![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And forcing Rafe to decide how far he'll go to protect both of his families-the one he was born to, and the one he made for himself. They'll go deep undercover in the decadent, luxury-soaked penthouses on the Hill.īringing Dani face-to-face with the man who turned her into a killer. When Maya needs to make contact with a sympathetic insider, Dani and Rafe are the only ones with the skill-set and experience to infiltrate the highest levels of the TechCorps. And Nina is organizing their community-not just to survive, but to fight back. Nina is an information broker with a mission-she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America. Dani strikes from the shadows, picking off the chain of command one ambush at a time. Deal with the Devil is Orphan Black meets the post-apocalyptic Avengers by USA Today and New York Times bestselling author duo Kit Rocha. Maya uses her wealth of secrets to weaken the TechCorps from within. Our band of mercenary librarians have decided that the time for revolution has come. The puppetmaster is gone and the organization is scrambling to maintain control by ruthlessly limiting Atlanta's access to resources, hoping to quell rebellion. Tobias Richter, the fearsome VP of Security of the TechCorps is dead. ![]() USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Kit Rocha return to their explosive post-apocalyptic action/romance series, The Mercenary Librarians, with the next thrilling installment, Dance with the Devil. ![]()
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![]() The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. ![]() ![]() Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. This is fantastic." (John Scalzi)Ī blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi. As the author, I’m impressed with Audible’s commitment to my narrative - and I’m geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. There's a really excellent reason for Lock In to have two entirely different versions, so when it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. "I love working with Audible, in no small part because they’re committed to doing what’s right, both for my books, and the people who listen to those books. You can also choose to download Wil Wheaton's narration. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Prepare to fall under the spell of Wattpad star Rebecca Sky, in this compulsive romance. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Arrowheart: Book 1 (The Love Curse) at. With the police hot on their trail, Rachel soon realises there are darker forces hunting them - a group of mortals recruited by the gods who will stop at nothing to preserve the power of the Hedonesses - not to mention Eros himself, who is desperate to reverse the curse. Rachel distances herself, struggling to resist the growing attraction, but when he gives up his dream to help her evade arrest, distance becomes an insurmountable task. She's falling for him - a messy, magnetic, arrow-over-feet type of fall. ![]() When seventeen-year-old Benjamin Blake's disappearance links back to the Hedonesses, Rachel's world collides with his, and her biggest fear becomes a terrifying reality. But the last thing Rachel wants is to force someone to love her. She wields the power of that magical golden arrow, and with it, the promise to take the will of any boy she kisses. Being a Hedoness, one of a strong group of women descended from Greek God Eros, makes true love impossible for Rachel. But sixteen-year-old Rachel Patel can't forget - the gods control her life, or more specifically, her love life. What if you had the power to make any boy fall in love with you? Addictive romance with a fantasy twist for fans of Holly Smale, Ally Carter, and Zoe Sugg. ![]() ![]() "I don't think of myself as an artist," says the author more than once in the interview. Before I leave for Hawaii a friend confesses his enthusiasm for Murakami is partly based on a desire to be the kind of person who likes Murakami. ![]() This is where he disappears every morning while writing his novels, a place populated by the kind of characters who have come to define the Murakami style: enigmatic, deadpan, full of big emotions sheared flat by repression and presented with a detachment that, unusually for a novelist who sells in the millions, has given him a cult-like status. Murakami, who at 63 still looks like an adolescent skateboarder, divides his time between homes in Hawaii, Japan and a third venue he calls Over There. ![]() We are in the presidential suite of the Hyatt, Waikiki, overlooking an ad-perfect beach framed by mountains. ![]() For those 11 hours, you disappear wholly into Murakami world. Murakami looks crestfallen on receipt of this news – the ratio of writing to reading time is never very encouraging for a writer – and yet if anything tests a novel's power to transport, it is reading it at the back of economy on a full flight over long haul. ![]() It took the author three years to write and it is possible, on an 11-hour flight from New York to Honolulu, to get through about half of it. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami's new novel, is 1,000 pages long and is published in three volumes. ![]() ![]() ![]() If she doesn't solve the mystery, her own best seller will spell out her doom. When a filmmaker friend is brutally murdered in the manner of a death scene in one of his movies, Sophie becomes convinced that a copycat killer is on the loose.and that she's the next target. ![]() The police, however, can't tell a good plot from an unmarked grave. ("My sister's married to a Polynesian! I just love your culture!") So Sophie knows it's not paranoia, or post-divorce, living-alone-again jitters, when she becomes convinced that a crazed reader is sneaking into her apartment to reenact scenes from her books. Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccionos can be maybe it's from a lifetime of fielding dumb comments about her half-black, half-Jewish ethnicity. ![]() When a mystery writer cries bloody murder, everyone blames her overactive imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They end up in Umuahia, where Ugwu taught children alongside Olanna. Ugwu meets Olanna, Odenigbo’s girlfriend, and though his relationship with her is initially rocky, they become friends and form a strong bond.Īfter war gets declared on Biafra, he leaves Nnsuka with Odenigbo. He witnesses Odenigbo sleeping with Amala but does nothing to stop them. While working as a houseboy, he meets Mama, Odenigbo’s mother. Ugwu is the main character in the story of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun.’ His story begins in the village and then progresses further as he moves to Nnsuka to work for Odenigbo as a house boy. Using the third-person perspective, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie made sure to make the story of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ follow the lives of its characters this tactic made it easy to understand every aspect of the story from the war itself to the people surviving the war. ![]() ![]() "Gisele is a dream to work with, always eager to get the best picture." Laura Neiva "I grew up in Peru but spent a lot of time in Rio as a teenager. Not surprisingly, she's also one of his most frequent subjects. Testino has created advertising campaigns for high profile clients such as Gucci, Versace, Gap and Burberry and has worked on editorial shoots all over. So when I tell my sitters that I would love to photograph them for the series, they decide how to wear the towel, and ultimately, they have a hand in how they look." Gisele Bündchen "After so many years of working together, we have grown close, like family," says Testino of the supermodel. Mario Testino is one of the outstanding photographers of his generation, and is perhaps best known for his much celebrated work in fashion photography. It's interesting because a towel is not a garment. ![]() I had recently started experimenting with Instagram and was inspired to share the photo immediately. In that moment I thought she looked really beautiful, so I took her photo. She was in a robe, her wet hair wrapped in a white towel. Mario Testino is a fashion photographer who has come to define fashion as much as he documents it. ![]() ![]() Here, a few of his most stunning Latina subjects. Mario Testino shares the inspiration behind his now iconic Instagram series, in which he captures his subjects in nothing but a towel and a robe. ![]() ![]() ![]() His unidentified victim - a patient care technician (PCT) - suffered third-degree burns to her upper body and lower face, as well as lacerations to her head that required stitches, hospital officials said. Monday, police said, he allegedly went into one of the hospital's breakrooms and attacked a 54-year-old female employee with a plumber's wrench before setting her ablaze, apparently with a culinary torch, according to NBC New York. He had been registered as a nurse since 2016. ![]() Pagano, a travel nurse who was hired after being recruited through a staffing company, had worked at Hackensack University Medical Center on a contractual basis since November of last year. His body was found on Tuesday morning in Winslow. ![]() Nicholas Pagano, 31, is believed to have stolen a gun from his brother before shooting himself in Winslow Township, law enforcement sources said. Nicholas Pagano, 31, was wanted on charges of attempted murder, aggravated arson, assault, and unlawful weapons possession, before being found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot on TuesdayĪ male contract nurse at a New Jersey hospital was found dead by apparent suicide after he set a female staffer on fire and hit her in the head with a wrench in a break room on Monday following an argument, police said. ![]() ![]() Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late '80s and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. ![]() Monique is not exactly on top of the world. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. ![]() 2018 Audie Award Finalist for Multi-Voiced Performanceįrom Taylor Jenkins Reid, "a genius when it comes to stories about life and love" ( Redbook ), comes an unforgettable and sweeping novel about one classic film actress' relentless rise to the top - the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.Īging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. ![]() ![]() “September Fair” is the fifth in Lourey’s lighthearted series featuring Mira James, Nut Goodie-loving librarian and reporter who lives in a double-wide trailer in Battle Lake, Minn. ![]() For a while, I honestly thought I couldn’t kill off Milkfed Mary, so I had to make her a kind of unlikable character, a real milk dud.” “So I changed the name of the competition to Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy. “I do love the Princess Kays, and I didn’t want to mess with that,” Lourey said in an interview from her home in St. “I’m either very brave or very stupid,” Lourey says with a laugh, acknowledging that the Princess Kay competition and butter sculpting are beloved State Fair traditions that don’t fit well with murder. In her new Murder-by-Month mystery, “September Fair,” Lourey kills off a dairy princess in the State Fair booth where the girls’ heads are carved in butter. Jess Lourey should get an award for being the bravest author in Minnesota. ![]() |