Reef earned universal praise from European critics and landed the young author on the short list for the 1994 Booker Prize, England's highest honor for fiction. With his collection of short stories Monkfish Moon - a New York Times Notable Book of 1993 - Romesh Gunesekera quickly established himself as a leading literary voice. It is also a mature, poetic novel which the British press has compared to the works of James Joyce, Graham Greene, V.S. It is a personal story that parallels the larger movement of a country from a hopeful, young democracy to troubled island society. Reef is the elegant and moving story of Triton, a talented young chef so committed to pleasing his master's palate that he is oblivious to the political unrest threatening his Sri Lankan paradise. It is a personal story that parallels the larger move.
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Two of her favorite places to visit include the rain forests of Central America and the Queensland area of Australia. She has traveled over much of the world and draws from those experiences to create her memorable characters and settings. She spends any free time traveling and enjoys all things related to boats and water. She lives in Florida with her husband and far, far too many animals. Poison Princess Free Preview Edition (The First 17 Chapters) Part of The Arcana Chronicles By Kresley Cole eBook FREE PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. 2011 brought Cole her second #1 NYT bestseller with Dreams of a Dark Warrior. In 2010, Kiss of a Demon King earned Kresley her second RITA award. In 2007, she won the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA award for best paranormal for her novel A Hunger Like No Other, and in January 2009, she became a #1 New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller with her sixth IAD installment, Kiss of a Demon King. Her first romance novel was published in 2003, and since then, she has continued to publish historical and fantasy romances, and has seen her releases translated into more than eighteen foreign languages and been on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. That research eventually appeared in her manuscripts. While she was working on her Masters degree, she spent a great deal of time doing research in the library. Kresley Cole was graduate student in English and a former world-ranked competitive athlete. So here I am, waiting, my body hyperaware and my heart pounding his name. The two previous fighters are exiting the ring now, one of them assisted by his team, and my heart pounds as I sit motionless in my seat, in the first row, at the very center, just where my man wants me. The air is charged with excitement and scented with perfume, beer, and sweat. He’d told me he’s the “draw”-that most everyone in the arena is here for him. His assistant, Pete, sits tense and alert to my right. The audience in the Washington, D.C., fighting arena consists of about a thousand people, and when the winner of the current match is announced, the crowd grows restless. He’s more ripped than ever, and I know this season he’s ready to take what’s his. The first fight of the new Underground season. It has been even longer than that since thousands of women, men, and fans across the world watched him fall. A thousand four hundred eighty-eight hours of wanting, longing, and needing him. IT’S BEEN TWO months, exactly sixty-two days, since I returned to him. |