![]() ![]() Seen from up here, the ramshackle valley looks like a pot of cornmeal porridge, rusting tin roofs stirred into its hot, bubbling vortex. To the people who live in this valley, it feels as if they wear the scar on their own skin-as if a kind of ruin has befallen them. The eyesore can be seen from ten or more miles away. ![]() Notice the hills, how one of them carries on its face a scar-a section where bulldozers and tractors have sunk their rusty talons into its cheeks, scraped away the brush and the trees and left behind a white crater of marl. Down there is a dismal little valley on a dismal little island. ![]() We are beyond the aquamarine waters, with their slow manatees and graceful sea turtles, and beyond the beaches littered with sweet almonds. Down there is the Caribbean, though not the bits you might have seen in a pretty little brochure. Below us, the green and blue disc of the earth. Next-and this is the important bit-you must imagine yourself inside it. First you must imagine the sky, blue and cloudless if that helps, or else the luminously black spread of night. ![]()
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![]() A major revision of the Grafton 1990 edition. * * The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction: Second Edition ( Scolar Press UK 1-85928-071-4, Feb ∩5, £35.00, 481pp, hc) Reference book.from Ashgate Publishing Company, Old Post Road, Brookfield VT 05036-9704. ![]() This second edition adds at least 500 books, expanding to cover older books, and novelizations. ![]()
![]() ![]() In this classic of modern children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day. ![]() And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room-to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one-he says goodnight. In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. This board book edition is the right size for little hands and is the perfect gift for baby showers, toddler birthday parties, and holidays. One of the most beloved books of all time, Goodnight Moon is a must for every bookshelf. 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The Earthship Streaker-crewed by humans and uplifted dolphins and chimpanzees-discovers a derelict armada, perhaps left by the very first patrons, the fabled Progenitors. ![]() But is upstart humanity a patron or a client? Patron races demand centuries of indentured servitude from each uplifted client. Foremost among said traditions is uplift, which requires all spacefaring races to welcome newcomers into Galactic culture by breeding and genetically guiding each client species to full sapience-but at a price. ![]() Humanity’s explorations have revealed galaxies inhabited by millions of intelligent species interacting under ancient traditions. A starship crew of humans and dolphins skirts the brink of interstellar war in this epic adventure by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Postman. ![]() ![]() Both characters seek control of their bodies-Giselle through her strict eating regimen and Holly through excelling at sports. Giselle is a 22-year-old top medical student and also an anorexic who often seems lost and on the point of disintegration. The two are a study in contrasts, yet have interesting similarities of character. It is not for the faint hearted!Ĭhapters are written in the first person and alternate between Giselle and her younger sister, Holly. This is a book for readers willing to open themselves to a vivid story which is both haunting and compelling. Traumatic events are coloured by constant tension, secrecy and jealousy. In Skinny, her first novel, Ibi Kaslik weaves together an incredible number and variety of themes and plots. And hunger became my salvation after a while, hunger, my sexless, undemanding suitor, was my only constant friend. Naturally skinny, but not dangerously so, I trod the line between waif and child as I grew into a woman. Still, my own stiff regimen of stripping myself to the core and forcing myself to turn away from those curious eyes made me feel proud, if alienated I was trading my new-found power of flesh for something more trustworthy, something pure. ![]() It was me, and only me, who could control my cravings denying myself food was proof that I was stronger, better than most people. ![]() ![]() While I craved attention, I was terrified of letting someone else into my imperfect, hateful world. ![]() ![]() but as the battle over the race’s throne intensifies, and new players on the scene in Caldwell create mortal danger for the Brotherhood, Qhuinn finally learns the true definition of courage, and two hearts who are meant to be together. Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to being on his own. Ward brings together two of the most beloved people in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world-at last. ![]() ![]() 'The hottest collection of studs in romance' (New York Times Bestselling Author Angela Knight) returns as J. Fate seems to have taken these vampire soldiers in different directions. Lover at Last: 11 (Black Dagger Brotherhood) Mass Market Paperback 1 Oct. It’s hard to see the new couple together, but building your life around a pipe dream is just a heartbreak waiting to happen. And it’s about time: The male has found his perfect match in a Chosen female, and they are going to have a young-just as Qhuinn has always wanted for himself. ![]() Blay, after years of unrequited love, has moved on from his feelings for Qhuinn. Even as the prospect of having a family of his own seems to be within reach, he is empty on the inside, his heart given to another. Synopsis: The hottest collection of studs in romance (New York Times Bestselling Author Angela Knight) returns as J. Disavowed from his bloodline, shunned by the aristocracy, he has finally found an identity as one of the most brutal fighters in the war against the Lessening Society. ![]() ![]() She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. ![]() ![]() She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. ![]() |