![]() ![]() Sedgwick has reimagined Swedish artist Carl Larsson’s painting into an entire novel of memory, love, resignation and longing. “I will live seven times, and I will look for you and love you in each life.” This is the promise of ancient king Eirik (Eric) as he and his queen Melle (Merle) are slaughtered in a ritualistic sacrifice to their kingdom’s gods. Journey back through time and follow their relentless pursuit to be together over the course of seven lifetimes.īased on a Swedish painting, “Midvinterblod”, meaning Midwinter’s Sacrifice, Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick captures the epic love story of Eric and Merle. The story begins in the year 2073, when Eric comes to the mysterious island of Blessed for an investigative journalism story, and can’t quite figure out why native islander Merle seems instantly familiar. ![]() If by together you mean tragically forced to find each other and then torn apart by circumstances time and time again. Print.Įric and Merle are destined to be together. ![]()
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![]() P- escapes indentured servitude and falls into the arms of Bess Khan, a prostitute of South Asian descent, who sees Jack as he longs to be seen. The manuscript appears to be a retelling of the Jack Sheppard legend, but it contains a marked difference: Jack was not born Jack, but P-, a young girl with a knack for making and fixing things. Voth, “a guy by design, not birth,” discovers a “mashed and mildewed pile of papers” at a university library book sale, he becomes obsessed with transcribing and documenting its contents. ![]() ![]() In this inventive debut, Rosenberg transforms the legend of Jack Sheppard, infamous 18th-century London thief, into an epic queer love story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her will to live is challenged and her ambitions tested when a monster of the depths takes her to be his and makes her question everything that she thought she knew and wanted. Strange predators on the loose around the colony stationed on an inhospitable world is bad enough, but when a mining accident leaves Lori buried deep within the mines, she is vulnerable to the very real dangers that surround her in a hidden world. It will be tiring work but as long as she plays everything by the book then she will have everything she has ever dreamed of. ![]() When she is talked into working on one of their mining planets for a year with the promise of a hefty bonus and to be transferred to her choice planet after more non-gratas can be sent over, it is too good of an opportunity to pass up. For Lori Straford, born into the lowest caste of citizens-the pleasure arts strata of their society-it is an inescapable fate which she can only hope to better by enlisting as a spa attendant and masseuse on one of the luxury world colonies under the purview of Darvel Exploration Corporation. Being a citizen on United Earth doesn’t guarantee a life one wants. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let us know in the comments which books you're passionate about, as we'll be updating this story. Many of these books are part of a series, meaning you don't really have to leave your literary friends (or the writing style) behind.įinally, a note: Since the historical romance world is so sprawling, forgive us if we left your faves off the list. The settings differ, but the potency of the characters' connection stays the same-after all, love is universal.Īnother characteristic of the historical romance genre is abundance. These well-researched books are steeped in the details of another time, so you'll pick up on the realities of life in Colorado in the 1870s, or Han Dynasty China. Even tense ones, like King Henry VIII's court or the Civil War, can be the backdrop for people coming together. While the landed gentry of Regency England have certainly claimed a lot of the historical romance genre's real estate-including the basis for the Bridgerton series on Netflix, adapted from Julia Quinn's novels-there are lusty stories set in every era. In this version of the past, everyone gets a happy ending. ![]() ![]() Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Soon enough, you'll be swept up into a world of duchesses in big dresses and charming rakes with winks in their eyes. Romancing the Emotional Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Book (Falling for Dashing Dukes 2) - Kindle edition by Forbes, Sally. ![]() Curl up with a cozy throw blanket, and crack open a romance novel that combines sexy tales and historical fiction. Is the modern age getting to be a bit much? We have a solution. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henshaw won the Newbery Medal, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Ramona and Her Father have been named Newbery Honor Books. Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented to her in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature. And so, the Klickitat Street gang was born! She based her funny stories on her own neighborhood experiences and the sort of children she knew. When a young boy asked her, "Where are the books about kids like us?" she remembered her teacher's encouragement and was inspired to write the books she'd longed to read but couldn't find when she was younger. Before long, her school librarian was saying that she should write children's books when she grew up. But by third grade, after spending much time in her public library in Portland, Oregon, she found her skills had greatly improved. As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. Beverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. ![]() THE SECRET LIVES OF COLOUR tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.' Simon Garfield Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. 'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Six years of birthdays reveal Eric and Morgan’s destiny as they come together, drift apart, fall in love, and discover who they’re meant to be - and if they’re meant to be together. Maybe one day I’ll be ready to become the person I am inside. With a dad who cares about his football team more than me, a mom I miss more than anything, and a best friend who can never know my biggest secret. MORGAN: I know that every birthday should feel like a new beginning, but I’m trapped in this mixed-up body, in this wrong life, in Nowheresville, Tennessee, on repeat. ![]() That there’ll be a day, a minute, a second, where it all falls apart and there’s no turning back the clock. But sometimes I worry that Morgan and I won’t be best friends forever. The years where we stuck by each other’s side - as Morgan’s mom died, as he moved across town, as I joined the football team, as my parents started fighting. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. Six years…ĮRIC: There was the day we were born. ![]() ![]() What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty. ![]() He's done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean-including Malone himself. ![]() Every day and every night for eighteen years, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. Malone and his crew are an elite special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs and guns. He is a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the leader of 'Da Force'. It's that good.' Stephen KingĪll Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. 'Probably the best cop novel ever written' Lee Childĭon Winslow, the acclaimed author of the bestsellers The Cartel and The Power of the Dog, delivers a cinematic epic as explosive and unforgettable as Mystic River and The Wire. ![]() ![]() Because none of the female members of this community speak English or have been taught to read or write, they enlist the help of one man, August, a schoolteacher whose family had been exiled for his own mother’s curiosity and desire for knowledge. Toews’ conceit is that her text is the minutes of the meeting in which the women of the fictionalized Molotschna Colony decide whether they are going to leave the only home they have ever known, stay and fight, or do nothing. It’s an austere novel that lets its lyricism emerge in quiet ways. Women Talking, her 7th novel, uses the horrific rapes as the basis for an explanation of how women speak when they are living in a place that denies them that right. Toews was raised Mennonite in Manitoba, Canada, and has written multiple books about her background. Novelist Miriam Toews possesses a unique insight into the survivors’ lives. ![]() Sign up for More to the Story, TIME’s weekly entertainment newsletter, to get the context you need for the pop culture you love The novel It was a distressing dispatch from an enclave beyond most outsiders’ understanding, where the language used is Low German, a vestige of the 16th Century. ![]() It would have been awful no matter where it occurred, but the fact that it happened in this place-where residents have cut themselves off from modern society all while ostensibly ascribing to pacifism, made the case even stranger. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The delivery cost is dependent upon the weight of your order and the destination country. If you require more cover please e-mail us. International Signed For offers upto £30 cover. 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