![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Full of danger, excitment, passion, betrayal and above all love!" Siobhan, Totally Bookalicious "OMG, What a ride!!! I adored Crossroads (book1) but Between oh lord! It blew it right out the park!! It's bigger and better. Having a special soul, Claudia attracts danger, and she soon finds out who Gamma asked to watch over her. As the alkins head back to Crossroads, Claudia leads her normal life but not for long. ![]() Her books run a wide range of genres: science fiction, fantasy, and swoon worthy stories. Between Mary Ting Young Adult / Fantasy / Romance. Everything a sequel should be, Between is a brilliant and lovely tale that is remarkably tender, sexy, poignant, and made the romantic in me swoon. International Bestselling, Award-Winning Author Mary Ting writes soulful, spellbinding stories that excite the imagination and captivate readers all over the world. "Hang on to your wings, you are in for a thrilling and gripping story about love, promises, and sacrifice. A heavenly debut!" Charlotte Blackwell, author of Embrace series With loveable characters, sweet romance, suspense and an original plot, Between will captivate readers of all ages. "You will be completed entranced by the world of Mary Ting's angels. ![]() OMG I laughed and cried!!!" Joann Buchann, author of I Am Wolf/Shark Radio ![]() ![]() "The fluid motion of her words and realistic characters wrapped around my imagination like the very angels Mary Ting writes about. Between by Mary Ting is an enchanting, nail-biter that will leave you breathless from the exquisite cover to the thrilling end." Gabby, Nashville Young Adult Fiction Examiner/What's Beyond Forks ![]()
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![]() On the third day of the First Moon in the Year of the Rooster, their first and only daughter was born to them. And they would pray to the pale freckled face of the moon floating on the water’s surface, pray that the child growing inside my mother’s womb would be a boy. So every day for months before I was born, my parents would rise before dawn, carrying offerings of fresh-steamed rice cakes to the stone well behind our home, as the sky brightened and snuff ed out the stars. Only men could carry on the family line women were merely vessels by which to provide society with an uninterrupted supply of men. ![]() Of course, every family in those days desired a son over a daughter. A dragon embodied the yang, the masculine principle of life, and it was thought that if a couple expecting a child prayed to the dragon’s egg, their offspring would be male. ![]() When I was a young child growing up in Korea, it was said that the image of the fading moon at daybreak, reflected in a pond or stream or even a well, resembled the speckled shell of a dragon’s egg. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As he traces the refrigerant's life span from its invention in the 1920s-when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress-to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm.Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture-in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values-combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. This "ambitious delightful" ( The New York Times ) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. ![]() ![]() How can an immortal sentenced to die fight back? He has to find the killer-and the answers lie deep in vampire lore. Because according to the new rules, vampires who take human life can now be executed. Now, not only is he trying to create a new world order for the immortal elite, he's the prime suspect and is stalked by the newly installed head of the vampire secret police. ![]() When his all-too-human lover is found murdered on the eve of the coven's annual Four Hundred Ball-a celebration meant to usher in a new era in vampire society, and to mark the re-unification of the Coven after decades of unrest and decay-Oliver is devastated. Hero of this sexy, paranormal action tale is Oliver Hazard-Perry, former human conduit, and Manhattan's only human-turned-vampire, now the head of the Blue Bloods Coven. ![]() ![]() Vampires of Manhattan is "hipster horror"-the memorable characters from her Blue Bloods series are older and cooler than before, trying to build "Millennial" lives in the bustle of Manhattan while battling forces of evil and, of course, each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() If life is meaningless, which is a proposition Camus certainly agrees with, is it logical to commit suicide-dutiful, even? Camus outlines how people turn to religion and hold on to the hope of a better life that never comes in order to suppress the absurd. ![]() People commit suicide when life is meaningless, he says, and sometimes to defend the meaning that they do perceive (for instance, someone dying for a political cause). Camus believes that confronting the absurd takes precedence over all other philosophical problems, because it is intimately linked with the act of suicide. In fact, Camus defines the absurd as the confrontation between man’s desire for logic, meaning and order, and the world’s inability to satisfy this desire. The absurd is often mischaracterized as the simple idea that life is meaningless. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus aims to draw out his definition of absurdism and, later in the book, consider what strategies are available to people in living with the absurd. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one such read – one which has generated more interest and discussion than any other, and one which I have had in my TBR pile for a while ahead of this month’s Primary School Book Club. Many of the books I’ve read which have been published this year are ones which I have picked up as a result of my curiosity being triggered by seeing them on Twitter. ![]() ![]() The couple meet while volunteering on mountain trails: Joe with his church and Ella with the Washington Trails Alliance. These quiet contemplative moments where the book diverges from the driving action are its best. There’s a well-rendered scene where Joe and Ella meet and, thereafter, the connection feels genuine. Also, would San Juan Island residents be so uncharitable to a guy in mental distress? Could be the drama was all too real, but it didn’t sit well on the page.įor awhile the relationship between our protagonist, Joe Stanton, a nice guy Episcopal priest, and his girlfriend, Ella Tollefson, a nice gal nurse (described as simply beautiful, perhaps, too often) felt flat, but it was redeemed in Chapter 33 with a key bit of exposition. It’s a tough introduction for the reader, too. The book starts in medias res with the main character’s traumatic mystical experience which leads the people around him to think he’s either mentally ill or on drugs. Antagonist Sheldon Beck is inexplicably evil for much of the book, with some explanation provided later, but which distracts from the storytelling. ![]() It has some of the weaknesses of the genre too: scenes tinged by melodrama, nonsensical violence and thinly drawn characters. It follows genre conventions well by moving along at a nice clip, ending each short chapter with a hook, and teasing the reader along with mysterious circumstances. ![]() Bennett (author of the young adult novels, The Gaia Wars and Battle for Cascadia), succeeds nicely as an eco-lit foray into the thriller category set in the Pacific Northwest. ![]() ![]() Of flavors and the five fruits, and other offerings of incense, oil, lamps, candles, etc. You should prepare an offering of clean basins full of hundreds ![]() The Buddha told Moggallana that, " the 15thĭay of the 7th lunar month is the Ullambana Day for the assembled monks ofĪll directions. It required the combined power of a thousand monks to get rid of her sins. Buddha said the sins of his mother were deep and firmly rooted they couldn't be forgiven just by only using divine power. Moggallana cried sorrowfully and asked for help from Buddha. Before reaching his mother's mouth, the food turned into burning coals that couldn't be eaten. He went down to hell and filled a bowl with food to provide for his mother. ![]() One day, he saw his deceased mother had been born among hungry ghosts. He had various supernormal powers with his divine eyes. Moggallana 目犍連 was one of Buddha Shakyamuni's best disciples. To feast on the ghosts is from a Buddhist story. ![]() ![]() The n ovel follows a small and rundown spaceship the Wayfarer, and its crew – a cast as loveable as it is colourful, a diverse mix of humans, aliens, and AIs, with well-handled representations of LGBT+ people, people of colour, and disabled people. The ‘doom and gloom’ rhetoric is not necessarily a bad thing – But it can get admittedly dull after a while, which is why Chambers is such a breath of fresh air to the sci-fi landscape. The book’s optimism is a true glowing light in a genre of dark, dramatic stories. It’s a feel-good and worldbuilding-rich space opera novel that delighted me from start to finish. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is Becky Chambers’ debut science fiction novel and the first instalment of the Hugo Award-winning anthology series Wayfarers. ![]() ![]() By Jessica Clifford-Jones | Review Editor ![]() ![]() It’s not as common now, but for a while it was a thing to ostensibly name a novel for a female character but in the same breath define said woman by her relationship to a man. ![]() At the same time, though, I was leery of the title. On one hand, pirates! The blurb on the cover promised me a female Captain Jack Sparrow, and that struck me as a fun idea. I wasn’t entirely sure what to think of Daughter of the Pirate King before I began it. For the most part they’re vague or obvious or both, but still. However, there is something-or rather, some one-she did not count on: Riden, the first mate who seems able to see through her deceptions and who she finds unexpectedly charming. ![]() Alosa is stronger and more skilled than any other pirate, so she is confident in her ability to accomplish her mission quickly and easily. Alosa is the daughter of the pirate king, and she has gotten herself intentionally kidnapped by the son of powerful pirate lord so that she can steal a valuable map fragment that will lead her father to a hidden island guarded by sirens and home to untold treasures. ![]() |