![]() ![]() Kept me entertained from its deceptively innocent beginning to its can't-put-it-down end' Kim Harrison, bestselling author of Dead Witch Walking 'I enjoyed every minute of it. Praise for the series: 'Plenty of twists and turns. Until, that is, she has nothing left to lose but her life. There are those who love her, who would keep her safe, but she is wary and holds her freedom precious. ![]() It had been a violent death, perfect for creating ghosts. When her old boss Zee is charged with a brutal assassination, Mercy find herself fighting alone. It wasnt hard to follow the scent of blood to the living room where the fae had been killed. But the dangers multiply and she clashes with shadowed creatures of great power. And when a member of the fae community calls in a favour, needing her skills for a covert murder investigation, she jumps into the hunt. Read more ability to change into coyote form at will. Mercy Thompson enjoys life as a mechanic, but life is never simple given her increasing closeness to the local werewolf pack, and her. In Iron Kissed, the third of the series, Mercy is the only non-wolf human shifter, though there are a fair number of them among the fae notably the Kelpie, who appears, among other things, as. ![]() ![]() 1 bestselling Mercy Thompson series - the major urban fantasy hit of the decade 'I love these books!' Charlaine Harris 'The best new fantasy series I've read in years' Kelley Armstrong MERCY THOMPSON: MECHANIC, SHAPESHIFTER, FIGHTER It wasn't hard to follow the scent of blood to the living room where the fae had been killed. The third in the high-tension supernatural series that is taking the US by storm. ![]()
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![]() Her first love was always telling stories, and she has been writing for over twenty years, penning her very first book at just eight years old. Licensed in both funeral directing and funeral service, she worked in the death industry for nearly a decade. Kat Hiers is an embalmer, restorative artist, and queer writer. What could possibly go wrong? About the Author K.L. Suddenly hes trying to court a god and save the world at the same time. Once he finds out theres a chance Merrick feels the same way, he digs in his heels. Chases mission to convince Merrick his feelings predate any divine revelations takes a back seat to a case tangled with murder and lies, but Chase doesnt give up. ![]() The timing cant be helped, but now Merrick thinks Chase only cares about him because hes a god.Even more unfortunately, it turns out the cultists want to perform a ritual to end the world. ![]() But when they run afoul of a strange cult, Merricks secret identity as Gordoth the Untouched slips out. Chase has ninety-nine problems, and the unexpected revelation that his partner is a god is only one of them.Chase has been in love with Benjamin Merrick for years and has resigned himself to a life of unrequited pining. ![]() Chase would love to explore that-and maybe a relationship-but someones trying to end the world. ![]() Elwood Chase is in the middle of an occult crime scene when he discovers Merrick, the partner hes been pining for, is actually a god called Gordoth the Untouched. ![]() ![]() In 10 of those, the “good guy” was a security guard or an off-duty police officer, ALERRT data showed. Of those 434 active shooter cases, an armed bystander shot the attacker in 22 of the incidents. Active shooter attacks were defined as those in which one or more shooters killed or attempted to kill multiple unrelated people in a populated place. There were at least 434 active shooter attacks in the US from 2000 to 2021, according to ALERRT data. Making Dicken’s heroism perhaps even more remarkable is the fact cases of an armed bystander attacking an active shooter are rare, according to data from the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training at Texas State University. According to WTHR, Dicken’s grandfather taught him how to shoot. “He’s a superhero,” Alison Dick said in a live Facebook post, whose 12-year-old daughter was wounded.Īs far as investigators know, Dicken “has no police training and no military training,” Ison said. ![]() ![]() As he moved in on the gunman, Dicken motioned for people to leave behind him, the chief said. Police identify victims, gunman and armed bystander in Indiana mall shootingĪs Sapirman began shooting from a restroom area into the mall’s food court, Dicken returned fire “from quite a distance with a handgun – was very proficient in that, very tactically sound,” Ison said. ![]() (Kelly Wilkinson/The Indianapolis Star via AP) Kelly Wilkinson/AP Emergency personnel gather after a deadly shooting Sunday, July 17, 2022, at the Greenwood Park Mall, in Greenwood, Ind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Teachers and linguists perennially say that a key problem adults have when learning a new language is self-consciousness, a fear of the blunders. My teachers are used to such mangling and don’t even bat an eyelid, but staff in bars and restaurants in touristy areas, who inevitably have better English than my Italian, do tend to flinch and wince, giving a good idea of my standard Much work and someday you talk pretty.” (Hence the title of the book.) I’m aware that much of my Italian probably sounds like this. I particularly love the way he renders bad student French in English – “That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Several of them are concerned Sedaris’ move to France and his efforts to learn French. Been reading David Sedaris’s ‘Me Talk Pretty One Day’ (thanks Marta!), an astute, highly entertaining collection of essays/autobiographical short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of demi-gods, prophesies, and quests will be left breathless–and panting for Book Two. Rick Riordan, the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series, pumps up the action and suspense in The Lost Hero, the first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Publication date Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics Percy Jackson, percy jackson, the lightning thief, The Lightning Thief, lightning thief, Lightning Thief. ![]() Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all-including Leo-related to a god. ![]() What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. The Lost Hero By: Rick Riordan Narrated by: Sean Welsh Brown, Rainy Fields, Avi Roque Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins 4.4 (492 ratings) Try for 0. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. ![]() ![]() Kinsey gets herself into danger, and as she struggles to put the pieces together, someone is trying to stop ( ) But somebody is not too pleased with Kinsey investigating and unveiling facts that could lead to the true murderer. ![]() ![]() Kinsey begins to put together a picture of the people involved and the circumstances that led up to Laurence's murder. This trail is 8-years-old, and Kinsey knows it won't be easy to find the truth. The victim was the accountant for Laurence's law firm, Libby Glass, and she was killed using an identical method of poisoning. Nikki wants Kinsey to find the person who really killed Laurence Kinsey begins to investigate and finds out about another murder committed only days after Laurence's that is extremely similar. Nikki Fife has just been released from prison after doing 8 years for the murdering her husband, Laurence. The character Kinsey is very independent, you feel as you now know her, and she is portrayed as somebody you do know. ![]() The mystery keeps pages turning as it fascinating, suspenseful and a real fast read. ![]() I have just started this series, but I really enjoyed this book. Kinsey Millhone a 32-year-old Private Investigator living in California. Â A is for Alibi is the first book in Sue Grafton's alphabet mystery series, ![]() ![]() "Print that! There'll be no one to read it." Beta is the only sun in the sky." He smiled grimly. "In just under four hours," he said, "civilization, as we know it, comes to an end.
![]() ![]() In the most explosive novel Brad Thor has ever written, page after captivating page of action, intrigue, loyalty, and betrayal will keep you hooked until the very last sentence. Now, far from home and surrounded by his enemy, Scot Harvath must battle his way out. Two days ago, that man was crossed-badly. BACKLASH By Brad Thor Atria, 27.99, 384 pages Long past the point by which most authors have produced all the best works they’re capable of and are coasting or waning, Brad Thor keeps on. They are highly prized intelligence agents, military operatives, and assassins. ![]() Today, men like these still strike from the shadows. They were fearless men of honor who have been known throughout history by different names: Spartan, Viking, Samurai. And once crossed, there was no crossing back. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. ![]() These men were considered part angel, part demon. s about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. "Raw emotion, nonstop action, and relentless pacing makes Backlash another one-night read from Brad Thor." -The Real Book Spy #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet! In ancient texts, there are storie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her latest, Rouge, is forthcoming with Simon & Schuster in September.īunny was published in 2019 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House.Īwad is represented by The Clegg Agency and CAA. ![]() Bad Robot hopes for similar excitement as the Bunny project comes together.Īwad is also author of the novels All’s Well and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Sony recently announced that Blake Lively would be starring in its adaptation of It Ends With Us, another huge title on BookTok, and the news became one of the biggest trending stories on social media. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.īookTok has become a new go-to for studios and producers to find that next big piece of IP, especially given how loyal readers can be to certain novels. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus “Workshop” where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. But everything changes when she receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled “Smut Salon,” and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door - ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film's Hallmark-ready cinematography garners no boost from its lackluster soundtrack, nor does "One True Loves" benefit from a cast of performers operating beneath their best. Who is her one true love?Īs Sam releases his nervous conscience to his students over a tear-stained slice of pizza, Emma and Jesse stand atop a lighthouse, swathed in hazy backlighting and pained, longing eye contact. “One True Loves” exists at the crossroads of soap opera and sitcom. Now facing the loves of her life and the inverse question of who she is with one and without another, she has to make a decision that will shape her future. ![]() She’s in line to marry Sam ( Simu Liu), her best friend since high school, only to have her world shaken when she discovers that her husband, Jesse ( Luke Bracey), who has been presumed dead for the last four years after a helicopter crash, has been surviving on a deserted island and is returning home to her. “One True Loves” is the tale of Emma ( Phillipa Soo), a woman caught in romantic limbo. ![]() |