![]() ![]() if Jane Austen ever met Jane Eyre, it would be at Croft Towers!" - Kristy Cambron, author of Castle on the Rise ![]() "Shades of Gothic romance in a portrait of Regency England. and secrets abounding!" - Dawn Crandall, award-winning author of the Everstone Chronicles series " In the Shadow of Croft Towers is everything I love in a novel: a classic gothic feel, a regency setting, a mysterious hero. and Sybil is determined to uncover them all. Sybil must decide if he is the one honest voice she can trust, or if he is simply using her for his own advances.Ĭroft Towers holds more than its share of secrets. Chalcroft's godson, but under all his charms he too leads a double life. When fellow passengers of the robbed coach are later murdered, Sybil's hunt for the truth takes on a new urgency. ![]() Who exactly is she working for and what do the messages contain? Chalcroft sneaks into her room in the dark of night, imploring her to relay messages to town that are to stay hidden from the rest of the family. When Sybil Delafield's coach to Croft Towers was robbed by highwaymen, she should have realized that her new position as companion to old Mrs. Nothing-and no one-at Croft Towers is what they claim in this Gothic Regency romance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Unique "Try-This" exercises help students develop writing skills, while "Working Toward a Draft" exercises encourage students to think ahead about the direction and possibilities of their work. This unique organization allows students to experiment with creative techniques shared by all genres before deciding which form best suits their imagination. Chapter 7 explores development and revision and serves as a bridge between the craft chapters and the genre chapters-Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Integrated readings from talented and renowned writers illustrate the chapter topics. After an introduction, the next five chapters each investigate a specific element of craft-Image, Voice, Character, Setting, and Story-from a perspective that crosses all genres. ![]() Imaginative Writing discusses elements of craft common to all creative writing before delving into the individual genres. Written by best-selling author Janet Burroway, Imaginative Writing-an introduction to creative writing-covers all four genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama. ![]() ![]() Prior to becoming a full-time maritime writer, Brown spent 17 years in TV news, working in markets from Burlington, Vermont to Detroit MI. Brown has rescued nine people while serving as a professional master. He estimates that he has taught more than 65 Coast Guard License prep classes since 1986. He is the author of the book, Boatbuilding with Baltek DuraKore. He was the chief writer for the 62nd update of Chapman: Piloting, Seamanship & Small boat handling. His work has also appeared in Motorboating, Dockside, Chesapeake Bay, Voyages, and Southern Boating magazines. He publishes monthly columns in Offshore and Boating World magazines. Currently, he is co-owner of the Maumee River Navigation Company which operates two water taxi vessels on the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio.ĭavid is a nationally-recognized boating expert. During that time he has operated commercial vessels ranging from aluminum pontoon boats to a 74-foot wooden schooner and a 65-foot, 20-knot ferry. Brown currently holds a Master, Great Lakes & Inland, 100 GT with Auxiliary Sail and Commercial Assistance Towing endorsements. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many admirers of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun have observed the pleasures of reading about strong female characters moving through relationships. Adichie sees the romantic relationships in her fiction as diametrically opposed to the paradigm of the Mills and Boon romance novel: I'm thinking that the sentences I really admire are sentences that are lucid." If something is incomprehensible and the sentences are bad, we're supposed to say, 'Oh that's really deep.' It's not the kind of fiction I like to read, so I guess maybe when I'm editing I'm thinking about that. I think it's very easy to confuse something that's badly written as something that's somehow deep. The kind of writing that I like to read is writing that is clear. ![]() I forget who said that 'Prose should be as clear as a window pane.' I'm very much in that school, and it's the kind of fiction I like to read. Not only did Adichie describe her aesthetic as one revolving around clarity, she also noted the pitfalls of falling for convoluted styling: ![]() ![]() ![]() "Tonight," as one visitor puts it, "you dance by the light of ancient mistakes."Īnd now another chicken is coming home to roost. Eight centuries after the Culture fought off its greatest challenge, a war that raged for 50 years and destroyed entire solar systems, the glow from one of the exploding stars has just reached Masaq'. It could be paradise, but for a reminder that things don't always go according to plan. ![]() ![]() Here you can travel a river longer than a thousand Amazons or risk your life rafting on molten lava. Not a globe but an immense landscaped ring, this world offers its 50bn inhabitants every climate, terrain and distraction they could wish for. The latest novel, Look to Windward, focuses on a typical Culture world called Masaq'. They do that rather well: the neighbours have a saying, "Don't fuck with the Culture". Resources are plentiful and drudgery automated, leaving the Culture's trillions with little to do but frolic, fornicate and fight off attacks from less enlightened societies. ![]() Banks's great dream was first sketched out 13 years ago, when Consider Phlebas introduced a society known simply as the Culture, an anarchist utopia where humans sprawl across the stars in the company of friendly aliens and benevolent artificial intelligences. ![]() ![]() ![]() The royal families of Hlendi and Turia come together once more to fight against the threat of ancient. ![]() Now Jenna must decide if revealing a dangerous secret is worth the cost before it's too late-for her and for her entire kingdom. by KayLynn Flanders RELEASE DATE: July 20, 2021. Only, on the journey to reach her betrothed and new home, the royal caravan is ambushed, and Jenna realizes the rumors were wrong-the new threat is worse than anyone imagined. Jenna must leave behind everything she has ever known if she is to give her people a chance at peace. Princess Jennesara knows her skills on the battlefield would make her an asset and wants to help, but her father has other plans.Īs the second-born heir to the throne, Jenna lacks the firstborn's-her brother's-magical abilities, so the king promises her hand in marriage to the prince of neighboring Turia in exchange for resources Hálendi needs. It's losing the war at its borders, and rumors of a new, deadlier threat on the horizon have surfaced. For fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Furyborn comes a thrilling new fantasy about a kingdom ravaged by war, and the princess who might be the key to saving not only those closest to her, but the kingdom itself, if she reveals the very secret that could destroy her. ![]() ![]() Natasha’s time is up, and her plane leaves that night.ĭaniel doesn’t back down and sets out to prove to Natasha that he can get her to fall in love with him by the end of the day.īut the universe has other plans for them. For Daniel, it’s love at first sight, but Natasha doesn’t believe in the notion of love. Well, more like, Daniel saves Natasha from getting hit by a car. On the way to her appointment, Natasha bumps into Daniel Bae, a Korean American teen on his way to his yale admission interview. Natasha Kinsley is a Jamaican American teen about to be deported, and in her last-ditch effort, she sets up a meeting with a paralegal. This book is not a quick read, but if you’re up for it, check it out. ![]() The Sun is Also a Star is an #ownvoices novel the author, Nicola Yoon, grew up in Jamaican and Brooklyn, and falls under the YA romance genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Gemma discovers a beautiful stranger has been pretending to date her for months, she decides to take the charade one step further-and announces their engagement. ![]() But the title comes with one tiny condition: she must be married in order to inherit. Gemma van Dalen is a wild child, the outcast of her wealthy family, and now the latest heir to Van Dalen Publishing. They'll never actually meet, so what's the harm in a little fib? Yet when real-life Gemma crosses Tansy's path, her white lie nearly implodes. Tired of her stepfamily's questions about her love life, Tansy invents Gemma, a fake girlfriend inspired by the stunning cover model on a bestselling book. Tansy Adams' greatest love is her family's bookstore, passed down from her late father. Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a comedian, she has also had three successful Edinburgh Festival shows. He also provided his voice and movements to a character in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin.Wendy Wason was a regular in several comedy series such as Tittybangbang and The IT Crowd, and she has also appeared in Midsomer Murders. ![]() Should he try and track The Girl down? What if she's The One? But that would mean using the only clues he has, which lie untouched in this tatty disposable.It's funny how things can develop.Mackenzie Crook is best known for playing Gareth in The Office, a role for which he earned two BAFTA nominations, and Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. And then, just like that, she was gone - accidentally leaving him holding her old-fashioned, disposable camera, chock full of undeveloped photos.And now Jason - ex-teacher, ex-boyfriend, part-time writer and reluctant hero - faces a dilemma. They shared an incredible, brief, fleeting moment of deep possibility, somewhere halfway down Charlotte Street. (because yes, there's always a girl.)Jason Priestley (not that one) has just seen her. Charlotte Street: A Novel Paperback Octoby Danny Wallace (Author) 208 ratings Kindle 5.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 20.11 5 Used from 13.17 Paperback 14.99 24 Used from 0.57 9 New from 8.41 1 Collectible from 5.00 Unmissable.will have you laughing out loud and melt your heart, all at once. ![]() ![]() Percy kills the beast with one of its own horns. At a summer camp, Sally is attacked by a minotaur and disappears in a flash of light. Percy's friend Grover reveals himself as a satyr and warns of danger. Percy and his mother Sally go to Long Island. Brunner, later revealed as Chiron, lends Percy a magical sword-pen to defeat her. Dodds, turns into a Fury and attacks him. While on a school trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the chaperones, Mrs. ![]() Percy Jackson is a dyslexic twelve-year-old with ADHD. On May 14, 2020, Riordan announced that a live-action TV series for Disney+ would adapt the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, with the first season covering The Lightning Thief. ![]() The novel is followed by The Sea of Monsters and spawned two sequel series ( The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo) and the extended universe of the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles.Ī film adaptation of the book, titled Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, was released in the United States on February 12, 2010. It won the Adult Library Services Association Best Books for Young Adults, among other awards. The Lightning Thief is a 2005 American fantasy- adventure novel based on Greek mythology, the first young adult novel written by Rick Riordan in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. ![]() |