![]() ![]() ![]() But she walks a dangerous line between opposing armies: will she be able to use her link to the Demon Riders for good, or will her Makvani blood prove to be deadly? And with James's fate in the hands of the palace, Kyra fears that he will give her away to save himself.Īs tensions rise within Forge's Council, and vicious Demon Rider attacks continue in surrounding villages, Kyra knows she must do something to save her city. ![]() Tristam and the imprisoned assassin James are among the few who know about her heritage, but when Tristam reveals a heartbreaking secret of his own, Kyra's not sure she can trust him. Though she's formed a tentative alliance with the Palace, Kyra must keep her identity a secret or risk being hunted like the rest of her Demon Rider kin. After learning the truth about her bloodlines, Kyra can't help but feel like a monster. ![]()
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![]() ![]() New York Times and international bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon is a regular at the #1 spot. It's a race against time and magic without boundary that could cost Marguerite and Wren not just their lives, but their very souls. In order to have Marguerite, Wren must fight not just the humans who will never accept his animal nature, but the Were-Hunters who want him dead for endangering their world. To break this law is to call down a wrath of the highest order. But the world of rich and powerful humans is never to meet the world of the Were-Hunters who exist side by side with them, unseen, unknown, undetected. Still, she has no choice but to try and conform to a world where she feels like an outsider. ![]() ![]() Like her mother before her, she has strong Cajun roots that her father doesn't understand. senator who hates the socialite life she's forced to live. Marguerite D'Aubert Goudeau is the daughter of a prominent U.S. A forbidden blend of two animals - snow leopard and white tiger - Wren has never listened to anyone when there was something he wanted. Not if they want to live.Īn orphan with no clan that will claim him, Wren Tigarian grew to adulthood under the close scrutiny and mistrust of those around him. It's a predator-eat-predator world for the Were-Hunters. ![]() ![]() A chieftain’s bookish daughter with carefully bandaged hands.Ī big city swindler with a knack for illusions. A peacekeeping agent with an eye for vengeance.Īfter simultaneously knocking on death’s door, these six find themselves psychically connected across national lines. ![]() Tensions rise between them and between their respective countries, which are recovering from a long war over the mysterious vitae-an energy source harvested and utilized in weapons and engines called conductors. ![]() Sixchances elmwynn wordpress royal road wikia tv tropes discord art web novel web serial web fiction novel Six Chances is a free dieselpunk, psychological mystery, science fantasy web serial / web novel that updates on Mondays! Reading links are below + extras: Loyalty, memory, and sense of self blur as conspiracies encroach.Īssassination attempts, a border conflict, a missing peacekeeping agent, a bar shootout, a tale of a bloodthirsty beast, and the terrorist organization ELPIS. ![]() ![]() ![]() I immediately rang Carina Press Executive Editor Angela James in America and said, "I think I'm Carina Press' first RITA nominee." She laughed and said, "You are." She immediately asked me if I was going to go to Anaheim, Calif., for the conference. Apparently, there'd been a glitch in the system, and I hadn't received a phone call from RWA. ![]() People were congratulating me on being a 2012 RITA finalist with my 14th book, but my first single title novel, Boomerang Bride. I put my glasses on and stared at the screen in disbelief. I got up, thinking there was no way I could have said something that witty on Twitter eight hours previously to get such a reaction. It was going ping, ping, ping-ping-ping, ping to the point I thought it would melt. This time last year, I was woken up at 6 a.m. It signifies excellence across 13 categories of romantic fiction. It is named for the RWA's first president, Rita Clay Estrada. Fiona, whose latest release, Saved by the Bride, came out last month, shares her experience …įiona: The RITA Award is the most prominent award for romance fiction, and it is presented annually by the Romance Writers of America (RWA). ![]() But I do remember being thrilled for Fiona and her publisher, Carina Press. This is such a cool story, because, well, I was there and remember the evening very clearly (I didn't win my category). ![]() ![]() The book studies the dark side of the so-called golden age of polar exploration, the corrosive power of ambition, and a mystery that Flora-returning one last time to the pole in her seventies-will finally lay to rest. The author’s use of language is exquisite in its description of colour, texture, and the play of light on surfaces. The land of the Eskimos is evoked until it becomes a character: a place of violent extremes, the timeless beauty of frozen seas and coastal summer meadows, of perpetual night and endless day, where pack ice can crush a ship like an eggshell. When the path of the two expeditions meet, the lives of all three become inextricably intertwined. The reader is drawn in, carried along, certain Jakob and Flora are going to meet and that it will be significant. Twenty years later, weary of surveying the mountains of Wyoming and Montana, he joins a polar expedition led by ruthless Lester Armitage the same year as Flora sets out. Impulsive, elusive geologist Jakob de Beyn, raised in Manhattan by stern Lutheran uncle Seppe, first discovers ice at the age of six in the water barrel for morning ablutions. Despite her struggle to be taken seriously, chance returns her to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition. ![]() The land and its people enchant her, and she determines to become a scientist and explorer. ![]() Flora Mackie, daughter of a Dundee whaling captain, first crosses the Arctic Circle in 1883 at the age of twelve. This book has the makings of a five-star screen weepy in the vein of M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Il découvrit bientôt la terrible vérité : le joyau était un il par lequel ses ennemis, les maîtres du Ténébreux Empire, pouvaient voir tout ce qu'il voyait, toutes les villes qu'il traversait, tous les visages qu'il rencontrait. Mais quel est ce joyau enchassé dans son front ? Un oeil ? Dorian Hawkmoon est-il le cheval de Troie du Ténébreux Empire ? Lorsque Dorian reprit conscience, la pierre maudite était enchâssée dans son front. C'est alors que dans un galop effréné, le Héros de la bataille de Koln, le Résistant le plus célèbre, vient offrir ces services au comte Airain et à sa fille, la belle Ysselda. Les spadassins de l'Empire de Granbretanne encerclent le dernier bastion de la liberté. Traduit de l'anglais (The Jewell in the Skull - 1967) Terreur en Kamarg. Editions Lattes / Edition Speciale 1973, broche, GRAND FORMAT 13*21 cm, 257 pages. ![]() ![]() She wouldn't have him if he were the last man on Earth. He thinks she's trying to trick him into marriage. When King discovers stowaway Sophie, however, the journey becomes anything but boring. Kingscote - "King" - the marquess of Eversley, has never met a woman he couldn't charm, resulting in a reputation far worse than the truth, a general sense that he's more pretty face than proper gentleman, and an irate summons home to the Scottish border. Unfortunately, the carriage in which she stows away isn't saving her from ruin. ![]() ![]() Her only choice is to flee London, vowing to start a new life far from the aristocracy. When Sophie, the least interesting of the Talbot sisters, lands her philandering brother-in-law backside first in a goldfish pond in front of all society, she becomes the target of very public aristocratic scorn. ![]() ![]() ![]() The main character also somehow never has any financial struggles and every character ends up successful and happy Unrealistic portrayal of the road to success, fame and the industry no mention about the main character working on her manuscript at all and everything comes easily to her with the snap of a finger because ~destiny~ and ~intuition~ Everything is pretty much predictable and there's not much conflict or side plots there's only one weak conflict that was easily resolved "Haden" becomes "Hayden" afterwards (where's the proofreading) Characters lack growth and are too one-sided everyone is pretty much a stereotype/trope and Sash is the most one-dimensional, flat and non-complex male lead ever Quick and easy read (can be both good and bad depending on how you look at it) Stunning cover (shout out to the designer!) Lovely best friend character and grandfather Vibrant storytelling with visuals such as tweets (very on trend, author certainly gets her audience and pop culture) and texts Themes of friendship, pop poetry and the controversy surrounding it, types of reviewers (interesting to know that there are names for the various types of reviewers and I like the acknowledgement that 'hate reviews' exist) A marked improvement from her previous novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() School Library Journal said, “Her work has impacted not just the Newbery canon, but the fantasy genre, too.” Her 1985 anthology Imaginary Lands won the World Fantasy Award, and Water, the 2002 collection she co-wrote with Peter Dickinson, was later nominated as well. Her 1982 book The Blue Sword received the Newbery Honor, and its 1984 prequel The Hero and the Crown was awarded the Newbery Medal. She is also celebrated for her original fantasy novels. ![]() Robin McKinley is one of the leading writers of the modern fairy-tale retelling genre, and indeed, her debut Beauty, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, could be said to have started the fairy-tale retelling trend. LeGuin, Ray Bradbury, Anne McCaffrey, and Joe Haldeman. McKinley joins 38 writers who’ve been granted the title, including other luminaries such as Nalo Hopkinson, Peter S. The SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recognizes “lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy.” It is named after author Damon Knight, SFWA’s founder and the organization’s 13th Grand Master. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is proud to announce that Robin McKinley has been named the 39th Damon Knight Grand Master for her contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy. SFWA Names Robin McKinley Its 39th Grand Master! ![]() ![]() The first edition of Leaves of Grass was published in Manhattan under the imprint of Fowler and Wells in July 1855, in an edition of eight hundred copies paid for by the author. Song of Myself: And Other Poems by Walt Whitman For example, the last phrase in Verse 8, "I mind them or show or resonance of them - I come and depart" was originally written as "I mind them or show or resonance of them - I come again and again" in Whitman's first edition. ![]() Hass notes that Whitman made several changes to the text throughout his lifetime, altering phrases here and there to reflect different phases in his own life. ( Read an excerpt from Hass' introduction to the poem.) Along with Paul Ebenkamp, he annotated each word of Whitman's epic 52-part poem, one of the first ever to be written in extended free verse. Hass is the editor of the new collection Song of Myself and Other Poems by Walt Whitman. "And it really wasn't until the end of his life that he called it by the name that all schoolchildren know it by, Song of Myself." "In the first edition, it had no name and in the second, he called it 'Walt Whitman' and then I think he called it 'Poem of Walt Whitman, an American' for a while," Hass tells Terry Gross. ![]() Walt Whitman wrote one of his most famous poems, Song of Myself, in 1855, but according to former United States poet laureate Robert Hass, it wasn't until much later that the poem acquired the name by which it's now known. ![]() Books Celebrating Walt Whitman and 'Leaves of Grass' ![]() |