By: Monica Gupta,
on 6/30/2016
काला धन मामला , निर्धनता और मोदी जी के मन की बात मामला काला धन का हो या नकली धन का हो मोदी जी अपनी बात तो देश विदेश में या रेडियों पर अक्सर रखते हैं पर काला धन , नकली धन के चक्कर में निर्धन को न भूल जाना मोदी जी नकली वोट, […]
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By: Steve Novak,
on 6/30/2012
By: Julie,
on 6/21/2012
Cover Shot! is a regular feature here at the Café. I love discovering new covers, and when I find them, I like to share. More than anything else, I am consumed with the mystery that each new discovery represents. There is an allure to a beautiful cover. Will the story contained under the pages live up to promise of the gorgeous cover art?
Here’s another cover featuring a beautiful, frothy dress. This time, the money shot is from the back, instead of the front. Will this be the new trend?
| Lord Ian Blake failed to keep the oath he made to his childhood friend Eva that he would bring her husband Hamilton back from India. Though his heart longs for her forgiveness, he knows he doesn’t deserve it, as he is responsible for Hamilton’s death. And not only has Ian failed Eva, he has returned to England too late. Eva’s brother-in-law has locked her away in a madhouse. Nothing will stop Ian from saving the beautiful, independent girl he’s always loved and claiming her—at long last—as his wife. Lady Eva Carin doesn’t think she deserves to return to society, not after the death of both her husband and young son. When her childhood friend appears in the dismal asylum for women to save her, she cannot ignore the hope that sparks in her heart. Against all odds, fate has reunited her with the one man she has ever loved, but he turned his back on her once before. How will she be able to trust him again? |
By: Julie,
on 6/7/2012
Cover Shot! is a regular feature here at the Café. I love discovering new covers, and when I find them, I like to share. More than anything else, I am consumed with the mystery that each new discovery represents. There is an allure to a beautiful cover. Will the story contained under the pages live up to promise of the gorgeous cover art?
I haven’t started the Horngate Witches series by Diana Pharaoh Francis yet, but the premise looks very interesting. I love the cover for Book 4, Blood Winter, which will be in bookstores in December 2012. What do you think of this one?
Set in apocalyptic America and featuring a magically enslaved heroine who is “a riveting mixture of guts, compassion, and furious anger as she struggles with a world coming apart at the seams” (Romantic Times), the fourth in a dynamic dark urban fantasy series unlike anything you’ve ever read before.
Winter is coming to Montana and Shadowblade warrior Max is expecting trouble. People are hoarding everything. They are banding together, many flocking to the congregation of Sterling Savage, a fire-and-brimstone preacher. A charismatic cult leader who claims to be the Hand of God, he’s determined to create a human utopia and destroy all magic, starting with witches.
Unbeknownst to him, the “divine” voice he’s been hearing isn’t God but a demon that feeds on hate, death, and destruction. Savage is the perfect puppet for the demon’s ambitions. Max and her people at Horngate are all that stand in its way, and they are woefully unprepared.
Conducting terrible, bloody ceremonies to boost his own power and that of the demon riding him, Savage starts a war between his congregants and two other powerful gangs in the city, fighting for food, fuel, clothing and territory. When he manages to capture Max’s niece, brother, and several teenagers from Horngate, Max tries to free them but finds that Savage has twisted their minds. They worship him—even her brother, who is a witch and whom Savage intends to burn at the stake. Going undercover in the cult compound, Max swiftly realizes just how seductive Savage is. His charisma is reinforced with magic. His followers adore him and will do anything for him. Anything.
But courage, loyalty, and friendship are powerful forces—and Max doesn’t like to lose.
In stores December 2012
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By: Julie,
on 3/26/2012
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Title: A Brush of Darkness Author: Allison Pang Publisher: Pocket Star ISBN: 978-1439198322 Abby Sinclair #1 |
May Contain Spoilers
From Amazon:
| The man of her dreams might be the cause of her nightmares. Six months ago, Abby Sinclair was struggling to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Now, she has an enchanted iPod, a miniature unicorn living in her underwear drawer, and a magical marketplace to manage. But despite her growing knowledge of the OtherWorld, Abby isn’t at all prepared for Brystion, the dark, mysterious, and sexy-as- sin incubus searching for his sister, convinced Abby has the key to the succubus’s whereabouts. Abby has enough problems without having this seductive shape-shifter literally invade her dreams to get information. But when her Faery boss and some of her friends vanish, as well, Abby and Brystion must form an uneasy alliance. As she is sucked deeper and deeper into this perilous world of faeries, angels, and daemons, Abby realizes her life is in as much danger as her heart—and there’s no one she can trust to save her. |
Review:
When I read that protagonist Abby had a miniature unicorn that slept in her underwear drawer, I added A Brush of Darkness to my TBR. I mean, who doesn’t want a teeny tiny unicorn living in their apartment? Assuming it didn’t trot about, pooping all over the place. I was hoping that Phineas would be like Sparky from Laura Bickle’s Embers; a magical creature that both kept Abby out of danger, but also caused trouble for her at the same time. Phineas turned out to be a fun secondary character, who, despite his small size, manages to pack an incredible amount of attitude into his gleaming silvery hide.
I liked Abby, too, though I have serious concerns about her recklessness and lack of common sense. She has managed to get herself caught up in a very dangerous situation, one that could easily cost her her life. Not that she puts much value in that, though, as she is still reeling from the death of her mother, who died in the same gruesome car accident that robbed Abby of her dream of being a professional dancer. Now she works in a rickety bookstore that stinks like cat piss and cabbages (or maybe dirty feet), and she’s signed a Contract with Moira, one of the OtherFolk. Moira is not just any Fae, mind you, she’s the Protectorate, and she helps keep the peace between all of the different and dangerous OtherFolk. When she goes missing, it starts to look like Abby has something to do with her disappearance, and that does not bode well for a mortal woman who is suffering from PTSD.
Sexy incubus Brystion shatters whatever small amount of peace Abby has managed to find for herself. Barging into the bookstore, he’s hoping that Moira can help him find his missing sister. When Abby accidently links herself to him, her life will never be the same. OtherFolk want her dead, she’s under suspicion because Moira is missing, and the incubus causes her heart to race every time she thinks about him. And she’s having some of the most satisfying sexual dreams of her life. That is, when she’s not having nightmares about being torn apart by sharks. Talk about disturbing.
For the most part, A Brush of Darkness kept me engaged in the story, right up until near the end, which I found a bit slow and very abrupt. I loved the mystery, though, and the run up to
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What was the last treasure you found in a coat pocket?
By: April Henry,
on 6/25/2007
LA Times reports that agent Sandy Dijkstra, who lives in San Diego, is calling on the area's readers, writers, booksellers and publishers to protest planned changes to the Union-Tribune's coverage of books, which she said includes a shuttering of its Sunday book review section after the June 24 issue.
She said that book reviews would be folded into two pages within the Sunday entertainment section, and the number of reviews would be cut in half.
The paper's senior editor for special sections said that the paper does "have plans to adjust the way we're presenting book coverage," but said that Dijkstra's information "is not complete or accurate" "Any changes, he said, "will both improve and broaden our coverage of books." However, he declined to discuss specifics.
Many newspapers are cutting back, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News and the Los Angeles Times. The book pages in my own paper, The Oregonian, seem notably slimmer. Many newspapers have moved to Web-based review columns and books coverage, but in my opinion, at least, that doesn't meet the needs of the people who pay to subscribe to the paper and never see the Web content.
Want to know one weird reason that Sunday papers are struggling? It's also related to the Web. People who wanted a head start on the want ads for houses, cars, and jobs would buy the paper on Saturday to get a head start. Now single copy sales are down substantially as people turn to the Web. [Full disclosure: I also think it leads papers to try to find something really grabbing - and often scandalous - for that front page, above-the-fold real estate. Anything to catch those impulse buyers.]
Dijkstra urged the "reading community" in San Diego to "deluge" the Union-Tribune with letters demanding the book section's restoration, as well as to descend on the newspaper's offices "bearing a coffin filled with the books of the many authors whose works would no longer be reviewed" and "stage a read-in."
Do you think this will work? All I know is I don't think I'd want my book in the coffin.
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By: Jago,
on 6/8/2007
This is a repost of an earlier one that Blogger somehow screwed up....
Pocket sketchbook
Here's some more sketches from my pocket sized skecthbook. I have a part-time job in our local shop (for local people), and I've started drawing in this during quiet times....
By: Jago,
on 6/8/2007
