![]() Its unique lyrical structure intrigued me, and so I added it to my collection. How I came across the book: I went to a community book fair around eight years ago, and I just so happened to find this book. ![]() Told in lyrical verse, Sandell reworks the story of “The Lady of Shalott” for the enjoyment of a modern young adult audience. Lisa Ann Sandell’s novel Song of the Sparrow (2007) is yet another addition to the Arthurian canon. From Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur (1485), to Mark Twain’s satirical novel: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), to modern day examples such as the television show Merlin (2008 – 2012), the tales of King Arthur and his knights is far from facing extinction. ![]() ![]() The legend of King Arthur and his knights has had a profound impact on English literature. King Arthur and his knights of the round table with the holy grail – Évrard d’Espinques (c. ![]()
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![]() The Hollows, he tells us, is a town rife with dark secrets, "a sucking vortex. ![]() Some of Crazy Love You takes place in New York City fans of Unger's recent books will recognize its other setting, a small village in upstate New York that was Ian's boyhood home. Every time I thought I had a handle on what was really happening and why, she gave the plot another sly twist that left me scrambling to catch up. Unger, a bestselling thriller author who lives in Clearwater, has long been adept at writing suspenseful, surprising novels, and Crazy Love You ups the ante. The only one who's not happy, it seems, is Priss. Ian is in love with her and almost as in love with her doting parents, Julia and Binky, who welcome him warmly to their charmed inner circle - a powerful attraction for a young man who grew up mostly on his own, with an absent mother and a father busy running a contracting business. ![]() ![]() Well, yes, except that Ian, now a nerdy-cute hipster with a healthy paycheck and a Tribeca loft, was as a small-town kid morbidly obese, peculiar and picked upon.Īnd his best friend was a girl named Priss, who stood by him, for better or worse, through not only high school struggles but a terrible event in his childhood that left his baby sister dead and his mother permanently institutionalized.Īs the novel opens, it's better days for Ian - not only is Fatboy and Priss a success, but he has met Megan, a sweet, supportive young woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Murderer's Daughter made the New York Times bestseller lists in 2015. His fiction book, co-authored with son Jesse Kellerman, The Golem of Hollywood, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. He has also written many bestselling crime novels featuring the Alex Delaware series, children's books, and nonfiction works. His first novel, When the Bough Breaks (1985), was made into a television movie and received the Edgar Allan Poe and Anthony Boucher awards. ![]() ![]() The first books he published were medical texts: Psychological Aspects of Childhood Cancer (1980) and Helping the Fearful Child (1981). He is the founding director of the Psychosocial Program at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Army and the Superior Court of Los Angeles. Publication date 1985 Topics Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character). When the bough breaks by Kellerman, Jonathan. He has served as Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at the School of Medicine at USC and as a consultant to the State of California, the U.S. When the bough breaks Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. At the age of 22, he won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for fiction. in Psychology at the University of Southern California. Jonathan Kellerman was born in New York City on Augand raised in Los Angeles. The first Alex Delaware novel, When the Bough Breaks, is vintage Jonathan Kellerman and full of psychological suspense. ![]() ![]() The second book came out shortly after and is titled He’s It For Us. This fictional series is a charming look at a budding relationship between two young men. The debut novel was titled He’s It For Me. The series kicked off for the very first time in February of 2016. Jenny Wood is the creator as well as the author of the He’s It series. She finds that she is very lucky to be able to do what she loves and live in a place where she can do that and also make some of her readers a little bit happier while doing it. ![]() Jenny has always loved books and her enjoyment of reading has turned into a love of writing. ![]() She likes being a stay at home mother and an author! She has a husband that she says she is fortunate to have since he is not only supportive but very good looking. ![]() Jenny is the proud mother of two kids that she says are amazing. ![]() ![]() And she’s far too reckless, too hungry, to resist the temptation.īut unrest has grown in Atlantia as they await the return of their Prince. Plans that could bind their lives together in unexpected ways that neither kingdom is prepared for. ![]() Plans that will force her to look beyond everything she thought she knew about herself-about him. Ones that could expose her to unimaginable pleasure and unfathomable pain. He still tempts her with every breath, offering up all she’s ever wanted. Working with Casteel instead of against him presents its own risks. But he’s the only way for her to get what she wants-to find her brother Ian and see for herself if he has become a soulless Ascended. He needs her alive, healthy, and whole to achieve his goals. He may have taken her, but he will never have her.Ĭasteel Da’Neer is known by many names and many faces. ![]() He wants her to fight him, and that’s one order she’s more than happy to obey. But what she does know is that nothing is as dangerous to her as him. ![]() Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. Armentrout comes a new novel in her Blood and Ash series…Įverything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Managers weren’t reporting the real box-office figures. ![]() “Everyone was ripping off everyone else,” he said, explaining that in those days theaters were an all-cash business. ![]() He was hired by the owners to keep an eye on the help. But except for the 42nd Street megaplexes, he pointed out, there were no Times Square movie theaters anymore, and they were where he used to ply his trade. Winslow helped write the screenplay) based on his 2010 novel of the same name. “They used to crunch under your shoes like clamshells,” he recalled.Īn especially startling development was a nearly block-long sign at 49th and Broadway advertising “Savages,” the new Oliver Stone movie (for which Mr. No prostitutes, no porn palaces, no crack vials underfoot. Winslow - who now divides his time between Solana Beach, Calif., and a ranch near the old mining town of Julian - took a walking tour of his old turf, marveling at how much it has changed. Eventually he worked his way up to high-profile arson cases in California (the background for his 1999 novel “California Fire and Life”), but he got his start in Times Square in the late ’70s, when, he likes to say, “the whole place was a glittering river of theft.” For years he was a private investigator, and he used to read writers like Chandler, Hammett and Elmore Leonard while sitting in his car on stakeouts. Don Winslow, whose book “The Kings of Cool” just came out, is a rarity among writers of crime fiction: He doesn’t just make it up. ![]() ![]() ![]() He will abandon the old ways, venture into the Dark. These ships brought us here, the Oldest say-and the Family must only wait for the travelers to return.īut young John Redlantern will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. The Oldest among the Family recount legends of a world where light came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross the stars. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. ![]() On the alien, sunless planet they call Eden, the 532 members of the Family take shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest’s lantern trees. “Beckett renders the terror of the darkness beyond the forests with a riveting deftness that evokes all primordial fears of the unknown.”-N. “A stunning novel and a beautiful evocation of a truly alien world.”- Sunday Times (UK). ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2013, he released Pondlife is a journal of his swims since. 'A cool, precise, sharply witty, vivid evocation of a place and people, their appearances, behaviour and speech.Mr Alvarez is a shrewd analyst of the psychology of gamblers and a cleverly selective recorder of their bizarre talk with which, directly and indirectly, they reveal their secure grasp of unreality and their insane courage' Sunday Telegraph 'It will have most readers sitting on the edge of their seats' Sunday Times 'A new classic on 's quite brilliant' Time Out 'This is a magnificent book. According to the aforementioned, Biggest Game in Town, Al Alvarez played poker every Tuesday. ![]() It's a world that seems almost too surprising and bizarre to be true. Uncovering an exotic underground rich in ambiance and eccentricity, The Biggest Game in Town is a real one of a kind, deftly capturing the skewed psyches and peculiar rites of professional poker players who descend every year for the World Series of Poker. 71 The final scorecard was controversial as many observers considered it far too wide. Acclaimed writer and critic Al Alvarez delves into the murky and compelling world of high-stakes Vegas poker, where 'the next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing'. In a very close and competitive fight that went to a split decision, Álvarez came out on top with two judges scoring 115113 in favor of each fighter and the final judge scoring 117111 in favor of Álvarez. Since its first publication twenty years ago, The Biggest Game in Town has become a sought-after cult classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Goodwin Series: A Cyberpunk Saga 1 Narrator: Zachary Johnson Unabridged: 6 hr 16 min Format: Digital Audiobook Publisher: Matthew A. If you like everyman heroes, futuristic tech, and immersive dystopian worlds, then you’ll love Matthew A. Into Neon: A Cyberpunk Saga Author: Matthew A. Goodwin has been writing about spaceships, dragons and adventures since he was twelve years old. Into Neon is the electrode-laden first book in A Cyberpunk Saga science fiction series. Will Moss’s attempt to fight the power cause him to terminally short circuit? And though he fears for his life when his old boss has put a price on his head, the naïve man believes the key to taking down the enemy may lie inside the high-tech device… and his own cerebral cortex. Undoubtedly, Such decisions, the definition of goals, the definition of means all this is dictated to Kyiv from. Surrounded by outcasts and criminals and running on instinct, Moss stumbles onto a rebel group intent on exposing their corrupt oppressors. On Thursday, Russia also claimed the US was involved in the attack. Suddenly hearing messages revealing his benevolent employer has a far darker side, he braves the dangerous megacity streets in search of the truth. But his humdrum working routines take a terrifying turn when a mysterious woman breaks into his apartment and hands him a data chip from his dead parents. Orphaned and alone, Moss is happy to have found a place in the world. When a corporate lackey has the rug pulled out from under his illusions, will his hidden fire flicker or ignite a rebellion? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quentin Tarantino? The occasional bit of mature content, lots of high-action fights, and not shy about it. Britain eventually regained independence after a nasty period of revolt and anarchism, but the British Empire never happened now it's simply one more country dwarfed by the French.įurry? Pretty much everyone in it. Alternative history? Grandville is Paris, and the First French Empire conquered Great Britain 200 years ago. ![]() Detective thrillers? A Scotland Yard inspector on a difficult case. Steampunk? Wax cylinders, gears, message tubes, locomotives, automatons and airships. Sounds like quite the hodge-podge of genres, no? Yet it works! Both are about 100 pages and very sturdy hardcovers. What do you get when you combine furry, steampunk, detective thrillers, alternative history, and a bit of Quentin Tarantino?īryan Talbot's Grandville series of graphic novels two so far, Grandville (2009) and Grandville Mon Amour (2010). ![]() |