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SUMMARY:
The Brothers Grimm The Grimm brothers were early 19th century writers best known for their fairy tales coming from Scandinavian, Icelandic and Germanic origins. By 1807 there was a growing interest in German folk tales. The Grim brothers were academics who invited friends to their home and asked them to relate stories they had heard. They soon published their first collection of tales and from there several more volumes followed. Included in this collection are Hansel and Gretel, Briar Rose, The Fisherman and His Wife, Rapunzel, The Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltshin, Tom Thumb and many more. These stories are a delight to read and will rekindle up many childhood memories as they are reread.
SUMMARY:
Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.
“Clever plotting and terrific supporting characters elevate this novel into a first-rate romantic thriller.”
--Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine
“One of the best new vampire series since the Black Dagger Brotherhood. . . . A must-read for all paranormal romance fans.”
--_The Romance Readers Connection_
“[Jenna Black’s] book kept me engrossed from first page to last. . . . I highly recommend this one.”
--_The Best Reviews_
“The characters, lead and secondary, are so well written you never want the book to end. And with as many twists and turns as there are, you’ll be guessing till the very end as to who the killer is.”
--_Romance Junkies_
“Watchers in the Night is the first in what promises to be a rich and varied series.”
--_Fallen Angel Reviews_
About the Author
Jenna Black has traveled all seven continents, is a Life Master in Bridge, and used to study primate behavior -- so she's now an expert on men! She lives and writes in Pittsboro, North Carolina.
"Richie sat on the Metro, a copy of the free newspaper in his lap to cover up most of the blood, as well as the bag with the gun in it." "He stared at his reflection in the opposite window. Saw the concrete give way to night, the train pulling out from Byker and heading out towards the coast. Counted the stops until he had to get off." "Chilly Road. Walkergate. Wallsend. Hadrian Road . Howden. Percy Main." "Then he had to get off the train."--BOOK JACKET.
From Cullen Bunn - author of Blood Feud and Crooked Hills, and creator of the comic books The Sixth Gun and The Damned, comes a fun size sampling of short fiction featuring the short story Gallows, and four festively fiendish tales of Halloween horror featuring the ghoulish and gracious Mrs. Friedly.
100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.
But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance.
They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.
They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universe’s Living Time.
And then they vanished.
This is their story.
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Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner. He is a Manipular, untried--yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunners’ highest and most politically powerful rate. It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe. It is the Builders who believe they must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life.
Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father.
But this Manipular has other plans.
He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. His reckless passion to seek out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors--long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent---forces his father’s hand.
Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies.
But powerful forces are at play. Forerunner society is at a major crux. Past threats are once again proving relentless. Dire solutions--machines and strategies never before contemplated--are being called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos.
On a Lifeworker’s experimental planet, Bornstellar’s rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans, and the long lifeline of a great military leader, forever changing Bornstellar’s destiny …and the fate of the entire galaxy.
This is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. It is a story of overwhelming change--and of human origins. For the Mantle may not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners forever.
About the Author
Greg Bear is a multiple Nebula and Hugo award-winning author whose works have been celebrated for their vision, scope, intensity, and sheer drama. His novels include his newest, Moving Mars, Queen of Angels, The Forge of God, Eon, Eternity, and Blood Music. He lives in Washington State.
SUMMARY:
In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble--and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar . . . yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality . . . and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path.
By Hanns Heinz Ewers 1911 Translated by Joe E. Bandel 2009 Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine In cooperation with the Hanns Heinz Ewers Estate. Alraune and Galeotto Copyright Wilfried Kugel Translation of Alraune and Galeotto copyright Joe E. Bandel This is Hanns Heinz Ewers most famous novel, newly translated and uncensored for the first time in the English language.
The year is Two House and the Mexica Empire teeters on the brink of destruction, lying vulnerable to the flesh-eating star-demons - and to the return of their creator, a malevolent goddess only held in check by the Protector God's power. The council is convening to choose a new emperor, but when a councilman is found dead, only Acatl, High Priest of the Dead, can solve the mystery. When he hears rumours of a sinister cabal of sorcerors he must face up to demons, not all of them his own.
Jessica Jones never thought living her teenage dream would lead to a living nightmare. When she and her three best friends venture out on prom night, they’re drunk on young love and excited for their college plans. But a tragic incident turns a night of high school achievement into a crime scene, and Jessica and her girls are left with bloody hands and a shattered future.
After spending years paying off a debt that wasn’t theirs, Jessica and her friends return to Harlem to find it very different from when they left. Crack is now king, and its destruction has left their families in ruin and their neighborhoods consumed by its peddlers.
Jessica takes a stand, and her friends are there to back her up when demons from the past come beating down their doors. Jessica and the girls must pass the ultimate test in order to preserve their lives, their families, and their Harlem.
The future's not so rosy for Lady Rose Summer ... Longing for a life of emancipation, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parent's house to become self supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite as liberating as Rose has imagined - fortunately for her, though, her drudgery comes to an end when old acquaintance Freddy Pomfret is murdered and her help - and upper class connections - are required by amateur sleuth Captain Harry Cathcart. So as Rose and Harry prepare to take on the usual Edwardian social rounds, little do they expect to uncover a devious blackmail plot and an unexpected killer.
Ex-cop Sam Tyler made a deathbed promise to uncover the truth behind the murder of his friend’s wife at a remote Adirondack lodge. Emma Bishop, a psychic with a shady past, went legit when she hit eighteen. The action at Holloway Lodge is a dangerous game she needs to play to build on her formidable reputation. As old secrets and fresh bodies turn up…life and love are put to the ultimate test.
"Ken Bruen is hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility— Bruen writes with extraordinary delicacy about a man driven to acts of violence out of wild grief and a fierce sense of guilt."— Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
"Bruen is an original, grimly hilarious and gloriously Irish. I await the further adventures of the incorrigible Jack Taylor."—Patrick Anderson, Washington Post
"Bruen is a brilliant, lyrical, deeply moving writer who can make you laugh and cry in the same paragraph and whose characters are so sharply portrayed that they almost walk off the page at you. If you like Ian Rankin, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, and the like, Bruen is definitely a writer to reckon with."— The Denver Post
"Bruen's furious, hard-boiled prose, chopped down to its trademark essence, never fails to astonish.... among the finest noir stylists of his generation." —Publishers Weekly
"Bruen's tommy-gun prose, lacerating dialogue, and hard-boiled worldview combine to provide entertainment of high order in dealing with low instincts."—New York Daily News
"The next major new Irish voice we hear might well belong to Ken Bruen."—Chicago Tribune
"Spare and unforgiving, Bruen's novels are among the best."—Rocky Mountain News
"Ken Bruen is a supremely bold and confident stylist."—Jocelyn Clark, Sunday Tribune (Ireland)
"A Celtic Dashiell Hammett."—Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this organization seems like it will act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack’s life. Jack’s usual allies, Ridge and Stewart, are also in the line of terror. An act of appalling violence alerts them to the sleeping horror, but this realization may be too late, as Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Jack’s life and the heart of Galway. A terrific read from a writer called “a Celtic Dashiell Hammett,” Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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