Trawling the city's underbelly for clues, Fatma will have to fight off rampaging Ghuls, tangle with a saucy assassin, and contend with a passel of inscrutable clockwork creatures that may or may not be Angels. When she sets out to investigate the apparent suicide of a powerful Djinn, she's swept up in a whirlwind of a case that will test every ounce of her considerable cunning. Fatma el-Sha'arawi is a Special Investigator for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities - a taskforce that handles crime and law enforcement as it pertains to Egypt's otherworldly citizens. Nowadays, those beings live openly alongside the mortal denizens of the modern metropolis of Cairo. And then the wandering mystic al-Jahiz bore a hole through reality to the other-realm of Djinn and those apocryphal creatures poured into the world of mankind, irrevocably changing the tide of destiny as they involved themselves and their magics in politics, warfare, and civil society.Īll that was decades ago. There was once a time that mythical creatures were just that- mythical. Djèlí Clark in 2016, A Dead Djinn in Cairo takes place in an Alternate History Myth Punk version of 1912 Egypt where supernatural beings walk the streets and a sinister plot is afoot. Agent Fatma el-Sh'arawi, hot on the caseĪ short story written by P.
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By supporting new schools, law courts, and railroads, along with scientific and artistic advances, the Habsburg monarchs sought to anchor their authority in the cultures and economies of Central Europe. Rejecting fragmented histories of nations in the making, this bold revision surveys the shared institutions that bridged difference and distance to bring stability and meaning to the far-flung empire. Judson examines their motives and explains just how wrong these rearguard critics were. In the decades before and after its dissolution, some observers belittled the Habsburg Empire as a dysfunctional patchwork of hostile ethnic groups and an anachronistic imperial relic. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attachment to their empire, while bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, and academics devised inventive solutions to the challenges of governing Europe s second largest state. In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Judson € 39.99 This item is currently not in stock at our suppliers. The Habsburg Empire: A New History Pieter M. Harper handles these relationships with delicacy, gently spooling out Nathan's own back story, his unfortunate marriage and messy divorce that have marooned him on his own 3500 acres of poor pasture. Not forgetting their grieving mother, Liz, who greets Nathan with a hug that "had the rusty edge of underuse", and is inconsolable following Cam's death. And then there's Cam's widow, Ilse, with whom Nathan had a liaison before she met Cam. There is also "Uncle" Harry, the family retainer who has been on the property since Nathan's late father, Carl, first took it on. There's the two inept "pommy backpackers" hired by Cam to teach his daughters and help with the fences. There's the younger brother Lee, nicknamed Bub, who, fed up with being constantly demeaned by Cam, might well have hankered to take his place in the top job. Nathan, the oldest of the Bright brothers, is the focus of the story as he tries to figure out how and why Cam died. Unless, as the local policeman whose beat is as large as the state of Victoria suggests, this is a bizarre suicide. His four-wheel-drive, packed with water, fuel, food and everything necessary to survive in this hostile country, is eight kilometres away and no one can understand how or why he would abandon it. But this is a story about a family, the Brights, and three brothers, one of whom, Cam, is found dead at the local landmark known as the stockman's grave. Though not as well-known as some other investment options, ETFs are wonderful tools for filling in the gaps in your investment portfolio. 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The horror of that possibility staggered him. If the Magi takes hold of Dela, he will just not kill her. Inside of slowly building up a scene, she prefers to spell out everything the characters are feeling without subtlety and – ironically, considering how Ms Liu loves her similes – grace. The first half of the book is really tough for me because Ms Liu seems to operate under the principle that there is no flowery phrase that she doesn’t like and doesn’t use. Just like how I often find Christine Feehan’s prose clumsy and laborious and her attempts at humor artificial, I find Marjorie M Liu’s reliance on short, incomplete sentences and telling as opposed to showing just as hard to get into. Marjorie M Liu’s debut Tiger Eye is compared to Christine Feehan‘s books and aside from the sequel-itis that inflict both authors when it comes to their books, I can see why the comparison crops up. Here, Carson fully channels one of the most iconic yet least transparent Greek poets, whose work comes to us mostly in fragments. Her prose Eros the Bittersweet (1986) discussed Sappho's term "glukupikron" ("sweetbitter") among other Greek concepts, while the poems of Autobiography of Red (1998) reinvented surviving fragments of the Greek poet Stesichoros, to take just two examples. A classicist at McGill University, Carson has mined Greek literature, and Sappho in particular, to tremendous effect and acclaim in her poetry and essays. Kelsea will need them all to survive a cabal of enemies who will use every weapon-from crimson-caped assassins to the darkest blood magic-to prevent her from wearing the crown.ĭespite her royal blood, Kelsea feels like nothing so much as an insecure girl, a child called upon to lead a people and a kingdom about which she knows almost nothing. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her neck hangs the Tearling sapphire, a jewel of immense magical power and accompanying her is the Queen’s Guard, a cadre of brave knights led by the enigmatic and dedicated Lazarus. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother’s throne, learn to be a ruler-and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her. A #1 Indie Next Pick and LibraryReads Selection The arts are a form of magic that come from the deities: Lord sun or Mistress moon that serve different purposes. It follows Annette and Emilie as they trade lives with, one training in the moonlight arts and the other in the noonday. So when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts.Įmilie and Annette swap lives - Annette attends finishing school as a noble lady to be trained in the ways of divination, while Emilie enrolls to be a physician's assistant, using her natural magical talent to save lives.īut when their nation instigates a terrible war, Emilie and Annette come together to help the rebellion unearth the truth before it's too late. Belle Revolte is the prince and the pauper meets the French Revolution. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work.Īnnette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. From the author of the Mask of Shadows duology comes a stand-alone fantasy where two young women must trade lives, work together to stay alive, and end a war caused by magic and greed before it kills thousands.Įmilie de Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. For those unaware, the Swamp Thing is a hulking humanoid plant-man covered in vines, leaves, and a plethora of other plant life, the Swamp Thing’s power include super strength, regeneration, and the ability to speak to and control plant life. The Swamp Thing made its debut back in 1971 in House of Secrets #92 as a stand alone story soon after, the character became so popular that he was given his own solo run. My passion for monsters and comic books came together in the form of one particular character who intrigued me on the spot: the Swamp Thing. At the age I was discovering comics, I was also discovering the joys of horror movies I found my love for the genre in the form of the Universal monster flicks. I have always been drawn to darker characters as a kid, I wanted to read all the Batman and Spawn comics available. Comic books were among one of the first joys I experienced early in life. But the enemy she’s facing is unlike anything she’s ever encountered before. Before long, she has to juggle dealing with the annoyingly attractive, ex-military, new neighbor, Sean Evans - an alpha-strain werewolf - and the equally arresting cosmic vampire soldier, Arland, while trying to keep her inn and its guests safe. Under the circumstances, "normal" is a bit of a stretch for Dina.Īnd now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night.Feeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because she’s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight. But Dina is.different: Her broom is a deadly weapon her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. |