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In The Unwritten Words, Christopher Nuttall's story-telling mastery weaves a new epic which follows on from his bestselling Bookworm series and is set in that same world. In The Promised Lie, the first book of the new series, five years have passed since the earth-shattering events of Bookworm IV. The Golden City has fallen. The Grand Sorcerer and Court Wizards are dead. The Empire they ruled is nothing more than a memory, a golden age lost in the...
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On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: "You exist too much," she tells her daughter.
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Elaine and Johan are preparing to leave Golden City, with Daria and the travelers, in order to search for the Witch-King. The Grand Sorceress instructs Inquisitor Cass to help them. But before Elaine can leave she is arrested by two Inquisitors on the orders of the Emperor. When she resists she is hit with a powerful spell that forces her to concentrate all her efforts on protecting her mind from its intrusion. Taken to the palace she finds that the...
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A haunting story of love, art, and betrayal, set against the heart-pounding backdrop of Antarctic exploration-from the Boston Globe-bestselling author of The Clover House.
The year is 1910, and two Antarctic explorers, Watts and Heywoud, are racing to the South Pole. Back in London, Viola, a photo-journalist, harbors love for them both. In Terra Nova, Henriette Lazaridis seamlessly ushers the reader back and forth between the austere, forbidding,...
45) Marked by Sin
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An assassin's work is never done. With forty-nine hits under my assassin belt, ascension is one kill away. Better pay and a swanky flat in Soho are all part of the deal. All I need to do to achieve my goal is take out one more scumbag. No big deal. Until it is. When a man with golden eyes and epic wings interrupts my ascension ceremony, everything I knew to be true is turned on its head.I'm a weapon. A key. And I'm one kill away from unlocking the...
46) Claimed by Sin
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Assassins don't cry. They just…don't. Grief's a noose that tightens when least expected, but there's no time to stop and dwell. I need to find the Daughter of Chaos and get my mother back. The stakes are high, and my path is riddled with danger. I'd be broken if not for my friends and Garuda, my anchor in the storm. I can do this if I have them by my side. I can do this given enough time. But what we need isn't always what we get. A war is on the...
47) Hunted by Sin
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Assassin turned superhero. Send help. Being a Gatekeeper in training means protecting the innocent and hunting down the bad guys. Makes me sound like a superhero. I'm not. I'm just trying to fix the shit I broke. But when a rogue vampire with some serious ninja skills starts leaving a string of missing persons in his wake, I'm up against the clock. Throw in a series of witch blood kidnappings, and an order from the Mayfair Coven's high witch, and...
48) Between Shifts
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There's a body beneath the skip bins. Fae on the forklift. A vampire in the manager's office. And there's definitely something skeevy going on in the locker rooms. Hi. I'm Pet. Well, not exactly Pet. I am a pet. I was meant to stay out of it, but somebody's gotta do something when humans are being killed by Behindkind creatures. Lucky for me, my owners are just as dangerous and inhuman as the bad guys . . . maybe more.
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Life is complicated.
I mean, life has always been complicated, but there's a difference between monsters-are-trying-to-kill-you complications and monsters-are-in-love-with-you complications. I'm still not sure which is more dangerous.
G'day. I'm Pet. Two-thirds of a pet, anyway: the vampire isn't claiming ownership these days, but he's definitely encroaching. On the list of other encroaching complications is the threat of heirling trials, a certain...
50) Between Floors
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I'm not supposed to push through the boundaries of reality without supervision. I'm definitely not meant to drag a cop Between with me.
But stuff happens, you know?
Hi. I'm Pet. Well, not Pet, exactly. I am a pet.
Nothing too hard; I just cook and clean for the Behindkind who took over my house. Easy. But now one of my owners has gone missing. He's fae, so it shouldn't worry me, but if there's something out there that can kidnap fae, I don't wanna...
51) Between Kings
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G'day. I'm Pet. Heirling. Biter of fae lords. Trouble.
I have a lot of names these days-including my own, real name. Unfortunately for me, someone else knows that name too, not to mention the names of my other heirling friends. Now those heirling friends have disappeared, stolen by the current King Behind for a fight to the death where only one contender to the throne remains.
The rules say there's no way in and only one way out of that fight, but...
52) Between Family
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When someone tries to threaten me by telling me they know my name, I take that personally.
G'day. I'm not really a pet anymore, but you might as well keep calling me Pet. It's not like I'm gunna tell you my name anyway. And if I sound stroppy, well, I am. First, I was threatened. Now, someone has cut off my house from the human world and left my emotional support vampire on the human side. On the inside, it's just me and an emotionally compromised...
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If you're a woman, especially a woman of color, you know this already: You face unique challenges and obstacles as you work to scale the corporate ladder. From not seeing other faces in the room that look like you to dealing with the stereotypes and (often unconscious) biases in the workplace, you may know what to do to succeed, but not how to get it done in this environment. Show Your Worth shows you how.
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54) Between Homes
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G'day. I'm Pet. Not, not Pet-I am a pet.
Well, I was a pet: I used to belong to two fae and a stroppy vampire. Now I'm homeless. I mean, I was always technically homeless, but this time it's different.
I just got used to having some kind of family, and now we're back to everyone wanting to kill each other-and guess who the weak link is?
I'll give you a hint: it's not the vampire, and it's sure as heck not the fae.
55) Between Frames
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Two fae is company, but a company of fae is trouble.
Which is exactly what we've got. Trouble, I mean. Well, and fae. Lots of fae.
Something or someone is stalking and killing high-level fae around Hobart-tearing out hearts and leaving a trail of bloody bodies behind. Fae don't like it when they're the ones getting killed, so of course they came to hire my owners.
Owners, you ask?
Hi. I'm Pet. No, that's not my name. I am a pet.
My owners? They're...
56) Between Cases
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G'day. I'm still here. Still Pet.
Well, I'm only two thirds of a Pet these days, but you might as well call me Pet anyway. Everyone does: everyone but the vampire, that is.
Life is more unbalanced these days-cases are cutting closer to home than usual. I thought I was the only one, but there are others like me: kids whose parents were murdered just like mine. Stuff that never fit into place before is beginning fall into place.
And my psychos are...
57) Between Walls
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Don't get too close to humans.
That's rule number one. Well, it is if you're an emotionally constipated fae lord. As far as I'm concerned, the vampire could do a better job of keeping his distance, but he's never been that good at following the rules.
G'day. I'm Pet. Schrödinger's Pet, these days; depends who's asking.
I'm human, but when you hang around with enough Behindkind, it starts getting dangerous for the other humans around you. Humans...
58) Good Money
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A young African boy has been murdered in a back alley. Despite running low on empathy, social worker Stella Hardy heads into the night to comfort the grieving mother. But when she gets there, she makes a discovery that has the potential to uncover something terrible from her past. Enlisting the help of Senior Constable Phuong Nguyen, Stella's investigation draws her further and further into a dark world of drug dealers, sociopaths and killers.
59) Between Jobs
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When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect to see is a murdered guy hanging outside your window. Things like that tend to draw the attention of the local police, and when you're squatting in your parents' old house until you can afford to buy it, another thing you can't afford is the attention of the cops.
Oh yeah. Hi. My name is Pet.
It's not my real name, but it's the only one you're getting. Things like names are important these...
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A powerful climate crisis story about love and loss that offers a glimpse of a tangible future in which water is commodified and vulnerable to sabotage.
Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage.
As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the...