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Good and Evil. Two sides of the same coin? Or something less defined, something more liminal? Entertaining and always thought-provoking, J.M. Frey offers three remarkable stories that explore the grey area of the hero/villain dichotomy. Funny and irreverent, "The Once and Now-ish King" finds King Arthur reborn at the moment of Albion's greatest need, fully aware and ready to save his realm once more. Except he's got no Merlin, no Excalibur-and he's still a newborn! In "Just a Four Letter Word," when a young man steps out of the shadows of the woods and into Jennet's life, she wonders if she's fallen into the stories she grew up on. But does she have what it takes to outwit the sadistic Faery Queen and free him? Finally, in "The Maddening Science," a former supervillain is forced to return to a life of crime to save his stalker. But if he succeeds, what danger will she pose to his freedom, his anonymity, and the secret past he so long ago buried? Heroes. Villains. Monsters. Myths. Legends. Who is the good guy, who the bad, and who gets to decide which is which? After all, 'hero' is just another four letter word.
Beloved novels are disappearing at an alarming rate, not just from the minds of readers like Pip, but from bookshelves themselves, almost like magic.
Forsyth Turn is not a hero. Lordling of Turn Hall and Lysse Chipping, yes. Spymaster for the king, certainly. But hero? That's his older brother's job, and Kintyre Turn is nothing if not legendary. However, when a raid on the kingdom's worst criminal results in the rescue of a bafflingly blunt woman, oddly named and even more oddly mannered, Forsyth finds his quaint, sedentary life is turned on its head.Dragged reluctantly into a quest he never expected, and fighting villains that even his brother has never managed to best, Forsyth is forced to confront his own self-shame and the demons that come with always being second-best. And, more than that, when he finally realizes where Lucy came fro...
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Pip is pulled into the fantasy novel series she's loved since she was a teenager. She can navigate this world - but what will happen to the characters outside the roles they were written for?
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Historical fiction with a touch of time travel, for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Alexis Hall, and Olivia Waite's Feminine Pursuits series, where a modern bisexual woman is thrown into Regency England and must figure out how to survive, while she falls in love with a woman who will become a famous author. Just a twenty-first century gal with nineteenth-century problems... When Sam's plane crashes catastrophically over the Atlantic, it defies all odds for Sam to be the sole survivor. But it seems impossible that she's rescued by a warship in 1805. With a dashing sea captain as her guide, she begins to find her footing in a world she'd only seen in movies. Then Sam is betrayed. At the mercy of the m...