![]() ![]() ![]() As Obi-Wan investigates with the help of a heroic Neimoidian guard***,*** he finds himself working against the Separatists who hope to draw the planet into their conspiracy-and senses the sinister hand of Asajj-Ventress in the mists that cloak the planet.Īmid the brewing chaos, Anakin Skywalker rises to the rank of Jedi Knight. The Jedi dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the Order's most gifted diplomatic minds, to investigate the crime and maintain the balance that has begun to dangerously shift. With every*** world that joins the Separatists***, the peace guarded by the*** Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers.Īfter an explosion devastates Cato Neimoidia***, the jewel of the*** Trade Federation***, the*** Republic is blamed and the fragile neutrality of the planet is threatened. Battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy***. ![]() Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stem the tide of the raging Clone Wars and forge a new bond as Jedi Knights ![]()
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![]() “that unhandsome truth”īut my, what a shape it takes. ![]() So, she found her 500 acres on the Murrumbidgee, created fictional places – the Murrumby River, and the towns, Massacre Plains and Broken – and her novel started to take shape. She started with too broad a canvas, until her mentor, Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, encouraged her to focus on 500 acres of land, telling her she could tell her story through that lens. Discovering language was, she said, transformative, but turning her passion into a book proved tricky. It was inspired by a short course Winch did in Wiradjuri language run by Uncle Stan Grant Sr (father of Stan Grant whom I’ve reviewed here a couple of times). I wrote about The yield’s genesis last year, but will repeat it here. ![]() It makes a powerful plea for Indigenous agency and culture. Ten years in the making, The yield could be described as her “passion project”. ![]() Tara June Winch’s novel, The yield, follows her impressive – and David Unaipon award-winning – debut novel Swallow the air (my review). ![]() ![]() ![]() Lisa Kleypas, New York Times bestselling author Read more “Anyone who loves romance must read Sabrina Jeffries!” ![]() or with the man whose lessons capture her heart. But once Grey starts digging into her family’s secrets, she must decide whether her loyalties lie with her family. Now that Beatrice is seeing through Grey’s charms to his wounded heart, she’s having trouble keeping him at arm’s length. Then Grey agrees to assist his grief-stricken mother with her latest “project”: schooling spirited, unfashionable Beatrice for her debut. īeatrice Wolfe gave up on romance long ago, and the arrogant Duke of Greycourt with his rakish reputation isn’t exactly changing her mind. Still, Grey isn’t interested in love, no matter how pretty, or delightfully outspoken, the lady. But when his mother is widowed yet again and he meets the charmingly unconventional woman managing his stepfather’s funeral, he’s shocked to discover how much they have in common. Grey’s focus on expanding his dukedom allows him little time to find a wife. Ī series of stepfathers and a difficult childhood have left Fletcher “Grey” Pryde, 5th Duke of Greycourt, with a guarded heart, enviable wealth, and the undeserved reputation of a rogue. and in the process find that love just might conquer all. From New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries comes a sparkling new series about an oft-widowed mother’s grown children, who blaze through society in their quest for the truth about their fathers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe sends reinforcements who turn the failed business deal into an extended gun battle. Lou is enamored of the liquor and Hiram’s foster daughter, Tempest, and doesn’t want to suffer the consequences of failure, so he stays in the mountains. Hiram Holt, the bootlegger in question, isn’t interested in a partnership, though, and he and his family try to send Lou on his way. It is 1929 and “Handsome” Lou Pirlo has been given his first real assignment by his boss, Joe Masseria: go down to West Virginia and get the producer of some wonderful moonshine to supply Joe’s organization. Long-time collaborators Azzarello and Risso (100 Bullets) reunite with panache for the story of a negotiation gone wrong and the violent consequences thereof. This Prohibition-era clash between New York mobsters and moonshiners from West Virginia is soaked in equal measures of hooch and blood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One thing I love about King’s writing is how he builds up and fleshes out his characters and story, before he twists things and you find yourself unable to put it down. I loved the community and taking part in backyard picnics and helping the neighbors. It was fascinating to get inside the mind of a killer and have the perspective of a criminal. ![]() He tells his life story and through these pages we learn about him and how he became a killer for higher. While under the guise of a writer, Billy actually writes. ![]() Here he makes friends and becomes a part of the community, something Billy has never done. Billy lives in Red Bluff, where he tells folks he signed a book deal and he’s come here to write. The job requires Billy to move into the area under an assumed name while he waits for his target to arrive. Billy is ready to retire, but accepts one last job with an outstanding payoff. He’s a hit man, a killer for hire, but he has rules. While there are dark and gritty moments, it is also the story of man, a woman and revenge.īilly is a man shaped by his past from his childhood to his time in the military as a sniper. Stephen King is known for his horror stories, has shifted into suspense thrillers in recent years, and Billy Summers falls along that vein. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s this restraint - as intelligent as it is compassionate - that elevates The Arsonist from slick true-crime procedural to cultural time capsule. The elemental terror of Black Saturday requires little embellishment, only the quiet dignity of witness. But first, Hooper takes us into the belly of the beast: birds falling from the sky with their wings burning beehives combusting from the radiant heat farewell texts escaping from fire-ravaged homes. 264 pages Fire is one of those elements (like air and water) that has been described, explained and written about in countless ways. ![]() With propulsive energy, The Arsonist follows the case against Sokaluk, a 39-year-old former volunteer firefighter, from the arson investigation’s first frantic hours to the courtroom verdict. The latest book by the Australian writer tells the story of just one of the Black Saturday bushfires, a blaze deliberately lit on the outskirts of Churchill in the Latrobe Valley - coal country. We speak of flanks, fingers, tails and tongues, Chloe Hooper observes in The Arsonist, of a predatory, devouring hunger. To describe a bushfire is to describe a monster. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a prayer he’ll utter many times over the next twenty years, never knowing but always hoping that Claire made it through the standing stones, back to the safety of her own time. Lord, he prayed passionately, that she may be safe. Waking among the fallen on Culloden Field, he is concerned neither for his men nor his wounds but for his wife and their unborn child. Jamie Fraser is, alas, not dead-but he is in hell. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances. In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the West Indies, Diana Gabaldon weaves magic once again in an exhilarating and utterly unforgettable novel. Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer.”- Publishers Weekly The third book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. ![]() ![]() The Rumpus is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. And join us by becoming a monthly or yearly Member.Įach of these subscription programs along with tax-deductible donations made to The Rumpus through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, helps keep u s going and brings us closer to sustainability. Subscribe to the Rumpus Book Clubs (poetry, prose, or both) and Letters in the Mail from authors. We believe that literature builds community-and if reading The Rumpus makes you feel more connected, please show your support! Get your Rumpus merch in our online store. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers readers already know and love. ![]() Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. ![]() ![]() Founded in 2009, The Rumpus is one of the longest running independent online literary and culture magazines. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Just brilliant!” (Roman Mars, 99% Invisible) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Richly reported and ultimately uplifting, Palaces for the People offers a blueprint for bridging our seemingly unbridgeable divides. Interweaving his own research with examples from around the globe, Klinenberg shows how “social infrastructure” is helping to solve some of our most pressing societal challenges. ![]() He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. ![]() Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together and find common purpose. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. We are living in a time of deep divisions. “Engaging.” (Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book Review, editors’ choice) Named one of the best books of the year by NPR. “A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.” (Jon Stewart) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was widely praised for presenting American readers with an accurate picture of a country about which they knew very little in the 1930s. The novel is written in a simple but elevated, almost Biblical style, which lends dignity to the characters and events. The Good Earth contains a wealth of detail about daily life in rural China at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first quarter of the twentieth century it shows what people ate, what clothes they wore, how they worked, what gods they worshiped, and what their marriage and family customs were. Although Wang Lung is a fundamentally decent man, as he becomes wealthy and acquires a large townhouse he becomes arrogant and loses his moral bearings, but he manages to right himself by returning to the land, which always nourishes his spirit. The novel is about a poor farmer named Wang Lung who rises from humble origins to become a rich landowner with a large family. ![]() By that time, she had lived in China for about forty years and brought to her portrayal of Chinese rural life a knowledge that few if any Western writers have possessed. When she published her most popular and critically acclaimed novel, The Good Earth, in 1931, she was living in China as the wife of a Christian missionary. Pearl Buck was one of the most widely read American novelists of the twentieth century. ![]() |