![]() ![]() But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. ![]() Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. ![]() The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Schwab "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" -Charles Stross " Brilliantly original, messy and weird straight through. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One of Eliza's best friends, Molly Thomas, has gone missing, and in the past other people, all members of the True Believers of Christ Church, have also disappeared. What Eliza discovers at Knox Hollow is more than just a simple murder. Lucy's superior gives her the weekend to see whether her instincts are correct. She wonders why Eliza traveled more than five hours to report the murder rather than inform local authorities. But something doesn't feel right to Lucy. ![]() She tells Lucy the body's location and that alongside the victim is the knife that killed Noah and was used to carve a psalm into his skin. At the start of this cleverly plotted mystery from Labuskes (Girls of Glass), teenager Eliza Cook presents herself at Seattle FBI headquarters, asks for agent Lucy Thorne, and confesses to murdering 12-year-old Noah Dawson in Knox Hollow, Idaho. ![]() ![]() ![]() Verne began writing poetry at just 12 years old. He would later work these early memories of maritime life into his writing. Verne spent his childhood watching ships sail down the Loire and imagining what it would be like to climb aboard them. In the 19th century, Nantes was a busy port city that served as a major hub for French shipbuilders and traders, and Verne's family lived on Ile Feydeau, a small, man-made island in a tributary of the Loire River. Verne's birthplace had a profound impact on his writing. On February 8, 1828, Pierre and Sophie Verne welcomed their first child, Jules Gabriel, at Sophie's mother's home in Nantes, a city in western France. Here are 15 facts you probably didn't know about him. In addition to helping pioneer a new genre of writing, the French author also sailed the world, had a career as a stockbroker, fell in love with his cousin, and was shot by his nephew. Jules Verne, widely regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction, wrote some of literature's most famous adventure novels, including seminal works like Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in 80 Days. ![]() ![]() ![]() Contrary to popular conception, long-distance cattle driving was traditional not only in Texas but elsewhere in North America long bef… BURNET, DAVID GOUVERNEUR, Campbell, John Archibald (1859–1909). The southern extension of the Chisholm Trail originated… Cattle Drives, CATTLE DRIVES. ![]() Texas Splendor By: Lorraine Heath Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins. Discover more authors you’ll love listening to on Audible. Cordelia McQueen is little more than a prisoner in her fathers house until he barters her off to a stranger in. Sam Houston was the first president of the Independent Republic of Texas, and he later served as governor of the state of T… Chisholm Trail, CHISHOLM TRAIL, a cattle trail leading north from Texas, across Oklahoma, to Abilene, Kansas. Browse Lorraine Heath’s best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. ![]() He was instrumen… Fort Sam Houston, Houston, Sam Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor achieved prominence as a jurist, a Baptist preacher, and a law professor. After five grueling years in a Texas prison, Austin Leigh is finally a free man. Chrétien de Troyes is the best known of the writers of Arthurian quest r… Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, BAYLOR, ROBERT EMMETT BLEDSOE Read Texas Splendor, by Lorraine Heath online on Bookmate A man on a mission. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has since written more than twenty novels the majority have been Sunday Times Top Ten best-sellers in the UK. Goddard's first novel, Past Caring, was published in 1986. They usually involve the lead character gradually uncovering a secret or conspiracy which has long been kept secret, by means of historical documents such as diaries or by means of word-of-mouth accounts that have been handed down from one person to another. His thrillers usually have a historical element and settings in provincial English towns and cities, and many plot twists. Robert William Goddard (born 13 November 1954 in Fareham, Hampshire) is an English novelist. ![]() ![]() 330pp., edge of text block slightly tanned, contents clean and bright. Red boards, slightly marked on spine, with gilt lettering to spine. Hardback, VG in clipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear to top edge and sight remains of previous price label on front. First edition, flat signed by the author to title page. ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea of putting a large number of people in a confined vessel and then using it as an allegory or mirror of society is at least as old as the medieval tradition of the ship of fools and as clichéd as movies like Titanic, and at times writers have even transferred the idea to trains, as in China Miéville’s Railsea or the film Snowpiercer. ![]() ![]() Whether or not you believe generation starships will ever be a viable concept (an argument most recently engaged by Kim Stanley Robinson in Aurora), the stories are never going to go away: the notion is just too useful in too many ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing in diary form, Ann Rinaldi paints a sensual picture of time and place-and gives readers an intimate glimpse into the heart of a child as she becomes a woman. As romance blossoms and Rose begins to find her place, she discovers that strength of character does not come easily-but is essential for happiness. These tasks are difficult enough without the added complication of barely knowing her husband. As mistress of the large Victorian estate on Dorchester Road, she must learn to make decisions, establish her independence, and run an efficient household. She’s left her family in South Carolina to live with her handsome and wealthy husband in Brooklyn, New York-a move that is both scary and exciting. ![]() It’s 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose Frampton is beginning a new life. In this novel set at the beginning of the twentieth century, a fifteen-year-old Southern girl marries and moves to the unfamiliar world of Brooklyn. ![]() ![]() Cinder and Kai, Scarlet and Wolf, Cress and Thorne, and Winter and Jacin all feature in this epic new battle. And to show he's serious, Steele is taking hostages. Unless Cinder can reverse the mutations that were forced on them years before, Steele and his soldiers plan to satisfy their monstrous appetites with a massacre of the innocent people of Earth. Iko-an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder-has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna. ![]() ![]() The second graphic novel, and sequel to Wires and Nerve, Volume 1, from #1 New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Marissa Meyer! The world of the Lunar Chronicles comes alive in this thrilling continuation of Wires and Nerve. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The second part of the book, the Prussian campaign, dragged considerably. I'm sorry to say I think the author fell prey to her own fascination with the military history of the time and lost sight of what the reader's personal interests might be. This was another foray into the foreign culture and politics of the Napoleonic era, this time exploring first Istanbul and the Turkish people and then moving north to the crushing military defeat suffered by the Prussians at Napoleon's hands. But what chance do they have against the massed forces of Bonaparte's implacable army? Then, faced with shattering betrayal in an unexpected place, Laurence, Temeraire, and their squad must launch a daring offensive. Yet disaster threatens the mission at every turn-thanks to the diabolical machinations of the Chinese dragon Lien, who blames Temeraire for her master's death and vows to ally herself with Napoleon and take vengeance. ![]() Time is of the essence if the eggs are to be borne home before hatching. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire, and Laurence and Temeraire must detour to Istanbul to escort the precious cargo back to England. In the third novel of the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, Captain Will Laurence and his dragon transport precious cargo while fending off enemies on all sides.Īfter their fateful adventure in China, Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty' s Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. ![]() |