Death Masks by Jim Butcher6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s great fun and tons of action, I strongly recommend both this book and the series! The plot is great and you can really see him bringing the series into maturity. His writing gets into full gear and he tones down on the overdriven amounts of battery and damage his hero must somehow survive to levels that someone might actually survive. In Death Masks, I personally feel that Jim Butcher really gets things into full gear. They are worth reading, don’t misunderstand, but they are nowhere near as good as the books which came later. ![]() ![]() I agree with him, the first two books where really raw. Jim Butcher himself admits that the Dresden Files series, the first volume of which was a writing exercise in the creative writing class he was in, really starts coming into it’s own in the third volume, Grave Peril. Review 1: Death Masks audiobook by Alan The Series Really Gets Into Gear Here are the top 3 reviews and comments that readers love about this fascinating book. ![]() A duel with the deadly champion of the Red Court, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards. Harry Dresden is the only practicing professional wizard in Chicago, doing pretty good business for change. Death Masks is the 5th science fiction novel in The Dresden Files series by author Jim Butcher. ![]()
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Killing sarai book6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() An education of sorts and then after that maybe I’ll go into…,” I can’t finish because I don’t know what to say. “I don’t have any idea what I’ll do when I get to my aunt’s, but I’ll figure something out. ![]() To avoid eye contact again, I walk over to the couch and start arranging the clothes in a neat pile on the cushion. “But I really have no interest in anything like that anymore. “I did think about being up on a stage somewhere,” I say and his hands fall away from my elbows. Many long seconds go by before I manage an answer. “Have you ever considered playing professionally?” I raise my eyes to look at him and before he can say whatever it was he had planned to say, I blurt out softly, “I’m so sorry for…Victor, I’m not crazy or…well, I’m really sorry.” I stand with my arms crossed loosely over my stomach. He walks around in front of me and fits my elbows in his hands. Long after Ophelia leaves, I’m still looking at the door, not with her on my mind, but I can’t bring myself to look at Victor. She pats me on the arm as she walks past, taking up her purse from the floor on her way to the front door. Ophelia turns to me with a big close-lipped smile. ![]() Wolf hall the mirror and the light6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.Ĭromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, no private army. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller ![]() Zen cho the order of the pure moon6/11/2023 ![]() Humming underneath her fantastical worlds is Cho’s deft skill with weaving complex human relationships and her characters’ pursuits to become more themselves. And, soon after, an expanded reissue of Spirits Abroad, a 2014 blockbuster story collection featuring tales of uneasy coexistence between spirits, humans and everything in between, as well as the Hugo Award-winning novelette, If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again.Ĭho sets her stories in a variety of backdrops, blending small, domestic magics with a distinctly Southeast Asian flavor. Just a year later, we get Black Water Sister, an intricate family drama disguised as a spooky, supernatural romp across Penang, Malaysia. In 2020, the world welcomed The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a rollicking wuxia novella that turns history (and the laws of gravity) on its head. ![]() ![]() Zen Cho has had a very, very productive year. ![]() Romanov by Nadine Brandes6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() “ Romanov will cast a spell on readers and immerse them in a history anyone would long to be a part of.” (Sasha Alsberg) ![]() If you love magic and Imperial Russia, you want Romanov on your shelf!” (Evelyn Skye) “I am obsessed with this book! A magical twist on history that will have Anastasia fans wishing for more. That is, until she’s on one side of a firing squad.and he’s on the other. Nastya has only dabbled in magic, but it doesn’t frighten her half as much as her growing attraction to Zash. Nastya’s only chances of saving herself and her family are either to release the spell and deal with the consequences, or to enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them, and he’s hunted Romanov before. They don’t know the half of it.Īnastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. ![]() Dinotopia pop up book6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() (We’re not just any bookstore: we’re a fundraising bookstore! Carpe Librum collects donated books, CDs, and DVDs to support the DC nonprofit Turning the Page. Contact Cassidy at with any questions.If you’re interested in helping out at one of our other pop-up books sales around the city, you can view our sale calendar here. If interested, sign up via VolunteerMatch and we will reach out with more details. The second shift is from 4:30pm - 5:30pm helping to break down the tables and pack up books.The first shift is from 9:00am - 10:00am helping to set up the tables and shelve books according to category.This is a great opportunity to spend an hour or two supporting literacy and education in the DC public school system. Carpe Librum will be popping up in Navy Yard (200 M St SE) for an exciting pop-up book sale this Saturday, May 13th! We will need volunteers to help us set up and break down the tables and bookshelves for this fundraising event. ![]() Lulu in hollywood by louise brooks6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, in 1940, she left Hollywood forever, unable to get a good part after being reduced to acting in a 1938 Western, Overland Stage Raiders, with John Wayne. Pabst's 1929 film, Pandora's Box, followed by Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl, also released in 1929. It was then that she went to Berlin to give her most electrifying performances-as Lulu in G. But her fierce independence and individuality, and her never-veiled contempt for the Hollywood 'film factories,' put her career in jeopardy by the time she was twenty-two. Her talent, beauty, and sharp intelligence made her a rising star in the Hollywood of that era. "Her look-the eyes, the sleek bangs, the candidly unreal innocence-established the look of the twenties. From the publisher: "Seven autobiographical essays-written with the clearest honestly and insight-from a Hollywood legend: Louise Brooks. Case-bound in paper-wrapped boards with cloth spine. ![]() Her Secret Amish Past by Dana R. Lynn6/10/2023 ![]() Each book in the series can be read as a standalone. Her Secret Amish Past is the fourteenth book in Amish Country Justice series. I enjoyed the epilogue which nicely wrapped up the story and left me with a smile on my face. The suspense kept building which is what had me quickly flipping the pages. I like how the action escalated which ramped up the tension. The faith element was light, but it was present. The author did a wonderful job at expressing the emotions so that the readers can feel them. He can relate to what Joss is experiencing. I liked watching their relationship develop. I enjoyed getting to know Joss and Steve. I stayed up late to see how the story would turn out. Joss feels safe in his presence which is a good thing because whoever is after Joss and her mother is determined and ruthless. ![]() Sergeant Steve Beck is the first responder at the scene. Joss has no clue why her mother had them on the run or who is after them. ![]() Unfortunately, the trouble follows them, and their car ends up going through a guard rail. Joss’s mother has them packing a suitcase and quickly departing. Joss’s life turns into a nightmare when someone leaves an ominous note on her car. ![]() Pamuk museum of innocence6/10/2023 ![]() The novel was excerpted in The New Yorker, has been translated into many languages, and was the subject of near-universal literary acclaim. ![]() He credits Milan’s Bagatti Valsecchi Museum for the inspiration behind the book’s narrative, which is primarily about the nostalgia one develops when a certain way of life slips away in the unrelenting current of time. To help construct the novel’s distinctively Turkish emotional texture, Pamuk consulted clips from films and mid-twentieth-century music in Turkish history. Set in the 1970s and 80s in Turkey’s international city, Istanbul, it follows a wealthy man named Kemal who falls in love with his distant cousin, Fusun. ![]() The Museum of Innocence is a 2008 novel by Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. ![]() The travels of marco polo sparknotes6/9/2023 ![]() Their way ran through Armenia, Persia, and Afghanistan, over the Pamirs, the Silk Road to China. However, Marco stayed on the ship and continued with his journey. Marco Polo was 17 years old when he started his first big traveling. He wrote about the election of the new Pope Gregory X. All those presents gave the new Pope Tedaldo (Gregory X). In 1271 the ship’s company, which consisted of Marco Polo’s father, uncle and two friars, got valuable presents for the Great Khan and started their travel to east. The way to Cathay was very difficult and risky. After that Marco spent three years in the most undaunted travel to Cathay (China). ![]() After father’s return, Marco stayed with them for two years. When Marco’s father and uncle returned, Marco was 15 years old. ![]() Marco Polo’ father and uncle traveled at first time to Cathay. ![]() |