![]() Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar’s Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor’s youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer. ![]() Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. What it’s about: (from Goodreads) A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy’s Barrayaran military escort. ![]() Why I read it: This is one from my own TBL. ![]()
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Hands down a top 2020 must read! - Helena Hunting, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author.Ĭruel. Filled with Shen's trademark wit, soul searing angst and emotional poignancy, The Villain is a deeply satisfying story of patience, acceptance, perseverance and love. Filled with Shens trademark wit, soul searing angst and emotional poignancy, The Villain is a deeply satisfying story of patience, acceptance, perseverance and. "I'm unequivocally, irrevocably head over heels in love with Cillian Fitzpatrick. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sonny and Luki have to put their differences aside as they embark on a cross-country hunt. That could come in handy, until the past rears its ugly head determined to enact revenge. Luki and Sonny are having their Hawaiian wedding before they embark on their RV honeymoon, but they don’t get to enjoy it like they should when Luki receives a job offer. Review: This story is part of a series and must be read in order. Their world threatens to fall apart if they fail, but their love may grow stronger than ever if they succeed in finding Jackie-before it’s too late. The couple put aside their differences and focus on the grueling hunt, which takes them from leather bars to dusty desert back roads, and calls on Sonny’s deep compassion as well as Luki’s sharpest skills. When Luki’s sixteen-year-old nephew, Jackie, is lured into capture and torture by a sadistic killer, the honeymoon is well and truly over. A former informant from Luki’s days with ATFE brings a troubling message (or is it a warning?) from a Mob hit man. ![]() Luki’s status as a working badass spells discord for the newlyweds. But their three-phase honeymoon is riddled with strife. ![]() Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (17 th May 2013)īlurb: Luki Vasquez and Sonny Bly James finally have their Hawaiian wedding, and it’s perfect, almost. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet a woman who stands alone will never be left in peace for long – and among her island's guests is an unexpected visitor: the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything. ![]() When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. Circe is a strange child – not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. The international Number One bestseller from the author of The Song of Achilles, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() Volume two presents Le Guin’s final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Volume one gathers the first five Hainish novels: Rocannon’s World, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-age planet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy Planet of Exile, the story of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them City of Illusions, which finds a future Earth ruled by the mysterious Shing and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpieces The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed-as well as four short stories. ![]() In 2017, for the first time, the complete Hainish novels and stories were collected in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, with new introductions by the author. Le Guin redrew the map of modern science fiction, imagining a galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain, an array of worlds whose divergent societies-the result of both evolution and genetic engineering-allow her to speculate on what is intrinsic in human nature. ![]() In such visionary masterworks as the Nebula and Hugo Award winners The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. ![]() |