![]() ![]() ![]() Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. In Shardik, Adams sets a different yet equally compelling tale in a far-off fantasy world. Physical Information: 1.9" H x 5.3" W x 5.9" (1.05 lbs)Ī gripping tale of war, adventure, horror, and romance, Shardik is a remarkable exploration of mankind's universal desire for divine incarnation.Richard Adams' Watership Down was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a stunning work of the imagination, and an acknowledged modern classic. ![]() Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks Contributor(s): Adams, Richard (Author), Lee, John (Read by)īinding Type: Compact Disc - See All Available Formats & Editions ![]()
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![]() ![]() He is not concerned with how she feels emotionally. He provides pleasure as a means of rewarding her for getting her body to respond to his liking. When he says shh, she becomes quiet, when he says come she comes. ![]() Of course don't all men want this from women? Men want complete control over women's bodies and shout out commands making their bodies respond upon his commands. Julian is trying to teach Nora the ways in which he enjoys being pleased. ![]() Nora is not being punished, yet Julian does hurt Nora but in a Sexual way that increases his and her pleasure. The author gives you a different type of fear for Nora. Nora is going to make him believe that she is falling in love with him so he will let her go. Julian says he is protecting her from the world. Julian kidnaps Nora because she went out with jake and kissed him. I would not waste your time reading this one when there are better choices available. There are much better choices than this oneĬaptive in the dark is a better written series than this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a woman in her prime, a stalwart advocate of the System. Mielikki Neith is the investigator charged with discovering how this tragedy occurred. Denounced, arrested and interrogated by a machine that reads your life history from your brain, she dies in custody. She is off the grid in a society where the grid is everything. ![]() She runs a lending library and conducts business by barter. Every action is seen, every word is recorded.ĭiana Hunter is a refusenik, a has-been cult novelist who lives in a house with its own Faraday cage: no electronic signals can enter or leave. Near-future Britain is not just a nation under surveillance but one built on it: a radical experiment in personal transparency and ambient direct democracy. ‘ is the missing, but somehow logical, link between David Mitchell and Terry Pratchett.’ Independent ![]() ![]() ‘Nick Harkaway: bonkers, brilliant and hilarious … Effervescent, clever and entirely fantastic.’ Sunday Times ‘The best thing he’s ever written … It is an astonishing piece of construction, complex and witty … It is a magnificent achievement … He’s never written a bad book, but this is the one that’ll see him mentioned in the same breath as William Gibson and David Mitchell … This book seriously just destroyed me with joy.’ Warren Ellis It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.' Emily St. ' Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can’t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of her historical novels fall into two general categories: biographical novels about queens, among them Anne Boleyn, Isabella I of Castile, and Catherine of Aragon and novels set in East Anglia centered around the fictitious town of Baildon (patterned largely on Bury St. However, the murders still show characteristic Norah Lofts elements. Norah Lofts chose to release her murder-mystery novels under the pen name Peter Curtis because she did not want the readers of her historic fiction to pick up a murder-mystery novel and expect classic Norah Lofts historical fiction. ![]() She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. Lofts was born in Shipdham, Norfolk in England and died in 1983 in Bury St Edmunds. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm surprised the restaurant has let me wait it out here in this booth for so long. I've been heartbroken for a solid year, so her not showing up feels just as crippling as the last 365 days have felt. ![]() I can't say that her choice has broken my heart because that would mean my heart was still whole to be broken. Most of me believed she wouldn't show up today, but a small part of me still held out hope. Which means, obviously, she isn't coming. Which means she's had twenty-one hours to spare and she's still not here. It's been almost twenty-four hours since I saw her pick up the manuscript and close her door. If she started the manuscript right after I dropped it off, she would have finished the first section by 3 a.m.īut it's almost midnight. ![]() She could have easily read 23,000 words in three hours. There are roughly 23,000 words in the first five chapters, before she would have gotten to the note. ![]() There were 83,456 words in the manuscript I dropped off at her front door last night. But if that doesn't happen and you never show, I'll still be grateful to you until the day I die." Every November 9th I'll wait for you, hoping one day you'll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again. "And if you don't show up today, I'll be there next year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of all the primarchs of the Legiones Astartes, Alpharius was without a doubt the most steeped in mystery, legend, contradiction and deliberate falsification. In truth, Alpharius Omegon was actually a pair of identical twin brothers, one named Alpharius and the other Omegon. Omegon, twin-primarch of the Alpha LegionĪn ancient Remembrancer's illustration of Alpharius, primarch of the Alpha Legion during the Great Crusade, taken from Carpinus' Speculum Historiale.Īlpharius Omegon, also known as the " Aleph Null," " The Hydra," the " Threefold Serpent," " The Final Configuration" and the " Last Primarch," was one of the twenty primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind in the earliest days of the Imperium of Man, just after the end of the Age of Strife in the 30 th Millennium. We are Alpha Legion and we take the long view." We will not suffer the short-sightedness of our brother Legions, nor the averted gaze of the wider Imperium. ![]() We will not allow our compact to fracture. We are a union of the alike and the like-minded. We have many heads but we act as one – one Legion with a single will. It is a time of confusion, and realigned loyalty. " Before we go, let me say this: I understand the conflict in your hearts, how one may beat for duty while the other bleeds for your Legion brothers who will be sacrificed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the book, the sweep & grandeur of a tumultuous era in British & European history is vividly recounted as Ashe describes the origins & development of the Arthurian legend-a legend that seems to grow ever more enchanting. But his study also investigates the histories behind other Arthurian phenomena, such as the key concepts of knighthood & chivalry. ![]() ![]() Riothamus, an actual 5th-century British monarch, is the figure whom Ashe painstakingly identifies. After challenging previous assumptions about where Arthur's court & other remnants can be found, Ashe identifies the "real" King Arthur & provides powerful evidence to support his theory. He then illustrates that a great deal of Geoffrey's history, which set out ot depict events & persons of 5th-century Britain, was based on fact. In this study, drawing upon myriad sources both literary & historical, Ashe traces the legend of Arthur to its roots in the 12th-century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth. In this book, the distinguished scholar Geoffrey Ashe offers convincing proof that King Arthur not only existed, but was more like the Arthur of legend than historians have previously suspected. ![]() Myths, legends & literary mysteries mix with maps, relics & historical facts in "The Discovery of King Arthur." Scholars, students & general readers of all ages have wondered for centuries about whether Britain was ever really ruled by an Arthur who held court at a place called Camelot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Historical fiction at its finest, Echo Mountain is celebration of finding your own path and becoming your truest self. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie.Įllie is a girl who takes matters into her own hands, and determined to help her father she will make her way to the top of the mountain in search of the healing secrets of a woman known only as “the hag.” But the hag, and the mountain, still have many untold stories left to reveal. But there is little joy after a terrible accident leaves her father in a coma. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the YearĪfter losing almost everything in the Great Depression, Ellie’s family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed wilderness of nearby Echo Mountain. ![]() A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.” – The New York Times Book ReviewĮcho Mountain is an acclaimed best book of 2020!Īn NPR Best Book of the Year “There has never been a better time to read about healing, of both the body and the heart. Synopsis: ★ “ Historical fiction at its finest.” – The Horn Book ![]() ![]() ![]() (Joseph Anderson was the secretary to the First Presidency, and as such, he sat in on First Presidency meetings and took minutes of those meetings. McKay became president.īut, immediately upon moving into the president’s office, McKay announced that Clare would continue to be his secretary, she having filled that role for 16 years by that time. Grant, and he assumed he would have the same role when David O. Joseph Anderson had been the personal secretary to George Albert Smith and, I think, Heber J. McKay originally took on Middlemiss as his personal sectary in 1935, but his choice to retain her in that role when he became president of the church in 1951 was unusual. ![]() ![]() What follows here is a co-post to that interview (a shorter post with excerpts and some discussion.ĭavid O. President McKay’s biographer, Gregory Prince, recently discussed Clare Middlemiss in an interview at the Latter-day Saint history blog From the Desk. McKay administration, his personal secretary (Clare Middlemiss) was one such person who has not commonly been discussed, but who had an impact on the Church. ![]() In a church hierarchy made up of humans, it is possible for people who we don’t usually think about to have power and influence in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Carthak (setting for Emperor Mage) is south of Tortall across the Inland Sea, while to the west lie the Yamani Islands and the Copper Isles. To the east are Galla, Tusaine, and Tyra, and past them are Maren and Sarain. Tortall and Scanra are at war in the last two Protector books and the first Trickster book, Trickster's Choice. To the north is Scanra, a wild and somewhat barbaric country. The capital of Tortall is Corus, located near the western coast on the Emerald Ocean. The Tortall series is named for the country in which the majority of the works are set, Tortall. The Tortall universe is a fictional setting shared by six book series: Song of the Lioness Immortals, or Wild Magic Protector of the Small Daughter of the Lioness, or Tricksters and Beka Cooper ( Provost's Dog) the Numair Chronicles, as well as multiple short stories. This is a list of works by American fantasy author Tamora Pierce. ![]() |