Author: J.K. Jones
Publisher: J.K. Jones
ISBN: 173873188X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Death. Destruction. Decay. The fate of the clans hangs in the balance as Ryu Suzuki faces the ultimate battle of his life. War is coming, and with it comes the looming threat of the Bloodhound Prince, a diabolical necromancer determined to destroy everything Ryu holds dear. With enemies at every turn and the fate of the world resting on his shoulders, Ryu must confront his past and work alongside the man who destroyed his life, Micah McCorbyn, the White Lotus, and his mate. But can Ryu set aside his hatred and anger for the greater good? Or will the thin line between enemy and mate lead to his downfall? With death, destruction, and decay lurking at every turn, Ryu must navigate treacherous alliances and confront his darkest fears to save the clans from certain doom. Will he rise to the occasion or fall to the Bloodhound Prince's wrath? Warning: this a dark M/M romance, M/M enemies-to-lovers romance that includes, violence, gore, M/M werewolf shifter, mm paranormal romance, mm urban fantasy, M/M possessive romance, and M/M second chance romance.
The Filthy Claws
Author: J.K. Jones
Publisher: J.K. Jones
ISBN: 173873188X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Death. Destruction. Decay. The fate of the clans hangs in the balance as Ryu Suzuki faces the ultimate battle of his life. War is coming, and with it comes the looming threat of the Bloodhound Prince, a diabolical necromancer determined to destroy everything Ryu holds dear. With enemies at every turn and the fate of the world resting on his shoulders, Ryu must confront his past and work alongside the man who destroyed his life, Micah McCorbyn, the White Lotus, and his mate. But can Ryu set aside his hatred and anger for the greater good? Or will the thin line between enemy and mate lead to his downfall? With death, destruction, and decay lurking at every turn, Ryu must navigate treacherous alliances and confront his darkest fears to save the clans from certain doom. Will he rise to the occasion or fall to the Bloodhound Prince's wrath? Warning: this a dark M/M romance, M/M enemies-to-lovers romance that includes, violence, gore, M/M werewolf shifter, mm paranormal romance, mm urban fantasy, M/M possessive romance, and M/M second chance romance.
Publisher: J.K. Jones
ISBN: 173873188X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Death. Destruction. Decay. The fate of the clans hangs in the balance as Ryu Suzuki faces the ultimate battle of his life. War is coming, and with it comes the looming threat of the Bloodhound Prince, a diabolical necromancer determined to destroy everything Ryu holds dear. With enemies at every turn and the fate of the world resting on his shoulders, Ryu must confront his past and work alongside the man who destroyed his life, Micah McCorbyn, the White Lotus, and his mate. But can Ryu set aside his hatred and anger for the greater good? Or will the thin line between enemy and mate lead to his downfall? With death, destruction, and decay lurking at every turn, Ryu must navigate treacherous alliances and confront his darkest fears to save the clans from certain doom. Will he rise to the occasion or fall to the Bloodhound Prince's wrath? Warning: this a dark M/M romance, M/M enemies-to-lovers romance that includes, violence, gore, M/M werewolf shifter, mm paranormal romance, mm urban fantasy, M/M possessive romance, and M/M second chance romance.
The Book of the New Sun
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9781473211971
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth. But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have a grander plans for Severian the torturer . . . ? This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9781473211971
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth. But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have a grander plans for Severian the torturer . . . ? This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.
Tooth and Claw
Author: Jo Walton
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765349095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Fantasy-roman.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765349095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Fantasy-roman.
Fish in Exile
Author: Vi Khi Nao
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566894506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Praise for Vi Khi Nao: "Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures." —Carole Maso How do you bear the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent's grief all the more clearly. Vi Khi Nao was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam. Vi's work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. Her poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, was the winner of 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her novel, Fish In Exile, will make its first appearance in Fall 2016 from Coffee House Press. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566894506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Praise for Vi Khi Nao: "Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures." —Carole Maso How do you bear the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent's grief all the more clearly. Vi Khi Nao was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam. Vi's work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. Her poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, was the winner of 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her novel, Fish In Exile, will make its first appearance in Fall 2016 from Coffee House Press. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University.
The Tiger Claw
Author: Shauna Singh Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0676976212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Shauna Singh Baldwin first heard of the mysterious story of Noor Inayat Khan (codename Madeleine) at The Safe House, an espionage-themed restaurant in Milwaukee. A former Dutch spy told her of the brave and beautiful Indo-American woman who left her family in London, England to become a spy in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. The story immediately intrigued Baldwin, inspiring her to travel to Europe, seek out the places where Noor lived, interview the people who knew her and discover more about the enigmatic woman. The Giller Prize finalist The Tiger Claw — Baldwin’ s follow-up novel to her award-winning What The Body Remembers — was born from the silences, conflicting stories and significant gaps she discovered along the way. As the novel begins, we’re thrown into a bleak German prison cell with Noor, where she is shackled hand and foot and freezing from the winter’s cold. It is December 1943, the turning point in the war raging in Europe. Noor’s captor, Herr Vogel, allows her onionskin paper on which he directs her to write children’s stories. She does so, but also secretly writes letters to someone she addresses as “ma petite,” the spirit of the child she had conceived with Armand Rivkin, a French Jewish musician and the love of her life. Although she must keep the letters hidden from her captor, it is through these words to her unborn child, alternating with a thrilling third-person narrative, that we learn Noor’s courageous and heartbreaking story. Noor’s mother is an American from Boston who married a Sufi musician and teacher from India. Growing up in France, Noor is extremely close with her liberal Muslim father, but when he dies, Noor’s conservative uncle Tajuddin and her brother Kabir govern the family. Uncle Tajuddin and Kabir disapprove of Noor’s love for Armand, and as the men of the family in 1930s France, they have the legal right to stop her engagement. Noor is faced then with the choice between defying her family and turning against her heart. She stops seeing Armand, but is devastated and lonely. Once the war begins, Noor’s family heads to England while Armand’s family stays. When Germany invades France, Noor despairs of ever seeing Armand again, until Kabir unwittingly introduces her to his new friend who is recruiting bilingual women for the resistance. Noor is offered training, and she accepts. She will help defeat the Germans, but her true purpose will be to find and reunite with Armand. As a resistance agent, Noor trains to be a radio operator, taking on a second identity — Nora Baker — one of many names she will eventually assume. When she arrives in France, she plays Anne-Marie Régnier — a woman caring for her sick aunt — and to other spies in her resistance network, she is known as “Madeleine.” She has secret rendezvous with other agents, transmits messages from various safe houses, and risks capture at every turn. She rents an apartment across the street from Drancy, the concentration camp where she knows Armand is being held. At great peril, she sends him a message — the tiger claw pendant she always wears for luck and courage. Noor must wade her way through oppression and hypocrisy from all sides: h her beloved Armand could be killed by the Germans at any time; her French and British colleagues fight the occupation of France while Britain still occupies India; she learns of dark family secrets; and, one by one, members of the spy network are being ratted out by a double agent. Betrayal can come from anyone. We know from the beginning that Noor will end up imprisoned, but who betrays her? Will she ever be released? Will Kabir find her? Will she and Armand be reunited? Baldwin paces the story like a nail-biting thriller, revealing only a little bit at a time. The Tiger Claw is packed with complex characters riding the line between good and evil. In the end, it is the reader who must be the judge, and decide where he or she stands.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0676976212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Shauna Singh Baldwin first heard of the mysterious story of Noor Inayat Khan (codename Madeleine) at The Safe House, an espionage-themed restaurant in Milwaukee. A former Dutch spy told her of the brave and beautiful Indo-American woman who left her family in London, England to become a spy in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. The story immediately intrigued Baldwin, inspiring her to travel to Europe, seek out the places where Noor lived, interview the people who knew her and discover more about the enigmatic woman. The Giller Prize finalist The Tiger Claw — Baldwin’ s follow-up novel to her award-winning What The Body Remembers — was born from the silences, conflicting stories and significant gaps she discovered along the way. As the novel begins, we’re thrown into a bleak German prison cell with Noor, where she is shackled hand and foot and freezing from the winter’s cold. It is December 1943, the turning point in the war raging in Europe. Noor’s captor, Herr Vogel, allows her onionskin paper on which he directs her to write children’s stories. She does so, but also secretly writes letters to someone she addresses as “ma petite,” the spirit of the child she had conceived with Armand Rivkin, a French Jewish musician and the love of her life. Although she must keep the letters hidden from her captor, it is through these words to her unborn child, alternating with a thrilling third-person narrative, that we learn Noor’s courageous and heartbreaking story. Noor’s mother is an American from Boston who married a Sufi musician and teacher from India. Growing up in France, Noor is extremely close with her liberal Muslim father, but when he dies, Noor’s conservative uncle Tajuddin and her brother Kabir govern the family. Uncle Tajuddin and Kabir disapprove of Noor’s love for Armand, and as the men of the family in 1930s France, they have the legal right to stop her engagement. Noor is faced then with the choice between defying her family and turning against her heart. She stops seeing Armand, but is devastated and lonely. Once the war begins, Noor’s family heads to England while Armand’s family stays. When Germany invades France, Noor despairs of ever seeing Armand again, until Kabir unwittingly introduces her to his new friend who is recruiting bilingual women for the resistance. Noor is offered training, and she accepts. She will help defeat the Germans, but her true purpose will be to find and reunite with Armand. As a resistance agent, Noor trains to be a radio operator, taking on a second identity — Nora Baker — one of many names she will eventually assume. When she arrives in France, she plays Anne-Marie Régnier — a woman caring for her sick aunt — and to other spies in her resistance network, she is known as “Madeleine.” She has secret rendezvous with other agents, transmits messages from various safe houses, and risks capture at every turn. She rents an apartment across the street from Drancy, the concentration camp where she knows Armand is being held. At great peril, she sends him a message — the tiger claw pendant she always wears for luck and courage. Noor must wade her way through oppression and hypocrisy from all sides: h her beloved Armand could be killed by the Germans at any time; her French and British colleagues fight the occupation of France while Britain still occupies India; she learns of dark family secrets; and, one by one, members of the spy network are being ratted out by a double agent. Betrayal can come from anyone. We know from the beginning that Noor will end up imprisoned, but who betrays her? Will she ever be released? Will Kabir find her? Will she and Armand be reunited? Baldwin paces the story like a nail-biting thriller, revealing only a little bit at a time. The Tiger Claw is packed with complex characters riding the line between good and evil. In the end, it is the reader who must be the judge, and decide where he or she stands.
Stan Winston's Realm of the Claw
Author: Stan Winston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781582406398
Category : Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When zookeeper Harrison Reed becomes plagued with strange, dream-like visions, he is forced to confront the unthinkable: that he and his brother are more than they seem. With enemies lurking in every corner and the allure of power corrupting at every turn, the truth must be discovered else his world... and his sanity... will be lost forever.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781582406398
Category : Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When zookeeper Harrison Reed becomes plagued with strange, dream-like visions, he is forced to confront the unthinkable: that he and his brother are more than they seem. With enemies lurking in every corner and the allure of power corrupting at every turn, the truth must be discovered else his world... and his sanity... will be lost forever.
Exile
Author: Shannon Messenger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442445971
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Sophie befriends the mythical AlicornNand puts her mysterious powers to the testNin this sequel to "Keeper of the Lost Cities."
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442445971
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Sophie befriends the mythical AlicornNand puts her mysterious powers to the testNin this sequel to "Keeper of the Lost Cities."
Searching for Safe Spaces
Author: Myriam Chancy
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1566395402
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Home. Exile. Return. Words heavy with meaning and passion. For Myriam Chancy, these three themes animate the lives and writings of dispossessed Afro-Caribbean women. Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, Chancy concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge. These Afro-Caribbean feminists probe the complex issues of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class that limit women's lives. They portray the harsh conditions that all too commonly drive women into exile, depriving them of security and a sense of belonging in their adopted countries -- the United States, Canada, or England. As they rework traditional literary forms, artists such as Joan Riley, Beryl Gilroy, M. Noubese Philip, Dionne Brand, Makeda Silvera, Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, Michelle Cliff, and Mari Chauvet give voice to Åfro-Caribbean women's alienation and longing to return home. Whether their return is realized geographically or metaphorically, the poems, fiction, and film considered in this book speak boldly of self-definition and transformation.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1566395402
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Home. Exile. Return. Words heavy with meaning and passion. For Myriam Chancy, these three themes animate the lives and writings of dispossessed Afro-Caribbean women. Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, Chancy concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge. These Afro-Caribbean feminists probe the complex issues of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class that limit women's lives. They portray the harsh conditions that all too commonly drive women into exile, depriving them of security and a sense of belonging in their adopted countries -- the United States, Canada, or England. As they rework traditional literary forms, artists such as Joan Riley, Beryl Gilroy, M. Noubese Philip, Dionne Brand, Makeda Silvera, Audre Lorde, Rosa Guy, Michelle Cliff, and Mari Chauvet give voice to Åfro-Caribbean women's alienation and longing to return home. Whether their return is realized geographically or metaphorically, the poems, fiction, and film considered in this book speak boldly of self-definition and transformation.
Herd Register
Author: American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
One of Those Russian Novels
Author: Kevin Cantwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982354230
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. The phrase 'Russian novel' suggests thickness, density, and richness. All those terms apply to Cantwell's poetry or, more precisely, to the life in the poems. These are active pieces that plunge into the thick of things and pulse with motion, regardless of whether the setting is past or present. They show as they describe or recollect, and they don't recollect in any apparent tranquility or with regret. 'A late cousin speaks, ' walking and talking the life of addiction--the needle, coffee, cannabis, the white rock--that culminates in the recognition of happiness, however sordid, however self-isolating. Old friends reconnect at a convention's hotel bar, last to be seated and staying so far beyond closing that the management gives them an unsubtle hint, 'and yet we linger.' Three poems realize incidents from the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, a big paragraph of which is this book's epigraph. Poems on the deaths of artists and friends, even when they're very long gone, indeed--see 'Marlowe in Italy'--hail their subjects' follies and vices equally with their achievements. This is poetry teeming with light, darkness, color, movement, heat, cold, sound, and silence. Reading it is like watching a complicated, demanding movie or, in full consciousness, life--Ray Olson, Booklist
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982354230
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. The phrase 'Russian novel' suggests thickness, density, and richness. All those terms apply to Cantwell's poetry or, more precisely, to the life in the poems. These are active pieces that plunge into the thick of things and pulse with motion, regardless of whether the setting is past or present. They show as they describe or recollect, and they don't recollect in any apparent tranquility or with regret. 'A late cousin speaks, ' walking and talking the life of addiction--the needle, coffee, cannabis, the white rock--that culminates in the recognition of happiness, however sordid, however self-isolating. Old friends reconnect at a convention's hotel bar, last to be seated and staying so far beyond closing that the management gives them an unsubtle hint, 'and yet we linger.' Three poems realize incidents from the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, a big paragraph of which is this book's epigraph. Poems on the deaths of artists and friends, even when they're very long gone, indeed--see 'Marlowe in Italy'--hail their subjects' follies and vices equally with their achievements. This is poetry teeming with light, darkness, color, movement, heat, cold, sound, and silence. Reading it is like watching a complicated, demanding movie or, in full consciousness, life--Ray Olson, Booklist