6/30/2023 0 Comments Arabella by Georgette Heyer![]() Much to Arabella's dismay, rather than being brutally set-down, as she intended, Beaumaris is deeply amused. Beau assumes she's simply another young lady throwing herself in his path, which goads the impetuous Arabella into pretending she's an heiress. ![]() Updated edition of the beloved classic by the Queen of Regency romance herself, Georgette Heyer, featuring a new Foreword by New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James.Īrabella's one little while lie has spread through the ton like wildfire…Īrabella Tallant, modest daughter of a country clergyman, is on her way to her first London Season when her carriage breaks down outside the estate of the wealthy and bored Mr. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Fledgling butler![]() ![]() Along with "cyberpunk" novelist William Gibson, Terri Sutton of the LA Weekly listed Butler among " science fiction's most thoughtful writers." Vibe magazine's Carol Cooper declared that what Gibson "does for young, disaffected white fans of high tech and low life, Octavia Estelle Butler does for people of color. "It just happened." Butler-the most recognized black woman writer in the genre-became one of sci-fi's leading lights with a career that included publishing the Patternmaster series, the Xenogenesis Trilogy, the celebrated historical fantasy Kindred, and the highly praised dystopian saga The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents, among other works. "I didn't decide to become a science fiction writer," Octavia Butler claimed in an interview with Frances M. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments It he had been with me![]() Maybe they should be together.īut come August, things will change forever. That still doesn’t stop the way Autumn feels every time she and Finn cross paths, and the growing, nagging thought that maybe things could have been different. Autumn has her boyfriend Jamie, and her close-knit group of friends.Īnd Finn has become that boy at school, the one everyone wants to be around. Now, they do their best to ignore each other. A New York Times BestsellerAn achingly authentic and raw portrait of love, regret, and the life-altering impact of the relationships we hold closest to us, this YA bestseller is perfect for fans of Kasie West, All the Bright Places, and Dear Evan Hansen If he had been with me, everything would have been different… Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The last graduate paperback![]() After having lived a life without a father, and being rejected by her father’s family (because of her grandmother’s prophecy that she’ll destroy the enclaves that protect the wizarding world), El wants to keep the inevitable deaths from happening to anyone else. During graduation, her father died in order to save El’s pregnant mother from an indestructible mawmouth. Perhaps part of this drive of hers comes from the tragic story of her parents who were Scholomance students. She is, after all, determined to save everyone. ![]() Unfortunately, El doesn’t like group projects, but maybe this is the one time she’ll put up with it. In fact, it will require the help of the entire school to make it work. It has a lot of moving parts and requires a skill-set beyond something an single person can provide. And they mean everyone.Įl doesn’t do anything halfway, and this plan is huge. El, along with her allies and newfound friend Orion, have decided that this is the last year of the Scholomance and make a plan so over-the-top only El could have come up with it: make it so everyone can graduate. ![]() Unfortunately, over the years, the deadly monsters have decided that the Scholomance is the best hunting ground for tasty snacks (i.e.: the students). ![]() ![]() As a young witch, she’s a senior attending the Scholomance, a school of magic that is meant to prepare children for a world of deadly monsters. In A DEADLY EDUCATION, we met Galadriel–better known as El–our heroine with an affinity for destructive magic. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Preloved by Shirley Marr![]() She takes milk and sugar with her tea much to the dismay of her oolong drinking friends and eats chicken feet much to the disgust of her Aussie friends. Her passion is to distil her cultural heritage in dark and unusual ways through the lens of resilient young women. Shirley describes herself as having a Western Mind and an Eastern Heart and writes in the middle where both collide. She is still a Bespectacled Accountant by day and a Masked Writer at night. It was while she was working on a very dry Accounting PhD that she realised she’d rather be writing down her dark, twisted daydreams instead. Her earlier titles are Fury, Preloved and Little Jiang. Shirley’s latest title is All Four Quarters of the Moon and is a celebration of sisterhood and Chinese culture. ![]() A Glasshouse of Stars, based on her experiences of being a child migrant was the Children Book Council of Australia’s (CBCA) Book of the Year for Younger Readers in 2022. ![]() ![]() Shirley Marr is an award winning children’s author and a first generation Chinese-Australian living in sunny Perth. ![]() |