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Peace at Last by Jill Murphy5/23/2023 ![]() Mildred Hubble has gone on to several more adventures, most recently The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star, and even her own TV show. Jill became a freelance author and illustrator and many more wonderful books followed. When Jill was twenty four, The Worst Witch was finally published, and was an instant best-seller. Three big London publishers turned it down so Jill put it in a drawer and went off to work in a children’s home and as a nanny. At only eighteen she finished her first novel, The Worst Witch, which was based heavily on her own experiences at the convent school. Jill went to a strict convent, and left at sixteen to attend both Chelsea and Croydon art schools. ![]() “My earliest memory (my mum tells me I was two), is sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings.” By the age of six she was stapling her own little storybooks together. ![]() From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories. ![]()
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The midnight cafe laurell k hamilton5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Hamilton must be listening to all those readers complaining about all the sex, as there is almost nothing here. Twenty-sixth in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter erotic paranormal fantasy series and revolving around a US Marshal and vampire executioner. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Hit List, Bloody Bones, Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Narcissus in Chains, Obsidian Butterfly, Bite, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre, The Harlequin, Blood Noir, Skin Trade, Flirt, Bullet, Never After, Kiss the Dead, The First Death, Affliction, Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, "Shutdown", A Kiss of Shadows, Lunatic Café, A Caress of Twilight, Seduced by Moonlight, A Stroke of Midnight, Mistral’s Kiss, A Lick of Frost, Blue Moon, Dead Ice, Jason, Crimson Death, "Wounded", Fantastic Hope, Cerulean Sins, A Terrible Fall of Angels ![]() It is part of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter #26 series and is a paranormal fantasy in a hardcover edition that was published by Berkley on Augand has 496 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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Remarkably bright5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the year, Amazon Books Editors pore over thousands of pages and hundreds of books to determine the Best Books of the Month, Best Books of the Year So Far, and Best Books of the Year, discussing and debating new releases across various categories. In the children’s books category, Christopher Denise’s picture book Knight Owl tops the list, featuring wordplay and optimism in a story about how bravery, cleverness, and friendship can rule over brawn. The other top picks are Stephanie Foo’s What My Bones Know, a standout memoir about healing from complex trauma, and Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage, a tragic and poignant young adult novel examining the complexities of young and old love. 15, 2022- (NASDAQ: AMZN)-Today, Amazon announced its picks for 2022’s Best Books of the Year So Far, selecting Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel Remarkably Bright Creatures-cited by Amazon Editors as “a novel that delivers a message about love and loss that’s poignant, charming, and irresistible”-as the No. Amazon Books’ editorial team selects their favorite books across genres and categories to determine the Best Books of the Year So FarĪmazon Books Editorial Director Sarah Gelman reveals the top picks on CBS Mornings ![]()
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Wrong Way Home by K.A. Merikan5/23/2023 ![]() Each novel can be read as a standalone and will contain a dark M/M romance. ![]() Themes: prepping, alternative lifestyles, disability, crime, loneliness, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, fish out of water, opposites attract, abduction, Stockholm syndrome, family issuesĮrotic content: Scorching hot, emotional, explicit scenes “When Taron looped the heavy metal collar around the slender neck and closed the padlock, his body throbbed with the excitement of knowing he owned this boy. One that isn’t right, yet tempts him every time Colin’s pretty eyes glare at him from the cage. It’s only when he finds out the city boy is gay that an altogether different option arises. Colin doesn’t deserve death for setting foot on Taron’s land, but keeping him isn’t optimal either. The last thing Taron needs is a nuisance of a captive. He deals with his problems on his own, but the night he needs to dispose of an enemy, he ends up with a witness to his crime. But what seems like his worst nightmare might just prove to be a path to the kind of freedom Colin never knew existed. ![]() ![]() He ends up taking a detour into the darkest pit of horror, abducted by a silent, imposing man with a blood-stained axe. What he doesn’t realize is that it’s the last time he has a choice. On impulse, he decides to take a different route. ![]() Like every other weekend, Colin is on his way home from university, but he’s taunted by the notion that he never takes risks in life and always follows the beaten path. ![]()
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Timothy zahn specter of the past5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Luke teams up with Mara Jade, using the Force to track down a mysterious pirate ship with a crew of clones. Facing incredible odds, Han and Leia begin a desperate race against time to prevent the New Republic from unraveling in the face of two inexplicable threats-one from within and one from without. Then comes the shocking news that Grand Admiral Thrawn-the most cunning and ruthless warlord in history-has apparently returned from the dead to lead the Empire to a long-prophesied victory. First a plot is hatched that could destroy the New Republic in a bloodbath of genocide and civil war. But they have saved their most heinous plan for last. ![]() ![]() Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet-a dead Imperial warlord.The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. Specter of the Past: Star Wars Legends (the Hand of Thrawn) Timothy Zahn € 15.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 3 weeks. ![]()
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Plain bad heroines by emily m danforth5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded-Age institution. ![]() Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever-but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way. ![]() This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. ![]()
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Transcendence gaia vince5/22/2023 ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Look around you- we are the intelligent designers of all you see - including ourselves. To think of humans as a smarter sort of chimp with cool tools is to miss what is truly extraordinary about us. Drawing on leading-edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology and neuroscience, Transcendence compels us to reimagine ourselves, showing us to be on the brink of something grander - and potentially more destructive. Vince shows how four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a superorganism- a hyper-cooperative mass of humanity that she calls Homo omnis. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. ![]() Gaia Vince argues that our unique ability to determine the course of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. ![]() ![]() Our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. ![]()
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Eric frank russell sinister barrier5/22/2023 ![]() Orlin Tremaine in the July 1937 number of Astounding Stories. Together, the two men wrote a novella, "Seeker of Tomorrow", that was published by F. Russell met with Johnson, who encouraged him to embark on a writing career. Johnson, another reader from the same area. Russell became a fan of science fiction and in 1934, while living near Liverpool, he saw a letter in Amazing Stories from Leslie J. Russell was born in 1905 near Sandhurst in Berkshire, where his father was an instructor at the Royal Military College. Up to 1955 several of his stories were published under pseudonyms, at least Duncan H. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales and non-fiction articles on Fortean topics. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. ![]() 1 (1939-03)Įric Frank Russell (Janu– February 28, 1978) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. ![]() ![]() Russell's classic " Sinister Barrier" was the cover story for Unknown No. ![]()
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These truths by jill lepore5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal and always said, you need to be able to see at the same time things that are up close and things that are far away.Īnd this book, I aimed to kind of have a binocular vision, right, that we could track the kind of well-thumbed political history, we can march from president to president and see presidential administrations and evaluate them, but that we really also need to reckon with the incredible work that's been done in the academy the last half-century recovering, investing in the lives of everyone else, of women, of people of color, and that those are also political stories.Īnd they're also origin stories, and that you can't understand the presidency or politics with a capital P without bringing these two strands together. The trick, though, was to try to see both of those. And everything always has a kind of doubleness to it. ![]()
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Deeply odd5/22/2023 ![]() The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will be: the homicidal stranger who tried to shoot him dead in a small-town parking lot. Who the potential victims are and where they can be found remain a mystery. Three helpless innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene in time. But this time, it's the "living" who desperately need Odd on their side. How do you make sure a crime that hasn't happened yet, never does? That's the critical question facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. or the destiny that will drive him into a harrowing showdown with absolute evil. Though he narrowly dodges a bullet, Odd can't outrun the shocking vision burned into his mind. ![]() The truck driver is decked out like a rhinestone cowboy, only instead of a guitar he's slinging a gun-and Odd Thomas is on the wrong end of the barrel. You'll drop before you get the breath to scream." "You think I won't do it right here in the open. The pistol appeared in his hand the way a dove appears in the hand of a good magician, as if it materialized out of thin air. ![]() |