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Erik Barnumįun, romantic, magical - a delightful, can’t-put-it-down read that will send your imagination whirling! - Amelia StymacksĪ beautifully descriptive novel of competing magical proteges who fall in love, their rivalry set in motion by their two masters-magicians who use their dutiful underlings as the weapons in their duel, pushing them to the limits of what their abilities can do. I'm afraid that Erin Morganstern has exposed me as a literary snob, but I'm awfully glad she did. This is a true tour de force, the author charmed me right off the bat and kept me enthralled to the very last page. Nevertheless I adored this marvelous (literally) tale of rival magicians who raise competing apprentices. I was dragged kicking and screaming to this book, as it has everything I hate in a novel. You will want to be a part of Le Cirque des Rêves after reading this one! - Jess Elder Falling in love only complicates the competition where the lives of everyone in the circus hangs in the balance. A unique and beautifully written story about a mysterious circus that is the stage for a lifelong duel between two young magicians. However, Brand has put a lock on his heart. Each quickly realizes that they have misjudged the other, and the more they get to know each other, the more they are drawn to each other. I loved their interactions on the journey from her home to his. Brand has a fearsome reputation and uses it to get his way, but he is surprisingly protective of her. She only cooperates when he threatens the lives of her people. Anne is no pampered princess and stands up to Brand from the get-go. I was glued to the pages from start to finish. Kidnap Anne and wait for Crowe to attempt a rescue. Learning of Crowe's betrothal gave him the perfect weapon. Brand has sworn revenge against Anne's betrothed, Lord Crowe, and has spent years preparing for it. The night before her wedding, she is walking alone on the castle walls when she is kidnapped by Brand the Barbarian. She dreams of marrying for love and is horrified when her father bargains her hand for soldiers from a neighboring lord. Anne is the daughter of a Saxon king and has been kept a virtual prisoner in her home. The story grabbed my attention from the first pages. (She doesn't even has a Wikipedia page: here is the best source.) Weir imagines what it must have been like to have been the daughter, baseborn or not, of Richard III, hated in his lifetime and ever after as the man who killed his nephews. Alison Weir masterfully weaves together the stories of these two women, connecting them through the always intriguing story of the princes in the tower.While much is known about Grey, Weir was able to be a bit freer with Katherine Plantagenet, since less is known about her life. Part of it was the format: short vignettes that moved between the two main characters, Richard III's illegitimate daughter Katherine, and Lady Katherine Grey, the sister of Lady Jane Grey. I had to renew it but once I started reading, I really couldn't stop. But there I was checking out A Dangerous Inheritance at the library after book group a couple weeks ago. I thought I had lost interest in yet more historical fiction related to the Plantagenets and Tudors. The following are written with the presumption you have read the book. As Susan’s due date draws near and her family problems become increasingly difficult to ignore, Susan finds help and self-discovery in the most unlikely of places.” Book Club questions: When she learns that her mother’s will inexplicably favours her indolent brother, Edward, Susan’s already dismantled world is sent flying into a tailspin. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan’s greatest fear is realised. A job that suits her passion for logic and an “interpersonal arrangement” that provides cultural and other, more intimate, benefits. “For Susan Green, messy emotions don’t fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. As part of our online Book Club we’ve set out some questions around The Cactus for you to either answer below or use as discussion points at your Book Club. For those of you who don’t know, The Cactus by Sarah Haywood is our Book Of The Month for April. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509898411 Number of pages: 480 Weight: 344 g Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 29 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 'A griping tale of family, love, grief and forgiveness' - Sunday Express great characters, great plots, great emotions, who could ask for more in a novel?' - Isabel Allende, bestselling author of The House of the Spirits 'Movingly written and plotted with the heartless skill of a Greek tragedy, you'll keep turning the pages until the last racking sob' - Daily Mail 'A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival' - Kate Morton It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime. Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in war-torn France. This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II when women's stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked. It is a heart-breakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the endurance of women. Soon to be a major motion picture, The Nightingale has captured the hearts of millions of readers becoming a number one bestseller across the world. The bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick And why are his daughters so skittish around him? And what’s happened to Judd’s dogs? With Christmas right around the corner, Marty has a lot of questions, and getting the right answers might just take a Christmas miracle. Doubt, blame, and anger spread faster than the flames-flames that are fanned by the new minister, who seems fonder of fire and brimstone than love and mercy. Even Judd has been working to improve his reputation.īut just as the townsfolk grow more accepting of Judd, a fire in the woods destroys many homes, including Judd’s, and Judd’s newly formed reputation. Anywhere Marty goes, the beagle’s at his side, and Marty couldn’t be happier about that. It’s been a year since Marty Preston rescued Shiloh from Judd Travers and his cruel ways, and since then, Marty and Shiloh have been inseparable. A rescued beagle and his boy owner seek love and understanding for their troubled small town in this holiday companion to the Newbery Medal–winning Shiloh, from Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.Ĭhristmas is coming and Marty and his rescued pup Shiloh are sure glad about that-for their town is running low on love and understanding and they hope that the joy of the holiday will bring with it the generosity of spirit that’s so lacking. In 2000 she received a Guggenheim Award, which resulted in The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian History, 1500-1800 (a Choice Academic Book of the Year in 2007). She maintains an active teaching and research interest across all Southeast Asia, but her specific area of expertise is the western Malay-Indonesia archipelago. Her career has involved teaching and researching in Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and since 1994, Hawai’i. at Cornell University with a specialization in Southeast Asian history. She subsequently went on to study for her Ph.D. In 2005-06 she was President of the American Association of Asian Studies Educated at the University of Sydney (BA, Dip.Ed.), she received an East West Center grant in 1966 and obtained her MA in history at the University of Hawai’i. (808) Watson Andaya is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai’i and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Barbara Watson Andaya Barbara Watson Andaya Profoundly intertwined with human civilization, milk has a compelling and a surprisingly global story to tell, and historian Mark Kurlansky is the perfect person to tell it. And today, milk is a test case in the most pressing issues in food politics, from industrial farming and animal rights to GMOs, the locavore movement, and advocates for raw milk, who controversially reject pasteurization. Pasteurization slowly became a legislative matter. But during the nineteenth century, mass production and urbanization made milk safety a leading issue of the day, with milk-borne illnesses a common cause of death. Before the industrial revolution, it was common for families to keep dairy cows and produce their own milk. But while mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is the milk of other mammals that humans have cultivated ever since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago, originally as a source of cheese, yogurt, kefir, and all manner of edible innovations that rendered lactose digestible, and then, when genetic mutation made some of us lactose-tolerant, milk itself. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy-with recipes throughout. I love that this book had a completely different feel to the previous two. This novella series is all set in a fantasy world called Aedaron, but each book follows different groups of characters in different stories. I can't help it! I'm addicted! Best Left In The Shadows is the third book in An Echo of the Ascended and my third book in three days. Overall, I'd recommend this fun, short story. I was surprised and pleased by their depiction of a brothel, which focused on the people, not their sexual appeal. There was a fair amount of bad language (half of it relating to excrement and the other half cursing words). I enjoyed this story and look forward to reading future stories in the Alys series. The fantasy world was reasonably well developed for a short story, and I could always follow what was going on even though I was unfamiliar with this world. The characters were interesting, varied, and played well off each other. They ask questions, follow clues, and unravel the truth. Both can fight well, and they get the chance to do it. They're an interesting contrast to each other-one is idealistic, the other very practical. He's guided around by a low-born gal with whom he has a romantic past. A well-born girl is found dead in the slum area, so a well-born magistrate comes looking for answers. "Best Left in the Shadows" is a short story-a fantasy that contains a mystery. |