![]() ![]() They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER!īut what if Hiccup's dragon resembles an ickle brown bunny with wings? And has NO TEETH? The Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus is stirring and wants to devour every Viking on the Isle of Berk. The protagonist is also given author credit (as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III), with Cowell billed as translator from the Old. In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. ![]() With exclusive content, including Viking facts and a sneak peek of The Wizards of Once! How To Train Your Dragon Book 1 Cressida Cowell Published by Hachette Childrens Books (2010) ISBN 10: 0340999071 ISBN 13: 9780340999073 New PAP Quantity: 15 Seller: PBShop.store UK (Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description PAP. Read the book that inspired the hit DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon: THE HIDDEN WORLD. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Patrick is a flawed character with an ugly past. Patrick might be one of my favorite male leads that Jody has ever written, joining the ranks of Karl from A Noble Groom and Benjamin from Rebellious Heart. And speaking of Josiah – he was adorable! I love that Jody wrote a child into the story and that he was realistic and believable. When she meets Patrick and his young son Josiah, her desire for a family looks to be fulfilled and watching them grow into their roles was one of my favorite parts of the story. Her hopes for her life and her fears made her real to me, and the way her past colored her present felt genuine. ![]() Emma possesses a genuine sweetness that falls completely within her nature. I think one reason that I felt so connected to this story were the characters. The plot is simple, yet flows so easily to what I thought was a lovely conclusion. The historical details about the isolated life of a light housekeeper were descriptive without being overdone. As I got further into the story, I found all of the elements that I love about Jody Hedlund’s stories. That was definitely not the case with Love Unexpected. ![]() I liked it a lot, but I didn’t fall in love. However, it didn’t top my favorite Hedlund novel, and it lacked a certain something that kept it from being a 5-star read. ![]() Hedlund’s previous release, Captured by Love, was a great read. I read it every spare moment that I could and enjoyed every page. Love Unexpected is a wonderful start to the Beacons of Hope series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During the course of the night, LaVerne convinces Randy that they should sit together and keep each other warm. Now unwilling to risk swimming for shore, Randy and LaVerne take turns watching the creature, which changes positions every now and then - it is either under the raft, or out of it. Unable to free his friend, Randy watches as Deke is slowly consumed by the creature. After the initial panic, Deke decides he could make the bitch swim to the shore, but as he prepares to jump into the lake he steps on a crack on the raft and the creature grabs him by his foot. The creature instantly wraps around her arm, pulling her into itself and gradually dissolving her. Deke ridicules Randy's suspicions that the "oil slick" was chasing the girls, refusing to take the situation seriously until Rachel touches it. After they swim out to the raft in the middle of the lake, a mysterious oil slick-like creature appears in the water beneath them. ![]() It was originally published in the November 1982 issue of Gallery, and later included in King's own 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.įour college students – two young men (Randy and Deke) and two young women (Rachel and LaVerne) – go out to swim on a remote Pennsylvania lake during the autumn, when nobody is around. " The Raft" is a short story written by Stephen King. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sir Terry was a satirist, and many of the Discworld novels have plots, characters, and events that satirise specific social and political topics. Pratchett used the Discworld as a way to philosophically explore real-world social and political issues, reframing them in a comedic fantasy setting. The vastness of the Discworld and its eccentric cast of characters offer a source of solace and comfort to fans who love to live within this wonderful world.īeyond how imaginative and welcoming the Discworld is, it’s also a place of humour, clever political wit, and real-world social allegories. Places and people become familiar, and the Discworld starts to feel like a second home. This means that, the more Discworld novels you read, the more you explore that world. Pratchett wrote forty-one Discworld fantasy novels before his death, and each is set on the flat world supported by A’Tuin. He is orbited by a small sun and moon the disc has an edge, over which people might tumble into the abyss and his shell is pockmarked with asteroid craters. ![]() Put simple, the Discworld is a fantasy universe created by one man: Terry Pratchett.īased on real-world mythology, it’s a disc-shaped world hurtling through space on the back of a giant turtle, supported by four elephants which stand balanced on its shell. ![]() ![]() We had already jumped on the Domestic Partnership bandwagon, and then on the Civil Union bandwagon. ![]() The real point is that my husband and I married in 2013, when it became legal in New Jersey, USA. I mean, our kids are surely imperfect because of us, but not THAT bad. First, I have to make it clear that if Luc and/or Oliver had been raised by me and my husband (47 years now, since university), they would not be as messed up as they are, because gay couples have learned to be parents in different, new ways. It’s also about a spectacularly failed marriage (Luc’s parents), and a successful but toxic marriage (Oliver’s parents). In fact, there’s a consciously “Four Weddings and a Funeral” format here that I appreciated. This book is all about marriage, and more specifically about weddings. ![]() I liked it even more than I liked “Boyfriend Material.” In order to fully explain why I liked it, and being an entitled old white cis gay man who could be Luc O’Donnell’s and/or Oliver Blackwood’s father, I feel forced to interject my distinctly American and elder-gay perspective. ![]() ![]() Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2022 Husband Material (sequel to Boyfriend Material) ![]() ![]() Yet if Lovecraft is an icon he is an increasingly problematic one. “Lovecraftian” is a widely deployed synonym for unfathomable terror the author’s signature creation of Cthulhu has come into his kingdom as geekdom’s very own Mickey Mouse – an octopoid mascot familiar the world over. His vision of a vast uncaring universe, brimming with madness, chaos and cruelty (and tentacles) has influenced everyone from Stephen King to John Carpenter, to say nothing of HR Giger’s Alien and generations of video and tabletop games. ![]() ![]() “I was with him the last night he lived among men, and heard his screams when the thing came to him but all the peasants and police in County Meath could never find him, or the others.”Īt the time of the recital, Lovecraft was utterly obscure. “Somewhere, to what remote and fearsome region I know not, Denys Barry has gone,” begins Lovecraft in his familiar anachronistic style. Taking their seats, the gentleman of the club listened, rapt, to the very first reading of HP Lovecraft’s The Moon-Bog. ![]() ![]() St Patrick’s Day was approaching and to honour the occasion a local horror writer had been commissioned to pen a creepy story with an Irish setting. On the evening of March 10th, 1921, the esteemed members of the Boston Hub Club literary and journalistic society gathered around a fireside for a tale of mystery and imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Devil of Downtown: Uptown Girls (Paperback) ![]() but is he too late to win her heart Read more ISBN When the Society gentlemen start to take notice, Kit has to try to win Alice in other ways. Their bedroom instruction grows passionate, and Alice is a much better pupil than Kit had ever anticipated. Even if it requires giving carnal lessons to a serious-minded spinster who has an in with the chef. ![]() Christopher "Kit" Ward plans to open a not-so-reputable supper club in New York City, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to hire the best chef in the city to guarantee its success. and she's just met the perfect rogue to help teach her. She needs to become a siren, a woman who causes a man's blood to run hot. Something has to change, else she'll be forced to marry a man whose only desire is her fortune. Shy heiress Alice Lusk is tired of being overlooked by every bachelor. USA Today Bestselling AuthorFollowing the book called "an alluring blend of love and playfulness" (PW) The Heiress Hunt, beloved author Joanna Shupe continues her new Fifth Avenue Rebels series with a scandalous romance about a good girl desperate to rebel and the rebel desperate. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.” But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness” and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served.įrom this, it sounds like a dying-person-thinks-about-dying book even though Stevens is relatively young. The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England. If you need literary reasons to pick it up instead: The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Man Booker Prize and Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Then I saw a snippet from the movie in an episode of The Sopranos and needed to know why Anthony Hopkins was hiding a book from Emma Thompson. ![]() ![]() I’d heard good things about Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, but thought it was a dying-person-thinks-about-dying book so I didn’t read it. ![]() ![]() Usually, the creation of the State of Israel is cast as a story that begins with Herzl and is brought to fulfillment by the Holocaust. To reframe this trajectory, Cramsey draws on a vast array of historical sources to examine what she calls a "transnational conversation" carried out by a small but influential coterie of Allied statesmen, diplomats in international organizations, and Jewish leaders who decided that the overall disentangling of populations in postwar east central Europe demanded the simultaneous intellectual and logistical embrace of a Jewish homeland in Palestine as a territorial nationalist project. ![]() In Uprooting the Diaspora, Sarah Cramsey explores how the Jewish citizens rooted in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia became the ideal citizenry for a post–World War II Jewish state in the Middle East. She asks, how did new interpretations of Jewish belonging emerge and gain support amongst Jewish and non-Jewish decision makers exiled from wartime east central Europe and the powerbrokers surrounding them? ![]() ![]() But it had its many admirers, including the French novelist Gustave Flaubert, who gushed in a letter to Turgenev, "What an exciting girl that Zinochka is!" The Countess Lambert, a close acquaintance of Turgenev, told the author that the Russian emperor himself had read the novella to the empress and been delighted by it. Others condemned the impropriety of that subject matter, namely a father and son in love with the same woman and a young woman who was the mistress of a married man. Some criticized its light subject matter that did not touch upon any of the pressing social and political issues of the day. ![]() ![]() Here Turgenev is retelling an incident from his own life, his infatuation with a young neighbor in the country, Princess Catherine Shakhovskoy (the Zinaida of the novella), an infatuation that lasted until his discovery that Catherine was in fact his own father's mistress.Ĭritics were divided. The author claimed it was the most autobiographical of all his works. It tells the love story between a 21-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy.įirst Love was published in March 1860 in the Reader's Library. It is one of his most popular pieces of short fiction. ![]() ![]() First Love ( Russian: Первая любовь, Pervaya lyubov) is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, first published in 1860. ![]() |