6/30/2023 0 Comments Darkfall by janice hardy![]() ![]() ![]() I’m a movie buff, gamer geek, and lover of all things zombie. I’m a former Florida gal who now lives in Georgia, though I couldn’t quite trade my oranges for peaches. Tell us a little about yourse lf and your books. I didn’t know anything about Janice or her agent, but I knew I had to read that book. Don't you just love it? I remember seeing it advertised on PW Children’s Bookshelf. THE SHIFTER is one of those books that I totally had to read from the cover alone. ![]() The final book in the series, DARKFALL, will be released October 4, 2011. THE SHIFTER, the first book in The Healing Wars series came out in 2009 and BLUE FIRE, the second book, was released in October, 2010. The winner of EARTHLING HERO is:Īnd the winners of the signed copies of THE IRON WITCH by Karen Mahoney are:Ĭongrats! E-mail me your addresses so that I can have your book mailed to you. First, I’m going to announce the winners of my two contests. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Indelicacy amina cain![]() ![]() She stands in front of a painting for a long time and refuses to move when a man clears his throat. She goes to the ballet and experiences the “calm sense that I belonged there”. It is only when she marries a wealthy man that she is – at least initially – liberated. At the museum she is rendered invisible by her class: she scrubs the floor while seeking to understand the works on the walls. Especially when they are so much older, when they are nearly dead themselves,” she says). ![]() Men looking at women like that are truly horrible. To men she is only to be gazed on as an object (“He looked at me. Vitória’s understanding of “gaze” is in a state of flux. Her characters are doing either one or the other. Cain is interested in the act of looking versus being looked at. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The sanatorium a novel reviews![]() ![]() ![]() And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge-there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.Īn imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. "An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat." -Reese Witherspoon ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The Bad Queen by Carolyn Meyer![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I shivered with an ugly mixture of fear, cold, and utter humiliation. Outside, the rain beat down and the wind whistled through the cracks in the pavilion. Now I stood completely naked before a crowd of strangers. Piece by piece, every item I wore-panniers, stays, slippers, stockings, even my chemise-was removed and claimed by the ladies of the French court. I waited for them to bring the new grand habit to replace the one taken from me. "The bride must retain nothing belonging to a foreign court," the countess explained as the ladies worked. Several ladies of the French court stepped forward, and, smiling grimly, proceeded to remove my grand habit. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Betsy and tacy books![]() Her family moved into the house on Center Street a few months after her birth and stayed there until 1906. Both houses give you the opportunity to experience the real-life setting of a uniquely appealing fictional world. Both the Hart and Kenney homes have been restored and opened for tours by the Mankato-based Betsy-Tacy Society. Their parents, siblings, and friends all appear-under different names-in the books. There was a real Betsy (Lovelace, originally Hart) and a real Tacy (her friend Frances “Bick” Kenney). What not all Betsy-Tacy readers may realize is that Lovelace drew the Deep Valley stories from her own life in Mankato, a small city about 90 miles south of Minneapolis. ![]() Along the way are birthday parties, adventurous excursions up The Big Hill behind Betsy’s house and to the Opera House downtown, elementary and high school, and, eventually, Betsy’s efforts to find true love and begin a writing career. Starting with two small girls in the 1890s, the series follows Betsy and Tacy into young adulthood. ![]() Real-Life Setting of a Most Popular Fictional Worldīlume is not alone: nearly 80 years after Lovelace published her first Betsy-Tacy book, the stories of the two devoted friends and their families remain among the most charming and evocative portraits of childhood in American literature. ![]() |