![]() A Thousand Pieces of You explores an amazingly intricate multi-universe where fate is unavoidable, the truth elusive, and love the greatest mystery of all. ![]() ![]() And soon she discovers the truth behind her father's death is far more sinister than she expected. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt-as well as her own heart. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows-including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. ![]() So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl. Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. A Thousand Pieces of You, the first book in Claudia Gray’s Firebird trilogy, explores an amazingly intricate multiverse where fate is unavoidable, the truth elusive, and love the greatest. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer-her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul- escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes-and promises to revolutionize science forever. Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. ![]() Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Quichotte A NOVEL : by SALMAN RUSHDIE Quichotte A NOVEL : by SALMAN RUSHDIEĪ dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age-an epic tour de force that is as much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for love and family, by Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie ![]() ![]() ![]() They were married by proxy when she was just a child, but now she's fully grown and yearns for nothing more than for her duke to return. Isidore has waited for many long, frustrating years for her mysterious husband to return from exploring the world. 'Choc-full of romantic heroes romantic heroes that would give Darcy a run for his money.' Carole Matthewsįor the Duke of Cosway, it was a marriage of convenience. 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Supernatural and uncomfortably human forces threaten to rip a failing town apart. ![]() ![]() My thoughts:This is Laura McNeill’s second novel and it was every bit as good as her debut novel, Center of Gravity. Her own sister has been hiding aĭark secret-one that holds the key to Allie’s freedom. Her commitment to finding the truth intensifies, what Allie ultimately Status, personal safety, and the already-fragile bond with family. ![]() ![]() Truth, digging deeply into the past even if it threatens her parole Refusing defeat, a stronger, smarter Allie launches a battle for the Even her own daughterĬaroline, now a teenager, bristles at Allie’s claims of innocence. Quaint, coastal community of Brunswick, Georgia. 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Verdict:With exceptional characters, brilliant plotting, a poignant love story, and clear, realistic descriptions, this engrossing, provocative romantic adventure could easily make revolutionary France a more popular setting than it has been recently. But when William Doyle discovers Marguerite de Fleurignac hiding in her burned-out chateau and realizes she is key to his goal, they head to Paris and are swept into a whirlwind of violence, treachery, and revolutionary fanaticism that threatens their missions and their lives, as well as their impossible but unavoidable love. 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It was always something different, but always him.” If you think about types of music – country, rockabilly, rock’n’roll, blues, whatever – I don’t really know what you’d call the type of music that Bob was doing. “We were happy for him to be there it made a kind of sense. “You know, it wasn’t anything that we thought was strange, Dylan being in Nashville,” insists Cash’s drummer, WS “Fluke” Holland. Order the latest issue of Uncut online and have it sent to your home! ![]() ![]() Only one thing is certain: he'll never be the same again.Ĭombining his signature wit with a unique blend of adventure and deeply felt characters, Sachar explores issues of race, the nature of celebrity, the invisible connections that shape a person's life, and what it takes to stay the course. X-Ray's plan leads to a chance encounter with teen pop sensation Kaira DeLeon, the Beyoncé of her time, and suddenly Armpit's life spins out of control. Together, they are learning to take small steps.Īrmpit seems to be on the right path until X-Ray, a buddy from Camp Green Lake, comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme. The only person who believes in Armpit is Ginny, his ten-year-old disabled neighbor. ![]() But it's hard when you have a record and everyone expects the worst from you. ![]() Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. ![]() SMALL STEPS is a contemporary young adult novel from Louis Sachar, the New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Award–winning smash hit phenomenon book and movie/DVD sensation Holes, and The Cardturner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Buy a discounted Paperback of I Dont Want To Kill You online from Australias leading online. Now John Cleaver has mastered his twisted talents and embraced his role as a killer of killers. And in a town full of secrets, everyone is guilty of something. Booktopia has I Dont Want To Kill You, Volume 3 by Dan Wells. I Don't Want to Kill You brings his story to a thundering climax of suspicion, mayhem, and death. Now, John Wayne Cleaver has mastered his twisted talents and embraced his role as a killer of killers. Monster, we held our breath as he fought madly with himself, struggling to stay in control. In I Am Not a Serial Killer, we watched a budding sociopath break every rule he had to save his town from evil. As he wades through the town's darkest secrets, searching for any sign of who the demon might be, one thing becomes all too clear: in a game of cat and mouse with a supernatural killer, you are always the mouse. He's faced two monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he's done running he's taking the fight to them. ![]() John Wayne Cleaver has called a demon - literally called it on the phone - and challenged it to a fight. In I Don't Want to Kill You, Cleaver faces his toughest challenge yet. I Dont Want to Kill You (John Cleaver 3) By Dan. Dan Wells introduced listeners to John Wayne Cleaver in the chilling audiobooks I Am Not a Serial Killer and Mr. Dan Wells is the author of the bestselling Partials Sequence as well as the John Cleaver series. ![]() |