![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out to murder the son George fathered without her. Together this lord and lady of the woodlands ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains-but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Comic books are called graphic novels once several issues are bound together to make a larger volume.And now I’m trying to get back into comics and graphic novels, and because I’m still a noob, I often don’t know much about the whole world of comics and graphic novels.Ī few things I didn’t know until recently: Not many, just Superman, X-Men, Archie, and Betty and Veronica, and maybe a couple others. When I was a kid, I read some comic books. ![]() Beginning in the cold streets of a heartless metropolis and ending in the Amazon rainforest, this book takes the reader on a journey through secrets, suffering and self-rediscovery. Now, as this demigoddess attempts to reconcile human memory and botanical origins, she must untangle the webs of deception and secrets that led to her death. Age Group/Genre: Adult/Science Fiction, FantasyĪfter being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn fully grown as the Black Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, destined to avenge her own death. ![]() ![]() A heady, tense, slowburn dream of a book, multi-layered and steeped in atmosphere and peril. Then I was CERTAIN it was another person! Then DEFINITELY another! Great characterisation, glamorous setting, all round FABALISS!' Marian Keyes 'A cracking read – and that ending!' Shari Lapena 'Every Ruth Ware novel is a unique and unexpected gem and this one is no exception. Could not put it down! I thought I knew who the killer was. Praise for Ruth Ware: 'An absolute belter. On the run and out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the truth in this unputdownable and heart-pounding mystery from 'one of the best thriller writers around today' Ruth Ware. ![]() ![]() To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their only suspect – her. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. ![]() ![]() Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband Gabe are the best penetration specialists in the business. A breathless action thriller which packs an emotional punch, Zero Days is Ruth Ware's best yet' CLARE MACKINTOSH International bestseller Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband’s killer. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are last seen at the Luxembourg Garden retrieving and eating discarded bread from a fountain. The two boys soon leave him the next morning. ![]() ![]() This was no imaginary construction located at the Place de la Bastille, it had been designed by Jean-Antoine Alavoine. They reside in the hollow cavity of a giant elephant statue, the Elephant of the Bastille conceived by Napoleon as a fountain, but abandoned unfinished. They are unaware of their identities, but Gavroche invites them to live with him and takes care of them. The Thénardiers sell (or lend) their two youngest sons to a woman named Magnon.ĭue to a freak accident, the two boys are separated from Magnon without identification, and encounter Gavroche purely by chance. Les Gavroches, a replica of the 1904 sculpture by Antonio Sciortino in the Upper Barrakka Gardens, Valletta, Malta. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was still homesick for England, though, as reflected in her first novel, I Capture the Castle (1948). Although she could now afford to move to a London townhouse, she didn't get caught up in the “literary” scene - she married a man who was a fellow employee at the furniture store.ĭuring World War II she and her husband moved to the United States, mostly because of his stand as a conscientious objector and the social and legal difficulties that entailed. ![]() It was a success, and her story - from failed actress to furniture store employee to successful writer - captured the imagination of the public and she was featured in papers all over the country. Giving up dreams of an acting career, she turned to writing plays, and in 1931 her first play, Autumn Crocus, was published (under the pseudonym “C.L. She finally wound up taking a job as a toy buyer for a furniture store to make ends meet. ![]() There she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and tried for a career as an actress, but with little success. She was just an infant when her father died, and she grew up fatherless until age 14, when her mother remarried and the family moved to London. Born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, Dodie Smith was raised in Manchester (her memoir is titled A Childhood in Manchester). ![]() ![]() ![]() The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation's future has become a cautionary tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Read full overviewĪ Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post - Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune - Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy - Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival - A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 - Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice "Tells the story of housing in all its complexity." -NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post - Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune - Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment T. ![]() ![]() ![]() Corrick knows he must play this role convincingly-with a shortage of elixir and threats of rebellion looming ever closer, the King’s grip on power is tenuous at best, and Corrick knows his brother is the kingdom’s best hope for survival.īut when an act of unspeakable cruelty brings the royal and the outlaw face to face, the natural enemies are faced with an impossible choice-and a surprising spark. In the palace of Kandala, Prince Corrick serves as the King’s Justice, meting out vicious punishments and striking fear into the hearts of agitators and outlaws. So every night, she defies the royal edicts and sneaks out, stealing Moonflower petals and leaving the elixir for those in need. ![]() A mysterious sickness is ravaging the land and the cure, Moonflower Elixir, is only available for the wealthy. In the Wilds of Kandala, apothecary apprentice Tessa Cade has been watching people suffer for too long. From New York Times bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer comes an electrifying fantasy romance, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Victoria Aveyard. ![]() ![]() “The supernatural is handled with great effect and no letdown. The Hound of the Baskervilles remains “one of the most gripping books in the language” (Crime & Mystery 100 Best). Conan Doyle finally relented and engineered Holmes’ “resurrection” in 1903. “But,” as Howard Haycraft notes, “the seed of doubt was planted” while the novel proved an immediate success, readers pressed for more. The author obliged with this, the third- and still considered by many the best- Sherlock Holmes novel, carefully positioned on the title page as “another adventure” of Holmes. An exceptional example.Īlthough Conan Doyle killed off his most famous character by sending Holmes over the Reichenbach Falls in a struggle with Professor Moriarty in “The Final Problem” (December 1893), readers demanded the sleuth’s return. ![]() In near fine condition with a touch of shelfwear. ![]() Octavo, original black and gilt stamped pictorial red cloth. $5,500.00 Item Number: 136592įirst edition, first issue of the third Sherlock Holmes novel, and widely considered as the best of the series. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.ĬONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur. ![]() ![]() ![]() He next visits America, becomes involved in a racial clash, and is quickly married and divorced. ![]() Candide secures her release through blackmail and travels to Indonesia (where he escapes from native guerillas) and Moscow (where he accidentally precipitates a missile conflict between the United States and the U.S.S.R.). Back home, Candide is acclaimed a hero for murdering the Gestapo officer, but Cunegonde is condemned as a Nazi collaborator. Candide kills the officer, and the lovers flee to South America to remain there through a series of revolutions before returning to France. After smuggling Pangloss out of a concentration camp, Candide is rescued from a firing squad by a mysterious lady who reunites him with his beloved Cunegonde, now being shared by a Gestapo officer and a black marketeer. Captured by the Germans, he escapes to Switzerland and becomes a member of the International Red Cross. War breaks out in 1939, and Candide is called into the army. Reared in the chateau of a baron who manufactures antique helmets, the orphan Candide is brought up by his tutor, Pangloss, to believe that he is living in "the best of all possible worlds." Candide falls in love with the baron's daughter, Cunegonde, and is thrown out of the house when her father surprises them in an innocent kiss. ![]() ![]() ![]() We first meet Edie when she is about to go on her first IRL date with Eric, a middle-aged white archivist from New Jersey who’s in an open marriage. The only meaningful difference in status between her and the other Black girl at work is “one monthly student loan payment.” ![]() ![]() ![]() I have trouble making friends and men lose interest in me when I talk.” Edie lives in New York City and works in book publishing as a managing editorial coordinator she paints but can’t seem to get any real career traction on that front. “Here’s a fact,” Edie, the 23-year-old narrator of Luster, one of the most unsettling, scathingly funny debut novels of the year, tells us early in the book: “I have great breasts, which have warped my spine. ![]() |