![]() ![]() ![]() Memory makes reality. That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome-a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. a fantastic read.”-Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian “An action-packed, brilliantly unique ride that had me up late and shirking responsibilities until I had devoured the last page. Genre: Technothriller, Science Fiction, Suspense Thriller, Love Storyįrom the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines trilogy comes a relentless thriller about time, identity, and memory-his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date. My Like Level: Just under 4 stars, well OK 4 stars. My Copy Came From: NetGalley and the Publisher ![]()
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![]() ![]() Believing Pharaoh to be a god, Khai is stunned to learn that the supposedly great and wise leader is a shriveled, ancient fossil of a man whose chief desires are to deflower young virgins and achieve eternal life through the powers of his black magicians. Khai begins life in ancient Egypt as the son of Pharaoh Khasathut's chief architect. ![]() Like the Necroscope novels, Khai of Khem is packed with fast-paced action, hair's-breadth escapes, all-consuming love, endless horror, and, in the person of Khai himself, quick wits and bravery in the teeth of danger. This time-traveling adventure story spans centuries and cultures in Lumley's trademark mix of horror and science fiction, much like his internationally-bestselling Necroscope series. ![]() Considered by many to be among Brian Lumley's greatest works, the exciting Khai of Khem is little-known in the US. ![]() ![]() ![]() The following authors have contributed to this anthology:Ī.L. The only thing these stories have in common is their starting point.Īll of the authors showcased in this anthology were featured in The Bookworm Box charity during 2019.Įach author has graciously donated their story so that 100% of profits from this anthology will be going to the various charities The Bookworm Box is able to support because of you, the readers. Where they took that first sentence was completely up to them. ![]() The Bookworm Box is proud to present ONE MORE STEP, an exciting and unique reading experience.Įach of the twenty-six authors featured in this anthology were given the same first sentence. Have you ever been curious how a writer's mind works?
![]() Young Andy Sachs gets a job as the assistant to Miranda's assistant. The unpublished manuscript of the next book. She throws things (her coat, her purse) at her assistants, rattles off tasks to be done immediately, and demands "the new Harry Potter" in "three hours." No, not the new book in the stores. ![]() Miranda, who is a cross between Anna Wintour, Graydon Carter and a dominatrix, stands astride the world of fashion in very expensive boots. "I was editor of the Daily Northwestern!" Yes! It had been a thrill to edit the student newspaper, but now, as I walked down Madison Avenue, I realized I was headed for the big time!Īndy stills dresses like an undergraduate, which offends Miranda Priestly ( Meryl Streep), the powerful editor of Runway, the famous fashion magazine. "I just graduated from Northwestern," she explains. Anne Hathaway stars, as a fresh-faced Midwesterner who comes to New York seeking her first job. 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Within its ten engaging chapters, Berlinski shines a revealing light on the dogmatic stance of many of today’s popular “new atheists.” The new atheism, the author would contend, postures itself as the sole holder of truth via science, “And like any militant church, this one places a familiar demand before all others: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” 1 Berlinski, a secular Jew who is an avid writer on science and mathematics, approaches his task with his own mixture of dry wit and thoughtful logic, which makes the reading of The Devil’s Delusion an entertaining experience.Īfter opening the book with an introduction to the scientism of the new atheists, Berlinski presents his own critique to one of the new atheism’s common party slogans: religion as a primary cause of evil in the world. The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski is a unique, witty, and clever critique of militant atheism and its devotion to scientism. Book Review: The Devil’s Delusion by David Berlinski ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Also a Poet " Also a Poet covers turf that is delicate, fought-over, and sacred. In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as providing new insights into the life of one of our most important poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave behind. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. ![]() As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. ![]() A staggering memoir from New York Times -bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emmy is in fact their sister and she’s setting out to save the world with Althalus to help her. The book was written by the god Deiwos, whose evil brother Daeva is trying to unmake the world. He’s read the book and discovered a tool mightier than the blunt instrument he once used to disable his victims. Only 2467 years and an ice age later does Althalus re-emerge with the cat, Emmy, in the hood of his (Ghend’s) cloak. What he can’t find once he’s in the house is the door by which he entered. in the same room as the book Ghend described. ![]() maybe with everything!)Īt the House at the End of the World, he finds a talking cat. (Althalus is a rogue who can get away with almost anything. Althalus sets off to the House at the End of the World to steal it – after stealing Ghend’s cloak, as well, since winter is coming on. A fabulous brand new Eddings standalone fantasy, set in an entirely new magical world.Ī bronze-age burglar, armed robber and sometime murderer, our hero Althalus is commissioned to steal a book by a mysterious cloaked stranger named Ghend. ![]() ![]() ![]() A good man named John Smith uncovered his name by a kind of magic, but before he could be captured - perhaps it was just as well - Frank Dodd killed himself. He was not werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or from the snowy wastes he was only a cop named Frank Dodd with mental and sexual problems. a waitress named Alma Frechette in 1970 a woman named Pauline Toothaker and a junior high school student named Cheryl Moody in 1971 a pretty girl named Carol Dunbarger in 1974 a teacher named Etta Ringgold in the fall of 1975 finally, a gradeschooler named Mary Kate Hendrasen in the early winter of that same year. ![]() THE SHARP CEREAL PROFESSOR ONCE UPON A TIME, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. Every link you know I did call his name, I called, "Here, Blue, you good dog, you. I dug his grave with a silver spade And I lowered him down with a golden chain. AUDEN, "Musee des Beaux Arts" Old Blue died and he died so hard He shook the ground in my back yard. ![]() Stephen King "Cujo" About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or Mt walking dully along. ![]() |