![]() ‘Harper secures her place as queen of outback noir with this haunting family mystery’ Sunday Times Did he choose to walk to his death? Because if he didn’t, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects… ![]() The Bright family’s quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron. They are at the stockman’s grave, a landmark so old that no one can remember who is buried there. ![]() In an isolated part of Australia, they are each other’s nearest neighbour, their homes hours apart. Two brothers meet at the remote border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of the outback. Whatever had been going through Cameron’s mind when he was alive, he didn’t look peaceful in death. He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. ![]() Jane Harper’s new novel, The Survivors, now available for pre-orderĪ best crime fiction book of 2019 pick in The TimesĪ thriller of the year 2019 pick in the ObserverĪ bestselling Richard & Judy book club pick 2019 by the author of The Dry ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From there, she went on to the Florida State University Film School, which led her to Los Angeles, where she worked in TV production and development before becoming an author. She attended high school at the Palm Beach County School of the Arts, studying Communication Arts. She is the third of four children (three girls and a boy) and the child of three very loving and encouraging parents. Source: Katie Alender (rhymes with “calendar”!) grew up in South Florida. Her first brush with publication was the article “So You Want to Live On Mars?” published in Sassy magazine in December 1991. She enjoys writing, reading, sewing (especially quilts), and hanging out with her husband, her daughters, and her dogs, Scooter and Frodo. ![]() Katie Alender (rhymes with “calendar”!) grew up in South Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() Furthermore, Legend of the Storm Sneezer was a finalist of the world-wide Wishing Shelf Awards in 2020. ![]() Legend of the Storm Sneezer won gold in the Children - Mystery category in 2021, while its sequel Legend of the Rainbow Eater, was awarded the Honorary Mention in the same category in 2022. Kristiana's novels have been celebrated on the international level by the esteemed Readers' Favorite Book Awards. She loves Jesus, her family, laughing too hard at her own jokes, and imaginary life with her characters. She hopes her stories, both personal and fictional, inspire others to do the same.Ī youth leader and inspirational speaker in her community, Kristiana is passionate about encouraging young people. ![]() But like her characters, she is learning to face her fears one page at a time with faith, laughter, and bravery. Like her popular characters Rose and Marek, Kristiana has faced some scary things in her life not ghosts and monsters but a severe health condition that almost killed her-along with her dreams of becoming an author. Legend of the Storm Sneezer and its sequels are known and loved for their cute, quirky, creepy goodness-Kristiana's trademarks. Kristiana Sfirlea is the #1 bestselling, award-winning author of The Stormwatch Diaries, a fantasy series for kids and teens. ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, the rock finally begins to crack open, and a dragon is born. He brings the rock home to his uncle's farm, near the village of Carvahall, and asks everyone for their opinions about the rock, but no one knows what it is. Eragon is able to kill a powerful wizard, the Shade named Durza, and save the Varden and the dwarves.Įragon finds a rock while hunting in the wilderness in the Kingdom of Alagalsia. Eragon and Saphira travel outside the boundaries of their land to fight on the side of the Varden, the enemies of the king. Eragon acquires magical powers and a teacher named Brom, but he becomes wanted by the king for his powers as a Dragon Rider. A boy named Eragon finds a dragon egg in the wilderness one day, and once his dragon hatches, it sets him off on a journey that will take him across the land of Alagalsia and beyond. ![]() ![]() ![]() Transformed by shock and grief, Tomasu slights Iida, the ruthless noble who is grabbing power across the country through war and dirty politics, by fighting back, eventually being rescued by a wandering stranger and escaping with a price on his head. Equipped with the wandering heart of one destined for greater things, Tomasu finds himself conveniently absent from home the day the wider world catches up with them, returning to find his family slaughtered for being part of a peaceful religious sect called The Hidden. ![]() Like many a prophesied farm boy before him, Tomasu has grown up in a one-horse town (with no horses) in the middle of nowhere with no idea of the political feuds going on in the wider country beyond the mountains. The story takes place in an alternate setting based in medieval Japan. From the title and beautiful Japanese-style cover art alone (variants of which can be found on most editions I’ve come across), Across the Nightingale Floor promises a different kind of adventure dangerous, beautiful and potentially surprising depending on your knowledge of the culture. Eastern settings have an exotic magic all of their own even without traditional fantasy elements. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jesus Girls: True Stories of Growing Up Female and Evangelical edited by Hannah Faith Notess (2009) - Reviewed 2009.The God Makers by Ed Decker and Dave Hunt (1997) - Reviewed 1999.Gentile Girl: Living with the Latter-day Saints by Carol Avery Forseth (2002) - Reviewed 2009.The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman (1995) - Reviewed 2015.Evangelical Feminism: A History by Pamela D.The End of Apologetics: Christian Witness in a Post-Modern Context by Myron Bradley Penner (2013) - Reviewed 2015.The Chump Lady Survival Guide to Infidelity: How to Regain Your Sanity Once You’ve Been Cheated On by Tracy Schorn (2014) - Reviewed 2014 (Note: Review no longer available, but I loved the book).Cheated On: The Divorce Minister Guide for Surviving Infidelity and Keeping Your Faith by David Derksen (2018) - Reviewed 2019. ![]() Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud & John Townsend (1992) - Reviewed 2016. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. Herman Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, meets Gotama the Buddha, learns the art of love from Kamala the courtesan, and is transformed by the simple philosophy of the ferryman Vasudeva whose wisdom comes not from learned teachings but from observing the River. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Translated by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer and Semyon Chaichenets ![]() LibriVox recording of Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Mouse Moral: knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole. The Something isĪnd when the other mice ran up one side and down the other, across the Something from end to end, they agreed. She ran across the top and from end to end. When she came upon the Something, she ran up one side, and she ran down the other. Until on Sunday, White Mouse, the seven mouse, went to the pond. He went on Saturday and said, "It’s nothing but a rope."īut the others didn’t agree. Orange Mouse went on Friday, the fifth to go. "It’s a spear." He was the third in turn. On Monday Red Mouse went first to find out. ![]() "What is it?" they cried, and they all ran home. One day seven blind mice were surprised to find a strange Something by their pond. The book was a 1993 Caldecott Honor book." - Amazon Review ![]() "This is a children’s book based on the famous Indian fable about blind mice who encounter an elephant, each describing it differently: the moral being that you must "see" the whole object to truly know it. ![]() ![]() But starry-eyed teens are trading their souls: a flickering lifetime of fame and fortune in exchange for eternity in the Netherworld - a consequence they can't possibly understand. The last thing Kaylee needs right now is to be skipping school, breaking her dad's ironclad curfew and putting her too-hot-to-be-real boyfriend's loyalty to the test. ![]() She can't cry for someone who has no soul. When teenager Kaylee screams, someone dies.So when teen pop star Eden dies onstage and Kaylee doesn't wail, she knows something is dead wrong. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about the dark forces behind Kaylee’s power than she does.And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason, and only Kaylee knows who’ll be next, she realises that finding a boyfriend is the least of her worries! Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest boy in school. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. ![]() ![]() She can sense when someone near her is about to die. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spensa’s mission to infiltrate the Superiority unveiled the secret to their hyperdrives-a cytonic slug species called the Taynix. The forces of the Galactic Superiority will be back-and if the Defiant Defense Force can’t figure out a way to escape the planet, humanity’s destruction is only a matter of time. Her Skyward Flight companion, Spensa, figured out how to draw this Delver away, but it won’t be so easy next time. ![]() When a planet-destroying Delver suddenly appears in the sky of Detritus and vanishes just as suddenly, FM knows that the last free human society got lucky. The audio book version of this book is part of Brandon Sanderson's Mainframe project. Sunreach is also referred to as Skyward 2.1 because it takes place between Starsight and Cytonic. ![]() Sunreach was released on Septemby Delacorte Press, before Cytonic. It is limited to E-book and Audiobook formats although a print version is planned for sometime in 2022. Sunreach is a novella by Brandon Sanderson co-written with Janci Patterson, taking place in the Skyward universe. ![]() |