![]() ![]() But after one classmate is arrested and another one is murdered, Lian realizes she must escape before a family secret puts her in danger too. Lian becomes friends and forms a cautious romance with the handsome and wealthy Liu Shaoming. The students’ common duty to safeguard the Library of Legends creates unexpected bonds. And it is not just the refugees who are at risk Lian and her classmates have been entrusted with a priceless treasure: a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends. Lian and a convoy of students, faculty and staff must walk 1,000 miles to the safety of China’s western provinces, a journey marred by the constant threat of aerial attack. When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. ![]() “Myths are the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are. From the author of Three Souls and Dragon Springs Road comes a captivating historical novel in which a convoy of student refugees travel across China, fleeing the hostilities of a brutal war with Japan ![]()
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![]() When Morvath imperils the Wisteria Society, Cecilia is forced to team up with her handsome would-be assassin to save the women who raised her–hopefully proving, once and for all, that she’s as much of a scoundrel as the rest of them. But both men have made one grave mistake. His employer, Captain Morvath, who possesses a gothic abbey bristling with cannons and an unbridled hate for the world, intends to rid England of all its presumptuous women, starting with the Wisteria Society. His employer, Captain Morvath, who possesses a gothic abbey bristling with cannons and an unbridled hate for the world, intends to rid England of all its presumptuous women, starting with the Wisteria Society. ![]() Unfortunately, that happens to be while he’s under direct orders to kill her. Ned Lightbourne is a sometimes assassin who is smitten with Cecilia from the moment they meet. Sure, she has a dark and traumatic past and an overbearing aunt, but all things considered, it’s a pleasant existence. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means. About The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels:Ĭecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton. ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel delivers everything it promises with a galactic wallop. The scientific interpolations are as convincing as the far-future planetscapes and human and alien societies, bolstering an irresistible tractor beam of heavy-duty action. Female pilot Chase Kolpath, this book's narrator, gutsily tracks the ancient Seeker on a breathless trek across star systems and through an intriguing mystery plot, a bevy of fully realized characters, ingenious AI ships and avatars of long-departed personalities who offer advice and entertainment. 3 Sus obras tratan frecuentemente sobre contactos con especies extraterrestres, y. Nine thousand years later, with a flawed humanity spread over 100-odd worlds, Margolia and its ships have become Atlantis-type myths, but after a cup from Seeker falls into the hands of antiquarian Alex Benedict, the hero of McDevitt's Polaris (2004), Alex determines to win everlasting fame and vaster fortune by finding them. John Charles McDevitt 1 ( Filadelfia, 14 de abril de 1935 ), 2 que habitualmente firma sus libros con el nombre literario de Jack McDevitt, es un escritor estadounidense de ciencia ficción ganador de un premio John W. In 2688, interstellar transports Seeker and Bremerhaven left a theocratic Orwellian Earth to found a dictator-free society, Margolia and vanished. ![]() Ideas abound in McDevitt's classy riff on the familiar lost-space-colony theme. ![]() |