![]() ![]() At the back of the book, pages have been torn out.įran was troubled by bouts of mental illness. Drawings of the house show a shadow in third floor windows. But Jo catches glimpses of the girl’s ghost in the drawing room and inexplicably discovers Fran’s sketchbook in her bed. Left virtually penniless, Jo accepts a job as a traveling companion with Alex Mander’s aunt, Dottie Forsyth. When they return to England, Dottie offers Jo a job as her assistant.ĭottie’s home, Wych Elm House, is shadowed by the death of her 15-year-old daughter, Fran, who jumped, fell or was pushed off the roof of the three-story house. She finds herself neither wife nor widow. ![]() When Jo Manders’s husband’s airplane goes down over enemy lines, no body is found nor is he on Red Cross lists of the injured or prisoners of war (POW). In LOST AMONG THE LIVING, she combines a ghost story with a love story, a war story and a spy thriller. ![]() The world was filled with loss and dislocation. The years after the Great War are fertile ground for setting a ghost story. ![]()
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![]() I could go into more details, but it would be a shame to know more before you read it, and read it you should. ![]() I loved it!." - Brian Keene, author of The Rising and The Complex "Echoes of horror's paperback glory days, but spills new blood with a modern protagonist and style. The stalk-and-slash suspense of Friday the 13th meets the small town mystery of Sharp Objects in this white-knuckle horror story of a final girl’s revenge. And Melanie is going to discover she has a lot more to lose than just her mind. ![]() Motivated by a lucrative publishing offer, as well as a desire to free herself from recurring nightmares, Melanie’s research into the murderer’s life brings resistance from all directions as she uncovers skeletons in Forest Grove’s past.īecause of Melanie, a long-held secret is about to be revealed-one that somebody is willing to kill for in order to protect. Today, Melanie’s teaching career has bottomed out and left her with no choice but to return to the scene of the crime. ![]() A quarter-century since teenage counselor Melanie Holden left him mortally wounded and escaped with her life. It’s been twenty-five years since Cyrus Hoyt’s infamous killing spree at Camp Forest Grove. ![]() ![]() ![]() Janet Fitch is the best-selling author of White Oleander (an Oprah Book Club selection) and Paint It Black, both made into feature films, and most recently, The Revolution of Marina M. As she explores landscapes on three levels, Fitch explains how to construct authentic prose that evokes and utilizes all of the reader’s senses.Ĭheck out her video now, and order her newest book, Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, on Bookshop or on Amazon. ![]() This week, Janet Fitch, the best-selling author of White Oleander, reminds us why it is so important to create a world that readers can enter. Our online audiences gain intimate insights into their favorite writers and their unique approaches to craft while putting their own pens to paper. ![]() Writers we love share short prompts to stir the imagination in these home videos. Look no further than PEN to Paper, a video series of original writing exercises from authors of the PEN America World Voices Festival. Some of the greatest works of literature have emerged from times of crisis, and with most of the world in lockdown, we have more time to write than ever before. ![]() ![]() ![]() In We Need New Stories, Nesrine Malik explains that all of these arguments are political myths - variations on the lie that American values are under assault.Įxploring how these and other common political myths function, she breaks down how they are employed to subvert calls for equality from historically disenfranchised groups. When banned from Twitter for inciting violence, Trump and his supporters claimed that the measure was an assault on "free speech". Reeling from his victory, Democrats blamed the corrosive effect of "identity politics". In 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump declared, "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct". A rigorous examination of six political myths used to deflect and discredit demands for social justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Elena knows a hex when she sees one, and the vineyard is covered in them. Vigneron Jean-Paul Martel naively favors science over superstition, and he certainly doesn’t endorse the locals’ belief in witches. ![]() And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger. Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy of betrayal, vengeance, and self-discovery set in turn-of-the-century France.įor centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A fully realized story which goes down an unexpected road, with characters you’ll quickly grow fond of, a world covered in winter’s magic, and to top it all off…one hell of a memorable last line! Uprooted left me wanting more of the same, and in Spinning Silver, I got it–and so much more. If you haven’t read it but would like to know more, I have a short recommendation for you! For the first time had I read an author who recaptured that very special feeling of magic and wonder which I hadn’t felt since those childhood nights spent listening to my grandmother tell Russian and Bulgarian fairy tales. Beyond the nostalgia lay a very atmospheric, character-driven story that is well-worth the read. Novik’s love for Slavic folklore shined through. ![]() Novik’s previous novel, Uprooted, was a 2015 favourite of mine. Naomi Novik spins gold in this excellent new standalone novel, which perfectly captures the essence of Slavic fairy tales while doing an excellent job of turning the classical Rumplestiltskin tale on its heels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scattered across the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian are forced to forge their own paths to meet their fates. Yet they soon realize that the many allies they’ve gathered to battle Erawan’s hordes might not be enough to save them. With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra remain the last line of defense to protect Terrasen from utter destruction. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day… Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. Aelin Galathynius’s journey from slave to king’s assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world.Īelin has risked everything to save her people―but at a tremendous cost. ![]() ![]() Maas’s #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an epic, unforgettable conclusion. ![]() ![]() If you, er, follow us there.Īnd here we're not talking just any old planet, mind you, but one with another version of New York in 1969. This Earth exists at one small point on an infinite continuum of probability, where every version of reality that could be, does be. It's a planet called Whileaway, which is also… Earth. ![]() ![]() A planet where the human race, made up entirely of girls and women, has colonized and set up cities and mining operations on other worlds and asteroids throughout the galaxy, and developed deep-sea laboratories, miles beneath the surface of the ocean, where new members of the population are engineered and grown. A planet where science and technology have progressed far beyond the standards of the Earth inhabited by our Sex and the City lookalike. While she is trying to be brainy and ambitious and charming and witty and pleasingly feminine all at the same time, a new wave of feminism is rolling in, bigger than anything anyone's seen since the women's suffrage movement began a full century ago.Ī planet inhabited entirely by women, because all of the men on it were wiped out by a plague half a millennium ago. Picture this: Manhattan, 1969-an attractive blonde woman, thirtyish, does her best Carrie Bradshaw impersonation, working on her career in the daytime and spending her evenings at cocktail parties and lounges, where she goes to meet men. ![]() ![]() Brown goes all in to match with a grayscale palette for everything but the purple crayon-a callback to black-and-white sci-fi thrillers as much as a visual cue for nascent horror readers. Reynolds’ text might as well be a Rod Serling monologue for its perfectly paced foreboding and unsettling tension, both gentled by lightly ominous humor. As guilt-ridden Jasper receives accolade after accolade for grades and work that aren’t his, the crayon becomes more and more possessive of Jasper’s attention and affection, and it is only when Jasper cannot take it anymore that he discovers just what he’s gotten himself into. Jasper is only a little creeped out until the crayon changes his art-the one area where Jasper excels-into something better. When he faces a math quiz after skipping his homework, the crayon aces it for him. When Jasper watches TV instead of studying, he misspells every word on his spelling test, but the crayon seems to know the answers, and when he uses the crayon to write, he can spell them all. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jasper is flunking everything except art and is desperate for help when he finds the crayon. When a young rabbit who’s struggling in school finds a helpful crayon, everything is suddenly perfect-until it isn’t. ![]() ![]() Summary: Ayla and Jondalar travel to his homeland. But Ayla, with no memory of her own people, and Jondalar, with a hunger to return to his, are impelled by their own deep drives to continue their trek across the spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find that place they can both call home. ![]() Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills, including the taming of wild horses and a wolf others will avoid them, threatened by what they cannot understand and some will threaten them. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey-away from the welcoming hearths of the Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. ![]() Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children® series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. Librarian note: See an alternate cover edition here. ![]() |