Results for "Benedict Jacka"

Dive into "Greek Gods #Squadgoals" for a fresh take on timeless tales. This book flips ancient Greek mythology on its head, giving gods and heroes smartphones and social media personas. It's a read that feels less like homework and more like scrolling through a witty feed filled with divine drama. Perfect for anyone who enjoys their history with a side of humor and 21st-century lingo.

"Ninja: The Beginning" is perfect for those who enjoy stories that mix action with personal growth. As you follow Ignis, Allandra, and Michael's escape from their ordinary lives to the exotic world of Rokkaku, you'll be enthralled by the detailed depiction of ninja training and the bonds they form. The journey these characters embark on is both physical and emotional, promising a read filled with thrilling exploits and the timeless allure of mastering secret arts.

Chosen could be a good read for fans of urban fantasy. The novel follows the story of Alex Verus, a mage in London, as he navigates through the criminal underworld and faces his own inner demons. Jacka's masterful storytelling and vividly descriptive writing style keeps readers engaged from start to finish. The unique and distinctive feature of this book is how Jacka blends magical elements into the gritty streets of London.

"To Be A Ninja" is a great read for those who enjoy action-packed stories of adventure and self-discovery. The unique feature of this book is the twist on the typical ninja story, where the protagonists are siblings running away from their evil drug lord father. The book resonates with themes of family, friendship, and personal growth. It features relatable characters and a thrilling plot that keeps readers engaged until the end. Highly recommend for young adult readers who enjoy fantasy and adventure novels.

In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: At the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the largest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—both his eyes have been plucked out under mysterious circumstances. Is he mad? Or does he, despite this impairment, have an insight denied the other scholars of his day?These questions intrigue the young Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—not yet the world-renowned polymath who would go on to discover calculus, but a nineteen-year-old whose faith in reason is shaky at best. Leibniz sets off to investigate the astronomer’s claim, and in the three hours before the eclipse occurs—or fails to occur—the astronomer tells the scholar the story behind his strange prediction: a tale that ends up encompassing kings and princes, family squabbles, insanity, art, loss, and the horrors of war.Acclaimed author Adam Ehrlich Sachs brings his unique comic and philosophical sensibilities to his first novel, The Organs of Sense, an intricate nested fable equating our inability to truly understand the world with our inability to understand our own messy families.

Stephen Killigan has been cold since the day he came to Cambridge as a junior lecturer. Something about the seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university has given him a chill he can't shake. When he stumbles across the body of a missing beauty queen, he thinks he's found the reason. But when the police go to retrieve the body and find no trace, Killigan has found a problem - and a killer - that is the very opposite of reason.Killigan's unwitting entry into Jackamore Grass's sinister world will lead him on a trail of tattooists, philosophers, cadavers and scholars of a deadly beauty. As Killigan traces a path between our age and seventeenth century Cambridge, he must work out how a corpse can be found before someone goes missing, and whether he's at the edge of madness or an astonishing discovery.A fast-paced page-turner THE BEAUTY OF MURDER is a speculative crime thriller that travels to the heart of gruesome series of crime by way of a city and a person that have far too many secrets written in blood.