![]() Armed with only his wits, an ancient sword and a magic key, he must overcome grave peril at every turn before he can even attempt the feat. There's just one tiny problem, he's never battled dragons, except in his Dragon Slayer video game. Swept away to the land of Oomaldee of medieval times, he discovers he must collect several ingredients for a magic potion to defeat the oppressive curse that plagues the land, the first of which is the scale of a red dragon, the fiercest of all dragon species. Ten-year-old Andy Smithson believes he is merely a kid too often in trouble with his overambitious parents-until his destiny as the Chosen One to break a 500-year-old curse is revealed. "I LOVED it! Totally hooked and want to hear more, especially about the dragons, epic fantasy & magic!" - M. Summary: Do you love dragons? Fire breathing dragons? Dragons bent on conquest? Shapeshifting seven-headed dragons? Then buckle up because this book has all manner of them! And be sure to enter to win all 5 ebooks in the series!! Lee at her finest! Then see if she stumps you with a trivia question. ![]() ![]() Hear her read from this improved, revised, upgraded, re-engineered book that is L. Lee is releasing her newly rewritten book one in the Andy Smithson series, Blast of the Dragon's Fury. ![]()
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Fascinated by the magic of the camera, George quickly mastered how to load film, click the camera shutter, develop the film in their home, and printing of the films negatives into the magical photos he took. 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The clutter clinic by Romaine Lowery, 2008, Weidenfeld & Nicolson edition, in English The clutter clinic (2008 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nancy Kimball submitted Chasing the Lion designed by Alexandre Rito. e-Book Cover Design Award Winner for April 2014 in Fiction Now, without any further ado, here are the winners of this month’s e-Book Cover Design Awards. Please leave a comment to let me know which are your favorites or, if you disagree, let me know why.Īlthough there is only winner in each category, other covers that were considered for the award or which stood out in some exemplary way, are indicated with a gold star: ★Īward winners and Gold-Starred covers also win the right to display our badges on their websites, so don’t forget to get your badge to get a little more attention for the work you’ve put into your book.Īlso please note that we are now linking winning covers to their sales page on Amazon or Smashwords. Remember that the aim of these posts is educational, and by submitting you are inviting comments, commendations, and constructive criticism. I’ve added comments ( JF: ) to many of the entries, but not all. This edition is for submissions during April, 2014.ġ7 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments, Award Winners, and Gold Stars ![]() Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The very best of his more than sixty published short stories are gathered in Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, a sweeping 250,000 word career retrospective which features the very best stories from the ‘Revelation Space’ universe like “Galactic North”, “Great Wall of Mars”, “Weather”, “Diamond Dogs”, and “The Last Log of the Lachrymosa” alongside thrilling hard science fiction stories like Hugo Award nominee “Troika”, “Thousandth Night”, and “The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice”. His short stories have been nominated for the Hugo, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Locus, Italia, Seiun, and Sidewise Awards, and have won the Seiun and Sidewise Awards. ![]() With a career stretching back more than 25 years and across fourteen novels, including the classic ‘Revelation Space’ series, the bestselling ‘Poseidon’s Children’ series, Century Rain, Pushing Ice, and most recently The Medusa Chronicles (with Stephen Baxter), Reynolds has established himself as one of the best and most beloved writers of hard science fiction and space opera working today.Ī brilliant novelist, he has also been recognized as one of our best writers of short fiction. The Guardian called Alastair Reynolds’ work “a turbulent, wildly entertaining ride” and The Times acclaimed him as “the mastersinger of space opera”. 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But, I simply couldn’t NOT review this book in case someone who hasn’t found Lisa Kleypas yet happens to come across my humble website or review. I assume that most of my friends and the casual romance reader are like I was, so if you are a romance fan who follows every new release and knows all the names in the biz, I apologize if this review is rehashing what you already know. Other than that, I skipped around between a wide variety of books whose covers and descriptions appealed to me. ![]() I followed recommendations of friends and always bought the newest Nora Roberts. While I have been a romance fan for about 25 years, until recently I hadn’t actively sought out new authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The scene is observed passively by a few young teenagers gathered inside a house across the street. The book opens with the scene of an ambulance coming in to pick up the body of Mary, the last of the five Lisbon sisters to take her own life. ![]() The story unfolds at a lingering pace as it catalogs the slow decay of a community who gave up its power in exchange for a passive, manufactured brand of happiness. The novel is narrated approximately 20 years after the events by a group of middle-aged men who were then teenagers living in the same neighborhood and obsessed by the five ill-fated heroines of the book. The story takes place in the early 1970s, somewhere in the heart of America. From the onset of the novel, the reader is made aware of the outcome. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides reads like a postmortem investigation into the lives and deaths of five young American girls growing up in a suburb. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the front, Emilia hears Antonio, a member of the brotherhood and her childhood crush, asking about her. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems…Įmilia helps her grandmother, Nonna Maria, and mother, Nicoletta, in the kitchen at their family restaurant, Sea & Vine. Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women’s murders on the island. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked - princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost - even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin… desecrated beyond belief. 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