![]() ![]() ![]() Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Finalist Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Selected as A Best Book of 2016 by: NPR ![]() ![]() New York Times Editors’ Choice PEN/Robert W. “When the Wangs take the world, we all benefit” ( USA Today).Ī New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Highly entertaining” ( BuzzFeed), this “fresh Little Miss Sunshine” ( Vanity Fair) is a “compassionate and bright-eyed novel” ( New York Times Book Review), an epic family saga, and a new look at what it means to belong in America. Together with their wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra, they head on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of the eldest Wang daughter, Saina. So he rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn’t repossessed. For fans of Crazy Rich Asians: Meet the Wangs, the unforgettable immigrant family whose spectacular fall from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings them together in a way money never could.Ĭharles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, has just lost everything in the financial crisis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He finds himself giving an impromptu speech, which, he reflects, is indicative of his broader project in the work. The work opens with Garton Ash recalling his travel to Poland during the 1989 parliamentary elections, the first competitive democratic elections in that country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. ![]() Polish “w” is typically pronounced “v,” “ł” is pronounced more like “w,” and “ę” is pronounced “en.” Thus, for “Wałęsa,” “Vawensa” is the closest English approximation. Lech Wałęsa’s surname may pose specific challenges to the Anglophone reader. ![]() The “c” in Václav, as in Václav Havel, is pronounced as “ts,” making the name sound like “Vatslav” in English. It should also be noted that the honorific pan appears in Polish and Czech-this is roughly equivalent to sir or madam and is used in formal address. A note on language and pronunciation: This guide preserves all accent marks and diacritics for Polish, Hungarian, and Czech names. ![]() ![]() ![]() Forced to carry out one more assassination to clear his debt, Don unwittingly kills an innocent child and brings the Furies of Greek myth down upon himself. With just the sort of life, to make you feel good about yourself.ĭark and delightful, like a naughty treat, this is a rollicking story.”įrancis Knight, author of the Rojan Dizon series Hitman Don Drake owes a gambling debt to a demon. Very near the top of the half dozen best books I’ve read this year.”ĭave Hutchinson, author of Europe in Autumn and Europe at Midnighter ![]() It’s a wonderful, headlong read and I enjoyed it immensely. You wouldn’t trust him with your life – he can’t even be trusted “Peter McLean’s debut novel is an absolute gem that hits the ground running,Ī gritty, grungy, funny, sweary noir thriller with added demons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Given its distance from the central governing body in Mexico City as well as the Eastern influence of a young United States, New Mexico enjoyed a certain level of autonomy. The Viceroyalty of New SpainĬonsidering the isolation and cultural makeup of the Southwest in the 18 th century, it is little surprise that such a unique economy came to be. ![]() More than that, quite often did the slave become an integrated member of the family. The Southwest gave birth to a different kind of slave, the Genízaro – a captive Indian without a tribe who, if not in the minds of their captors then at least in the vernacular – was considered not a slave but a servant. Such a foundation was hardly unique in the New World, although the system’s origins, motivations, and outcome were wholly Southwestern. Beginning late in the 17 th century and continuing all throughout Mexican rule and into American conquest, settlers within these Spanish borderlands built their homes, haciendas, and communities on a slavery-based political economy. The American Southwest during the late Spanish colonial period was home to one of the most precarious family systems in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Boorman sustains an atmosphere of oppression, and her characters are well drawn, but one can't help but feel that this plot has been done before. Emmaline's narrative reinforces her mistrust of the Councilmen, her feelings of unworthiness, and the superstitious nature of her people. She dreams of the Lost People who once lived there, and often escapes into the forbidden woods where she uncovers a dangerous secret. But not only is Emmaline attracted to another man, she also cannot help but be Wayward herself. ![]() When she turns 16, one of the leaders asks to marry her, offering an opportunity to salvage the family's reputation. Emmaline bears the guilt of her Wayward grandmother, who was exiled years ago. The Councilmen in charge of this repressed society are dominating and quick to punish any sign of Waywardness. Survival is difficult in a village that lacks modern conveniences and a land that suffers brutal winters. Gr 8 Up-Emmaline lives with her father in a walled settlement that is locked at night to protect people from a mysterious evil that wiped out many of their ancestors, and may still be lurking in the nearby woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this incredible retelling of The Princess and the Pauper, based on true events, authors Zoey Gong and Amanda Roberts bring to life the opulent and dangerous world of imperial consorts trapped within the great red walls of the Forbidden City. But living within the Forbidden City is even more dangerous than she imagined. And if she fails, if she is discovered, she will be guilty of treason and put to death.ĭaiyu cannot allow her family to suffer if it is within her power to save them, so she strikes the deadly bargain. In order to pull off the ruse, Daiyu must abandon everything she ever knew and become a completely different person, a person she despises. Living in poverty in the shadow of the Forbidden City, Daiyu never imagined that the life of the emperor would impact her own.īut a chance meeting with a girl who looks exactly like her changes everything.ĭaiyu's family is offered enough money to support them for life if she only agrees to take the stranger's place at the emperor's selection for new consorts. To save her family, one girl will sacrifice her very identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Published in six languages, Kylie has sold over half a million copies and has won fans the world over. Kylie has published four books with Pan Macmillan, namely Lick, Play, Lead and Deepin the Stage Dive series, and Flesh and Skinin the Flesh series with Momentum. New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott is a long-time fan of love stories, rock n' roll and B-grade horror films. "Readers who enjoy whirlwind romances with plenty of sex and laugh-out-loud humor will love every installment." Booklist (starred review) "Killer writing, laugh-out-loud humor and so heart-warming you will blush all over." Katy Evans, New York Times bestselling author of the Real series ![]() "Nobody writes inked-up, sexy-as-sin rockers like Kylie Scott!!" Emma Chase, New York Times bestselling author of Tangled ![]() When it comes to love, serving it straight up works better than with a twist. And in no time at all they're emailing up a storm, telling each other their deepest darkest secrets. Until he reads about her.Īlex Parks is funny, friendly, and pretty much everything he's been looking for in a woman. When his younger brother loses interest in online dating, hot, bearded, bartender extraordinaire, Joe Collins, only intends to log into his account and shut it down. "Nobody writes inked-up, sexy-as-sin rockers like Kylie Scott!!" Emma Chase, NYT bestselling author of Tangled From New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott comes the second sizzling stand-alone novel in the Dive Bar series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paige connects these emotional agonies with Emily’s past experiences of violent abuse, which are depicted in disturbing detail. ![]() Emily revels in Reeve’s potential danger to her, both thrilled and tormented by her overwhelming desire for Reeve’s possessive actions and sexual forcefulness, while finding it difficult to accept his intense feelings for her. Amber looms large in Emily’s mind even after a six-year separation her possible fate and the suspicious death of Reeve’s lover Missy remain a dark undercurrent throughout. Emily tracks down Amber’s ex-lover, the wealthy, domineering Reeve Sallis, and she seduces him for information, suspecting he’s behind Amber’s disappearance but willing to take the risk. ![]() TV actor Emily Wayborn is distressed when her former friend and mentor Amber goes missing after leaving her a strange voice mail message. Paige ( Find Me) treads the gothic side of contemporary erotic romance in this discomfiting series launch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Watching Jane’s back, however, is more than she bargained for, and when they both reach a breaking point, it’s up to Katherine to keep hope alive-even as she begins to fear that there is no happily-ever-after for girls like her. Publication Order of Standalone Novels Vengeance Bound, (2013) Promise of Shadows, (2014) Devils Pass, (2018) Scream Site, (2018) Ophies Ghosts, (2021). But after the hell she has endured, she knows friends are hard to come by-and that Jane needs her too, whether Jane wants to admit it or not. Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. Caught between mysteries and lies, the undead, and her own inner demons, Jane soon finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to consume her. ![]() What’s more, this safe haven is not what it appears-as Jane discovers when she sees familiar faces from Summerland amid this new society. The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America.Īfter the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother.īut nothing is easy when you’re a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880s America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() PERELANDRA Having escaped from Mars, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet’s treasures and offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there… OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. Tolkien, on whom the main character of Ransom was largely based. This new one-volume edition marks the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Out of the Silent Planet with an exclusive Foreword by J.R.R. The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy, demonstrating the powerful imagination of C.S.Lewis. Tolkien, who inspired Lewis to write the first volume. ![]() It includes an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by J.R.R. This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewis’s classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars, Venus and Earth. ![]() |