![]() ![]() I have a weakness for closeted cops with honest hearts, and teachers who speak their minds, and I had fun writing the four novels and three freebie short stories in the series. My first professionally published book, Life Lessons, came out from MLR Press in May 2011. My husband finally convinced me that after all that time writing for fun, I really should submit something, somewhere. I mainly publish M/M romance (with added mystery, fantasy, historical, SciFi…) I also have a few Young Adult stories released under the pen name Kira Harp. I’ve been writing for far longer than I care to admit (*whispers – forty years*), mostly for my own entertainment. Minnesota’s a kindly, quiet (if sometimes chilly) place and it’s home now. I live in Minnesota, where the two seasons are Snow-removal and Road-repair, where the mosquito is the state bird, and where winter can be breathtakingly beautiful. ![]() “Kaje” is pronounced just like “cage” – it’s an old nickname. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() So she goes to Manaus, seeking clues to Dr. Swenson’s supervision, really doesn’t want to see this intimidating woman again, but she feels an obligation to her friend Anders and his grief-stricken wife. Marina, who went into pharmacology after making a disastrous mistake as an obstetrics resident under Dr. If a fertility drug can be derived from whatever these women are ingesting, the potential rewards are so enormous that Swenson has been pursuing her work for years with scant oversight from Vogel the company doesn’t even know exactly where she is in the Amazon. Swenson’s top-secret research project among the Lakashi tribe, whose women continue to bear children into their 60s and 70s. Marina Singh is dispatched from the Vogel pharmaceutical company to Brazil to find out what happened to her colleague Anders Eckman, whose death was announced in a curt letter from Annick Swenson. A pharmacologist travels into the Amazonian heart of darkness in this spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett ( Run, 2007, etc.). ![]() ![]() ![]() What is the hardest thing about writing a gamebook?Įnding it. It's a thrilling way to write: at the end of every chapter I rack my brain for every possible choice/outcome for a given situation. I create a comprehensive skeleton plot and then let inspiration to serve as the meat. As far as I know, there's never been a detailed "whodunit" gamebook for a mature audience. Now, with MURDERED, readers can see if they have what it takes to solve a mystery. ![]() My question has always been: What would be the most fun to read? With INFECTED, I gave people the opportunity to pit themselves against zombies. Where did you get the idea to do a murder mystery? This year, James has released another gamebook, MURDERED which is currently at $0.99 for the Kindle edition. Today, we also see the return of James Schannep, who we interviewed last year about his gamebook, about a zombie apocalypse. ![]() ![]() It happened so fast that, despite all the times it had happened, and there were a lot, he still wasn't prepared. Read ExcerptĪ FTER HIS FATHER cuffed him, Carson Steele's temple slammed into the corner of the wall by the refrigerator. Now, as Joker’s secrets are revealed and an outside threat endangers the club, Joker must decide whether to ride steady with Carissa-or ride away forever. A good girl like Carissa is the least likely fit with the Chaos Motorcycle Club. While catching her is irresistible, knowing what to do with her is a different story. Today, he’s the hard-bodied biker known only as Joker, and from the way Carissa’s acting, it’s clear she’s falling fast. In high school, Carson Steele was a bad boy loner who put Carissa on a pedestal where she stayed far beyond his reach. Now a struggling, single mom and stranded by a flat tire, Carissa’s pondering her mistakes when a vaguely familiar knight rides to her rescue on a ton of horsepower. ![]() Money, marriage, motherhood: everything came easy-until she woke up to the ugly truth about her Prince Charming. Once upon a time, Carissa Teodoro believed in happy endings. ![]() Meet the intense and sexy bad boy bikers of the Chaos Motorcycle Club in Carissa and Joker’s story from Kristen Ashley’s New York Times bestselling series. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was also "The Story Mirror Author of the Year" nominee-2019. It was Amazon bestseller in its releasing week and was shortlisted. He also has awards such as "Indian Achievers Award-21", "IPR Annual Award-2020" and "Literary Titan Award-2020", "Indies Today Book of the Year Award 2020" and "Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize 2021" and "Oprelle Rise up Poetry Prize 2021". One Heart- Many Breaks is Sandeep Kumar Mishra's debut autobiographical poetry collection, published in 2020 by Indian Poetry Review press. Book Review A beautifully put together collection of poems that any introvert could find. : One Heart- Many Breaks (9789354086373) by Mishra, Sandeep Kumar and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now. His book "One Heart- Many Break" is also featured at "The 2021 New York Book Festival. One Heart- Many Breaks by Sandeep Kumar Mishra. Winner of a Golden Press Award for Excellence, the magazine has published such notable authors as Susan Vreeland, Madison Smartt Bell and Shelby Foote, and interviews with literary giants like John Updike and Norman Mailer.Īs we know Sandeep Kumar Mishra, has also been shortlisted for "International Book Awards-2021" by American Book Fest. Distelheim, Morgan McDermott, and Vivian Shipley. Among past winners are Robert Clark Young, Laura S. The work that has been selected for this award has been republished in the O Henry Prize Anthology, Best New Stories from the South and the Pushcart Prize collection. Mishra is one of ten finalists in the competition selected from around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() After she reads her library books, Ana writes her own story for the librarian and gives it to him upon his reappearance-and he makes it part of his biblioburro collection. When Ana suggests that someone write a book about the traveling library, he encourages her to complete this task herself. ![]() ![]() Besides loaning books to the children until his next visit, the unnamed man also reads them stories and teaches the younger children the alphabet. Everything changes when a traveling librarian and his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, arrive in the village. Although she uses her imagination to create fantastical bedtime tales for her brother, she really wants new books to read. She knows every word of the one book she owns. Inspired by Colombian librarian Luis Soriano Bohórquez, Brown’s latest tells of a little girl whose wish comes true when a librarian and two book-laden burros visit her remote village.Īna loves to read and spends all of her free time either reading alone or to her younger brother. ![]() ![]() She is without question one of our most important living writers. In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering. ![]() She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax. ![]() Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.Ī woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, Harry and Oriana embark on a golden adventure that will fulfill Oriana’s wild dream - and ultimately open Harry’s heart to new life. Harry reluctantly agrees to help Oriana carry out an astonishing scheme inspired by a book given to her by the town librarian, Olive Perkins. Discovering Harry while roaming the forest, Oriana believes that he holds the key to righting her world. She and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragic loss of Oriana’s father. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. When his wife dies suddenly, Harry, despairing, retreats north to lose himself in the remote woods of the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvanias Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. A grieving widower, a determined girl, a courageous librarian and a mysterious book come together in an uplifting tale of love, loss, friendship and redemption. 'When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight.Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the nearest existing equivalent I have chosen the word ‘nationalism’, but it will be seen in a moment that I am not using it in quite the ordinary sense, if only because the emotion I am speaking about does not always attach itself to what is called a nation – that is, a single race or a geographical area. ![]() In the same way, there is a habit of mind which is now so widespread that it affects our thinking on nearly every subject, but which has not yet been given a name. Somewhere or other Byron makes use of the French word longeur, and remarks in passing that though in England we happen not to have the word, we have the thing in considerable profusion. This material remains under copyright in some jurisdictions, including the United States, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the Orwell Estate. Home / Orwell / Essays and other works / Notes on Nationalism Notes on Nationalism ![]() ![]() ![]() His “magic” owes as much to mathematics and engineering as to the hand of the gods. Merlin, a celibate intellectual in a warrior culture, is a mercurial figure, who loves no woman and is beholden to no man, and manages to be both pagan and Christian. The Crystal Cave book by Mary Stewart Science Fiction & Fantasy Books > Historical Sci-Fi Books Dumping Debt Rated: G (General Audience) See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 3.99 - 4.19 Paperback 4.19 - 15.52 Mass Market Paperback 3.59 - 4.19 Unknown Binding - Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good - Good 4. This is an arresting portrait of 5th century Britain. ![]() The novel reaches its climax with Merlin’s bittersweet sleight of hand, in which he unites Uther with Igraine, wife of the Duke of Cornwall, for one fateful night of passion which will bring forth the infant Arthur – at a terrible price. Later Merlin stands by Ambrosius’s successor, Uther Pendragon. After exile in Brittany, he returns to Britain to outwit Vortigern, aiding Ambrosius in his bid to become High King. After finding a secret mentor, he sets off on a quest of discovery as heroic as any in Arthurian legend, rising from scapegoat to a magician powerful enough to command kings. The bastard son of the Princess of South Wales, Merlin Emrys grows up an outcast, left to believe his father is the Prince of Darkness himself. She delves into Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain, ferrets out the clues concerning Merlin, and proceeds to transform him from a cipher into living flesh and blood. Was he a god, a man, or was Merlin the title given to a powerful shamanic figurehead? Mary Stewart’s 1970 classic is no young adult sword and sorcery caper but a serious fictional exploration of the Matter of Britain. Merlin is one of the most enigmatic figures in British lore. ![]() |