Bugbear Blues

Download or read book Bugbear Blues written by Ani Fox and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The street has its own uses for magic, and no mercy. When immortals start meddling with a century-old murder mystery, the King of the Eternal City summons Delphi Janjack: fixer, tour guide, gentleman’s gentleman … a one-person army meant to solve problems without mussing his tophat and brocaded vest. Delphi might also be a disgraced champion in hiding, his secrets so abhorrent nothing but death will wipe the slate clean. Nearly 400 years after the Elves invaded South America, there is just one free city left: Austen, Tejas. With the heir to Court Royale missing, the last bastion of human independence faces inevitable destruction. Delphi has mere days to find the missing Queen, solve the murder, and administer rare justice to the incorrigible Grey Elves. Can humanity afford to trust this monster? Does it have any other choice? Equal parts murder mystery, revenge tale, travel guide, and cultural history, Bugbear Blues stakes readers to a world that witnessed Jane Austen survive tuberculosis in 1817, then alter the landscape of the multiverse. From jazz wizards to magical computers enter a bizarrely familiar 1980s Texas where the Darcy clan has taken up the way of the sword and literature itself can be fashioned into a weapon of inestimable power.

Download or read book The Ridiculous Misadventures of the Imperial Garden Boy written by Ani Fox and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-10-16 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never leave time travel to a hapless wizard and an evil princess. Or is that evil wizard and hapless princess? So hard to tell. Regardless, the Imperial Garden Boy has to be the least qualified, least heroic individual ever to be sent to fix an epic mess. He’s not even a good gardener. Before the Blue Mage rewrote Chafrium history and became a legend, he took a little detour through time and memory. His mission: save Qelniasherah, heir to the Skeleton Throne, from multiple selves. In this whodunnit, the bad guy and the good guy keep changing. Also there’s gods, Orcs, tasty food, necromancy, and a whole lot of misbehaving Elves along the way. When the best have failed sometimes you send the worst. When they also fail, you send the Imperial Garden Boy.

Download or read book The Blue Note written by Charlotte Bingham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jefferies and Kristin Hannah will not be disappointed by this magically romantic and dynamic saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. "Will satisfy all Bingham's fans" - SUNDAY TIMES "Great summer escapism from an award-winning romantic novelist" - CHOICE "Her imagination is thoroughly original" - DAILY MAIL "This is a novel so heartbreaking........so touching it kept me glued to the pages just anticipating the outcome for these wonderful characters." -- ***** Reader review "A wonderful read and very hard to put down" -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************** A TOUCHING STORY OF FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS.... World War Two: Londoners Miranda and Ted are sent to the country with another young evacuee, Roberta (Bobbie), to live with two unmarried sisters in their idyllic rectory. The time they spend with Aunt Sophie and Aunt Prudence turns their lives into something very near to Heaven: the archetypal idyllic countryside childhood. But when the two sisters learn they cannot adopt all three of them, it is Bobbie who is sent away to live with the Dingwalls in very different circumstances. And when the aunts die, Miranda, Tom and Bobbie are eventually parted, seemingly forever. The three find each other after the war, and Miranda, now a beautiful young model, falls in love with grown-up Ted Mowbray, but he can only think of her as a sister. In turn, he loves Bobbie, yet she has already met her beloved Julian, getting to know him during a summer by the sea in Sussex. How many hearts are destined to be broken and can they find their way to a happy and fulfilled future?

Download or read book Bugs Bug Bear written by John Bianchi and published by ARC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dark Blue written by John Christian Freund and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bug Bear written by Patricia Hegarty and published by . This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One bothersome bug needs a warm place to stay – and Bear’s thick fur looks perfect. What a kerfuffle! Will Bear ever get this wiggly, tickly Bug to buzz off? Bug Bear is a hilariously entertaining picture book. Readers are sure to giggle as they watch grumpy Bear struggle to get rid of his uninvited guest! With bright and engaging illustrations, young children will love to read this eye-catching story again and again.

Download or read book Knife That Does written by Ani Fox and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be an eeriness to silence in war. No screaming men, no wailing children, no malicious explosions, or crack crack crack of small arms punctuated with a sudden thump whack of something scoring a near miss. The torpedoes had killed all pursuit literally and figuratively. The remainder of the living aboard the floundering coast guard ships would most likely be dead by drowning, internal injuries, or just plain brutal shock. There are times when you hold a mirror to yourself and wonder, am I damned? Plain old evil? I’d just killed hundreds of strangers. By my hand, mass murder had been done. Sure, war necessitates these kinds of things, but does that absolve us? It’s a question that ran through my head every day I baked bread in Amherst. My conclusion: yep, it made me evil. I am what I do. I killed without remorse or reflection. Just because it had been obligatory self-defense didn’t change the morality of the act. But then your children appear and ask questions. What is it to be a soldier, to kill despite remorse and reflection? To defend the weak and the vulnerable from evil itself? Before me the hushed waves embraced my dying enemies. They died for no better reason than they’d been on the wrong side. Defined as being anyone but Us. Yeah, not much moral high ground here. Which reinforced Oslo’s point. Until we got humanity free of our own hideous game the whole world washed itself in the blood of innocents.