![]() ![]() In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties, which have influenced societies since antiquity, have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence’, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. ![]() In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works… ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please note: This is an adult fantasy series with dark elements that may be triggering, including past emotional and physical trauma, violence, adult language, and explicit romance. So, I will fight for him, and he will kill for me, and if we need to become the villains, then so be it.īecause so long as I live in this world, I won't be used again. A means to get to where he wanted to go, and I paved that path in gold.' My life has been made up of gilded lies. Good thing I have a different king in my corner.īut even with the dark threat of Slade Ravinger, the other monarchs are coming for me. Libro GLOW (PLATED PRISONER 4) del autor RAVEN KENNEDY al MEJOR PRECIO nuevo o segunda mano en Casa del Libro México Opiniones de clientes. That's the thing when you turn against a king-everyone else turns against you. Because my wings may have been clipped, but I am not in a cage, and I'm finally free to fly from the frozen kingdoms I've been kept in. ![]() Like a phoenix caught fire, I will need to rise from the ashes and learn to wield my own power. A means to get to where he wanted to go, and I paved that path in gold." This dark adult fantasy romance is inspired by the myth of King Midas and the gold-touched woman who realizes her true worth. The Booktok hit: The Plated Prisoner series continues in audiobook four. ![]() ![]() ![]() Time for Dana is compressed, especially when she’s living in the past. The location is a Maryland plantation and she’s only summoned when Rufus Weylin (David Alexander Kaplan), the young son of a plantation owner, is in mortal danger. Then without warning, she is sucked into the year 1815. The year is 2016 and the location is Los Angeles. Dana James (Mallori Johnson) dreams of becoming a writer for television. The fantasy works because the reality works because both are fantastical. It’s been 43 years since the book was published and the mini-series (eight-episode season) was made for FX and is available on Hulu. Here, a slave bounces between timelines one in contemporary times and the other, in the aforementioned South. Part of the story takes place in the antebellum South and involves the miserable lives of enslaved Africans and the twisted world of white slaveholders. ![]() Butler and that novel is “Kindred.” Although wrapped in science-fiction, sort of, it’s believable. One of the most complicated novels written was penned by Octavia E. Black Financial Health Open dropdown menu. ![]() ![]() I started writing then and never stopped!" "He used to rip off covers from The New Yorker and pass them around and make us write a short story on whichever cover we got. Cooney, the truth changes the lives of three families-as the bonds of blood must withstand the strains of long-hidden secrets that are at last revealed.Ĭaroline Cooney knew in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer when "the best teacher I ever had in my life" made writing her main focus. In this riveting, heartrending story by thriller author Caroline B. Not only are their identities called into question, but so is the future of everyone involved. After the video is posted on YouTube, Missy and Claire realize that they've opened Pandora's box and much more than they ever imagined has come out. As part of the project the girls perform a dramatic scene that is captured on video at school. ![]() Missy just can't let go of those nagging questions, and decides to use a school project about scientific hoaxes to try to uncover the answers. So when Missy hears an expert discussing newborn babies on the radio, it makes her wonder about her family. ![]() It's an eerie connection-so eerie that Missy has questions she wants to put to her parents. Missy and her cousin Claire are best friends who finish each other's sentences and practically read each other's minds. Cooney's newest young adult thriller, "Three Black Swans." Lives are in the balance in bestselling author Caroline B. ![]() ![]() ![]() McHugh is upfront about what readers should expect of Emily. Her success in balancing these competing drives has helped her stand out in a crowded self-publishing field, writing books that readers both love and hate but can’t put down. This love triangle, and McHugh’s effort to honestly depict the dynamics of an abusive relationship, has drawn readers to her work while vexing them at the same time.īy engaging with these frustrated readers over social media and other channels, sympathizing with them but standing by her vision of the characters, McHugh has earned hundreds of thousands of fans as well as a recent deal with Simon & Schuster’s Atria imprint. The reason Emily is not liked is that despite the characters’ immediate attraction and Gavin’s seductive lines-like, “Every part of you was made for me”-she can’t bring herself to leave her abusive, narcissistic boyfriend, Dillon. ![]() ![]() Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work.Ī frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. “Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant” ( The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic series-a spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?įor over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from love-but all of that is about to change. ![]() ![]() She has also written a number of short stories, dramas for the stage, and dramas that have received airplay over the radio. ![]() She is known as a prolific writer of historical fiction, and continues to write to this day. It was also nominated for three more Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Picture, but was not the winner in any of these categories. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The novel Room was adapted into a feature film, and Donoghue wrote the screenplay for it. ![]() She won acclaim from the LGTB community, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian fiction for her 2000 novel Slammerkin. She also won the Stonewall Book Award for her 1995 novel Hood. ![]() She is best known for her novel Room, which became an international best seller with over 2 million copies sold to date. Born on October 24, 1969, Emma Donaghue is a well-known, multiple award-winning Irish-Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and literary historian. ![]() ![]() Cassidy’s powers will draw her into an epic fight that stretches through the worlds of the living and the dead, in order to save herself. Cass isn’t sure about her new mission, but she does know the sinister Red Raven haunting the city doesn’t belong in her world. But Lara tells Cassidy that as an In-betweener, their job is to send ghosts permanently beyond the Veil. ![]() Then she meets Lara, a girl who can also see the dead. In Scotland, Cass is surrounded by ghosts, not all of them friendly. When The Inspectres head to ultra-haunted Edinburgh, Scotland, for their new TV show, Cass-and Jacob-come along. In fact, her best friend, Jacob, just happens to be one. Cassidy Blake’s parents are The Inspectres, a (somewhat inept) ghost-hunting team. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not all my novels are about ghosts, though I seem to have a good relationship with the ethereal world. Unstrung offered a change of pace for me and readers. I remain humbled by reader reaction and the desire to hear more of Aubrey Ellis’s story. Foretold, book two, was an Amazon Editors' Pick the month it debuted. ![]() To my surprise, the book was the #1 bestseller in Kindle store during most of its debut month, and went on to become a RITA awards finalist, RT Book Reviews finalist, and winner of an Audie, for Best Paranormal Romance. When Ghost Gifts was published, I never thought I’d write about ghosts again. Along the way, ideas emerged, leading to the books I've written, and Echo Moon is among my favorites-it is the final novel in the Ghost Gifts series. In truth, I’m a girl from Long Island who fell in love with the South and ended up calling New England home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trigiani mines her own Italian roots with the character Alda Ducci, a young woman with her own secrets, who, as Loretta’s secretary and friend, navigates the trials of love and fame with her. ![]() The focus is on Young’s close relationship with her mother and sisters, her affair with Spencer Tracy, her close friendship with David Niven, and most of all, her rumored romance with the married Clark Gable while shooting The Call of the Wild on location, as well as the extraordinary measures she went through to hide the subsequent pregnancy at a time when adultery and a child out of wedlock destroyed careers. The author’s ( The Shoemaker’s Wife) impeccable research and lush writing style recreates a plausible day-to-day look into the actress’s life as a staunch Catholic living and working in Hollywood, beginning in the days of the Hays Code of 1930, which imposed strict moral rules on film content. Trigiani’s newest fictionalizes Loretta Young’s life, both through her eyes and those of an invented personal secretary, whose closeness with the actress ties the narrative threads together. ![]() |