In the debut novel DREAMS & SHADOWS screenwriter & noted film critic C. Robert Cargill takes us beyond the veil through the lives of Ewan & Colby young men whose spirits have been enmeshed with the otherworld from a young age. This brilliantly crafted narrative
- part Neil Gaiman part Guillermo Del Torro part William Burroughs
- follows the boys from their star-crossed adolescences to their haunted adulthoods. Cargill's tour-de-force takes us inside the Limestone Kingdom a parallel universe where whisky-swilling genies & foul-mouthed wizards argue over the state of the metaphysical realm. Having left the spirit world & returned to the human world Ewan & Colby discover that the creatures from this previous life have not forgotten them & that fate can never be sidestepped. With sensitivity & hopeful examination Cargill illuminates a supernatural culture that all too eerily resembles our own. Set in a richly imagined & constructed world complete with its own richly detailed history & mythology DREAMS & SHADOWS is a deeply engaging story about two extraordinary boys becoming men.

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The son of a black African father & a white American mother Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama determined to learn the truth of his father's life & reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three Dreams from my Father is an unforgettable read. it illuminates not only Obama's journey but also our universal desire to understand our history & what makes us the people we are. ...

One of the masters of weird fiction' H. P. Lovecraft expanded the vast boundaries of the horror genre with his vividly imagined stories of exotic & fantastical otherworlds nightmarish dreamscapes or the supernatural terrors lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. The shadow of New England's witch-hunting past hangs over many of the tales as in The Shunned House' & The Dreams in the Witch House' in which malevolent spectres return to haunt the region. Others such as From Beyond' & The Shadow Out of Time' depict the catastrophic results when cosmic channels of time & space are opened while stories such as Polaris' & The Doom that Came to Sarnath' portray the downfall of mythical civilizations. ...

An understanding of natures final laws may be within our grasp
- a way of explaining forces & symmetries & articles that does not
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Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic & unafraid she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people despite what her family keeps telling her. How can she trust them when she has just learned that her parents have lied to her for her whole life that her mother Pearl is really her aunt & that her real father is a famous artist who has been living in China all these years? Joy arrives in Green Dragon Village where families live in crowded windowless huts & eke out a meagre existence from the red soil. & where a handsome young comrade catches her eye... Meanwhile Pearl returns to China to bring her daughter home
- if she can. For Mao has launched his Great Leap Forward & each passing season brings ever greater hardship to cities & rural communes alike. Joy must rely on her skill as a painter & Pearl must use her contacts from her decadent childhood in 1930s Shanghai to find a way to safety & a chance of joy for them both. Haunting passionate & heartbreakingly real this is the unforgettable new novel by the internationally acclaimed Lisa See.
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GRRM: A RRETROSPECTIVE is a massive collection of the best of George R.R. Martin's short fiction containing 32 short stories & novellas including the Hugo-winning 'A Song for Lya' the Bram Stoker-winning ' The Pear-Shaped Man' & ' The Skin Trade' which won the World Fantasy Award & is generally acclaimed as the finest werewolf story of our time. As well as the stories themselves which span Martin's multi-faceted career there are two television scripts voluminous author commentary an introduction by award-winning editor & writer Gardner Dozois & a comprehensive bibliography. This must-have volume by one of the brightest stars in the field of imaginative fiction ...

GRRM: A RRETROSPECTIVE is a massive collection of the best of George R.R. Martin's short fiction containing 32 short stories & novellas including the Hugo-winning 'A Song for Lya' the Bram Stoker-winning ' The Pear-Shaped Man' & ' The Skin Trade' which won the World Fantasy Award & is generally acclaimed as the finest werewolf story of our time. As well as the stories themselves which span Martin's multi-faceted career there are two television scripts voluminous author commentary an introduction by award-winning editor & writer Gardner Dozois & a comprehensive bibliography. This must-have volume by one of the brightest stars in the field of imaginative fiction ...

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