![]() ![]() “Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive.” - The Oregonian (Portland) Ironic and satisfying.” - San Francisco Chronicle On first publication back in 1994, Catilina's Riddle was a finalist for the Hammet Award. Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author's firm grasp of history and human character. ![]() Although he distrusts both men, Gordianus is forced into the center of the power struggle when his six-year-old daughter Diana finds a headless corpse in their stable. Claiming that Catilina plans an uprising if he loses the race, Cicero asks Gordianus to keep a watchful eye on the radical. But this bucolic life is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians: Roman consul Cicero, Gordianus's longtime patron, and populist senator Catilina, Cicero's political rival and a candidate to replace him in the annual elections for consul. Gordianus, disillusioned by the corruption of Rome circa 63 B.C., has fled the city with his family to live on a farm in the Etruscan countryside. ![]() The third in Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa novels featuring Gordianus the Finder. "Engrossing.Ironic and satisfying." - San Francisco Chronicle "Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." -(ortland) Oregonian ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Salvatore’s original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. ![]() His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. Salvatore’s first published novel, The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, became the first As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, and French. ![]() As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.Īs Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.Įvie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. Genre:Įvie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City-and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. All I remembered is that the story should be a good read. I guess I was aware of this before, back when I learned of the book through Becky’s blog, but some details had faded from memory since then. ![]() I was surprised not to find that and was even more surprised at how spooky it was at times. I thought it would make a great seasonal read for some reason, I thought the story was set in winter and was probably atmospheric with lots of snow and cold. We decided to call our buddy-read “Diviners in December” because we scheduled to read it in December. If not for a buddy-read with Rachel from Life of a Female Bibliophile, it probably would still be sitting there unread. ![]() This book has been sitting on my shelves for the past four years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Herbert refers to the Jihad many times in the entire Dune series, but did not give much detail on how he imagined the actual conflict. Bible as "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." ![]() Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Jihad, Butlerian: (see also Great Revolt) - the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. ![]() In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of 1965's Dune, Frank Herbert provides the following definition: In the post-Herbert Dune canon, the immediate cause of the Jihad is the abortion of the healthy fetus of a Bene Gesserit, Jehanne Butler, by an AI. Herbert may have coined the name from 19th-century author Samuel Butler, who has the citizens of Erewhon enact a prohibition on machines newer than 270 years fearing that "it was the race of the intelligent machines and not the race of men which would be the next step in evolution.". This prohibition is a key influence on the nature of Herbert's fictional setting. ![]() Occurring over 10,000 years before the events chronicled in his 1965 novel Dune, this jihad leads to the outlawing of certain technologies, primarily " thinking machines", a collective term for computers and artificial intelligence of any kind. The Butlerian Jihad is an event in the back-story of Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. For the novel which details its origins, see Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. This article is about an event in the extended Dune universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then on Thursday, September 23rd, I am very excited about being a guest author at Border’s True Romance blog with Sue Grimshaw (you can win a $25 gift card to Borders!). Look for me at Kimani Romance’s MySpace Blog on Friday, September 17th, then at eHarlequin’s Kimani Press Forum where I will be discussing HUDDLE on Monday, September 20th. I also have several more interviews and guest blogs coming up in the next few weeks. If you missed the other interviews and blog posts from earlier this month, check them out here: Check out the time I spent on the Author’s Couch. Today’s interview is at the website of Louisiana author Cornelle Keveen. I’ve had a short blog tour going since the release of my newest novel, HUDDLE WITH ME TONIGHT, but am just getting the chance to post them due to two weeks of hectic travel and limited internet access. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kaufman's debut, These Broken Stars, was co-authored with Meagan Spooner. She lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and dog. ![]() She is as of May 2018 a PhD candidate in Creative Writing. Later, she earned a Master's Degree in conflict resolution, and worked for seven years as a mediator before becoming a full-time author. She earned undergraduate degrees, with honours, in law, history and literature. Kaufman grew up in both Ireland and Melbourne, Australia. Her books have been published in over 35 countries. She is known for the Starbound Trilogy and Unearthed, which she co-authored with Meagan Spooner for her series The Illuminae Files, co-authored with Jay Kristoff and for her solo series, Elementals. Science fiction, fantasy, young adult fictionĪurealis Award, Australian Book Industry Award, Gold Inky AwardĪmie Kaufman is a New York Times bestselling and internationally bestselling Australian author of science fiction and fantasy for young adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Mara, Hannah, and Charlie come together in the aftermath of this terrible crime, Mara must face a trauma from her own past and decide where Charlie fits into her future.Ĭonfronting difficult questions surrounding consent, victim blaming, and sexual assault, Girl Made of Stars is a timely, emotionally gripping novel that shines a light on the story of a survivor with sensitivity and hope. Can her brother really be guilty of such a violent act? Torn between her family and her sense of right and wrong, Mara feels lost, and it doesn't help that things are strained with her ex-girlfriend, Charlie. Ashley Herring Blake 29 Total Resources 6 Books Meet-the-Author of Girl Made of Stars Audio Excerpt from The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. Mara and Owen are as close as twins can get, so when Mara's friend Hannah accuses Owen of rape, Mara doesn't know what to think. For fans of Girl in Pieces and The Way I Used to Be. Description Girl Made of Stars is a timely, emotionally gripping story about facing hard truths of consent and victim blaming in the aftermath of sexual assault, while shining a light on the story of a survivor with sensitivity and hope. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can check the sidebar for a concise overview about what posts go under each flair. The flair for Other is meant for posts that don't necessarily tie in to the books or Netflix series, but are still Grishaverse related. As their names suggest, each flair is meant to highlight what your post is about. The available flairs cover book, show, combined, and other content. If you wish to apply a spoiler tag to your comment, embed your text within a >! and a !!Spoilers go here!< Posts with unmarked spoilers will be removed. Posts without this tag are considered spoiler-free. If your post contains any, enable a spoiler tag. Spoilers cannot be included in titles or spoiler-free posts. Make sure to join to receive updates on the Netflix show's progress as well as any other Grishaverse related news. ![]() ![]() Welcome to the Grishaverse subreddit! This is a place dedicated to the discussion of Leigh Bardugo's books set in the Grisha-universe as well as the upcoming Netflix series Shadow and Bone, an adaptation of the Grisha trilogy and Six of Crows novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet with awareness, we can manage our dark side, and catch it leaking out before it floods our existence. Citing Carl Jung's theory of the shadow self, he says we all have the capacity for monstrosity under the right circumstances. Highly critical of the human condition, Jordan Peterson insists that Mother Nature is a cold-blooded killer-as are we, her creations. His fanbase grew with appearances on Joe Rogan and his back catalogue of University of Toronto lectures ranging from child development to the psychology of war crimes. He shot to fame in 2017 for protesting Bill C-16 before the Canadian senate, taking issue with the implication of legally compelled speech. Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and lecturer behind 100+ scientific papers on personality, aggression, social conflict, mythology, and religion. 12 Rules for Life is a no-nonsense manifesto from Jordan Peterson a man who's making a giant existential omelette and breaking more than a few eggs in the process. ![]() ![]() One of the most beautiful things in her past is Yugiri, the garden of evening mists, and Yun Ling works at documenting how this garden came into being. "Yun Ling has been recently diagnosed with aphasia and she retires so that she can document her past while she still has a fairly firm grip on her faculties. It is the late '80s and Yun Ling, a prominent Supreme Court justice in independent Malaysia has just retired and moved back from Kuala Lumpur, the country's capital, to her home in the country's highlands. This vignette might well capture the premise of this fantastic novel by Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng - that we spend almost our entire lives trying to find harmony between the twin pillars of memory and forgetfulness. ![]() The other one, Teoh Yun Ling is told, is her twin, the goddess of forgetting. ![]() It is only fitting that one of them is Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory. In Tan Twan Eng's second novel, after The Gift of Rain, he continues to explore the harmony between the twin pillars of memory and forgetfulness, set against the backdrop of late 1980s Malaysia.Įarly on in the evocative new novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, the protagonist Teoh Yun Ling comes across an arresting pair of statues in her friend's tea estate gardens. ![]() |