![]() In his younger years, he wrote many stories, sharing them with his schoolmates. Scott spent over 20 years as a chef in restaurants, Pubs, and resorts, but knew his calling was to write from an early age. He enjoys spending time with his wife Tabitha and his dog Carly either traveling or living off-grid where he can work on his writing. Scott Macfadyen is a Canadian author with a passion for storytelling. Layla races against time while navigating twists and turns before her dark past catches up to her and her family becomes a target. Now Layla must keep her secret safe from her family while searching for those that shot her mentor, the man who saved her from a life on the streets and turned her into a hitwoman. When someone from her past is gunned down and left for dead, Layla returns to her old life - one that her family knows nothing about. ![]() PENTICTON, B.C., (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) - Scott Macfadyen's crime thriller, "A Whisper in The Shadows" (ISBN: 978-0228882787) follows former assassin Layla, a devoted mother and wife. By Send2Press Newswire on Apin Mass Media News ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Sold as a literary helping of science fiction and dystopia, the novel focuses on the various ways in which individuals, institutes, and wider society respond to the spread of the “Arctic plague,” a virus which has created a global pandemic with no apparent end in sight. The timing of Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut novel, How High We Go In The Dark, might be perfect, or terrible. 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Determined to finish the fight once and for all, Quell works with New Republic Intelligence’s contentious Caern Adan and the legendary General Hera Syndulla to prepare the riskiest gambit of her starfighting career-a trap for Shadow Wing that could finish the chase once and for all.īut in the darkness, their enemy has evolved. Yrica Quell’s ragtag Alphabet Squadron still leads the search for Shadow Wing, but they’re no closer to their goal-and the pressure to find their quarry before it’s too late has begun to shake them apart. And none are more dangerous than Shadow Wing. But some old ghosts are harder to banish than others. ![]() ![]() In its wake, the capital ships of the newly legitimized galactic government journey to the farthest stars, seeking out and crushing the remnants of imperial tyranny. News of the New Republic’s victory still reverberates through the galaxy. “Being on the winning side of a war meant fighting for stupid things”Īlexander Freed is back with Star Wars: Shadow Fall, the second novel in the Alphabet Squadron trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rose tells Violet that she has a bit of magic in her, right before she and all the other people in the woods converge on Violet. The girl then notices other people lurking nearby, watching them. She introduces herself as Rose The Hat (Rebecca Ferguson), and she charms Violet with magic tricks. One afternoon, she wanders into the woods where she finds a woman sitting alone by the lake. ![]() Stephen Kingįlorida, 1981 A little girl named Violet Hansen (Violet McGraw) is out on a camping trip with her family. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep." Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. ![]() But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death. They look harmless: mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The crisply rendered battle scenes are adrenaline rushes of blood, thunder and clashing swords that transport the reader back to the early 15th century. Crispinian whispering to him in times of personal crisis, Hook has his hands full with the French and defending himself from the vengeance-seeking rapist priest and Melisande's father. Back on French soil, he fights and slogs his way to Agincourt, where 6,000 Englishmen confront 30,000 French soldiers. With his French prize in tow, he returns to England and signs on with Henry's army as an archer. Nicholas Hook, an English forester, is on the run after interfering with a rapist priest and ends up a mercenary defender at Soissons, where he saves a young and beautiful novitiate, Melisande. Civil War, Cornwell returns to the Hundred Years War era in this action-packed if slightly melodramatic epic about King Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. A literary veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Well, yes, if you call that a-dressing,’ The Queen said. So she began rather timidly: ‘Am I addressing the White Queen?’ The White Queen only looked at her in a helpless frightened sort of way, and kept repeating something in a whisper to herself that sounded like ‘bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter,’ and Alice felt that if there was to be any conversation at all, she must manage it herself. ‘I’m very glad I happened to be in the way,’ Alice said, as she helped her to put on her shawl again. ![]() She caught the shawl as she spoke, and looked about for the owner: in another moment the White Queen came running wildly through the wood, with both arms stretched out wide, as if she were flying, and Alice very civilly went to meet her with the shawl. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each law, however, gets its own chapter: “Conceal Your Intentions,” “Always Say Less Than Necessary,” “Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy,” and so on. These laws boil down to being as ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful as possible. This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win. ![]() ![]() We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.Įveryone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia). ![]() ![]() This is my first time listening to one of her narrations, but I'll definitely be looking for more of his performances. The variations between characters and his regular narrator voice really added to the listening experience. Salzman did a great job with the narration. ![]() If you're interested in a fictionalized war PTSD short story, then I would definitely recommend Korean Road. It gets pretty intense at time and I just really can't imagine what it's like for anyone to go through that. This novella is based around Dickie's experience and his own PTSD and the widespread effects that it can have on a person and in truth, others around them, hence the various time periods. The novella spans three time periods during Dickey's life-During the war, right after the war and finally, when Dickie's kids are older. ![]() ![]() I can't even image what some of these soldiers went through and how PTSD affected them, but Korean Road by Brian Scutt did a good job of giving me an idea. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Okay, Dad does get the tiniest bit gruff in Bedtime, but it's barely noticeable.) I particularly enjoy the scene where Mother and Father lament over Frances' disappearance in voices loud enough for Frances to hear. Where else?įrances' parents are interminably patient. And where will she run to? Underneath the kitchen table, of course. In Baby Sister, Frances is upset at the way her life has been turned on its head with the arrival of baby Gloria. That aside, the Frances books remain some of my all-time favorites. I have trouble singing Frances' songs, because I'm never sure how the tunes are supposed to go. My mother was great at reading aloud and singing all of Frances' songs, too. I couldn't sleep when there was the possibility of a giant, frightening thing crawling out of the crack in the ceiling, either. She was a furry badger, but she and I had some things in common. ![]() ![]() I loved Frances when I was a little girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() He finally comes to realize that Ireland is a trap for him, and that he must escape the bonds of family, religion, and country if he is to be able to create. Although he keeps the core traits of imaginativeness and sensitivity throughout his life, Stephen evolves from a shy, almost awkward boy to a brave and brilliant young man. Stephen is an extremely dynamic character. Because of his intellectual gifts and his position as the oldest child, the family scrapes together enough money to pay for his education. He is the oldest son of Simon and Mary Dedalus, Irish Catholics with ten other children. He is extremely sensitive and imaginative, and we watch as he develops into a fiercely independent young man. Stephen is the hero of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and all events of the book are filtered through his consciousness. ![]() |