![]() ![]() "There isn't much that could bring Win Lockwood out of his self-induced hermitage, but Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken? And most critically: What can he tell Myron and Win about the fate of his missing friend? Drawing on his singular talent, Harlan Coben delivers an explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, family, and the meaning of home. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. ![]() ![]() Ten years after the high-profile kidnapping of two young boys, only one returns home in Harlan Coben’s next gripping thriller.Ī decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It is a pleasure to be bringing back this classic young adult tale to readers everywhere and hope you will continue in the series with the next book, Silent Dances.Book 1: StarBridge - Earth discovers they are not the only sentient beings in the universe and their first contact turns deadly in an unfortunate turn of events.Book 2: Silent Dances - Deaf since birth, Tesa is the perfect ambassador to the alien Grus whose sonic cries can kill. WE ARE NOT ALONE, AND WE'RE ABOUT TO MEET OUR NEIGHBORSAfter more than a hundred years of space travel, a stray radio signal indicates the possibility that alien life might exist.The crew of the Désirée has no training in interstellar diplomacy and a minor dispute turns to disaster that could escalate into a full scale war.Can the bond formed between two very different friends be strong enough to bridge their differences and save their people?Come along in this first book in the StarBridge Series in an exciting journey across the stars in a desperate gamble to save both their worlds.BOOKS IN THE STARBRIDGE SERIESWe hope that you have enjoyed this first book in the StarBridge Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the train that spirited her away, she said, she and her sister made an oath always to return and then swore the oath in Hindustani. The writer once told the Post that she had been grief-stricken when her family sent her to England for a formal education. Her nurse often took her to the local market to hear storytellers. She said she was so close to her family’s Indian servants that she spoke Hindustani, a dialect of Hindi, before English. Mary Margaret Kaye, the daughter of a British intelligence official, was born in Simla, a town near the Himalayas to which the government moved at the peak of summer. One was “Shadow of the Moon” (1956), about the 1857 Indian uprising against the British. ![]() “The Far Pavilions” helped revive interest in Kaye’s earlier works about grand romance and adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() government and give them to reporters at the Guardian and the Washington Post how he did it and what his life has been like since then. “Permanent Record” offers less than what most readers will want of the John le Carré-meets-Jason Bourne stuff: why, at the age of twenty-eight, while working for a defense contractor, Snowden decided to smuggle top-secret computer files from the U.S. Snowden makes a lot of this Tolkien-y sort of thing-avatars, portents of destiny, signs of greatness. As a kid, he read about King Arthur, and his family name comes from Snaw Dun, a mountain in Wales on top of which the legendary ruler is said to have slain a terrible giant by sticking a sword in his eye. ![]() Snowden, who once aspired to be a model and is in some quarters regarded as a modern messiah, is the second kind. Some people write memoirs other people craft legends. Snowden’s new autobiography, “ Permanent Record” (Metropolitan), is the autobiography of a gamer, pale and bleary-eyed and glued to his screen, longing for invincibility. Another is of the day his father brought home a Commodore 64 and how exciting it was, that very first time, to hold a joystick. ![]() Snowden’s earliest memories is of sneaking around the house and turning back the time on all the clocks in the hope of tricking his parents into letting him stay up late to watch more TV. ![]() ![]() ![]() A good creator can make evoke emotions within their audience. Then Junji adds horrifying acts, sometimes real enough to be true, leaving that reader in a state of panic, even after they put the book down. ![]() If the reader sees a normal suburban town, they immediately attach all of the (sensical) knowledge about areas similar to these, in order to find themselves comfortable in the environment. He does this by dangling the reader’s ability to control the situation slightly above their head. When no monster is needed to convey unsettlement, you know you’ve found something special.Įven when you can identify elements of dark humour, the author’s ability to leave the reader in a constant state of anxiety is terrifying. It’s one thing to depict a character suffering internally, but Ito is able to manifest these feelings physically, resulting in a series of bizarre shapes, colours and patterns. ![]() Despite his often gruesome portrayal of creatures within horror (bio-organic fish in Gyo), his depiction of psychosis within humans is what sets him apart from his contemporaries. He is considered the heir of the genre, passed down from the likes of Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom) and Hideshi Hino (Panorama of Hell). To leave Junji Ito’s skills unacknowledged is a slap in the face to all fans of horror manga. Original Publication: Asahi Sonorama (2002) ![]() ![]() ![]() All alone, Rook runs to the only other magical person he knows: Sun. But dealing with competition isn’t so bad as Sun seems to pop up more and more, Rook minds less and less.īut when the Consortium gets wind of Rook’s Spell Binder, they come for Antonia. And contend with Sun, the grumpy and annoyingly cute apprentice to Antonia’s rival colleague, Fable. ![]() Now all Rook has to do is keep his Spell Binder, an illegal magical detection device, hidden from the Magical Consortium. But he does have a plan-to regain the access to the magical world he lost when his grandmother passed.Īntonia is…intimidating, but she gives him a job and a new name-Rook-both of which he’s happy to accept. He doesn’t have much experience with hexes or curses. Įdison Rooker isn’t sure what to expect when he enters the office of Antonia Hex, the powerful sorceress who runs a call center for magical emergencies. Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of In Deeper Waters and So This Is Ever After. ![]() ![]() ![]() These are places where people gather and linger, making friends across group lines and strengthening the entire community. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, churches, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed. In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together, to find common purpose. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn't seen since the Civil War. We are living in a time of deep divisions. An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society. ![]() ![]() In this world, shadows can be altered to look different for entertainment, but they can also be used for more nefarious purposes such as influencing someone’s thoughts or even committing murder. She’s happy to have some stability after her long involvement in the underground world of gloamists, magicians who can manipulate shadows. It’s a wildly entertaining, magic-filled mystery haunted by criminals with murky intentions.Ĭharlie Hall slings drinks at a seedy bar in the Berkshires, but it’s better (well, safer) than her previous profession as a small-time con artist and thief. ![]() ![]() When you were growing up, did you play with your shadow? In her wondrous, sinister and engrossing adult debut, Book of Night, young adult fantasy veteran Holly Black presents a decidedly mature perspective on our relationships with our silhouettes. ![]() ![]() As Soyinka says: “ The Bacchae belongs to that sparse body of plays which evoke awareness of a particular moment in a people’s history, yet imbue that moment with a hovering, eternal presence.” The play’s emphasis on ritual sparagmos has recently been analyzed by Justine McConnell as a model for thinking about Classical Reception as a destructive-creative process of ripping apart and re-membering, particularly in the African Diaspora. Soyinka was a Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, and political activist, and the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1986). ![]() Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (1973) weaves Yoruba mythology and contemporary political and social issues into Euripides’ play. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Starting in 1962, it's currently counting 25 films. James Bond, the film franchise by Eon Productions based on Fleming's works. ![]() ![]() James Bond, the series of novels and short stories started by Fleming in 1953 and reprised by other writers since his death in 1964.The franchise is the property of Danjaq, LLC, the company owned by the Broccoli family, the producers of the film series via Eon Productions. It is centered around James Bond, codename 007, a British secret service agent with a licence to kill who accomplishes missions in service of the British Crown, defeating bad guys with diabolical plans and seducing women along the way. James Bond (or James Bond 007) is a long-running multimedia franchise that originated with the novels of British author Ian Fleming and became a pop culture landmark, in large part thanks to a long-running series of theatrical films that started in The '60s and continues to this day. As Dracula is to vampires, Superman is to superheroes, and Sherlock Holmes is to detectives, so James Bond is to secret agents. ![]() |