The ruby red trilogy7/8/2023 As she narrates this fast-paced puzzler, Gwen convincingly conveys the bewilderment, fear and excitement of a teen rooted in the present but catapulted from her school-girl routine into the past. Together Gwen and Gideon are expected to complete the Circle and solve an undefined mystery involving Count Saint-Germain, a malevolent time traveler from the 18th century. To the Guardians, Gwen is the Ruby, the crucial last link in their Circle of Twelve, while 19-year-old Gideon, her handsome fellow time traveler in the male line, is the Diamond. Apparently her mum falsified Gwen’s birth date to protect her from the Guardians, the old, powerful and dangerous secret society obsessively watching over the time travelers and protecting the chronograph, a device for negotiating time travel. Her cousin Charlotte’s the expected carrier of the family time-travel gene that has been passed along the female line since the 16th century, so Gwen’s totally unprepared when sudden vertigo morphs into uncontrolled time travel working her as the gene carrier. Sixteen-year-old Gwen lives in London with her mum’s eccentric family. A contemporary English teen discovers she possesses a gene enabling her to travel into the past in this riveting first volume of the Ruby Red trilogy.
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If she is to succeed in her dangerous manhunt, she must overcome enemies new and old before facing an adversary she maybe ill-equipped to defeat. The one-woman mission to a foreign land will test Kayden’s abilities like never before. Undeterred, she will allow nothing and no one to hinder her from the path she must walk. But the window of opportunity is small the danger she must face, great and the price of failure, greater still. The key to attaining the respect she craves lies beyond the borders of the Nine Kingdoms. Measures that may jeopardise her induction into the Order, and endanger her life.Īn overheard conversation presents Kayden with both the means and justification to pursue her objective. With little time left to change perceptions, simmering resentment persuades her that drastic action is required to redress the slights of her detractors. The end of an arduous apprenticeship is close at hand, and Kayden Jayta unexpectedly learns that being the favoured apprentice of a living legend is not conducive to gaining the respect she deserves. Sometimes Respect Has To Be Earned The Hard Way. A Shot in the Bark by C.A. Newsome7/8/2023 Nearly half the state is owned by the federal government. Department of Agriculture to conduct cooperative forest management. While high-intensity blazes primarily grow on federally mismanaged lands, state agencies still play critical roles in fire prevention efforts with Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) agreements with the U.S. Forest Service has culminated in the build-up of wood fuel powering the megafires seen today. More than 100 years of fire suppression by the U.S. While Democrats and their allies in legacy media knee-jerk blame climate change, the true culprit is negligent land management. Yet the crisis was just as predictable as it was preventable. “This is going to take a long time to come back from.” Indeed, nearly half of Lassen Volcanic National Park has been burned by the Dixie Fire. “We are seeing generational destruction of forests because of what these fires are doing,” California’s Chief of Forestry and Fire Protection Thom Porter said last month. Another four infernos are currently blazing through northern California with more on the way sending smoke across the western United States. Together, the fires that are each less than 60 percent contained have burned upwards of 2,300 structures and nearly 1.2 million acres, according to a tracker by The New York Times. No Place for Magic by E.D. Baker7/7/2023 We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. 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Roadwork bachman7/7/2023 And since nearly every other King title has already been claimed, it looks like Roadwork will finally have its day on the big screen. It's not the most well-known King work, but Hollywood is in the midst of a King adaptation renaissance. One of the original Bachman books was Roadwork, published in 1981. King proceeded to "kill off" Bachman, but would later resurrect him for two more novels – The Regulators in 1996, and Blaze in 2007. It was in '84 that King was outed as Bachman by a bookstore clerk who noticed King and Bachman had similar writing styles. Writing under the Bachman name enabled King to publish more than one book a year, which he did until 1984. He's constantly writing, and rather than sit around and wait for a year to pass before he could publish something new, King decided to create a pseudonym – Richard Bachman. Most writers were fine with this, but as any King reader knows, the man is nothing if not prolific. When Stephen King first got his start as a novelist, the publishing industry was hesitant to publish more than one book from an author per year. Billy bathgate book review7/7/2023 You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. The surgeon by tess gerritsen7/7/2023 Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the detective assigned to the case. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon.Ĭordell’s careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell’s own ordeal. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. The cops’ only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. The precision of the killer’s methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him “The Surgeon.” He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. First line: Today they will find her body.įrom the inside cover: In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil–and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. Prom Date by Diane Hoh7/7/2023 There were a number of authors that wrote these books for Scholastic: R L Stine, Diane Hoh, Caroline B Cooney, Sinclair Smith to name but a few.Īre the Point Horror books we loved as a teenager still our favourites on the re-read? Are you new to Point Horror? Has our opinion changed? Are they still as good? Do they stand up to modern day YA Horror? Or are they a whole load of cray cray? Do you remember the Point Horror Book Series from the 90’s? The Point Horror Series was a series of young adult point horror books and was launched in 1991 by Scholastic always with the Point Horror banner on the spine and on the top of every point horror book. Chainsaw confidential7/6/2023 What I did not expect, was just how gifted a writer, and how intelligent Gunnar was. I knew a lot of this before listening to the book, but there is a ton of new stuff here as well. SO much phenomenal insight into the making of the film, its origins and just how difficult it was to make. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is my favorite movie of all time I've got a Leatherface portrait tattooed on my chest. Phenomenal book, and a wonderful legacy piece. Gunnar Hansen himself reads his work with aplomb. Chain Saw Confidential, is a remarkable film history document, that covers everything from scene-to-scene breakdowns, to the philosophical and aesthetic debates over the nature of horror itself. Not to mention the horrific truth about the radical financial and physical exploitation of the cast and crew. It’s just as juicy and pop-cult-crazed as it sounds-the heightened tension on the set, the unending brutal heat, blown takes, and the pot brownies, everyone just barely holding it together-it gets a little visceral. Gunnar Hansen sets out to give us the real dope-and an eye-opening lesson in film-making along the way. And yet-even the most outlandish rumors have kernels of truth in them. The urban legends that swirl around the film Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that it was based on real events that there were violent, drug-fueled orgies on set that it was a “snuff” film are far nuttier than the real deal. Spear nicola griffith7/6/2023 Spear follows a girl without a name, one whose quest for an identity leads her to Caer Leon (Camelot), to The Lady of the Lake, and beyond. Lyrical with a fairy-tale cadence, Spear is the adult version of the Arthurian tales I loved as a child. Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a spellbinding vision of the Camelot we’ve longed for, a Camelot that belongs to us all. The legendary author of Hild returns with an unforgettable hero and a queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era. On her adventures, she will steal the hearts of beautiful women, fight warriors and sorcerers, and make a place to call home. Aflame with determination, she begins a journey of magic and mystery, love, lust and fights to death. With her stolen hunting spear and mended armour, she is an unlikely hero, not a chosen one, but one who forges her own bright path. So, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and sets out on her bony gelding for Caer Leon. And when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she decides her future lies at his court. She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with promise. She left all she knew to find who she could be. |