![]() Some stories are dystopian.Some are dreamlike.All are undeniably Oz. In Tad Williams's futuristic "The Boy Detective of Oz," Orlando investigates the corrupt Oz simulation of the Otherland network. Her only chance to change that rests with the Silver Slippers. ![]() ![]() In "Blown Away," Jane Yolen asks: What if Toto was dead and stuffed, Ozma was a circus freak, and everything you thought you knew as Oz was really right here in Kansas?īy Jonathan Maberry explores a Winged Monkey with wings too small to let her fly. ![]() And she has a murder to solve - assuming Ozma will stop interfering with her life long enough to let her do her job. Seanan McGuire's "Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust" finds Dorothy grown up, bitter, and still living in Oz. Stories include:įrank Baum's son has the real experiences that his father later fictionalized in Orson Scott Card's "Off to See the Emperor." Now, editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen have brought together leading fantasy writers such as Orson Scott Card and Seanan McGuire to create the ultimate anthology for Oz fans - and, really, any reader with an appetite for richly imagined worlds. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" became an instant, bestselling hit. ![]()
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![]() Ironically, the teacher turns out to be the one person the children can trust during their most serious crisis. Tension escalates when a teacher sniffs out a bit of the children's predicament and threatens to intervene. New problems (broken plumbing, dwindling food supplies, forced absences from school) crop up as quickly as old ones are solved, and, to complicate matters even more, Alisa seems to be drifting away from reality as she endlessly searches for the door that will lead her into the enchanted world of Narnia. They have good reason to conceal their troubles-while the three oldest children might be sent to their father in another state, the youngest, eight-year-old Alisa (whose father is unknown), would almost certainly be placed in foster care. At 15, Katherine is in charge of the house and her three younger siblings-the children's alcoholic, divorced mother has been in bed for weeks and weeks, and there is no outside adult to whom they can turn for help. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's also possible that prospective buyers didn't meet Moreno's asking price, though the source disputed that notion. ![]() ![]() Golden State Warriors majority owner Joe Lacob and Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong had been rumored to be among those interested, with a sale expected in the coming months.īut a source familiar with Moreno's thinking said that as the process continued to play out and a potential sale moved into the late stages, Moreno found it increasingly difficult to part with a franchise he has presided over for two decades. A potential sale was widely predicted to net somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.5 billion. Forbes valued the Angels at $2.2 billion in March of 2022. Moreno, 76, purchased the Angels from The Walt Disney Company for $183.5 million in 2003, the year after the first and only championship in franchise history, and watched the team skyrocket in value over the ensuing years. On Monday afternoon, five months after essentially announcing plans to move on, Moreno released a 132-word statement that read, in part: "s discussions advanced and began to crystallize, we realized our hearts remain with the Angels, and we are not ready to part ways with the fans, players, and our employees." ![]() Citing "unfinished business," Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno has decided that his team is no longer for sale, a change of heart that shocked the industry and surprised many throughout the organization. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Humans are compatible with the Naga and won’t die like the Naga females. Since the Naga females left years ago when they started dying in childbirth. He is the one that bartered with the humans that landed on Earth to exchange Lurker tech for two of the human females. The Hero: Zaku - He is King Cobra, part human, part cobra, he is the King and largest of the Naga species. Lurkers are now gone and the radiation isn’t a problem anymore, so those that came with Daisy on the ship are searching for technology. The humans that didn’t escape in spaceships ended up dying in the devastation that followed and Earth was covered in radiation following the war with the Lurkers. Lurkers were a reptilian species that were on Earth hundreds of years ago until they revolted and started killing humans. The heroine: Daisy - she came to Earth to find lurker technology because it is the only thing that may help humans defeat the alien threat against them in space. ![]() ![]() ![]() This dramatic sea disaster has always fascinated people, with both poor immigrants and the rich-and-famous sailing on a ship some had dubbed “unsinkable.” Since the James Cameron movie “Titanic” came out in 1997 and won the Best Picture Oscar in 1998, history buffs have flocked to traveling exhibits of Titanic artifacts, and even whole museums devoted to the ship (in Southampton, England Belfast, Northern Ireland Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Buena Park, California Indian Orchard, Massachusetts Orlando, Florida Branson, Missouri and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.) ![]() This 1912 period photo of flight pioneer Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) at the age of 10, with his dog, inspired the image of Sam, White Star’s human protagonist. The dog got off before the Titanic sailed. ![]() ![]() Medical and mental health care providers, educators, business leaders, and advocates seeking information about transgender concerns can all gain from Greens integrative approach to the topic. With profoundly personal and eminently practical threads, Green clarifies transgender experience for transgender people and their families, friends, and coworkers. ![]() This new edition captures the changes of the last two decades, while also imparting a message of self-acceptance and health. Since the first editions publication, author Jamison Greens writings and advocacy among business and governmental organizations around the world have led to major changes in the fields of law, medicine, and social policy, and his (mostly invisible) work has had significant effects on trans people globally. ![]() At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the time jump, we start to see how much the characters have matured and changed from their younger selves. The only redeeming part of these characters was that we got to see how much they grew. As their 20-year-old selves, I didn’t think they would work together. One moment he could be an absolute cutie pie, making me fall for him the next moment, he would do a complete 180 and be a totally different person. He was charming to a fault yet still showed problematic characteristics. Pilot also didn’t rub me the right way either. Shane is goofy and naïve when we first meet her, but the obsession with a boy she met like 5 seconds ago wasn’t believable for a 20-year-old. I get crushes and understand that you can do crazy things when around them, but I questioned a lot of her actions. The only issue that I had with them, in the beginning, was the obsessive level that Shane was taking her crush on Pilot to. The connection between the two of them is prevalent right from the beginning. I went back and forth with how I felt about the main characters, Shane and Pilot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bookseller's ticket of Henry Sotheran on front pastedown of For Your Eyes Only neat ink ownership inscription of "Peris Sinnett Jones April 1963" on pastedowns of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. ![]() Casino Royale housed in a custom morocco-backed black solander box. Original boards, lettering and devices on some boards in gilt or colour, spines lettered in gilt, The Man with the Golden Gun in bronze. Dr No is in the second state binding with the Honeychile silhouette on the front cover The Man with the Golden Gun is in the second state as usual, without the gilt gun design on the front board, which proved too expensive and was dropped after the first 940 copies had been sent abroad, here in binding B with the spine bronze-lettered Diamonds are Forever in binding B (no priority). Moonraker is signed on the front free endpaper by Roger Moore For Your Eyes Only is from the library of Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. All except Dr No and The Man with the Golden Gun are in the first states, and all are in the first state jackets. The complete set of the original sequence of James Bond novels and stories, all first editions, first impressions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Con reluctantly agrees… and soon Nora's brilliant, headstrong ways are throwing his carefully controlled life into chaos. Determined to prove her skills, Nora promises to save the duchess in exchange for Con keeping her secret. Furious at the deception, he vows to reveal her secrets. But when the man shows up on her doorstep, he is nothing like she expected-he is a young, handsome heir to a dukedom who suddenly threatens everything she holds dear.Ĭonstantine Sinclair arrives on the Langley doorstep in a desperate bid to save the woman who raised him, the Duchess of Birchwood … only to discover that the venerable doctor he expected is a bold and lovely charlatan. The Duke Effect Sophie Jordan 4.0 277 Ratings 7.99 7.99 Publisher Description New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sophie Jordan continues her bestselling Rogue Files series with this captivating romance that will thrill her many fans. She corresponds with people all over the world, including an old army colonel. An expert herbalist, Nora has been masquerading as her late physician father for years, dispensing invaluable medical advice. ![]() ![]() New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sophie Jordan continues her bestselling Rogue Files series with this captivating romance that will thrill her many fans.ĭespite being surrounded by her happily wed sisters, Nora Langley prefers botany to ballrooms and would rather spend a lifetime in her laboratory than consider affairs of the heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s a little out of shape and has no interest in fancy technology-he’s only just been persuaded to get a cell phone and has no patience for computer nonsense-but none of this stops him from solving case after case. Who is the Peter Diamond series about?Ĭoming from Peter Lovesey, a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels, The Peter Diamond Mysteries is about a modern-day police detective in Bath, Somerset.Īs described on the Peguin Random House page, Peter Diamond series is a golden age-style detective, a devotee of old-fashioned gumshoeing. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.īath Murder Mysteries. ![]() |