![]() It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. Simply put: nobody does it better.' JEFFERY DEAVER 'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer. 'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON ![]() 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams.įrom out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie. keeps ratcheting up the suspense.' BOOKLIST ![]() ![]() 'A really entertaining thriller like Michael Crichton. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Now a new world is rising from the ashes of the old, where power-hungry jarls carve out petty kingdoms and monsters stalk the woods and mountains. but their power remains.Īfter the gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their fall shattered the land of Vigrið. The Witcher meets Vikings in this brand new Norse-inspired fantasy series from acclaimed British author John Gwynne, which will thrill his existing fans as well as being the perfect starting point for new readers. ![]() ![]() THE SHADOW OF THE GODS.Ī cover reveal will follow in the near future, but for now here’s a taste of what you can expect from John’s brilliant new book. We’re excited to announce that the first book in John Gwynne’s upcoming Bloodsworn Saga is called. ![]() ![]() ![]() A marvelous adventure story, The Mysterious Island is also notable for its modern retelling of the utopian deserted-island myth, with repeated echoes of Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson. ![]() At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has secretly been helping the settlers. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. Although several editions under the same title are in print, most reproduce a bowdlerized nineteenth-century translation which changes the names of the characters, omits several important scenes, and ideologically censors Verne's original text. At a time when Verne is making a comeback in the US as a mainstream literary figure, Wesleyan is pleased to publish a new translation of one of his best-known novels, The Mysterious Island. ![]() |