![]() ![]() ![]() It is their destiny to finally meet on the field of battle-the man-elf and his dark twin, the monster-when the long-simmering war between elves and trolls finally erupts with a devastating fury. A pawn in a witch's vengeance, the creature Valgard will never know love, and consumed by rage, he will commit a murderous act of unspeakable vileness. Meanwhile, the being who supplanted him as Orm's son grows up angry and embittered by the humanity he has been denied. Stolen by elves and replaced by a changeling, Skafloc is raised to manhood unaware of his true heritage and treasured for his ability to handle the iron that the elven dare not touch. In his greed for land and power, Orm the Strong slays the family of a Saxon witch-and for his sins, the Northman must pay with his newborn son. ![]() Poul Anderson's novel The Broken Sword draws on similar Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources as The Fellowship of the Ring. This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, he and Audrey find themselves struggling to build a new life in Halifax, a city grieving its lost men. Mere months later, Danny is gravely wounded at the Battle of the Somme, and his future is thrown into uncertainty. The young lovers believe that only together can they face the hardships the war brings. When, by chance, she encounters Danny, the handsome young soldier captures her heart and inspires her painting. She lives alone with her grandmother in the quiet French countryside, where her only joy is in her brush and palette. Out of brutal necessity, Danny has steeled himself against the trials and horrors of war, but he is completely unprepared to meet the love of his life in war-torn France. In the summer of 1916, Private Daniel Baker marches into battle with the boys of Nova Scotia’s 25th Battalion. From bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a novel of love, loss, and honour amidst the horrors of war and its aftermath. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a thrilling novel of resilience and hope, of love and survival, that explores with dazzling emotional power how the truths closest to us are often hardest to see. ‘Unsettled Ground’ is a riposte to the notion that, with a little hard graft, lives can be turned around and fortunes changed There are nuanced comments too on the theme of leaving home. Book - 2021 Unsettled Ground Fuller, Claire. At risk of losing everything, Jeanie and her brother must fight to survive in an increasingly dangerous world as their mother’s secrets unfold, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake. The Bookmark: Unboxing the Season Finale Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead Austin, Emily R. Inside its walls they make music, in its garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.īut when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. ![]() ![]() Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Sams boxes and boxes of books, fact checkers, Goodreads fatigue, and most importantly-Lori and Sams most interesting discussion with writer Claire Fuller. Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. 'Unsettled Ground' is a terribly beautiful book, and although its premise may seem quiet, it is full of dramatic twists and turns right up until its moving, beautiful end. ![]() ![]() When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. What exactly has gone wrong? Sunny wishes Maxon would turn the rocket around and come straight-the-hell home. Their marriage is on the brink of imploding, and they're at each other's throats with blame and fear. But now they're parents to an autistic son. Once they were two outcasts who found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from urgent desire for connection. Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Sunny wants, more than anything, to be "normal." She's got the housewife thing down perfectly, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony. Or, he was 2693 rotations of the earth old. is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human.Nicely unpredictable.Extraordinary." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen-days old. ![]() A New York Times Notable Book "Over the moon with a metaphysical spin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Stephen Watts Kearney leads the Army of the West across the Great Plains to engage with Mexicans. Narbona is imagined to have grown up in a Navajo culture that’s increasingly fearful of American incursion. The personalities and cultural forces behind the concept of Manifest Destiny, including Polk and Benton, are introduced. Kit Carson becomes a mountain man in 1826 after marrying Singing Grass but his way of life is threatened by economic pressures and over-hunting he joins John Fremont’s mapping team as they prepare maps for American expansion westward into Mexico their work soon gets them entangled with America’s conflict with Mexico. The Mexicans wait in trepidation for American troops, who suffer raids by an older enemy: Navajo Indians. Polk declares war on Mexico and wants to extend American boundaries from coast to coast. Hampton Sides says his book does justice to Carson’s life story by providing a thorough account of it.īook 1, “The New Men,” covers the beginning of the Mexican-American War through the arrival of the Army of the West in Santa Fe. ![]() ![]() The author has also written several books on historical events and people he’s been nominated for National Magazine Awards twice. It tells the story of Christopher Carson, who was instrumental in “settling” that part of America from 1820 to 1860. Published in 2001, Blood and Thunder is a narrative history of the American West. 1-Page Summary of Blood and Thunder Overall Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() “Packed with adventure – from gold mining, to running the unexplored Colorado River rapids, to surviving a mountain winter with nothing but ingenuity, resourcefulness, and perseverance – this story follows Tom Wade as he goes West as a boy and returns as a man. In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado. Whether you’re reading the more challenging books to a 6-year-old or handing all these tomes off to a 12-year-old, these books are perfect for your son, grandson, young brother, cousin, or neighbor.ġ. ![]() Previously, we’ve featured books for young boys, and we’re excited to publish a part two with 10 more selections. That’s why we’re proud to present this ongoing series of literature recommendations. ![]() At Intellectual Takeout, we strive to offer not only commentary on current events but also tangible advice for engaging with our increasingly chaotic world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Shigeru kindly picks up a beautiful wandering woman from the side of a road, his life is changed. If you enjoy horror that breaks taboos, then you'll certainly be satisfied as the death count here is huge and features a rarely seen demographic of victims. If you love a story about strange rituals, unusual cults, and the occult then this is the sort of story you'll gobble right up. Life now revolves around a strange factory of unknown origin, and even weirder are the all-consuming sirens that emanate from it each night. Alas, when he returns he finds that the once lively-though rural-village has turned into a ghost town. In the wake of a strange phone call from his parents and an ominous apparition at his window, Kyochi decides it's time for a family reunion. Turning his hand to folk horror, Ito crafts another bleak homecoming in Village of the Siren. The devastating reason for that will soon be revealed, but in the meantime, his arrival coincides with a trend of young women seeking out "crossroads fortunes." Soon the bodies of school girls who ask strangers for their fortunes begin to turn up brutally murdered but who is to blame? How does it connect with Ryusuke's pass? This wonderfully chilly mystery is one of the most memorable of Ito's tales and introduces one of his scariest creations. The teen boy is moving back to his hometown after years away, but the simple notion of it haunts him. ![]() ![]() The first-and throughline-story from his Lovesickness collection is a great example of just that. Ito often writes of love and how it can curse us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully, my brain cells are released from my hormones' grip and direct me to extend my hand. "I mean, I'm Lauren," I laugh, hoping the music covers my ridiculous answer and that I won't drop dead of embarrassment right here. Wake up, genius! I scream inside my head. ![]() "She's Lauren," I can't help but whisper. Also, the constant back and forth between 20 was terribly annoying and impaired the flow of the story. Save me from such an unbelievable and cheesy drama fest. Unfortunately this story has been inundated with angry outbursts at their worst, shouting matches, and tears ad nauseam. 'Oh, I still love him,' blah blah blah…'But I don't know him.' *pets* Lauren of 2008 acts like a shy, awkward, and embarrassing little girl and Lauren of 2011 is a whiny bitch who throws temper tantrums, screams her head off, growls, and acts like a dumb twat and will be gladly appeased with sex. She was never able to pull off a decent conversation and got on. The imbecile of a heroine was bathing in idiotic hissy fits and communicated through pleading, mumbling, crying, anger, sarcasm, and screaming. If I Break is a redundant story that features unlikable characters, really poor writing and über shoddy editing to the point where I felt appalled that something so incredibly bad has seen the light of day in the first place. I couldn't resist the little pun…you'll know what I mean after you've read my review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Items from our extended range section are dispatched separately. We sometimes split orders between multiple parcels. Please note orders are only processed Monday-Friday. The orders go into our warehouse to be picked, packed and consolidated into one parcel where appropriate. We aim to process and dispatch our orders within 24 hours. It is time for Breen to seek out those in desperate need of rescue and confront the darkness with every weapon she has. Soon the enemy's witches begin to appear to Breen in her sleep, practicing black magick, sacrificing the innocent, and plotting brutal destruction. With the enemy cast out and the portal sealed it is a time to recover but there is little time to rest. It's a time as painful as any Breen has ever known as she helps to treat the wounded, bring the dead home from blood-and ash-soaked battlegrounds and support her friends and family in their grief. But the terrible battle and heart-breaking losses have taken their toll. With Odran's defeat at the Battle of the Dark Portal, his quest to rule over Talamh and Breen has stalled - for now. 'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman'The GuardianIt's time for the final reckoning. ![]() ![]() ![]() From Sunday Times bestselling author, Nora Roberts, the final thrilling instalment in the epic Dragon Heart trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() coupled with squabbling siblings, archery practice gone amiss, and ill-fated dives into the moat. Kidnapping, fighting, a ferocious dragon, loyal elves, and true love. Wait-a dragon? Not sure they can believe Meg’s tales, the kids return again and again to hear the evolving, fantastical story of their mother’s escapades (while putting their fussiest penmanship to work) and get caught up in a quest to reunite the onetime friends. Meg claims that she was a friend of their mother’s back when the two were kids-even before the dragon lived in the castle. ![]() But then they discover Meg, a cranky scribe who lives in the castle basement, leading a quirky group of artists in producing party invitations and other missives for the nobles above. ![]() Noble children Thomas and Emily have always known their mother to be sensible, the lady of the castle-if anything, a bit boring. Raise the drawbridge for a story-within-a-story melding classic fairy-tale trappings with contemporary, tongue-in-cheek wit, abundantly illustrated in black-and-white-a perfect family read. ![]() |