![]() ![]() ![]() Ithicana needed a queen who was a warrior. Passionate and violent, The Bridge Kingdom is a seductive fantasy perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses. And as her feelings for Aren transform from frosty hostility to fierce passion, Lara must choose which kingdom she’ll save… and which kingdom she’ll destroy. Yet as she infiltrates her new home and gains a deeper understanding of the war to possess the bridge, Lara begins to question whether she’s the hero or the villain. So when she’s sent as a bride under the guise of peace, Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes to fracture its impenetrable defenses. ![]() The only route through a storm-ravaged world, the Bridge Kingdom enriches itself and deprives its rivals, including Lara's homeland. And the second is that she’ll be the one to bring him to his knees. The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy. I was hooked from the first page!” – Elise Kova, USA Today bestselling author of A Deal with the Elf King.Ī warrior princess trained in isolation, Lara is driven by two certainties. “Heart-pounding romance and intense action wrapped in a spellbinding world. The Bridge Kingdom ( The Bridge Kingdom #1) ![]()
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Freeing themselves from the endless wars and oppression of their home planet in order to shape their own futures and create a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretched from Earth and Mars to Titan. ![]() The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a utopia when they split away from old earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Grene, and as he researches her case he discovers a document written by a local priest that tells a very different story of Roseanne's life than what she recalls. Roseanne is of particular interest to Dr. Grene, has been asked to evaluate the patients and decide if they can return to society. As Roseanne revisits her past, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards in her bedroom, she learns that Roscommon Hospital will be closed in a few months and that her caregiver, Dr. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and she decides to record the events of her life. 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As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roth delighted in every nuance and absurdity of Jewish life in the US, but his defiantly secular sensibility was without piety or reverence. ![]() He was a bestselling writer only once in his career, when Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) sold 420,000 copies in the first 10 weeks after publication.įrom his earliest work, Roth’s Jewish readers were uneasy with his ironic view of Jewish life. The big one – the Nobel prize in literature – eluded him, but there can be few American literary careers so richly laurelled, early and late. Roth’s first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), sold a more than respectable 12,000 copies in hardback and received the National Book award. But there remained doubts, demands for clarification, as though he had not been writing literature after all, but committing a long, strained, perhaps not wholly candid act of self-revelation which merited the critics’ distrust. He won intense respect from the moment in the 1960s when he joined Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud in a Jewish troika at the centre of American literature. I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide.” That half-defensive, angry note and a lifetime as a novelist crafting multiple “fake biographies”, gave Roth, who has died aged 85, an enigmatic status for tidy-minded critics. “I write fiction,” warned Philip Roth, “and I’m told it’s autobiography. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Watch for her next adventure, in the City of Jasmine. Feisty, famed aviatrix Evangeline Starke finds adventure and love in the deserts of. One seductive night will change Evie forever. 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If there is no rise or fall in a narrative, it isn’t a story. ![]() ![]() So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.” You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. “It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. 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