Whether evoking the sultry landscape of southern Florida or the layers of ice around the librarian’s heart, Hoffman reminds us how little distance there is between magic and mundane. The Ice Queen is a 2005 novel by Alice Hoffman, published by Little, Brown. Hoffman explores the consequences of both magic and lightning with luminous clarity. A magical story of passion, loss, and renewal, The Ice Queen is Alice Hoffman at her electrifying best. “A moving tale of love, loss, forgiveness, and spiritual renewal, The Ice Queen is one of Alice Hoffman’s finest novels.” As an obsessive love affair begins between them, both hide their most dangerous secrets - what happened in the past that turned one to ice and the other to fire. Chauncey Mabe, South Florida Sun-Sentinel “Magic happens when Alice Hoffman writes.” “Beneath the spell Alice Hoffman casts with her deceptively beguiling storytelling, the author reveals the darkest human truths. “Nothing less than stellar…Hoffman reminds us little distance there is between magic and mundane.” Here is a novel that reveals Alice Hoffman at the very height of her powers. Their affair becomes the center of a riveting story of loss, love, and redemption. As the woman soon finds herself drawn into a passionate relationship with another survivor of a lightning strike, a mysterious stranger who harbors dark secrets. Instead of killing her, this cataclysmic event marks a strange and powerful new beginning. Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, IndieBound, Books-A-Million, Powell'sĪ woman who leads a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance, one day utters an idle wish to be struck by lightning - and her wish is granted.
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In one chapter, we discover that giant penguins flourished in the then-rainforests of Antarctica during the Eocene. Halliday is careful to not only give attention to charismatic animals like dinosaurs and woolly mammoths, but also to plants, land masses and oceans, using the latest research to back up his conclusions. Through rich, detailed descriptions of ancient organisms and geological processes that draw on the fossil record and his own imagination, Halliday transports us back through deep time, from the relatively recent – tens of thousands of years ago – to when complex life first emerged in the Ediacaran period hundreds of millions of years ago.Įach chapter spans a geological time period, focusing on a specific part of the world that stands out either for the quality of the fossil evidence or a notable event. Otherlands by palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday provides a unique portrait of these strange and remarkable environments and the species that inhabited them. 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