6/10/2023 0 Comments Peace talks butcher![]() ![]() Please include the word "Spoiler(s)" and the book title that the post will have spoilers about in your post's title. We ask that you are mindful of fellow readers who may not be at the same point you are in the Files. ![]() If you see a post or comment that violates the rules please click on the report button, and send us a message with a link to the the post or comment, and a description of why you believe the post violates the rules. Please take a moment to review our RULES. ![]() Reddit's Home for the Dresden Files book series by Jim Butcher.įeel free to discuss the books, television series, comic books, RPG, and other works by Jim Butcher (such as Codex Alera and Cinder Spires, et al.). Welcome To r/dresdenfiles! Please read the below if you're a first-time visitor. The newest chapters in The Dresden Files from best-selling author Jim Butcher are Peace Talks(out now!) and Battle Ground (September 29, 2020). ![]()
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6/9/2023 0 Comments Violets made of thorns![]() ![]() Honesty is for suckers, like the oh-so- not charming Prince Cyrus, who plans to strip Violet of her official role once he’s crowned at the end of the summer-unless Violet does something about it.īut when the king asks her to falsely prophesy Cyrus's love story for an upcoming ball, Violet awakens a dreaded curse, one that will end in either damnation or salvation for the kingdom-all depending on the prince’s choice of future bride. Violet is a prophet and a liar, influencing the royal court with her cleverly phrased-and not always true-divinations. “Everything you want from an enemies-to-lovers fantasy starring morally gray characters.”- BuzzFeed A darkly enchanting fantasy about a lying witch, a cursed prince, and a sinister prophecy that ignites their doomed destinies-perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Death laura thalassa![]() ![]() I’ve heard of Egypt before, but ancient Egypt … it sounds too far away in time and space to hold any value or meaning for me. ![]() “She’s the ancient Egyptian goddess of harmony and justice.” ![]() “Would you like me to tell you the tale of Ma’at?” But enemies or reluctant lovers, if they don’t stop themselves soon, heaven will. ![]() But at the end of the day, the two are enemies. In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. But when Ana, a ghost from his past, corners him and promises pain for what he so recently did to her, she and her empty threats captivate him, and he decides to keep her around. Try as he might, he can’t forget what they once did to him. And how these blighted bastards deserve it. If there’s one thing Famine is good at, it’s cruelty. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she’s stabbed and left for dead. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.Īna da Silva always assumed she’d die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth–Pestilence, War, Famine, Death–four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Bred for Them by Mae Harden![]() Ones we’re all too happy to fulfill for her. ![]() At least that’s what we thought until a viral internet post exposes her deepest desires. Hailey is everything we’ve ever wanted, but all she’s interested in is carrying our baby. This award honors those individuals who deserve special recognition that have made a difference in the Sport of Purebred Dogs, embody the AKC Code of. I’m tired of waiting, looking, and always coming up empty. Now we’re looking for a surrogate.īaby fever is spreading through Sugar Creek like wildfire, and I am most definitely not immune. We’re looking for the mother of our children. It’s a tall order, I get that, but we’re not just looking for the meat in a Bobbie/Jameson sandwich. We’ve been looking for years, but finding the right woman has been about as easy as catching a greased-up unicorn. ![]() So, what’s a girl to do when she’s harboring secret desires for two wildly unobtainable men? If you’re going to say, ‘don’t post it on an internet confession forum’, I really could have used that advice last week. ![]() And when those fantasies evolve into feelings… yeah, there’s no handbook for that. No one prepared me for what to do when just the sight of them sparked some seriously filthy fantasies. Its one of those alien mate books that I have avoided like the plague in the. No one told me that my clients would be hotter than Hades. When I registered to be a surrogate, I just wanted to help someone have a baby. ![]() ![]() It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. ![]() ![]() With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. Carrie returns from Australia at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life - shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name - still she finds herself lonely. Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. ![]() ![]() In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently, Skeeter goes to the aid of Aibileen, who is the maid of her close friend Elizabeth. Skeeter has never had to housekeep in her whole life, though. She finds a job for the local newspaper, writing for the housekeeping column. Skeeter is left to find a job in Jackson. However, Elaine Stein, an editor from Harper & Row, offers some advice to Skeeter. Skeeter applies for a job at Harper & Row but is declined the job. She longs to write for a newspaper company in New York City, but she is stuck on her parent’s cotton farm where her mother is constantly bugging her about finding a man. Eugenia “Skeeter” (as everyone calls her) has just returned from college at the University of Mississippi. She also fails to protect herself from her husband, Leroy, who beats her often as a result of his drinking. Minny is searching for yet another job because she can not keep her mouth shut and says whatever she wishes to her white boss. Minny is also a black maid and a good friend of Aibileen. ![]() She is trying to cope with the her 24-year-old son’s death. Aibileen is a black maid working for a white family, one of many families she has worked for. The story goes between the perspectives of three different women who are all going through differing struggles. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is a novel that takes place in the early 1960's in Jackson, Mississippi where racism is strong. ![]() ![]() Ware has admitted to being unconsciously influenced by Christie and other mystery novelists of that time. In her crime books, Ware's writing style is often compared to that of Agatha Christie. She also spent time in Paris, teaching English as a foreign language.īefore embarking on her writing career as Ruth Ware, Ware wrote five young-adult fantasy novels as Ruth Warburton, all of which were published by Hodder's Children Books. She studied English at Manchester University, where she developed a fascination with Old English and Middle English texts.īefore her writing career, Ware worked as a waitress, a bookseller and a publicist. Ruth Ware was born in 1977 and grew up in Lewes. She switched to the pen name Ruth Ware to distinguish her crime novels from the young-adult fantasy novels published under her name, Ruth Warburton. ![]() ![]() She is represented by Eve White of the Eve White Literary Agency. ![]() Both In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 were on the UK's Sunday Times and The New York Times top ten bestseller lists. Her novels include In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015), The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016), The Lying Game (2017), The Death of Mrs Westaway (2018), The Turn of the Key (2019), One By One (2020), and The It Girl (2022). Ruth Ware (born 1977), alias for Ruth Warburton, is a British psychological thriller author. ![]() ![]() Whelan provided covers and interior illustrations for Stephen King's The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower, the first and last of his Dark Tower books.Ĭover art by Michael Whelan has graced many music record albums including Demolition Hammer's Epidemic of Violence, The Jacksons' Victory Sepultura's Beneath the Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D. ![]() ![]() Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series and Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Lovecraft's short story collections, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné books, numerous DAW editions of C. ![]() His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the Del Rey editions of H. His work was a dominant force in the transition of genre book covers away from the surrealism introduced in the 1950s and 1960s back to realism. Michael Whelan is one of the most important contemporary science fiction and fantasy artists, and certainly the most popular. ![]() The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. ![]() ![]() ![]() He convinced his publisher, Signet Books, to print these novels under a pseudonym. King therefore wanted to write under another name in order to increase his publication without saturating the market for the King "brand". King portrays Bachman in the third season of the FX television series Sons of Anarchy.Īt the beginning of King's career, the general view among publishers was that an author was limited to one book per year, since publishing more would be unacceptable to the public. Richard Bachman is a pen name (as well as fictional character) of American horror fiction author Stephen King. ![]() ![]() The actual subject of the photo is Richard Manuel, the insurance agent of Kirby McCauley, who was Stephen King's literary agent. Richard Bachman's author photo, credited to Claudia Inez Bachman. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Xiran jay zhao zachary ying![]() "I had the idea to riff off of Yu-Gi-Oh, which was a really formative media franchise when I was growing up. ![]() I got the idea of the First Emperor of China, which I was really obsessed with because his story is so fascinating. And then she was like, 'Hey, you should consider writing a middle-grade because stories featuring the galaxy are really popular and do well in middle-grade novels.' So Zachary Ying is my first attempt at writing middle-grade ever. I wouldn't shut up about Chinese history to my friend. "It was a few years ago when I was really hyperfixated on Chinese history. ![]() Zhao spoke with CBC Books about writing Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor. 25 books to celebrate Asian Heritage Month in Canada.His journey takes him across China to heist magical artifacts, defeat figures from history and seal the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before it's too late. It follows a boy named Zachary Ying as he embarks on a mission after discovering he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China. Zhao's latest is a middle-grade book called Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor. Their debut novel Iron Widow, a YA fantasy featuring aliens, giant robots and a quest to battle evil, was a New York Times bestseller. ![]() They are a first-generation Chinese immigrant who is passionate about Chinese history, cosplay and anime. Xiran Jay Zhao is a Vancouver-based author and social media creator. ![]() |