![]() ![]() In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox. ![]() But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. ![]() The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry-freed by the Emancipation Proclamation-seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, a profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever. ![]()
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Night pleasures by sherrilyn kenyon7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Her sister's strange outfit was quite a contrast to Amanda's faded jeans, pink cable-knit sweater, and tan ski jacket. Madam Selene, the Moon Mistress, as Selena was known, sat behind it wearing a flowing green suede skirt, purple knit sweater, and a large black and silver overcoat. The cheap card table was disguised by a thick purple cloth their mother had sewn with "special" incantations known only to their family. Most of the Jackson Square peddlers didn't bother setting up booths during the winter season, but her sister Selena considered her psychic stand as much a New Orleans treasure as the St. The clouds and the sky were an eerie gray that matched Amanda's dour mood. The smell of warm chicory coffee and beignets floated from the Cafe Du Monde across the street, while cars zoomed past a few feet away. ![]() ![]() Still smiling at the thought of a million ants biting Cliff's pasty, dough-boy body, Amanda glanced around at the tourists who were thronging the New Orleans landmark even on this drab November day. Which was exactly what had her sitting at Selena's tarot card and palm-reading table in Jackson Square on a cold Sunday afternoon, instead of lying in bed with the covers pulled over her head. Leave it to her big sister to make her laugh, no matter the tragedy. "I say we should stake him to an anthill and throw little pickles at him." Amanda Devereaux laughed at Selena's suggestion. ![]() Maximum city bombay lost and found7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Mehta can be both learned and obscure-at one point, he writes, “I chase plumbers, electricians, and carpenters like Werther chasing Lotte”-but also very funny. ![]() “Bombay,” he writes, “is the future of urban civilization on the planet.” He adds: “God help us.” From its birth as an entrepôt, the island city-its booster considering it the next Singapore, “relieved of having to bear the burden of this tiresome country,” Mother India-has swelled unimaginably the population in 2005 is expected to reach 27.5 million, and “by 2015, there will be more people living in Bombay than in all of Italy.” Much demand and little supply yields challenges-Mehta had to pay $3,000 a month for a so-so apartment-but at least, Indians say, no one starves in Bombay, which is why the place adds 500 residents every day of the year. ![]() ![]() An ambitious portrait of the megalopolis-one that, like its subject, contains worlds but is too big and too crowded for comfort.īombayite–turned–New Yorker Mehta, a writer of fiction and film scripts, returned to his native city for a two-year stint in 1998, and his experiences form the heart of this excited report. ![]() Cj cherryh foreigner next book7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Now, they’re all caught in a shadowy, deadly maze of power mongering rivalries between UDC and Fleet Strategic Operations, the Senate and Peace Lobby, and the corporate lords of both Earth and Mars. Together they had once smashed the criminal cover ups of a mining cartel. Suddenly two more faces from Dekker and Pollard’s past are shanghaied to Sol II: their occasional lovers, renegade pilots Meg Kady and Sal Aboujib. The centerpiece of a top secret war project, Dekker has just lost his entire crew in a mysterious freak accident and lost his mind to amnesia from an attempted suicide. He’s been named next of kin to a man he never wanted to even see again: Paul Dekker, a young pilot who attracts crises like dead flesh draws flies. When Pollard finds himself stranded on the Sol II battle installation without his orders, I.D., and possessions, he discovers something equally disturbing. ![]() Here the stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity. Cherryh returns to the best selling universe of Heavy Time, Cyteen, and Downbelow Station, and creates a story of multi global conspiracy, power politics, and military in fighting. In Hellburner, her newest novel, Hugo Award winner C. Then he’s forced to perform a mission of mercy and lands on an isolated, intrigue riddled space station. Ben Pollard thinks he’s traded the perils of the Belt for security as an Earth based computer jockey for United Defence Command. ![]() Books by laura nowlin7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.ġ. “The Big Reveal” is as described in its subtitle: “An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag.” Author/drag queen Sasha Velour chronicles her own evolution in the fashion and societal art form. “Tremendous: The Life of a Comedy Savage” is a memoir by Joey Diaz, the Cuban-American standup comedian, actor and podcaster, who credits his “immigrant mentality” for extricating him from an early life of drugs, crime and depression. The Original Non-Fiction list this week has two light and bright newcomers. ![]() ![]() The new book, set in Toronto and Ontario’s cottage country, has tried-and-true romance tropes: thwarted desire, second chances and turned tables. Her first book, “Every Summer After,” just out in paperback, is No. The happiest author in Toronto this week is probably Carley Fortune, whose second novel, “Meet Me at the Lake,” is in the top spot on both the Original Fiction and the Canadian Fiction list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The tropes of espionage-duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestinity, secret knowledge, the bluff, the double bluff, unknowingness, bafflement, shifting identity-are no more than the tropes of the life that every human being lives. Spies of No Country is about the slippery identities of these spies, but it’s also about the complicated identity of Israel, a country that presents itself as Western but in fact has more citizens with Middle Eastern roots, just like the spies of this fascinating narrative. ![]() Journalist and award-winning author Matti Friedman’s masterfully told and meticulously researched tale of Israel’s first spies reads like an espionage novel-but it’s all true. ![]() Of the dozen members of their ragtag unit, five would be caught and executed-but the remainder would emerge as the nucleus of the Mossad, Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency. In 1948, at the outbreak of war in Palestine, they went undercover in Beirut, spending two years running sabotage operations and sending crucial intelligence back home. The four spies were young, Jewish, and born in Arab countries. Piercing.” - The New York Times Book ReviewĪward-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff-but it’s all true. ![]() Tail of the Devil by Danielle DeVor7/6/2023 ![]() While adjusting to his new world and those around him is a challenge even without the Queen who holds a grudge. Things he only read about are now his reality. When one of these errands for a really suspicious character goes horribly wrong he wakes to find himself in a whole new world. He does what he must to get money for food. Mathias is just a street kid trying to survive. If you like original vampire stories with a rich, ancient back story, this book is for you! Make no mistake, this is a dark, gritty story and not for the faint of heart. How Mathias changes and adapts makes for intriguing reading. There are great characters with some of the elders who work with him in the vampire world and a rich background of the king’s past life. What’s a poor street kid turned vampire with no memories of such past life to do? They believe him to be their reincarnated king. He’s gunned down in an alley and saved by a vampire who turns him, but there’s more to this vampire and the school he takes Mathias, to. But they don’t call them mean streets for nothing. Through flashbacks we learn about his past family life as well as his early street life. ![]() We see the tragedies he suffered that made him homeless and feel for his linger hunger he feels trying to get work and survive in the city. This is a dark story of a street kid who has suffered more than anyone ever should. It flowed really well and the obstacles and pace of the book kept things moving along nicely. ![]() I read this book in 4 days which is about ten times faster than I normally read. ![]() Jack eversea7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The 6-foot-5 forward is looking at four years with UE but can only start playing for the Red Warriors in Season 87. ![]() His 20-year-old brother Hunter posted 2.9 points on 38-percent three-point shooting in 7.7 minutes of play for Simon Fraser University. The 6-foot-2 slasher has two playing years starting in Season 86. The 22-year-old Jack averaged 5.6 points on 31-percent shooting from deep, to go with 4.3 assists and 3.5 boards in 26.1 minutes for the University of British Columbia. Meanwhile, the Cruz-Dumont brothers are following in the footsteps of their father and late player Jack Dumont. He is expected to immediately play for UE and will have five years with the Red Warriors. The 6-foot-5 big man averaged 12.7 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 2.3 steals, and 1.3 blocks in 28 minutes for Toronto. The 19-year-old Fikes showed his wares in the 2023 NBTC, earning a spot in the All-Star Game. "We have high hopes moving forward and we believe that these four can only boost our chances in competing against our peers in the UAAP." "We're elated to add these young players to what we're building here in UE," coach Jack Santiago said. ![]() The University of the East Red Warriors join the recruitment wars ahead of UAAP Season 86, securing the commitment of four Fil-foreign ballers.įilipino-Canadians Devin Fikes and brothers Hunter and Jack Cruz-Dumont, along with Filipino-American Ethan Galang will be heading to Recto, as confirmed by UE. ![]() Sergei lukyanenko books7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a fast-paced, darkly humorous, haunting world that will take root in the shadows of your mind and live there forever. Replete with the thrilling action and intricate plotting of the first tale, Day Watch is fuelled by cunning, cruelty, violence, and magic. When she falls in love with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened and a death must be avenged. For a thousand years a treaty between the two sides has maintained an uneasy balance, but when a very potent artifact is stolen from the inquisition - an impartial group of Others who keep watch over all - the consequences are dire for both sides.ĭay Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, as it is told in part by a beautiful but troubled young witch. The agents of Dark - The Day Watch - keep an eye during the day, while the agents of Light keep watch over the night. Set in a modern-day Moscow, the epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the "Others," an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. The second in a blockbuster series of novels from Russia's most popular science fiction author, Day Watch brings us back into the hyperimaginative world of Sergei Lukyanenko and continues the dramatic battle between good and evil, light and dark, day and night. ![]() The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May7/5/2023 ![]() At first covertly, and then officially sanctioned, exiles set off for what they expect will be a pristine and empty Earth 3. For them, a one-way trip into the past is the only escape possible from the Galactic Milieu. It fell to Theo’s widow to arrive at a use for the portal: not everyone is happy with the world as it is in the 21 st century. His time portal thus appeared to have few practical applications. While robust materials like amber could survive a round trip, living plants and animals could not. However, retrieving objects from the past to the present day ages them almost instantly by six million years. Various factors unique to the French city of Lyon make it possible to send objects six million years into the past. ![]() In the early 2030s, Theo Guderian made a fascinating discovery. ![]() Utopia all round (provided one was not too attached to the languages and religions that the Milieu suppressed as superfluous to need). Planetary society has been rationalized, humans have been provided with an abundance of worlds to settle, and peace reigns. Julian May’s 1981 1 The Many-Colored Land 2 is the first volume in May’s four-volume Saga of Pliocene Exile.Įarth has been absorbed into the Galactic Milieu. ![]() |