As time passes, she unexpectedly finds herself forming a bond with the burly pilot. Jonah is probably right, but Calla is determined to prove him wrong. And he’s clearly waiting with one hand on the throttle to fly this city girl back to where she belongs, convinced that she’s too pampered to handle the wild. While she struggles to adjust to this new subarctic environment, Jonah-the quiet, brooding, and proud Alaskan pilot who keeps her father’s charter plane company operational-can’t imagine calling anywhere else home. She braves the roaming wildlife, the odd daylight hours, the exorbitant prices, and even the occasional-dear God-outhouse, all for the chance to connect with her father: a man who, despite his many faults, she can’t help but care for. But when her father reaches out to inform her that his days are numbered, Calla knows that it’s time to make the long trip back to the remote frontier town where she was born. Calla never looked back, and at twenty-six, a busy life in Toronto is all she knows. Tucker.Ĭalla Fletcher was two when her mother took her and fled the Alaskan wild, unable to handle the isolation of the extreme, rural lifestyle, leaving behind Calla’s father, Wren Fletcher, in the process. City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from acclaimed author K.A.
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Hers! And she would kill every Atlantean god in existence to keep him.īasi flashed into the hallway before her and staggered until she braced herself against the wall. Because of what? Words those little brats had whispered? Now due to the prophecy of three small girls-Archon's jealous bastards, her child was to be sacrificed and killed. How could he do this? For centuries she'd been trying to conceive Archon's son-it was all she'd ever wanted. Now he wanted the life of her unborn child. Even when she'd learned Archon had been faithless to her, she'd still loved him and welcomed his bastards into her home. Since the moment of their union, she'd been true to her husband. And she was ready to kill the rest.īetrayal burned deep inside her heart. She and her Charonte demons had already blasted half of her pantheon back. Four of her demons ran behind her, protecting her from the other gods who were more than eager to carry out Archon's orders. There was a fierce wind blowing down the hallway, plastering her black gown against her pregnant body and whipping her white blond hair out in spiraling tendrils. Archon's angry decree rang in Apollymi's ears as she flew through the marbled halls of Katoteros. The Legend of Sally Jones (Pushkin Press £12.99) is a short prequel to that hit novel, tracing the titular ape’s tumultuous life story. Also back is Jakob Wegelius, whose Murderer’s Ape was one of the revelations of 2017. Yes, it’s a quest, but with enough bounce and enchanted cutlery to catapult over a great many genre cliches. Twice Magic (Hodder £12.99) is the sequel to last year’s The Wizards of Once, and masterfully picks up this series’ tale of the errant son and daughter of two opposing clans, the Wizards (who loathe iron) and the Warriors (who despise magic), who are in turn besieged by the massing forces of the seriously unpleasant Kingwitch. Also back is dragon-mistress Cressida Cowell. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:12:12 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40321607 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier An invite to Ola’s party puts Sky in contact with Grace Webster and it is love at first sight. In the Bronx, Sky runs into a childhood friend, Ola, who had moved to the area after leaving elementary school in Durham. But it is 1986, and Sky is determined to live her own life, so she gathers her courage, leaves the groom at the altar, and moves to New York City, the Bronx, where she has acquired a teaching job and an apartment. When college is completed, Sky returns home to her domineering mother-who has promised her hand in marriage to a rich and arrogant man-her loving but docile father, and to her big brother who is satisfied with keeping the status quo. But their affair is brief and interrupted by Zenobia’s sudden departure from Roger Williams. While attending Roger Williams University, she works not only on her degree, but she also works on shedding many of the things that peg her as a southerner.Īt university, Sky rooms with sexy, vibrant Zenobia whom she ultimately falls head over heels in love with solidifying what she had felt in her heart all along-she loved women. To escape the restraints of her southern upbringing, Sky flees to Rhode Island to attend college. Sky Valentine is a young, African American woman who lives in Durham, North Carolina, and she is tired of being boxed in by small minds and southern expectations. He has been writing for a wide range of international publications and for nearly two decades, he worked as a staff writer for the “Daily Telegraph.” On the centenary of the beginning of World War I, he published The Trigger which was his third novel.Īs a journalist, Tim worked at awkward times and awkward places as he reported on the conflict in South Asia, the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East. Still interested in travel he trekked for more than 350 miles across Liberia following in the footsteps of Graham Greene. The novel has also been translated into more than half a dozen languages. Some of the awards it won include the Best Book Award by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, and the Samuel Johnson Prize. It would also get nominated for several awards in the United Kingdom. Inspired by John Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” the novel would go on to become an international bestselling novel. Tim Butcher is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and bestselling novelist that is best known for his debut novel “Blood River.” The novel was an account of his journey across the Congo as he tried to showcase the region’s turbulent history. Rita Williams-Garcia's books about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds's and Ibram X. Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in this book. Be Eleven will be enjoyed by fans of the first two books, as well as by readers meeting these memorable sisters for the first time. Powerful and humorous, this companion to the award-winning One Crazy Summer and P.S. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that’s been keeping the sisters apart. The two half sisters haven’t spoken in years. Across the way lives Ma Charles’s half sister, Miss Trotter. The Coretta Scott King Award–winning Gone Crazy in Alabama by Newbery Honor and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime.ĭelphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother, Ma Charles. Jeffrey took on his first West End role, playing the part of the accused. It’s a courtroom drama with a twist the audience acts as the jury, and decide which of two different endings the play should have – guilty or innocent. Jeffrey’s third play, The Accused, published by Methuen in October 2000, starred Edward Petherbridge, Michael Feast and Tony Britton. His second novel, Shall We Tell the President?, published in 1977, was a fast moving thriller about a plot to assassinate Edward Kennedy while he was President of the United States, later up-dated by the author substituting Florentyna Kane, from The Prodigal Daughter, for Edward Kennedy. It was also made into a successful serial for BBC Radio 4, and was later televised in 1990 by the BBC. Written at the home of his former Oxford Principal, it was taken up by the Literary Agent, Debbie Owen, and sold to 17 countries within a year. Aged 34, and determined to repay his creditors in full, he sat down to write his first novel Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less. On the brink of bankruptcy, he resigned from the House of Commons. Jeffrey served five years as an MP, but after investing heavily in a Canadian company called Aquablast on the advice of the Bank of Boston, when the company went into liquidation (and three directors were later sent to jail for fraud), he was left with debts of £427,727. In 1976, Jeffrey and Mary were married in Oxford. Taking Charge of Your Fertility has helped literally hundreds of thousands of women avoid pregnancy naturally, maximize their chances of getting pregnant, or simply gain better control of their gynecological and sexual health. She recently helped develop cycle-tracking software as an adjunct to her book. She founded Fertility Awareness Counseling and Training Seminars (FACTS) in 1986, and has lectured at hospitals, clinics, and universities since 1982. This new edition for the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking national bestseller provides all the information you need to monitor your menstrual cycle-along with updated information on the latest reproductive technologiesĪre you unhappy with your current method of birth control? Or demoralized by your quest to have a baby? Do you experience confusing signs and symptoms at various times in your cycle? This invaluable resource provides the answers to your questions while giving you amazing insights into your body. Toni Weschler is a nationally respected womens health educator and speaker with a masters degree in Public Health. It builds on the success of the previous two entries in his back catalogue – Smoke And Mirrors and Fragile Things – and includes completely new stories, additions to his previous work and even an outing for Doctor Who, which was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the time-travelling sci-fi show. The hardback release date has been confirmed as the 3rd February 2015, making it one of the early big reads of the year as it brings the fantastical stories of the best selling author together in just his third collection of short stories. Spanning the entire breath of his genre canon, the book looks set to be another fan favourite for the author of Good Omens and American Gods, setting out frighten and amaze his readers with his trademark fantastical style and wit. Much-loved fantasy, horror and sci-fi author Neil Gaiman has been back at the typewriter recently returning to his craft of writing short stories in his new collection, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions And Disturbances. |