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Stephen king cell ending book5/21/2023 He asked her to out The Shop, which she did by reuniting with Irv. Charlie went on to roast Rainbird and Hollister, but she gained one final mission from her dying dad. In the melee, Rainbird shot Andy, leaving him bleeding out. He tried to kill Andy and Charlie when the girl came to the facility to rescue her dad. In Stephen King's book, Rainbird was a lot more psychopathic. It was all to set up the final scene where he found her in pain and carted her off. She could tell he was a pawn made by The Shop, after all. It's not what her parents would want, plus she was grateful Rainbird saved her. However, Charlie refused to burn him, no longer wanting to be a monster. He knelt down, offering his life up after killing her mom, Vicky. Charlie then freed all the inmates and burned the place down, but when agents in fire-retardant suits came for her, Rainbird shot them dead. He mind-controlled Charlie with his final "push" and got her to flay him and Hollister. However, Andy was already dying and had one last bit of telepathy left. The shady boss, Hollister, tried to bargain, holding Andy hostage and making it clear that if Charlie incinerated her, the father would die too. However, Rainbird sent out a telepathic call, bringing Charlie into the facility where she razed the place. There was a lot of collateral damage, though, so Rainbird was placed in a cell too. The Shop apprehended Andy after he battled fellow telepath, Rainbird, creating an illusion for Charlie to flee Irv's farm.
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Nico's Fire by Sui Lynn5/21/2023 I loved the main characters as well as all the additional people who are turning out to be part of the slowly forming team. His support is unwavering, and while he wants nothing more than to claim Jude, he shows admirable restraint, wanting to make sure Jude is ready for ‘forever’. He doesn’t even care that Jude is human, but is delighted when he finds out there is more to the man than he first thought. Nico is a daemon who has waited for his mate for a very long time. He carries a secret that he has no idea how to deal with, and when his life is threatened, he doesn’t only have to figure out how to survive, but how to tame the power of fire that suddenly emerges in him. Jude is a character from the first book, an Inquisitor for the pope, and he turns out to be much more interesting than I ever suspected. More bits and pieces of this creative mythology are added, and the post-apocalyptic world of gargoyles and the Elementals, or Makers, who can bring them to life, grows by leaps and bounds. This second volume of the series is every bit as fascinating, emotionally intense, and mysterious as the first.
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Jane unlimited5/21/2023 Fortunately for me, that appears to be one of my favorite genres, so hooray. I seem to be in a rut, involving heist books set in mysterious, somewhat sentient houses. Cashore is one of the rare novelists who d … ( more) Read Jane, Unlimited and remember why The New York Times has raved, "Some authors can tell a good story some can write well. But together, all the choices will lead her to the truth. She might fall in love, she might lose her life, she might come face-to-face with herself. She finds herself in a gothic horror story, a space opera, and an extraordinary fantasy realm. One choice leads Jane into a heist mystery. Jane remembers her aunt telling her: "If anyone ever invites to you to Tu Reviens, promise me that you'll go." What Jane doesn't know is that the house will offer her five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her life. So she's easily swept away when a glamorous, capricious, and wealthy acquaintance from years ago asks Jane to accompany her to a gala at the extravagant island mansion called Tu Reviens. Jane has lived a mostly ordinary life, raised by her recently deceased aunt Magnolia, whom she counted on to turn life into an adventure. "A wild gift for readers who like books that take them to unexpected places."â?Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Wood HTML: An instant New York Times bestsellerâ?from the award-winning author of the Graceling Realm seriesâ?about adventure, grief, storytelling, and finding yourself in a world of seemingly infinite choices.
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All hell let loose by max hastings5/21/2023 This ‘everyman’s story’ employs top-down analysis and bottom-up testimony to reveal the meaning of this vast conflict and ultimately answer the question ‘what was World War II like?’. Poland Betrayed No Peace, Little War Blitzkriegs in the West Britain Alone The Mediterranean Barbarossa Moscow Saved, Leningrad Starved. The eminent historian Max Hastings here encapsulates life through war for the ordinary people involved –soldiers, sailors and airmen British housewives and Indian peasants SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad: Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled ‘all hell let loose’. The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history – World War II.
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Stone fruit novel5/21/2023 As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties - Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother sister and Bron with her religious teenage sister who doesn’t fully grasp the complexities of gender identity. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. An exhilarating and tender debut graphic novel that is an ode to the love and connection shared among three women and the child they all adore.Ģ022 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize WINNERĢ022 Lambda Literary Award WINNER, LGBTQ ComicsĢ021 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoreeīron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie.
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A Dog So Small by Philippa Pearce5/21/2023 The youngest of four children of a flour miller and corn merchant, Ernest Alexander Pearce, and his wife Gertrude Alice née Ramsden, Philippa Pearce was born in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, and brought up there on the River Cam at the Mill House. The Battle of Bubble and Squeak inspired a two-part television adaptation in Channel 4's Talk, Write and Read series of educational programming. The Shadow Cage and other tales of the supernatural (1977), Minnow on the Say, Bubble and Squeak, and Sattin Shore were all Carnegie Medal runners-up. Pearce wrote over 30 books, including A Dog So Small (1962), Minnow on the Say, (1955), The Squirrel Wife (1971), The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (1978) and The Way To Sattin Shore (1983). Pearce was four further times a commended runner-up for the Medal. Her most famous work is the time slip fantasy novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Philippa Pearce OBE (1920-2006) was an English author of children's books.
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Lauren wilkinson books5/21/2023 But doing so will change everything she believes about what it means to be a spy, a lover, and a good American. In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him, and ultimately, have a hand in the coup that will bring him down. AMERICAN SPY is a Cold War thriller that both embraces and transcends the spy genre telling the captivating story of Marie Mitchell, a Black FBI agent who gets recruited by the CIA for a mysterious mission in West Africa. She's brilliant and talented, but she's also a black woman working in an all-white boys' club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork - until she's recruited to a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso, whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention. Lauren Wilkinson is a first time novelist of extraordinary intelligence and talent. Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? 'There has never been anything like it' MARLON JAMES (GQ) 'A whole lot more than just a spy thriller, wrapping together the ties of family, of love and of country' BARACK OBAMA SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
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Touched elisa5/21/2023 Still, I saw a LOT of similarities to Twilight, but somehow I was able to overlook that fact in this book. It was in my opinion way, way better than the first one. It was about a couple who got pregnant in high school, ended up losing the baby and then splitting up – meeting again in college and getting back together, only the guy had been making it a habit to go to Mexico and sleep with prostitutes and apparently got one PREGNANT! But the worst part is that this dumb girl takes him back!!! But I digress… I am glad that I read the second book in the Touched Saga. I’ve only ever left a book series unfinished on purpose ONE time, and it was because I really hated the book. But then I thought about it, and I decided that I was going to read the second book anyway – not just because I was bored, but because I really hate to leave things unfinished. And, I said that I would probably only read the second book if I got bored. Just a fair warning – there are mild spoilers in this review!! Alright, so I reviewed book #1 in this series the other week, and I don’t think I was very nice…(I only gave it 2 out of 5 stars).
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King of Carnage by R.E. Bond5/21/2023 It’s safe to say that you know you’ve made it as a horror writer when your book scares the King of horror. But where could you possibly go after reading some of the best horror and thriller novels around? Well, as an avid reader himself, Stephen King has a few helpful recommendations. Yet after you’ve read all of King’s thrills and chills from front to back, and then returned to a few of his greatest hits for a second go, it’s time to move on to something new. Related: Master of Horror: 10 Best Stephen King Books A haunting exploration of fear and the everlasting impact of childhood trauma, King's horror novel terrified an entire generation of readers, introduced us to Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and served as the inspiration for a number of killer horror movie adaptations. The author has won over a dozen Bram Stoker Awards, four World Fantasy Awards, and was honored with the National Medal of Arts-all of which to say, Stephen King knows good horror when he sees it.Ī masterpiece like It is proof enough. From his first novel, Carrie, to 2019's The Institute, King conjures tales suffused with snappy dialogue and frank explorations of human nature's dark impulses. Since 1974, King has published over sixty novels, a handful of nonfiction books, and countless short stories, as well as penned graphic novels, a screenplay, a musical libretto, and a children’s book straight out of his own Dark Tower universe. Prolific author Stephen King is widely regarded as the Master of Horror.
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The first five people you meet in heaven5/21/2023 From this, Eddie learns his first lesson: there are no random events in life and all individuals and experiences are connected in some way.Įddie meets his former captain from the army, who reminds Eddie of their time together as prisoners of war in a forced labor camp in the Philippines. Eddie asks why the Blue Man is his first person, and he informs Eddie that, when Eddie was very young, he caused the car accident that killed him. During the accident, he makes a desperate attempt to save a little girl's life.Įddie arrives in Heaven, where he meets "the Blue Man." The Blue Man explains that Eddie is about to journey through Heaven's five levels, meeting someone who has had a significant impact upon his life or someone on whom his life had a significant impact. On his 83rd birthday, amusement park ride mechanic Eddie is killed in an accident when a ride breaks down. It was published by Hyperion and remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 95 weeks. It follows the life and death of a ride mechanic named Eddie (inspired by Albom's uncle ) who is killed in an amusement park accident and sent to heaven, where he encounters five people who had a significant impact on him while he was alive. The Five People You Meet In Heaven is a 2003 novel by Mitch Albom. |