![]() As we grow closer, what started as friendship becomes more intimate until our broken pieces become one. Through our shared trauma, Sophie and I begin to find peace within one another. Determined to be a friend, I support Sophie in the only way I know how. I didn't know Sophie before that fateful night and have only met her once since, but I refuse to let her face her demons alone. ![]() Suffering from wounds that can't be seen, Sophie Winters has withdrawn from the world in fear and guilt. While my injuries are physical, the same can't be said for the woman I rescued. When a coaching opportunity with the Pittsburgh Titans is presented to me, I find myself with a career I had never considered but which allows me to continue being part of the sport that I love. Instead of lacing up my skates and hitting the ice, I've spent my days in rehab and physical therapy just so I could walk again. ![]() As part of the defending Cup champion Arizona Vengeance, I was living my dream until one split second decision destroyed it all. I worked my whole life to achieve one goal-play professional hockey. ![]() I worked my whole life to achieve one goal-play professional hockey. After suffering a horrific injury that threatens to end his career, Baden Oulett is about to learn that sometimes a fresh start is just what the doctor ordered. After suffering a horrific injury that threatens to end his career, Baden Oulett is about to learn that sometimes a fresh start is just what the doctor ordered. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Pedaling mile upon mile in some of the remotest places on earth, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle down the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel. ![]() Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth there was nothing left to be discovered. ![]() " Lands of Lost Borders is illuminating, heart-warming, and hopeful in its suggestion that we will explore not to conquer but to connect." - Booklist (starred review)Ī brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road-an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.Īs a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved-to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician-had gone extinct. " Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. ![]() ![]() ![]() As well as having a self-sufficient female protagonist who is a healer, not a fighter, there are many other progressive aspects of this book. Even today, sci-fi and fantasy are dominated by male protagonists and plots centred around violence. In fact, Dreamsnake was undoubtedly ahead of its time. The writing style also feels in keeping with more modern books, and lacks the challenging passages and wordy description often found in older novels. Grounded primarily in biology rather than technology, the sci-fi aspects don’t seem dated, and the world remains believable. The fact that the novel is 1970s feminist sci-fi undoubtedly puts some people off but, Dreamsnake holds up over forty years later due to brilliant worldbuilding, complex characters, and an interesting plot. ![]() McIntyre’s rich fantasy world is cleverly unveiled little by little as Snake’s journey progresses. When one of her snakes is lost, she goes on a quest to try and redeem herself and restore her abilities as a healer. The story is told from the perspective of Snake, a woman who uses modified serpents to heal illness and injury. ![]() Set far in the future, the events of Dreamsnake occur long after a nuclear war has decimated most of the world. As far as I’m concerned, its main flaw is the lack of a sequel. ![]() Dreamsnake: an under-appreciated novel for the ages and quite possibly my new favourite book. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not until Cole hits rock-bottom that he can begin to see another way out of his personal hell: forgiveness. ![]() As the months go by and the shame and loneliness festers, Cole begins to lose his grip on what once was important - college, his girlfriend, his future. See the complete Ten Tiny Breaths series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Nor can he shake the all-consuming guilt he feels every time he thinks of that girl who won’t so much as allow him near her hospital room to apologize. Tucker includes books Ten Tiny Breaths, One Tiny Lie, Four Seconds to Lose, and several more. Worse, there’s the shattered body of a 16-year-old girl lying somewhere in a hospital bed, her entire life ripped from her because of a case of beer and a set of keys.Įveryone assures him that they know it wasn’t intentional, and yet he can’t ignore the weight of their gazes, the whispers behind his back. Normally, he’d be able to lean on his best friends - the ones who have been in his life since he could barely walk. When a drunken night out at a Michigan State college party results in the death of six people, Cole must come to terms with his part in the tragedy. Until one night when he makes a fatal, wrong decision…and loses everything. Before you knew him as Trent in Ten Tiny Breaths, he was Cole Reynolds - and he had it all. ![]() ![]() As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, "These are not my babies!"ĭetermined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. The infants look like Morgan and Riley - to everyone else - but to Lauren, something is off. ![]() But when they're found, something is different about them. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren's side in a park. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she's imagining things.Ī month passes. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own.creatures. ![]() And they're right with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she's never been more tired in her life. Įveryone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. "Mother knows best" takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Grimms' Fairy Tales, and Aimee Molloy's The Perfect Mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reed assembled a splendid cast and made atmospheric use of his Havana locations by reducing the light levels as Wormold's initially harmless deception came to have an increasingly sinister upshot. But Greene had considered him an unnecessarily flamboyant director since his days as a critic, and, so he agreed to collaborate once more with Carol Reed - who had directed The Fallen Idol and The Third Man - and the pair wrote the screenplay in a Brighton hotel room before securing permission to shoot in Castro's Cuba. However, Greene continued to develop the story, which had been inspired by his own wartime surveillance of Abwehr agents in Portugal, who had been paid per report and not according to results and, thus, submitted rumour as fact to boost their expenses.Īlfred Hitchcock was keen to purchase the rights to the resulting novel. The Brazilian-born director allegedly abandoned the project after being refused government permission to lampoon the Secret Service. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Alberto Cavalcanti approached Graham Greene about making a film just after the Second World War, the novelist devised an outline about a vacuum cleaner salesman operating as a spy in the Estonian capital of Tallinn in 1938. ![]() ![]() Described by Household as a "bastard offspring of Stevenson and Conrad," the book is no less remarkable as an exploration of the lure of violence, the psychology of survivalism, and the call of the wild. Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male is a classic thriller and a triumph of suspense. ![]() The hunter must flee society, and he goes literaly underground, like a fox to its earth. Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in January 2004. The first of a 15-part reading read by Michael Jayston. But that safety is delusive: his pursuers will not be diverted from their revenge by national borders the British government cannot protect him without seeming to endorse his deed. Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. Imprisoned, tortured, doomed to a painful death, the hunter makes an extraordinary and harrowing escape, fleeing through enemy territory to the safety of his native England. ![]() He has the potential target in his sites and is wondering whether to pull the trigger when security catches up with him. ![]() The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator's private compound. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator’s private compound. 1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. Geoffrey Household Books Overview Rogue Male 1930 something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea usually comes to me as ‘denouements’ and after that, I work backwards to turn it into a narrative.Ĭlever, compassionate, astute. Great crime offers something even more special: a chance to engage with bigger social and moral issues, and explore communities and families at the point where they are under the most pressure.ĭo you know the outcome of the plots before you start writing or do you create it as you go? I read – and watch – so much of it! Good crime has everything you could possibly want: a relentless story, interesting characters and a satisfying ending. What inspired you to write a crime series? I literally have no memory of not being able to read and not loving books. ![]() I also read a lot of Rosemary Sutcliffe – in fact, I read pretty much everything I could get my hands on. Like many children, I adored Tolkien (and I still do). Were there any authors you enjoyed most when growing up? Answering our questions, Cara tells us about DI Adam Fawley, writing her second instalment in the series and casting for the audiobook. ![]() Now Cara is bringing back DI Adam Fawley in her second novel In The Dark, due for release this Thursday by Penguin Books. ![]() Oxford-based author Cara Hunter’s first book Close To Home became a Sunday Times and #1 Kindle Bestseller, the crime thriller was an instant hit and appeared in the Spring 2018 Richard and Judy Book Club. ![]() ![]() ![]() No doubt this novel is a truly original and unforgettable literary creation. ![]() It is a unique novel in many ways, and yet, of course, its themes are universal. The author way of developing the characters is very impressive and her characters are well drawn and compelling. There are fabulous stand-alone set pieces, engaging characters, glorious prose and a soul-stirring look into the various lives of human. ![]() All the characters of the novel are unique and refreshing. The beauty of this novel is that it contains many short stories that entertain the readers from the very first page to till the last word of the novel. In this novel, the author entertains her readers with a mind-blowing story. Her most famous novels are A Touch of Darkness, A Touch of Ruin, A Game of Fate and When Stars Come Out. This author has written many glorious novels which are equally beautiful and inspiring. Clair is the author of this beautiful novel. “A Touch of Malice: A Novel” is a beautiful novel with unique and classy story. “A Touch of Malice” is a perfect novel for those who love to read the mind-blowing, engaging, thrilling and superb fiction novel of all times. Download A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. ![]() ![]() Here's Chabon discussing the 10-year process of conceiving and writing the book. New York Times Book Review (by fellow Pulitzer fiction winner Jennifer Egan). ![]() Hit the forward arrow button on the tool bar to keep reading. You can read whole chunks of the novel on Google Books. But when ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode announces his plan to build a megastore nearby, the duo fears that it will mean certain death for their small business. There is much here to recommend, but then, there is much here, period, including but not limited to: blackmail, infidelity, first love, kung fu, midwifery, a Barack Obama cameo and an enormously phallic black zeppelin, all presented in a manner as loose and tension-free as a stoner's wee-hours disquisition on why his favorite album totally rules, man. Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are longtime friends and co-regents of a used record store. ![]() Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue is an agreeable if ultimately frustrating shaggy-dog tale of a novel that slips its leash and lopes its discursive and distinctly unhurried way through the unkempt backyards of its characters' lives. ![]() Telegraph Avenue, which he discussed on KQED Public Radio's Forum show ( archive here later), is set "in a neighborhood that straddles Berkeley and Oakland," as Glen Weldon's NPR review notes. Berkeley novelist Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay, has a new book out today. ![]() |