Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends, and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life. Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. critically acclaimed novel now includes the bonus novella Say Something, another arresting Hate List story. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. Hate Symbol 13/52 and 13/90 are racist numeric codes used by white supremacists to portray African Americans as savage and criminal. , a powerful and timely contemporary classic about the aftermath of a school shooting.įive months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria.
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Glen Taylor’s name entered the investigation when a neighbour of Dawn’s noted down a blue van similar to Taylor’s van in the area at about the time of Bella’s disappearance.Īs the investigation continues into Glen and Jean Taylor’s background, discrepancies appear. The Police rapidly came to the conclusion that this is no simple abduction. Detective Inspector Bob Sparkes headed up the investigation into her disappearance. How could she just disappear into thin air?Ī distressed Dawn rang 999 to report her daughter missing. When Dawn went to call her a few minutes later, there was no trace. Her mother Dawn had been inside doing household chores when Bella ran outside, following her cat into the small front garden. Glen Taylor had been accused of being involved in the disappearance of Bella Elliot, a little girl. On the surface, Jean Taylor appears to be the perfect grieving widow turning on tears at the appropriate moment and answering questions from the police in way that almost seems rehearsed. Fiona Barton brings her skills as a journalist into her storytelling, gripping the reader with every turn of the page.Īfter over 2 years in the limelight of a police investigation, her husband Glen Taylor is dead. I know I'm not the only one who finds novels about time travel utterly irresistible. It’ll take one final trip across time to save Miranda-even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.Ī uniquely emotional genre-bending debut, Here and Now and Then captures the perfect balance of heart, playfulness, and imagination, offering an intimate glimpse into the crevices of a father’s heart and its capacity to stretch across both space and time to protect the people that mean the most. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself, his daughter’s very existence is at risk. Torn between two lives, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he’s only been gone weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. Until one afternoon, his “rescue” team arrives-eighteen years too late. Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler’s brain. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142. Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. To save his daughter, he’ll go anywhere-and any-when… In order of publication, they are Guards! Guards! (1989), " Theatre of Cruelty" (1993) (a short story), Men at Arms (1993), Feet of Clay (1996), Jingo (1997), The Fifth Elephant (1999), Night Watch (2002), Thud! (2005) and Snuff (2011). These novels generally feature as the protagonist, the Watch Commander Sam Vimes, and take on the general shape of a crime novel, in which the Watch are called on to solve a mysterious crime. The Watch, its growth and development, and its inner workings are explored through a series of eight fantasy novels and one short story. The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is the police force of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld series by the English writer Terry Pratchett. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( January 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. While posted in Belgium he met Vivien Alcock, then an ambulance driver, who would go on to become his second wife (in 1948) and a well-known children's author. For his service in the war he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He married Lena Leah Davies in April, 1941, at Golders Green Synagogue but they separated after only a few months. Garfield attended Brighton Grammar School (1932-1938) and went on to study art at Regent Street Polytechnic, but his studies were interrupted first by lack of funds for fees, then by the outbreak of World War II. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. Morgan and Gervase are likeable, engaging characters, with foibles and dreams, strengths and weaknesses, that make them wonderfully real. Thus begins a sizzling courtship where two wary hearts are about to be undone by the most scandalous passion of all: glorious, all-consuming love. Slightly Tempted, the fourth book in the Bedwyn family series is a fabulous and fascinating tale of betrayal and revenge, scandal and intrigue, love and war. For Gervase, only the marriage bed will do, but Morgan simply will not have him. There is only one thing standing in his way: Morgan, who has achieved the impossible'she's melted his coolly guarded heart. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself'until one night of shocking intimacy erupts in a scandal that could make Gervase's vengeance all the sweeter. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent's most notorious rake. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction'where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal'and where Morgan Bedwyn, the willful youngest daughter, discovers that true love is a temptation no woman can'or should'resist. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress.Meet the Bedwyns'six brothers and sisters'men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. This is the greatest truth in the universe. A prison guard found a scrap of paper in his cell after his death on which was written:Ĭhrist is the Son of God who died for the redemption of sinners and resurrected after three days. In 1952 he was falsely accused and imprisoned by the Communists. He spent the rest of his life preaching, teaching, and writing. He had previously considered Christian work to be a low occupation that was beneath him. He was well-educated and had great aspirations in life, but he realized that becoming a Christian meant surrendering everything to God. At the age of 17 he gave his life to Jesus, forever altering his plans. He was born of second-generation Christian parents in Foochow, China in 1903. In order to make this article brief, I will severely limit quotations from the book in the hope that you will read it for yourself.įor those of you not familiar with Watchman Nee, his real name was Nee Shu-tsu, whose English name was Henry Nee. I was not disappointed as I reacquainted myself with Nee’s teaching. I decided to reread Nee’s work and write this summary since it is one of the very top books on my recommended reading list. Over the years I have come to understand what a blessing that was, since many people have never benefited from such teaching. It profoundly shaped my understanding of the meaning of Romans 5-8. I read this book in the 1970s as a new disciple. I was, if you like, the prisoner of this knowledge. (Post-Kuwait inspections by the United Nations had uncovered a huge nuclear-reactor site that had not even been known about by the international community.) I had seen with my own eyes the evidence of a serious breach of the Genocide Convention on Iraqi soil, and I had also seen with my own eyes the evidence that it had been carried out in part with the use of weapons of mass destruction. I knew that its vast patrimony of oil wealth, far from being 'nationalized,' had been privatized for the use of one family, and was being squandered on hideous ostentation at home and militarism abroad. I knew that its police force was searching for psychopathic killers and sadistic serial murderers, not in order to arrest them but to employ them. “So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse for not knowing the following things: I knew that its one-party, one-leader state machine was modeled on the precedents of both National Socialism and Stalinism, to say nothing of Al Capone. The title is a quote from "The Collared Signal", about people who live on a spaceship with a farm inside getting attacked by space pirates-except that both ships-the farmers and the pirates-are big poly families with same-sex relationships and kids and everything. There's a South Asian diaspora woman on a space colony breaking military rules to save her son's husband from giant bug aliens. There are ice dragons on a winter planet, dystopian struggles in a world fucked up by global warming, and a man who can see the future so he already knows who his future husband is when he meets him-and then fails to make a good impression. There are fifteen stories, providing a wide variety of moods, settings, and even genres-some are hard sci-fi, some mild real-world paranormal, some even portal fantasy. I don't think I've ever typed that before. If you like my books specifically because of the "queer family fluff" aspect, you should go and pick up this book before even finishing this review. The fact that I'm not constantly bombarded by enthusiastic recommendations for this book, when it has so much in common with my novels in celebrating the strong bonds of queer families in a SFF setting, just proves the truth of what I've been saying lately about the fragmentation of the indie publishing world - even within queer SFF! Because damn, Fierce Family is gorgeous. We'd known about the illness for a year or so, after he went to the Dr's complaining of a pain in his chest. Ken Follett was his favourite though, and The Pillars of the Earth his favourite Ken Follett novel.Įarlier this year, just days before Covid 19 set in and changed everything, my father lost his fight with Cancer. He didn't much care for genre, but this series really caught his attention, in part I think due to the historical aspect of the books - but also because they are just damned fine novels. Historical fiction became his real love and he began devouring books from authors such as Paul Doherty, Rory Clements, Peter Tremane, Ariana Franklin and others. I like to think I played some part in his re-awakened literary thirst, some of the first books he read were Mike Shevdon's Courts of the Feyre series that I lent him. Though my Mother and I have always been voracious readers. Previous to that he hadn't read much for the last few decades outside of Haynes manuals and instruction leaflets (always as a last resort). Some years ago, my father started reading again. Fair warning, this isn't going to be a normal review, it's the first one I've written post-covid and is much more personal than usual. |