The 20th Century in Cartoons: A History in Pictures
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A picture says more than a thousand words and this is a decade-by-decade resume of the twentieth...
A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's Youngest Child
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At ninety years old, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. A...
Those Above
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They enslaved humanity three thousand years ago. Tall, strong, perfect, superhuman and near immortal...
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I
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Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published...
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
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Enter an era of war within the world of Ivalice. The small kingdom of Dalmasca, conquered by the...
Haley Mathiot (9 KP) rated The Serpent (The Gameshouse, #1) in Books
Apr 27, 2018
The first novella, The Serpant, proved a beautiful introduction to the world in which the Gameshouse resides, which is our world, except not. It’s a world in which there are cunning, clever, devious, and skilled players using our world as a game board. The game might be an election, a war, or something more simple such as hide and seek. But they play for more than money. They play for years of their lives, their love of the taste of strawberries, a memory, the affections of the person they last loved, the richness of the color purple… or something more detrimental: if I win, you take my asthma. If you win, I take your constant migraines.
The story begins with a beautiful portrait and backstory of our main character Thini, who later becomes a crucial piece in a bigger game. Her game is played, the game is won, and the world goes on.
Read my review of the whole series here: http://haleymathiot.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-gameshouse.html
Miss Palmer's Diary: The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady
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In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of...
Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
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'This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life...
Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)
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This irresistible first novel tells the story of a quiet boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in...