![]() ![]() She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic courtesy of one of our most fearless and accomplished writers. ![]() Perfect for reading by the fire with loved ones, or while traveling home for the holidays. From trees with mysterious powers to a tinsel baby that talks, philosophical fairies to flying dogs, a haunted house and a disappearing train, Winterson's innovative stories encompass the childlike and spooky wonder of Christmas. These tales give the reader a portal into the spirit of the season, where time slows down and magic starts to happen. ![]() For the Twelve Days of Christmas-a time of celebration, sharing, and giving-she offers these twelve plus one: a personal story of her own Christmas memories. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enchanting collection of stories for the holiday season.įor years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and bold tales. ![]()
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![]() This is a welcome humorous addition to the paranormal trend. Los Angeles Times A fast-paced and fun first novel. Theres a Mad -magazine-meets-Twilight sensibility to Hold Me Closer, Necromancer that will keep readers turning pages and laughing all the way. ![]() Review Quotes McBrides humor and ear for dialogue carry the book. But even with newfound friends, will Sam be able to save his skin? Hold Me Closer, Necromancer is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Childrens Book of the Year. Luckily he lives in Seattle, which has nearly as many paranormal types as it does coffee places. With only a week to figure things out, Sam needs all the help he can get. And his worst nightmare wants to join forces. Then Sam discovers hes a necromancer too, but with strangely latent powers. Turns out Douglas is a necromancer who raises the dead for cash and sees potential in Sam. He may not have the most exciting job in the world, but hes doing all right-until a fast food prank brings him to the attention of Douglas, a creepy guy with an intense violent streak. Book Synopsis Sam leads a pretty normal life. Then Sam discovers hes a necromancer, too. ![]() ![]() About the Book A prank brings Sam to the attention of Douglas, a creepy guy with an intense violent streak. ![]() ![]() Together these stories are a stream of timeless, mind-blowing spike points by some of the most talented, savage, and unique imaginations writing fiction today. Winter’s “Less Than Zombie” allows us a very unhealthy peek at the pampered, exclusive, and totally lifeless life-styles of the rich and famous. McCammon’s “Eat Me” answers all the questions about love among the newly risen and Douglas E. ![]() Lansdale spins what should be a traditional western yarn about a lawman tracking a badman-the deadly dead, however, give that tradition a special twist Stephen King’s pregnant heroine in “Home Delivery” learns the exorbitant price of survival and of patience Robert R. Each of the stories in this anthology is set in a world where the dead have risen to eat the living, and each author has his own intimate vision of what those days will be like: in the brilliant and caustic “On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks,” Joe R. You hold in your hands what is perhaps the most explicit and overt anthology of original horror fiction ever assembled. ![]() ![]() ![]() Table Of Contents FOREWORD INTRODUCTION Blossom Mess Hall It Helps If You Sing Home Delivery Wet Work A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned Bodies and Heads Choices The Good Parts Less Than Zombie Like Pavlov’s Dogs Saxophone On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks Dead Giveaway Jerry’s Kids Meet Wormboy Eat Me ![]() ![]() ![]() A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology, Rendezvous with Rama offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that will continue to fascinate readers for generations. ![]() Often listed as one of Clarke's finest novels, Rendezvous with Rama won numerous awards, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Jupiter, and the British Science Fiction Awards. But what they don't find is an alien presence. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers a forbidding cylindrical sea mysterious and inaccessible buildings and strange machine-animal hybrids, or "biots," that inhabit the ship. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel-"a stone-cold classic" of hard sci-fi ( The Guardian).Īn enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the Eastwood sistersJames Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonnajoin the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. ![]() In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. ![]() " Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Books - Barnes and Noble - BookPage In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. "A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. ![]() ![]() His TED talk 'Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong' has had over 20 million views. ![]() Johann is a New York Times best-selling author with both his books 'Chasing the Scream' (currently being made into a Hollywood feature film) and 'Lost Connections'. Johann Hari opens up Series Two talking about addiction, depression, and why we're looking for connection in all the wrong places. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were so cruel that one of Elizabeth’s enslaved uncles committed suicide after one of his tools was stolen rather than be punished by the Burwell family. The Burwell family harshly punished its enslaved people for even minor mistakes. She rocked the cradle too hard and the baby rolled out. Elizabeth was so young that she did not know how to care for a newborn. When she was only four years old, Elizabeth was forced to work watching her enslaver’s newborn baby, who was her half-sister. She never received special treatment from her father or his white family. ![]() Elizabeth did not learn the truth about her parentage until she was an adult. Although she was half white, Elizabeth inherited the status of an enslaved person from her mother. She was the child of a forced sexual relationship between her mother, Agnes, and Agnes’s enslaver, Colonel Amistad Burwell. Elizabeth Keckley was born in Virginia in 1818. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I thought the Colorado ambiance was well done, too. Greer tells his story third-person primarily from Floyd’s standpoint, and does an adequate job of moving it along. ![]() This wasn’t a bad first novel, though it wasn’t exceptionally good, either. His search for the missing papers lands him in the middle of an environmentalist terrorist plot aimed at the cattle industry, and in danger from unexpected sources. He finds her easily enough, but she’s already a corpse. Two black corporate types want him to find the daughter of a black judge who happens to be on the board of a big-time biotech corporation - the one they work for - and in the process retrieve some unspecified but important papers she stole. CJ is in his forties, a Viet Nam vet who is now a bail bondsman and part-time bounty hunter in Denver. This is a first novel by an author described as “doctor, scientist, cattle rancher, and editor.” I make the maybe unwarranted assumption that he’s black. Mysterious Press, hardcover, 1996 paperback, 1997. ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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Then she meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland and immediately falls under his spell. ![]() Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair.įifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories or happy endings. ![]() |