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Wolves of the calla by stephen king5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Beyond the town the rocky ground rises towards the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community's soul. They also know the companions who have been drawn to his quest for the Dark Tower: Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah Jake Chambers, the boy who has come twice through the doorway of death into Roland's world and Oy, the Billy Bumbler.In this long-awaited fifth novel in the saga, their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers on Mid-World's borderlands. Followers of Stephen King's epic series know Roland well, or as well as this enigmatic hero can be known. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Among the many readings (more than fifty), get-togethers and literary concerts on offer, there are also several unusual conferences and bizarre performances. In addition to its base at the Maison de la Poésie-Scène Littéraire, it takes place in over 14 other venues, including the Cité internationale des arts. The Paris en toutes lettres festival focuses on hybrid creations that span different literary genres and art forms, as well as resonating with Paris’s geography and literary life. The evening will be followed by a discussion between the Haitian author, currently in residence at the Cité internationale des arts, writer Sami Tchak and writer and spoken word (slam) poet Ernis, winner of the Prix Voix d'Afriques 2022, who is also in residence at the Cité internationale des arts. In partnership with the Maison de la Poésie-Scène Littéraire and as part of Paris en toutes lettres literary festival, the Cité internationale des arts presents a reading of the novel Une somme humaine by Prix Goncourt 2022 finalist Makenzy Orcel. ![]()
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Imposters westerfeld5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. As layers of deceit peel away, can Frey become her own person, and risk everything in a rebellion? As the deal falls apart, Frey must decide: can she trust Col with the truth? In a life built on lies, can she trust anyone? Compulsively readable, full of twists and turns, rebellion and intrigue, Impostors is a thrilling read from bestselling author Scott Westerfeld. But Col Palafox, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. ![]() When their father sends Frey in Rafi's place as collateral in a precarious deal, she must become the perfect impostor. So while Rafi was schooled to be the perfect heir, Frey was trained to be the ultimate weapon. She's the body double for her twin sister Rafia - the precious first daughter of Shreve - and her existence is a closely guarded secret. ![]() Truly dizzy-making!' - Jack Heathįrey was raised to take a bullet. 'Impostors is the best YA I've read in years. A wild, edge-of-your-seat ride that will blow your socks off.' - Lili Wilkinson ![]()
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![]() The short answer is that 20-plus hours of "Christy" material are moving into the world of cable and video. So there's that question again: "What now?" ![]() ![]() Anybody who has worked in this town knows that the way you kill a show is to keep moving it." "They gave us five different time slots and never left us in one place more than a few weeks. I don't think they wanted to understand," said Wales, who invested nearly 20 years of his time and money in the project. "Obviously, the CBS people never quite understood what `Christy' was about. During a year of CBS ratings disasters, "Christy" maintained solid second-place numbers in various time slots, while generating record numbers of fan letters and calls. Viewers may never know, because the network canceled the series. In real life, the real Christy married the minister."īut there's the rub. "Truth is, we hadn't really made up our minds," said Wales. Did she choose the preacher or the doctor? ![]() In the last episode of the CBS series "Christy," Wales and crew left her facing a romantic cliffhanger. Letters keep arriving asking what happened to Christy Huddleston, the heroine of Catherine Marshall's famous novel about a missionary teacher in the Great Smoky Mountains. LOS ANGELES - Wherever he goes, veteran movie producer Ken Wales hears the same question: "What now?" ![]()
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Dissolution sansom5/13/2023 ![]() But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes. Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege - a black cockerel sacrificed on the altar, and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic. Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. ![]() But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Dissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C. It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. ![]() Sansom, followed by Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone and Lamentation. ![]() ![]() Dissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C. ![]()
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Books like a gentleman in moscow5/13/2023 ![]() As you can see in Figure 1 below, Treasury volatility measured by the MOVE index has eclipsed that of the VIX over the past year and is far closer to its GFC peak than the VIX. This index, called the MOVE index, measures volatility in the Treasury market. It occurred to me that if author Robert Harris was writing his novel today, he might need to abandon his references to the VIX and replace them with the index that measures bond market volatility. In the novel, a brilliant scientist creates a super-computer using artificial intelligence which trades after analyzing market behavior and news stories, often predicting and capitalizing on the fear that comes from financial panics. Investors often cite the VIX when assessing risk, or fear, among stock investors. ![]() ![]() ![]() That book, written in the wake of the GFC, takes its title from the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, which measures volatility in the S&P 500. This rude awakening from my vacation gave me cause to recall a different novel that I read way back in 2011 called The Fear Index. ![]()
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Joan Aiken Omnibus by Joan Aiken5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of these, a fan not just of Joan Aiken, but of her alter ego Dido Twite, corresponded with her over a period of five years, and was one of the people I hoped to reach by creating the Joan Aiken website, and replying to some of the letters she had kept – shown on the webpage above. One of the great pleasures of being Joan Aiken’s daughter, and curator of her estate, has been answering letters, requests, enquiries, searching into mysteries, and trying to explain the inexplicable in her books – sometimes fielding rumours and random nonsense in the ever expanding farrago of the internet – and sometimes having the extraordinary pleasure of meeting the people whose lives, like mine, she has changed. Every year, the anniversary of the 4th of January takes me further from my mother’s death, but since I have been with her every day ‘looking after the books’, it is also a good moment to be thankful for all that I have been given, and for the wonderful task she left me… ![]()
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Shotgun Sorceress by Lucy A. Snyder5/12/2023 ![]() Was there something that also inspired you to explore darker notions? ![]() You grew up in Texas and cite Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time as an early influence, in large part because of its effectiveness in provoking wonder. She lives in Worthington, Ohio with cats (no ferret, unlike her frequent heroine Jessie Shimmer), and her husband, author Gary Braunbeck. She’s currently working on her fourth book in the Jessie Shimmer series, Devils’ Field (which was financed by a successful Kickstarter campaign), and her poetry will be featured in the forthcoming young adult horror anthology Scary Out There. Throughout her career, she has (almost gleefully) defied clichés and reveled in contradiction: She was raised in what she calls the “cactus-and-cowboys” area of Texas, but her work is often urban in setting and tone she has published collections of both erotica (Orchid Carousals) and humorous essays about computers (Installing Linux on a Dead Badger) she can be outspoken about the difficulties facing women in publishing, but she also calls her urban fantasy series (which began in 2009 with Spellbent) “guy-friendly” and this year she won the Bram Stoker Award® for both Fiction Collection and Nonfiction. ![]() Lucy Snyder is one of those rare genre-hopping writers who are equally at home in horror, science fiction, poetry, or nonfiction. ![]()
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One for the money book janet evanovich5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() I didn’t start reading the series until 2004, a full decade into it and just a few weeks before the release of the tenth Plum novel, Ten Big Ones. Granted, I was a little slow on the uptake initially. But this novel is the book where it all began, and I was hooked from page one. ![]() ![]() Book #26, Twisted Twenty-Six, is set to be released this year on November 12th, and it continues to star the enduringly loveable bounty hunter heroine, Stephanie, from Trenton, New Jersey, who solves crimes with the help of her quirky family and wisecracking friends. The first “Stephanie Plum” novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich started a comedic mystery series that’s still going strong. How does One for the Money hit Blake Snyder’s story beats? Here is the Save the Cat!® beat sheet for the novel: ![]()
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The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() They're also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own - deception, manipulation, kidnapping, infanticide, but also, ingenious communication between species, collaboration, altruism and play. What they're finding is upending the traditional view of how birds live, how they communicate, forage, court, survive. But lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviours they've previously dismissed as anomalies. ![]() ![]() 'There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.' This is one scientist's pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds. ![]() |