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![]() ![]() I couldn’t be happier to announce that the story that began with a peculiar coat and a picked pocket will officially continue. I envisioned a set of three interconnecting books, each with its own protagonist-a tinkerer who can pull the threads of magic, a noble who has her birthright stolen, a con artist born with a lucky streak but no power-their lives intertwining against a backdrop where a prince has become king, a thief has become a pirate, and new dangers are beginning to threaten the three Londons. I knew I wanted to tell a new story, one that included the cast of Shades of Magic without focusing exclusively on them. ![]() Just enough to catch the lock, keep the door from closing all the way.īy the time I finished Shades of Magic, I’d started Threads of Power. Write the end.Īs I wrote, I starting weaving in a few new threads. 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I will also refer to the second book as ‘Round the Moon’ as that is the title in this edition, ‘Autour de la Lune’ is more commonly translated as ‘Around the Moon’. ![]() The two books were published four years apart, ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ in 1865 with ‘Round the Moon’ being serialised in 1869 then coming out in book form in 1870 but they really have to be read together to get anything like a satisfying resolution. The plan is to top and tail the five essays with these two and an even earlier pair of French science fiction novels with some more ‘classic’ works in between. These two novels by that early master of science fiction Jules Verne mark the start of my annual August reading block of books with a link between them and this year I have decided on ‘translated from French’ as my theme. ![]() ![]() Kieron Gillen has worked on X-Men ( Origins : Sabretooth, Uncanny X-Men, Generation Hope) and Avengers titles ( Iron-Man), and he’s actually the successful author of Darth Vador. 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J amie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen launched in January 2013 a new volume of the Young Avengers, which ended with its fifteenth issue on January 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seven years after the end of their first series, the Young Avengers are back. ![]() ![]() ![]() It will educate, inspire, and challenge both newcomers to the world of kink and experienced BDSM players. Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, filmmaker, and sex educator. The Ultimate Guide to Kink features the expertise of renowned educators writing passionately on their favorite subjects, including Patrick Califia, Midori, Laura Antoniou, Barbara Carrellas, Lee Harrington, Jack Rinella, Lolita Wolf, Madison Young, Hardy Haberman, Felice Shays, Ignacio Rivera, Sarah Sloane, Mollena Williams, FifthAngel, and Edge. 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Jerri Massi‘s Derwood, Inc.series was a big hit among us kids growing up (and now among my own kids today), as were some of the missionary books like These Are My People and A Question of Yams.īut if you had asked me last month to name my favorite BJUP book from childhood, I’d have said Dawn L. Having grown up in a home closely tied to BJU Press, I was surrounded at an early age by Journey Forth books. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s the review I’d have written first off, just when I finished reading The Deal and then there’s the review I wanted to write when I’d finished reading The Hook Up… I guess I’ll include a bit of both. Now he just has to convince Hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him. But when one unexpected kiss leads to the wildest sex of both their lives, it doesn’t take long for Garrett to realize that pretend isn’t going to cut it. If helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he’s all for it. If she wants to get her crush’s attention, she’ll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice… even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date.Īll Garrett Graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he’s worked so hard for. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. ![]() ![]() She’s about to make a deal with the college bad boy… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because when the truth gets lost in the lies, that’s when people start to die.Ĭlown in a Cornfield was 2020’s Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel. Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight the only way she knows how. ![]() So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth-not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room. All she wants is to be normal again.īut instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.Īfter barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. ![]() |