![]() Two Hearts won the Hugo Award, Best Novelette, in 2006. Tamsin won the Mythopoeic Award, Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, in 2000. ![]() Beagle won the World Fantasy Award, Life Achievement, in 2011.īeagle's books have also won multiple awards, The Folk of the Air won the Mythopoeic Award, Fantasy Award, in 1987. There are no upcoming novels for the Peter S. Beagle, Volume II: Oakland Dragon Blues and Other Stories which was released in 2023. Beagle Collections series was The Essential Peter S. The most recently released novel in the Peter S. Beagle Collections series started in 1997 with the novel The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances. Beagle Collections series which currently consists of 10 novels. Beagle was born in Manhattan, New York, USA. Beagle (Peter Soyer Beagle) was born on April 20th, 1939 and is currently 84 years old. ![]()
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The witches by roald dahl7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The story uses the moral that children should "never talk to strangers", but enhances it with the ingenious and disturbing premise of witches being responsible for evil acts towards children. This film is enormous fun, punctuated by offbeat performances (Huston as the Grand High Witch of All the World is terrifying and funny in equal measure) and splendid puppet work. He is captured by them and metamorphosised into a mouse, but still comes up with a plot to wipe them out. Whilst there, Luke uncovers the fact that the RSPCC meeting in the hotel is actually a front for a society of witches. ![]() Grandma falls seriously ill and is advised to go to the English seaside to recover, accompanied by Luke. Pretty soon, she has filled his mind with tales of witchery and caution. ![]() She lives in Norway and is something of a witch expert. The story finds a young boy named Luke moving in with his Grandma following the death of his parents. Adults just assume that kids don't have the level of wit and sophistication to appreciate sly and sarcastic humour, but here that theory is challenged with a vengeance and this film proves itself to be a wickedly entertaining, knowingly cruel pantomime. ![]() The Witches is the rarest thing you'll ever see: a black comedy for children. ![]() Eucalyptus by Murray Bail7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() But, we’re talking a predictable plodding plot. ![]() I mean I love eucalyptus trees about as much as a kola bear does. This was ultimately a very frustrating book. Oh, and each chapter is named for a specie of Eucalypt. That process is basically Act II of the book, and it’s about as exciting as it sounds. Once his daughter is of a marriageable age he makes an Atalantan (as in the golden apple/race myth) deal to marry her off to the first suitor who can name all the various eucalypts on his land. Apparently there are over 200 specie of this plant. The man collects the life insurance, moves to a small town in western New South Wales, and plants eucalypts… lots of them. It’s about a man whose wife dies while giving birth to their daughter. Nothing else, I guess Eucalyptus lives up to its title. ![]() Out of Mormonism by Judy Robertson7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Her only proof that they are such is that some of the practices of the Mormon church conflict with passages in the Bible but what kind of proof is that when most Christian's practices conflict with some parts of the bible? Are Baptists a Satanic cult too, because they outlaw dancing and the bible has almost nothing but positive mentions of dancing? I think not. That is me giving her the benefit of the doubt she claims to have been a Mormon-convert for 7 years it's hard to believe they were a Satanic cult the whole time and she never noticed till the end. And it is strange to her because she was raised in a different Christian faith (which would be equally strange to someone raised Mormon, or Buddhist, or whatever). I got the feeling from reading the book that the author didn't have any real problem with the Mormon church other than it's strangeness. Rather than address issues like how women are treated by the LDS church, or how it's tenants may harm families, or any real criticism of the Mormon faith, the author instead decides to go with "the Church of the Latter-Day Saints is a Satanic Cult" as a her main issue with Mormonism. There is far more Jesus-pushing and talk about the rightness of non-Mormon Christianity. This is not a meaty book about Mormonism there is very little really about the religion or the people. ![]() The writing has no serious flaws it's adequate if a bit bland. ![]() ![]() In fact, for longtime fans of the fantasy genre, the hero of The Dark Is Rising, Will Stanton, has more than earned a place in the pantheon beside the likes of Lucy Pevensie and Bilbo Baggins who came before him, and the students at Hogwarts and the demigods of Percy Jackson who would follow. Unknown to many of them the original source material predated the Boy Who Lived by at least two decades, and despite superficial similarities in the central protagonist arc, they couldn’t be any more different. ![]() The film was rightly panned, both by critics and fans of the original novel The Dark is Rising for a number of reasons, while casual fantasy fans dismissed it as a generic Harry Potter knock off. ![]() Naturally with the success of the Harry Potter franchise both as a book and a film, studios rushed to try to crank out the next series just like it, leading to lackluster adaptations of young adult fantasy novels such as The Golden Compass, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, and a forgotten film known as The Seeker: The Dark is Rising. Every major franchise geared towards Young Adults seems to dabble in this aspect of the heroic monomyth, including Star Wars, Spider-Man, Harry Potter, and The Matrix. Nowadays the “Chosen One” narrative has become something of a literary cliché. ![]() Lady midnight special edition7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Caught in a race against time, Emma and Julian must save the world of Shadowhunters before the deadly power of the parabatai curse destroys them and everyone they love. What they find in the Courts is a secret that may tear the Shadow World asunder and open a dark path into a future they could never have imagined. I have the LoS one and preordered the QoAaD one but I need the LM one to complete my set. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake a perilous mission to Faerie to retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead. I need the edition of Lady Midnight that was released by Waterstones when the book came out (I hadn't read the series yet) It is dark blue with gold angelic runes on the cover. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the blight that is destroying the race of warlocks. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war. Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. What if damnation is the price of true love? Queen of Air and Darkness is a Shadowhunters novel Dark secrets and forbidden love threaten the very survival of the Shadowhunters in Cassandra Clare’s Queen of Air and Darkness, the final novel in the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling The Dark Artifices trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Wonderfully, horribly plausible' - ***** Reader review 'An intricate, engrossing novel' - ***** Reader review 'It kept me on the edge of my seat and I was thinking about it long after I turned the last page' - ***** Reader review the plot is so cleverly constructed, the tension so unflagging, you'd think she'd been writing thrillers all her life' - DAILY MAIL ![]() ![]() Harris is one of our most accomplished novelists and Gentlemen & Players, with its pace, wit and acute observation, shows her at the top of her form' - DAILY EXPRESS Fast paced with unexpected twists and turns, it will get right under the skin. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Susan Hill, Nicci French and Val McDermid, this is an astute and intelligent psychological thriller centring around obsession and rage from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris. ![]() Warbreaker series7/5/2023 ![]() ‘Warbreaker acts as a perfect standalone adventure into Brandon Sanderson’s brilliantly engrossing Cosmere universe where The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn takes place. Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is a master of what Tolkien called ‘secondary creation.’ By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, miracles and mischief can be performed. WARBREAKER is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, a lesser god and an immortal trying to undo the. Using magic is arduous: breath can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people. ![]() A power based on an essence known as breath. A world transformed by BioChromatic magic. As a result, theirs is a world in which those who die in glory return as gods. ![]() WARBREAKER is the story of two sisters, the God King one of them has to marry, a lesser god, and an immortal trying to undo the mistakes he made. Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesnt like his job, and the immortal whos still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Description Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson ![]() Butts a backstory by heather radke7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at. Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an illuminating, and thoughtful examination of why certain silhouettes come in and out of fashion-and how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about ourselves and others. A woman’s butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. She is the author of the book "Butts: A Backstory." Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. Spanning nearly two centuries, this whip-smart (Publishers Weekly, starred review) cultural history takes us from the performance halls of 19th-century London to the aerobics studios of the 1980s, the music video set of Sir. Heather Radke is an essayist, journalist, contributing editor and reporter for the Peabody-award winning podcast, Radiolab from WNYC. In Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out. ![]() ![]() Blue is willing to help, but he is also wary and wants to keep his distance Levi seems so kind and genuine and Blue has long learned to protect himself and his heart. ![]() When Levi encounters Blue Billings, a local ghost tour guide, he is hopeful the man will be able to tell him more about the stories surrounding his house. Levi has never believed in ghosts or the supernatural, but something strange is definitely going on in his house. Then the house is full of banging and mysteriously opening windows and all kinds of weird and frightening occurrences. When he arrives, Levi learns that no one seems to keep the house for long, but he doesn’t think much of it until he actually moves in. ![]() He has recently inherited a house in York, and a change of scenery seems perfect. ![]() After his long-term relationship ended due to a cheating boyfriend, Levi Black is eager for a new start. ![]() |