![]() ![]() ![]() When the United States drops another series of bombs to slow the Russian advance in Europe, Stalin strikes back-with horrifying results. With Great Britain ravaged and swaths of America in ruins, leaders are running out of options. Meanwhile, Europe’s weak sisters, France and Italy, seem poised to choose the winning side, while China threatens to overrun Korea. It’s a daring gambit, but the Soviets have one of their own. president is focused elsewhere, planning to cut off the head of the Soviet threat by taking out Stalin. Even as Joe McCarthy rises in power, the U.S. And there’s no telling what fresh hell will come next.Īt the heart of Fallout are Harry Truman and Josef Stalin. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Polish freedom fighters next to Russian fascists. ![]() The Cold War turns hot-and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. In his astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You're the mother of two children, but now one of them is dead and the other is missing. He's the foreground of the painting that is your life together. Jija's a Tirimo man born and bred, a stoneknapper of the Resistant use-caste everyone knows and likes him, so they like you peripherally. The baker doesn't because you're quiet, and because like everyone else in town he just thinks of you as Jija's wife. The butcher probably knows your name because she likes to flirt with you. You're neither the best teacher nor the worst the children forget you when they move on, but they learn. Since you were obviously well educated, you became a teacher at the local creche for children aged ten to thirteen. You came to Tirimo from elsewhere the townsfolk don't really care where or why. ![]() Only three people here know what you are, and two of them you gave birth to.įor the past ten years you've lived as ordinary a life as possible. You're an orogene who's been living in the little nothing town of Tirimo for ten years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Had the Cyril person been so presumptuous, Hazel would have stomped on his toes. The man on her left caught hold of her arm. She raised herself up, on the tips of her new shoes, swaying with the effort to see. Hazel had never seen a dead body before, or anyone’s blood but her own. ![]() Serves her right was her eventual response, followed, a bit later, by Poor thing. Too fast for her to make any sense of it until her pulse, and her thoughts, stopped racing. It was ghastly, all right, and had happened so fast. Hazel continued to stare at the woman lying out on the turf like a big, broken doll. And trampled so badly, by the look of it, that she probably wasn’t going to see the sun go down, never mind her own next birthday. But it would be insensitive, she knew, to make an issue out of her relative grown-upness when someone had just been trampled by a horse. ![]() She might even have told him, in her iciest tones, not to be so rude. Under less shocking circumstances, she would have fixed the man on her right-the Cyril one-with the evil eye. Hazel Louise Mull-Dare, being very nearly thirteen years old, objected to anyone calling her a little girl. Lean on me, that’s right, but whatever you do, DON’T LOOK! Ladies. I can’t believe she’s- Oooof! Keep your eyes closed, old thing. “She must have taken leave of her senses.” “HEY! ARE YOU CRAZY OR WHAT? COME BACK!” “What’s she doing? What in the devil’s name is that woman playing at?” ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a crop duster pilot with money for a night or two on the town. ![]() There are truck drivers who pull over to pick her up, no questions asked. There's a highway patrolman who gives her a lift, with a detour to his own place. But help's not hard to come by when you look like Fay. She's headed for the bright lights and big times and even she knows she needs help getting there. Even in 1985 Mississippi, two dollars won't go far on the road. ![]() She lights out alone, wearing her only dress and rotting sneakers, carrying a purse with a half pack of cigarettes and two dollar bills. She's had no education, hardly any shelter, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her since she grew up "love." So, at the ripe age of seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home. with a core as dark as a Delta midnight." - Entertainment Weekly " gifted with brilliant descriptive ability, a perfect ear for dialogue, and an unflinching eye. ![]() ![]() Co-written by “Love Actually’s” Richard Curtis (who shares credit with Paul Mayhew-Archer) and directed by smallscreen miracle worker Dearbhla Walsh (“Little Dorrit,” “Shameless”), the film has been crafted with all the care that might go into a cinema-bound feature, but suits the tube, given its inherently small confines. Judging by Hoffman and Dench’s involvement alone, this is no ordinary TV movie. Commissioned as a New Year’s telepic for British TV, this delightful family offering is already making its way to homevideo in several European markets, but could potentially support a more substantial treatment Stateside, if someone were to shell out for theatrical (exec producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein bought all other U.S. ![]() Hoppy devises an elaborate scheme to woo the chelonian-loving widow downstairs, as played by Judi Dench. ![]() A rare romance from the typically dark imagination of children’s book author Roald Dahl, “Esio Trot” spells more than just “tortoise” backwards, but an evening of warm-fuzzy feelings all around as Dustin Hoffman’s Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by a largely forgotten chapter of World War II, S. ![]() The harrowing ordeal and ensuing aftermath set the pair on a surprising path that highlights the indelible, singular bond that often brings mankind and animals together during horrifying times. Dodging the debris and carnage of the Luftwaffe attack, Hettie runs to the zoo to make sure that Violet is unharmed. Over the course of the next five hours, hundreds of bombs rain down upon Belfast, claiming almost a thousand lives and decimating the city. The relative peace is shattered by air-raid sirens on the evening of Easter Tuesday 1941. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling from escalating tensions between British Loyalists and those fighting for a free and unified Ireland. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she's compelled to protect through the German blitz of Belfast during WWll speaks to not only the tragedy of the times, but also to the ongoing sectarian tensions that still exist in Northern Ireland today-perfect for readers of historical and literary fiction alike.īelfast, October 1940. ![]() ![]() It was all a lie.'The old Lena is dead', I say, and then push past him. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. The final instalment in the internationally bestselling Delirium trilogy. She's questioned love and the life-changing and agonising choices that come with it. ![]() ![]() Unflinching, heartbreaking and totally addictive, this novel will push your emotions to the limit. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. ![]() Now, I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years suffocated by a lie. They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. ![]() |