![]() ![]() Here in the Tower, no one is safe - because someone is watching their every move, someone with revenge in mind. AVERY is grappling with the reality of her forbidden romance - is there anywhere in the world that's safe for them to be together? And then there's CALLIOPE, the mysterious, bohemian beauty who's arrived in New York with a devious goal in mind - and too many secrets to count. But being here also means seeing the boy she loves: the one whose heart she broke, and who broke hers in return. But what happens when their business relationship turns personal? When RYLIN receives a scholarship to an elite upper-floor school, her life transforms overnight. She's afraid the truth will get out - which is why she hires WATT, her very own hacker, to keep an eye on all of the witnesses for her. LEDA is haunted by nightmares of what happened on the worst night of her life. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a beacon of futuristic glamour and high-tech luxury. The dazzling sequel to The Thousandth Floor. ![]() A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible - if you want it enough. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You of course know what’s going to come after these two men ride into town, or do you? What Seth Grahame-Smith, and I am sure to some extent Tony Lee in his adaptation, has done is explain some of the characters actions in different ways. ![]() Mrs Bennett is more bothered about them finding husbands and when Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy arrive in town this sets everyone in quite a stir. ![]() ![]() Whilst Jane and Elizabeth, who is a ‘student of Shaolin, master of the seven-starred first’, enjoy their roles some of the sisters like flighty Lydia are slightly more worried about getting their dresses dirty with brains and not interesting the soldiers. There is almost no point bringing up the whole storyline of ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ because I think everyone on earth (I almost seriously think that) knows the story of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ don’t they? Well take that story and imagine the Hertfordshire town of Meryton is in the midst of a zombie flooded England and the Bennett sisters are being trained by their father to become warrior women who can perform the ‘pentagram of death’ at any zombie intruded ball. Titan Books graphic novel paperback 2010 176 pages from the library ![]() ![]() She’s intelligent and brave and honorable. As the sole heir of Pavan, Aurora’s been groomed to be the perfect queen. Long ago, the ungifted pledged fealty and service to her family in exchange for safe haven, and a kingdom was carved out from the wildlands and sustained by magic capable of repelling the world’s deadliest foes. ![]() In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them.Īurora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. I have a lot of trust in these ladies’ recommendations and ability to completely destroy my TBR. ![]() I found out about this book from some of my bookish friends Fiction No Chaser, Laughing Listener, Reader Voracious, and Read By Dev in one of our group chats and they convinced me I had to give it a read. The second book, Rage, is due to release on. ![]() Roar is the first book in the Stormheart series by Cora Carmack. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wendlyn is the last stronghold of the Fae, and Chaol hopes Celaena will be safe there, abandoning her duties to the king and never return.Ĭhaol means well, but Celaena is anxious to find the Wyrdkeys, magical objects that wield tremendous power and can be used to open portals to other worlds. ![]() He asks the evil king of Adarlan to send her to assassinate the royal family of Wendlyn, a nation at war with Adarlan. She hasn’t revealed her identity to anyone except Chaol, the man she loved and then gave up when he betrayed her.Ĭhaol knows that Celaena will be killed if anyone finds out she is Fae. When she escaped her family’s assassination 10 years earlier, Celaena was taken in and trained by a master assassin. She is really Aelin Galathynius, heir to the throne of Terrasen and part Fae. Eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien, the greatest assassin in Adarlan and the King’s Champion has a secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of Romeo's closest friends, Mercutio entreats Romeo to forget about his unrequited love for a girl named Rosaline and come with him to a masquerade ball at Lord Capulet's estate, through use of his Queen Mab speech. He is also moody and given to sudden outbursts of temper, one of which sets a key plot development in motion. Though often fun-loving and witty, the latter demonstrated in his Queen Mab speech in the first act, Mercutio's sense of humour can at times be facetious or even coarse, much to his friends' annoyance. The invitation to Lord Capulet's party states that he has a brother named Valentine. ![]() ![]() As such, Mercutio is one of the named characters in the play with the ability to mingle around those of both houses. He is a close friend to Romeo and a blood relative to Prince Escalus and Count Paris. Mercutio ( / m ər ˈ k juː ʃ i oʊ/ mər- KEW-shee-oh, Italian: Mercuzio) is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's 1597 tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet Act III Scene I The Death of Romeo's Friend, Mercutio. ![]() ![]() ![]() And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. ![]() An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm-that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. ![]() Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age-one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven, and of hell on earth…Īnd Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as “genre-bending Southern horror” (California Literary Review), “graceful horrific” (Patricia Briggs). ![]() ![]() On Alex and Conner's twelfth birthday, their grandmother gives them an old fairy tale book from her childhood. Their mother is trying to balance her job and her family. Ī year and 9 months have gone by since twins Alex and Conner Bailey lost their father in a car accident. The first book in the series, The Wishing Spell was published on July 17, 2012. The books are described by Colfer as a "modern-day fairy tale", following twins Alex and Conner Bailey as they fall from the real world into a world full of fairy tales they have only ever read about before and discovering there is more to this world than meets the eye.īooks The Wishing Spell During a live video chat, Colfer revealed plans for a prequel series, which have now been published. The sixth book was published in July 2017. The first book, The Wishing Spell, was released on July 17, 2012. The Land of Stories is a series of children's fiction, adventure and fantasy books written by American author, actor and singer Chris Colfer. Children's fiction, adventure and fantasy ![]() ![]() Written in 1966 by Tom Stoppard based on William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is an existentialist comedy that explores Shakespeare’s world of Elsinore, the main setting of Hamlet, through the perspective of minor characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as they grapple with court politics and fulfill their roles as spies for the king. This is exactly what Ros and Guil do in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, a course of action that they will eventually regret. Groggy, confused, unsure, what would you do? Many would go along with it, open the door and do as the messenger asks in hopes of finding out more about their identity in the process. You remember nothing identity, values and bonds, all seem to have been lost in the deep sleep. The exacting noise fills the house as you try to gather your bearings to no fruition. ![]() Imagine waking up disoriented, lost and confused. ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, Champ needs an extraction plan ASAP before he finds himself well and truly.hitched. And, most troubling of all, protecting his traitorous heart from all the romance in the air.Stopping the pun-happy matchmakers of the Thicket from destroying the sane, well-ordered life he’s built for himself.Fighting the pull that lands him in Quinn’s bed night after night, despite his very best intentions.Preventing Quinn Taffet, Licking Thicket’s gorgeous, charming new wedding planner-and Champ’s fake fiancé-from getting into danger.or from getting the wrong idea about their relationship.Keeping his jerk of an ex from threatening his business.Going undercover as a wedding planner to retrieve some missing cartel data in time to avert an international crisis.He’s gotten the job done without a hitch each and every time.īut it turns out there are some situations Champ can’t handle alone, like: Flying bullets? Daring jungle rescues? Building Champion Security from the ground up? Making people seriously regret using his hated first name? No problem. ![]() Former marine Percy “Champ” Champion has never encountered a problem he can’t handle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sores appear on Katie’s back from the foul air, and male eyes are almost always upon her. One worker dies in a highway crash, another has a heart attack in a crane, a third is crushed by a lorry. ![]() ![]() These scenes hum with life, and many would make a fine evocation of any workplace. Colleagues, by turns cheerful, brusque, resigned, crass, sweet or despairing, ease in and out of focus as Katie changes jobs, moves sites and struggles to fit in. “Cheap labour,” explains Beaton, “where booming industry demanded it.” She takes time to show the everyday: the grumbling, the pen-pushing, strange quirks, embarrassment, camaraderie, boredom and discomfort. It’s a soul-sapping environment, staffed mostly by out-of-state workers who, like the land, are a resource to be exploited. But Katie will spend most of her time indoors, working long hours in the institutional corridors and prefab cabins that squat on this scarred wilderness. Gargantuan vehicles tear at the earth, leaving watery pits and rubble in their wake. Katie first rolls in, hunched and groggy on a pre-dawn bus, to see a shock of towers, flames and fumes blaring out of the darkness. Illustration: Kate Beatonĭucks builds its world with unhurried, immersive naturalism. Beaton’s Alberta is a world of frozen land and massive trucks. ![]() |