![]() While StoryBundle supports the charities MightyWriters and Trees for the Future, the strongest feature of the site is the DRM-free nature of the ebooks. This way you can rest assured in the knowledge that you already have the sequels to these wonderful titles without having to pay full price later.” If your purchase price beats $7, you get two bonus books. You decide how much of your purchase goes to the author and how much goes to help keep StoryBundle running. ![]() This week, GoodeReader reported on SnugNugget’s initiative to allow consumers set the prices they pay for bundles of ebooks, as well as determine how much of the bundle will go to the author or to a charity for now, funds from the sale of ebook bundles will go to Book Aid International.Īnother platform, StoryBundle, works on much the same concept of allowing readers to determine what is a fair price to compensate authors for their works, while still supporting causes with their purchasing dollars.Īccording to StoryBundle’s front page, the model is fairly straightforward: “You choose how much you want to pay for these five awesome indie books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But there wasn’t that much to appreciate. ![]() Going into reading this book (as a non-fan of fantasy), I at least hoped I would be able to appreciate it on an objective level. Follow me on Twitter My Tweets Tags 2 Stars 2.5 Stars 3 Stars 4 stars 5 Stars A Book About Writing Adaptation Advice Amazon Australian Author Australian Fiction Author Black Spot Blog Post Book Book Review Books Chapter One Character Characters Death Development Dialogue Diary Dictionary Editing Employment Enemies Closer English Family Fiction Genre Goodreads Growth History Ideas Inspiration Job Liberty's Secret LinkedIn Marketing Master's Non-Fiction Novel Plot Poems Poetry Poets Practise Project December Project January Project October Publishing Reading Romance Rules Sequel Short Story Sisters Song Lyrics Spelling Stereotypes Study Text Prize Tips Top Ten Trine University Word Count Work Writer Writers Writing Writing Journal Young Adult Archivesĭisclaimer #1: I don’t generally read or like fiction that classifies itself as fantasy.ĭisclaimer #2: I don’t care what genre of fiction a book is, there are still universals when it comes to good and bad writing, plot, characters and style. ![]() ![]() The Leviathan is an airship that is essentially a giant whale-creature that flies by burning hydrogen produced from a symbiotic relationship with bacteria in its guts. In the first book of the series, she meets Alek when she rescues him and his men and bring them aboard the Leviathan. Deryn Sharpe is a young English girl who has disguised herself as a boy in order to become an airshipman like her father. Alek is a Clanker but as the story progresses through the first and second books of the series, he becomes more at ease with the Darwinists, who are mostly British. ![]() In this world, allegiances are divided roughly into two groups: the Clankers (societies based on machines) and the Darwinists (societies based on genetically modified creatures). He and his most loyal men (among them a Count named Volger) successfully manage to elude them. After his father's assassination in the first book of this series (Leviathan) the Germans try to kill him in order to take full control of the countries under his rule. ![]() ![]() Alek is the legitimate heir of the Austro-hungarian throne and he is on the run from the Germans. This novel is an alternate historical sci-fi where main characters Alek and Deryn prevent a mad scientist from using his invention to kill innocent people, in a bid to end World War I. ![]() ![]() Still, the one thing she's absolutely sure of is that Dylan is no more eager than she is for True Confessions – yet. ![]() Lies may be profitable, but even Hope knows they're not a good basis for a relationship. The sexy sheriff of Gospel, Idaho, reminds Hope that reality does have some advantages, though Dylan Taber's heart-stopping physique and country-boy charm are practically too good to be true. Now reality is just a starting point for Hope, and she's eager for new places, new people, and new experiences that she can transform into the stuff of checkout counter fantasy. ![]() ![]() Rita Awards "Purrrfect!" – Elizabeth Lowell Ever wonder who writes those outrageous tabloid stories – the ones about Elvis touring the solar system with aliens and disappearing airplanes in the Bermuda Triangle? Meet Hope Spencer, a big-city reporter who got sick and tired of prying into real people's lives, and decided far-out fiction was a whole lot easier to handle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. ![]() Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. She’s trying to break out of prison-even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. ![]() Where You Can Buy It: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and anywhere else that sells booksĬinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. Genres: YA, Fairytale Rellings, Romance, Dystopian, Science Fiction ![]() ![]() Still, the movie shows that Christian kindness can make a difference in other people’s lives Content: From a Christian standpoint, however, the most disappointing thing is the Romantic notion that, somehow, human love can conquer what’s bad and “save” someone from immorality. While doing his penance, Landon finds himself drawn into Jamie’s moral universe.Īlthough there are some unresolved subplots, the production values in A WALK TO REMEMBER are high, and the actors all give very good performances, including the two leads, Shane West and pop star Mandy Moore. There, Landon meets Jamie, a nerdy pastor’s daughter with upstanding, uncompromising Christian morals. ![]() For disciplinary purposes, the principal assigns him to a theatre class and extra time at school on weekends as a tutor. Though Landon evades arrest by lying to the police about his involvement in the incident, the school principal finds empty beer bottles as evidence of Landon’s continued slide into debauchery. Landon Carter and his gang of fellow misfits open the story by hazing another high school student into their group, which results in physical harm to the boy. A WALK TO REMEMBER is a romantic teenage tearjerker based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the exhaustion that we feel at the end of a workday, it’s not uncommon for us to wonder what all this is really for. And constant repetition is enough to drive out any passion we once found in our work. We begin to feel more like machines than people. In the grind of the nine-to-five work cycle, where eat, sleep, work, repeat is the mantra of our lives, the repetitive quality of our actions makes itself known. The key message here is: The feeling that life is meaningless is a consequence of certain unavoidable experiences in life. There are two experiences, in particular, that are prone to challenge life’s sense of purposefulness: the repetitive nature of our days and an increasing consciousness of our impending death. And we feel that our actions have good reasons behind them.īut there comes a time in a person’s life when nagging doubts begin to nibble at this optimism. This is especially true when we’re young, and life seems full of hope and promise. ![]() And some may have never considered the question at all and would reply with an exasperated eye roll.Ĭamus argues that the most common reason people choose to go on living is a general sense that our activities in life are worth doing. Others might be driven by a curiosity about what life has in store for them. If you were to ask someone, “Why do you choose to stay alive?” you might get a host of different answers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The linen was fine and I had measured him exactly. He didn’t like to see me sewing when we were together-I should send the work out, he said-but he would change his mind when he put on the shirt. Sarah and Philo had gone to their attic, while I sat by the fire, in a good light, with my work. It was past nine o’clock now and he was still absent. Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, Birdcage Walk is an unsettling and brilliantly tense drama of public and private violence, resistance, and terror from one of our greatest storytellers. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants-his passion for Lizzie darkening until she finds herself dangerously alone. ![]() Tormented and striving, Diner believes that Lizzie’s independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the two-hundred-foot drop of the Gorge come under threat. But she has recently married John “Diner” Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. ![]() ![]() Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her reverence for the majesty of Nature-even its predatory creatures-will not be lost on young readers. ![]() "Paddy had lived and died in ways not of his choosing," Markham concludes, with unexpected compassion. What followed was my scream that was barely a whisper." During the few moments the lion actually traps her, Brown's golden spreads turn to cold shadows of purple and blue then, as help quickly arrives, the pictures turn sunny again. ![]() Even the lion made no sound as he came swiftly behind me. A sequence of seven suspenseful pages-one per second of elapsed time, seemingly-shows that Markham's father is right. ![]() She calls the lion "harmless" still she "remember not to run," walking slowly past the giant cat when she finds him in her path. He portrays the narrator with a long brown ponytail and gray trousers. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham - aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s. "A tame lion in an unnatural lion,'' Markham's father warns her, "and whatever is unnatural is untrustworthy." Brown's sepia-tinted watercolors impart information without drawing attention to themselves. WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. , the 1942 autobiography the aviator wrote about her youth in East Africa, the text relates the events of a visit she made with her father to the Elkington Farm, where Paddy, a hand-raised lion, freely roams the estate. ) brings to life a bold and enchanting girl, the young Beryl Markham. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rock has enough respect for her to leave her alone, even while he knows that he has become a bit obsessed with her. Rock thrills her, but no way would she throw all that she has built for a fling with the criminal client. She is in a good marriage, and is a good girl. Hope is forced to represent the outlaw biker, and is rattled by the immediate attraction she feels towards Rock. That ends when he meets a lawyer named Hope Kendall, who is innocent, sweet, and married. Rochlan “Rock” North (President of the Lost Kings MC) has been unsuccessful in finding a woman able to make him want to curb his wild ways. “Slow Burn” is the first novel in the “Lost Kings MC” series, which was released in the year 2014. She is first his lawyer, before becoming his girlfriend. The president of the club is Rochlan North, who is the star of four novels. The Lost Kings Motorcycle Club is the focus of the series, as well as the members and the romances they have. The series began publication in the year 2014, when “Slow Burn” was released. ![]() Author Autumn Jones Lake pens the “Lost Kings MC” series of romantic suspense novels. ![]() |