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![]() ![]() In this empowering, one-of-a kind workbook, Lori offers a step-by-step process for becoming the author of your own life by giving it a thorough edit. As millions highlighted and underlined page after page, a movement took shape and they asked for more: Can you take these lessons and create for us a guide as transformative as the book itself? ![]() ![]() When Maybe You Should Talk to Someone was released into the world, it became an instant New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon, with readers across the globe finding their truth in the powerful stories Lori Gottlieb shared from inside her therapy room. “Part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself – to let go of the limiting stories you’ve told yourself about who you are so that you can live your life, and not the stories you’ve been telling yourself about your life.” - Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thoughts: “Lesbian pirates and sea monsters” is really all it takes to get me to read a book, and this duology did not disappoint. Santa Elena’s crew leads the charge to battle the Hellbeasts and save the Neopacific, and Cas has no choice but to be on the front lines of the battle. The crew discovers that dozens of Reckoners stolen by pirates have escaped their new owners and are living in the wild, threatening to destroy the entire ecosystem of the Neopacific. In book 2, Cas has pledged her allegiance to Santa Elena and lost any chance of returning home to the Republic. ![]() Cas is a Reckoner trainer on her first solo mission when she is kidnapped by the pirate Santa Elena and forced to train a stolen Reckoner pup. Now the NeoPacific is infested with pirates, and the Republic has created genetically engineered sea monsters - Reckoners - to defend their ships. Summary: On an Earth where the seas have risen from global warming, humankind has adapted to life on water instead of land. wlw books, sci fi, pirates, East Asian wlw protagonist, hate-to-love romance, interracial relationship.The Abyss Surrounds Us & The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. ![]() The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. Part of the Rats trilogy, international bestseller James Herbert's Domain pits man against mutant rats, who are back with a vengeance. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human flesh. But the white slug-like thing that ruled them knew. Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. Part of the Rats trilogy, the restless rats return in James Herbert's Lair. But now for the first time suddenly, shockingly, horribly the balance of power had shifted. For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood began to be realized by a panic-stricken city. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pine trees colour in a different way to the local trees, so in the autumn, if you took a private plane, which of course you could do if you were May-Ling, you see this spectacular necklace. The chains of the necklace are made of French pine trees which Chiang had imported to China and planted like a real necklace around the whole mountain. The roof of this villa has blue-green tiles which sparkle in the sun, and made it look like a real jewel. It encircled a whole mountain, and the jewel of the necklace was a villa, called the May-Ling Palace outside Nanjing. ![]() For many years after her marriage to Chiang Kai-shek, May-Ling was in a deep depression, and he wanted to get her out of it, so he gave her this present, which was a “necklace,” for her birthday in 1932. I was surprised about the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Papa goes missing, Maya is thrust into a world both strange and familiar as she uncovers the truth. But to Maya, it sounds like something from one of Papa's stories or her favorite comics. ![]() Her friends try to find an explanation-perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry. Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like werehyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams. Perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the End of Time and The Serpent's Secret. In this highly anticipated contemporary fantasy, twelve-year-old Maya's search for her missing father puts her at the center of a battle between our world, the Orishas, and the mysterious and sinister Dark world. ![]() ![]() Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. But once they bring their findings to Mr. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what's going on. ![]() There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead "checking out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. ![]() But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone - and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life - mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lilith feels the same as prefers animals to humans. He isn’t comfortable with unfamiliar people and prefers being alone. He is an architect and travels so isn’t taken with her deal of sharing ownership of the cat.Ĭlay is a very private guy, almost a recluse and he plans every aspect of his life. He seems very anxious while she searches his home for the cat. ![]() ![]() Lilith thinks he looks very hot in his glasses and dripping wet. One stormy night he knocks on her door needing help with a stray cat. He an enigma and very mysterious which has increased her interest in him. Lilith had been curious about her neighbour since he moved in. You will have met Lilith in the first book The Doctor because she is Cassidy’s best friend. This is the third book in the Nashville Neighbourhood series and is all about Lilith, Clay and Travis. If you love MFM books then this will be right up your street as we get two Dom’s and plenty of BDSM. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Hushpad disappears mysteriously and rumors are spread about a strange danger taking cats from their homes, Tailchaser sets out to find his friend. As cats do, he likes to sleep, prowl and hunt, and play with his childhood friend Hushpad. Meet Fritti Tailchaser, a ginger tom of rare courage and curiosity, a born survivor in a world of heroes and villains… And join him on a fantastic quest – all the way to cat hell and beyond.įritti Tailchaser, an orange cat with a white star-shaped patch on his forehead, is easy to love. ![]() The book was Tailchaser’s Song, the author was Tad Williams. While this is a “cat book” you can still (or already) see the heavy influences of that most famous of fellowships’ journey.įirst sentence: The hour of Unfolding Dark had begun, and the rooftop where Tailchaser lay was smothered in shadow.įifteen years ago, a young author surprised and enchanted readers with his first novel-the story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M’an. When he wrote the latter, Tad Williams was clearly still in his Tolkien phase. Of the three (in paperback: four) volumes in his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, I’ve read the first two and left it at that. My favorite Tad Williams story is still the Otherland quartet. ![]() |