Foundation and for schools, colleges and universities, and is in demand as a speaker at festivals and conferences around the world. He then returned to Newcastle, where he worked as a part-time Special Needs teacher and edited the literary fiction journal Panurge. After graduating, he worked as a teacher for five years before moving to a remote artists' commune in Norfolk to concentrate on his writing. He was educated at the University of East Anglia and Newcastle Polytechnic. David Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and grew up in the small mining town of Felling. Tommy and Tuppence ranking: 2nd out of 5. Sadly, when Christie revived the couple for three further escapades in middle age, they’d be largely a waste. An enjoyable confection, but won’t sate your hunger for long. The first time I read this book, however, I didn’t realise this aside from the occasional discombobulating moment, it wasn’t an issue. Many of these have faded into history, which can lead to hidden jokes feeling disconnected, and witty one-liners become merely non-sequiturs. "Partners in Crime" is let down by the fact that each short story parodies a detective or detective style from the era. (A pity, because the fanboy inside me wishes James Warwick and Francesca Annis could reunite and film the later books, for continuity’s sake!) All of the stories are enjoyable, and they were the basis for the 1980s TV series 'Partners in Crime', which I’ve never seen but reliable sources inform me wasn’t very good. The characters shine as in their first outing, "The Secret Adversary", and their bubbliness – which was a bit off-putting in the trenches of "N or M?" – is used to maximum effect in these giddy little cases. Christie’s second Tommy and Tuppence book (of five) is also the second-best. In original content, most recently Dark Horse published a series in which Tarzan met Sergio Aragones‘s Groo. The publisher’s series of The Jesse Marsh Years archives released eleven volumes from 2009 to 2012, with other archive series spotlighting the work of Russ Manning and Joe Kubert. Tarzan of the Apes is the latest Tarzan-related title to come from Dark Horse Comics, which has been publishing new and reprinted Tarzan material since the mid-’90s. Revealing the origin of the Jungle Lord and his earliest adventures, Tarzan of the Apes is a must for every Tarzan collection! Published in Sunday newspaper strip landscape format, these adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic tales are scripted by comics legend Roy Thomas ( Conan the Barbarian, Avengers, Tarzan: The New Adventures) and illustrated by Pablo Marcos (Savage Sword of Conan, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Creepy). |