![]() ![]() As Captain Alexis Truffant explains, Garrett has stumbled upon something much largerâÈ'and scarierâÈ'than he could have imagined: the first attack in a covert war of unthinkable proportions. Then the United States military arrives at his office, and GarrettâÈçs life is blown to pieces. ItâÈçs a discovery that he knows will make him incredibly rich. As he watches buy and sell numbers float across his Bloomberg terminal, Garrett notices what nobody else can: that US Treasury bonds are being sold off at an alarming rateâÈ' two hundred billion dollarsâÈç worth. ![]() But he doesnâÈçt just memorize them he sorts them, ranks them, senses patterns in them. GarrettâÈçs memory for numbers is photographic. ![]() Not according to Garrett Reilly who, just two weeks past his twenty-sixth birthday, thinks heâÈçs probably the best bond analyst at his brokerageâÈ'maybe even the best in all of Manhattan. Box, New York Times bestselling author of Breaking Point and The Highway ). The Ascendant is a rollicking, globe-hopping, timely, and prescient page-turnerâÈ'a twenty-first century thrillerâÈë (C.J. ÂÈêLike his intriguing protagonist Garrett Reilly, author Drew Chapman possesses startling skills and this first novel just blows the doors off. ![]()
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![]() Though he tries to come across as hardened and sarcastic, Chris can't help being softhearted toward those in need. The story is oddly told, in a series of cases, as Chris is a private investigator in a paranormal world. However, he deeply loves Sable, and I really love how the author was able to keep him in character even as he gave his heart. Despite his rags to riches story line, Chris, cynical, snarky, and willing to tell the city's most powerful man to shut up. They are so perfect together.ĭemon lord Sable is so calm, easygoing, and spoils Chris rotten, totally smitten from their first meeting, from the first time he called Chris "Beautiful". It's amazing how these two play off each other, each having a personality you'd likely want to attribute to the other. I have a new favorite couple: Chris White and Sable Brennus. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've read several works my Megan lately, which I hope to talk about soon.ĭevouring books like I do, it's hard to find something totally unique these days, but yet I did, in Dancing With the Devil (Dancing with the Devil #1) ![]() Although I'm busy writing my own novels, I'm still the same avid reader I always was, only, I get most of my stories via audiobook these days, due to an otherwise mind-numbing commute.īecause I love fantasy, I recently discovered an author who'd somehow managed to stay off my radar for years: Megan Derr. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is all five books bound as one, large manuscript. Get ready for an epic fantasy, filled with romance and adventure, in Air Awakens, the first book in a completed five book series. This omnibus edition contains all five books in the Air Awakens series by USA Today bestselling author Elise Kova. And with powerful forces lurking in the shadows, Vhalla’s indecision could cost her more than she ever imagined. Now she must decide her future: Embrace her sorcery and leave the life she’s known, or eradicate her magic and remain as she’s always been. But after she unknowingly saves the life of one of the most powerful sorcerers of them all–the Crown Prince Aldrik–she finds herself enticed into his world. ![]() Vhalla has always been taught to fear the Tower of Sorcerers, a mysterious magic society, and has been happy in her quiet world of books. The Solaris Empire is one conquest away from uniting the continent, and the rare elemental magic sleeping in seventeen-year-old library apprentice Vhalla Yarl could shift the tides of war. When he awakens her magic, there’s no going back. ![]() ![]() ![]() And suddenly when I was watching all of that unfold, I realized that Japan certainly would never be the same and that the book that I had written was no longer relevant." "And then the earthquake in Japan happened, followed by the tsunami and followed by the meltdown at Fukushima. Nao tells readers right up front that her diary will be a log of her last few days on Earth: She plans to take her own life, and as the story goes on, readers learn why.Īuthor Ruth Ozeki tells NPR's Rachel Martin that, two years ago, she had finished a draft of this novel and was ready to turn it in to her editor when events in Japan forced her to reconsider the story. Nao spent her formative years in California, but her family has returned to Japan, and when the book begins, she's living in Tokyo. How?Ī Tale for the Time Being presents the diary of a friendly, funny and strong-willed 16-year-old girl named Nao. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Tale for the Time Being Author Ruth Ozeki ![]() ![]() ![]() Getting at the truth leads to Stapleton's unlikely pairing – both professionally and personally – with Terese Hagen, an art director at a hot Madison Avenue advertising firm. When the apparent epicentres of these outbreaks are revealed to be hospitals and clinics controlled by the same for-profit giant that cannibalized his old ophthalmology practice, Stapleton fears he has stumbled upon a diabolic conspiracy of catastrophic proportions: Could the for-profit giant be engaged in the systematic elimination of its more costly subscribers? ![]() Stapleton thinks he is past pain and past caring, but as a series of virulent and extremely lethal illnesses – capped by a particularly deadly outbreak of a rare strain of influenza – strikes the young, the old, and the innocent, his suspicions are aroused. Feeling less the golden boy than a jaded cynic, Stapleton retrains in forensic pathology and relocates to find an uneasy niche for himself in a city that suits his changed perspective: the cold, indifferent, concrete maze of New York. ![]() John Stapleton's life is transformed to ashes. ![]() The story of a deadly epidemic spread not merely by microbes but by sinister sabotage – a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as the health care giants collide.Īfter he loses first his Midwestern ophthalmology practice to a for-profit medical giant and then his family to a commuter airline tragedy, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I couldn't put it down." - Lauren Kate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series "Mafi combines a psychological opener with an action-adventure denouement in her YA debut. ![]() I dare you to stop reading." - Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series "Addictive, intense, and oozing with romance. A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young adult literature-or any literature!" - Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children "Unravel Me is dangerous, sexy, romantic, and intense. "Will have fans groaning aloud for the next installment." - Booklist "The tight focus provides an emotional immediacy." - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) PRAISE FOR THE SHATTER ME SERIES: "Tahereh Mafi's bold, inventive prose crackles with raw emotion. ![]() ![]() He even admitted out loud that he did not trust her after 250pages of living together. ![]() I do not get how this was supposed to be the start of a healthy and happy relationship. There were multiple scenes in this book where he put everyone's opinion above hers and clearly showed how he did not trust her at all and would choose everyone over her. He is an awful love interest that has zero trust in Ev and treats her like a child. His strong arms banded around me, pulling me into his embrace.'Ģ. I struggled, pushing at his hard chest, trying to break free, but Hux was having none of it. We're over." "The fuck we are." His lips crashed down on mine, silencing any protest with a powerful kiss. The scene I'm quoting below is btw the make up kiss after they broke up (Quotes from p306): He kisses Everly when she clearly said no and basically forces himself on her. Here are the reasons to why I hate Reese Huxley aka Hug:ġ. I did not believe that somebody could write this many awful men but I was proven wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() She never dreamed she’d find herself in the arms of a dangerously handsome duke… or that he’d be quite so upset when he discovered her true identity. ![]() When she slipped out of her cousins’ home, dressed as a kitchen maid, all she wanted was one last taste of anonymity before her debut. But she’s a servant, completely unsuitable for a highborn duke-unless, perhaps, she’s not quite what she seems…Īmerican heiress Emma Dunster might be surrounded by Englishmen, but that doesn’t mean she intends to marry one-even if she has agreed to participate in one London Season. She’s everything Alex never thought a woman could be-smart and funny, principled and brave. ![]() That is until a redheaded American throws herself in front of a carriage to save his young nephew’s life. And two, he has no plans to marry anytime soon… There are two things everyone knows about Alexander Ridgeley. ![]() ![]() When the time comes, the Lease willingly sacrifices themself for the Raven, increasing the power of the god. Raven protects Iraden and communicates with the Lease its decrees. In Iraden, the Lease is a ruler who has a direct line to the god called the Raven. ![]() Eolo and Mawat are returning at speed to the kingdom of Vastai so that Mawat can take his father’s place as Raven’s Lease. The entire book is narrated by an unseen someone and the reader comes to learn “you” in this case refers to Eolo, chief aide to Prince Mawat. The mystery starts from the first sentence directed at “you”. Yet, there is more going on in the kingdom of Iraden than a simple coup. If you squint you can see Ophelia, and Rosencranz & Guildenstern, and Horatio among the other expected players. A king is dead, an uncle has usurped a throne, and a prince is going mad with the injustice. ![]() ![]() The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie’s first fantasy novel, uses the framework of Shakespeare’s Hamlet to create an enthralling new tale. ![]() ![]() Ben and Pearl are Everykids that readers will relate to, and the adults of Buttonville are often delightfully weird and clueless. Selfors kicks off her Imaginary Veterinary series with a solid, entertaining opener. Tabby buying ingredients for “dragon’s milk” at the grocery.) When their visit unleashes a hairy, pudding-loving imaginary beast on the town of Buttonville, Ben and Pearl volunteer to catch him. When Grandpa’s mouser Barnaby deposits what has to be a baby dragon on Ben’s bed, Ben and his new friend Pearl (whom the whole town calls “troublemaker” on account of a few innocent incidents) decide to visit the new “worm doctor” who has moved into the abandoned button factory. Ben’s used to spending summers in the pool in his Los Angeles backyard with his friends, and Buttonville looks positively coma-inducing. When his parents need to “work out some troubles,” 10-year-old Ben gets shipped off to tiny Buttonville, where everything seems to be closed or out of business since the button factory was shuttered years ago. ![]() Ben Silverstein’s summer with Grandpa is about to go wild. ![]() |