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Cable From Kabul
by Nigel TranterMACREADY BELIEVED DEAD STOP PROJECT IN BALANCE STOP PLEASE COME STOP said the cable which reached the respectable Fenchurch Street office of Cranstoun and Macready, Importers and Exporters. Plain words, but enough to baffle David Cranstoun, since his partner, Jim MacReady, was not supposed to be anywhere near Kabul, the project was a complete mystery, and the signature, "Coldstrom", rang no bells. Impulsively, David gets on the next plane to Afghanistan - and finds himself in the midst of an intrigue that involves the three nations that surround Afghanistan - China, Russia and Pakistan - and a beautiful woman. It will also lead to a terrifying trek through some of the most unforgiving mountains on the planet. Cranstoun learns a lot about himself, about the murky ruthlessness of international politics and about the sheer savagery of the great ice mountains of the Hindu Kush. 'One of Scotland's most prolific and respected writers' The Times
Cable Harbor
by Donald BowieAffairs, pills, and politics collide among the summer houses set in this &“au courant, fine-tuned&” satire of an exclusive New England resort town (Kirkus Reviews). Welcome to Cable Harbor, Maine, a quaint seaside refuge where gossip, vanity, and revenge make for a potent summer cocktail. Meet Marie, a rich middle-aged divorcée hell-bent on getting even with her ex; Arthur and Herbert, Cable Harbor&’s resident gay couple and the happiest marriage in town; Marjorie, wife of the local caterer and an ardent crusader against the corrupt summer vacationers; and Laura, in her twenties and recently fired from a New York publishing house. Cavorting at the beach club, sipping vodka and lemonade, the idle rich while away the days—until the townies declare open warfare and no one&’s secrets are safe. In this debut novel, Donald Bowie captures the craziness that overcomes us all in the summertime.
Cabo Trafalgar
by Arturo Pérez-ReverteUn combate naval que cambió el destino del mundo Trafalgar 1805: Habrás estado allí En vísperas del bicentenario de la batalla de Trafalgar, Alfaguara pidió a Arturo Pérez-Reverte un relato sobre su particular visión del combate naval más famoso de la historia, que enfrentó a la armada combinada hispano-francesa con la británica, mandada por el almirante Nelson, en las aguas españolas del cabo Trafalgar. La combinación de rigor histórico y acción espectacular, unida a la habilidad narrativa del autor, convierten estas páginas en una apasionante pieza clave para comprender la trágica jornada de aquel 21 de octubre de 1805 que cambió la historia de Europa y del mundo. La guerra y el mar, el coraje y la cobardía, el destino y la memoria histórica, en definitiva, las distintas batallas a las que nos enfrenta la vida son el paisaje por el que navega Cabo Trafalgar. La críticaha dicho...«El autor ha procedido con su probada habilidad en la dosificación y distribución de la copiosa documentación histórica y técnica, que produce sus mejores frutos en la descripción de los navíos y la evolución de los mismos en el transcurso de la batalla...»Ángel Basanta, El Cultural «Aquí los personajes que invoca Pérez-Reverte fueron alguna vez de carne y hueso, aunque sus méritos y sus errores los hayan convertido, con la perspectiva que da el tiempo, en figuras fronterizas entre la leyenda y la realidad implacable: son formidables, trágicas, heróicas, brillantes, desdichadas...»Luis Domingo, ABC
Cabo de Gata: A Novel
by Eugen RugeA witty, philosophical novel by the author of the internationally bestselling In Times of Fading LightSometimes a cat comes into your life when you least expect it.An unnamed writer finds himself in Cabo de Gata, a sleepy, worn-down Andalusian fishing village. He's left behind his life in Berlin, which it turns out wasn't much--an ex-girlfriend, a neighborhood that had become too trendy for his taste. Surrounded by a desolate landscape that is scoured by surprisingly cold winds (not at all what he expected of southern Spain), he faces his daily failures: to connect with the innkeeper or any of the townsfolk, who all seem to be hiding something; to learn Spanish; to keep warm; to write. At last he succeeds in making an unlikely connection with one of the village's many feral cats. Does the cat have a message for him? And will their tenuous relationship be enough to turn his life around?With sharp intelligence and wry humor, Eugen Ruge's Cabo de Gata proposes the biggest questions and illustrates how achieving happiness sometimes means giving oneself up to the foreign and the unknown.
Caboose Mystery (Boxcar Children #11)
by Gertrude Chandler Warner David CunninghamHenry, Jessie, Violet and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer traveling on a train-in their own caboose, number 777. At one train stop, a man startles the Boxcar Children when he runs away after hearing the number of their caboose. It isn't long before the Aldens learn the mysterious history behind caboose Number 777-a history that involves a circus clown, a high wire artist, and a valuable necklace. Come aboard and join the Boxcar Children in the Caboose Mystery.
Caboose Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #11)
by Gertrude Chandler WarnerFour brave siblings were searching for a home – and found a life of adventure! Join the Boxcar Children as they investigate the mystery of a curious train caboose in this illustrated chapter book series beloved by generations of readers.The Aldens take a train journey! And at every stop, someone has something to say about the train car the children are riding in. It turns out Caboose Number 777 has an unusual past—one that comes with its very own mystery!What started as a single story about the Alden Children has delighted readers for generations and sold more than 80 million books worldwide. Featuring timeless adventures, mystery, and suspense, The Boxcar Children® series continues to inspire children to learn, question, imagine, and grow.
Cabot Wright Begins: A Novel
by James PurdyCabot Wright Begins, first published in 1964, may be one of the most neglected masterpieces in post-World War II American literature. Cabot Wright is a handsome, Yale-educated stockbroker and scion of a good family. He also happens to be the convicted rapist of nearly three hundred women. Bernie Gladhart is a naive used-car salesman from Chicago, who--spurred on by his ambitious wife--decides to travel to Brooklyn and write the Great American Novel about the recently paroled Cabot Wright. As Bernie tries to track down Wright in Brooklyn, he encounters a series of bizarre and Dickensian characters and sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events. In this merciless and outrageous satire of American culture, cult writer James Purdy is unsparing and prophetic in his portrayal of television, publishing, Wall Street, race, urban poverty, sex, and the false values of American culture in a work compared to Candide by Susan Sontag. Considered too scabrous for the stifling culture mores of the early 1960s, Purdy's comic fiction evokes "an American psychic landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence and isolation" (New York Times).
Cabs, Cameras and Catastrophes (Unmistakably Cooper Ellis #4)
by Wendy Lee NentwigBook 4 of "Unmistakably Cooper Ellis". Cooper tries to find comfort with her friends but still wonders whether her break-up was right. Then, when a photo shoot turns risky, she has another difficult test of her faith.
Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life
by Chelsea MartinFor anyone who has ever felt weird or poor or misunderstood or just . . . weird, well, this is the book for you. Martin chronicles her own bizarre upbringing in such a way that the strangeness of it all manages to still feel universal. She recounts everything from her attempt to manifest an alien invasion (she was just 11; what 11-year-old doesn't want E.T. to visit?) to the fights she had with her family, to what it was like to be diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome as an adolescent. It's a wild ride of a memoir, and a true glimpse into the mind of an artist as she's figuring out what life is all about. Kristin Iversen, NylonFunny, candid, and searchingly self-aware, this essay collection tells the story of Chelsea Martins coming of age as an artist. We are with Chelsea as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an alien visitation to her neighborhood; fighting with her stepfather and grappling with a Tourettes diagnosis as she becomes a teenager; falling under the sway of frenemies and crushes in high school; going into debt to afford what might be a meaningless education at an expensive art college; navigating the messy process of falling in love with a close friend; and struggling for independence from her emotionally manipulative father and from the family and friends in the dead-end California town that has defined her upbringing. This is a book about relationships, class, art, sex, money, and familyand about growing up weird, and poor, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature
by Annabel L. KimExploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Readers and critics have too long overlooked excrement&’s vital role in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century French canon. In a stark challenge to the tendency to view this literature through sanitizing abstractions, Annabel L. Kim undertakes close readings of key authors to argue for feces as a figure of radical equality, both a literary object and a reflection on literature itself, without which literary studies is impoverished and sterile. Following the fecal through line in works by Céline, Beckett, Genet, Sartre, Duras, and Gary and the contemporary authors Anne Garréta and Daniel Pennac, Kim shows that shit, far from vanishing from the canon after the early modern period, remains present in the modern and contemporary French literature that follows. She argues that all the shit in the canon expresses a call to democratize literature, making literature for all, just as shit is for (or of) all. She attends to its presence in this prized element of French identity, treating it as a continually uttered desire to manifest the universality France aspires to—as encapsulated by the slogan Liberté, égalité, fraternité—but fails to realize. In shit there is a concrete universalism that traverses bodies with disregard for embodied differences. Cacaphonies reminds us that literature, and the ideas to be found therein, cannot be separated from the corporeal envelopes that create and receive them. In so doing, it reveals the aesthetic, political, and ethical potential of shit and its capacity to transform literature and life.
Caccia alle Streghe: Un giallo delle streghe di Westwick (I gialli delle streghe di Westwick #1)
by Alessandra Lorenzoni Colleen CrossCaccia alle Streghe: Un giallo delle streghe di Westwick Serie: I gialli delle streghe di Westwick FATE ATTENZIONE A QUELLO CHE DESIDERATE... Un giallo paranormale delle streghe di Westwick "...Una chicca soprannaturale che vi stregherà. Se vi piacciono i misteri e le magie adorerete Cendrine West e la sua stravagante famiglia di streghe!" Cendrine West ha un segreto: non vuole essere una strega. D’altra parte come strega non è molto brava e sua zia Pearl non fa che ricordarglielo. Ma Cendrine non può sfuggire alla sua natura, soprattutto non nella piccola Westwick Corners, dove la famiglia di streghe West crea problemi da generazioni. I problemi sorgono quando viene scoperto un cadavere poco prima del matrimonio di Cendrine. Le sue indagini portano alla luce una connessione soprannaturale e un segreto sul suo fidanzato che avrebbe preferito non scoprire. Cendrine è costretta a mettere alla prova la sua capacità come strega. Sarà in grado di salvare la sua famiglia e la città? Gli indizi sulla scena del crimine indicano l’irascibile zia Pearl, che si è votata a impedire a ogni costo il turismo, così importante per la piccola Westwick Corners. Pearl è anche determinata a mandare via Tyler Gates, il nuovo affascinante sceriffo, come ha fatto con i suoi predecessori. E se questo non bastasse, ci si mette anche il fantasma di nonna Vi, che vuole partecipare all’azione. Cendrine fa di tutto per scagionare la zia, anche se questo non andrà necessariamente a suo vantaggio. Volano scintille tra Cendrine e Tyler, mentre si accumulano le prove contro zia Pearl. Cendrine riuscirà a spingere le indagini, e il suo cuore, nella giusta direzione? Se vi piacciono i gialli con un pizzico di humor e di soprannaturale, quest’avventura paranormale fa per voi!! libri italiani
Cacciatore (Cacciatore e Raining Men #1)
by Rick R. Reed Diletta WilliamsQualcuno definirebbe Caden DeSarro un cacciatore di uomini grassi. Gli piacciono i ragazzi con qualche chilo di troppo. Quando incontra Kevin Dodge nei bagni di un locale, non riesce a togliergli gli occhi di dosso, anche se non fa una bella figura. Secondo Caden, Kevin è fisicamente perfetto: un biondone barbuto con l'attrezzatura perfetta (si sono incontrati in bagno, non poteva non sbirciare!). Caden però si blocca e perde la sua occasione. Quando s'imbatte di nuovo in Kevin quella notte, sul treno verso casa, pensa che il destino gli abbia offerto una seconda possibilità. Fa in modo di farsi invitare a casa di Kevin per un'avventura di una notte che si trasforma, invece, nel tipo di relazione che Caden ha sempre sognato. Ma il vero amore non trova mai il suo compimento senza ostacoli e l'idillio di Kevin e Caden non fa eccezione. Quando Caden ritorna da un viaggio di qualche settimana, Kevin lo sorprende con un fisico nuovo e 'migliorato', che si addice benissimo agli ideali di Bobby, l'amico vanesio di Caden, ma non a quelli di Caden. Lui non sa più cosa fare e la sua esitazione è l'occasione che Bobby stava cercando. Perché quello non è più lo stesso Kevin di cui si è innamorato..., vero?
Cacciatore e preda (I Mutaforma #4)
by Ernesto Pavan M. D. GrimmI Mutaforma: Volume 4L'orfano Hunter Landon desidera una famiglia che lo ami senza condizioni. Quando viene adottato dai Cavalieri, un'organizzazione dedita a distruggere i mutaforma, Hunter è felice, ma la loro ideologia non lo convince. Finalmente, nel corso di un rito di passaggio durante il quale dovrebbe uccidere il suo primo nemico, Hunter scopre la verità: conosce Glenn Lightfoot, un mutaforma cervide, e ha l'occasione di fargli molte domande. Glenn odia i Cavalieri e teme per la sicurezza del proprio branco, avendone proprio uno così vicino. Dopotutto, quell'organizzazione ha fatto del male alla sua famiglia in passato. Questa è, però, l'occasione per convertire un nemico, e l'istinto gli dice che Hunter non lo tradirà. Presto Hunter vede i cavalieri per ciò che sono realmente, dei mostri, e quando il tempo per la sua prova scade, decide di allontanarsi dal branco del mutaforma per proteggerlo. Ma Glenn non permetterà che la crudeltà dei Cavalieri gli faccia perdere l'uomo che ha imparato ad amare e rispettare.
Cacciatrice
by W. J. May Silvia StefaniSolo la morte potrebbe fermarla ora "The Daughters of Darkness" (le figlie delle Tenebre) è una serie di quattro eroine che potrebbero o no conoscersi, ma che tutte hanno lo stesso padre, Vlad Montour. La cacciatrice ora diventa la preda Victoria è una cacciatrice vampira, una delle ultime della sua specie. È il meglio del meglio. Quando scopre che uno dei suoi bersagli è effettivamente sua sorella, la lascia andare, solo per ritrovarsi così dalla parte sbagliata rispetto al consiglio. Costretta a dimostrare il suo valore, va a caccia del suo prossimo bersaglio, un lupo mannaro. Ferita e affamata, è obbligata a fare ciò che deve per sopravvivere. Le sue azioni provocano l'ira dell'antico consiglio, ritrovandosi così a essere l'unica cosa che aveva sempre disprezzato. La Preda. Tori non ha altra scelta e scappa. Ha deluso il consiglio, attaccato e ucciso un anziano e ora, Vlad, il suo terribile padre, è determinato a trovarla. Quando i segreti del passato vengono a galla, si ritroverà a un bivio. Incerta sulla giusta strada da percorrere, dovrà affidarsi ad altre creature soprannaturali e lasciarsi guidare, cosa che non aveva mai permesso prima. Obbligata a combattere contro altri cacciatori vampiri, viene messa all'angolo e l'unico modo per uscirne è combattere, o morire provandoci. ***Questa è una serie pensata per un pubblico adulto e contiene scene per lettori maggiori di sedici anni***
Cacería en el hielo (¡Arriba la Lectura! Level O #1)
by Dave Gunson Bruce NaylorNIMAC-sourced textbook
Cacería: Cuentos
by María Teresa AndruettoEn palabras de la autora, estos cuentos «fueron escritos durante 18 años, entre mis 40 y mis 58 años, sobre una doble línea de indagación: el género femenino y el género cuento. Por una parte, casi todos están focalizados en mujeres, con escenas que llegaron a mi vida y que por alguna razón me interesaron. Por otra, fue un modo de explorar el relato a través de una perspectiva que me gusta mucho, que es narrar en tercera persona focalizada en un personaje, en estilo indirecto libre. Es un modo de mirar que me regocija y que me permite enfocar desde diversos ángulos distintos tipos de mujeres». «La escritura envolvente de estos cuentos, que por momentos alcanza una sensualidad perturbadora, va urdiendo una filigrana de objetos familiares o aun -en apariencia- banales a cuya cercanía uno se entrega con confianza. Pero solapadamente, casi a contrapelo de esa escritura, se nos va revelando una realidad incómoda, a veces brutal, en la que -el lector advertirá con inquietud creciente- todo límite aceptable puede ser traspuesto. Creo que en esta tensión ininterrumpida entre lo diurno de la narración y la oscuridad última de lo narrado reside lo singular -el sello propio- de este libro fascinante de María Teresa Andruetto. Sus personajes, concebidos desde lo reconocible y lo mundano, avanzan sin apelación hacia la crueldad, el desaliento, el fracaso o la muerte. En cada uno de los cuentos de "Cacería" acecha el zarpazo de "lo que no queríamos ver". Y sin embargo, como un remanso secreto, en el negativo de estas historias se puede advertir la piedad de María Teresa Andruetto, su sabiduría, su convicción de que las leyes feroces que a veces rigen el comportamiento de la gente podrían, en algún cruce del camino, ser trasgredidas». Liliana Heker
Cacería: Cuentos
by María Teresa AndruettoEn palabras de la autora, estos cuentos «fueron escritos durante 18 años, entre mis 40 y mis 58 años, sobre una doble línea de indagación: el género femenino y el género cuento. Por una parte, casi todos están focalizados en mujeres, con escenas que llegaron a mi vida y que por alguna razón me interesaron. Por otra, fue un modo de explorar el relato a través de una perspectiva que me gusta mucho, que es narrar en tercera persona focalizada en un personaje, en estilo indirecto libre. Es un modo de mirar que me regocija y que me permite enfocar desde diversos ángulos distintos tipos de mujeres». «La escritura envolvente de estos cuentos, que por momentos alcanza una sensualidad perturbadora, va urdiendo una filigrana de objetos familiares o aun -en apariencia- banales a cuya cercanía uno se entrega con confianza. Pero solapadamente, casi a contrapelo de esa escritura, se nos va revelando una realidad incómoda, a veces brutal, en la que -el lector advertirá con inquietud creciente- todo límite aceptable puede ser traspuesto.Creo que en esta tensión ininterrumpida entre lo diurno de la narración y la oscuridad última de lo narrado reside lo singular -el sello propio- de este libro fascinante de María Teresa Andruetto. Sus personajes, concebidos desde lo reconocible y lo mundano, avanzan sin apelación hacia la crueldad, el desaliento, el fracaso o la muerte.En cada uno de los cuentos de "Cacería" acecha el zarpazo de "lo que no queríamos ver". Y sin embargo, como un remanso secreto, en el negativo de estas historias se puede advertir la piedad de María Teresa Andruetto, su sabiduría, su convicción de que las leyes feroces que a veces rigen el comportamiento de la gente podrían, en algún cruce del camino, ser trasgredidas».Liliana Heker
Cachalot
by Alan Dean FosterA guilt-ridden Earth had turned Cachalot over to the few surviving cetaceans as a perpetual refuge - a planet whose surface was one great ocean, where the remnants of the whales, porpoises and dolphins could pursue their lives and perhaps even the development of an intelligence even greater than man's. Humans on Cachalot were strictly confined to a few islands and the floating towns, prospering from the wealth of its sea. The cetaceans seemed to have forgiven the thousands of years of terror and slaughter they had suffered - some had even befriended selected humans.But something was destroying the towns of Cachalot - leaving no clues...or survivors.
Cache from Outer Space
by Philip Jose FarmerBenoni Rider set out across the unexplored desert of a future America to prove himself a man and find a new land for his people. The task at first seemed merely exceedingly hard - and then it began to seem entirely impossible. Because all he had to do was join a barbaric army, become a bodyguard for a queen, act as another nation's emissary to his own, lead an army into battle against the wild men of the north, and manage somehow to get back to Fiiniks with the secret of the CACHE FROM OUTER SPACE. That last was the secret that, if learned, could enable any of the barbarian nations of that devastated future to control the rest of the world . . . or annihilate it all over again!
Cachecol Blues
by Mois Benarroch Getúlio MaiaUm escritor judeu-espanhol chega a Madri para um encotnro de hispano-judeus, logo depois da norte do melhor amigo e da irmã. Em Sevilha, acha um cachecol, que permanece em seu pescoço por 13 dias e, assim como chega, some e se perde em Madri. O cachecol se transforma em uma obsessiva reflexão sobre a perda e a despedida das coisas e das pessoas. O escritor se despede dos mortos, mas também de todas as pessoas de quem não pode se despedir e que nunca poderá. Depede-se dos sonhos. Enquanto isso, vêm a seu encontro judeus-espanhóis que ficaram perdidos por 150 na Amazônia, sobre os quais tinha escrito dez anos antes em um de seus romances. Terá inventado essa realidade? A realidade é fruto do que imaginamos? O romance viaja por vários países, Marrocos, Brasil, Nova York, Israel. E línguas: hebraico, francês, espanhol, português e, principalmente, o jaquetía, o judeu-espanhol do norte do Marrocos, que persevera em continuar uma morta-viva de uma cultura que não existe mais, de palavras e expressões que deixam para trás um mundo perdeu.Um escritor judeu-espanhol chega a Madri para um encotnro de hispano-judeus, logo depois da norte do melhor amigo e da irmã. Em Sevilha, acha um cachecol, que permanece em seu pescoço por 13 dias e, assim como chega, some e se perde em Madri. O cachecol se transforma em uma obsessiva reflexão sobre a perda e a despedida das coisas e das pessoas. O escritor se despede dos mortos, mas também de todas as pessoas de quem não pode se despedir e que nunca poderá. Depede-se dos sonhos. Enquanto vêm a seu encontro judeus-espanhóis que ficaram perdidos por 150 na Amazônia, sobre os quais tinha escrito dez anos antes em um de seus romances. Terá inventado essa realidade? A realidade é fruto do que imaginamos? O romance viaja por vários países, Marrocos, Brasil, Nova York, Israel. E línguas: hebraico, francês, espanhol, português e, principalmente, o jaquetía, o judeu-espanhol do norte do Marrocos, que persevera e
Caching In (Orca Currents)
by Kristin ButcherEric and Chris are avid geocachers who stumble into a very strange search. At first they are merely curious, but as the stakes rise and the challenges become more trying, the boys get truly hooked. Convinced they are indeed on the trail of treasure, they become consumed with the search, and though their quest tests their strength, intelligence, courage and even their friendship, they don't give up.
Cachorro de Amor de Verano (Los Hart #6)
by Rachelle Ayala¿Puede el amor reconstruir una relación arruinada? Grady Hart y Linx Colson tienen un pasado que ninguno de los dos admitiría ante sus familias. Linx no ha perdonado a Grady por obligarla a hacer algo de lo que se arrepiente, y Grady desconfía de ella por mentir y tratar de atraparlo. Grady ha vuelto y quiere respuestas, mientras Linx lo mantiene a raya, manteniéndolo alejado de su perrita y su corazón. ¿Qué esconde Linx y qué hará Grady cuando la mujer que odia sea sin la que no pueda vivir?
Cachorros y Besos de San Valentín (Los Hart #8)
by Rachelle AyalaLarry y Jenna lo tienen todo: un romance de cuento de hadas, un perro sabueso dulce y con gases y una casa de ensueño en camino. Mientras Jenna avanza con sus sueños, Larry está plagado de pesadillas y dudas sobre su futuro. A medida que se acerca el Día de San Valentín, y con él, su primer aniversario, Jenna planea una gran sorpresa para Larry, un bombero herido y con cicatrices que está discapacitado. Cuando Harley, su perro sabueso, estropea la sorpresa, Jenna se sorprende por la reacción de Larry. ¿Será una casa llena de cachorros y besos el amuleto de la suerte que Jenna necesita para convencer a Larry de que realmente puede tener una gran y ruidosa familia y un feliz para siempre?
Cackle
by Rachel HarrisonA darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true, from the author of The Return. All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She&’s stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town is. The people are all friendly and warm. Her new apartment is dreamy too, minus the oddly persistent spider infestation. Then Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming, magnetic Sophie, who takes a special interest in Annie, who wants to be her friend. More importantly, she wants Annie to stop apologizing and start living for herself. That&’s how Sophie lives. Annie can&’t help but gravitate toward the self-possessed Sophie, wanting to spend more and more time with her, despite the fact that the rest of the townsfolk seem…a little afraid of her. And like, okay. There are some things. Sophie&’s appearance is uncanny and ageless, her mansion in the middle of the woods feels a little unearthly, and she does seem to wield a certain power…but she couldn&’t be…could she?
Cacophony: Book Two (The Realm)
by L. Marie WoodToddlers and playdates and white picket fences. Afternoons in the park, steak on the grill—all in the perfect neighborhood. Gabby was living a life that many people could only wish for and she was over it. It wasn't that she disliked her world—it wasn't that at all...she loved her family and the life that she and her husband had made. She just wanted more— more action, more stimulation, more excitement. Gabby was bored. But while she spent her days washing sand out of hair and making PB&J sandwiches, a battle was going on in The Realm, a cosmic tug of war over the most inimitable of prizes: Gabby's very soul.