![]() ![]() ![]() Stoker’s publisher, for his part, was apparently disturbed. When Bram Stoker first gave his publisher a copy of the novel that introduced the world to his blood-sucking count, the author began the conversation with a startling claim: “This story is true.” In his original preface to the manuscript, discovered in the Icelandic translation of the novel, Stoker wrote: “I am quite convinced that there is no doubt whatever that the events here described really took place, however unbelievable and incomprehensible they might appear at first sight.”ĭepending on your perspective, this contention is either a haunting mystery that demands unraveling or a clever bit of marketing. Photo: Röhnert /ullstein bild via Getty Images ![]()
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![]() ![]() Now that they know, there is no alternative to a magical duel, a battle that neither of them wants to win. by Sergei Lukyanenko Paperback 12.59 Day Watch: Book Two (Night Watch, 2) by Sergei Lukyanenko Paperback 13.65 Twilight Watch: Book Three (Night Watch, 3) by Sergei Lukyanenko Paperback 12.99 Start over Editorial Reviews Praise for Night Watch: As potent as a shot of vodka. Suddenly Alice remembers him as one of those involved in the battle that left her crippled. But then comes a shattering realisation: Igor is a Light Mage. There she meets Igor the chemistry between them is instant and irresistible. Drained of her powers, she is sent to recuperate at a youth camp near the Black Sea. A fierce battle ensues, during which Alice almost dies. But when they arrive, the Night Watch team has already made the arrest. ![]() The team is on a mission to apprehend an uninitiated Other, a practicing Dark witch who has so far eluded the bureaux responsible for finding and initiating unlicensed practitioners of magic. In The Day Watch, second book of the Night Watch trilogy, Alice, a young but powerful Dark Other, attends a planning meeting with her comrades in the Day Watch. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to The Dark or The Light. ![]() Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He retains a sense of wonder and a deep curiosity about the realities and the mysteries of fungi, all tempered by his rigorous scientific training. It is safe to say that young Merlin was steeped in both the natural world and the permeability of its boundaries from a very early age. He is a musician (there are a number of musical analogies within these pages), brewer (the lowly yeasts stimulated his first love for fungi) and son of Rupert Sheldrake, the famous parapsychologist who developed the hypothesis of morphic resonance. Sheldrake is a scientist who obtained his PhD in tropical ecology from the University of Cambridge. ![]() This well-written and well-researched book clearly demonstrates just how essential fungi are within the world that we live in, and mycophiles of all persuasions will find much to like within its pages. “Entangled Life,” first book by author Merlin Sheldrake, takes a deep dive into the science and fascination of fungus, and in the telling, makes it fun to read. 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He walks over to me, waving to Sophie over his shoulder, who’s throwing her arms in the air and grinning at him from the other side of the school gates. ![]() “Hey.” I snap out of my daze and offer him a small smile. “Hey, Lia,” Trey, Lola’s husband, says as he’s walking back to his car after school drop-off. ![]() He then stayed in his office again all day on Sunday. ![]() Leo disappeared somewhere for most of the day and didn’t come home until sometime late that night. I had to take the kids to swimming on Saturday. My eyes stare unseeingly at the tall, imposing brick structure of Bonnets Bay prep as I try to escape the confines of my tangled thoughts that are knotting and fraying together in my mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() And we come to know their descendants, who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching and further upset the natural balance of the region. ![]() We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, soldiers and hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers, even sharing their kills with them. As he re-creates these extraordinary events, John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable portrait of this spectacularly beautiful and mysterious region. Injured, starving, and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random: the tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. ![]() It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even as the stakes rose higher, Paranormalcy’s narrator, Evie, kept a smile on my face with her cunning wit. “Kiersten White creates the perfect blend of light and dark. The two sexy paranormals who vie for Evie’s affections each had their own victory one won Evie’s heart and the other won mine.” - Aprilynne Pike, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wings Oh, bleep! I’m in love!” - Becca Fitzpatrick, New York Times bestselling author of Hush, Hush and Crescendo This story was everything I hoped for-sassy, light-hearted and downright scary. “A fast, flirty roller coaster of a ride. “Strong characters, a clever premise, and a hilarious voice all team up to make Paranormalcy the most refreshing paranormal debut of the year.” - Lisa McMann, New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() ![]() The gift is a special ability that Matty possesses but hardly understands. Seer, in the wake of the sudden change, decides to send Matty to travel through the Forest to retrieve his daughter, Kira, who lives in a town several days away. The Villagers change temperament and decide to close their borders and stop permitting the displaced and the unwanted of other communities to enter. People who trade at a gathering, Trade Mart, change from being compassionate and generous to angry and impatient. Despite the lack of dangerous beasts, The Forest is animated. Outside the safe boundaries of Village is the Forest, an unwelcoming realm that most of the Villagers fear because of its powerful harm. Matty, who was introduced in Gathering Blue as "Matt", now lives with Seer, who was originally named Christopher and is a blind man rescued by the people of the Village years earlier. ![]() Set in an isolated community known simply as Village, the novel focuses on a boy, Matty, who serves as message-bearer through the ominous and lethal Forest that surrounds the community. Characters from both of the previous books reappear in Messenger and give the novels a stronger continuity. The story takes place about eight years after the events of The Giver, and six years after the events of Gathering Blue, the preceding novel in the series. Messenger is a 2004 young adult dystopian novel by American author Lois Lowry, as is the third installment of The Giver Quartet, which began with the 1993 Newbery Medal-winning novel The Giver. ![]() ![]() Since a clear-cut prevalence of either Law or Chaos would erase all life from the Multiverse, a third force known as the Cosmic Balance enforces certain limits on the powers of Law and Chaos, which in turn ensure the continued existence of the Multiverse. All these regions of spaces and parallel timelines are given shape by two metaphysical forces which are perpetually opposed to each other: Law and Chaos, which represent perpetual stasis and ever-changing disorder. ![]() Many of Moorcock's novels and short stories take place in a shared Multiverse: an array of interconnected parallel universes, many-layered dimensions, spheres, and alternative worlds, spanning from the Big Bang to the End of Time and from planet Earth to faraway galaxies. The Eternal Champion is a fictional character created by British author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in many of his speculative fiction works. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( February 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. ![]() ![]() Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. We see him at thirteen, banished to a Florida tennis camp. ![]() Now, in his beautiful, haunting autobiography, Agassi tells the story of a life framed by such conflicts.Īgassi makes us feel his panic as an undersized seven-year-old in Las Vegas, practicing all day under the obsessive gaze of his violent father. ![]() He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court – but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game.Ĭoaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in grade school, Agassi resented the constant pressure even as he drove himself to become a prodigy, an inner conflict that would define him. ![]() |