![]() Eventually, Sadow and his Sith forces invade Coruscant, only to be thwarted by the Jedi, banishing the villain to Yavin 4. Two competing Sith Lords, Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh, duel over the fate of the two travelers, with Sadow seeing their arrival as an opportunity to control the larger universe. ![]() The two come across Korriban, a Sith home world where dark Jedi had been expelled to centuries prior. Since hyperspace flight was in its infancy, the larger universe has yet to be mapped, and pilots took great risk to pick a random spot on the uncharted map and jump to that region. ![]() ![]() The first two arcs ( Golden Age and Fall of the Sith Empire) are the earliest Tales of the Jedi books in the Star Wars timeline, focusing on the early days of hyperspace travel and two force-sensitive explorers called Gav and Jori Daragon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Walker does a good job suffusing this romance with a fairy tale feeling while eschewing any actual magic, and peppers in just enough hints to lead readers along on Marcus and Tansy’s hunt for the truth. He may be a complete stranger, but he has one thing in his favor: he is unaware of her fortune. The man selected is barrister Paul Sheldon. So when Lady Kellen offers to help her find an eligible suitor, Louisa eagerly accepts and makes a list of what she wants in a husband. But the gentlemen’s mother is not as welcoming-and her disdain stems from more than just Tansy’s lack of a title. Louisa Cox is tired of fortune hunters pursuing her dowry. HEA Silly Aunts Fairytales Regency Stories Closed Door Romance Sleeping Beauty Retelling You should check this one out The little nodes to the orginal fairytale was delightful. Easy-going Marcus ingratiates himself with Tansy’s aunts, while Tansy finds favor with the Duke, resulting in a love triangle. Neither Tansy nor Marcus trusts easily but they find comfort in each other as they share secrets and set out to solve the mystery of how their pasts are linked. Their new neighbor, professor Marcus Taylor, brother to the Duke of Westmoreland, is also dealing with distressing dreams, and it soon becomes clear they’re connected with Tansy’s own. Tansy White travels to her mother’s former home with her three eccentric aunts in tow, hoping to make sense of her troubling dreams. ![]() Walker’s sweet follow-up to The Masked Baron takes readers to Rose Cottage, where mysterious dreams and family secrets link the life of an orphaned young woman to the brother of a duke. ![]() ![]() However, Norman quickly discovers that Jim is a competitive person who works at a pace much too fast for Norman to keep up with. Norman has agreed to team up with a lumberjack named Jim who works fast and has the potential of helping Norman earn a great deal of money. In Logging and Pimping and 'Your Pal, Jim', Norman is a young man in his early twenties spending the summer lumberjacking in order to make money to continue his education. When Paul dies because of a fight, Norman feels as though he let his brother down. Norman knows his brother needs help as his drinking is beginning to interfere with the rest of his life, but Norman cannot speak to Paul about it because he feels that he does not know his brother well enough to criticize. Paul does not try to criticize Norman's shortcomings as a fisherman, however, which makes it difficult for Norman to discuss with Paul his behavior outside of the world of fishing. Norman admires Paul's expertise at fly fishing and finds himself often overshadowed by his brother's skills. Norman and Paul spend a great deal of time fishing together even though their lives run in different directions. ![]() ![]() ![]() In A River Runs Through It, Norman is approaching middle age and still finds fly fishing to be an enjoyable pastime with his brother, Paul. Norman is a man who grew up in Montana and has lived a life close to nature. Norman Maclean is the writer of these stories as well as the main character. Norman Macleanappears in A River Runs Through It ![]() ![]() Moshfegh is one of those rare things: a great American writer. Perhaps my reaction to Death in Her Hands would not be as strong if I didn’t view it as such a personal disaster. Coincidences are regular and convenient, the purposeful haziness of the narrative just leads to confusion rather than ambience, and the minimal plot and characters makes the prose feel bulky, as if this were a short story that got out of hand. ![]() At worst it suggests laziness on behalf of the author, a sort of laziness that smothers this whole novel like sulphur. Whether this is Moshfegh’s way of slyly winking to the camera or not, having the main character of your not-so-great murder mystery novel literally consult a guide for writing murder mystery novels reads as myopic at best. By simply making up a backstory for Magda and inventing possible motives, Vesta believes she can hone a list of suspects and edge closer towards solving the case. ![]() Early on in her investigation and with absolutely no leads, Vesta decides to consult an online questionnaire that is intended to help novelists flesh out the characters and motives of their murder mystery novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() The books we are listing will be G or better,see grading scale below.We are not selling books with missing pages, major rips, orfalling apart. They are listed individually in our other auctions if you are interested and only shown here to expedite our photo/listing process.CONDITION: G or betterNo missing or loose pages, No major rips, Not falling apart.SHIPPING: See Below!TOO MANY QUESTIONS WITH THE ANSWERS WRITTEN BELOW!!PLEASE READ BEFORE MESSAGING US!!Attention Dealers and Collectors!Vintagetaco has to move a huge quantity of paperbacks!We are doing 99 cent auctions, the more you buy the cheaperthe shipping gets. DO NOT bid and expect all the books shown. This auction is ONLY for the book listed in the main title line. DEATH FOR A HUSSY Aylwin Lee Martin GRAPHIC Mystery 1ST PRINTING*Please see the second photo for the spine of the book that is up for auction now. ![]() ![]() So why is it called Gaslamp? Well, the lighting of course! Electricity isn’t usually an option in these historically inspired 19th-century worlds (with a few fun exceptions). ![]() If Sherlock Holmes, Jane Austen, and Harry Potter had a love child together, their love child would be a Gaslamp fantasy romance book. Whereas, magic, its use and existence, is an aspect of world building that sets Gaslamp novels apart. This technology (or mad science) is often futuristic in nature despite the historical environment. Steampunk separates itself with a focus on steam powered technology. ![]() And both can be high fantasy, set in a secondary world, or low fantasy and set in a world familiar to us. Both feature settings and a system of values from the Victorian or Edwardian Era. ![]() Both subgenres share ancestry with historical fantasy and gothic fiction. Gaslamp has a lot in common with steampunk, and as a result, they are often mistaken for one another. ![]() I blame my love for Gaslamp romance on my young obsession with the atmosphere of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and the magic found in great books like Howl’s Moving Castle. Prater, author of Gaslamp Romance, to tell us more about her love for this relatively unknown genre! But what exactly are the subgenres of Fantasy Romance? In this brand new series of blog posts, we explore the many different categories that fall under the FaRoFeb umbrella. At FaRoFeb, our aim is to celebrate Fantasy Romance in all its variety. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Sam gains consciousness, he finds himself suffering from partial amnesia, and is more surprised to find that his appearance to others, including what he sees in the mirror, is not his own face. When Al learns that funding for the project is in danger of being pulled because no demonstrable results have come from the project, Sam takes it upon himself to step into the Quantum Leap accelerator to prove the project works and is sent into the past. In the series premiere, Sam has theorized the ability to travel in one's own lifetime and is the lead of the government-funded Project Quantum Leap, operating from a secret laboratory in New Mexico Al oversees the project for the government. ![]() Sam Beckett (Bakula), a brilliant scientist who has become stuck in the past as a result of a time travel experiment gone wrong, and his attempts to return to his present, the late 20th century, by altering events in the past for the better, with the aid of a hologram of his friend Admiral Al Calavicci (Stockwell), monitoring him from Sam's present. Quantum Leap follows the narrative of Dr. ![]() ![]() Emma and Will conduct writing workshops now and then they’ve taught in Los Angeles, at Clarion West, the Pima Writers Workshop, and elsewhere.Įmma played guitar and sang in the Flash Girls, a goth-folk duo. She and her husband, Will Shetterly, are members of the Interstate Writers’ Workshop, aka The Scribblies. She’s written novels, screenplays, a children’s book, and short stories. And now she’s living in Tucson, Arizona, where she would ride the range if she had a pony. She was a resident of the Republic of Bisbee (AZ) and loved it (except on the few days of the year when there was snow). ![]() (Or, as it sometimes seems, snow repair and road removal.)Īfter that, she moved back to her native southern California, where she would’ve driven with the top down if she’d had a convertible. She went to Beloit College, where she majored in English, then moved to Minneapolis, where there are two seasons: Snow removal and road repair. Two of Emma’s favorite childhood memories are of typing out nonsense words on her parents’ black Royal manual typewriter, and watching the neighbor mow the lawn. ![]() ![]() Winnie eventually ended up in the London Zoo, where she became a favorite of author A.A. Written by Lindsay Mattick, it's the real-life story of a Canadian veterinarian on his way to fight in World War I who rescues a little black bear at a train depot and names her Winnie for his hometown of Winnipeg. The Caldecott went to illustrator Sophie Blackall for Finding Winnie. It's one of the things I'm most proud of." ![]() And I feel like the most important thing that's ever happened to me is growing up without money. It has a simple lesson: "You can feel like you have been slighted if you are growing up without, if you have less money, or you can see the beauty in that. The main characters in Last Stop on Market Street happen to be African American, but De La Peña says the book is not about race. "I've been doing this for ten years, writing diverse characters, and I just want to honor every Hispanic writer who's come before me." "The inclusion of diverse literature is so important to me," he tells NPR's Lynn Neary. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Finding Winnie Subtitle The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear Author Lindsay Mattick and Sophie Blackall ![]() ![]() ![]() Bardugo first became inspired upon discovering the tombs of Yale's secret societies as she walked down New Haven's Grove Street during her freshman year. The novel is Bardugo's first adult novel and, beyond the fantasy elements, is largely inspired by her time at Yale University. She attempts to navigate her new life at the Ivy League while tasked by her benefactor with monitoring the eight Houses of the Veil, secret societies that harbor dark occult magic and power, as a member of Lethe, the ninth house. ![]() Alex is mysteriously offered a full ride to university following her trauma despite her background and lack of qualifications. The novel follows unlikely Yale University freshman 20-year-old Galaxy "Alex" Stern, a high school drop out and homicide survivor who can see ghosts, called "Grays". The first in a series, Ninth House was followed by a sequel titled Hell Bent, which was published in January 2023. Ninth House is a paranormal fantasy novel by American author Leigh Bardugo, published by Flatiron Books in October 2019. ![]() |