“I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. With writing that scorches and mesmerizes, Taddeo illustrates one woman’s exhilarating transformation from prey into predator. Animal is a depiction of female rage at its rawest, and a visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society. Here is the electrifying debut novel from Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Three Women, which was named to more than thirty best-of-the-year lists and hailed as “a dazzling achievement” ( Los Angeles Times) and “a heartbreaking, gripping, astonishing masterpiece” ( Esquire). In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child-that has haunted her every waking moment-while forging the power to finally strike back. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruel acts of men. Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse.
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Under the tutelage of Jeremy and his cousin Regina, Danny blossoms into a lady. Intrigued by her beauty and spunk, Jeremy hires Danny as his upstairs maid, although he wants her as his mistress. She is determined to become respectable in order to fulfill her dream of marrying and starting a family. When Danny, a young woman who grew up on the streets of London with no memory of her real family, is banished from her gang because she helped handsome rakehell Jeremy Malory steal back the jewels his friend lost in a card game, Danny demands that Jeremy give her a job. Now Jeremy, the son of gentleman pirate James Malory, falls in love.… Enter the privileged world of English aristocrats and experience the passion, intrigue, and romantic pleasures of the incomparable Malorys-a family of dashing rogues, rakehell adventurers, and spirited ladies. They were to check out an explosion that had occurred on the sixth floor just after 8:00 a.m., with an apparent fatality. "Drawing on exclusive interviews, The Mormon Murders reconstructs a secret conspiracy of God, greed, and murder that would expose one of the most ingenious con men in the annals of crime-and shake the very foundation of a multibillion-dollar empire to its core. It was a Tuesday morning, October 15, 1985, when the police in Salt Lake City, Utah, were called to the Judge Building in the business district. "It was the appearance of an alleged historical document that challenged the very bedrock of Mormon teaching, questioned the legitimacy of its founder, and threatened to disillusion millions of its faithful-unless the Mormon hierarchy buried the evidence. It wasn't until authorities questioned the strangely evasive Hofmann that another, more shocking link between the victims emerged. The next day, a third bomb was detonated in the parked car of churchgoing family man, Mark Hofmann. The only link-both victims belonged to the Mormon Church. "On October 15, 1985, two pipe bombs shook the calm of Salt Lake City, Utah, killing two people. The Mormon Murders: A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death Martel was inspired to start Black Jihad after earning his master’s degree in social work. He’s a tall, clean-cut Black man who likes to crack jokes-but the boys in his gang revere and fear him. Martel is Quan’s first mentor and the leader of Black Jihad.
His viewpoint (and status in the Marvel U) is unique, and I’ll be curious to see what Aaron has planned for Weirdworld going forward. The setting is the star of this book, in my opinion, and Arkon is an unexpected tour guide, showing this world through the use of his swinging sword, a mad barbarian hellbent on getting home. He is, most certainly, a warlord and Aaron has him deliver some pretty good lines as he ventures through this insane place. Jason Aaron explores Weirdworld via the eyes of Arkon, the lord of warlords. The world is certainly weird, and I will say that, without question, this is the wildest Battleworld territory yet. Weirdworld #1 feels like if you dropped Conan into a the acid trip world of Puff The Magic Dragon and took a few more hallucinogenic drugs and wrote down everything you saw. What a wild, beautiful and wacky world Jason Aaron and Mike Del Mundo have brought us to. But when she discovers that Avalkyra has bonded with a strix-a legendary creature of darkness that feeds off the life force of others-Veronyka realizes she has more to deal with than an encroaching war with the empire. Was it always going to come down to this? Sister against sister? Darkness against light? Veronyka is determined to do whatever it takes to get Tristan back, even if that means revealing her identity to the world and inheriting a throne she's not sure she wants. Except for her beloved phoenix, Xephyra, of course, and her new friend, Kade, who has his own reasons for wanting to save Tristan. Now that the secret is out, everyone at the Eyrie treats Veronyka differently, and with Tristan still a hostage of the scheming Lord Rolan-and Sev with him as a spy-Veronyka feels very much alone. and the niece of Avalkyra Ashfire, the resurrected rebel queen who tore the empire apart. Veronyka is no longer an orphaned stable boy or a nameless Phoenix Rider apprentice: she is the daughter of Pheronia Ashfire, the last queen of the Golden Empire. In the heart-stopping finale to the Crown of Feathers trilogy, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake calls "absolutely unforgettable," Veronyka must face her most devastating enemy yet: her own sister. “Yesss! I won’t even have to think,” the fat cat says. Over at “Hagar the Horrible,” the gruff Viking is excited to be invited to the Bumsteads: “I love their sandwiches!”Īnd “Garfield” is told thought-balloon lettering “will be provided” if he attends the Bumstead gala. “She’s been calling all the other comic strips for two hours,” Dagwood says. In Walker’s strip, Blondie phones Beetle looking for Dagwood, who’s playing cards on the Army base. “Reading ‘Blondie’ is like breathing,” says Mort Walker, creator of “Beetle Bailey.” “Everyone relates to Dagwood and his desire to take naps or make a sandwich. Almost two dozen characters, from “Beetle Bailey” to “Garfield” to “Dick Tracy” to the “Wizard of Id,” will meet the Bumsteads in their strips – a collegial tribute rare in the competitive world of newspaper comics. 8, 1930, Blondie and Dagwood are planning what the strip’s syndicate is calling “the biggest party in the history of the funny pages.”īeginning today, “Blondie” will launch a three-month crossover with some of the best-known comic strips in newspapers. Now, 75 years after the strip was born on Sept. He was Dagwood Bumstead – not the harried suburbanite we know today, but a rich playboy so in love with Blondie that he defied his wealthy father and gave up a fortune to marry her in 1933, right there in the comics at the height of the Depression. She was the Paris Hilton of the funny pages – a flighty flapper called Blondie Boopadoop with a short skirt, a cute curl and a passion for her millionaire beau. That doesn’t exist in the Soul Eaters series, as Meda and Co. I get so sick of romantic plotlines in YA where it’s like “omg I am a demon/werewolf/vampire/whatever and we are from different worlds, but I love you!” nonsense. There’s nothing more interesting or engaging than an assassin/demon that actually follows through on their urges. You know what I love about this series? It’s blunt, gorey, and absolutely dripping with sarcasm. Huge thank you to Strange Chemistry and Netgalley! So when a devilishly handsome half-demon boy offers escape, how’s a girl supposed to say “no?” It helps that the Crusaders are the only thing standing between her and the demon hordes who want her dead.Īfter all, everyone knows a good girl’s greatest weakness is a bad boy.The problem is, the only people less convinced than Meda of her new-found role as Good Girl are the very Crusaders she’s trying to join. Or, at least, she’s willing to give it a shot. Synopsis: Meda Melange has officially hung up her monstrous mantle and planted her feet firmly on the holy and righteous path of a Crusader-in-training. Have you read anything by Claire Keegan? I’d love to know. If you’re in the mood for a quiet yet powerful novel, I’d highly recommend this one. It’s a brilliant way of emphasizing that it’s the process of the character getting to that point–all the small moments leading up to that one action–that really matters. Through Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant who lives in a small Irish town set in 1985, the author weaves a quiet, yet powerful story. Keegan brings us right up to the edge of what could be the second half of the novel, but instead leaves us wondering. It’s reassuring, comforting, and grounding to read. Time and time again he notices the small things and reflects on how meaningful those mere moments have become in the long run. But the main character is filled with hope. It’s hard and heartbreaking to read about people struggling through a long winter with little money. The tone of this novel is the very definition of bittersweet. It’s amazing how Keegan drops us into this story so briefly, and yet right away we feel engrossed in the community, as though we’ve been alongside these characters for hundreds of pages before. The main character feels so human–flawed, but incredibly earnest and well-intentioned at heart. “And wasn’t it sweet to be where you were and let it remind you of the past for once, despite the upset, instead of always looking on into the mechanics of the days and the trouble ahead, which might never come.”Ĭlaire Keegan’s short novel Small Things Like These is so easy to become enamored with. Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Gene “blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner” ( Oprah Daily). Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more! Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences! |