![]() Tirra Lirra by the River brought to mind for me Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, and Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. A book about the sweetness of escape, and the mix of pain and acceptance that comes with returning home. Her memory is imperfect, but the strength and resilience she shows over the years is nothing short of extraordinary. With grace and humor, Nora recounts her desire to escape, the way her marriage went wrong, the vanity that drove her to get a facelift, and one romantic sea voyage that has kept her afloat during her dark years. ![]() They help to nurse her back from pneumonia, and slowly let her in on the dark secrets of the neighborhood in the years that have lapsed. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London she forged a modest career as a seamstress and lived with two dear friends through the happiest years of her adult life.Īt home, the neighborhood children she remembers have grown into compassionate adults. ![]() Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age seventy. One of Australia’s most celebrated novels: one woman’s journey from Australia to London ![]()
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From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home. ![]() ![]() It will change the way you hear and see your own daily life.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. It's about real love and loyalty, about real music and musicians, about false glamour and true art. Now, more than her own survival is at risk-and her own preferences, musical and personal, are very much beside the point.īy turns tough and lyrical, fabulous and down-to-earth, War for the Oaks is a fantasy novel that's as much about this world as about the other one. War for the Oaks is a brilliantly entertaining fantasy novel that's as much about this world as about the imagined one.'A brilliantly imaginative book with plenty of magic, beauty, romance and. Then, walking home through downtown Minneapolis on a dark night, she finds herself drafted into an invisible war between the faerie folk. First published in 1987, War for the Oaks is one of the pioneers of the urban fantasy genre. A fantasy novel by Emma Bull and one of the pioneering works of Urban Fantasy, War for the Oaks is the story of Eddi McCandry, a Minneapolis rock singer who's just been kicked out of her band and breaking up with her boyfriend. ![]() But her boyfriend just dumped her, her band just broke up, and life could hardly be worse. Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy.Įddi McCandry sings rock and roll. ![]() ![]() If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. ![]() ![]() If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts-until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.įour queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.įor centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.Ī tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.Ī dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Toronto that follows a queer cast of characters racing to stop a serial killer whose crimes could expose the hidden world of faeries to humans. 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The San Angelo Police Department was dispatched to a Northside Apartment Complex for a shooting victim in the late afternoon hours of 4/28/23. The suspect (Kaya Paulhill-21yoa) was quickly taken into custody by responding officers and is currently facing charges of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. San Angelo, TX (May 1, 2023, 9:17am): One male is in custody after a shooting investigation that left a 33-year-old male hospitalized this weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() this book is so good, you'll want to keep your copy under lock and key,' * Birmingham Sunday Mercury * 'There are dozen of fascinating folk legends packed into this book' * New Books * 'The text is rich in illustrative stories and annecdotes' * Contemporary Review * An enjoyable book * Morning Star * 'Grovier introduces a gallery of rogues and tells their fates with relish' * Daily Mail * 'A roiling, boiling, seething stew of passion and conflict.' * Courier Mail, Australia * 'Reading Grovier reminds us of the desperation, corruption and crime that swirled around Newgate' * Sue Baker, Publishing News * 'Grovier's book brings together the lives of forgotten figures and re-examines the prison's links with more famous individuals' * Publishing News * 'Lively history. ![]() a valuable piece of research' * Ryedale Gazette & Herald * 'A thrilling history of a very English goal. 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