Warcross by Marie Lu6/28/2023 But the bounty hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu-when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths.įor the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game-it’s a way of life.
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Malice at the palace by rhys bowen6/28/2023 The legends of ghosts infesting Kensington Palace appear to have substance, and Georgie sees a strange glow just before she happens upon the corpse of party girl Bobo Carrington. It also affords ample opportunities for Georgie's maid, Queenie, an anti-Jeeves who leaves disaster in her wake, to break objects and protocol. Georgie is pleased to accept a royal offer to serve as Marina's companion and guide before the wedding day, since that duty gives her a much-needed place to live in Kensington Palace. Queen Mary summons amateur sleuth Lady Georgiana "Georgie" Rannoch, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, to the palace, where she learns that the king's fourth son, George, is engaged to marry Princess Marina of Greece. Bowen's ninth Royal Spyness mystery (after 2014's Queen of Hearts) is the best yet in this lighthearted series set in 1930s England. Half asleep in frog pyjamas6/28/2023 All of this is, for Robbins anyway, fairly safe territory-a quirky female protagonist undergoing life changes at the last minute-but something goes wrong here. Devotees of the serious should avoid Robbins-this volume, for instance, contains discussions about extraterrestrials who take the form of amphibious humanoids and about the effect of eating asparagus on a person's urine. Among those promoting the changes are an obese spiritualist named ``Q-Jo,'' a pizzazzy character who exits too soon from the story Larry Diamond, Robbins's requisite mystery man on a bike and Andre, Europe's most notorious simian jewel thief. By the time the market opens again on Monday, however, her life will be altered in ways she can't imagine. A devout materialist, Gwen is concerned that an honest-to-goodness crash might expose some of her less-than-ethical maneuvers. Robbins (Skinny Legs and All Even Cowgirls Get the Blues) begins this disappointing novel just before Easter weekend, as commodities broker Gwen Mati-half-Filipina, half-Irish-is in her favorite Seattle bar, mourning the stock market's nosedive. Blurred lines by kd williamson6/28/2023 Despite being from different worlds, friendship grows between them, turning quickly to attraction. As chaos grows around them, the lines between them begin to blur. In the process, she creates unexpected enemies. Respected by her colleagues, but misunderstood by the residents, Nora takes what she needs and keeps everyone at arm's length. The hospital is her life and leaves room for little else. As a surgeon, Nora Whitmore is used to being in control. Committed to her family, her friends, and her job, Kelli puts her needs behind everyone else's. Only a select few know her as a loyal, loving friend. In the process, she creates unexpected enemi Kelli MacCabe is a no nonsense detective with a tough exterior. Kelli MacCabe is a no nonsense detective with a tough exterior. Committed to her family, her friends, and her job, Kelli puts her nee… More. Ironside a modern faery's tale6/28/2023 Silarial wants Roiben’s throne, and she will use Kaye, and any means necessary, to get it. But once back in the faerie courts, Kaye finds herself a pawn in the games of Silarial, queen of the Seelie Court. Her mother’s shock and horror sends Kaye back to the world of Faerie to find her human counterpart and return her to Ironside. Miserable and convinced she belongs nowhere, Kaye decides to tell her mother the truth - that she is a changeling left in place of the human daughter stolen long ago. Now Kaye can’t see or speak to Roiben unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn’t exist: a faerie who can tell a lie. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing - her love for Roiben. In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben’s coronation. Yeats Is Dead! by Joseph O'Connor6/27/2023 Kim Michele Richardson: Harriet’s love of books softened her bitter heart and helped humanize her. It changed her into something different, better, and for a minute I forgot who she was - who I wasn’t.” Can you talk about the way books can remove us, however briefly, from our prejudices? Cussy reflects: “I loved the way Harriett loved her books. Yet when she gives Harriett a book that will please her, the torments are momentarily forgotten. Reading Group Choices: The local Pack Horse supervisors, Harriett and Eula, ceaselessly taunt and belittle Cussy Mary. Author Kim Michele Richardson talks about her novel The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, inspired by the true story of the Pack Horse Librarians in Kentucky.įor her interview with Reading Group Choices, Kim Michele Richardson talks about the power of literacy and librarians, surviving prejudices and abuse, and how history and her homeland inspired her latest novel… Lies book michael grant6/27/2023 He moved in with his wife Katherine Applegate after only 24 hours. Michael Grant has lived an exciting, fast-paced life. Michael Grant also has a World Book Day book, Dead of Night, which is set in the Front Lines universe and written exclusively for World Book Day 2017. If you love GONE, be sure not to miss Michael's new series Front Lines - it's WWII but not as you know it! The first book is Front Lines, followed by Silver Stars. 'I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent' Stephen King Have you got all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light? Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. As life in the FAYZ becomes more desperate, no one knows who they can trust. It happens in one night: a girl who died now walks among the living, Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach, and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most. Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 3 in the series that Stephen King calls a 'driving, torrential narrative'. Heel by Philip José Farmer6/27/2023
The gaudy night6/26/2023 Nothing you can say to me could make me feel more responsible than I do already.” “I can have nothing to say,” said he. Not for my original action, which was unavoidable, but for the sequel. “I do blame myself,” said Miss de Vine, less to him than to herself. Who complains of want? of wounds? of cares? of great men’s oppressions? of captivity? whilst he sleepeth? Beggars in their beds take as much pleasure as kings: can we therefore surfeit on this delicate Ambrosia? Can we drink too much of that whereof to taste too little tumbles us into a churchyard, and to use it but indifferently throws us into Bedlam? No, no, look upon Endymion, the moon’s minion, who slept three score and fifteen years, and was not a hair the worse for it. “Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is: it is so inestimable a jewel that, if a tyrant would give his crown for an hour’s slumber, it cannot be bought: of so beautiful a shape is it, that though a man lie with an Empress, his heart cannot beat quiet till he leaves her embracements to be at rest with the other: yea, so greatly indebted are we to this kinsman of death, that we owe the better tributary, half of our life to him: and there is good cause why we should do so: for sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Blood of Tyrants by Logan Beirne6/26/2023 This new control board has the power to audit the island’s government, force budget cuts, and determine what how much of the territory’s $72 billion debt must be restructured. Under this new legal framework, bondholders and the Puerto Rican government must submit bond payments in question to oversight by a five member board appointed by the President. Utah Congressman and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop has proposed a draft bill that aims to circumvent long-established legal norms. Territory’s constitution – all while providing little meaningful assistance for the island or its people. Last week, Congress unveiled a dubious “solution” to Puerto Rico’s staggering fiscal crisis: a precedent-setting legislative package that promises to both disrupt the municipal market and violate the U.S. |