![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a series is narrated by Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, Lynn Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Northam, and Patrick Stewart, you definitely want to experience it in audio. ![]() Listeners will be introduced to the four Pevensie siblings (Peter, Edmund, Susan, and little Lucy), Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole, and Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer as they experience the life-changing magic and adventure that Narnia has to offer.Įach audiobook in this classic series features a different all-star voice. Throughout the series, children from our own world find themselves slipping away to Narnia-sometimes called, and sometimes by accident-to fight the forces of evil and protect Narnia and its inhabitants, often called upon by Aslan. In this series, listeners will be introduced to Narnia's birth and creation, witness its long and illustrious history, and follow through to the end of the beloved magical land. It's a wondrous place where Aslan the Lion reigns over the land as a benevolent leader and guide-but it's not without darkness. Slip through the wardrobe and into Narnia, where an epic battle between good and evil unfolds across seven classic novels.īeyond the reaches of our own world lies Narnia, a magical land full of creatures marvelous and fantastical. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The exact date of the family’s creation is unclear because the family was not originally formed as a unit: each member existed previously in the numerous cartoons, comic strips and drawings of Chas as unrelated characters with several variations. Born in 1912 in the town of Westfield, New Jersey, where he spent the first part of his life. The Addams Family was created by Charles “Chas” Addams, an American cartoonist renowned for his dark humor and macabre jokes. You could say almost all of the following “creepy families” were inspired or influenced by the Addams. They are without a doubt the start of it all and the most iconic and well-known incarnation of this archetype, the ones who lead the dance, an international success. ![]() The Addams Family is of course where the history of the “creepy family” archetype should start. ![]() ![]() Her full name was actually Mary Josephine (mine is Mary Jo), and I’m grateful that she went by Jo, because we were confused often enough as it was! I would graciously accept compliments on my Rogue books, pointing out that they were actually Jo’s Rogues. In fact, my first book was published the month before Jo’s first book, which pleased Melinda Helfer, the Regency reviewer for Romantic Times Magazine, because that way she could give each of us her Best New Regency Author award for two different years. She and I were friends for almost 30 years, and our careers have always tracked very closely. There was no one quite like Jo, with her calm English good sense and quiet warmth and dry wit, not to mention her taste for port wine and very dark chocolate. Oh, my gosh, does that make me sad to hear.įrom Mary Jo Putney’s post on Word Wenches, which is a beautiful tribute from all her Word Wench sisters: ![]() ![]() The Word Wenches announced this evening that historical romance master Jo Beverley has died. ![]() ![]() The five books of the series have created a huge following as more authors followed suit, making LitRPG the latest bestselling Russian genre that merges science fiction, fantasy and gaming conventions. Set in the virtual reality of MMORPG - Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games - his books tell stories of real people who'd become stuck in the game and are forced to follow its rules while preserving their intergrity and fighting to make their new world a better place. AlterWorld - the first novel of his Play to Live series - made him a bestselling author overnight as critics now credit him with single-handedly creating a new science fiction genre: LitRPG. ![]() Rus is a young Russian author whose books took the Russian literary market by storm in 2013. The five books of the series have created a huge following as more authors followed suit, making LitRPG the latest bestselling Russian genre that merges science fiction, fantasy and g D. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s familiar with Taran Ferguson-everyone in town knows that he’s a bit cuckoo-and has a good head on her shoulders. She’s the daughter of the local squire and never expected to marry anyone but a squire. I would love to give you a summary of each story but part of the fun is finding out whom they end up with, so I will not kill three fairies! Instead, I’ll describe the girls for you and maybe you can guess.Ĭatriona Burns is the unfortunate local lass who gets sucked into the fun. ![]() There are three interlocked stories in the novel, featuring Byron, Robin and Duke. Everyone is both horrified and amused by his crazy antics, and of course, they all fall in love. ![]() Taran is hoping that love will blossom between the girls and his two heirs (via his sisters): Byron Wotton, Earl of Oakley and Robin Parles, a French count with no real title. So Taran and his clansmen hustle over to the Earl of Maycott’s, grab a bunch of heiresses -and, accidentally, a Duke-and take them home, where they will be trapped for a few days since snow has since covered the pass. One whiskey-fueled Christmas night, Taran Ferguson of Finovair decides to take matters into his own hands and kidnaps a bunch of women so that his heirs can have heirs and his line doesn’t die out. If you’re a first-time reader of their work, however, consider one of their full-length novels instead. For fans of Julia Quinn, Eloisa James or Connie Brockway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is a beautiful mix of navy and pink lettering. I love the cover for A Study in Charlotte. But danger is mounting and nowhere is safe-and the only people they can trust are each other.įirstly you know every now and again I have to start off my reviews with mentioning the book cover. Jamie and Charlotte are being framed for murder, and only Charlotte can clear their names. But when a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. From everything Jamie has heard about Charlotte, it seems safer to admire her from afar.įrom the moment they meet, there’s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else. ![]() But that’s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective’s great-great-great-granddaughter, who has inherited not only Sherlock’s genius but also his volatile temperament. The last thing Jamie Watson wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. Title: A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro ![]() ![]() Dacyczyn describes this collection as the book I wish I'd had when I began my adult life. ![]() Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette brings together all of her best ideas and thriftiest thinking into one volume, along with new articles never published before in book format. ![]() ![]() ![]() At last-the long-awaited complete compendium of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living! In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They get a weekly stipend, enough to ensure they don't have to slave away at thankless jobs and can devote more time to their writing. The project is called 'Sweet Tooth' and the aim is to recruit left leaning anti-communist writers and get them to produce ideologically sound novels and short stories.Ī fake foundation has been set up to through which to funnel cash to the writers who unwittingly think the whole deal is legitimate. ![]() It's the politically turbulent early seventies and Cambridge student Serena Frome, a mathematics student who also likes to speed read her way through a vast array of novels, is unknowingly groomed by her boyfriend-professor for a role as a secret agent within MI5. The plot is one of intrigue, false personalities and deceit. From the opening paragraph the pacing and sheer skill of the narrative creates an aura of suspense that doesn't let you go until the very last page. Ian McEwan's latest novel makes for addictive reading. McEwan’s page-turner of a novel examines life, literature, politics and betrayal. With the Cold War raging, Serena Frome is recruited as a secret spy, but promptly falls in love with the writer she is employed to manipulate. Sweet Tooth takes as its subject the culture wars of the early seventies and MI5's murky involvement in them. ![]() ![]() Selznick imagines an alternate backstory for a real English tourist attraction, the Dennis Severs' House: 10 meticulously curated rooms that suggest what life might have been like for a family of Huguenot silk weavers in 18th-century London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits and ghostly presences, captivates Joseph and leads him on a search for clues about the house, his family, and the past.A gripping adventure and an intriguing invitation to decipher how the two stories connect, The Marvels is a loving tribute to the power of story from an artist at the vanguard of creative innovation. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage.Nearly a century later, runaway Joseph Jervis seeks refuge with an uncle in London. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. ![]() Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, which together with The Marvels, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy! A breathtaking new voyage from Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick.Two stand-alone stories-the first in nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, the second in prose-create a beguiling narrative puzzle.The journey begins at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he realizes the missing woman’s house is directly adjacent to the house in this case, he thinks he might have found the connection that could bring justice for both women. And no one is as innocent as they seem.Īs the police grow desperate for a lead, Fawley stumbles across a breakthrough, a link to a case he worked years before about another young woman and child gone missing, never solved. The inhabitants of the quiet street are in shock-how could this happen right under their noses? But Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows nothing is impossible. From internationally bestselling author Cara Hunter, a riveting suspense novel about the shocking secrets revealed when a woman is discovered held captive behind a basement wall-and no one is who they appear to beĭo you know what they’re hiding in the house next door?Ī woman and child are found locked in a basement, barely alive, and unidentifiable: the woman can’t speak, there are no missing persons reports that match their profile, and the confused, elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before. ![]() |