![]() ![]() Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, Prince Rhen knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him. Please see above for more details on the book.įall in love, break the curse. Today we will be reviewing A Curse So Dark and Lonely (The Cursebreaker Series Book 1) by author Brigid Kemmerer. Other Books in the Series: A Heart So Fierce and Broken (The Cursebreaker Series Book 2)ĭisclaimer: There may be some “spoilers” in our detailed banter below: The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.” A good hand can ultimately lose – just as a poor one can win – but we must all play the cards fate deals. Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore Adaptation Contemporary FantasyĬollective Favorite Quote: “ My father once said that we are all dealt a hand at birth. ![]() ![]() Title: A Curse So Dark and Lonely (The Cursebreaker Series Book 1) ![]()
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![]() ![]() Harding dies two hours after the act and Carter finds himself pursued not only by a Secret Service agen but also by a host of others desperate for the terrible secret they believe Harding confided in him 8vo, -563,, pages Signed by Author. Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician Charles Carter executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. ![]() Unfortunately for Carter, the President Warren G. In Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold subjects the past to the same wondrous transformations as the rabbit in a skilled illusionist's hat. ![]() Until the night of his daring perfomance at the Curran Theatre where Carter goes toe to toe with the devil in the final act. At the dawn of the Jazz age, as technology and the cinema challenge the allure of magic, Carter's stunts become increasingly audacious. SIGNED and dated by author Glen David Gold directly on the title page Author Glen David Gold's debut novel about Charles Carter, a famed magician. A Sharp first edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with soiled edges in alike dust jacket with edgewear to rear fold and round red sticker to rear. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first few pages we learn three people have gone missing and are presumed dead. Only, in the tradition of first colonization stories everywhere, stuff happens. They are looking for peace, but to no reader’s surprise, end up on a planet that seemed hospitable. The premise is straightforward: a group of colonists has landed on Pax, fleeing Earth’s environmental catastrophes and endless wars. endurance fashion, persevered, and found it to be a very uneven experience. A buddy read with Cillian, she found this one far more displeasing than I, (spoiler: though with reviewing, I edged further into the negative). I need a good solid hate read in my life, or at least I need to find a book that doesn’t leave me with this much ambivalence. ![]() ![]() When I walked out the office all the people in the waiting room looked grateful they weren’t me. How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.Ī doctor took pictures of my lungs. Library of Congress Control Number: 2009042305 ![]() Manufactured in the United States of America For more information or to book an event contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-86 or visit our website at Designed by Carla Jayne Jones Or Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. Please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-86 SCRIBNER and design are registered trademarks of The Gale Group, Inc., used under license by Simon & Schuster, Inc., the publisher of this work.įor information about special discounts for bulk purchases, Scribner Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas,įirst Scribner hardcover edition June 2010 ![]() Or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is slow, and more or less an internal story about a nice kid who is growing up. ![]() Other readers seemed to have the same reactions to this that I did. That said, maybe it's a selling point that the book is completely not scary? I know a lot of kids who get stressed out by suspense and adventure, and the fact that this is so quiet may be appealing to them. I think only kids who ruminate a lot will want to read this, but I don't think a kid under 8 will GET it, and will older kids want to read about a younger one? That's a small window of readership. My own very-much-in-her-head 9-year-old will love it, I think, but the fact that there's no big sweeping external drama and there's really only one kid in the book (the 10-year-old narrator - OK, there's also an unlikeable, uncute 5-year-old) may turn a lot of young readers off. I do worry that this very short novel (I would say novella but after reading that Eudora Welty hated the word novella, I try not to say novella b/c what if I accidentally insult some novelist who hates the word novella? GAH) will have a hard time finding an audience. Nothing HAPPENS - the book is all about the emotions and tiny changes in our female protagonist's head - but it's so real and so touching and so momentous despite being writ so small. Another Goodreads reviewer compared it to Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Chronicle Books, 1994. The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II. Washington, DC: Foundation for the National Archives, 2009. Records of Our National Life: American History at the National Archives. E2 įallen, Anne-Catherine and Osborn, Kevin. Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito, and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion. San Francisco, CA: California Historical Society, 1972. ![]() Executive Order 9066 the Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Chicago: CityFiles Press, 2016.Ĭonrat, Maisie. Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II. f TR140.元 B6713 2002Ĭahan, Richard, and Michael Williams. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 2002. ![]() Dorothea Lange: the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. ![]() Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration. Bishop, CA: Spotted Dog Press, 2002.Īlinder, Jasmine. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans. Issei man and Nisei boy at Manzanar War Relocation Center General WorksĪdams, Ansel, and Wynne Benti. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Fish Out of Water” is peppered with curious and quirky chapter titles and their content. As though life had real meaning, and the people then were truly alive.” These impressions have apparently carried through his life and successful writing, broadcasting and speaking career. Especially, “how the ideas we were studying mattered to the people at the time, so that they would fight and die for them. Metaxas describes some of what impressed him about what he was learning vis-a-vis centuries old personalities and their writings. Metaxas demonstrated a literary talent, writing pensively about such heady topics as creation versus evolution in fourth grade to answer an assigned question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Throughout his early career, he won multiple writing accolades and had a couple of his works published in the heady magazine The Atlantic.Īt Trinity College, before transferring to Yale, Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, Devlin takes over Trader's body. One morning, a quiet, responsible luthier (guitar-maker), Leonard Trader, wakes up in the body of charming ne'er-do-well Johnny Devlin. De Lint fans will enjoy time spent with a host of beloved Newford characters, including Jilly, Geordie and Joseph Crazy Dog (aka Bones), among others.įeaturing a new afterword unique to this edition.Ī master of urban fantasy returns with one of his finest works. ![]() Penniless, friendless and homeless, Max is forced into a new existence as a homeless person, leading him eventually to a strange otherworld where he must confront his past, future, and what makes up the very essence of his identity. When they inexplicably wake up in each other's bodies, Johnny happily moves into Max's stable life, leaving Max to contend with the shambles of Devlin’s. What is truly important, and what is truly you, when everything is stripped away? In this evocative novel, we meet Max Trader, a renowned guitar-maker living a solitary, quiet life and Johnny Devlin, a small-time con man out to scam anyone, including his girlfriend. ![]() ![]() It's interesting to note how even extreme individualists like Dirac could only develop their ideas through interaction (either personal or through published material) with their peers. Farmelo's treatment of this succeeded brilliantly. ![]() There is the additional element in science of discovering how the individual fitted in to what has become very much a collective enterprise. I am always interested in the early biography of creative people, showing how they developed and kindled their creative interests. ![]() For the most part the author does a good job of tracing the development of quantum physics, the math and Dirac's place within it, without giving the impression of talking down to the layman. Unusually for a scientific book, I couldn't put it down! It covers the purely biographical aspects without skipping the harder conceptual material of the physics. ![]() Farmelo certainly picked a hard nut to crack in writing about Dirac for a lay audience, in terms both of Dirac personally and of the complexity of his work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Year of the Rabbit is based on firsthand accounts, all told from the perspective of his parents and other close relatives. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country’s major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million citizens.Ĭartoonist Tian Veasna was born just three days after the Khmer Rouge takeover, as his family set forth on the chaotic mass exodus from Phnom Penh. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family’s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. ![]() The comics form allows readers understand through chronological progression and a close view how horror can become the stuff of the everyday."- The New York Times One family’s quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer Rouge ![]() |