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Chandra was eleven and she was about to be married to a boy aged sixteen. What could go wrong to spoil her happiness? However, out in the desert she realized she was alone and far from home. As she sat alone in her little room, she tried to remember who she was, and she hung on to her name.
( Courtesy of Google Books, 120 pages )
In her excellent essay “Myself in India”, reproduced as a foreword here, Jhabvala reminds the reader of her Polish background, her English education and her subsequent ambivalence about her adopted country, India. For her, the sacred Indian cow will always be “a cow, and a very scrawny, underfed, diseased one at that”. But this ambivalence may be why, for so many Europeans and Indians, she manages to reveal truths about the other. In these stories, young English girls enthral an Indian film star but leave him confused and wanting more; an Indian girl studying at a new university embarks on an affair with her 40-something tutor and is bemused at what he can possibly see in his dowdy wife. A young married woman falls in love only to see her handsome, idealistic young lover turn quickly into a younger version of her boorish husband. Searing intelligence and insight combined with the most effortless prose ensure this elegantly produced reissue will remind readers of Jhabvala’s brilliance and win her some new devotees.
( Courtesy of The Guardian, 268 pages )
As the War of Souls continues, the shield over the elven kingdom of Silvanesti falls. Mina leads her forces triumphantly into that conquered nation, only to face danger from friends and foes alike. Meanwhile, Goldmoon follows the river of the dead, which threatens to engulf them all. Dragons of a Lost Star expands on the War of Souls saga and forms the point around which subsequent novels will revolve.
( Courtesy of GoodReads, 550 pages )
They’ve been kicked out of their world. Now they want ours. In 1895 . . . a policeman follows a trail of murders that leads to a discovery too incredible to believe.
In 1990 . . . fourteen-year-old James Kinghorn finds an entrance to Eldaterra, the Old World, where magic forces — good and evil — struggle for domination. With the help of some unexpected friends, including two dwarf brothers, a beguiling elf, parlanimals, and a wizard with many secrets. James uncovers a deadly conspiracy that began fifteen years before. IF the enemy’s plans are not stopped, both worlds will plunge into unthinkable chaos. . . .
The first book of the World of Eldaterra series weaves mystery and fantasy into an extraordinary, heart-stopping adventure.
( from the sleeve, hardcover 290 pages )
One of the most respected artists in popular music today, Jewel is much more than a music industry success with her debut album selling more than 10 million copies.
Before her gifted songwriting comes an even more individual art: Poetry.
Now available in paperback, A Night without Armor highlights the poetry of Jewel taken from her journals which are both intimate and inspiring, to be embraced and enjoyed.
Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, to discover, and to reflect.
In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce.
Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist’s intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.
( Courtesy of GoodReads, hardcover 139 pages )
At once a powerful love story and an intricately plotted mystery,Winterton Blue is the breathtaking new novel from the Booker Prize finalist and national best-selling author of The Hiding Placeand Remember Me. For the last twenty years, Lewis has been haunted by his brother’s death. Then, on a quest to finally find the person he believes is responsible, he meets Anna, who is haunted by her mother. Except her mother, Rita, happens to be very much alive and is the exact opposite of her daughter; loud, carefree, and a daredevil. At seventy-six, she still runs a guest house overflowing with cocktails, music hall turns, and her boyfriend, Vernon, a retired actor and bon vivant. Recognizing a kindred spirit in each other, Lewis and Anna are at first too headstrong to admit they are susceptible to love. Against the backdrop of the Norfolk coast, with its massive skies and relentless seas, they must learn to trust each other and accept that an uncertain future can be as wild and alluring as the landscape they have grown to love.
( paraphrased from the sleeve by GoodReads, 271 pages )
Oz Blackstone didn’t go looking for fame: it jumped out of an alleyway and mugged him with a fist full of high denomination notes. Movie stardom, wealth, a successful marriage – Oz is standing on the brink of the Seriously Big Time and life just seems to keep lining up the cherries… He should have known it couldn’t stay that good for that long – don’t the juiciest fruit always go sour? The first sign of trouble appears when Oz finds his ex-wife Primavera Phillips, drenched in her own tears – her life in ruins, cheated out of her fortune and robbed of her baby boy, Tom, by his lying con-man father. What could Oz do but help? Maybe he should have called for help himself, or stuck to the game plan of looking after number one. Instead he set out on a voyage of dark intrigue and wild discovery that would turn his life upside down.
( from the sleeve, 371 pages )
The body of a beautiful senior from a strict fundamentalist Christian high school is found in a state forest. Policewoman Kate MacLean is assigned to investigate the murder, and the deeper she digs into the tight-lipped religious community, the more horrifying the mystery becomes, until more parishiooners’ bodies are found–and Kate, too, is running out of time.
( Courtesy of GoodReads, 386 pages )
Early eighteenth-century London, and two doctors are crisscrossing the boundaries of morality in the heady pursuit of scientific progress. This challenge leads Sir Edmund Calcraft, an eminent and notorious anatomist, and Joseph Bendix, his ambitious young student, into playing a dark game with the lawless side of English society. But Bendix’s growing passion for a woman he first glimpses in Calcraft’s house threatens to end their mutual quest.
From gallows to madhouses, from anatomical laboratories to a Frost Fair set on the frozen Thames, the two men compete in both head and heart. Mixing history, medical lore, and myth, The House of Sight and Shadow is a compelling tale about ambition, deception, and the fallibility of both love and reason.
( paraphrased from the sleeve by GoodReads, 290 pages )