As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns-and grudges-aside and work together, for if they can’t stop this mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love…and first betrayal.īut when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people start to whisper. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang-a network of criminals far above the law. The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.Ī blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. These Violent Delights Book 1 of These Violent Delights Duet By Chloe Gong Hardcover LIST PRICE 19.
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I will not give away any more plot, which is quite twisty, but I will go on a little about why I loved this so much.įirst and foremost, the narration is outstanding. Unable to reach their father, they decide to seek out their mysterious Great-Aunt Haddie in a town called Snoring-by-the-Sea. Only it turns out their cousin isn't in London and they are stranded. Then one day their father has to go on one of his portrait-painting trips and leaves the kids with their cousin in London. It's been long years since anyone's seen her and the Hardscrabbles have precious few memories of her. But no one really knows what happened to the mother. These kids are outcasts in their hometown of Little Tunks because their mother disappeared and the whole town suspects Otto killed her and their father buried her in the backyard. This is the story of the three Hardscrabble siblings: Otto, Lucia, and Max. I wanted it to be longer, or at least be the start of a series, but I believe it's just an awesome little standalone gem I'll have to reread soon and often. And it's over too soon! The Kneebone Boy straight charmed the crap out of me. It's Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl and dare I say a touch of the ol' J.K. (Or you can use my bagels from-scratch recipe using my pre-blended gfJules Flour.) YOU can make bagels anytime YOU want them! And since it uses my easy gfJules Bread Mix, there’s hardly even anything to add – just dump the mix in with the liquids and yeast, mix, roll ’em up, boil ’em and bake ’em. You know what I mean: if you have to toast it from the get-go, there’s just not a lot to get excited about with pre-made, frozen gluten free bagels. The gluten free bagel varieties I’ve tasted have been ok when toasted, but they’re nearly all frozen so they lack that bagel texture - that reach out and squeeze it and watch it bounce back quality (what do you call that?). This gluten free bagel recipe puts the power to make incredible fresh bagels in your hands. Until I developed this gluten free bagel recipe, it had been a long while since I’d had a really great bagel. They aren’t scared they’re just in it for sweets. The now-extinguished penny-for-the-guy, by comparison, offered a simpler, less costly and more direct transaction between kids and adults: handfuls of loose change given in tribute, for the stuffing of old clothes and tights with balled up newspaper.īut it’s also the way that trick-or-treating leaches any real sense of fear from the traditions of Halloween – for the kids at least. I hate the fact that supermarkets cashing in twice over, with the rinky-dink witch and zombie costumes shelved right next to the bags of orange and black themed candy. It’s partly the arrant commercialism of the event. There are worse things in the world, but still I do get riled at the rise of trick-or-treating in the UK. Lady SchrapnellĪ descendant of the aristocrat Tossie, Lady Schrapnell is an influential and rich woman with an obsession to reconstruct the Coventry Cathedral to its last detail. But due to the disruption in the time continuum, Verity and Ned have to do multiple attempts at fixing the meddling with history and characters in the time periods. Verity is Ned’s contact once he travels to the time period to accomplish their unified tasks. She is posing as Verity Brown, a distant family member of the Tossie’s family lineage. She is a historian and time-traveler tasked with a mission to travel to the Victorian Era and retrieve information from Tocelyn ‘Tossie’ Mering’s diary regarding the bishop’s bird stump. He is again tasked with traveling to the Victorian Era to fix the disruption brought on to the time continuum by another time traveler. Due to the time jumps he suffers from time lag which causes disorientation. He travels to 1940 to locate the item before the destruction of the cathedral during World War II. He is one of the travelers tasked with retrieving a ‘bird stump’ by Lady Schrapnell with an aim of restoring the Coventry Cathedral. The protagonist in the narrative, Ned is an Oxford University historian from the 21st century in the year 2057 who time-travels back in time. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Over the horizon came ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There went the good old days, when humans got killed only by each other. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the Native Americans in 1492. We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn’t win. Nominee, 2018 Audie Awards - Audiobook of the Year Zachary Quinto (STAR TREK, NOS482, HEROES) and Kate Mulgrew (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, STAR TREK: VOYAGER) starred in the epic Expeditionary Force audio drama HOMEFRONT Armageddon, Book 8, debuted at #1 on all of Audible. The first audiobook in the series, Columbus Day, was one of five finalists for the prestigious Audie Award in 2018 and has been optioned for film and television by Milmar Pictures (AIR FORCE ONE, CASTLE, HOLLOW MAN). Bray) Expeditionary Force is a New York Times best-selling military science-fiction series that will be composed of 14 novels. 13, 2016 Genre: Science Fictionįrom multimillion dollar, best-selling author Craig Alanson (and narrated by fan-favorite R.C. Bray Length: 16 hours 23 minutes Series: Expeditionary Force, Book 1 Publisher: Podium Publishing Released: Dec. INDEPENDENT ‘AUDIO-FIRST’ ENTERTAINMENT STUDIO RELEASES FIRST-EVER TRAILER FOR AUDIBLE’S #1 SCI-FI AUDIOBOOK SERIES: EXPEDITIONARY FORCE BY CRAIG ALANSONĪuthor: Craig Alanson Narrator: R.C. However, not only is the reader unskilled in narrating anything with words greater than three syllables and occasionally in a foreign language, the production itself is DEFECTIVE. This is an excellent story that has deserved several re-reads, and I was looking forward to the audible version. Then one savage act changes everything, testing not only their fragile bond, but Gabriel's will to live. On a trip to Mexico to set up drug supply lines, a violent confrontation proves they've got each other's backs - to a degree. But distractions are nothing short of deadly right now, not with his boss's impending marriage to Botelli's sister, which will ensure peace - and massive drug profits - for both families. Miguel Ortega doesn't trust anyone, but tough, street-smart Gabriel brings out the conquistador in his Spanish blood. But that was before he had a name to pin on that anonymous one-off-Miguel Ortega. Gabriel can't afford emotional entanglements. One red-hot sexual encounter in a bar's back room has put two years of deep undercover work in jeopardy - two years of danger and deception as he worked his way into crime boss Ricco Botelli's inner circle. SFPD detective Gabriel Sandalini might as well have put a gun to his own head. In this town, danger moves to a steamy Latin beat. Kate’s novel is based on the accumulated dairies of her grandmother, Lana, and her aunt Caroline, handwritten volumes documenting the family’s intimate history-including Lana’s infidelity with a longtime lover on a nearby island.Īt the last minute, only Kate, teenaged daughter Chelsea, and Chelsea’s friend Lulu set out for Heart Island. While husband Joe elects to spend a few days in the city during the annual visit and son Theo refuses even to attend, Kate is not as fortunate, anxious to tell Billie the news about her upcoming novel before the book’s release. Unger builds her mystery around the geography of Heart Island, a remote family enclave in the Adirondacks, where matriarch Billie Burke dominates her husband, son and daughter with an aggressive, critical personality. It was an enjoyable book, but I am torn as to how to rate it. Not to mention, critical praise decorated the cover and the beginning inside pages of 1Q84, assuring me that experts of literature had a fulfilling experience with the novel, and I certainly would too. I devoured The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and yearned for more, and the prospect of 1157 more pages seemed absolutely delightful. I was enchanted by Murakami’s elegant prose. Let’s just say, I own War and Peace, but I have yet to pick it up.īut, contrary to my nature, I had absolutely no reservations about 1Q84, and enthusiastically bought the 1157-page beast of a novel after having just finished Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. If a book exceeds that limit, it takes a little more procrastination and a lot more hemming and hawing over whether the novel is worth the effort. 800 pages is my mental limit for carelessly picking up a book and diving in. Hugo-finalist Scalzi avoids political allegory, promoting individual compassion and honesty and downplaying patriotic loyalty-except in the case of the inscrutable Obin, hive-mind aliens whose devotion to Zoë will remind fans of the benevolent role Captain Nemo plays in Verne's Mysterious Island When the colonists are dropped onto a different planet than the one they expected, they find themselves caught in a confrontation between the human Colonial Union and the alien confederation called the Conclave. (2005), and Jane Sagan are leading a normal life as administrator and constable on the colonial planet Huckleberry with their adopted daughter, Zoë, when they get conscripted to run a new colony, ominously named Roanoke. (2006), John Perry, the hero of Old Man's War Several years after the events of The Ghost Brigades Full of whodunit twists and explosive action, Scalzi's third SF novel lacks the galactic intensity of its two related predecessors, but makes up for it with entertaining storytelling on a very human scale. |
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