![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() " -IndieReader "It's as if Arden took her life experiences within the Vieux Carré, assembled a few Hogwarts students as Avengers, channeled Magneto into Wednesday Addams, drenched the process in Parisian detail, and penned the great American novel." " The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden is eerie, magical, and gritty, getting into the grimy seams of New Orleans in the tradition of Anne Rice or Poppy Z Brite." -SP Reviews "The French Quarter of New Orleans is the beautiful yet sinister backdrop for Alys Arden's debut novel The Casquette Girls. "In this Southern Gothic love letter to the spookier side of New Orleans's storied past, Arden spins out a moody tale of magic and mystery.A thoroughly satisfying page-turner and a strong debut." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Debut author Arden offers readers a full plate of Southern Gothic atmospherics and sparkling teen romance in a patiently crafted tale that will best reward careful readers.Satisfying teen entertainment but also a cathartic, uncompromising tribute to New Orleans." - Kirkus Reviews "A slow-burning novel in the tradition of Anne Rice." - Rue Morgue Magazine - "The Casquette Girls is a delicious Southern Gothic vampire story that will make you want to catch the next flight to New Orleans." -Forever Young Adult "A smart story with a surprising amount of emotional depth.in the grand tradition of Buffy and The Lost Boys. ![]()
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![]() The battlefield and the royal court are full of dangers and Joan finds herself under suspicion from all sides – as well as under threat from her own ambition. Reckless, steel-willed and brilliant, Joan has survived a childhood steeped in both joy and violence to claim an extraordinary – and fragile – position at the head of the French army. Yet out of the chaos, an unlikely heroine emerges. *Times Best Historical Novels of July 2022 Pick*įrance is mired in a losing war against England. A triumph of historical fiction’ Mail on Sunday Her Joan is a riotous tomboy, a hot-headed adolescent and a decidedly unsaintly soldier – and is all the more inspiring for it. ‘Chen’s brilliantly imagined novel breathes new life into this famous tale. Chen Joan as a beguiling, fully human mix of wariness and confidence, and fiercely protective of those she loves’ Guardian If you liked Ariadne, then this has to be your next read’ Red Magazine a hypnotic heroine for our time’ Telegraph ![]() ‘Chen earns the comparison thanks to her vivid, visceral and boldly immediate storytelling. Richly imagined, poignant and inspiring’ Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne ![]() ‘It is as if the author has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time’ Hilary Mantel, twice Booker Prize-winning author of The Mirror & the Light A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc – perfect for fans of Cecily, Ariadne and Matrix ![]() ![]() ![]() She tried to mend her broken heart but her love lingers, pulsing in the magic tendrils of her hair. ![]() Beyond the castle walls, Rapunzel waits in her crumbling tower, gathering news of her beloved from those who come to her seeking wisdom. ![]() Now king, he weds his intended and the kingdom rejoices when a daughter named Snow White is born. Overcome, he climbs her long golden hair to her tower and they spend an afternoon of passion together, but by nightfall the prince must return to his kingdom, and his betrothed. In an enchanted forest, the maiden Rapunzel’s beautiful voice captivates a young prince hunting nearby. I love fairy tale retellings, they are one of my favorite subgenres of fantasy and like Beauty, and other works by Carolyn Turgeon, the combination of fairytales promised in The Fairest of Them All pulled me in. ![]() ![]() ![]() It appeared in the original radio series, second book, and in the television series. Its main attraction is allowing diners to view a Gnab Gib, before desserts are served. Milliways, better known as the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, is a five star restaurant situated at the end of time and matter. Milliways' logo, as seen in the 1981 television series So, welcome one and all to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe!” - Max Quordlepleen's introduction at Milliways “ Ladies and gentlemen, the Universe as we know it has now been in existence for over one hundred and seventy thousand million billion years and will be ending in a little over half an hour. ![]() ![]() Sheridan gives a strong sense of the rapine of the warlords who were Chiang's off-and-on allies, and of the feeble heritage of Sun Yat-sen's patriotic platitudes. The Kuomintang turned into a mere holding operation and faded into chaos. However, the book underlines Chiang's failure to give the masses a ""Strength through Joy"" spirit and, as wartime inflation of 300% gave way to postwar collapse, the anti-Communist pitch became emptier and emptier. ![]() ![]() The KMT did ensure that forced opium production took up at least a fifth of Chinese cropland by the 1929-1933 period, and they consolidated a soldier recruitment system that approximated Nazi roundups. The KMT failed either to create an effective dictatorship or to mobilize fascist passions which could ensure willingness to "sacrifice." Thus the difficulty in squeezing enough wealth out of the peasantry to meet a foreign debt which totaled half the national revenue. Sheridan's focus on the KMT brings more to light than do many surveys of Mao's revolutionaries. Sheridan, a Northwestern University scholar, concentrates on the Kuomintang movement of Chiang Kai-shek, insisting that we judge a political force by whether it solves the problems posed to it, not, as Chiang's partisans prefer, by means of what-if's. Klappentext After the 1911 fall of the Manchus came the most hideous breakdown in Chinese history. Sheridan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Northwestern University and the author of a number of books on China. ![]() ![]() What many refer to as failures, Amoruso sees as learning. Through it all, Amoruso has remained true to herself and true to her beliefs. She’s created meteoric success – and experienced devastating loss. Sophia Amoruso is a fearless brand – a woman of passion, purpose, and persistence. Maybe, just maybe, you’ve never heard of Sophia Amoruso. You might know Amoruso as the founder and CEO of Girlboss, a community of strong, curious, and ambitious women redefining success on their own terms. Perhaps you know her as the author of the book #GirlBoss – or as the subject of the Netflix show by the same title. You may know Sophia Amoruso as the 22-year-old founder of Nasty Gal – the vintage clothing business. Sophia Amoruso might very well agree with that premise. ![]() It’s said that there’s no such thing as failure – so long as there are lessons learned through the experience. ![]() ![]() In this third high-octane thriller in the “seriously good” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Terminal List series, former Navy SEAL James Reece must infiltrate the Russian mafia and turn the hunters into the hunted.ĭeep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets-a man intent on killing her.Ī traitorous CIA officer has found refuge with the Russian mafia with designs on ensuring a certain former Navy SEAL sniper is put in the ground. “A rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight, who we will be happily reading for years to come.” -Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X series Get ready!”-Chris Pratt, star of The Terminal List, coming soon to Amazon Prime ![]() “Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He starts to chafe at the lightest touch of authority and ceases to care about any laws that interfere with his freedom. These appetites begin to grow, and the democratic man begins to reject any principle which restricts his ability to satisfy his desires. In a democracy, citizens are free to indulge any appetite and live any kind of life they desire. However, just as an excessive desire for wealth leads to the downfall of oligarchy, an excessive desire for freedom leads to the downfall of democracy. Eventually, the class of citizens who have been reduced to poverty become resentful of the rich and seize political power, distributing property and freedom equally among all citizens. ![]() Starting with the oligarchical state, in which the rulers aim to become as wealthy as possible, Plato explains how oligarchy reduces many ordinary citizens to poverty. In this passage from Book VIII of The Republic, Plato describes how democracy can arise from oligarchy and descend into tyranny. ![]() ![]() Only a great poet could have conceived and written this story and it is perhaps not illegitimate to wonder how much of actual prophecy may have been mingled with the poesy." Lovecraft and Smith weren't wrong: this is, perhaps, the greatest single work of fantastic fiction in the English language.(Jacketless Library Hardcover. Whatever faults this book may possess, however inordinate its length may seem, it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night and by the unvisageable spawn of darkness. ![]() Of The Night Land Clark Ashton Smith wrote "In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. The importance of The Night Land was recognized by its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books, which republished the work in two parts as the 49th and 50th volumes of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1972. The last millions of humans still live in their Last Redoubt - but the end of their days is at hand.įirst published in 1912, as a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. The days of light are nothing by a legend - they are a story told to soothe children. The Earth has become a breeding ground for all sorts of vicious monsters. ![]() They can do nothing but wait out the Aeons for their last defenses to fail, all alone in a darkened wasteland haunted by things beyond comprehension, and that can never be reasoned with. ![]() ![]() Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. Mankind cannot hope to defeat the horrors. ![]() ![]() ![]() in creative writing at American University (Washington, D.C.). ![]() ![]() in English, I edited reference books for an educational publishing company in Detroit for several years, after which I returned to school to complete an M.F.A. Literature won out over music, however, and I switched my major to English after my freshman year.Īfter completing a B.A. Throughout junior high and high school, I spent a great deal of time playing the piano (I was one of those odd kids who actually liked piano lessons), and after competing in numerous music competitions, I attended the University of Michigan on a music scholarship. I spent long, humid summers reading every book our wonderful local librarian recommended: she had a talent for handing any young person a perfectly selected story. One of my best friends lived on a sheep farm, and we used to conduct séances in the spooky atmosphere of the barn hayloft near her house (the memory of some of those activities may have influenced Gilda’s fascination with parapsychology and the occult in Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator). My two younger brothers and I didn’t have easy access to a swimming pool, movie theater or cable television, but we did have open fields, woods, marshland, old barns, and half-built houses to explore – places that really sparked our imaginations. I grew up in a small town in Michigan where there wasn’t much for kids to do for fun except ride a bike down a dirt road to the local Dairy Queen, or better yet, to the public library. ![]() |