![]() ![]() Rumor had it that the Dragon could take the form of a man, and so he did with Gwendolyn-a man who would not show her his face. But as she waited for whoever-or whatever-to claim his prize, she could not help trembling as a furious storm lashed about her.and she saw what appeared to be dark wings and a stream of silver smoke emerge from the shadows. She knew there was a perfectly good explanation for the mysterious lights seen flickering in the crumbling castle and the unsettling sound of bagpipes drifting through the glens. As for Gwendolyn, she never doubted that the so-called Dragon was a fraud. The frightened Highlanders hoped that instead of gold, the fair virgin would satisfy the beast's insatiable appetite. Now the Dragon was demanding that very amount. Fifteen years earlier, someone had betrayed the Laird of Weyrcraig and his handsome young heir to the English for a thousand pounds in gold. ![]() ![]() But the superstitious villagers of Ballybliss did, and so Gwendolyn found herself bound to a post as a sacrificial offering to the Dragon who haunted the ruins of Castle Weyrcraig. ![]() Gwendolyn Wilder did not believe in dragons. It is the unforgettable story of two indomitable characters whose love affair is the stuff of which legends are made. Teresa Medeiros makes her hardcover debut in this magnificently sensual and romantic tale filled with passion, humor, and suspense. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As of 2014, the series has been translated into more than 20 languages, with more than 80 million books sold worldwide, including over 50 million in the United States. Krupp also possesses superhuman strength, durability and flight as a result of drinking alien "Extra-Strength Super Power Juice".Ĭurrently, the series includes 12 books, two activity books, 15 spin-offs, and won a Kids' Choice Award on April 4, 2006. ![]() The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys' homemade comic books, who accidentally becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their cruel, bossy, and ill-tempered principal, Mr. Captain Underpants is an illustrated children's novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have a Q&A with Arinze Ifeakandu, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize for God’s Children Are Little Broken Things. Fiona Gartland looks at the proliferation of subgenres in the crime writing field and asks fellow authors how useful they are. In The Irish Times this Saturday, Paul Murray talks to Niamh Donnelly about his new novel, The Bee Sting. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a story that knows exactly when it is told and leaves the future open for the reader to imagine. I read it on kindle expecting a novel, and when it abruptly ended at the end of chapter one I did a little gasp before realising how perfect that was. A long short-story of 128 pages, tight enough so that every, single, word accounts for a lot. ![]() I should say immediately that this is a short book. ![]() Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan, is a lovely book, full of empathy and kindness, about an ordinary man who knows the right thing to do. There are many horrific stories about these institutions. Their fault for being a bit clumsy, tripping up because they weren’t paying attention. Some thirty thousand women are estimated to have been incarcerated, their babies adopted out. Women who had ‘fallen’ and needed to be removed from society. In 2013 the Irish government gave a much belated apology to the women who had suffered in these prisons of forced labour. The Magdalen laundries, tool of the Catholic Church and Irish state, was closed down in 1996, to abject disgrace. ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() She takes control of her situation and uses it to her advantage. She doesn’t run away like a spoiled brat or purposefully makes things difficult. Want to know the number one reason I enjoyed this book? Ildiko accepts her responsibility to marry Brishen with grace and dignity. Story in a Sentence: Ildiko, the niece of a human king, is forced to marry Brishen, the third prince of the Kai, in order to seal a treaty of peace and trade between their two races, but their marriage proves more difficult than expected. ![]() ![]() Look past the ugly cover because this book is a gem. I randomly stumbled upon it recently and decided to reread it. I read this a couple months after it came out in January 2015 and loved it but had completely forgotten about it. Radiance by Grace Draven is book one in the “Wraith Kings” series. “You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband,” “For a boiled mollusk, you wear black quite well, my wife,” ![]() ![]() ![]() In the same heartbeat that Breca loosed his spear, the reindeer he had chosen looked up from the trunk it had been scraping lichen from. As soon as the spear had left Breca’s grip she knew it would hit its mark. The spear left his fist: a hiss as sharp iron sliced through air. ![]() A dozen reindeer stood grazing in a glade, a thick-antlered bull watching over the herd of cows and calves as they chewed and scratched moss and lichen from trunks and boulders.Ī shift in Breca’s eyes, an indrawn breath that he held, followed by a burst of explosive movement his hips twisting, his arm moving. Spring sunlight dappled the ground through soft-swaying branches, reflecting brightly from patches of rimed snow, winter’s last hoar-frost kiss on this high mountain woodland. Hard words are needed for this hard world. Muscles bunched in Orka’s jaw, hard words already in her throat. He stood to her left, solid and huge as a boulder. “Wait,” Thorkel breathed through his braided beard, a cold-misting of breath. She opened her mouth to scold him, but a hand touched her arm, a huge hand where Breca’s was small, rough-skinned where Breca’s was smooth. He is too gentle for this world of pain, Orka thought. ![]() “Death is a part of life,” Orka whispered into her son’s ear.Įven though Breca’s arm was drawn back, the ash-spear gripped tight in his small, white-knuckled fist and the spearhead aimed at the reindeer in front of them, she could see the hesitation in his eyes, in the set of his jaw. The year 297 of Friðaröld, The Age of Peace ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That there’ll be a day, a minute, a second, where it all falls apart and there’s no turning back the clock. But sometimes I worry that Morgan and I won’t be best friends forever. ![]() The years where we stuck by each other’s side―as Morgan’s mom died, as he moved across town, as I joined the football team, as my parents started fighting. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question-How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?īuy it: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound Birthdayby Meredith RussoĮRIC: There was the day we were born. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. ![]() ![]() ![]() These are enjoyable books, optimistic, ironic, and, as the titles indicate, pro-feminist for their time. MIT Press brought out his glass architecture novella, The Gray Cloth and Ten Percent White: A Ladies’ Novel, and University of Chicago Press published T he Light Club (the full title is The Light Club of Batavia: A Ladies’ Novelette), about an underground utopia created by a group of wealthy humanists. Some major university presses have published a handful of Scheerbart’s work in English. ![]() It’s a testament to Scheerbart’s prophetic vision that his fiction has attracted such lasting attention: he wrote mostly outer-space novels and utopian stories about things like glass architecture.īeyond the quirky concepts, however, Scheerbart’s work has a revolutionary, philosophical zeal and the image of him that arises is that of a steampunk Ralph Waldo Emerson with imaginative powers equal to those of Thomas Edison and Jules Verne. Yet during his prolific career his eccentric fiction, art, and poetry influenced a range of intellects, from architect Bruno Taut to writer Walter Benjamin. No one reads German polymath Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915). His book reviews appear most often in The National. His short stories are available online at 3:AM Magazine and Necessary Fiction. Paul Scheerbart profile by Matthew JakubowskiĪ guest post by Matthew Jakubowski. ![]() ![]() The gang’s third film and final outing as the ‘original’ group follows Peter Quill’s ( Chris Pratt) quest to save teammate Rocket the Racoon’s ( Bradley Cooper) life and face up to his horrific past. And while we don’t know just how essential drag superstar Shea Coulée’s mystery role is in the upcoming Ironheart series, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 quietly slid another queer contender onto the table. ![]() Black Panther: Wakanda Forever included a queer warrior, played by Michaela Coel, giving her lover a forehead kiss – even though it was cut from some releases.Īs evidenced, Marvel’s queer characters have often been treated as superfluous and expendable so much so, that they’re very easy to leave on the cutting room floor if needed. The Eternals saw Phastos, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first openly gay superhero, complete with husband and child. ![]() ![]() While Marvel’s relationship with LGBTQ+ representation has not always been the most glowing example for other studios to follow over the years, they’ve at least tried. The final outing for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy introduced a new hero in a post-credits sting – and in the comics, they’re a super-powered lesbian. ![]() |