![]() ![]() But he cheats her in the process and quickly finds himself in her crosshairs. Spear hires Isobel to track Penny Royal across worlds to its last known whereabouts. Negotiating with Penny Royal, she got more than she bargained for: Turning part-AI herself gave Isobel frightening power, but the upgrades hid a horrifying secret, and the dark AI triggered a transformation that has been turning her into something far from human… Isobel Satomi ran a successful crime syndicate, but after competitors attacked she needed power and protection. One hundred years later the AI is still on the loose, and Spear vows for revenge at any cost. Spear had been trapped on a world surrounded by hostile Prador forces, but Penny Royal, the AI inside the rescue ship sent to provide backup, turned rogue, annihilating friendly forces in a frenzy of destruction and killing Spear. Thorvald Spear wakes in a hospital to find he’s been brought back from the dead. One woman will transform herself to gain power. ![]() One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. ![]() ![]() Neal Asher, DARK INTELLIGENCE (Night Shade/Tor UK) Aubyn, Sam Sykes, Kazuaki Takano, Lynne Truss, John Twelve Hawks, Simon Unsworth, Debbie Viguie, SJ Watson Featuring: Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, Marie Brennan, Genevieve Cogman, Brian Cox, William Gibson, Mira Grant, Kate Griffin, John Grisham, Nicholas Kaufmann, Jasper Kent, Stephen King, Ben Lerner, Peyton Marshall, Mark Charan Newton, Anne Rice, Justin Richards, Sebastian Rotella, Patrick Rothfuss, John Sandford & Michele Cook, Wilbur Smith, Edward St. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Original illustrated wrappers, titles to spine and front cover. First editions, first impressions, 'Miecz Przeznaczenia" reprint from 1994 (original published in 1992). 10 volumes (Wiedzmin, Ostatnie Zyczenie, Miecz Przeznaczenia, Krew Elfow, Czas Pogardy, Chrzest Ognia, Wieza Jaskolki, Pani Jeziora, Cos sie konczy, cos sie zaczyna, Sezon Burz),11 magazines of 'Fantastyka/Nowa Fantastyka' and 'Wiadomosci Wedkarskie'. One of the best fantasy series, compared by many to Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings. Minor soiling, some edges slightly tanned, slightly creased spine to 'Miecz Przeznaczenia' else very nice and clean set. Original illustrated covers, titles to spine and front cover. 'Szpony i Kly' is the last book published in 2017, with a collection of Witcher-themed stories by various authors. The last book from a series, 'Sezon Burz' contain rarely seen dust jacket (uncut), published in very small amount by fans in cooperation with 'Fantastyka' magazine. Additionally, the set includes the first edition of The Witcher in the form of short story in ''Fantastyka' magazine from Dec, 1986 'Wiedzmin" published by Reporter in 1990 - first book edition of Witcher, with five stories published on the pages of 'Fantastyka' magazine in 1986-1990. ![]() The volume of second (Czas Pogardy) signed by author on the title page. 10 volumes (Wiedzmin, Ostatnie Zyczenie, Miecz Przeznaczenia, Krew Elfow, Czas Pogardy, Chrzest Ognia, Wieza Jaskolki, Pani Jeziora, Sezon Burz and Szpony i Kly). ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon he’s covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable, and bewitched by a shyly pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist. How hard can it be to find homes for a few kittens?Įasier said than done, for a cold-blooded bastard who wouldn’t know a loving home from a workhouse. ![]() She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes.ĭone, Gabriel says. When her imposing-and attractive-new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn’t take into her home and her heart. Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society-and now he wants to get even. To an undaunted wallflower, he's just the beast next door. ![]() Summary New York Times and USA Today Bestseller But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! The Wallflower Wager - Girl Meets Duke Tessa Dare We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yang explains that if Ye works as a researcher on Radar Peak, she will be spared punishment-but once she enters the military base, she can never leave it. At Red Coast, scientist Yang Weining, one of Ye’s father’s former students, greets her. The peak, named for the giant antenna on top of it, is home to the Red Coast military base. Ye expects to be tortured for the letter, but to her surprise, she instead is brought to a mysterious mountain called Radar Peak. ![]() However, the letter backfires, drawing the government’s ire, and a panicked Bai frames Ye for the entire thing. Bai wants to write to the Chinese government and urge them to slow the rate of their deforestation, and Ye offers to transcribe the letter for him. ![]() When she befriends reporter Bai Mulin, Ye learns that humans are rapidly destroying Earth’s environment. Her father, a theoretical physics professor named Ye Zhetai, has been tortured to death for his allegedly anti-Communist beliefs, and her mother, Shao Lin, was among his torturers.Ī few years later, Ye Wenjie has been sent to a Mongolian labor camp, where she spends her days cutting down trees. It’s the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and for college student Ye Wenjie, the world is falling apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system.ĭazzling yet piercingly insightful, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness. He is brought to smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the nerve-center of the Russian media machine, and visits Siberian mafia-towns and the salons of the international super-rich in London and the US. ![]() When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorshipfar subtler than twentieth-century strainsthat is rapidly rising to challenge the West. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell’s Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia. Nothing is True and Everything is Possible Paperback Novemby Peter Pomerantsev (Author) 3,162 ratings Editors' pick Best History See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 50.16 22 Used from 5.15 12 New from 50.09 1 Collectible from 47. In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. ![]() Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia Peter Pomerantsev € 15.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]() ![]() ![]() Menaced throughout by the Gestapo (who are also operating in London), Fabian and another group member are found dead in their flat. She contacts a prominent Nazi who leaks crucial documents from Germany. In London, Fabian stages a rival trial and arranges for witnesses to be smuggled out of Germany. ![]() After the burning of the Reichstag, Hitler prepares a show trial in Berlin. The story is very interesting: after Hitler comes to power in 1933, Blatt, Toller and Fabian, along with Blatt's husband, Hans Wesemann, flee to London, where they continue with their resistance work. The group's central figures were Blatt, her cousin Dora Fabian and the playwright Ernst Toller. ![]() All That I Am, too, is inspired by fact – drawn from interviews, memoirs and autobiographies detailing the lives of a group of (mostly) Jewish Germans who resisted Hitler in the 1930s. "T his vast life – the real, interior one, in which we remain linked to the dead… this vast life is not under our control." These are the words of Ruth Blatt, one of two narrators in Anna Funder's first novel, the follow-up to her acclaimed non-fiction debut, Stasiland, which won the Samuel Johnson prize in 2004. ![]() ![]() ![]() And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette's first love. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. At its heart is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang - a network of criminals far above the law. ![]() The brilliantly imaginative New York Times bestselling fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet set against the immersive backdrop of 1920s Shanghai.Ī blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city in the grip of chaos. In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens. 'Deliciously dark' Natasha Ngan, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Paper and Fire Perfect for fans of The Last Magician and Descendant of the Crane, this heart-stopping debut is an imaginative Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The dream was about a human girl, and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood. Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream on June 2, 2003. ![]() ![]() Meyer currently lives in Cave Creek, Arizona, and also owns a home on Marrowstone Island, Washington. Meyer had never written even a short story before Twilight, and had considered going to law school because she felt she had no chance of becoming a writer she later noted that the birth of her oldest son Gabe changed her mind, saying, "Once I had Gabe, I just wanted to be his mom." Before becoming an author, Meyer's only professional work was as a receptionist in a property company. Meyer is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has stated that she is "straitlaced" about her beliefs, and does not drink alcohol or smoke. Christian Meyer, formerly an auditor, has now retired to take care of the children. Together they have three sons: Gabe, Seth, and Eli. Meyer met her husband Christian, nicknamed "Pancho", when she was growing up in Arizona, and married him in 1994 when they both were 21. She then attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she received a B.A. She attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with five siblings: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi. Stephenie Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Stephen and Candy Morgan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sam hides under the table, sensing that the dude is dangerous. An hour before Plumpy's closes, Sam is scraping gum off the bottoms of tables when a creepy looking guy in a suit comes in holding a potato and asks someone to explain it.Things start to take a turn for the worse when the potato they're hitting around with a broom smacks right into the taillight of a Mercedes illegally parked in the Plumpy's lot. ![]() He handles a bunch of whiny customers, deals with a milkshake machine malfunction, and finally ends up on break, playing a rousing game of Potato Hockey with Ramon and Brooke. Today starts out as just another day at the office for Sam.Along with Ramon, he works with Brooke, a hot blonde who looks like a cheerleader, and Frank, an overly eager, young employee whom Sam and his friends are desperately trying to crack. On the flipside, though, Sam really likes his coworkers.Okay, not quite-he kind of hates the customers. Samhain Corvus LaCroix (better known as Sam) is living the dream as a college dropout working at Plumpy's, a fast food chain. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are three other characters with smaller but important roles that I enjoyed: The story revolves around these three people and they eventually meet up in London. She has been supplied with lists of places that were bombed during the Blitz over a specific period of time so that she can avoid those locations. Polly Sebastien (real name Polly Churchill) works as a shopgirl in London during the Blitz.He has been implanted with an American accent for a trip he planned to Pearl Harbor but his assignment is switched, so he poses as an American reporter. Mike Davis (real name Michael Davies) is sent to Dover, to observe the evacuation of servicemen from Dunkirk.Her assignment is to observe children evacuated from London. Eileen O’Reilly (real name Merope Ward) works as a maid in a manor house in Backbury, Warwickshire.I am going spend more time on the characters. The time and place they come from is Oxford, England in 2060. They are historians who have assignments to go back to specific events in World War II in the year 1940. The story is centered on three time travelers. It was a wonderful read, very emotional at the end. The two books are really one book in two parts so I did end up reading both of them together, between March 24th and April 6th. ![]() After reading Doomsday Book in November 2017 and To Say Nothing of the Dog in December 2017, I put off the last two, Blackout and All Clear, until later in March. There are four novels in Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel series and all of them are very long books. ![]() |