![]() Put on your dancing shoes and enjoy this song for New Orleans, the city of music, magic, and dreams. The Ballad of Perilous Graves By Alex Jennings Read by Gralen Bryant Banks Format: Audiobook Download (Unabridged) ebook 4.99 Hardcover 28. But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. Where the living and the undead live side by side, clouds of graffiti float down the zombie-patrolled streets, and musical spirits can appear out of thin air to drag the whole street into a party. A story by Alex Jennings author of The Ballad of Perilous Graves. ![]() Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city’s beat, and without them, Nola will fail. The Ballad of Perilous Graves constructs a magical version of New Orleans known as Nola that dances off the page. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry realizes trouble is afoot. ![]() In a world of everyday miracles, Perry might not have a talent for magic, but he does know Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. ![]() A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. ![]() Music is magic in this vibrant and imaginative debut novel set in a fantastical verison of New Orleans: a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song. ![]()
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![]() Featuring everything from superheroes to memoirs, from manga to skillful adaptations of classic works of literature, these stories will delight fans of all ages - and demonstrate this form of storytelling’s enormous range. With their inventive blend of visuals and writing, comics are a powerful exploration of the depth of storytelling.And graphic novels, bound together in a larger, sturdier form than the flimsy comic book, have made it even easier for people to explore and enjoy this rich blend of truth and fiction.īelow, we’ve gathered the 100 best graphic novels published to date. But these days, more and more people are realizing the rich potential found within the pages of a good comic. They were once considered an indulgence for children, a cheap, meaningless entertainment meant to be grown out of. Since they first rose to popularity in the 1930s, comics have been a staple of the literary landscape. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hearing this, Oedipus decided to never return to Corinth (to spare his adopted parents from possible harm), and he instead turned to a life of wandering and adventure. His search for the truth led Oedipus to another prophesy-that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Although Oedipus loved his adoptive family, he still had questions about his true lineage. Due to this prophesy, baby Oedipus was abandoned by his family, but the agents tasked with disposing of the child decided to give the baby another chance and arranged for him to be brought to King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth, who adopted Oedipus and raised him as their son. When Oedipus was still a baby, King Laius learned from an oracle that he would be killed by his son. Oedipus was the son of King (or Tyrant) Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. In the chronology of Oedipus myths, this painting is set near the end of the long and tragic saga, but we can briefly summarize the preceding events of his unfortunate life. As for the man wearing a helmet on the left side of the painting, he is Polynices-one of Oedipus’ sons. ![]() He is surrounded by his daughters: Antigone and Ismene. ![]() Oedipus is represented in the painting by the shirtless man with his legs draped in red cloth, seen sitting on a carved stone. 1753 – 1817), was inspired by the life of Oedipus, perhaps one of the unluckiest figures of ancient Greek myth. This painting, by the French artist Jean Antoine Théodore Giroust (c. ![]() ![]() It is the fourth and final book in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone. ![]() Twisted Lies is a steamy, medium to slow burn fake dating romance. Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything. ![]() Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage.īetween her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship.īut when a threat from her past drives her into the arms-and house-of the most dangerous man she’s ever met, she’s tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time.īecause despite Christian’s cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she’s with him. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can’t refuse.Įvery monster has their weakness. She’s the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can’t solve. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can’t deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. ![]() He'll do anything to have her.including lie.Ĭharming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. ![]() ![]() Scene two begins as Sly insists that he is his poor and drunken self in protest, The Lord insists on Sly's nobility and implores him to wake from his malady. The page will then pretend that Sly has been afflicted by lunacy for many years and has dreamed himself to be no better than a lowly tinker. The Lord informs them that "a lord" is visiting the house and will hear them play, and warns them of his "odd behavior." In the meantime, the Lord orders that his page masquerade as Sly's wife. Soon afterward, a troupe of Players arrives at the Lord's house, intent on performing that night. He tells his servants to carry Sly to his own noble chambers and pretend that Sly is in fact a lord. ![]() ![]() The Lord decides to play a trick on the drunkard. While he sleeps, a mischevious Lord and his followers spot the sleeping Sly. After a brief argument with the alehouses' Hostess, Sly lies on the ground and drifts into a deep, inebriated sleep. Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, stumbles out of an alehouse. ![]() ![]() Through layered, textured prose, TETHERBIRD asks whether our modern-day, gun-toting homelands may be more treacherous than any battlefield. Grisly and emotional twists surprise in this poignant tale narrated by cynical war crimes journalist Stanley Tern, who enters Benjamin’s life to offer redemption and to pursue his own hidden agenda. Surrounded by characters as eccentric as they are paranoid, Benjamin tries to navigate an environment rife with guns and outdated class structures, feeling like flotsam as a new civilian without his family. Following an accident with his twin boys that never should have happened, Benjamin leaves the service, his life in a tailspin.Ī Duke in the stately Gloucestershire countryside offers Benjamin a job in security. Displaying symptoms that could be PTSD, the man who returns from war is an entity his wife Mackey struggles to comprehend. ![]() LINK: Ī Duke squares off with a damaged, dangerous war veteran in TETHERBIRD, a novel called “amazingly powerful and beautifully written.”įormer sniper Benjamin Cane’s life is ripped apart after his version of the Bin Laden assassination is disavowed by the Marines, written off as a conspiracy theory. Fellow novelist and friend of the blog Emily McDaid has launched her new novel with a generous e-book giveaway to honor this important holiday. ![]() ![]() Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. ![]() Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. The last one I read was Lacuna which I nearly gave up on but half way through it became interesting.īack to the book, here is the Goodreads blurb: However, I have struggled with other Barabara Kingsolver books. The Poisonwood Bible, written by the same author, is one of my favourite books ever. ![]() I was intrigued to read a modern version of David Copperfield. I love a bargain! This was before I knew that the book was long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. ![]() I bought this as a 99p Kindle Daily Deal. Today I am here with a review of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The FBI could keep fat files on “known homosexuals.” Bars could be raided and the patrons arrested and charged. Lesbians and gay men can be committed to psychiatric hospitals against their will (as I was by my parents as a teenager). We were treated as pariahs because we had been medicalized and psychiatrically profiled and deemed to be dangerous, unstable, even treasonous. ![]() Gay men and lesbians are pitted against every controlling body in America: the press demonizes us in service to the courts, the military, the schools, the psychiatric community. The battle as Faderman lays it out, is almost a class struggle-one of “the people” (lesbians and gay men) and society’s hierarchy, the “suits versus streets” that she illumines. It is, unquestionably, her crowning achievement as a historian. Faderman has plumbed the archives of libraries, newspapers, legislative bodies, lesbian and gay organizations, police files, and also interviewed more than 100 activists and others to get this meticulously researched book to us. ![]() But over 100 pages of footnotes allude to that breadth her research is extraordinary. The breadth of Faderman’s scholarship here may be lost to the non-academic reader who will be pulled in right from the prologue by Faderman’s easy, colloquial, immensely readable style. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With her tech rapidly degrading and her new ally keeping dangerous secrets of his own, Sil must find a way to stop Syntex in order to save her friends, her reputation-and maybe even herself. But with only twelve months left before the supercomputer grafted to her brain kills her, Sils time. Instead, she and the Army’s reckless leader, Ryder, uncover a horrifying truth that threatens to undo all the good she’s ever done. Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. Her plan: to win back her employer’s trust by destroying the group from within. And she’s not about to start now.īut when a critical mission goes south, Sil is forced to flee the very company she once called home.ĭesperate to prove she’s no traitor, Sil infiltrates the Analog Army, an activist faction working to bring Syntex down. In the ten years she’s been rescuing field agents for the Syntex corporation-by commandeering their minds from afar and leading them to safety-Sil hasn’t lost a single life. But with only twelve months left before the supercomputer grafted to her brain kills her, Sil’s time is quickly running out. ![]() Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you think, you’ve seen all the action there is to see in Divergent, then wait till you read this book. New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth’s much-anticipated second book of the dystopian DIVERGENT series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable-and even more powerful. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. ![]() But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves-and herself-while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. One choice can transform you-or it can destroy you. ![]() |