5/29/2023 0 Comments The Magus by John Fowles![]() ![]() In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (1994). Like Fowles, Tartt is excellent at weaving classical themes and metaphors into an exciting plot. Tartt’s best-selling debut novel features a young Nicholas-like protagonist (confused, aimless) caught up in a mystery with a sinister group of Greek scholars at a New England university. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992). I’ll start it off with three novels that I think fit the bill. Contact us at Magusbooks -at- hotmail -dot- com if you’d like to participate, and please include your name, city and country. To that end, readers are invited to e-mail the title and author of one or two novels they believe fall into this category, along with a brief description of why. Another way to further the connection one may have to Fowles’ masterpiece is to seek out other novels that have a similar “flavor.” Reading The Magus is a powerful experience for many of us, and one that can be repeated several times over a period of years (it’s fun to discover exciting new aspects of the novel during subsequent readings). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking - he runs his own woodshop - Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman's childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois - "I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield" - to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Always her love by melissa foster![]() ![]() ![]() There was never any question about whether he would keep his daughter, and eight years later, he doesn’t have a single regret. I’m having it, and unless you want it, I’m putting it up for adoption.” Those were the words that changed Levi Steele’s life before he was even legally allowed to drink. Make sure you have all night, because once you start you wont want to stop reading.' NYT Bestselling Author Brenda Novak 'With her wonderful characters and resonating emotions, Melissa Foster is a must-read author' NYT Bestseller J. All Steele novels may be enjoyed as standalone romances. 'You can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story thats fresh, emotional and entertaining. They have a penchant for pranks, a passion for loyalty, and a trunk full of secrets. ![]() Fall in love on the sandy shores of Silver Island, home to coffee shops, boat races, midnight rendezvous, and the sexy, sharp-witted Steeles. 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Now, deep in Coruscant's Blackpit Slums, Jax ekes out a living as a private investigator, trying to help people in need while concealing his Jedi identity and staying one step ahead of the killers out for Jedi blood. Jax Pavan is one of the few Jedi Knights who miraculously survived the slaughter that followed Palpatine's ruthless Order 66. : Jedi Twilight (Star Wars: Coruscant Nights I) (9780345477507) by Reaves, Michael and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. With the dark ascension of the Empire, and the Jedi Knights virtually wiped out, one Jedi who escaped the massacre is slated for a date with destiny-and a confrontation with Darth Vader. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Longbourn by jo baker![]() ![]() Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen’s classic-into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars-and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.ġ. ![]() ![]() When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them. Pride and Prejudice was only half the story. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Page by Tamora Pierce![]() ![]() Girl and her horse fantasy series □ Flowers - Miley Cyrus. Kel fights to maintain the rigorous regimen of a page while confronting the prejudices that come with being a female in. Own favorites! | □ Girl and her horse □Ī 90s classic |. ![]() ![]() Tamora is not afraid to touch on difficult subjects such as discrimination, abuse, and death. In this case, the hero is a female page struggling to gain her knighthood. 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In Page, Tamora Pierce gets back to the very essence of storytelling - a young hero must prove herself in the face of seeming unbeatable odds to achieve her goal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea, and has been a runner up for many of major awards for British children's literature. Ibbotson has written numerous books including The Secret of Platform 13, Journey to the River Sea, Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts, and Dial-a-Ghost. Ten years later, she published her first novel, The Great Ghost Rescue. Ibottson began writing with the television drama 'Linda Came Today', in 1965. Ibbotson was widowed with three sons and a daughter. Instead, she married and raised a family, returning to school to become a teacher in the 1960s. ![]() Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do. She attended Bedford College, graduating in 1945 Cambridge University from 1946-47 and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965. When Hitler came into power, her family moved to England. She was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments The Gisburn Witch by Sarah L. King![]() ![]() She was tired too her day had started even earlier than normal, so early in fact that dawn hadn’t even been on the horizon when Goodwife Robinson had woken her from her sleep, summoning her to begin her duties. The weather outside was unseasonably warm and in the kitchen, next to the fire, it was stifling. Jennet mopped her damp brow with the back of her hand as she bustled around the kitchen. Today, I am pleased to share chapter two with you and will finish with chapter three next week.Īnyone interested in ordering the book can get it from the following retailers: Amazon UK / Amazon / Smashwords / Kobo Last week, on this blog I released Chapter One of my debut novel, The Gisburn Witch which will be released on June 1st. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Timesnatch by Robert Swindells![]() The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. Category: Children & Young Adult Teenage Fiction ISBN: 0440864666. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: nce a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it? Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold, a teenage novel about a serial killer. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles. ![]() At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Timesnatch: . Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. ![]() Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. ![]() Clear, self-adhesive laminate to covers/boards. Buy Timesnatch Illustrated by Swindells, Robert (ISBN: 9780552555920) from Amazon's Book Store. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Violent beginnings jl beck![]() ![]() ![]() But she starts to feel things for him much to her own disgust. Locking her in his (their) bedroom until she earns further freedoms.Ī dark broody man who Elena is sure has a split personality as he flips between being mean and caring for her. Although he knew she was never going to come quietly and fights him every step of the way. He will make her his wife, take her virginity and kill her father. With a plan coming together two years ago when he first saw Elena at her mother’s funeral. ![]() Julian has waited five years for the opportunity to gain revenge on Elena’s father. ![]() Her father has sold her to Julian Moretti for $10 million. Seeing men she hesitates but is told to come in and is forced to sign some papers – a contract of ownership. After taking shower and changing for bed one evening she is requested into her father’s study. Having lived a sheltered life that became more like a jail term following the death of her mother two years ago. Being the only daughter of a mobster, Elena understands that there is a lot to his business dealings that she is unaware of. ![]() |
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