![]() Both Zafira and Nasir are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-but neither wants to be. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. ![]() Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, Hafsah Faizal's We Hunt the Flame-first in the Sands of Arawiya series-is a gripping debut of discovery, conquering fear, and taking identity into your own hands. Both narrators deliver commanding performances steeped in drama and suspense, drawing out every ounce of emotion and intrigue: - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner "Narrators Fiona Hardingham and Steve West lend their exceptional vocal skills to this fantasy novel. ![]()
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![]() And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn. ![]() Miki has only the guidance of secretive but maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson Tate, who says that the game is more than that, and that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival and the survival of every other person on this planet. There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. She wakes up fully healed in a place called the lobby-pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into some kind of game in which she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures. Seventeen-year-old Miki Jones's carefully controlled life spirals into chaos after she's run down in the street, left broken and bloody. ![]() This teen debut novel offers science fiction and gaming fans romantic thrills at a breakneck pace. ![]() 3 Books 1 Rush Eve Silver From 4.19 2 Push Eve Silver From 4.19 3 Crash Eve Silver From 4. See the complete The Game series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Rush pulls you headlong into the thrilling, high-stakes world of Eve Silver's teen series The Game, about teens pulled into and out of an alternate reality in which battling aliens is more than a game-it's life and death. by Eve Silver includes books Rush, Push, and Crash. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still in his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage at the heart of Rachel Joyce’s remarkable debut. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years. Little differentiates one day from the next. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Didn't Want to Steal: Survivor of Crash Passed Up Canoe," Los Angeles Times, Jan. "Jungle Trek: Survivor of Crash Tells of Struggle," Los Angeles Times, Jan. "She Lived and 91 Others Died," Life 72:3 (Jan. Juliane Diller, When I Fell From the Sky, 2011. Sources for our feature on Juliane Koepcke: In 1868, as an engineering trainee, Robert Louis Stevenson explored the foundation of a breakwater at Wick. Wells calculated that he'd earned a single pound in his writing endeavors. We'll also consider whether goats are unlucky and puzzle over the shape of doorknobs.īefore writing about time machines, H.G. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe Juliane's arduous trek through the jungle in search of civilization and help. Miraculously, she survived the fall, but her ordeal was just beginning. ![]() In 1971 high school student Juliane Koepcke fell two miles into the Peruvian rain forest when her airliner broke up in a thunderstorm. ![]() ![]() ![]() For Dorrigo - the name comes from a town in New South Wales - is a prisoner of war, among the more than 9,000 Australians who in 1943 slaved on what was called the “Death Railway.” A train line cut through the jungles of Burma and Thailand, that “Pharaonic project” killed nearly 100,000 of the Allied prisoners and impressed Asian laborers who were forced to build it. ![]() His narrow road is a railway, and he labors too under a different compulsion, one that takes the shape of the Japanese Army. well, that’s another question entirely.įlanagan’s Dorrigo Evans, a young medical officer, seems at first to travel a different path. Whether that journey has any meaning, whether there’s anything beyond putting one foot in front of the other. ![]() Basho walks because he must, and in reading him the old cliché comes alive: Life is a journey. Yet his walk was marked by moments of terrible loneliness, and he seemed to travel under a kind of compulsion, without a defined goal or purpose. Basho went north from present-day Tokyo through a mountainous land of often shattering beauty. ![]() The title of Richard Flanagan’s sixth novel comes from a 17th-century Japanese classic, a little book by the poet Basho that mixes a prose travel narrative with haiku in its account of a long journey on foot. ![]() ![]() What did you like best about Shacking Up? What did you like least? Seeing his role in Ruby's dilemma, Bane offers her a permanent job as his live-in pet sitter until she can get back on her feet.įilled with hilariously awkward encounters and enough sexual tension to heat a New York City block, Shacking Up, from NYT and USA Today best-selling author Helena Hunting, is sure to keep you laughing and swooning all night long. But when the newly evicted Ruby arrives to meet her new employer, it turns out Bane is the same guy who got her sick. Luckily, her best friend might have found the perfect opportunity: a job staying at the lavish penthouse apartment of hotel magnate Bancroft Mills while he's out of town, taking care of his exotic pets. All thanks to a mysterious, gorgeous guy who kissed - and then coughed on - her at a party the night before. But instead of getting her big break, she gets sick as a dog and completely bombs it in the most humiliating fashion. She has one chance to turn things around with a big audition. ![]() ![]() Ruby Scott is months behind on rent and can't seem to land a steady job. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because I should be burning in hell for my sins. Yet I alone destroyed an innocent girl’s life. It wouldn’t have been my fault that a man had destroyed himself, his life becoming a broken, hollow shell. It wouldn’t have been my fault that the same girl stood at her mother’s graveside, believing that the last person on earth who loved her was dead. It wouldn’t have been my fault that a girl was left alone to take care of her ailing mother. If someone had been there to save us from the lies and bitterness she allowed to fester within us, then maybe things would have been different. ![]() Looking back now, I wish someone had been there to see how my mother had sown the seed of hate inside me. By the age of ten, I knew hate, and I knew love. They have the capacity to love more fiercely than anyone. ![]() It makes for good, heartwarming sayings to hang on their walls and smile at as they pass by. They say a lot of bullshit like that, because it helps them sleep at night. That children don’t truly hate, because they don’t fully understand the emotion. They say that children have the purest hearts. ![]() ![]() It’s a twist, and you may be shocked, but it’s a twist you feel like you should have seen coming. Constant twists and turns in a mystery plot can often feel like the author is being confusing just for the sake of it, but with the plot of Vow of Thieves, stuff may surprise you, but it doesn’t feel unearned. You don’t know who to trust, and you don’t know if you can believe what you knew before. This book is full of all sorts of political intrigue. Separated by circumstance, Jase and Kazi must fight to discover who the real enemy is and how to defeat them. The Ballenger family – what’s left of it – have taken refuge in their vault and someone new rules the land. ![]() There is an ominous warning on Jase and Kazi’s journey back, and they are attacked before they can even set foot in Hell’s Mouth. The ending of Dance of Thieves gave us a little glimpse of what was in store, but trust me when I say that you are not ready for what is to come. Vow of Thieves returns us once again to the Ballengers’ homestead, but it’s in a very different state than it was when we left. ![]() This world is so rich and diverse and ripe with possibility, and I have fallen in love with each new part that’s been unlocked in every successive book set there. I am such a fan of the world that Pearson has created, both in this duology and in its predecessor The Remnant Chronicles. ![]() Trust me when I say that you are not prepared for what is about to go down in Hell’s Mouth. Kazi and Jase’s saga concludes in Vow of Thieves, the sequel to New York Times best-selling author Mary E. ![]() ![]() To create space for your curtain rod, simply fold over a few inches from the top.This makes it more ghostly and gives it a spookier effect. What I like to do next is take a sheer/thin cloth, such as cheesecloth, and add this as a layer over the silhouette.Next, you fill in the silhouette with dark grey or black paint.If you are not the best freehand drawer, that's okay, has easy-to-use templates that you can print! Follow the grid to create your figure.Draw an outline of any figure you'd like, whether it's a vampire, zombie or ghost.Take a piece of cotton cloth and a black marker.Following the steps below, create curtains that will create the spooky illusion of a silhouette in your window when the lights go out: ![]() |