![]() Bestselling author Kathryn Lasky soars to magnificent new heights here, giving us a bold tale of bravery and romance. As Maid Marian, Matty joins Fynn and his Merry Men, famously robbing from the rich to give to the poor.You thought that you knew the legend, but this is the untold story. Determined to fight, Matty's friend Fynn becomes Robin Hood. Before she was Maid Marian, Robin Hoods legendary love, she was simply known. The sheriff of Nottingham is rising to power, and a true king has been kidnapped. Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian by Kathryn Lasky Related Edition: Original. The beautiful merlin Marigold becomes Matty's closest winged companion and her fiercest ally.It is a treacherous time in England. She begins to understand their thoughts and even speak their language. ![]() But when Matty's mother is murdered before her very eyes and her father, a nobleman, is reduced to poverty, Matty's life changes.As the daughter of Nottingham's most famous falconer, she finds a new destiny in the hawks her father keeps. Before she was Maid Marian, she was Matty.Matty has been raised to dance well, embroider exquisitely, and marry nobly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() By the end of the book she's well on her way to reaching her full potential both with her magic and without. I liked the connection between the Red Queen, the White Queen and the Black King (you're gonna have to read to find out what that is!) but I wish there was more interaction with these characters.Īlice is supposed to defeat the White Queen and with all the build up to that final showdown the end result was a bit anticlimactic.Īlice's character development though, is wonderful. As they journey through the White Queens land they find themselves in a number of dangerous situations and eventually they are separated. ![]() They expected beautiful fields, but what they got was ash. They're in for quite a shock as the land they've escaped to is in ruins. Red Queen picks up after Alice and Hatcher have escaped the Old City and are beginning their search for Hatcher's daughter Jenny. Alice was so wonderfully dark and twisted that I suppose I expected the sequel to be as well. While I thoroughly enjoyed it, Red Queen just didn't live up to my expectations. ![]() It took a while to decide what to rate this. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rob is a healer – kind and gentle, he’s surrounded by good energy, while Gabriel is aggressive and mysterious – a telepath concealing his true nature. ![]() But those friendships quickly become complicated when Kait finds herself torn between two irresistible guys. Tired of being shunned, Kait accepts an invitation to attend the Zetes Institute, where she can study with other psychic teens and have a fresh start.Īs Kaitlyn learns to hone her abilities with four other gifted students, she starts to discover the intensity of her power – and the joy of having true friends. Her haunting eyes and prophetic drawings have earned her a reputation as a witch. Kaitlyn Fairchild has always felt like an outsider. ![]() ![]() ![]() They lived in a rain-soaked slum, the parents and children sharing one bed together, McCourt's father drinking away what little money they had. Unable to find steady work in Belfast or Dublin and beset by Malachy Senior's alcoholism, the McCourt family returned to their mother's native Limerick, where they sank even deeper into poverty. His brother Malachy was 3 and the twins were 2 years old. ![]() In fall of 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression, the family moved back to Ireland. Frank McCourt lived in New York with his parents and four younger siblings: Malachy, born in 1931 twins Oliver and Eugene, born in 1932 and a younger sister, Margaret, who died just 21 days after birth, on March 5, 1934. ![]() ![]() (Octo– January 11, 1985), of Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who was aligned with the IRA during the Irish War of Independence, and Angela Sheehan (January 1, 1908 – December 27, 1981) from Limerick. Early life and education įrank McCourt was born in New York City's Brooklyn borough, on August 19, 1930, the eldest child of Irish Catholic immigrants Malachy Gerald McCourt, Sr. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood. Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997įrancis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() “What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden, wizard, tough guy and star of. Longtime series fans as well as newcomers drawn by the SciFi Channel’s TV series based on the novels should find this supernatural mystery a real winner.”- Library Journal “A tricky plot complete with against-the-clock pacing, firefights, explosions, and plenty of magic. ![]() “What’s not to like about this series?.It takes the best elements of urban fantasy, mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery, tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action, shakes, stirs, and serves.”- SF Site The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry’s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.”- Booklist (starred review) Harry Dresdenas faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. “Butcher.spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally-charged setting. Buy Grave Peril (The Dresden Files 3) by Jim Butcher for 28.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. “One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.”- Cinescape “Superlative.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series.”- Midwest Book Review Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. “Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”- Entertainment Weekly 'The Dresden Files is my favourite series ever' Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING SERIES Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has very engaging and delightful characters, they're fantastically feisty and lovely, these girls. I strongly recommend this title! Rob, Lamont Books Standing Orders, Secondary Book of the Month. It shows cultural diversity in the extreme and should be widely read in school groups as an excellent resource on this topic. With a frightening and fast paced ending, this was an exciting and thought provoking novel, ideal for any teenagers. Amanda Hampson, author of The Olive Sisters The author has done a brilliant job of creating an endearing protagonist in Azra… at some point everything has to be put aside so you can finish those last heart-stopping chapters. ![]() Andrew Pople, First Draft, Radio 2SERĪbsolutely enthralling and educational at the same time. A fascinating story about forced marriage and the impacts it has within a society. I was completely gripped by it, it's a page turner. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Yaltha presents young Ana with the incantation bowl, she tells her, “A man’s holy of holies contains God’s laws, but inside a woman’s there are only longings” (8). She dares to yearn and in turn to let those longings urge her forward. She is not content with the limits she perceives both her family and her culture impress upon her. Her father initially indulges her love of study, her fascination with the music of language, and her need to write stories, but only until he understands it is time for his daughter to accept less, to stop longing for anything beyond the conventional limits of women. She longs to move beyond the claustrophobic place assigned her by her culture. Her heart is restless, not just for love, although that is a crucial element of her longings, but for the opportunity to realize her fullest self as a writer and ultimately her longing to have her own defining and particular voice matter. ![]() Ana is at once shaped, defined, and compelled by what she terms her longings. Virtual Author Talk Series featuring GPB’s Virginia PrescottAtlanta History Center’s incredible lineup of author talks has gone virtual, delivering a variety. The idea for The Book of Longings came to Kidd in October 2014 when she read a National Geographic article about a fragment of an ancient manuscript suggesting that Jesus was married. For Ana, the soul expresses itself most honestly and profoundly not in what it is but in what it longs to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() really do seem like human Barbies walking around. Keyes found the clichés surrounding the city to be true. Before Angels, the settings for Keyes’ books were Dublin or London, places and cities she has lived in and knows intimately - this was her first time to be inspired by the unfamiliar. Angels derives its title from Los Angeles, and Keyes admits to a certain ongoing fascination with the city of the stars. When I meet Keyes in a midtown Manhattan hotel, she is in the early stages of a promotional tour for Angels, her latest book, which is her first novel to be set in the United States. While she has had her share of hard times, she seems to be someone who, having achieved fulfillment in her personal and professional life, finds that her demons have very much been exorcised. ![]() ![]() And in the flesh, Keyes, the best-selling author of six novels, radiates a disarming friendliness and naturalness. The author of such works as Rachel’s Holiday and Sushi for Beginners talks to Siobhán Tracey about her new book set in L.A.Īnyone who has ever read one of Marian Keyes’ novels will already have an impression of the author’s irrepressible sense of fun, which finds humor in situations not obviously funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hayden is hard-working, loving, responsible but she’s also a smartass and I love that aspect of her. I love Hayden, even more with Tanya Eby’s voice, which I thought was perfect. Yet the promise of money pushes her to answer, only to discover that the author of the ad is Samantha Thomson, the most arrogant and rudest surgeon at the hospital. When she stumbles upon an ad on craigslist looking for a temporary bride, the idea seems ludicrous at first. ![]() A lot of what she earns goes to her family in Miami. Hayden Pérez is a nurse in New York who, despite working as much as she can and being very careful with her expenses, is struggling financially. ![]() I won’t spoil but when the reader, along with Hayden, finds out why Sam needed that fake marriage, I loved Sam even more. I think this one has the best reason I have read. ![]() If it needs me to suspend my disbelief, I might still enjoy it if the writing is good but it won’t be the same. I usually like the fake-romance trope but it has to have a believable reason. I really liked Tanya Eby’s narration and the different voices, including Hayden’s nephew (children are not easy). This time, I listened to the audiobook version, and it was also wonderful. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth - and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. When 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. From award-winning memoirist and critic, and best-selling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece. ![]() |