![]() These beloved characters face trial, tribulation, and triumph in their adventures, quests, and clashes with Geralt’s quarry.Īward-winning narrator Peter Kenny reads in an engaging and emphatic tone, which immediately grabs listeners’ attention and draws them in. Those familiar with the series will relish the chance to experience more of Sapkowski’s Witcher world, and newcomers will quickly be entranced. ![]() After an epic battle, the weary and injured Geralt rests in a temple and recounts recent troubling events and signs of unrest to come.Ī must-listen for Witcher fans, this audiobook is full of magic, wonder, danger, and the compelling characters that make up The Witcher universe-dwarves, gnomes, elves, humans, and monsters. The stories introduce Geralt of Rivia, a revered magical being and ruthless monster hunter. The Last Wish is author Andrzej Sapkowski’s first collection of action-packed fantasy tales featuring the Witcher. Dive into this unpausable collection of adventure tales, recounted by the powerful monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia.īefore it became a popular video game, a Netflix hit, and a series of best-selling novels, The Witcher appeared in short stories. ![]() ![]() For fans of The Witcher Saga, The Last Wish is where it all began. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As Jerry recovers, he forms a strong connection with Adele, who is from a place near his hometown of Windsor, along the Detroit River. After Jerry is badly wounded in an explosion, he finds himself in a Belgium field hospital under the care of Adele Savard, one of Canada’s nursing sisters, nicknamed “Bluebirds” for their blue gowns and white caps. So when a cache of whisky labeled Bailey Brothers’ Best is unearthed during a local home renovation, Cassie hopes to find the answers she’s been searching for about the legendary family of bootleggers.Ĭorporal Jeremiah Bailey of the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company is tasked with planting mines in the tunnels beneath enemy trenches. ![]() A dazzling novel set during the Great War and postwar Prohibition about a young nurse, a soldier, and a family secret that binds them together for generations to come-from USA TODAY and repeat #1 bestselling author Genevieve Graham.Ĭassie Simmons, a museum curator, is enthusiastic about solving mysteries from the past, and she has a personal interest in the history of the rumrunners who ferried illegal booze across the Detroit River during Prohibition. ![]() ![]() ![]() A man legally named “Bubba the Love Sponge” who pulled stunts like killing a live pig on radio. Exploring every legal option to defeat a news agency. An anonymous benefactor only known as “Mr. McCarthy never saw it coming, and no one ever knew it was Eisenhower. Instead, Ike worked behind the scenes to remove McCarthy of allies and strip him of potential opportunities. To combat McCarthy, Eisenhower did not meet him head on. When Eisenhower was President, Senator Joseph McCarthy was at the height of his power. Niccolo Machiavelli explained in Discourses on Livy that a conspiracy goes through distinct phases: the Planning, the Doing, and the Aftermath.ĭwight Eisenhower was a great strategist even outside of the military. Macchiavelli’s three phases of a conspiracy. ![]() It’s a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious - and successful - secret plots in recent memory. Summary of Conspiracy: In Holiday’s masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by exclusive interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. ![]() I hope you enjoy my Countdown Review of Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue. In this review, I will summarize my thoughts on the book into 5 things I learned, 4 connections I made, 3 quotes I loved, 2 principles I plan to adopt, and 1 main takeaway. Countdown Review of Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nature's spontaneous beauty is reverenced in sentences that weave lush imagery sentences that resound with stunning prose so evocative, one can almost smell the spice. The characters - visceral, impassioned and deeply flawed - stay with you long after the last page is turned.įans of authors like Arundhati Roy, Delia Owens and Richard Powers will love this multi-generational story. There's murder, girl-child trafficking, a torrid mixed-race affair and homophobia, all of which beget intrigue, sensuousness, heartache. They Whisper in my Blood is a moving love story, a sweeping tale, a panorama of a Portuguese-Indian family's history told through a poignant refrain that is this clan's nemesis. Can she reach across space and time and rent that veil? Is it too late? Can she ever be happy? Fulfilled? Have you ever made a split-second decision that changed the course of your life? When, at one fell swoop, your world glided from one side of a thin veil that was happiness, to the other? Nineteen-year-old honey-eyed Perpetua (Pippa),a tragic, heartbreakingly beautiful Luso-Indian had to do just that and it takes her almost four decades to discover that she was not the decisionmaker after all - someone centuries ago made that decision for her. ![]() ![]() ![]() What is the Parabatai Curse? It is a curse that inflicts Parabatai when the pair fall in love with each other. ![]() Which means that all of my thoughts and opinions are about the Parabatai Curse before we know what we do from events of the final Dark Artifices novel. If you have yet to read this novels, be aware that you may become spoiled on some events.Īlso, even though Queen of Air and Darkness has been released this post was written pre-release. There will also be spoilers for the end of The Infernal Devices aswell. As the majority of the subject matter will revolve around the Parabatai Curse, which takes president in the TDA. For now we will talk about the curse that inflicts Parabatai if these two should ever fall in love with one another.īe aware that there will be spoilers in this post for The Dark Artifices. There were some other great topics in the poll, that didn't win, and you may get the chance to revisit those topics in a later blogs. Which means you, the community, voted and what you want to hear about most is the Parabatai Curse. This is my first edition of it being interactive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Astor, historical fiction featuring the fascinating real lives of two of the Gilded Age’s wealthiest and most famous-or infamous-women. Her latest releases are An American Beauty and The Second Mrs. Shana Abé is the award-winning New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, iTunes, and USA Today bestselling author of eighteen novels, including the Sweetest Dark Series and the Drákon Series, both of which feature shapeshifting, magical dragons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who wouldn't want to live forever in a young, perfect body? Of course, everyone knows that dark magic always comes at a cost. Fortunately, Helen isn't too broken up by the curse. To further complicate matters, her grandson's eighteen-year-old friend starts hitting on her. Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for ones personal gain. Josephine realizes she may be in over her head when the Valituras end up casting an immortality curse on her best friend, Helen, by mistake. Her new assignment of defeating this agency may prove to be an impossible feat as their members have infiltrated all levels of the government including law enforcement and their advanced wizardry rivals her own. ![]() Download or Read EPub Corruption (Grumpy Old Wizards, 2) By John O. Soon after starting her investigative work for the police, Josephine discovers a secret organization called the Valituras that has amassed ancient magic and power with single-minded determination. read Corruption (Grumpy Old Wizards, 2) By John O'Riley Books. As a category six wizard in her eighties, Josephine O'Connor has always enjoyed a youthful body due to extremely slow aging but when she discovers she's become immortal, she must return to the workforce. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rumeur is an interesting case because I've seen a lot of love for it at. It actually tells the reader nothing whatsoever about why the perfume received a one-star rating. Here is what the self-proclaimed prophets of perfume have to say about Rumeur: But let's take the example of Lanvin Rumeur, a large bottle of which I swapped away within weeks of its acquisition (having purchased it scent unsniffed), because I found it utterly unwearable. My problem is not that I disagree with the authors. ![]() Although there is some helpful material shared in some of the positive reviews, the negative reviews are a total wasteland of vituperative outbursts. Your comment is naturally music to my ears, Anonymous, and very well captures what I regard as the primary fault of "The Guide": it is not a guide to anything but the authors' personalities, it seems to me. Hello, Anonymous, and welcome to the salon! I am glad that you are taking advantage of the capacity to post here anonymously, which I allow so that everyone feels comfortable expressing their true opinions and no one has to worry about any form of negative backlash, should they disagree with "received" opinion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Audio CD 31.68 5 New from 25.99 Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip - a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfre. ![]() Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. THE TROOP Read & Download for free Book by Nick Cutter The Troop The book The Troop was written by author Nick Cutter Here you can read free online of The Troop book, rate and share your impressions in comments. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. THE TROOP Read & Download for free Book by Nick Cutter The Troop The book The Troop was written by author Nick Cutter Here you can read free online of The Troop book, rate and share your impressions in comments. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. An uncommon reward.The Troop by Nick Cutter was the type of magazine that you just can not remove. ![]() ![]() I drew little animated flip books on index cards. I would come home from the movies and practice drawing the characters. I had paperback reprints of the early Kurtzman stories, illustrated by Wally Wood, Will Elder, and Jack Davis. I made up my own cartoon characters and drew stories about them. ![]() I used to read Pogo, Li'l Abner, Peanuts, Blondie and B.C. ![]() When I was a little boy I loved the funny papers. Their parents had both attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and their father, who, Baker said, "worked in advertising made junk mail", would "draw pictures for us and entertain us." Aside from this exposure to art, Baker has said, his early artistic influences included comic book artist Jack Kirby, caricaturist Jack Davis, and painter and magazine illustrator Norman Rockwell. Baker and high-school audiovisual-department manager Eleanor L. ![]() Kyle Baker was born in the Queens, New York City, the son of art director John M. Kyle John Baker (born 1965) is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man.īaker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his work in the comics field.īiography Early life and career ![]() |